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You don't simply stop "doing the right thing" just because you're not "winning."
I got the original meme but I don’t understand this. Can someone ELI5?
Are they suggesting that its sad that “you” would think people only deserve food water and shelter?
It could because its very US centric.
A lot of people in the US argue that the poor don't deserve anything, any lack of money is a moral failing, and they don't deserve any kind of help.
They have that attitude because capitalism has gaslit them into believing the "pull yourself up by your own bootstraps" lie to justify their position that someone who is thirsty should be allowed to die of thirst, someone who is hungry should be allowed to die of hunger, and someone homeless should be allowed to die of exposure.
The person in the meme is arguing against those people, saying all humans actually do all deserve food, water, and shelter. All things US conservatives would happily deny someone who was suffering. The cruelty is the point.
I hope this helps!
We failed to prevent climate change, but it can get a lot worse. It is a bit like claiming we should stop build houses, because we have not prevented homelessness.
Climate change is not a binary. It might be too late for the best case scenario but we can still make it much less bad.
Bro stop posting leaked footage from Dune: Messiah
Aged Paul looks much more attractive
that's a really gutsy thing to say
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around And desert you.
Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a liiiiie And hurt you
We've known each other... for so long...
The actual climate scientists have been increasingly saying their models show there’s no point to even trying while capitalism still exists, and get continuously worse every time they add recent data to the model,
…but I support, commend, and unironically respect your commitment OP. One person can absolutely make a difference to their local ecosystem assuming they have enough money and land.
Okay well then where's the problem? If there's no point in trying to fight climate change while capitalism exists, then end capitalism. I don't understand where we disagree.
You are utterly powerless to stop this, even at your most self actualized, mobile, and focused you are fundamentally incapable of changing what needs to be changed.
There really isn't hope, people who think there is unfortunately don't understand how the universe works. Your attitude towards the end is irrelevant ( unfortunately ) and we are surely on our way towards extinction.
This is what I think of when the optimists still think they can save humanity from its own greedy, short sighted, self-destructive nature as the world literally begins to burn by our own hands after a century of warning:
We're monkeys that are just smart enough to develop technologies we are still too bone dead stupid to wield responsibly. Unless we accidentally create a benevolent, hyperintelligent AGI in our pursuit of yet another tool for manipulation and greed that saves us from our own nature, extremely unlikely, this only ends one way. We are who we are and the tools we've fashioned have become dangerous enough to crush us under the weight of their capability, without one iota of temperance aka "maybe growth/metastasis should stop being our only goal" by anyone in power.
And somewhat ironically, the "our species can still turn it around! live in hope!" types are the same ones deadset against revolution to force those living large off destroying the planet to stop in a physical way. Something something cake, something something eat it too. This ain't a movie, for humanity to have a future, we'd need to starve this and the next couple generations and tear down the polluting supply chains to live with nature again (like all those humans that did live with nature until they were genocided so someone with a flag could steal the resources under their feet) and bring our species down from the overpopulation cancer we've become, but we won't entertain the reality that we can't support 8 billion people sustainably, we made a dire mistake attempting to, and the species needs to drastically, painfully downsize to have any future at all. So we will burn in the Earth's fever until homeostasis is restored.
"It's become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity."
-Albert Einstein
But by all means, keep trying to eat that cotton candy. I just hope it makes you happy doing it so it isn't entirely without a point.
The fact that you think the only solution is an AI that you think will in any way work to make things better and not just be ignored is really telling of who you are and your tech absolutist nature.
I got raped by my mother as a kid and I don't think I have the disdain for people like you do.
And tech isn't necessarily a better option. Very clearly not helping this world right now and that search for god in a machine is as much the same as the people you look down upon for searching for god in the sky.
Things won't stay the same forever. It doesn't necessarily mean it is gonna get immediately better and it's gonna happen (with lots of ups and downs) however reality happens, but fate is for those who don't act.
And right now, what we have is the present.
Try living in it. It's happening whether or not you hate it.And somewhat ironically, the “our species can still turn it around! live in hope!” types are the same ones deadset against revolution to force those living large off destroying the planet to stop in a physical way.
I feel like it's the other way around. I feel like it's my people who are out there getting arrested and making fossil fuel execs upgrade their security detail, and it's the doomers who seem to complain endlessly about how much they hate the taste of shoe leather while somehow spending the most time down there.
Hey, before I accepted there was no hope, I was pushing for such things. I'm far from special in that. Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist.
And if there were a serious movement that was advocating doing more than peacefully protesting a cow statue on Wall Street as the planet and species enemies laughed out their windows above them, I'll be there with bells on, as I imagine most current doomers would.
But the sun will sooner set in the east, and doing such things alone is just suicide with extra steps and just as helpful.
Honestly everything you're saying is effectively the most realistic understanding. I promise things are worse than most realize, and even worse, we're past the tipping point and have been for a long time too.
Being positive is utterly meaningless, and even worse it's harmful - don't prioritize your mental health over the reality because the prevents the selective pressure for change.
You must understand this is really that critical. We're already in for a far worse future than most understand, the question now is, well, do we do anything about it, and we won't until pretty much everyone understands how serious this is, and freaks out the requisite amount for change.
