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Reduction of consumption at this point will not actually work, we’re already too far down the path of annihilation. We’re either going to need to find a way to manage our planet’s climate ourselves, or we’ll need to find a way to adapt our cities and lives to be able to survive in the coming world. Both of those require technological solutions. So far, we have not found a good one yes, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

The issue is that somebody kinda has to fill the vacuum if we want to have literally any hope at surviving our rapidly oncoming self-created climate disaster. I don’t exactly love the PRC either, but you have to admit that right now, they are the ones best positioned to find and implement a technological solution to our crisis. It’s certainly not going to be the U.S., Europe is going to have it’s hands full trying to deal with Russia, do you think there’s any other power strong enough or better than China even left?

If my options are the Chinese model, or the extinction of the human race, then I’ll choose the PRC.

Perhaps my favorite example of this is the 4kids One Piece dub. They couldn’t get rid of the scene where Helmeppo threatens Koby with a gun, so they turned the gun into…well.

I dunno. I guess the question is if I would ever meet anyone I told a lie to ever again. That’s definitely not happening, so I guess I’m not maintaining them anymore.

nah, furries have existed since ancient history, we just like anthropomorphizing.

Yeah there’s not much jovial energy to go around either. Any time I see misinformation today I don’t go April Fools, I just try to ignore it and move on.

I’ll preface this with I am not a parent and have no interest in child-rearing, so I’m speaking purely from a realm of past experience and some child development statistics I’ve read over the years.

I’d say absolutely yes, fully knowing and expecting that they probably are planning to have sex. If you haven’t had a talk with them about what that kinda entails, I’d highly recommend doing so, and making sure that they’re practicing safe sex. This might be your kid’s very first time, and it’s very important to instill healthy sexual habits into them. If you’re in the U.S., do not think that their school’s sex education has prepared them in the slightest.

The last thing you want for your kid is for them to go through an unexpected pregnancy or get an STD. If you teach them to be thorough about protection and consent now, it’ll set them up for the rest of their life.

I really want someone to just really start messing around with the human genome, see the limits of gene expression. Let’s add horns, let’s add tusks, let’s add tails, and wings, and carapaces, and antennae, and claws, let’s just see what happens. Human evolution has gotten so tired and trite; let’s add some spice.

God I relate to this so hard. So many doctors just dismissing the constant pain I go through, so many times I seriously just sit and think “What if it’s something stupid that nobody is thinking of.”

I hate the state of medical service in the United States. Most expensive medical care in the world, but if you’re poor, you’re wasting the doc’s time.

I’d wanna go back to 22, currently almost 30. I developed a lot of health complications around 23-24, and 22 is the last time I remember my body not being in constant pain.

The Freedom Convoy had Russian money funding its media campaign.

The problem for leftist organizing always really comes back to the fact that capitalists are the ones in power, and that they overwhelming prefer fascism to a social democracy. There’s no billionaires funneling money into 50501’s pockets to organize a mass turnout. It’s the same reason the Tea Party was so successful while similar attempts on the left were not; their primary campaigns were well funded by the Koch bros.

I’m fairly certain that we could actually fully automate food production, and might even be able to automate each step from farm to distribution with a little additional effort. The major obstacle that I can tell seems to be the upfront cost of the precision machines necessary to handle harvesting, automating the planting and care has already been accomplished.

Really love the idea of telling my own mother that there’s an intruder in my home, and her response being, “K.”

Man it’d be really cool to shoot a black and white film on location at the moon.

It’s a real pain in the ass for the best source of news about the games I play to either be reddit or Discord, so my options are shit or shit. Sometimes developers post clarifications on game mechanics on the subreddit, and that’s the only source of that information. I wish more companies could understand the benefits of instance ownership, especially considering all of the ongoing issues with social media owners. It’d be great if that kinda news would migrate somewhere better so I could finally ditch reddit permanently, but I’m sure I’ll just eat a ban eventually.

The OG lemmings are Marxist-Leninists. The surge of centrist Dems came from the Reddit exodus.

Democracy already died, and it died under a Democrat. We’ve been a true plutocracy since Citizen’s United v FEC. What actually would happen is the Democrats would defend the plutocracy until the Republicans inevitably win an election because they take advantage of people’s hatred of our situation.

This is a false dichotomy though. I’d argue the fact that “escape” doesn’t even cross your mind in this hypothetical scenario is damning.

This is a struggle I find myself in now. I was very politically active in my youth, and I’m currently looking back on everything I did thinking “wtf was the point of any of it? Should I have just focused on college/employment the whole time? If I did, would I have been in a position to escape?”

In the past, the big thing that kept me going was my local community. Sure, I never accomplished anything that reached a further stage, but I was at least making my local community better. Eventually though, I was given the opportunity to leave my shitty local community, and I immediately took it. Now I live somewhere great, that fully represents me, to the point that I started taking a step back from politics. No reason to campaign for an opposition mayor if I like my mayor, right? I still go to the monthly town hall meetings, if only to assure myself that things are going well locally, but I’m less vocal. I don’t really need to be, and that’s wonderful, but it’s pushing me to be even less active.

I’m sure my hometown has gotten significantly worse in my absence though, since visiting family feels like visiting a corpse. Did I even make a difference there, or was it a temporary mirage? What was the point of any of it?

I see it as the height of cowardice. If you feel like your life is truly worthless, that it has no value at all, you’re wrong. You can always give your life fighting for a cause you believe in. I continue to live, continue to train, because I wish to die on my feet in battle. If you’re an American like me, I’ve a feeling that battle will be coming very soon. If you aren’t…well the world’s a pretty violent place right now with fascists rising everywhere you look. I’m sure you’ll find a good moment to fight back. Who knows, you might even survive to win, and could change your world enough that hope can live in your heart once more.