MattsAlt [comrade/them]

Technically he’s right just in the bad contractions of capitalism way. Just like when excess food was burned during the depression, shifting coastlines would create completely new real estate speculation opportunities and new displaced buyers

No one is forcing you to act this way. Your lack of compassion is evident in your inability or lack of desire to criticize those guidelines which directly result in the death and disablement of thousand a month

Hmmm did the science change or did the engine of capital decide it couldn’t afford to have people treat covid in the way it should be. How is advocating for wearing a mask now in the midst of these regular waves no longer following science

“My heart goes out to the people who have had family members die, but I’m going to call people who want to do something about it extremists”

Please kindly fuck off

live in bubble wrap forever

Shit like this is why you’re getting so much flack. It’s so fucking patronizing it makes me only want to tell you to fuck off

Wearing a mask, social distancing, and regularly washing your hands isn’t living in bubble wrap. Having basic concern for your fellow man isn’t living in bubble wrap.

I know multiple people with long covid. I know even more who are immunocompromised who are forced into hermitude because people like you cannot fathom to understand the experience of living a life that isn’t yours and how actions completely out of your control can completely destroy your life. Please do some soul searching and find a shred of empathy.

1.5% of deaths now per some quick CDC research

I’m sure the over 4000 families in the past 3 months who had someone die from covid feel similarly to you, that their loved one was not statistically significant and that it’s for the best that they’re dead so people like you don’t have to live in bubble wrap

Did it suddenly stop having long term damage to the immune and cardiovascular system or did capital decide it was time for everyone to get back to work?

Sorry you haven’t been paying attention in you comfortable bubble, but covid never stopped being an issue

https://www.cdc.gov/ncird/whats-new/covid-19-can-surge-throughout-the-year.html

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/news/2024/study-suggests-reinfections-virus-causes-covid-19-likely-have-similar-severity-original

Yeah I’ll renounce my citizenship too, but I’m just mid

Fed-up people

Counted them

I can understand that, but I’d be surprised to see an Iranian president who didn’t speak out against the entity

Again, not saying I’m happy about it

You may be misreading my post, I’m not celebrating his death, only questioning why leftists are seemingly mourning his death outside of the impacts it could have to Iran

My point was seeing it as something like the death of Putin on a smaller scale: aware it will cause internal and external political ripples which could be bad for the people but not someone we should be mourning

It was pretty recently after the crash so I’m willing to believe it could be sensationalism

Wasn’t he pretty involved in the suppression of women? All I’ve read is that he generally wasn’t well liked by any group of the citizenry of Iran

I can understand people feeling concern for Iran’s people and trajectory during a tumultuous time like this, but I don’t think anyone should feel bad he’s gone. He wasn’t a good person

's brilliant plan for reaching Mars

Tfw not in minutes because it wasn’t hypersonics at Tel Aviv

So Cuba should dissolve a government widely approved of by the people and return to client state gang run institutions for the ability to receive food? You’re a fucking idiot. Calling people sith lords, please learn to engage in world politics by using meaningful vocabulary instead of trying to equate everything to your favorite work of fiction

China should run port blockade

Pretty much what the researcher I was speaking with told me, the US is an entire generation of engineers behind China as it stands

Just as a glimpse into the American side, because we’ve created import bans on Chinese chip making components recently but previously offshored anything and everything to save a dime, public universities are unable to do significant research on developing PV cells because the only source for some niche aspects of the process are only made in China now.

As an added note, there is an incredible amount of concern about IP because ‘China will steal it’ and badmouthing of the Chinese government for, checks notes, subsiding R&D for PV cells and storage technology at a rate that massively outclips Biden’s flimsy recent CHIPS Act (which still hasn’t started distributing funds yet)

I hold no love for JFK, but it is admirable he was hoping to conduct joint missions with the USSR to the moon. For something as catastrophic as climate catastrophe, you’d think we’d all want to cooperate on creating the most efficient harvesting and storage technology as possible, but no, or proooofiittsss and IPPPPPPPP.

It’s things like this that make any alien movie or otherwise that shows humanity uniting for the continuation of the species laughable. The US would use it as an opportunity to nuke China then see if they could sell the aliens some oil.

I have a strong desire to get a PhD in environmental policy to try and get close to some form of person who can pass ideas to those who move the levers of power but have some idea that is pointless given how even the most mild assessments by people like the IPCC are ignored.

Issue is I feel like my STEM degree is equally useless because technology isn’t what’s holding us back even if I could get a job in a field that develops such technology. Unfortunately anything I see in renewables or power is out of reach with my experience and I’d spend just as much time making things worse in another industry racking up the requisite years of experience as I would getting said PhD

I logically understand a mass movement is our only solution but feel like I have to spend my 2000 hours or so a year working doing something related to climate or I’ll lose my mind. Anyone else thought through this at all and have insights?