TheDemonBuer
@TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 3 days ago:
So, what, if we’re all going to be assholes, some of us should at least be rich? Ok, well, chances are it ain’t gonna be you or me who are the rich assholes, so what’s the point? For everyone to be miserable, but a few people get to be rich and miserable?
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 3 days ago:
No.
- Comment on Fuckin bummer 4 days ago:
You’re better off. Rich kids grow up to be assholes.
- Comment on Big Sun behind it all 6 days ago:
Brenda Shaffer, whatever she is, is clearly an idiot.
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 1 week ago:
You can charge an EV from a regular household 120V outlet. Sure, it will charge slower than molasses but that’s enough for a lot of people. You might only get 30 miles of range from charging overnight, but if you’re driving less than 30 miles everyday, that’s enough. I know I drive less than 30 miles a day, most of the time. But for those days where you’re driving more than 30 miles, yeah you’re going to need to know where there’re some fast chargers near you, but there’s more of those being built all the time.
And there are some good deals on used EVs, too. And the batteries they have now last long enough that there’s really no worry about having to replace the battery on a used EV.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 1 week ago:
Wait, this is real?! Holy shit, he’s gone off the deep end.
- Comment on Emissions go brrrr 1 week ago:
Better than them e-lectric vehicles. If my car ain’t big, loud, inefficient, polluting and running on ancient fossil goo that’s totally nonrenewable and expensive to pump out of ground and refine, I ain’t interested!
- Comment on I have a plan 1 week ago:
The allies? Like the US, who didn’t declare war in Germany until after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, two years after Germany invaded Poland? Like the Soviet Union, who signed a non-aggression pact with Germany in 1939, a pact that wasn’t terminated until Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941? Those allies?
- Comment on I have a plan 1 week ago:
It needs to be explicitly stated because there are still people who don’t understand that violent regime change is wrong.
- Comment on I have a plan 1 week ago:
Unless that one person is god emperor of the country, no.
- Comment on I have a plan 1 week ago:
No, I wouldn’t like it. No country should bomb another and force regime change. I don’t care how shitty the leader being replaced is. I want Trump gone, but not like that. I know this is a joke, but I feel like this needs to be explicitly stated.
- Comment on Prisoner peeing on the libs? 3 weeks ago:
Such a rich and vibrant culture.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s not a world government.
Exactly. The UN is NOT a world government and we need to stop expecting it to act as one. That was never the intention of the UN.
That being said, a lot of people talk about the necessity for the “rule of law,” but there cannot be the rule of law without some kind of government with the authority to enact and ENFORCE laws. If nations are not willing to sign on to something like that, we cannot have the rule of law. Instead we will have the rule of whichever country has the largest, most powerful military and/or economic influence. I know a lot of Americans are fine with that arrangement because that position is currently occupied by the US, and has been for more than half a century, but the US might not always occupy that role. How would you feel about this arrangement if China, for instance, were the world’s hegemon instead of the US?
- Comment on An uplifting message for you. 4 weeks ago:
As a species things do just keep getting better for us, except in periods of systemic transition.
I think that’s been generally true since the first agricultural revolution led to the emergence of civilization, 10,000 or so years ago. But, progress has not been linear, it’s been exponential, with most of the progress occurring in just the last few hundred years, since the industrial revolution. In that regard, the progress that we’ve experienced over the last few hundred years has been anomalous.
The way of life that we take for granted today is very different from how most of humanity has lived through the vast majority of history (and that was itself very different from how our species had lived through the vast majority of our existence, with humans living in small hunter-gatherer tribes for most of our time as a species).
Modern life has existed for only the blink of an eye, on evolutionary time scales. Yet, in that time we have used up an incredible amount of natural resources, and we have made significant, irreversible changes to the Earth’s biosphere and climate.
It took our species nearly all of the 10,000 years of civilization’s existence to go from a few million people on the planet to a billion, but it only took a little over two centuries to do from one billion people to over eight billion. That kind of exponential growth simply cannot be sustained indefinitely on a planet with finite resources. Even at maximum possible resource use efficiency, and even with the maximum possible environmental impact mitigation efforts, the Earth still wouldn’t be able to sustain our growth forever. We would reach some hard, physical limit to growth, eventually.
- Comment on An uplifting message for you. 5 weeks ago:
I feel like our whole lives here in the US we’ve been told to expect things to just generally keep getting better, seemingly forever. Like, that’s the narrative of “progress.” The economy just keeps growing, the nation just keeps getting richer, technology just keeps getting better, living standards just keep getting better, so forth and so on. But, that was probably never realistic, or even feasible. I mean, no civilization progresses forever. Essentially every civilization that’s ever existed has followed a pattern of ascension followed by decline. Many of the most notable civilizations ascended very quickly and dramatically, and then collapsed just as quickly and dramatically. Why should we expect to be any different? What makes us think we won’t follow the same pattern as basically every other civilization in history?
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 5 weeks ago:
I’m drinking my dinner plans right now. But I drive by a Culver’s all the time. I’ll definitely stop in someday soon and give it a try.
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 5 weeks ago:
Yeah.
- Comment on God bless the Midwest 5 weeks ago:
I’ve never been to Culver’s. Is it any good?
- Comment on Also, in my state, all the drivers are the worst 1 month ago:
It is a scientific fact that Tennessee has the worst drivers. Not my state, btw.
- Comment on I'm in! 1 month ago:
It’s fairly straightforward: they don’t want restrictions placed on their rights to own and carry a gun, but they absolutely want restrictions placed on the rights of their political enemies.
- Comment on BASED? 2 months ago:
I’m sure it’s true for some women. But I wouldn’t be surprised if most working women were either married or in a committed relationship. Plus, a lot of households have two incomes out of necessity. Both partners need to work full time just to make ends meet.
- Comment on American exceptionalism 2 months ago:
“American exceptionalism” has always been a euphemistic propaganda term that really meant American supremacism. It has been the justification, used by both of the two major parties in the US, for continued US global hegemony.
Supremacism of any kind is a flawed and dangerous concept. The fact is, we are neither exceptional nor superior.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 2 months ago:
They’re a parody of themselves.
- Comment on Canada PM's Speech at the WEF 2 months ago:
The EU has some important things that it needs to get sorted out, for sure, but the rest of the world can’t wait on the EU to start building the new world order. In fact, it’s happening whether anyone likes it or not.
- Comment on Canada PM's Speech at the WEF 2 months ago:
Its huge and he said what everyone’s thinking. But i think the reason people werent saying it was because they dont believe the second part of his statement. I think they dont believe we(democratic countries) CAN build a new democratic rules based order.
The world needs to try. Declaring failure before we even start is not the way to approach this. You want to proceed with caution, I understand, but you must also proceed in good faith. And that means not entering into a democratic world order with suspicion of every country that isn’t white, Western and liberal. The world is a large, diverse place. There are a lot of different cultures, ethnicities and political systems. To limit participation in a democratic world order to only Western style liberal democracies means excluding most of the world. How can we ever hope to have a democratic, rules based world order if most of the world isn’t allowed to participate?
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- Comment on I can still get down with the best of 'em! 2 months ago:
- Comment on If you are a guy living with a woman you know THIS 3 months ago:
I always put the lid down. It’s got a lid for a reason, it looks much nicer with it down.
- Comment on He's on a mission 4 months ago:
Probably someone who lives in the southern US, where it rarely snows. This wouldn’t be unusual for someone living in many northern states, especially those around the great lakes. But to a southerner, this might as well be a different planet. They will close schools and businesses even for relatively light snow in the South. It frightens and bewilders them.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 5 months ago:
I wonder if Valve will ever release an official desktop version of SteamOS? I think Linux adoption would really increase fast if there was a gaming focused Linux desktop distribution with the support of an established company. But does Valve want that? A full featured operating system is a lot to maintain and provide support for.
