We found out ages ago, told everyone, and no-one did anything

Y'all are missing something imo. Landlords are artificial demand - they drive up the housing prices for everyone, including home owners.

The argument that it costs to maintain a home blah blah is BS - if it wasn't profitable then the landlords sell it. They're not being charitable. They make a profit and it comes out of poor people's wages.

Because exactly those things you describe (as well as some other factors/events) were reckless, violent experimenting (ideological, military, technological). And now we're finding out. Like I'm not sure if you're aware but the world changed ridiculously fast during the 1900s and now the early 2000s compared to the rest of history.

Yeah one of the biggest learnings for me over my career is that people are hard-wired for stories. It doesn't matter how good an engineer/scientist you are, how well explained or robust the logic/study is, etc. People only respond to how things make them feel - we are emotional beings with the ability to rationalize, not the other way around.

Accidentally eating a vegetable, you poor thing!

Upvoting simply because I love to see people challenging their own opinions

What a bizzare thing to say. Plenty of women have hairy asses. And no, men wouldn't teach this is they were the majority of teachers for the same reason women don't - it's not socially acceptable. The parents of the children would riot. Sex education is only taught because of how important it is, and it still makes a lot of parents uncomfortable.

... Definitely the trump cult? Like yeah, you could argue that Democrats are also a problem, but the 'bigger' problem is pretty fucking obvious

Yeah not having a government issued email is completely bonkers in this day and age. They should never have allowed Google to fill that gap.

A likely indicator of ADHD

Don't worry buddy, I get it. I feel the same way about USA

You'd think so, but unfortunately not. Venture captial is completely illogical, designed around boom or bust "moonshot" ideas that are supposed to completely change everything. So this money isn't driven by actual consumption, rather speculation. I can't really speak to other forms of investment but I suspect it doesn't get a whole lot better. The economy has become far too financialised with a fiat currency that is completely separate from actual intrinsic value. That's why a watch can cost more than a family home, which isn't true consumption - just this weird concept of "wealth"

Yeah this drives me crazy. I grew up where the old white men loved boating and fishing in the rivers, bringing the family out to enjoy nature. Now that it's all getting contaminated and turning gross, even the dumbest person who actually valued 'conserving' would realise we actually have to do something.

Instead, we've got billboards up and down the country trashing the Paris agreement and the old white men are only interested in attacking the other tribe. Not a hint of concern for the environment. They're not interested in conserving anything other than their social status and corresponding power.

I can't decide if this pun is intentional or not 😂😂😂

There are theories that hunter-gatherers worked significantly less. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society

You're assuming that jobs are allocated to people/AI based on merit or competence or some other logical metric.

Just like the correlation between the cost of a product and it's quality, these used to be true, but have become increasingly decoupled or even inversely correlated as marketing and sales tactics (or more simply, propoganda) have become more and more effective.

Edit : my bad, I didn't read your entire comment properly. Yeah, I think companies that hire people and only use AI sparingly will survive better. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see the majority of the global economy to collapse beforehand though

Thank you, that resource is fantastic - so much stuff to read!

The dairy industry is significantly more damaging to NZ's ecology than some feral cats. I'm not saying it shouldn't be addressed, but there are measures already in place. It's important to keep perspective and not be distracted by media.

I find corspes yuck because it feels the same as cannibalism to me. I have no issues with touching human hair or fingernails, but I wouldn't eat your arm, spleen or eye. Does this help?

Explain why globally we cut back on nuclear power please? How does this fit into your argument?