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Let’s just end large language modeling, at the very least.
Because it’s all their fault, look away from the banks
We could quite easily solve this global crisis by investing more.
In guillotines.
Is blahaj competing with lemmygrad and hexbear for the most extremist instance nowdays?
Some people will jump on a comment about guillotines and say that’s it’s a call to violence.
But in practice, you’re never going to get a billionaire into a guillotine by strongarming them with a mob. They’re usually too well protected or reclusive.
The guillotine is more of a reminder of the historical context of how the common people express their dissatisfaction with the ruling class.
It’s not okay to kill people. But they are killing us. It might not look like a direct effect because they’re not walking through the streets shooting people. They’re just “steering us headlong into apocalyptic climate disaster.” This way they can kill far more people than by walking through the streets shooting people. And while that might not necessarily be their intention, it is the effect they’re having on the world.
If it’s not about literally killing them then using that language is completely counter productive. Say what you mean and mean what you say. You wouldn’t give this charitable view to what your opponent is saying either.
Yeah, maybe we should just do away completely with metaphor, memes, and rhetoric. That will surely be a fun way to live.
But you’re right. I wouldn’t give my opponent a charitable view if they were saying something like this. Because they have ludicrously more resources than I do and a history of enacting harm.
This isn’t a call to violence. That would require a specific group or person to be called out with a plan to cause harm.
Is it not extremist to burn the world down for your 100th yatch, 700th second vacation estate, 4000th impluse buy car, 3rd private jet?
About the composting - if you live in a region which has a professional compositing facility, properly sort your rubbish and don’t compost on your own.
Composting emits a lot of greenhouse gases and professional facilities capture them and use them in less harmful ways. So if we were all in-house composting our bio-garbage it would be more harmful for the environment than using communal services.
It’s a little bit different for gardening products - those first capture greenhouse gases and would rot on ground anyway so composting kinda balances out. But still, for example if you’re cutting your grass just leave it on the ground and rake it. This way it’s not gonna rot and will fertilize your lawn.
I think its interesting that people in the west only realized the danger capitalism posed when it started affecting their weather, while the rest of the world has been filling graveyards for decades because of it.
Its almost like everyone knew the whole time.
You get punished in American schools for daring to suggest that maybe we shouldn’t be solely focused on grades and wages.
If the only gardening related activity a person is doing is composting, that might be a net addition to climate change, not a mitigation. Most forms of composting cause C02 to off-gas, enough so that it’s often recommended to keep compost piles near trees or other vegetation so those plants can absorb some of those emissions and benefit from them.
the AC helps mitigate the effects of climate change (for me).
Back it up one second will yah, what was that third thing you said?
My first world living standards aren’t exactly a cruel system of oppression.
The bread and circuses work, apparently. Congrats on being purposefully ignorant to the sheer ridiculous amount of past, present, and future suffering your first world living standards require from moment to moment. All so you can keep your bread and circuses, no matter how much blood soaks through the tent.
I won’t even get started on how that’s not even true within the first world, but our first world conditions are built upon and kept alive by oppression of the third world/global south so yeah a cruel system of oppression is exactly what it is.
But it doesn’t affect me (yet).
“the global South” oh like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa?
You’re not the one doing the oppression but everything we consume and many things we can and can’t do all stem from oppressive systems.
Like exploitation of the global South, exploitation from billionaires, the consequences of colonialism, bashing minorities and migrants, religious oppression, etc.
Our first world living standards are all built on the remnants and on current oppressive systems.It’s not obvious to be how people in the 3rd world would benefit if the rich west stopped ‘exploiting’ their cheap workforce. If it costs the same to produce something in China than it would to do it locally then I just stop buying Chinese made stuff.
Obviously it’s a very complex and complicated situation that would take multiple books to expose and explain entirely.
And obviously if we were to dismantle this system overnight it would wreak havoc on societies and people.
Your example of locally vs chinese manufactured products is one of many examples of the oppressive systems we have in place.Say you have a factory in your hometown that produces X and employs 1000 people. And because of political choices, and search for more profits, the owner of the factory decides to relocate to China.
Why China? Because of more lenient work regulation and human rights protection, the cost of labour is cheaper. At least it used to be, given that it changed a bit in recent years.So the factory in your hometown closes, 1000 people are now filing for unemployment. And 1000 people across the globe are now employed in the new factory, for less pay and probably rough working conditions. They manufacture the same product for cheaper, but that product is still sold for the same price in your home country, or is slightly more expensive (to cover the cost of relocation and shipping for instance).
The owner now takes a bigger margin, 1000 people are unemployed and need to find another job and 1000 Chinese people work in the factory (usually in terrible conditions). With that, you just displaced the potential unrest of people wanting higher pay or better working conditions.The people in your hometown now have to rely on social security nets not to starve because of slashed revenue, especially if the factory was the main employment source in the region. The people in China now have a job but one that will probably fuck up their health and with enough time, they will manage to ask for better working conditions. If they get them and the cost of labour gets too high for the owner, the cycle repeats in another country, let’s say Kenya.
In the meantime, the owner is probably friends with other people like him, most of them having ties to people with political power or influence. Where they can do similar things to your public services, healthcare, education system, etc.These people control most of the narrative via media ownership, so they can steer public opinion away from their actions.
In countries with a colonial past, these people also use their country’s influence to impose their will on locals.
Like bribing the current government to build a pipeline through the country, or fuelling unrest, or arming militias to overthrow a government that doesn’t play well with their plans.All that to get cheaper materials or cheaper labour to manufacture abroad what used to be manufactured in your hometown. But now the product is more expensive, usually of worse quality and you can’t afford it anymore because you lost your job, because a guy wanted more zeros on his spreadsheet.
Obviously this is simplified and lacks nuance, but that’s roughly how all of these systems play together and end up being oppressive either in your country or across the world.
Me, who lives in privilege but isn’t closing their eyes and ears in deliberate ignorance: “You should try thinking about others too sometimes”
