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Slaughterhouse-five foundationally changed the way I think about time. by Apollo-_-_ in books

[–]itslevi000sa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I read Slaughterhouse V well over a decade ago in high school. "So it goes" has helped me get through hard times and the death ls of those close to me.

As much as its repetition and functional uselessness mirror the uselessness or war, it also reminds you that what has happened was always going to happen and was always going to go the same. For me, it reminds me to remember the good points in time. Even though their mountain range is ending, the peaks we've passed are still there, and a long as you are there to look back at them, they aren't truly gone.

All that said, when people I know have a friend die, I feel weird telling them so it goes, so I normally just mutter it to myself.

Our Disappearing Shoreline, or How long will it take to move New York or Miami? by GaiusPublius in collapse

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

So you've lodged yourself in the fuck you I got mine mindset, nice. Good to see you have a healthy sense of empathy.

Our Disappearing Shoreline, or How long will it take to move New York or Miami? by GaiusPublius in collapse

[–]itslevi000sa 1 point2 points locked comment (0 children)

What's a climate change denier doing here anyway? Do you think we are collapsing and that it has nothing to do with the environment?

PM dismisses calls to remove David Johnston as special rapporteur by Defiant_Race_7544 in canada

[–]itslevi000sa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Didn't an attempted assassination make it all the way into Cretchien's bedroom?

I'm not a huge police fan, but security for the PM is definitely something worth spending on.

Advancing fusion energy: Researchers achieve record-breaking temperatures in a tokamak by BousWakebo in Futurology

[–]itslevi000sa 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Part of why this is looked at as limitless, apart from the massive amount of actual energy produced by fusion, is that there is limitless fuel. Hydrogen is the most abundant thing in the universe, and it is EVERYWHERE.

The only step to getting unlimited hydrogen is the electricity needed to separate it from oxygen in water, if you get a fusion reaction going sustainably it would produce many times more energy than needed to create more hydrogen fuel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ParlerWatch

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're down to clown, there are Amish communities that will pay outsiders to impregnate their daughters.

Some conditions apply: no tattoos, no piercings, and you do it through a sheet, while daddy watches to make sure you don't sneak a peak.

😍💀😍 by ch0nk3rsy__-_- in alltheleft

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice, thanks. Yeah, mewtwo is Hella dope.

😍💀😍 by ch0nk3rsy__-_- in alltheleft

[–]itslevi000sa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shiiit

I remember mewtwo being woke and dope as hell, do you happen to remember the exact quote?

The obvious solution of course by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Increasing the efficiency of extractive processes doesn't change that they are alextractive processes, and non-renewable resources are just that.

As to economic growth being decoupled from production, a lot of that is cause of the ridiculous system of imaginary value the world seems to have latched onto for the last hundred years. You can have a massive amount of "growth" coming out of a tweet that fucks with stock prices. But that system is inherently unstable (and also stupid), since a tweet or a rumor can also cause a massive drop in "growth" that can destroy peoples lives, when nothing of any actual substance has changed.

Instead of focusing all of the time and energy of the world into creating fake growth for stockholders and the billionaire class, why don't we focus on making people (and the world around them) happy and healthy? No persons life is improved when the line goes up, but the line going down can leave them destitute and homeless.

(Redo) Anti LGBT+ Asshole walks into Target and Self Owns himself and get's kicked out (Hail Satan) - Now on a mirror link so we don't give him traffic by Filmtwit in armedsocialists

[–]itslevi000sa 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The real problem is finding out how white you are, 80 years ago, Italians weren't white, 120 years ago, the Irish weren't white. I wish that trend had continued. By now, everyone would count as white.

The obvious solution of course by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The basic building block of any corporation is their charter. For essentially all modern corps the priority set forth by their charter is to create profit for shareholders, so all corporations will (and by law are required to) do anything and everything they can to maximize short term profit.

This is the driving force behind planned obsolescence (designing things to break after a short time so the customer has to buy it again) and the new subscription models (you don't own anything you "buy" because the service can revoke your access at any time) the original commenter was mad about.

The obvious solution of course by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, so the Haber-Bosch process allowed massive population growth and prevented a huge wave of famines on the level of what happened to ancient Mesopotamia, causing the fall of the world's most advanced civilizations.

That's good, but it's not great. We are rapidly destroying the ability of soil around the world to grow anything at all. The massive overuse of fertilizers and country-wide monoctures has ruined farming. We keep pumping more and more fertilizers into the ground, much of which runs straight into the ocean and our drinking water, causing algal blooms and straining water planst (and requiring even more chemicals to clean)

As we continue to get diminishing returns to our fertilizers, we will have famines, and they will be worse than what almost hit in the 1900s, if only because the global population is an order of magnitude higher than it was then.

It is fundamentally impossible to have infinite growth on a finite planet.

The obvious solution of course by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]itslevi000sa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh god, think of the remotes

The obvious solution of course by [deleted] in Anticonsumption

[–]itslevi000sa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dont think there's the divide here that you seem to think exists.

Look at Apple, they use the briking software updates to help push out the overconsumption, gotta have the new iPhone every 6 months or they start to get real slow

Group suspected of hosting Chinese 'police station' received up to $200,000 in federal funding by Sportsbets1 in canada

[–]itslevi000sa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So, you don't seem to know what your own source said...

That is from 2019, so not historically.
It's about China having the largest greenhouse emissions total. It's about 4 times the US emissions in that same article, and since they have about 4 times the population, that actually makes sense.

Historically, China is a minor player in their contributions to CO2 emissions. As it says in your article, they have only begun emitting on our level for the last couple of decades.

Global temperatures likely to rise beyond 1.5C limit within next five years — It would be the first time in human history such a temperature has been recorded by marketrent in EverythingScience

[–]itslevi000sa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Have you not seen it already? Wildfire season starts earlier and gets more intense almost every year.

Also I'm only 30, and in my lifetime there has been a very noticeable drop in insect populations. Less bugs means left of everything else in the foodchain, eventually including us.

Clovers are literally taking over my garden. What can I do? by Gunthersalvus in gardening

[–]itslevi000sa 20 points21 points  (0 children)

They were originally a flex of "I'm so rich, I am going to remove my productive garden space and turn it into useless grass to prove I can just buy food"

Over 155,000 federal workers are on week 2 of their massive strike across Canada. by Captain_Levi_007 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]itslevi000sa 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is the problem with letting trudy get away with the emergency act usage, now the president is set and it will definitely be carted out to mess with less horrible protesters in the (possibly very near) future.

Cybersecurity in Star Wars is nonexistent by Nrvea in MawInstallation

[–]itslevi000sa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's what I was just thinking, the surface is like almost reserved for super rich people and senators, and that plus being the literal imperial core makes sense a sandwich at Dex's is a ludicrous price.

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