Merlu

joined 8 months ago
 

When the automatisms you acquired during your job are invading your private life.

When i was an intern in a big store, i had to fight against the reflex of storing the shelves during my own shopping sessions.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What does mean "being SA’d"?

 

I'm the human of a cat named Piccolo, because when he was a kitten, he meowed like a little flute.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Are you asking which CEOs are the most cynical?

Yeah, sort of

 

For me, commercial social medias: they make money by spreading hate, violence, authoritarianism and misinformation.

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[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml -3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At some point, defeatism is just realism, no matter the amout of hopium people try to sell to you.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Soil depletion, (micro)plastics in the water, biodiversity collapse, political instability, economical crisis, nuclear menace that is not a thing of the past anymore, sanitary crisis that will likely be worse than COVID, to name a few.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml -5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Actually, it's too late, because those in power are accelerating in the wrong direction and we are less and less able to prevent them to do so.

And even so, given the current state of the society, even the "best case scenario" will be enough to make it collapse.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Personally, the "renewable" energies aren't making me hopeful. Because they are absolutly not renewable, they can't be build without pollution because of the materials you need. And even so, climate change is not even the worst of our existential threats, there are many more, but strangely, people are only talking about climate.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I don't believe in the possibility of mass civil disobediance, especially in a context where most of people are either depolitized, either are voting massively for (wannabe) autocrats.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

We shoudn't rely on carbon capture, the technology is still at an embryonary stage and will not be ready on time to have a significant impact. Nor on a nuclear winter, for obvious reasons.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Actually, level of warming that could directly wipe humanity is technically possible, even the hopium dealers among climate scientists admit that (notably Michael E. Mann). But even if it doesn't kill all of us directly, it will likely generate a domino effect for other existential threats.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Your statement is extremely naive, because when a politician establish a rule, you are legally forced to follow it, and believe me, the authorities don't care about the means to enforce the said rules if they don't want to follow them. Resistance to Trump will lead to increased repression, you should not forget he is a known authoritarian. If you want to risk your freedom -if not your physical integrity- to set yourself above the law, good for you, but don't incite people to do so.

[–] Merlu@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think healthy skepticism is forbidden here, so feel free to write your rebuttal.

 

I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck's shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.

 

I had a drum that was stored on a huge wardrobe and was pretty unstable. One day, as i opened the wardrobe, the drum fell on my head. I laugh about it today because fortunately, the wound was not as severe as i though at first.

 

I was running for my train. After entering in the station airlock, for a reason i still can't explain, i turned right instead of continuing straight ahead and BAM, i hit a glass with my face. Now i have a little scar, fortunately hidden behind my eyebrow.

 

My cat has a new obsession: sticking his head out of the cat flap, seeing that it's raining, staying still, coming back in, meowing at me like "Daaad, it's raining" and starting the cycle again.

 

It can be low effort, passive-aggressive, insulting or derogatory towards your convictions.

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