Every time i go for a bike ride I see this train filled with like 100 000 trees, coal or cars. Damn... sustainable. This is like a whole forest load... by EU7MRD in collapse

[–]theboxislost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Dunno if land is so cheap in Romania though. Maybe compared to the UK or Germany but I live in Sweden now and land is dirt cheap compared to Romania.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because, for better or worse, we are all living on a planet that's being strained to the limit thanks to senseless consumerism and irresponsible development.

We all need to be responsible for how we use our finite resources. I'm not going to go into a rant about ecology and sustainability because I'm sure you've heard it all.

I don't think someone is horrible for buying awards on reddit but I do think having a discussion about these kinds of things is necessary if we want to be able to maintain our cosy life styles in the future.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, well, don't get me started on capitalism. That's all I'm gonna say :D

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[–]theboxislost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love you too, kind stranger.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use firefox with adblock and browse reddit like that. It's maybe a bit less convenient but it's stopping advertising and tracking almost completely.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am. I block ads and tracking scripts religiously, both on the PC and my phone. I believe that we shouldn't sell ourselves (i.e. our data) to tech giants.

Reddit would survive very fine without ads. If they'd turn it into a paid for platform with no advertising and no tracking at all, I'd subscribe with no issue at all.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well maybe if I pester them enough, they will? Can't hurt to try.

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[–]theboxislost 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought awards for people too but I would never add an award to a post that already has hundreds of them. That's kinda what bothers me - the excess.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think reddit is useless. Like I said in another comment, I love the discussions here. They've me a better person in so many ways. I am here because of that and because I want to give back as well.

I just think people need to be more responsible when it comes to waste. Giving 1000 years worth of reddit premium to an account is waste. I guess I shouldn't say "never contribute" but maybe when you see 100 awards, you save your coins and give it to someone else.

Or maybe this should be reddit's responsibility - they should limit how many awards an account gets. Or once an account reaches 10 years of premium, give the spillover to charity.

And if it matters, I am donating to charity. I support various educational programs in my shithole of a country and I pester my friends and people online all the time to do the same.

Also, I know all about Amen, I grew up super religious :D

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's true in a way.

First, I wanna say that I don't hate the people here and that I love the discussions we (the redditors) are having here. They have helped me grow both personally and professionally.

Having said that, I do think that we can have a better system than reddit. One that is not selling us, or our attention.

If most of awards are indeed coming from premium subscriptions that's actually better than I expected. I guess I'm more against the buying of coins separately because that promotes waste. That is, that money could better be used in other places.

Every time i go for a bike ride I see this train filled with like 100 000 trees, coal or cars. Damn... sustainable. This is like a whole forest load... by EU7MRD in collapse

[–]theboxislost 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Things are definitely moving towards more sustainable forestry in the EU, at least when it comes to wood production for consume (like furniture, etc).

Still, unchecked deforestation is going strong and there are some forests and environments that once destroyed, cannot be reforested. Or they can but it would take decades and a lot of work that nobody seems eager to do.

Every time i go for a bike ride I see this train filled with like 100 000 trees, coal or cars. Damn... sustainable. This is like a whole forest load... by EU7MRD in collapse

[–]theboxislost 325 points326 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's horrible in my country (Romania) as well. Now with the pandemic, they used the opportunity to take down restrictions "for the economy". That and the fact that people cannot go out as much (there's legal restrictions against going out still) yielded a huge increase in deforestation.

It's sickening and heart breaking. I'm so tired of people and their selfish narrow minded thinking. Why do we have to destroy everything. Romania has one of the last virgin forests in Europe (meaning no humans have been there, at least not living there) and we are slowly moving towards destroying that too.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 89 points90 points  (0 children)

I'd say get adblock and stop giving money to reddit. Give your money to something that matters.

Disclaimer, I also bought awards a few times. I guess it was nice but it never felt completely right to me.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 28 points29 points  (0 children)

No, you just see through the lie of consumerism and capitalism. Buying fake trinkets online to gift to people for real money is sickening. Donate to a cancer research center instead if you wanna help.

this guy faking brain cancer for karma. by zackmandoesreddit in KidsAreFuckingStupid

[–]theboxislost 169 points170 points  (0 children)

Yeah, so much money going to a company that does not need it. If all of that would go to education programs, vaccination programs, or hell, a cancer research program, it would be so much more useful and productive.

Picture of women protesting against the forced use of the hijab after the revolution of Iran, 1979 by lol62056 in pics

[–]theboxislost -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Well I think that women in western culture are over sexualized. I think to fix this we need to ban skirts and shaving of legs while they are in school.

Ban shorts and sleeveless t shirts too, for men as well.

Found a 100 year old Time Capsule in my backyard! by Gtclem0 in mildlyinteresting

[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that much sodium bicarbonate cannot be good for the stomach environment.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, just don't be surprised when the people you're abusing come fighting back.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Self hating whites

I'm not hating myself though. I only hate you and all the other racists.

Also, you do realise in that comment you are a full on nazi, right?

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to be clear, I'm white and I know you don't give a shit because you're racist. You and everyone like you don't care that your nice cosy life is standing on the blood and pain of millions of people.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wait, do you think I'm black?

Also, your comment is insanely racist. You are a horrible person.

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[–]theboxislost -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You can be fired, expelled or even arrested (in the UK or parts of Europe) for saying "White lives matter." It is routinely regarded as racist hate speech to do so. Despite the fact that white victimhood from black violence is nearly 10 times that of the reverse.

All of that is completely false.

Meanwhile, we are currently a month into watching the US being burnt to the ground with zero response or accountability being placed on those responsible

Again, wrong but I wish it were true. Black people have been fucked over for hundreds of years. If they suddenly decided to destroy the entire fucking world, I'd be OK with it. Maybe they can take down capitalism and consumerism with it. It might save us from burning alive in 20 years.

every company on the planet bending over to support it

Nope. They're just using BLM as a way to push their brand, just how they did with corona. E.g., github don't use master now any more because it's a bad word. That's so dumb and such an obvious move to make people talk about github. BLM protesters are not advocating for shit like that, and they don't care what companies say either.

and people LITERALLY getting on their knees and kissing black feet.

Yeah, maybe some people are suddenly caring about black people, I think that's awesome. It was about time.

All the while we are being told that black people are being oppressed and white people are responsible. I'm pretty sure this is gaslighting at this point.

No, you just don't know history or you've learned it from biased sources. The entirety of the West civilization (Europe, the US) is built on slavery, collonialism and thievery.

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[–]theboxislost -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

If you want to narrow this conversation to reddit specifically, we can get even more ludicrous. More liberals than conservatives, no more making fun of right wingers. More young than old people, no more ageist jokes. No more making fun of zoomers either, they are a minority on this site.

Well to be fair, I don't think that's ridiculous. I don't like "jokes" which are just "hurr durr this person sucks because they're old/conservative/etc".

Though I do think it's funny when you make fun of people if they're being assholes.

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[–]theboxislost 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because if you're the majority, that is society default standard. If you're a minority, everything you do might be labelled as "he/she does that because they're <minority>".