Haven’t got the balls to kill myself. Other people depend on me. I’m bought into the life ecosystem. Functionally, I think dying is much more stressful and scary than never existing. I’m also not a defeatist, I’m working to fix those things, but I don’t exactly have a lot of say it how it plays out.
That was the joke. We know precisely down to the second when the sun will be shining. We’ve been able to calculate that for over a century at this point.
“Oh, what about storms and clouds!?!”
Let me introduce those naysayers to the national energy grids. My house can get electricty from a producer thousands of miles away, so even if clouds are covering my whole state, we’re still getting power from sunny areas.
Some rough math says pretty much all of them, and you’ll need to stop heating your house too.
Yeah. Just had this convo with my partner two days ago.
Reasons why I don’t want kids.
Number one, they can’t consent to being born, If given the choice, I would not consent to being born right now, why should I force that on someone else.
Number two, we can’t afford kids right now, even with both of us working full time jobs. (Not bragging, but both my partner and I make over the median household income for our area. I legit have no idea how other people do it, because we are paycheck to paycheck right now.)
Number three, even though abortion is legally protected in the constitution of my state, our legislators at the state and the federal levels are seeking to undo those protections against the will of the people. There is no guarantee that if we had a complicated pregnancy, that they would survive or even be able to find healthcare.
Number four, we are knowingly perpetuating an ongoing climate disaster. I can’t in good faith bring someone into this world knowing that they will be displaced or die because the part of the planent they live on may become inhospitable due to our inaction.
Number five, we’re seeing the rise of far right antagonist fascist movement worldwide. At this point a global war for basic human rights is inevitable, if not already started.
Number six, there are always hundreds of thousands of children stuck in the foster/adoption system who are destined to struggle for the rest of their lives because of a lack of family support. I would adopt long before I would consider bringing another person into this world.
Thanks for attending my doom rant.
Hah.
That man has never been accountable for anything in his life. Hell, he’s made it to 80 eating solely McDonalds fast food. Fucking colon cancer and heart disease can’t hold this man accountable, what makes you think the spineless ass kissing money grubbers in Congress are going to do it?
It started happening naturally for me as I got older.
It may also be because I married a biologist.
She sends me pictures of snakes to ID pretty much first thing every morning.
Well, I guess I could point to my snake enclosure camera (which conveniently covers the front door) showing an entry, or if the perps walk through the house, they would trigger the bunny cams, the other snake cam, or the lizard cam. Plus I have my outdoor cameras, although that is my specific scenario.
I’m sure there is an electronic lock on the market that logs when the door is opened, even if not locked. It would be trivial to look at the lock/unlock log and determine that the door was opened without unlocking. A regular tumbler lock isn’t going to give you that kind of info.
50% is from the chemical process and 40% from burning fuel.”
So what I’m hearing is… If we switched to alternative energy transportation infrastructure, we could eliminate 40% of the CO2 released from the 2nd largest contributor? Seems like a good deal to me, we should do that ASAP.
Ah, chemical fertilizer must be made with crude oil and natural gas! And we must have started using those in the mid 1800s!
No, wait. Both of those are wrong.
You can NOT sustain our present human population with sunshine and puppies.
You know what else you can’t sustain a human population with? A planet with no fresh water and a toxic atmosphere.
Right, but that visible ball isn’t reliable. You have no idea when it’s going to work or not.
If anyone cares, sunset is at 9:04 PM today.
Burning it in a discarded toilet next to a truck stop is less disrespectful than this.
I’ve never had a flag out front of my house.
The day that orange fucker kicks the bucket, I’m putting in a flagpole and flying that bitch at full mast.
I’ve watched enough Lock Picking Lawyer never to want a consumer ‘smart lock.’
I’m gonna differ on this. The point of a lock is to control law-abiding access to your house. If someone wants in your house, they can attack your windows, doors, or even a wall if the lock is too strong. A smart lock let’s you open the door for a family member remotely, or set one time-access for your in-laws to come over and pickup a tool.
I wouldn’t use a smart lock for something hardened, like a bunker or a vault, but for a house and garage, it’s okay not to have the most bullet proof lock in the world.
I feel like it’s missing that nifty FCC sticker…
Pretty much when the US was the only super power to survive WWII unscathed.
Also, having developed atomic hellfire, and the will to use it (twice), kinda makes you the big kid on the playground.
I’ve had about 9 boosters at this point, and my nuts are so swollen from spike proteins that when I go to Walmart, they accuse me of trying to steal basketballs.
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User is very upset. It was a broken bulb last time, so it must be a broken bulb this time. Why can’t the help desk make bulbs that don’t break? Bulb was fine, user was locking and unlocking the door instead of flipping the light switch.
Consent exists outside of humans, it just what we’ve decided to call “respecting autonomy”.
I don’t think it is forced birther ammo. Something that does not exist cannot consent. A fetus is just a collection of cells, it has the same ability to consent as a finger or a liver, in the vast majority of abortions it has no more individual identity than a tumor. Consent of the fetus shouldn’t be a criteria for abortion anyway, it’s consent of the individual that it is taking resources from that matters.