Well, you’ll be pleased to know there are a lot of projects working on indoor vertical farming. Both as a method to spin up food production in heavily populated cities, and as a method for sustainable Mars and Moon bases. Which are effectively just bunkers, in space.

This is a terrible and unhelpful take. The whole point of the comment above was that people don’t have a clear path to genuinely improving things, and your response is “if you don’t live like an ascetic monk, you’re part of the problem.” You can do all of those things and have literally zero impact unless everybody else also does the same.

You not buying mouthwash isn’t saving lives, canceling Netflix isn’t saving lives, not buying Cyberpunk 2077 does literally nothing. Even if everybody unilaterally decided to not buy the next Call of Duty, how exactly does that help reduce suffering?

You’re basically saying that unless we dedicate ourselves body and soul to scripture, and donate our entire income outside of the bare minimum to survive, we are morally liable for capitalism. Which I think loops back to the original comment in that since there’s no clear and actionable method to hold capitalists accountable, people desperately reach for anything that makes them feel like they’re making a difference.

If you want an actual path to helping others, channel that monk energy into political activism.

You got downvoted a lot, but they are literally the exact same red flags. The only difference is the percent of men and women surveyed that view each thing as a red flag, but those are pretty similar with men being more conservative the women according to the poll.

There are a few standouts, but after looking at the actual poll its pretty obvious that the one or two “opinion” questions are overwhelmed by political flags.

Feels a little like an Eldritch corporation that doesn’t totally understand humanity, but produces simple guides to existence in a an effort to ease the suffering of our poor squalid souls.

That’s how the capitalists getcha. Back in granddads day, they just made sure you lost enough fingers in the machinery to keep from counting. Nowadays they gotta keep you too busy to realize they stole two hours instead of one.

Yeah, I remember back when depressive humor was funny because it was sad. Then, a few things happened in the last decade and now it’s funny because it’s true.

While true, sitting around watching Netflix has the advantage that it takes none of the nonexistent energy remaining after a full day of work + chores + you only get two hours before bed.

Yeah, I could see the financial value dropping, with businesses less willing to pay as much for harvested data, but I don’t see a point in time where they don’t attempt harvest every last piece of data on the off chance somebody wants it though. Advertisers paid insane amounts of money for targeted information, but even Google’s seen a huge contraction in their advertising revenue.

Doesn’t mean they aren’t frantically trying to harvest data more aggressively (just recently tried to bake it into the internet itself), just that our data is getting cheaper.

Yeah, I’d never liked Hulu because Comcast was behind it, and I will forever hate Comcast, but the enshittification of streaming services is essentially an intended return to the structure of cable packages.

ATT owns HBO (HBOMAX). They’re merging with Warner Bros and Discovery (owns Discovery+). Hulu is now majority owned by Disney after Disney purchased 21st Century Fox, but was originally established by News Corporation and NBC Universal (owned by Comcast). Comcast also owns Peacock streaming through NBC.

Basically all of the Netflix competitors had cable companies dive into them to do a quick name change and reclaim their market share. It’s also when Netflix lost most of its library, because they pulled all of the licensed content they could to their own platform. Disney+ was one of the few non-cable services, with even Paramount+ being owned by Paramount Global (CBS Entertainment Group), which is the cable arm of Paramount Pictures that owned everything from BET Networks to Comedy Central and Showtime.

At this point, streaming services are literally just cable with a paint job.

US military bases usually count as US territory subject to our laws, the difference between UCMJ charges for K2 possession/trafficking and South Korea’s is enormous. Normally this would have been handled in house.

Yeah, I thought it was really neat at first, but it became pretty concerning once they started playing whack-a-mole with the compounds. Probably one of the few situations I also agree with the DEA, though, that’s partially contingent on legalizing marijuana instead so there’s no reason to deal with all these loopholes for people that just wanna get high. Just let them do it safely.

I mean, sure, but raiding two military bases and facing 5 years to life for having some vape juice and a couple ounces of synthetic marijuana spread across twenty some people is absurd. Especially when places are steadily legalizing marijuana.

Well, it’s a cluster of synthetic cannabinoids, but it was officially banned by the DEA after they finally skipped past the banning specific molecules and banned the entire family of cannabinoids, so it’s no longer the molecule of the month special.

Still not ideal though.

Can’t complain about how the government doesn’t work, if the government works.

For real, I knew a guy that kept an ounce as his daily supply. As in, he’d set aside an ounce each day for casual smoking with friends. This whole four month raid was over three days of heavy college smoking. The demonization of marijuana is such a ridiculous waste, and leads to weird stuff like selling K2, which is a shittier version of weed, with actual risks as you can overdose on K2.

The American Dream lol.

Really? I kept seeing him get chewed on in news articles, but felt like he’d have instantly stolen second place from Desantis purely from mirroring Trump, if he were white and not named Ramaswamy. Haley too felt like she’d have been a standout, were she not a woman look for support from the GOP. Kept throwing me for a loop seeing the articles saying Desantis “won” the debate. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with the next primary debate.

The aggregated polling at 538 still has Ramaswamy in third place at 7% and Haley right behind him at 5.5%, but given that Desantis has dropped all the way down to 14.2%, I wouldn’t be surprised if one or both of them pushed him out. Trump is still sitting at 55.3%, but he’s also skipping the next debate, so hopefully that can fade. Plus, you know, all the criminal lawsuits.

God gave us four fingers and a thumb, so we can properly hold mice by their fluffy little tum.

… Why does Saddam Hussein have an enormous erection?

Y2K: Passed ✅

2038: “Wanna see me do it again?”

Ha ha, well I have absolutely no faith that we will collectively solve that unless 32 bit systems stop working on their own before then. If Y2K happened again today, there’d be a handful of companies handed billions of dollars to fix everything, and it’d wind up half done with demands for more money.