20 years ago somebody told me that installing Gentoo would make my computer performant enough to run video games. I no longer play video games, but I have been using GNU/Linux variants ever since.

I live in Europe and the whole post resonated hard with me. Not sure in which lala land you live in.

Not a denier, but people fear the immediate costs. It’s not clear what meaningful climate action looks like. But realistically it would very likely mean a higher cost of living in the immediate future, because not all economic sectors can be trivially decarbonized. There are also possible immediate benefits. But in any case that’s what people fear.

All girls are shallow. I’d rather, “he got money” shallow than “he tall” shallow. At least one is something you can do something about. I don’t know why people pretend that it is wholesome when the girl falls in love with the physically handsome tall guy, but then somehow less wholesome when the girl falls in love with a guy who through talent and hard work made something of himself.

Users upvoting/downvoting leads to a hivemind, even if the moderation is not complicit (which it often is).