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I have never seen a refutation of the necessity of infinite growth of capitalism that considers earth a closed system, or anything like it. They always give examples of countries, or at best, collections of countries within a single economic market. Even if space is an option, it's impractical.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I'm very concerned about the trend of the ruling class to purposefully defund or otherwise break systems which gather data for results, to make it more difficult to show their policies are harmful for most people. Not only government, you also regularly see this in large organizations of all kinds.

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I'm hesitant to defend culture, behavior, language, or anything else if it is my own. Because I'm concerned my bias would cloud my judgement about something I might be doing that could potentially be bad. But I'm becoming increasingly concerned that I'm the only person who is hesitant about this.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like lots of things age poorly, but remembering what they were like at the time they make more sense. And then there's "The Way You Make Me Feel" video from Michael Jackson. It's fucking terrifying.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I watch a nature program about a moose. So I want to read more about moose. So I put "moose" into my search and it autocompletes to "moose knuckle" And I automatically hit enter and now I have moose knuckle in my search history. Now 80 billion dollars worth of tech can cater my ads perfectly.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

We've been shown Republicans don't mean what they say repeatedly over the past 30 years at least. We need to stop trying to have discussions with them about their future plans as though they are meaningful. Their entire agenda is lying. Stop falling for it, it's embarrassing.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I thought Tim Curry was dead until I realized I was thinking of Alan Rickman. Neither one of those guys would be upset by that mix-up though, would they?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I think using collective action to build community against things that don't matter so much might be the best way to eventually organize against the important shit. The powers that be won't be so ready to destroy those communities, and it will be a low stakes fun way to get people involved.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Gestures and symbols are meant to represent movements, vague subjects. And they can be confused, as there are only so many gestures and symbols that can be made. So instead, I prefer to look at what someone has purposefully published to see what their opinions are. ...Oh. Oh my. This is worse.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

When a recipe has a section where you need to put a whole pan inside the freezer, it makes me realize that this kind of thing is for people living a lifestyle that I am not a part of.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I'm just saying Lt. Aldo Raine should give him something he can't gaslight his way out of.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

In over 40 years of Mario lore they don't seem to ever explain why a plumber is so into jumping.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Whether or not things scale matters. It also matters how they scale. If something scaling badly does more harm than not doing that thing then we should not do that thing, or not scale that thing, or at the VERY least, not scale that thing in the bad way! This problem comes up so much.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Would a president declare and conduct a war against a sovereign nation without congress's approval, and enact a draft to do it? Well, do you think that the American people can learn a lesson from Vietnam? Do you, really? Please site source.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Problems are not proportional to the patience you have to understand them.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

I've seen more urban wildlife than I'm used to here in Germany. And I really wonder what they think is happening on New Year's. It's got to feel like the apocalypse with all the fireworks.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

Can we talk about how "I wanna wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart" isn't a sentiment that requires utmost sincerity? Like the difference between wishing me a merry Christmas with a passing indifference has an identical effect on both you and me. Or is it too soon to discuss?

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

1st thought in Berlin: nice train station. 2nd: Wow, the station announcements sound very similar to the voice in Papers, Please. 3rd: ....oh, right. Guess that makes sense.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

I often feel like people don't care enough about the current preventable tragedies taking place around the world; then as those tragedies end, or change into some new paradigm and the details of the past horrors come to light; it really hits me. I don't need to know these things. I was already sad.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

What the hell, Germany? I know the Brothers Grimm fairy tales are often weird in a modern context, but what the hell story is this even from? The Magic Poon?

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

A person is allowed to grieve the loss of something that was not able to become something it had the potential to be. A project, a career, a person, a life But the significance of the thing it was to become, as well as how close it came to becoming that thing, needs to be proportional to the grief

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments