Yes, he’s a wasteful, elitist asshole, but still keep on recycling. Better yet, stop using plastic bottles (and other disposable plastic stuff) altogether, and get non-plastic, reusable bottles/containers, which you can refill. The best drink containers are thermally insulated, so you can put hot or cold drinks with ice in them, so they stay hot or cool for hours, and have drink spouts on them.
Edit: my personal recommendation would be IronFlask, but there are other quality brands that others here may recommend
Hank Green did a video inspired by a similar meme after the Blue Origin rocket explosion. He acknowledged that plastic recycling isn't great, but encouraged focusing on other materials like aluminium. The explosion released 825 tons of carbon dioxide, which is ~1% of the hourly emissions of the aluminum industry. The current amount of recycled cans in the US saves the equivalent to 15 rocket explosions of carbon every day.
So yeah, get a reusable container, and try using aluminum instead of plastic.
yeah, and there was a recent expose about how, on top of the fact that most plastic recycling doesn't actually reduce overall pollution all that much, a huge amount of state and municipal recycling programs had been subsumed by some massive scam that just offloaded recycling waste to some 3rd-party program that eventually buried it all in landfills or dumped it somewhere anyway.
the real answer is to stop producing/consuming so much waste (especially petrochemical-based waste) in the first place and to live in more sustainable and less waste-producing systems.
Oh good allegory would be: stop taking all of those cholesterol and blood pressure medication’s, and just eat healthier and exercise more.
Absolutely. I also want to point out how in some places reducing plastic consumption is so much easier than in others.
Anecdotal: I now live walking distance from a “no plastic” shop that mostly refills your own containers -veggies, dried and liquid stuff… my plastic consumption is most weeks only the milk bottles. I used to live in many other places in which a life like this was hard or outright impossible.
Support local movements to allow you to not use plastic, reuse and refills containers, or get rid of them.
I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.
All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn't mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don't give medical advice on the internet.
(A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from "don't take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods")
Heads up: your YouTube link tells shows your channel to everyone who clicks it. This is due to YouTube's new messaging feature, and how they set the default privacy settings to share your channel with everyone whenever you post a link. You need to remove everything from the ?is= onwards and also turn off the sharing feature if you don't want everyone on Lemmy getting your profile and the ability to YouTube chat with you
Thankfully my country has a deposit system for cans and bottles (except for strong alcoholic drinks for some reason. Beer has deposit, wine, vodka etc do not)
Most cans get recycled. There's even hobos looking in communal garbage bins for recyclable containers because although there's not a lot of money in it, it gets them what food banks don't.
I think most of Europe does this but in the rest of the world I'm not sure how much gets recycled or not
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.
but in the rest of the world I’m not sure how much gets recycled or not
Unfortunately some developing countries have problems with waste segregation and disposal, especially those with cultures where their packaging was then organic (paper bags, banana leaf wrappers, etc. for food) before being replaced by plastic-based packaging, so with little to no convenient places to dispose their trash properly, it ends up almost everywhere. That some balk at segregation, believing they don't want to be inconvenienced.
Reduce, Reuse, and recycle what is left when possible. But avoid, whenever possible, non-reusable containers in the first place, thereby reducing your overall footprint.
Only because of my infant, I was researching proper, reusable bottles. I came across Pura and also ordered one for me. I absolutely love it. Replaceable/interchangable parts, using nothing but stainless steel and medical grade silicone.
My apologies I didn't meant to sound it was about you. I meant overall.
Every time there is world championship there are cries about FIFA corruption, human rights violation and the moment the championship stats all gets quiet everyone seems to be watching it.
Just avoid like the plague brands that sponsor World Cups.
I've been doing it since the last one in Qatar (because of the slave-like conditions for workers there) and am doing it for the current one also (because, well, mass-murdering Fascists supporting the XXI century version of the Nazis whilst they activelly mass-murder children because of the "crime" of not being White Jews).
As it so happens, a happy side effect is often that not consuming products of those brands (which are invariably large brands) means you produce less disposable stuff and/or consume more local products. You even end up saving money because you either stop consuming something that you don't actually need or you replace it with a store brand, and those are cheaper.
Hank Green actually explained something optimistic after the Blue Origin rocket explosion (here on Youtube), that yes, there are big companies and big billionaires being superfluously wasteful.
But there are a lot of us recycling our bottles and cans, and when we collectively do this, it makes more of a difference than rockets going boom, and jetsetting billionaires.
Granted, we need to drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy for a vast myriad of reasons, but we do collectively make a big difference.
That's what posts like this miss--- collective action works, be it in collective bargaining, politics, or environmental action. It can be less effective than stronger actors, but it is still very effective. And often is more effective. People also miss that the average output of trash from middle class people is still a bit much.
Another point is that there are many areas where existing recycling and other environmentally friendly approaches can be greatly improved. For instance, the infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage cans are only recycled at around 43% in the US. Despite any wasteful practices by the ultra-wealthy, this is an area where everyone still must be diligent.
Yeah, we could have a world in which we have ultra rich billionaires individually wasting that of a small nation on the regular and no one doing anything to try to offset it. I 100% get the defeatism, but it really does no one any good.
There's only about 3400 billionaires in the world, and wood is a renewable resource, so we could burn the guillotines when we're done with them and still be carbon neutral!
yes and no. be a good person do your bit but don't forget to hold billionaires accountable (with more fervour than just a "yes but") because they waste resources and fuck up the environment 1000 times more than an average individual and have no qualms about it. Nay they enjoy it and sometimes they even try to capitalize on it by acting as if they are on the team green (Taylor Swift). parasites are gonna parasite.
What the hell do they need a private jet for, that has to be a ego purchase, also they have the money for this but not for taking care of their employees, especially the ones getting harassed, I unsubscribed to their channel when they dropped that fake apology video with Advertisement, cant believe they are still profitable
i glance several thumbnails of his former employees that basically complained about him, although some of them thought they were getting ahead in thier industry/field by working for him.
I haven't watched LTT in a long time (basically ever since it was publicly obvious the money got to his head and everything that comes with ego), so when I saw somewhere he bought a jet, I first thought it was April Fools. Then after a short research I realized he's for real. My partner, on the other hand, was convinced I fell for it, and it took me a while to prove him otherwise.
Absolutely wild what Linus managed to convince (some of?) his fanboys. People will suck off filthy rich assholes like it's their job.
Not entirely sure what the point of your comment is.
However, most influencers/"content creators" aren't wealthy. Only the top of the top. I can't tell you the percentage, but I know for a fact many of them are compensated only in paid travel and accommodation when traveling to promote whatever they're paid to promote. They don't get actual money. I know because there's an influencer in my partner's extended family who was pushed into the "business" very young by their parent.
There are also many who earn just enough as if they were working a regular 9-5 job. And if their viewership drops — which it usually does — they're fucked.
Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn't quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.
There is not, at least in german. But german offers us the possibility of making one. I´ll use the Zangendeutsch for douche, "Dusche", then "Verdacht" for the suspicion, "Bestätigung" for its revelation as true and "Moment" which is german for, well, moment. Put in some suffixes (-en and -s) for grammatical reasons et voila: Duschenverdachtsbestätigungsmoment, a brand new german word meaning "the moment of the confirmation of the suspicion of the douche".
Flying is truly one of the worst things an individual can do, carbon emissions-wise. These rich fucks practically fly their private jets to their backyard pools.
Achtually, a gas-powered car isn't that far from an airplane in terms of CO2 emission per kilometer per person. But planes allow for long distance travels that you would never consider doing by car. It also depends how many people are in the car. Planes also produce more non-CO2 pollutants.
If you were to choose between driving X km alone in your car or take a plane to the same destination, both options' environmental impact would be quite close. But with carpooling, the car rapidly becomes a less bad option.
So here's the thing: when the next heatwave hits it's not Infatino's kids that will sit in a 40 degree classroom and cry for their moms, your kids will. When the next forest fire razes some village it's not Infatino that will be left homeless, you will. When drought hits they will not cut water to Inantino's home, they will cut your water.
Infantino doesn't care about his carbon footprint because whatever happens he will be fine. It's all of us, poor people, that will suffer the consequences. Not limiting your emissions because "the rich are not doing their part" will only hurt you, not the rich.
Yes, go for it. They have huge resources they can spend on security and the state will protects them with everything they have but I'm sure you, ordinary citizen, can "hurt" them. And once they are "hurt" they will voluntarily relinquish their wealth and power and start working with you to stop climate change. I'm sure of it.
There's not a thing you can do as an individual that will have near the impact of countering the wealthy gross over usage of resources and industrial pollution. It's a fools errand so don't try to guilt people who don't recycle.
Once it became clear that a large portion of our recycled waste was just being sold and off shored to poorer countries, I stopped giving a fuck about recycling and stopped doing it. What I did start doing was doing everything I could to eliminate plastic from my life, or reuse what I did have until it broke.
The old ad slogan was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in that order because that's the best order to try for. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you do need it, try to use it multiple times. If you can't use it again, then try to recycle it. But the absolute best thing you can do is not get the thing initially.
Only a small percent ends up recycled and there's some plastics that it's cost prohibitive to recycle. Aluminum cans is another one I try not to introduce into my life as well. They have better margins for recycling but it's easier than plastic to not include into your purchase.
I've seen a plant drain an entire towns water tower down to 12 inches. Not feet. Inches. They had to pay to truck in water. And all it was doing was running through a chiller and into the drain. Not even grey water.
800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say "I don't have to do anything, the others are more at fault" is not helping anyone.
Recycling is about more than just plastics. It is a bit funny to me how that has always been the main focus though given how afaik it's a lot less viable and/or useful than aluminium, cardboard, glass recycling.
Also, hey Europeans, please buy your grandma a little split unit AC to cool her room. It's not going to destroy life on this planet. But not buying it might kill your grandma.
Nothing you can do will move the needle on climate until the billionaire class is exterminated. Their continued existence is an existential threat. By living they kill, kill today and take lives of those still inborn. By existing they forclose the future.
The great filter exists, and it has a name. Musk. Thiel. Gates. Rockefeller. Exterminate them, or they will exterminate all life.
Reusable bags take up more resources than using single-use plastic bags. You’d need to use the reusable bag for decades to make up for the additional resources to create that bag compared to single-use bags. Things slant even more towards plastic if you can use the bag more than once, like for a bathroom trash bag.
I've started just dumping out my smaller garbages into the bigger one instead of taking the bag out. My grocery bag collection is dwindling (makes me regret the times I decided I had enough and threw out a bunch). I'll probably end up having to buy liners at some point, but I intend to reuse them when possible. Or fuck it, maybe just use naked trash cans and just clean them from time to time.
Recycling is a very local thing, do it instead of leaving the bottle somewhere it can end up in nature. It's also just a good and nice thing, same as minimising your plastic use, eating less meat (or ysing any products with animalistic ingredients etc.), buying as much as you can second hand or from companies that specifically go for longevity, natural and ecological ingredients, sustainability and so on.
The real choices are what brands you buy from. Never give money to any company that has any connection to people like this.
Microsoft apps have been incredibly terrible at, uh, working, lately. Outlook periodically logs me out on its own for no reason. The mobile apps are especially shitty, at least on Android - they either crash/segfault themselves out right after opening, or they just stay stuck infinitely while futilely trying to log you in.
Poor people shouldn't segregate trash, shouldn't collect bottles etc.
Instead cheapest products should be biodegradable, wrapped in something that can't last shit, transported only by ships and trains. It's the companies who profit from selling products that should be held responsible for the product eco footprint.
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
If he's just one, there are thousands or so using private executive transport, and these believe they would rather have a presence than trying to use something like Zoom.
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homes@piefed.world · 149 pts · 33d
Yes, he’s a wasteful, elitist asshole, but still keep on recycling. Better yet, stop using plastic bottles (and other disposable plastic stuff) altogether, and get non-plastic, reusable bottles/containers, which you can refill. The best drink containers are thermally insulated, so you can put hot or cold drinks with ice in them, so they stay hot or cool for hours, and have drink spouts on them.
Edit: my personal recommendation would be IronFlask, but there are other quality brands that others here may recommend
gex@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 33d
Hank Green did a video inspired by a similar meme after the Blue Origin rocket explosion. He acknowledged that plastic recycling isn't great, but encouraged focusing on other materials like aluminium. The explosion released 825 tons of carbon dioxide, which is ~1% of the hourly emissions of the aluminum industry. The current amount of recycled cans in the US saves the equivalent to 15 rocket explosions of carbon every day.
So yeah, get a reusable container, and try using aluminum instead of plastic.
https://youtu.be/pXVmkurTOgM
homes@piefed.world · 35 pts · 33d
yeah, and there was a recent expose about how, on top of the fact that most plastic recycling doesn't actually reduce overall pollution all that much, a huge amount of state and municipal recycling programs had been subsumed by some massive scam that just offloaded recycling waste to some 3rd-party program that eventually buried it all in landfills or dumped it somewhere anyway.
the real answer is to stop producing/consuming so much waste (especially petrochemical-based waste) in the first place and to live in more sustainable and less waste-producing systems.
Oh good allegory would be: stop taking all of those cholesterol and blood pressure medication’s, and just eat healthier and exercise more.
Eq0@literature.cafe · 9 pts · 33d
Absolutely. I also want to point out how in some places reducing plastic consumption is so much easier than in others.
Anecdotal: I now live walking distance from a “no plastic” shop that mostly refills your own containers -veggies, dried and liquid stuff… my plastic consumption is most weeks only the milk bottles. I used to live in many other places in which a life like this was hard or outright impossible.
Support local movements to allow you to not use plastic, reuse and refills containers, or get rid of them.
LycanGalen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
I 100% agree with your plastic statements. However, wanted to make a note that it is standard practice to put type 1 diabetics on a low dose blood pressure medication because it reduces wear on their kidneys, thereby reducing the risk of renal failure and other complications. Cholesterol meds are also prescribed proactively to people with a variety of chronic illnesses, particularly those related to heart health, who are often eating better than anyone here, but have higher risks of complications. Medications are tools amongst a variety of ways to help people live better lives.
All that to say, what choices you make about medications and their place in your health are completely valid for you. That doesn't mean your choices are applicable across the board. Please don't give medical advice on the internet. (A conversation about the importance of communities designed to encourage exercise, and easy access to affordable unprocessed/low processed food is a different thing from "don't take medications: everything can be cured by kale and a walk in the woods")
carl_the_grackle@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 33d
Heads up: your YouTube link tells shows your channel to everyone who clicks it. This is due to YouTube's new messaging feature, and how they set the default privacy settings to share your channel with everyone whenever you post a link. You need to remove everything from the ?is= onwards and also turn off the sharing feature if you don't want everyone on Lemmy getting your profile and the ability to YouTube chat with you
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 33d
Thankfully my country has a deposit system for cans and bottles (except for strong alcoholic drinks for some reason. Beer has deposit, wine, vodka etc do not)
Most cans get recycled. There's even hobos looking in communal garbage bins for recyclable containers because although there's not a lot of money in it, it gets them what food banks don't.
I think most of Europe does this but in the rest of the world I'm not sure how much gets recycled or not
Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 33d
This is sometimes done on a state by state basis in the US. Execution varies between states too, some states have it so if you sell stuff in bottles and cans you must also be able to accept returns, whereas other states you have to take them to a special facility which no one does except the hobos you were mentioning.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Unfortunately some developing countries have problems with waste segregation and disposal, especially those with cultures where their packaging was then organic (paper bags, banana leaf wrappers, etc. for food) before being replaced by plastic-based packaging, so with little to no convenient places to dispose their trash properly, it ends up almost everywhere. That some balk at segregation, believing they don't want to be inconvenienced.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 33d
Reduce first, then recycle, yes!
homes@piefed.world · 10 pts · 33d
Reduce, Reuse, and recycle what is left when possible. But avoid, whenever possible, non-reusable containers in the first place, thereby reducing your overall footprint.
Widdershins@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 33d
I used one for some coffee and a few popsicles and all I got was coffee that tasted awful and had popsicle sticks floating around in it.
homes@piefed.world · 14 pts · 33d
I suggest that you try the coffee and the Popsicles separately next time.
Also, not so great for Popsicles. Better for beverages, generally speaking.
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 33d
Only because of my infant, I was researching proper, reusable bottles. I came across Pura and also ordered one for me. I absolutely love it. Replaceable/interchangable parts, using nothing but stainless steel and medical grade silicone.
https://www.purastainless.com/
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 32d
Klean Kanteen’s been another classic stainless option, for decades! https://kleankanteen.com/
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 32d
Better yet, stop watching fifa sponsored games and make sure you don't contribute anything to their revenue.
Although seems like that's impossible to a large number of people.
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 32d
I don’t watch sports.
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 32d
My apologies I didn't meant to sound it was about you. I meant overall.
Every time there is world championship there are cries about FIFA corruption, human rights violation and the moment the championship stats all gets quiet everyone seems to be watching it.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 32d
Just avoid like the plague brands that sponsor World Cups.
I've been doing it since the last one in Qatar (because of the slave-like conditions for workers there) and am doing it for the current one also (because, well, mass-murdering Fascists supporting the XXI century version of the Nazis whilst they activelly mass-murder children because of the "crime" of not being White Jews).
As it so happens, a happy side effect is often that not consuming products of those brands (which are invariably large brands) means you produce less disposable stuff and/or consume more local products. You even end up saving money because you either stop consuming something that you don't actually need or you replace it with a store brand, and those are cheaper.
Win-win-win.
homes@piefed.world · 1 pts · 32d
IronFlask, the brand I recommended, is not a sponsor of the World Cup.
nuko147@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 32d
Wouldn't be better if we all stopped recycling and demand the private Jets to be banned with exeptions?
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 126 pts · 33d
Hank Green actually explained something optimistic after the Blue Origin rocket explosion (here on Youtube), that yes, there are big companies and big billionaires being superfluously wasteful.
But there are a lot of us recycling our bottles and cans, and when we collectively do this, it makes more of a difference than rockets going boom, and jetsetting billionaires.
Granted, we need to drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy for a vast myriad of reasons, but we do collectively make a big difference.
Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 43 pts · 33d
That's what posts like this miss--- collective action works, be it in collective bargaining, politics, or environmental action. It can be less effective than stronger actors, but it is still very effective. And often is more effective. People also miss that the average output of trash from middle class people is still a bit much.
m0stlyharmless@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 32d
Another point is that there are many areas where existing recycling and other environmentally friendly approaches can be greatly improved. For instance, the infinitely recyclable aluminum beverage cans are only recycled at around 43% in the US. Despite any wasteful practices by the ultra-wealthy, this is an area where everyone still must be diligent.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 33d
yeah I really fucking hate how this particular meme format seems to subtly imply we can just stop making an effort. Always downvote whenever I see it.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 32d
Yeah, we could have a world in which we have ultra rich billionaires individually wasting that of a small nation on the regular and no one doing anything to try to offset it. I 100% get the defeatism, but it really does no one any good.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 32d
Glad there's... 12 of us :|
huppakee@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 33d
You're right, we can't afford to either only recycle all our bottles or only drastically reduce our ultra-wealthy.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 11 pts · 33d
When you eat the rich, consider using an eco-friendly fuel
Kraiden@piefed.social · 2 pts · 32d
There's only about 3400 billionaires in the world, and wood is a renewable resource, so we could burn the guillotines when we're done with them and still be carbon neutral!
Avicenna@programming.dev · 3 pts · 32d
yes and no. be a good person do your bit but don't forget to hold billionaires accountable (with more fervour than just a "yes but") because they waste resources and fuck up the environment 1000 times more than an average individual and have no qualms about it. Nay they enjoy it and sometimes they even try to capitalize on it by acting as if they are on the team green (Taylor Swift). parasites are gonna parasite.
some_designer_dude@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 33d
The data shows that we should be recycling the rich into fertilizer.
Napster153@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d
Feed the CIWS turret.
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 32d
Spamraam
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 66 pts · 33d
Don't forget about Linus. The quotes on the site are what he said, when he was showing off the jet.
khannie@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 33d
For a minute I thought it was Torvalds and was highly confused.
GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 33d
How do you think all the commits get reviewed? He's got to pick them up!
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 33d
Yeah, I don't think the guy linked is famous enough to not have the "YouTuber" qualifier.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 33d
What the hell do they need a private jet for, that has to be a ego purchase, also they have the money for this but not for taking care of their employees, especially the ones getting harassed, I unsubscribed to their channel when they dropped that fake apology video with Advertisement, cant believe they are still profitable
iamthetot@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 33d
Everything Linus buys seems like an ego purchase.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 33d
It's basic girl math.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Love that Canadian south park character of Linus lol
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
i glance several thumbnails of his former employees that basically complained about him, although some of them thought they were getting ahead in thier industry/field by working for him.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 18 pts · 33d
I haven't watched LTT in a long time (basically ever since it was publicly obvious the money got to his head and everything that comes with ego), so when I saw somewhere he bought a jet, I first thought it was April Fools. Then after a short research I realized he's for real. My partner, on the other hand, was convinced I fell for it, and it took me a while to prove him otherwise.
Absolutely wild what Linus managed to convince (some of?) his fanboys. People will suck off filthy rich assholes like it's their job.
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 32d
This sentence is wild.
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 4 pts · 32d
Funny how he finally managed to buy his own place after ditching LTT. Just another proof how much wealth the rich are extracting from us.
(PS: no severance package after working for so long for LTT is such a dick move)
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
AbsolutelyClawless@piefed.social · 1 pts · 32d
Not entirely sure what the point of your comment is.
However, most influencers/"content creators" aren't wealthy. Only the top of the top. I can't tell you the percentage, but I know for a fact many of them are compensated only in paid travel and accommodation when traveling to promote whatever they're paid to promote. They don't get actual money. I know because there's an influencer in my partner's extended family who was pushed into the "business" very young by their parent.
There are also many who earn just enough as if they were working a regular 9-5 job. And if their viewership drops — which it usually does — they're fucked.
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 33d
Is there a word, possibly German, for when you discover that the person you got douchey vibes off for years but couldn't quite pin down why, is revealed to be exactly what you suspected? I just had flashbacks to Will Smith at the Oscars.
bravesentry@feddit.org · 20 pts · 33d
There is not, at least in german. But german offers us the possibility of making one. I´ll use the Zangendeutsch for douche, "Dusche", then "Verdacht" for the suspicion, "Bestätigung" for its revelation as true and "Moment" which is german for, well, moment. Put in some suffixes (-en and -s) for grammatical reasons et voila: Duschenverdachtsbestätigungsmoment, a brand new german word meaning "the moment of the confirmation of the suspicion of the douche".
skisnow@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 32d
bless you for that
kilgore_trout@feddit.it · 9 pts · 32d
LTT has always been a techbro, surrounded by other techbros.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 33d
Bruh wtf TIL LTT has a private jet
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 32d
People on youtube defend him for it.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
i felt the controversy last year or the year before, made him even more money. he was definitely panicking after that happened.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 32d
Is that him using his jet or is it like a rented jet where other people use it when he doesn't?
schnokobaer@feddit.org · 45 pts · 33d
Today I feel environmentally conscious
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 33d
Flying is truly one of the worst things an individual can do, carbon emissions-wise. These rich fucks practically fly their private jets to their backyard pools.
Bonsoir@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 33d
Achtually, a gas-powered car isn't that far from an airplane in terms of CO2 emission per kilometer per person. But planes allow for long distance travels that you would never consider doing by car. It also depends how many people are in the car. Planes also produce more non-CO2 pollutants.
If you were to choose between driving X km alone in your car or take a plane to the same destination, both options' environmental impact would be quite close. But with carpooling, the car rapidly becomes a less bad option.
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 33d
Private jets are more my concern here. Basically transporting a handful of people at best at an unreasonable energy cost.
amorpheus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
PlaidBaron@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Youre assuming the private jets are flown to capacity.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 32d
or to get coffee,or lunch, or fly thier pets.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 39 pts · 32d
So here's the thing: when the next heatwave hits it's not Infatino's kids that will sit in a 40 degree classroom and cry for their moms, your kids will. When the next forest fire razes some village it's not Infatino that will be left homeless, you will. When drought hits they will not cut water to Inantino's home, they will cut your water.
Infantino doesn't care about his carbon footprint because whatever happens he will be fine. It's all of us, poor people, that will suffer the consequences. Not limiting your emissions because "the rich are not doing their part" will only hurt you, not the rich.
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 32d
So we should hurt the rich? I could get behind that
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · -9 pts · 32d
Yes, go for it. They have huge resources they can spend on security and the state will protects them with everything they have but I'm sure you, ordinary citizen, can "hurt" them. And once they are "hurt" they will voluntarily relinquish their wealth and power and start working with you to stop climate change. I'm sure of it.
IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 32d
we got 8 hour workdays because we bust into their homes and looted them and shot them in the foot
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 2 pts · 32d
Was it before or after they bought the government, got private armies and bunkers?
FinishingDutch@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 32d
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 32d
The cannister leaked
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 32d
There's not a thing you can do as an individual that will have near the impact of countering the wealthy gross over usage of resources and industrial pollution. It's a fools errand so don't try to guilt people who don't recycle.
Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 32d
Once it became clear that a large portion of our recycled waste was just being sold and off shored to poorer countries, I stopped giving a fuck about recycling and stopped doing it. What I did start doing was doing everything I could to eliminate plastic from my life, or reuse what I did have until it broke.
tmyakal@infosec.pub · 18 pts · 32d
The old ad slogan was "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in that order because that's the best order to try for. If you don't need it, don't get it. If you do need it, try to use it multiple times. If you can't use it again, then try to recycle it. But the absolute best thing you can do is not get the thing initially.
BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 32d
Only a small percent ends up recycled and there's some plastics that it's cost prohibitive to recycle. Aluminum cans is another one I try not to introduce into my life as well. They have better margins for recycling but it's easier than plastic to not include into your purchase.
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 32d
I've worked in manufacturing plants for the last almost 20 years. One packaging line will produce more waste in a day than you can hope to counter.
wallabra@lemmy.eco.br · 10 pts · 32d
And that's just the packaging part!
Bakkoda@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 32d
I've seen a plant drain an entire towns water tower down to 12 inches. Not feet. Inches. They had to pay to truck in water. And all it was doing was running through a chiller and into the drain. Not even grey water.
LwL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 32d
800 million people (so just the population of US, CA, and EU) doing small things can absolutely have a larger impact though. Rich bastards do have a vastly larger impact than individual normal people but using that to say "I don't have to do anything, the others are more at fault" is not helping anyone.
kandoh@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 32d
I agree that works for stuff like 'don't litter'. But recycling at scale is literally impossible and they knew this when they pushed plastics on us.
LwL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 31d
Recycling is about more than just plastics. It is a bit funny to me how that has always been the main focus though given how afaik it's a lot less viable and/or useful than aluminium, cardboard, glass recycling.
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 32d
Also there are significantly less rich people
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 32d
Also, hey Europeans, please buy your grandma a little split unit AC to cool her room. It's not going to destroy life on this planet. But not buying it might kill your grandma.
Edit: and buy yourself one too.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 31d
Nothing you can do will move the needle on climate until the billionaire class is exterminated. Their continued existence is an existential threat. By living they kill, kill today and take lives of those still inborn. By existing they forclose the future.
The great filter exists, and it has a name. Musk. Thiel. Gates. Rockefeller. Exterminate them, or they will exterminate all life.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 33d
The heck is Infantino doing in Edmonton and Middle-of-nowhere, Ontario?
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 61 pts · 33d
hypnicjerk@piefed.social · 11 pts · 33d
without more context, i seriously doubt he's on every one of these flights.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 33d
And no flying to Toronto, Montreal, or Vancouver? I know for a fact he didn't drive there from the Webequie First Nation.
lime@feddit.nu · 6 pts · 33d
helping the separatists prolly
gex@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Here's an actual article showing his flights, it makes more sense than flying to middle of nowhere ontario and middle of nowhere baja california
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cgev5wy0zg3o
plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 32d
Why are that fewer flights?
someguy3@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 33d
Best I can figure is that's Webequie https://maps.app.goo.gl/qaWyy4BsXuj98kY7A population 1300
Flames5123@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 32d
He doesn’t even go to Seattle for the World Cup. I guess it’s too progressive for him.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 32d
getting his head polished like bezos.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de · 32 pts · 33d
Let's add the flights of the teams. Let's ask if that is necessary.
zbyte64@awful.systems · -2 pts · 33d
If you're going to start counting shipping costs for the goods then you should compare thet to Amazon
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 33d
Can he at least travel by helicopter?
They're much more dangerous...
Dpek@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 32d
At least choose something that actualy fufills the purpose
The v22 ospray
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 26 pts · 32d
I use paper straws, I can't get a bag at the supermarket to hold anything but I still have to pay for those bags.
These cunts get to keep wasting the earth. Yes I'm including Taylor Swift, Jeff Bezos, the heads of Microsoft, Adobe, HP and all the rest.
remon@ani.social · 10 pts · 32d
You should look up the fascinating technology of "reusable bags". I haven't bought one in years!
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 32d
I shall relook into those bags I forget every time I go to the shops.
Maybe move on there mate..
remon@ani.social · 3 pts · 32d
Just remember the Tim Minchin song!
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 7 pts · 32d
Ahahaha you're a big dickhead I like you.
If you're ever in Sydney we should get a beer and brutally insult each other.
wallabra@lemmy.eco.br · 3 pts · 32d
See, this is the apex of dispute resolution
musicalphysics@discuss.online · -3 pts · 32d
Reusable bags take up more resources than using single-use plastic bags. You’d need to use the reusable bag for decades to make up for the additional resources to create that bag compared to single-use bags. Things slant even more towards plastic if you can use the bag more than once, like for a bathroom trash bag.
cy888@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
Plastic bags get recycled into garbage bags.
Banning plastic bags means I have to BUY plastic bags for garbage
musicalphysics@discuss.online · 1 pts · 32d
I didn’t argue for banning plastic bags. Using plastic bags for groceries is better for the environment than reusable bags.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 32d
I've started just dumping out my smaller garbages into the bigger one instead of taking the bag out. My grocery bag collection is dwindling (makes me regret the times I decided I had enough and threw out a bunch). I'll probably end up having to buy liners at some point, but I intend to reuse them when possible. Or fuck it, maybe just use naked trash cans and just clean them from time to time.
M137@lemmy.today · 21 pts · 33d
Recycling is a very local thing, do it instead of leaving the bottle somewhere it can end up in nature. It's also just a good and nice thing, same as minimising your plastic use, eating less meat (or ysing any products with animalistic ingredients etc.), buying as much as you can second hand or from companies that specifically go for longevity, natural and ecological ingredients, sustainability and so on.
The real choices are what brands you buy from. Never give money to any company that has any connection to people like this.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 32d
Today, work machine gave me suggestions for how the be eco friendly. (Turning off screen after 5 minutes. Sleep mode after 15 minutes)
All I can think of is how much Microsoft CAN invest in eco mode, but chooses money (or the hope of money in AI) instead.
::: spoiler also (More Microsoft hate)
Every time I'm back to work and forced to windows, I get a new problem. This popes up while reading emails
:::
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 32d
Did it specify "of unactivity" or did they radically reduce your work hours?
wallabra@lemmy.eco.br · 2 pts · 32d
Microsoft apps have been incredibly terrible at, uh, working, lately. Outlook periodically logs me out on its own for no reason. The mobile apps are especially shitty, at least on Android - they either crash/segfault themselves out right after opening, or they just stay stuck infinitely while futilely trying to log you in.
Bababasti@feddit.org · 13 pts · 32d
Sustainability for thee, not for me.
Also, some surprised-thunder-rat-moments here: https://ferw.eu/fifas-climate-strategy-exposed-greenwashing-at-the-heart-of-the-worlds-game/
altphoto@lemmy.today · 13 pts · 33d
We recycled for that fuck to ride a flying chariot around the world.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 33d
Also, most of "recycled" bottles land somewhere in a landfill or the sea.
https://climateintegrity.org/projects/plastics-fraud
HrabiaVulpes@europe.pub · 7 pts · 32d
Poor people shouldn't segregate trash, shouldn't collect bottles etc.
Instead cheapest products should be biodegradable, wrapped in something that can't last shit, transported only by ships and trains. It's the companies who profit from selling products that should be held responsible for the product eco footprint.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 33d
Every bit helps 💧🌊
wewbull@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 32d
Now total it up for the event as a whole.
hansolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 32d
Probably right about 0.2⁰ C
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 33d
Billionaires are the problem.
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 33d
Unless any of you has a dope space station or starship we are indeed all stuck with one another here.
homes@piefed.world · 5 pts · 33d
Earth is my dope space station, yo
/s
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 18d
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
homes@piefed.world · 2 pts · 17d
Miss ya, Carl ❤️
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 32d
Where did he go in Ontario, Canada? The map has him landing in the middle of one of the least populated areas in N. America.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 32d
If he's just one, there are thousands or so using private executive transport, and these believe they would rather have a presence than trying to use something like Zoom.
lama@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 33d
Why was he going to Merida, Mexico so much?
Zephyr@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 33d
Just picking up some gifts
blackshirt@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 32d
So Qatar was way better every stadium is at a 30min drive distance