Thorny_Insight @ Thorny_Insight @lemm.ee

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Good demonstration of how the alternatives are no better

My possibly unpopular opinion is that just using water is probably more than sufficient unless you've been handling something that has visibly stained your hands. Some level of "dirt" on your hands is probably better for your immune system than perfectly clean ones. I've never been much of a hand washer myself. I use my hands a lot, I touch everything, I don't wear gloves at work and I bite my nails. Yesterday I pulled carrots from the ground and rubbed worst of the soil away onto grass and ate them like that. I can't help but feel that behavior like this is to thank for the fact that I'm never sick and I have zero allergies or food intolerances.

I've been experiencing a ton of buffering issues lately trying to use YouTube with uBlock Origin. I'm pretty much on the brink of subscribing myself too. It's by far the most valuable online platform for me and I've used it for free well over a decade. It was a good run and I'm not even mad.

Traffic is not really the place to be kind. Just don't be a dick and drive predictably and by the rules. Doing stuff like waving someone to go first when you have the right of way is dangerous and confusing.

That being said, one type of act of kindness that comes to mind is a semi using their blinker to indicate when it's safe to overtake as I couldn't see in front of them.

Ukraine struggles to repel the constant attacks on the eastern front so by attacking Russia in the north, it forces them to move troops from elsewhere thus making them to stop the attacks due to lack of manpower and go on defence instead. This eases the pressure on the Ukrainian defenders.

This newly acquired land is also something they can use to trade back parts of their own land if and when the peace negotitations start.

It also further diminishes the credibility of the Russian army and leadership.

Seems far more likely that the recycling rate is low because not every piece of plastic waste is put into recycling. Not that they simply don't recycle it.

That assumes the plastic is already being collected, so why not just make new products from it instead of dumping it into the ground and then using even more oil to make new plastic?

That's a bit cynical take. In many countries, including mine, there are dedicate bins for plastic waste which is the majority of waste from your typical household. It's all being recycled into new products, not being shipped anywhere. Also, when it comes to plastic bottles for example, close to 100% of them are returned and recycled into new bottles. I've got a tiny-ass bin for the stuff that ends up in landfill because I separate and recycle it all as does most other people.

EDIT: Nevermind then. It's all apparently dumped into the ocean. Sorry about the attempt in some positivity.

Never been to but based on what I've heard, maybe Portland?

I don't even know what that means

My Twitter account is from 2014 and I still use the same one. My youtube account is even older but no idea how old. On places like Reddit and Lemmy I make a new account atleast once a year.

I actually have quite the list of words that if I see someone using on social media I block them immediately. Cuck is just one of them. The only two reasons to use it is to either to discuss cuckolding fetish (which is fine) or to demonstrate what an asshole you are.

That's why I'm in this thread in the first place. Atleast include his name in the title so it triggers the content filters.

Yeah I don't really care. I'm not as passionate about him as you guys.

Elon can be blocked on Twitter. It's Lemmy where you're force fed everything he says or does.

Lack of self-discipline is not doing what you know needs to be done and giving yourself excuses as to why this isn't your fault but solely due to external reasons. It's not taking personal responsibility and instead blaming the world for your issues. I can never afford a home because of capitalism. I can't work out because of bad knees. I can't get a girlfriend because I'm ugly.

If a person with no job or friends spends all their time inside smoking weed, playing video games, jerking off and then justifying this complete lack of function by telling themselves a story about how their mind is broken and there's nothing they can do about it then I'd claim that more often than not there other reasons for that than just them having ADHD. I know because I'm that person.

At no point have I said ADHD doesn't play a role in it but it's always a combination of several factors of which some they have more control over than others.

Not everyone is trying their best. People without ADHD have varying levels of self-discipline. So do people with it. This isn't some kind of blanket critizism towards everyone with ADHD.

I never claimed some people don't have it harder than others. It's a spectrum and a large number of people are not in the far end of it. Those are the people I'm talking about. Would it be easier if they didn't have this condition? Ofcourse it would. That however still doesn't mean that personal agency doesn't have a role in it. There are several reasons for why people struggle with getting things done and in the vast majority of cases having ADHD is just one of the contributing factors. It's an explanation, not an excuse.

If a homeless person claims the color of their skin is the sole reason they're homeless then they're absolutely using it as an excuse.

Are you contributing to the climate crisis because you want poor people in developing nations to suffer from it? Then, yes, you’re a bad person.

However, if your contribution is simply a side effect of trying to live a normal life, then you’re not. Intentions matter. The idea of living in a cave, eating sticks and leaves, would be a disproportionate sacrifice compared to the actual harm your actions are causing. A small donation to an effective organization fighting the climate crisis is likely to have a greater positive impact than going out of your way to eliminate all behavior that contributes to carbon emissions and pollution. What feels like making an impact and what actually does can often be entirely different things.

Last time I checked, donating to an organization that buys bed nets and sends them to Africa is the most effective way to use your money to help others. That way, your actions will have a tangible impact on the world. On the other hand, selling your car and stopping consumption altogether makes no difference, no matter how righteous it might feel.