People who don’t have space to look up are focused on things that directly impact them. More at 11

Yes, American propaganda is fucked. Don’t shit on people for worrying about themselves, get them to also see how the things that impact them impact others more.

Yeah, and all that has since been rolled back, cause the shareholders got scared for their dividends. Clearly far more valuable than employee lives, regardless the flavor of employee.

An entire archipelago of resorts, you say?

One hundred percent. They gave me a crash pad through them, I could bring anything up to them without needing to go to my ultimate employer. Yes, I was a junior in the suit of a senior and I’m very much aware of that fact.

…I mean, the company I started for gave me a 6 month crash course, and then hired me out as a senior dev. Does that count?

Home Depot fucking sucks, then. Menard’s has a $0.50 per mile charge, $19 for 75 minutes, $6 for each additional 15 min

The difference in price between a sedan and a truck is like $400-500 annually

If you haul multiple times a month, perfectly understandable. If you haul things once or twice a year, the $20 rental from your local hardware store is probably more than sufficient for the task. And significantly cheaper, too.

You can rent a truck, but owning a truck means you have to pay more to haul around a bunch of stuff you don’t need. That’s why you shouldn’t be worried about every possible thing you might need a vehicle for.

It’s not chicken, it’s KFC specifically. That’s usually the source of derision. Not to say I agree with it (let people have their little things, even if it’s corpo hell paste that they got it from)

Well, yes, but also no. Even without DeBeers fuckery, they’d still be worth more than other gems. Diamonds are incredibly common, but large, high quality diamonds are both rare and difficult to process without damaging. Diamonds are brittle as fuck.

The analogy I use is imagine if the latest home decor trend was perfectly preserved tree stumps. Everything intact, from the tiniest root all the way to the trunk. Super common, yeah, but it would be enormously expensive to have done.

And only became associated with luxury due to the insane costs of producing and shipping them at scale. Well, for the seafood anyways.

And there’s no reason I couldn’t be a bicycle if you attached wheels to me. We’re talking about what is, not what could be.

This is where regulations need to step in

This is the part where you need to realize that regulations only come into play long after devastating impacts occur and can’t be denied any longer (or, more accurately, until they can be denied again. See, the state of anti-trust in the US). Capitalism only exists because it can foist externalities onto the public. And capitalism will do anything to avoid paying for the externalities that allow them to “generate” profits.

Yeah, man. Consumed in the same way that we mean water is consumed in every other context. Doesn’t change the fact that the ground water is now sky water. Ground water takes months to decades to replenish, using it isn’t harmless to the ecosystems you take it from.

Hey, making food is something we need. Hallucination bots are a new, unnecessary use of water in a time when water is already becoming scarcer due to global warming. Stop sane washing their massive waste, thanks!

It’s called being clever. It’s how many things are lost forever

Yeah, we’ve got the most institutional slaves of any country on earth. Gotta virtue signal that we’re actually the good guys (or, ya know, excuse tariffs for tariff’s sake)

Agreed on the anti-intellectualism being lame. PhDs with ADHD are where it’s at, since they have both expertise and experience

Columbus died in 1506

Yeah, and the last colony was freed from European control in… oh wait. Oh no! It looks like that hasn’t happened yet.

Other dates to consider

1994, the end of South African Apartheid

2023‐current, intensified Israeli genocide of Gaza

Ongoing, cold war between Pakistan and India over the Kashmir region

Ongoing, Sudanese civil war

All that and more are current or very recent geopolitical conflicts that directly descend from European colonial ambitions and violence.

Everywhere on earth throughout all of history humans have been awful to each other.

A thought terminating cliché that lets you wiggle out of thinking about the impact your continent had and continues to have on the greater world. If you really think this way, you’ll never understand how the world works or how we can work to better it for everyone. Which is a huge disservice to both you and all of humanity.

Neglecting the evil Europe has done just so you can focus on the positives you have is exactly how y’all got into the colonizing business to begin with. Had to go wrestle control of the world away from those savages who don’t know how to run things correctly. It was for their own good, ya see (and for the profits)

Also, Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Turkey, England, and Russia are all countries that are currently or are courting with outright fascism/authoritarianism. Maybe we think of that before you declare yourselves the beacon of democracy with no peers in the world, yeah?

Yeah, and most of the fucked up shit in the world is majority the responsibility of European settler colonialism. I’m from the states and most of the fucked up shit in this country is because y’all sent all your fucking wackjobs over here in the 16th and 17th centuries. Africa, the entire continent, is still fucked by all your colonies.

Like, don’t get me wrong, you’re sitting pretty. But the cost of all that pretty sitting was bore by the rest of the world.