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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13236888

Not givin' up

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

'big tech is too big theres no fighting it its already too late'

meanwhile fediverse omegachads chilling on lemmy enjoying their time:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

omegachads

Man the omegaverse girlies keep dropping new lore, how am I supposed to keep up with these terms

[–] [email protected] 53 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Nihilism is for suckers. I'm going to make the world a better place and have some fun along the way too.

[–] noodles 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's actually optimistic nihilism

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Ubermensch?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I would assume that if they want to make the world a better place, they admit that their actions have long-reaching impact, which is not really a feature of nihilism, optimistic or not

But I'm not an expert, do what you want

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

absolute chad

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We have not failed to prevent climate change. We have failed to prevent some climate change. How much more we get depends directly on what we do about it now. And now the best you can do is keeping that in mind when going to vote and spending money.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Friendly reminder that we have already identified and largely fixed a climate change problem, the depletion of the Ozone layer, and we can fix other problems too:

The Montreal Protocol is considered the most successful international environmental agreement to date. Following the bans on ozone-depleting chemicals, the UN projects that under the current regulations the ozone layer will completely regenerate by 2045, thirty years earlier than previously predicted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_depletion

[–] gravitas_deficiency 13 points 3 months ago

Works for a lot of topics that certain users around here are trying to force everyone to perceive as literally the only thing that matters.

It sucks that that one tree you really care a lot about got vandalized, burnt, and cut down, but you gotta realize there’s a whole fuckin lot more trees out there that we still CAN save. This commentary should be taken in both a literal and a figurative sense.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

The best time to save the planet was 10 years ago. The next best time is now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It's not about fixing the problem anymore.

It's about staying alive to watch bad things happen to bad people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

do people think all doomers just don't try. I reduce, reuse, recycle and you betcha I enjoy the heck out of every piece of nature I can get to by foot or bike. If I was in a falling elevator I would most assuredly try to jump at the last second.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Turns out that just because you begin to stab yourself doesn't mean you can't stop pushing the knife in and staunch the bleeding.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing this. I wasn't familiar with this channel, not I'm liking it.

I just read that this guy was part of Nebula and was forced out. It's remarkable that he's forced out for speaking openly and defending his beliefs when Isaac Arthur is tolerated despite having much more onerous politics but having them in secret. Smh.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who's the guy in the second panel? I swear I've seen this guy somewhere recently and it's been seriously bugging me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much! I checked that he starred in the show 'Severance' which I just watched recently, which is why I could recognise his face.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

If that is the only place you have seen Christopher Walken, then you seriously need to update yourself on Christopher Walken movies. He is great in everything he is in, and you are missing out on a legend of a man.