myshpa

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by myshpa 3y ago
> A bullshit sector, but the jobs themselves are not "bullshit jobs" If a sector (industry) is bullshit, the jobs are too. > the climate change stuff here is a total non sequitur I was reacting to 'with a good manager,
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by myshpa 3y ago
No need to eat bugs, eat vegetables, fruits, legumes, grains, nuts and seeds, comrade, and you'll help save the environment for your children.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Read it, you're probably wrong, and it will change your views once again. All his books are superb. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021) analyzes our civilization from another angle - how we have apparently "go
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by myshpa 3y ago
If the system is set up to employ an army of people solely for the purpose of complying with some meaningless regulation, then that army of people (and those who support them) are all examples of bullshit jobs.
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by myshpa 3y ago
So ... UBI
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by myshpa 3y ago
Get off my lawn!
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by myshpa 3y ago
No intelligence, no screens, no -tainments, thank you. I want just a stupid electric car with a stick, pedals, speed/battery meter and parking sensors.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Some epistemically sound research to back up your claims? Otherwise it's just a load of bull ;)
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by myshpa 3y ago
I'm aware.
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by myshpa 3y ago
I must express my utmost admiration for your exceptional intellect, which effortlessly dismisses the perspectives of vegans as lacking epistemic rigor. Your towering intellect, armed with an exclusive collection of "epistemically sound
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by myshpa 3y ago
In my experience it's ethics, environment and health reasons, people don't turn vegan for lack of money. https://thevou.com/lifestyle/how-many-vegans-are-in-the-worl...
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by myshpa 3y ago
It's just peanuts that could be captured this way, isn't it? It seems to me that better way would be stopping adding to the greenhouse effect and store some of those gases in the ground (by large scale (a|re)forestation).
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by myshpa 3y ago
Not really interested in arguing with you (you seem to be very set in your ways), so just some link spam for you ;) > 'single biggest way' to become unhealthy, weak, and scrawny https://old.reddit.com/r/veg
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by myshpa 3y ago
Agree that climate change is a bad term. Better term would be anthropogenic crisis ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene ). Because we have much more problems than just fossil fuels. This is just a short (and inco
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by myshpa 3y ago
> Food itself is a luxury for many people/countries. That's why you'll find most vegans/vegetarians in low-income countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism_by_country#Demographi... (the l
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by myshpa 3y ago
> That's not so true now Maybe not now, I was talking about cummulative footprint. Even now China is a third of EU + UK + US together. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co2-emissions-... https:&#x2
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by myshpa 3y ago
Our civilization doesn't have thousands of years ahead of it, unless something changes radically. 7500 - 9000 is just a wishful thinking ... we won't make it there without functioning ecosystems
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/global-study-of-71000-anim... Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12974 More l
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by myshpa 3y ago
Yes ... fossil fuels absolutely too ... that's another reason why WFH is so important.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe. Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't save anything. https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-g
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by myshpa 3y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding... Avoiding meat and dairy is ‘single biggest way’ to reduce your impact on Earth https://journals.plos.org/climate/artic
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by myshpa 3y ago
They may even have time for thinking. And we all know that would be a catastrophe for the system!
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by myshpa 3y ago
> the soon-to-come end of humanity Already there.
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by myshpa 3y ago
Many companies start with something like "don't be evil", and it (almost always) ends predictably. Money ruin everything, sooner or later. > Let's choose differently. Let's. Patiently waiting for it to happen som
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by myshpa 3y ago
What we have here ... is a failure to communicate. (I'll see myself out)
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by myshpa 3y ago
Just to nitpick ... > their goal is to provide services to people Their goal is to make as much money as possible. "To provide services" is just a way to get there. > fucked up immoral things, it will hurt their bottom line
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by myshpa 3y ago
Corn-Based Ethanol May Be Worse For the Climate Than Gasoline, a New Study Finds (2022) Long touted as a renewable fuel emitting 20 percent fewer greenhouse gasses than gasoline, ethanols’ emissions may be 24 percent higher. https:/&#
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New climate bomb: today's greenhouse gas levels to raise sea levels by 60 metres(climatecodered.org)
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by myshpa 3y ago
A free photoshop alternative, one man show https://www.photopea.com/
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by myshpa 3y ago
Are you speaking/working for EFF? If yes, I'll delete my comment. Patents are abominations and should not exist. I don't see how informing the public about their negatives benefits patent trolls.

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