I am so sick of seeing our deserts destroyed, as though it's somehow "empty" land. There are a million square miles of parking lots and building roofs in this country that we could cover with these things, and yet we would rather destroy ecosystems that are already delicate and millions of years old, with species that don't exist anywhere else in the world. And then call it "green" while we do it. All of this because the government can't be bothered to deal with (read: compensate) private property owners to cover their parking lots and roofs with solar.

They can say they'll stay away from "sensitive resources" all they want, but that's proven to be false in the past, so why should we believe them now? They're only putting them within ten miles of existing transmission lines - next time, it will be within ten miles of the ones they're building now, and so on until there's nothing left. The sad part is that this comment will be immediately taken as being against solar and renewables, when it's actually against destroying more of our untouched land and history for profit.

There's already tons of solar fields and wind fields in the desert. Now they're starting to open up old gold mines and create new ones, in the Sierras as well as the desert. Look at Grass Valley and Nevada City, where not a single resident wants some giant mining company threatening their town and their rivers, but apparently they don't get a say about their own homes. Joshua trees have been destroyed by fires caused by climate change, and none of us will see them grow back in our lifetimes. They've destroyed important historical sites like the petroglyphs at China Lake and display fake ones for tourists. They've built Las Vegas nearly up to the edge of Red Rocks and there's ugly mansions popping up on the way to Mt Charleston. They're building a train straight through some of the last open desert in California east of San Diego and through the agricultural region of San Joaquin valley. They're "cleaning up" the Salton Sea, but of course you can't just trust that they're not going to fill the area with McMansions after that so they can expand the tourist dollars of Palm Springs. They're turning the western terminus of the original transcontinental railroad into a fucking strip mall called The Railyards and putting a farmer's market in the old Southern Pacific buildings. Some Silicon Valley douchebags are building a "utopia" in the middle of the wetlands east of SF, destroying the ecosystems and birds' migratory pattens that the region has tried so hard to protect.

In the next fifty years, there will not be any open land left in the US unless it is a lucrative tourist attraction like Yosemite. There is already hardly anywhere on the SoCal coast that doesn't cost $20 to get near it, and half of it is private property when private beaches are supposedly illegal in California. Ironically, the last piece of wild coastline in OC is owned by the military. It's just a blatant "fuck you" to our country's wilderness, ecosystems, and history, and especially, it seems, to the American Southwest.

the far left liberals who froth at the mouth at the mere mention of his name

You mean the people who fear living in a theocratic dictatorship roughly twelve months from now? Yes, god forbid we're a little upset at the idea.

I see so many of these comments I can't help but wonder if it's an ad campaign by Kagi.

I would add: teaching that romantic relationships are not the end all and be all of life.

I feel like this is part of the problem, because it creates misogyny, incels and depression when people have their entire self-worth wrapped up in another person liking them. Any person. All of our media pushes this message, especially to young people. I was a serial monogamist all my life until several years ago. I've been more productive and accomplished and more in touch with who I am than I've ever been. I don't have the need fpr another person in my life, and that's how it should be. A partner should be an addition to a person and a life that is already functional. I can't help but notice now how every. single. song, movie, show, book, etc. is not just about romance, but about another person making someone's life worth living. It's fucked up and we need to teach kids that they are enough, by themselves, and that being in a relationship is a choice. It's not mandatory.

Finally someone is noticing this.

I report this garbage every time it gets recommended to me on YT, which is way too often. These are real human beings going through the most difficult and humiliating experiences of their lives.

One thing that's always overlooked about homelessness is the complete, total, utter lack of any privacy whatsoever. It seems obvious when you say it out loud, but no one seems to acknowledge it. Imagine every bad day you have, you have an audience. When you wake up in the morning after a shit night of sleep, everyone gets to walk by you, judge you, and gawk at how shitty you look. I'm sure not everyone in these videos is homeless (likely fewer than people would automatically assume), but probably a significant enough number.

The fact that there is anyone out there who believes treating people like they're in a zoo and then profiting off of their suffering for "entertainment" is an actual, unfeeling psychopath.

The worst part is that there are a bunch of channels like this and even more videos. They're not limited to addiction but exploit any marginalized people they can. I blame Vice for having constant drug/addiction content with no real message besides "watch this person shoot up for some reason. No, we're not blurring their face." Wtf.

the folks I consider fascists are the ones who think in social hierarchy instead of equality and think certain identities are below them and want to "put those folks back in their place," by law or force.

So like, the people who aren't "super comfortable" with trans people?

But fascism isn't about what individual people decide to "consider" it to be. It's a real thing. It has a definition. Idk when we got to this point where reality is debatable, but it may be the only thing that we could stand to go backwards on as a society.

They just did for selling those coal rolling kits. I don't see why this would be any different. They're facilitating the sale. It's their platform. They have a responsibility to the people who use it, as well as a responsibility to treat their workers like human beings.

The AP article said it's still not been paid back from the covid shutdowns and when the qualifications and time periods to receive it were expanded.

But I guess it's easier to just make assumptions about California because that's the popular thing to do lately.

interesting strawman.

I feel like this is one of those words that's been used so much on the internet that it's lost all meaning.

Another person who we consider to be some kind of genius, but who we'd throw in the psych ward if they appeared in downtown LA right now. People love people who subvert social norms, just as long as they stay in stories, movies, and history and don't actually come near them.

If only those were the people that US cops actually arrested.

How much money someone might potentially make is a fucking gross way to view human beings, and it being normalized under capitalism doesn't make it any better. It might actually make it worse, because there's people like you who somehow buy into it.