Turns you PC into spacewarmer for just 70 bucks!

If they need the toilet, they will have to use the restrooms in the stations, which are not near the platforms.

Sounds like a planning mistake...

The good ol' days before capitalism, amirite?

Saves on red paint, don't it?

Hmmm, wanted to say Brasil, but maybe Sweden?

Out of sight out of...

Let's say it how it is: it doesn't matter if:

• Russia wins the war
• Russian citizens don't feel the pain
• The West just continues treating Ukraine as a drone testing area
• Trump stops helping Ukraine

Nearly a third of Russia’s 2024 budget has been allocated to military spending, the highest level since the cold war.

While all of NATO's military spending wobbles around 2% like there isn't a war going on.

It's called reality?

My condolences.

Pain for pleasure?

Perhaps to you the saying is a platitude, but that seems subjective

Wow, everything is relative. Do you have any other wise things to say? It's in the eye of the beholder maybe? There is no truth? There are no absolutes? Want to whip out some tautologies or falsely attribute some quotes to Einstein?

If you view ethics as a binary, then sure. If you view ethics as a complex and nuanced spectrum, well, not so much.

Again with the "everything is relative". So actually, we're living in paradise right now, because relative to 5B years ago, earth would be inhospitable. But we are also living in hell because things could be so much better.

Everything is nuanced. Of course it is. Which is why the phrase "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" is false. You're just confirming it yourself with your "everything is relative" and "to the esteemed members of the ivory tower with completely formed and immensely folded brains, ethics is an intricate and nuanced spectrum".

What a reductionist take, especially considering the paragraph you'd written just above it.

Yes, thank you for confirming that you understood nothing of what I wrote.

No, Maggot. Think before you consume.

I'm sorry but these facts completely invalidate your point.

Points out one case where people were misled to extrapolate and invalidate every single purchase or act of consumption ever. Everywhere we turn, we are being lied to. There is not a single company on the planet - nay, universe, that has ever nor ever will provide (or try to provide) a product that pollutes less that others. We thus have no choice, and in fact never had, nor ever will have a chance of purchasing such a product, much less multiple thereof. Illusion of choice is everywhere. Resistance is futile.

And that can only come from sensible and strong regulations and accountability towards corporations.

But buddy, nothing we do matters! Didn't you know the rich control everything. Voting is useless! It is an illusion of choice because they are just puppets and representatives of their wealthy masters.

Why would you have hope, you poor imbecile. Go be a wage cuck, follow your programming, buy the next iPhone, and pick a random politician because it is just a play.

OK, you are faultless. We are all powerless. We are simply wage slaves for the rich. We are cogs in a machine with no will of our own, controlled by the powerful. Every decision we make is in fact an expression of fake self expression. You are thus absolved of any duty to attempt anything to ameliorate the situation, because it's all useless. We just have to hope that someday, our overlords will see the damage they have caused and give us our right to think.

TikTok? What about Twitter, Facebook, Telegram, and Reddit?

No. Absolute free speech means allowing people say whatever they like and that means anything. You can spam somebody with messages telling them to kill themselves. You can put a loudspeaker in front of somebody's house and play a message on loop telling them to kill themselves. You can openly call for somebody to kill another person and not get in trouble for enticing a murder. You can shout down anybody you like and tell them to shut up or threaten them, all you have to do is be louder and look like you have the means to kill them in order to intimidate. And that will all be fine because if someone tries to stop you from expressing your opinion, they will be infringing on your right to absolute free speech.

It does however create a paradox: if someone uses their free speech to infringe on somebody else's free speech, what can be done? You can't tell the person infringing to stop because that would infringe on their free speech. After all, they have a right to absolute free speech, don't they? So, if you say "your right to free speech ends where the right of somebody else's begins" then it's not absolute anymore.

It also opens a can of worms as to what counts as expressing free speech and what counts as suppressing it. Does blocking somebody on a platform infringe on their right? Does muting? If the rule is "right to speak, but no right to be heard", what counts as speech? Does typing and hitting send count as free speech? Well, I could give you an app with a textbox and a send button, disconnect you from the internet, and you could write everything you want, hit send and it never leaves your computer but you did express yourself, didn't you? Or maybe the sounds coming out of your mouth count as speech / expression ? Well, I could gag you, you can make sounds and that's speech, right?

So no. I don't believe absolute free speech can exist.

That's when they noticed it could be used to topple governments and decided to use selfishly.

true

I don't think finding fault is really helpful in actually solving the issue

I think it's critical actually. If most people think that their actions have no impact whatsoever and that no change on their part is required in order to affect a change in the system, then of course nothing will change. People have to realise that they are a part of the problem.

The problem is really just too large to assume the general public really has a lot of control over it.

Again, I disagree. The general public actually has a lot of power that it does not, and often times will not wield. People don't show up to elections, vote egoistically or in a tribal manner, do not change their habits, do not try to reason about the things they hear/read/see, and just generally cruise along as long as they can tolerate their circumstances.

Lastly, just because you can afford to avoid most plastics, doesn't mean that the majority of the population can afford to do the same.

I can't avoid most plastics, but I try. I buy local produce where possible, I collect and try to reuse plastics (or pretty much anything actually), and will ask for non-plastic options (or choose them if they are visible). It's not much, but it's something. The Good Place should be mandatory viewing, IMO. Every action we take can have a negative impact on somebody else, and in most cases it will. We can only try to make conscious choices to reduce that impact. We can't just say "omg, it's impossible" and not try, which is what most people do when they say shit like "ethical consumption under capitalism is impossible" or "corporations are to blame" or "I don't vote because I have no power".

Posting here says that's a lie.