Not much like, then

People we both recognize as disabled are also told the exact same thing by others, that they’re choosing to behave that way

I’m morally impure but trying to survive. Many people have called me retarded, but there are also plenty of actual disabled people who are more morally pure than me.

I say the problem isn’t the disabled or the morally impure, it’s a huge cult with such a serious sickness they seem to want extinction.

Any petroleum used in their production is subsidized by the petrodollar economy, though

Being unable to stop trying to commit mass suicide via climate change seems like a serious disability

I’d definitely say white supremacy is mental illness though

This is hilarious and I upvoted. But it’s also not accurate, and presenting it this way makes Trump look like a giga chad tricking bullies into punishing themselves, when he’s more like just king of a mentally ill cult. I won’t take my upvote back because I voted for Trump one time 9 years ago and I can’t take that back

I really wanted to argue with this, but you’re right. Shipping companies would have gone truck-only by now to attack brown countries harder with climate change if brown neighborhoods in the US had any say over the use of train tracks through their areas. Yet another thing that’s not about efficiency or cost, while corporations pretend to be all about money.

Electric is definitely about as bad as gas for mowing a lawn. The gas you’re not using is just being used by someone else, if not more, because you’re helping subsidize the petrodollar economy by paying orders of magnitude higher cost for batteries+motors+solar power than you would pay for a push mower or probably even a gas-powered mower. But you also have to factor in the other environmental damage from manufacturing and shipping the batteries and solar panels which you make it really difficult to avoid by demanding the mower be electrified, whereas if the mower was push-powered it would be up to suppliers whether they feel like wasting their fuel shipping it across the planet or just manufacturing it with materials found closer to you

I don’t think I trust the studies saying human power is worse tbh. Cultivating food uses CO2, cows eat plants before we eat them, the plants drink CO2 from the air. Lawnmower takes power out of the ground and injects pollution in the air. Scythe has to be better

I thought a push mower might help but some studies say it might be worse. I guess the recommendation is to plant something other than grass that naturally stays good to walk on, maybe? I’m still learning about this myself

It’s wasteful

Maybe not about the transphobic crystals but yes on this part. Bernie is in a safer and stronger position to call for serious action than any of us non-US-Senators commenting on lemmy

Pretty sure the mowing is the exact problem. Can’t remember if it’s solved by using an old school push-powered mower or something

Edit - after looking into it, seems like push mowers don’t help because Americans eating meat will cause as much pollution pushing a mower as using gas? Not sure

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Arming yourself and organizing are both good. You probably don’t have to wait until you’ve found people to organize with before arming yourself in the US. It’s good to have a way to defend your home during a Nazi uprising

Meanwhile, the “artificial intelligence” is chat bots that increasingly act like crackheads begging for money and trying to sell you random bikes and stuff

You’d need to know how they encode the data in their meows, which is really hard to analyze because the data being encrypted makes it seem like random noise

And then cats have really good ears, so you’d need to be a highly professional parrot or voice actor or something to convince the cat it’s hearing the cat you want it to think it’s hearing with your key in the exchange. Phone speakers wouldn’t be enough

You can’t decrypt anything with the public keys though, wouldn’t work

Piracy definitely helps artists by helping their art spread without corporate involvement and without being used to fund Israeli weapons or shit like that