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  • I don’t understand. No law prevents anyone from doing what’s forbidden. Are you saying all laws are futile? Otherwise what is different with this law that makes it futile?

    Also, we usually can do many things at once or in succession. We can raise prices on sugary food, start programs to inform the public about the impact sugar has on health, make school lunches more healthy etc. Would you complain that it is futile raising prices if it was the first thing proposed or would you say “Good, let’s do this and also the other things.”?











  • I don’t know about bringing donuts or the other reply about killing them with kindness. Both would be too much for someone like me.

    Like, am I obligated to bring donuts now? Are we now caught up in a perpetual donut bringing cycle until it becomes the new normal and there’s donuts all the time?

    And killing them with kindness is just overdoing it. I’d not feel comfortable.

    Can we not just be courteous and decent to each other at this place of -work-? Don’t get me wrong. If you’re having a great day, tell me about it and share the joy. If you’re having a shitty day, I’ll be there to listen. But on the regular, let’s just not make each other miserable.



  • brrt@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzExplain that, science nerds!
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    3 months ago

    Now you’re just lobbing together people who want to distinguish what exactly it is that needs saving with climate change deniers, conspiracy theorists and antivaxxers. Seems to me you just like boxes, really big boxes, in which to put in all the thing you dislike/disagree with or whatever.

    You don’t care that I disagree with almost everything on your list except for 2 things that I think are really important to be specific about.

    • “Saving the planet”, which I’ve explained
    • ”You drink water, so you’re part of the problem”, which is kind of true if you extrapolate and include it in your decision on if to have children.

    Be my guest, I don’t care enough to continue this conversation beyond this point with a hammer that’s just looking for nails.


  • brrt@sh.itjust.workstoScience Memes@mander.xyzExplain that, science nerds!
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    3 months ago

    Ok, let the downvotes come but I’m one of those people. And the point I’m trying to make is that the planet and life itself will survive and probably even be better off without humans.

    Just look at what happened after the extinction event that killed the dinosaurs. Humans are causing the next extinction event and afterwards life will just start fresh again.

    So no, saving the planet is not the goal. Saving humanity and most of all other current life is. And if that’s what you want to accomplish then that’s what you should talk about, specifically.