If a person doesnt exist, they don’t consume anything. No food, no air travel, no electricity needs, etc…I’m not saying that anyone who has, or wants to have, a child is some kind of asshole, its our biological prerogative after all. Just saying that when comparing individuals and their contribution to climate change, those who sired children are subsequently responsible for a lifetime, or possibly several lifetimes, of carbon emissions.

You didnt mention children, so im assuming you dont have any. If so, keep it up. Staying child-free is likely the most effective personal decision you could make to reduce your environmental impact. Obviously, that doesnt mean you should feel free to dump your used motor oil in the street, but you also arent adding a lifetime worth of consumption to the pile. Further, even if you lived in a cave the rest of your life, someone is one broken condom away from invalidating your (lack of) contribution.

Further, the argument could be made that what we’re doing to our environment is the “natural” way of things. Stick a bacteria culture in a petri dish and what does it do? It expands to the limits of its environment and consumes all available resources until there is nothing left it can use. Earth is our petri dish, and we’re just going through the motions.

If im feeling cheeky and one of my fellow nerd friends mentions a favorite character of theirs, i like to say “oh, that guy from Fortnite?”

Seriously. Certain issue covers could warrant an R rating on their own. Not sure if you have seen The Sadness (2021), but plot-wise its pretty similar. If they can do something sinilar with The Crossed then ill be happy.

Right there with you! Rooks teletubby level CGI mouth was an immediate immersion breaker. When i heard this movie was taking place between Alien and Aliens, I was really hoping we’d see the story of the how the colony on LV-426 finally came across the eggs and got destroyed. Instead it feels like i got a slightly different version of the first movie with a bigger budget and the same ending.

Further, i hate how she was able to kill the gravity and smoke a colony worth of xenomorphs. Forget that a single xenomorph has presented huge problems for people in other movies, but why do they all the sudden forget they were clinging to walls and that they have prehensile tails when the gravity runs off? Ruined how scary they were supposed to be.

More like bullshit tasks

So frustrating seeing this shit. I simply dont understand how this type of language is allowed to be present in T&Cs.

So strange to come across this as I’ve been pondering this very thing for a few weeks. Still pretty half baked, and I’m goimg to skip some detail for brevity, but here goes. Behold…

“AdHocracy”

A fluid, decentralized form of government somewhat inspired by the FEMA Incident Command System. It would be designed to facilitate temporary, task-specific governmental structures that are stood up and torn down as community needs arise. National baseline laws would be established to prevent confusion when traversing the country, and a legal framework established to ensure laws are consistent across the nation and no regional law conflicts with, or supercedes the law of, the larger region. Healthy food, clean water, housing, education and some form of internet connection would be considered rights. This system would rely heavily on digital participation, so open source technological development (particularly in cybersecurity) would be heavily subsidized. Establishing a secure digital identity would be needed for each citizen to participate in the governmental process, so likely using some form of blockchain tech.

The land mass of the country would be segmented into a heirarchical grid with a certain minimum resolution (I donno, 100m?) but when mapping a “decision region”, preference would be given to inclusion. For example, if a neighborhood wants a new road, you’d “paint over” the people and areas affected by the road, and expand the edges to cleanly fill a square (not sure I’m explaining this right, but oh well).

I imagine an annual “Call for Change Day” across all regions, allowing people to bring forward proposals for new laws or adjustments to existing laws. Those proposals would be submitted online, and could be easily browsed and voted on, (if pertaining to your region). Transparency is emphasized.

Thats about all I can think of right now.

Not sure if ita necessarily true, but it seems that organizations have a tendency to become more susceptible to corruption and bureaucracy the longer they stick around, no matter their purpose (governments, unions, HOAs, etc). This idea aims to prevent this by eliminating the need for career politicians (as all decisions are made jointly by those diectly impacted), and through systematic deconstruction of governmwntal structures before theyve had time to bloat and fester.

Imterested to hear everyones thoughts! On mobile, so please excuse formatting/grammatical errors.

One of my favorite action movies, Dredd (2012)

SLC Punk!

Reddit is leaking, lol

Albert Einstein:

1. Invented the photon and discovered the photoelectric effect, which earned him a nobel prize.
2. Discovered Brownian motion and proved the existence of particles and molecules.
3. Created the theory of relativity, changing the way we think about space, time, energy, and matter.

Oh, and he released papers on all three of these groundbreaking discoveries in a single year. Dude was next level.

Yet a cop in the US can legally forcibly use your finger to unlock your phone to go through it, makes no sense.

My wife and I use TimeTree as a shared calendar app. Its available in Android and iOS, and I’m sure it has other features that i dont use (maybe a “lists” function), but it’s been solid for us.

You guys seem to forget that it had a very real purpose before… buying illegal shit on the internet. It didnt “start as a scam”.

Don’t push when you shit, hemmorrhoids suck

I feel the need to disagree with you a bit here. The belief in a god or higher power can drive people to do terrible things, regardless of any form of organization or power structure.

Though I would also argue that the concepts of “religion” and “organization” cannot be separated. To be considered a religion, one would expect an organized set of doctrines, values, etc., likely taught by a spiritual leader or practitioner. The heirarchy of student and teacher is intrinsic to religion. The enlightened, and the lost.

Further, faith/religion based views on the world are, in my view, inherently “unscientific”. If you already feel you have the answers to lifes big questions, what motivation is there to continue research? Or even worse, could they end up wasting resources on religious pursuits.

Anyway, just my 2c.

Just make enough money selling the diamonds to buy co2 credits, now the footprint is zero! /s

How have I not heard this before 😆

I really do not understand why people love longlegs so much. I was mostly bored and having my immersion broken by the terrible SFX.