Smaller rural stores will cater to the lowest common denominator, and in the US, that’s going to be much more in the way of processed foods. I’m sure there are rural vegans, but they’re probably a bit less common. Certainly not the stereotype.
Misread the title and read the article hoping to learn more about this “hostile” scoring system, only to be highly disappointed. lol
Posting history is public. I respond when it’s worth bothering.
Unsurprised you’re from .ml with that level of ignorance.
The time to make that change is before the general election.
Anytime you’re presented with two choices, take the less bad option. But if that’s the only time you bother to act, or even worse, if you don’t even act THEN to pick the lesser bad option, then you are one less vote against the worse, and therefore by your actions support it. But you already supported it if you weren’t fighting for better options.
“Well, I didn’t pick which restaurant to visit very well, and this restaurant only has moldy fruit or sandwiches made literally from shit. I don’t like either option, so I’m just gonna eat whatever they bring me”. Sure, it’s not a great analogy in the sense that picking a different restaurant is not so easy in the context of politics, but I think it makes the point - always choose the lesser bad option. I’d rather eat the moldy fruit (we’re assuming that we must eat something in this metaphor) than the literal shit. And then work harder to try and prevent us from going to this restaurant next time. But if you are presented with the two bad options and one is worse, not picking an option is fucking stupid.
We only have one non-fascist party at the moment, so yeah. But you say that like anyone who prefers one party over another wants a one-party state like they don’t prefer one party over the other.
Find me non-fascist Republicans who are standing up for human rights and I’ll give them a shot, sure.
Incremental progress is better than actively working to make things worse, but y’know, stick to your guns and help make SURE things get worse. Good job!
Oh yes, you can see by the voting records and what each party does with legislation to see they are exactly the same and both treat environmental issues exactly the same. I mean, if you ignore the voting records and what each party does, that is.
Yeah, it’s a good thing both candidates were the same on every single issue, too, so there was literally no difference in picking between the fascist and the non-fascist. Fantastic job recognizing your duty to stick to one single issue where you feel they were the same!
It’s kinda hilarious that I think today that night not even bother going viral. Lol. But back then it was unusual
Bagger 288 is probably the most well known. I wouldn’t worry too much about it but if you wanted to be correct, all you have to do is change “a Bagger 288” to just “Bagger 288” imho :)
a Bagger 288
There is only one Bagger 288. The excavators are numbered, so it’s not a model number, it is a unit number :)
I’m glad to see pushback on this article. I expected, frankly, knee-jerk reactions, but i’m pleased to see that people see through a lot of the bullshit.
The aspect I wanted to discuss: We’re not losing our forests. At least not in the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forests_of_the_United_States
We started out with a billion acres of forest in the US before Europeans came. We’ve lost about a quarter of that, but most of that was before a hundred years ago - for various reasons, it’s pretty stable, and we’re not only growing new wood for the most part instead of chopping down old growth, we’re gaining forest instead of losing it.
I think we’re - overall - doing a not bad job on the forestry front.
We need to keep moving away from petrochemicals (i.e. not just oil/gas/coal for power/transportation, but working towards finding replacements for all this damn plastic, too), and keep improving alternate energy sources.
I have some hope on that front - for a tiny example, studies have looked at electric vehicles with higher miles, and the batteries are lasting much better than was feared (90% after 90k miles is not bad), and with new battery tech we should be able to better store wind/solar energy for use when it’s needed. There is some great news along those lines.
We need to get rid of regresive politicians who are keeping polluting energy alive (along with shitting on human rights), and to do that we need to focus on getting rid of our oligarchs powering that system.
But on the actual “nature” frnt, things are not bad in many ways (while not being great in others, sure).
Please reconsider your use of the “R” word as it is harmful and ableist.
Feel free to find your own source, but here’s one: https://www.specialolympics.org/stories/impact/why-the-r-word-is-the-r-slur
A, but then 2? You monster! :)
For some reason, this reminds me of a story my dad told of being in college in the early 70s. Apparently there was a “game” going around - a sort of viral joke - that involved going up to someone and in a terrible German accent saying “Do you vant to play Geshtapo?” and no matter what they said, slapping them (probably gently) on the face and saying “You lie! You lie!” - probably funnier 30 years after WWII rather than 80 years we are now. heh.
So he did this and it was fun until the one time he started to do it to one of the football players. Massive guy, not so quick on the uptake… He said he went up to him, asked “Do you vant to play Geshtapo?” and started to put his hand up to slap him, and the guy grabbed his arm, looked confused and said, “What dis?” and my dad was like “Just a joke… nevermind…” lol. And that was the end of that!
(I suppose it’s too late to mention that my dad is on the shorter and scrawnier side)