[-] maol@awful.systems 18 points 7 months ago

Forced to endure an episode of an Irish tv programme about the environment in which a guest sincerely listed carbon capture & storage and small nuclear reactor as potential energy solutions. As mentioned above, the earth is our coffin, hope is a mistake, etc

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago

Surely that's an AI generated pfp

[-] maol@awful.systems 20 points 9 months ago

I don't make the rules, so you'd have to consult whoever does make the rules. I'm not really sure who that is though

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 9 months ago

Anyone who buys an island is evil sorry I don't make the rules

[-] maol@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think it was Upton Sinclair who said "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it". I've never studied history or philosophy, but I think it's clear that if someone's class interests require burning the world down, they will do it. They are doing it - we are doing it - with regret, with sympathy, with an appreciation of the ironies. We don't need a greater appreciation of Heidegger, we need real-world social restraints on the behaviour of the powerful.

[-] maol@awful.systems 19 points 11 months ago

It's mad that we have an actual existential crisis in climate change (temperature records broken across the world this year) but these cunts are driving themselves into a frenzy over something that is nowhere near as pressing or dangerous. Oh, people dying of heatstroke isn't as glamorous? Fuck off

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 11 months ago

Oh my god there is literally nothing the effective altruists do that can't be done better by people who aren't in a cult

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago

Reaching through my screen into this photo so I can pull out the rifle and shoot myself

Who thought it would be a good idea to keep that in a household with 3 kids under 5. Is it just so they can flash it at Republicans and win primary votes??

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

like if I tried to end global poverty by becoming really, really rich.

I have some exciting news for you. Have you ever heard of "effective altruism"?

[-] maol@awful.systems 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I really really don't get how wearing a corset* while you're pregnant is somehow the most rational option

*Don't come @ me corset fans, I'm sure they are very comfortable, but while you're pregnant? Eight months pregnant?

[-] maol@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago

Wow, these people have not planned anything at all. They're going to homeschool all 7+ kids? And go into politics, a job that infamously has long, unsociable hours?

[-] maol@awful.systems 20 points 2 years ago

Same business model of every tech startups of the late 20 years - use investor cash to pull through years of making no money until you either crash & burn or eliminate all traditional competition and can start charging customers bullshit prices

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