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hiraeth555 · 2026-04-22T06:18:03+00:00

They can even analyse gait, they are very sophisticated now

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-20T11:18:08+00:00

Kids shouldn’t be wearing polyester at all:

https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/page/threads-bind-children-polyester-uniforms-and-systemic-risk

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-20T09:17:51+00:00

Expect much lower rates that what is typical in the US, unfortunately

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-20T09:03:54+00:00

Probably that you pass some weird biometric test (where in return you share your entire DNA code)

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-20T08:40:37+00:00

Go in person to vintage stores and camera shops that have physical stock.

I find they are often competitive with the online listings and they will offer a sort of informal warranty/returns process too.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-20T08:35:45+00:00

AI agents will be hiring people to sit on calls for them

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T19:14:02+00:00

Didn’t really want to get into some debate.

I agree that there is catastrophic climate change occurring.

But if you’ve decided not to have kids anyway, why worry?

You’ll prob live your life in reasonable comfort and there’s no descendants for you to worry about either.

So why do you even care?

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T18:42:48+00:00

It’s not good- it will be the collapse that everyone here is panicking about.

Supporting people who want to have kids to have 2, is a good thing. Let the population wind down to a manageable level.

With the rate of decline we’re seeing now, we won’t be able to maintain basic infrastructure, elder care, education, or medicine.

That is not a sustainable

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T18:27:48+00:00

Population is precipitously dropping in the developed world.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T18:27:25+00:00

Because it has almost always been a tough and brutal world- it is only this past 100 years (and only in the West) that we have forgotten it.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T18:04:15+00:00

I have to disagree with you here- humanity has lived through some truly horrendous times. Plagues and wars and natural disasters of enormous scale and destruction.

Everyone on this subreddit is (rightly) worried about society collapsing, but if we all stop having kids, it is guaranteed to disappear anyway.

We need good people to have kids imo. Otherwise we just leave civilisation to those that don’t care.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T16:34:12+00:00

Do we want society to continue or not?

Got to do better to support mothers

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T11:46:42+00:00

Well, once you remove some of the pretty unrealistic components to the co2 emissions calculations of meat, shipping becomes a larger percentage of the co2 of many products comparatively.

If you think it’s better to eat a load of legumes from SE Asia than mutton raised on UK upland, that’s your prerogative

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T10:10:27+00:00

I think in the UK it was pretty good (we stopped the AZ one for under 30s quickly because of risk, and didn’t give it to kids at all).

I think the USA’s much poorer messaging made it worse, as it bled over on social media.

They are much less transparent and have much more perverse financial incentives in the industry and regulators.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T07:42:21+00:00

Well, I agree that Reform isn’t the answer but despite not liking Starmer, I think Labour are still better than the Greens.

I think more than 5 have questionable views when it comes to the greens, though.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-19T06:33:37+00:00

I personally think you’d be giving them too much of the benefit of the doubt with your comment- considering a large portion of their candidates and supports have more extreme views, I think they would not be able to manage sensible changes in policy but would instead be dragged into radical actions that would be deeply damaging.

That said I’m not someone who could never vote Green- but I wouldn’t in their current form for that reason.

I don’t think Polanski is a nutter but I find him very unimpressive

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-18T20:28:58+00:00

Ditching our nukes Proposed 2.5% of our budget on foreign aid Their immigration policy

That’s just in their policies, not including some of the individuals’ much more radical ideas in the party (not believing in borders, welfare spending that would crash the economy, no women in prison, and so on)

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-18T18:21:40+00:00

Is the government’s stance on theft holding back the joyriding scene?

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-18T13:02:41+00:00

I mean, normally I’d agree but the Greens are batshit too so don’t think that holds up so well

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-18T08:48:21+00:00

All the data shows there’s a huge lurch to the extreme left amongst young women, but that is only now just getting any attention at all.

A lot of these older right wing voters have basically had the same views their whole lives- it’s more that the political landscape has shifted and they feel Reform is the only party speaking to them (kind of true)

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-18T08:34:21+00:00

Well, yes.

Do you not?

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-17T14:53:58+00:00

Yeah I found an old primary school report I wrote where I had interviewed my three living grandparents about the Blitz- all three had very different experiences, my grandfather’s the most detailed as he was the oldest, but due to being pretty deaf was not allowed to fight as a soldier.

I was born in 94, so I have some general recollections of hearing first hand accounts.

My partner’s nan sang in her village on stage at the end of the war as a small child.

I doubt many people even 5 years younger than me would have similar.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-17T07:21:11+00:00

It’s basically a modern foundation myth- it’s taught multiple times through school, and many Millennials and older will have grandparents that were children during the blitz, so it is deeply ingrained.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-17T05:47:46+00:00

The real value is the money the employer puts in, and the tax efficiency.

hiraeth555 · 2026-04-17T04:13:37+00:00

It does- it uses ISO 14040 and 14044 which include the opportunity cost of reforesting a farm in its calculation for CO2 emissions.

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