Sorry, I originally had 12 but decided to get rid of 2. The first one was “Status Quo”, which I merged into “Conditioning.” The second was “Religion”, but I ditched that because it would be very unfair to yoke them with religious people, or even just Christians, in general, and I couldn’t think of a way to reword it to specifically refer to only those kinds of Christians.
Thanks for helping me come up with further reasons, though!
Better for yourself, worse for the environment.
I like this. It saves resources. And I think we should all start adapting to it.
Incidents like these expose how dysfunctional and unsustainable our current economic system remains in this catastrophic climate crisis.
Unfortunately, I cannot eat at Five Guy’s or Chick-Fil-A because I am allergic to peanuts and they use peanut oil.
They are putting the community in danger by banning masks.
Something I’m noticing is that while America continues their pattern of climate denial and destructive hyper-individualism, China - for all its flaws - seems to be leading the charge on the single greatest existential challenge of our time.
China is rapidly expanding renewables and green tech. They’re on track to become the world’s renewable superpower. While Americans absentmindedly whine and complain about society improving, China gets right to work on constructing a green national infrastructure to actually address the root causes of the crisis.
China understands collective action and planning are the only way humanity can overcome existential threats. China’s top-down governance, however authoritarian some claim, efficiently marshalled resources to minimize devastation during the COVID pandemic, but what’s possibly more important is their collective culture, the populace’s eager willingness to listen to the authorities, and make personal sacrifices for the benefit of society as a whole. None of that “freedumb” nonsense or pearl-clutching. Imagine if the US mandated decisive actions, not “choose your own experiment!”
This is serious; we cannot rest on our laurels and we cannot go back to brunch. We haven’t the luxury of half measures. Rather, we need the appropriate sort of complete and holistic mobilization asap to transition to greener, more sustainable models. To survive impending eco-collapse will require global equity, not privileged nations hoarding pie while the rest burn. We’d be wise to learn from China’s example. Obviously they’re not perfect - no one is - but I think their climate policies reveal what truly ambitious climate action looks like: bold, large-scale interventions that prioritize the collective good over individual freedoms.
I’ll play devil’s advocate: one benefit I could see to Reddit’s karma system is that it can quickly filter out spam or alt accounts from more serious communities.
I think much of the world, including the United States, is overly car-dependent and could really benefit from more openness towards sustainable forms of transportation, and urban development designed without automobiles at the forefront of the mind.
Only if we fix the servers and reduce the bugs.
Even so, there’s still an undeniable fear factor I might need to get over. But it’ll need acknowledgement.
Didn’t one of the larger gif sites announce their discontinuation?
Cuba has a very robust healthcare system. Cuba si, yanqui no!
I don’t think “lemmings” is a very appropriate name, considering the potentially harmful implications of blind misguided movement and lack of individuality.
As long as we don’t allow capitalist corporate greed to ruin the Fediverse like it has ruined (and will continue to ruin) practically everything.
“B-b-b-but… muh backyard! I don’t want to have to share it with, uhhhhh… ‘criminals’! Building anything other than massively unaffordable single family homes and car dependent neighborhoods is going to ruin the character of the town!”
Climate change. (Often in the manifestation of wildfire smoke.)
Not only the destruction of the environment per se, but the fact that science has shown us how to solve it, yet the populace is unwilling to make personal sacrifices or otherwise change their lives up a little for the greater good.
Very relevant in the context of COVID - “we’re not seeing spikes, why are we still locking down and masking up?!” - and a significant driving factor feeding into those radical anti-COVID-protection “no new normal” ideologies.
You’re right. I suppose that this could fall under “conditioning”, but it would probably need to be expanded to specifically refer to and call out “propaganda”.