I’m just letting you know the most good faith interpretation of this post, in case you missed it. I’m not interested in arguing about “common parlance”

In Germany the recycling is sorted at the household level, rather than the mixed recycling that is practiced in other countries. The paper, plastic, glass, and compost all get their own bins and/or bag color.

It’s amazing how much it takes for some to reach the conclusion that systemic change is both necessary and requires… systemic change. As in systems changing. As in greater change than your individual decision to ride an EV or ICEV or public transit. Change that would make it exponentially more intuitive for you to choose the most sustainable one of those options.

Especially if mass transit is not feasible for you, this post is not to shame you or call on you to try and do it anyways. It’s a recognition that riding mass transit is not feasible or intuitive for most people, and a call to make mass transit available to more people rather than investing all that time and energy into the wild goose chase of EV adoption.

The crying indian really did a number on us.

That’s the problem they’re pointing out.

They aren’t doing that, you are. The apples to apples comparison that they are making is our current transit system; with the cars being fully electrified but otherwise as it exists today; versus a transit system that prioritizes mass transit (and walking and biking) over personal vehicles.

Electric cars are a solution to save the auto industry, not the climate.

As for YouTube theres alternative frontends like newpipe and invidious. Haven’t used them myself though.

Can’t recommend a phone but I had a great experience with swappa if you’re in the US and open to something used. There’s a couple flip phones listed.

The cartons are lined with plastic too

Yeah that tracks

The people who stand to lose the most in a situation will always act with the highest clarity and urgency. It’s true in general that we must save ourselves and can’t expect the ruling classes of other nations to step in to stop even the highest crime against humanity.

At the end of the day, the global ruling class is self-interested and only acts against that when there comes to be very few alternatives. That said, the discontent around the world is growing and it’s only a matter of time until it reaches a tipping point.

As for the non-west, nobody wants to start a war or draw the ire of the west without having much capacity to change what is happening. That’s my speculative opinion, at least. At this point I’d ask someone more knowledgeable on global politics to chime in.

no more fake than October 7th

wow, what a great time to bring this article up https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216

The war machine generates power and wealth by wreaking devastation onto far away lands, then uses that power and wealth to create more war. Netanyahu is and has always been powerless without the international community enabling him. Israel and its colonial project are wholly western inventions. The western nations backing Israel wouldn’t suddenly shut it down now that it is executing its intended purpose while also absorbing most if not all of the generated backlash. Not without major resistance.

It’s a touchy subject. Pretty understandably, I might add.

I don’t think nukes (re: literally triggering armageddon) would ever seriously be on the table so I don’t really care to argue that point either way. It’s satire, I took it as hyperbole.

tbh I was really only going off the down votes

but also, uno reverse! I was also being unserious!

It’s not about “taking the assholes out”. It’s about showing the Israeli government officials, and the constituents who are actually able to pressure those officials and exert collective power, that you can’t just indiscriminately murder people without inciting the exact same violence onto your own people. As long as bombs are falling, why should they be contained to the side that is completely powerless to stop them?

You can’t just suggest kim jong un is tying people to rockets and launching them into oceans like a cartoon villain and expect to be taken seriously

I think they’re alluding to the idea that xi’s picture with the uyghurs is a fabrication, like the blonde lady is a paid extra to make putin appear friendlier to women or something

I’m not certain the first is the same as the others either… they just cherry picked images that had a blonde middle aged slavic woman standing in putin’s vicinity

You could have just said that, it was more your language than anything.

Some kids genuinely need it until they’ve formed the ability to self-regulate. My little brother wouldn’t have been allowed to stay at school if he’d been unmedicated. Impulsive, distracted, having meltdowns where he’d literally bang his head against hard tile floors, generally making his teacher’s job impossible and alienating him from the other kids. At age 10 him and my mom are giving it a shot without meds. Hard to say if it changed him in any way other than giving him the space to develop the tools he needed to take on school like the other kids in his class.

I don’t know your cousin, but I do know most parents don’t go around getting their young children diagnosed with learning disabilies just for the fun of it.