Except empathy. You can still decide to keep people as slaves when it benefits you and you don’t have empathy.

I choose to misinterpret your definition of “important” and die of dehydration.

Still better than burning bunker fuel to carry oil. Every bit helps.

I would eat soup with fork if could.

I saw this elsewhere on Lemmy. It’s now my favourite.

I hate that my first though was “at least he survived the encounter”.

I hope things improve.

Batteries and solar get used 1000s of times in their lifetime, then over 80% (and growing) are recycled. I haven’t heard of any fossil fuels being recycled and burned a second time yet.

Every bit of fossil fuel that taken put of the ground and burned ends up in the air. Solar and batteries don’t.

We’re talking about oil and gas for energy, not construction. 99% of battery materials can be turned into new batteries. The only reason most haven’t been recycled is that they’re still in use.
Show me 1 gallon of recycled* fossil fuels and I might change my mind.

Australia almost did this right with the National Broadband Network.

Unfortunately, it was then sabotaged by the government after an election changed the majority party.

It seems to be back on track after wasting an extraordinary amount of time and money by installing copper lines, just to completely replace them with the fiber lines that were in the original plan.

I miss the comfort of having a single OS (not multiple distros to choose from), and a father who would reinstall the OS when I broke it too much again.
I miss the Macromedia Flash games, bringing games to school on a floppy disk labeled “homework” (then discovering I’d only brought the shortcut).

All of this is just nostalgia, and while I miss it, I’m happier now with my Linux Distro.
I’ve customised the desktop environment, broken the OS and reinstalled it myself (several times), and copied games to another device while forgetting to copy the folder containing my save files.
I guess some things stay the same.

Do not 3d print this one. It may exceed the z-axis limit for your printer.

Solar panels and batteries are recyclable. Oil and gas are not.

I’m not from America.

The rest of the world is watching the orange idiot and wondering what he’ll destroy next.

I just tried to send a package to another country (also not America) and the entire process has been made far more complicated because his tariffs exist. I can see the politicians in my country trying to follow his lead and destroy this country too. I hear about the holocaust level of kidnapping on the news, and watch people trying to fight back on social media.

America is on the front stage of the world, for all the wrong reasons. Most of the world is aware of America, and really does care about it’s politics.

There’s a big difference between a constant stream of cars with noise from every direction, and the occasional delivery vehicle that you can hear coming.

This just sounds like another excuse for a “preemptive strike”. Why would Iran attack a state that is generally opposed to war?

The government lies. We’ve seen them lie. We’ve seen so many cases of the CIA lying. Why would I believe the FBI about this.

Best example: the holocaust was legal, hiding Jews to save their lives was illegal.

I wonder if they would ever understand this, or just think it’s a cool fact.

I may have missed a few job opportunities by refusing to lie on my resumé or in the interview.

In hindsight, I probably wouldn’t have enjoyed working for a company that expects people to lie to get the job.

On the plus side, my investments in renewable energy (home solar, battery, EV, etc) because of my refusal to pay fossil fuel companies has already paid for itself.

I really wanted GrapheneOS, but ended up with /e/OS on a fairphone because I refuse to give Google any more money.

After replacing the default launcher with Lawnchair, I’m pretty happy with it. The physical switch (remapped to control the torch) is a nice touch.

Protesting genocide is it opposite of hate speech.

I hope this law gets overturned quickly.