This is just a recycled George Carlin bit.
It's been a few years, but last time I was there, (some) bars in Berlin still has large smoking sections.
Yeah, picking up useful skills is a good one, no matter what happens. I've started gardening a bit, but most of my time is still taken up working what in the end is still a non essential bullshit job (when though I enjoy it most of the time). That need, that trap is what keeps all of the rest going. But I agree, we do what we can to minimize our impact and maybe Even have some positive influence.
This is a bit more political/ideological than my own thinking in this general direction, but on the whole I agree. I often think "why do you all want to own so much junk?" I've been getting more and more anti consumerist over the years, and it's become kind of a point of pride not to but things, and start at the top, at "reduce*.
Replace Falcon with Starliner. Boeing is big enough to fuck up twice.
I hear Aquaman is looking to boost his real estate portfolio.
Renting by itself would be fine, it's just that there's barely any rent control in North America, and you're constantly at the mercy of your landlord, inflation and general greed. Put national standards for renter protection and rent increases in place and this would be much less of a problem.
Cory Doctorow has a solution: put some pebbles in your shoes, that will change the way you walk right away.
I need a paralegal to show me where they went wrong!
Solution: Rocket propelled guillotines
And they killed a dog
Chef's kiss!