Bytemeister

Better yet, give it to a friend who isn't attending the protest, and have them drive around with the phone. Pull it out and check some sites with it every few minutes, maybe send a few messages.

I know this sounds crazy in 2025, but you can still buy standalone digital cameras. You can even get discreet devices that record constantly.

Huh. Usually refurb them and offer them up for free. E-waste recycling is a fancy term in my area for "trucking it across the country to a port, loading it on a boat, shipping it across the ocean and then having a 6yr old without PPE burn it and bury it." Honestly, throwing it in a landfill is less damaging at that point.

Usually, you have a National weather service that estimates rainfall for an area and warns you about possible disasters so you can issue warnings and pre-stage response teams... Wonder what happened to all that.

He is running it like a business, problem is, he runs most of his businesses straight into the ground.

Consent is a social construct created by humans

Consent exists outside of humans, it just what we've decided to call "respecting autonomy".

I don't think it is forced birther ammo. Something that does not exist cannot consent. A fetus is just a collection of cells, it has the same ability to consent as a finger or a liver, in the vast majority of abortions it has no more individual identity than a tumor. Consent of the fetus shouldn't be a criteria for abortion anyway, it's consent of the individual that it is taking resources from that matters.

Haven't got the balls to kill myself. Other people depend on me. I'm bought into the life ecosystem. Functionally, I think dying is much more stressful and scary than never existing. I'm also not a defeatist, I'm working to fix those things, but I don't exactly have a lot of say it how it plays out.

That was the joke. We know precisely down to the second when the sun will be shining. We've been able to calculate that for over a century at this point.

"Oh, what about storms and clouds!?!"

Let me introduce those naysayers to the national energy grids. My house can get electricty from a producer thousands of miles away, so even if clouds are covering my whole state, we're still getting power from sunny areas.

Some rough math says pretty much all of them, and you'll need to stop heating your house too.

Yeah. Just had this convo with my partner two days ago.

Reasons why I don't want kids.

Number one, they can't consent to being born, If given the choice, I would not consent to being born right now, why should I force that on someone else.

Number two, we can't afford kids right now, even with both of us working full time jobs. (Not bragging, but both my partner and I make over the median household income for our area. I legit have no idea how other people do it, because we are paycheck to paycheck right now.)

Number three, even though abortion is legally protected in the constitution of my state, our legislators at the state and the federal levels are seeking to undo those protections against the will of the people. There is no guarantee that if we had a complicated pregnancy, that they would survive or even be able to find healthcare.

Number four, we are knowingly perpetuating an ongoing climate disaster. I can't in good faith bring someone into this world knowing that they will be displaced or die because the part of the planent they live on may become inhospitable due to our inaction.

Number five, we're seeing the rise of far right antagonist fascist movement worldwide. At this point a global war for basic human rights is inevitable, if not already started.

Number six, there are always hundreds of thousands of children stuck in the foster/adoption system who are destined to struggle for the rest of their lives because of a lack of family support. I would adopt long before I would consider bringing another person into this world.

Thanks for attending my doom rant.

Hah.

That man has never been accountable for anything in his life. Hell, he's made it to 80 eating solely McDonalds fast food. Fucking colon cancer and heart disease can't hold this man accountable, what makes you think the spineless ass kissing money grubbers in Congress are going to do it?

It started happening naturally for me as I got older.

It may also be because I married a biologist.

She sends me pictures of snakes to ID pretty much first thing every morning.