Tenderizer78

This is the new angle the oil industry is pushing.

The world isn’t going to end due to climate change even if we do nothing, but it will become a much worse place to live and millions will die. When young people think humanity is doomed then they’re less likely to demand action because “it’s hopeless anyway”.

We need to push back against the narrative that all is already lost and nothing we do matters.

There are people who complain that people on food stamps can buy nice food on occasion, such as thanksgiving turkey. The joke here is just making their callousness clear.

That would be me. Exciting to see my masterpiece in the wild (if from a Lemmy reply to a Lemmy post counts as the wild).

https://lemmy.ml/post/34602502/20420900

Don’t use whataboutism to shirk your responsibilities. Recycling properly is a good and necessary thing. Though it’d be more effective to create less waste in the first place.

Why does the oven produce carbon monoxide? Who in their right fucking mind would want an oven that does that?

Looks like it. Time to humanize ChatGPT.

The slave trade was stopped not by trying to garner sympathy for the slaves, but for the slave traders dying at sea. Hard to get people to care about people who look different to them. Then again in the age of drone warfare I don’t think this can be applied “directly” to modern conflict.

Gen X jokes are all about domestic abuse.

Just because it’s correct doesn’t mean it’s correct.

Even if I do want something advertised, I search for it in a new tab.

I have zero confidence about putting my credit card info into an advertised site.

Remember kids, make your code as confusing as possible. Clear documentation just makes it easier to replace you.

Anyone recognize that site?

As I said, that wasn’t meant to be an argument. Just to illustrate that a find and replace approach isn’t appropriate.

Ukraine and Nazi Germany are wildly different.

You’ll find that it’s the “centrists” that most support Ukraine. The far-left and far-right tend to be the ones that don’t. Even then support for Ukraine has been quite muted. This suggests that support for Ukraine is based more on a naive belief in democratic values and multilateralism than some furtherance of Western aims.

That said, I don’t think the war started that way. I think Biden willfully created this war to give America leverage over Europe and to rally the American populace around the flag. I also think NATO expansion into Ukraine (aside from being unrealistic) would not be a good thing. Regardless though I think support for Ukraine is driven by people who still have faith in the values of the west rather than just the might of the west.

In Crimea they, when surveyed, said they would prefer to join Russia. That isn’t the same as voting to join Russia. It was non-binding and people don’t vote the same when something’s non-binding, sometimes they just vote out of protest regarding the state of the country. This isn’t to say Crimeans didn’t want to join Russia, we don’t know. Nobody knows.

I think if I was in a situation that would warrant Russian military intervention, and Russia was so close by, I would leave instead of hoping for Russian occupation.

I don’t really know about the press gangs.

I don’t know how trustworthy any information about the LPR/DPR recruitment numbers could be. They have an interest in presenting high numbers, and there’d be no way to distinguish between Russian citizens and Ukrainian citizens from the outside.

Germany didn’t have a Jewish president.

This isn’t to say that absolves Ukraine of all it’s issues, but it’s not Germany.

I don’t disagree, but I don’t think it’s 100%, and the people there should have a say in the matter. If the people there wanted that they could easily have hopped the border, the fact that they didn’t voluntarily do so means something.

I dislike the way “purity test” is used to shut down any expectation that we can or should demand better from our leadership. However, when you start purity testing a country collectively like this and ignore the realities of what a defeat or victory would mean for the people living there that’s not good.

The Nazi battalions are not the entirety of what Ukraine is as a nation.

You say that as if NATO is giving Ukraine any more than the bare minimum weapons it needs. This ain’t Israel.

Many countries have those things and it has had no effect on birth rates.

Once birth rates start declining it doesn’t seem to be reversible within a single generation.