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on No Spoilers 👁️⃤ · c/memes · 3 pts · 31m

They burn plastic, Modi is killing/jailing climate change activists, and literally every single waterway I saw was choked with plastic. Every single animal I saw looked like it was on deaths door, aside from young animals - they didn't look much better.

All in all, India is one of the most depressing places I've ever had the displeasure of visiting. Any change the west tries to make regarding the climate will be instantly wiped out a country like India. I would call the whole country an environmental catastrophe if it weren't for places like Kerala, which if I'm not mistaken is also just fucked now.

on No Spoilers 👁️⃤ · c/memes · 7 pts · 2h

Since I've come back from India I've sort of just been waiting to hear about an environmental disaster there. This makes sense.

Make that clearer in the future, for your own sake - I agree with you that this shouldn't be celebrated. The problem is that Russians haven't done anything about their media being captured - whether they do or don't, most people believe that Russians overwhelmingly support the war when the reality is that most probably don't really know what to think about it.

Those people who don't know what to think are the majority. This shows them that they can't idly sit by and let this play out. I think that, in and of itself, is a good thing. It sucks that it takes this and will probably take more to wake them the fuck up, but that's what it is.

People blame Americans for Trump's military, right? Why should anyone treat Russians/Putin differently?

Your logic follows:

  1. war is ok when no civilian casualties

  2. war is bad when civilian casualties

Russia has been attacking infrastructure in Ukraine since 2022. If your prescription is 'simply weather the storm until Russia gives up' you are, either, one of the dumbest people alive or you're a manipulative PoS. I would say the exact same thing to someone suggesting Iran simply give up and let the U.S. take what they want.

When I see shit from Balenciaga I'm reminded that climate change actually makes total sense.

Look at this dumb shit. The people selling and buying this live in a world totally removed from the rest of us. I'm having like, a visceral reaction to this - I would look at someone wearing this like I would a poisonous spider.

Imagine a world where teachers weren't geriatric and taught their kids digital literacy instead of digital luddism.

I mean, shit, homework was invented as a fucking punishment and so many studies have shown it has diminishing returns after a certain age. Yet here we are, perpetuating a system designed explicitly for controlling kids - not teaching them.

But yeah, phones are the problem. The internet is the problem. Definitely not how kids are taught to interact with them, no sir. While we're at it, just get rid of PCs at the school - that way the district can save money on their IT department. They can access social media from the PCs so I don't see the problem.

I mean sure, breathing isn't the problem, but all that breathing leads to humans continuing to burn things so that they can have easier lives.

Ultimately, breathing does lead to a polluted world. In a very technical sense.