Coco

joined 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

he's an old man, who finally enjoyed some success late in life, let him enjoy his last days in peace ffs.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

20 years ago somebody told me that installing Gentoo would make my computer performant enough to run video games. I no longer play video games, but I have been using GNU/Linux variants ever since.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I live in Europe and the whole post resonated hard with me. Not sure in which lala land you live in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nah, this was super common when I was growing up. We all used to commute by motorcycle, even though we had a family car. We did wear helmets. I know it's still common all over the world. I'm laughing now, cause my mother was super protective when I was inside the house, but of course riding on a motorcycle with a cheap plastic helmet was no worry for her. We thankfully never had an accident.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So that is what it was? I also noticed my battery draining considerably faster despite zero usage.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Imperialism would imply the US is benefiting from the current situation, but this is not clear. Although the US is imperialistic, it is not even clear to me that the US is acting in its best interest in this particular case.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

If you always vote for Party A, because Party B is always worse, then what incentive does Party A have to actually listen to your demands? None. It's simple game theory. If you commit yourself to Party A, unequivocally, Party A can basically ignore all your needs and demands.

And the other point is, the party in question is already in government and can already today do meaningful action, but they refuse to. This goes beyond the election. Why are they not acting today?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not a denier, but people fear the immediate costs. It's not clear what meaningful climate action looks like. But realistically it would very likely mean a higher cost of living in the immediate future, because not all economic sectors can be trivially decarbonized. There are also possible immediate benefits. But in any case that's what people fear.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Users upvoting/downvoting leads to a hivemind, even if the moderation is not complicit (which it often is).