null_dot @ null_dot @lemmy.dbzer0.com Posts 1Comments 142Joined 1 wk. ago
This is a well established climate-change-laggard argument. It's the whataboutism logical fallacy.
Why should I take action, at great personal cost, when someone else is not taking action and will in fact benefit from my burden?
The Australian (and other) governments hide behind this same excuse. "Australia is just a small country, why should we take action when our CO2 production is just a small portion of that of other countries like China?".
I mean it's a good point, billionaires are worthy of great criticism, and Australia should be putting pressure on other countries, but at the same time we as individuals really do need to be taking action.
I do agree that polluting corporations use this narrative and I also find it infuriating. It's particularly palpable with plastic producers, as in plastic pollution is not their fault, but the fault of consumers failing to recycle. It's not the fault of consumers, it's the fault of regulators, who are elected by voters who are also consumers.
In summary, the whole thing is fucked and everyone sucks, but you still have to tidy up your own shit.
Is climate change an extinction level threat? I've never heard that.
I think we're firmly in "catastrophic disasters and famine that eradicates vast majority of the population" territory.
It's a question, as you said, of how severe the disasters and famine will be.
It sounds like slavery to me.
Suppose depression and anxiety can take a variety of different forms, arise from a variety of different causes, manifest in a variety of ways, and respond differently to a variety of treatments.
In your case your particular malady didn't respond to medication but did respond to other treatments.
It sounds like you can readily acknowledge that not everyone is experiencing the same illness and that often diet / exercise / lifestyle just isn't relevant.
The problem @simplejack@lemmy.world is referring to is when people who successfully treat their illness with diet and exercise assume that everyone elses illness will respond in the same way.
Is that really true?
It's pretty tough to migrate to Australia for example and I don't think this is really a relevant question.
Yeah it's just bonkers.
I'm not sure that rounding up everyone on SSRIs will work out how they planned though.
I don't think that's the point. They need a new labor force in these rural areas because they just deported the last one.
Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”
Hol up. They've gotten rid of all the people who used to pick fruit in rural areas, and now they want to send arbitrarily diagnosed "addicts" to these rural areas to live for "free".
I thought they would hire kangaroo-court style judges that just wave everyone through to gitmo.
Ooh good one. I wonder what the flat earth explanation for this is.
Anyhow, the persistent belief in something like a flat earth isn't really a question of evidence.
To most people the way we understand the world around us is through the scientific method. As in I have not personally observed the results of testing vaccines on thousands of people to ensure that they are safe, but others have and others have reproduced their findings, so I'm happy to accept their published assertions.
However, there's plenty of people for whom the scientific method is merely one belief system amongst many, and you can simply choose which group resonates with you.
Additionally science tells us all sorts of unpleasant things about ourselves that we don't really want to hear. Why would I want to listen to "science" telling me I need to exercise more when this nice lady on facebook tells me that this crystal can realign my chakras and restore my health.
In the course of my work I discuss household income with many hundreds of people each year.
I suspect I have infinitely more "real world interaction" in such matters than your good self, and can assure you that this isn't some progressive woke nonsense, but just how family units operate in 2025.
Yeah. IDK what is meant by a P value but I agree that I suspect the methodology used to create this is designed to make the data more interesting than it really is.
As in, how much more frequently is "enema" searched for in Alaska than elsewhere, and are there more vanilla terms like "college" which occur more frequently in Alaska than elsewhere.
My partner had twins 15 months ago. It's been an epic couple of years.
Just gonna point out the obvious that you may have missed... women can work while men do chores at home.
Yeah it really was pathetic.
Like they took a stand while it was cool, but then capitulated rather than face removal.
She sounds like a conservative shit stain herself:
The author, who has been an outspoken supporter of conservative ideologies, is best known for her children's book with BRAVE Books, titled Elephants Are Not Birds.
"Follow Kevin as he learns that even though he can sing, he is not a bird, even if Culture insists that he is," according to the book's synopsis. Additionally, the BRAVE Books site said that they "partner with people of moral integrity, to teach complex Christian and Conservative values."
Doesn't sound like much of an author honestly. A kid is either too young to understand that Kevin is a metaphor for a transgender person, or they're old enough to just be told that mum and dad don't like transgender people.
I'm pretty despairing about this in 2025. Not only is nothing being done to mitigate climate change, but there doesn't seem to be any will nor support for climate change mitigation.
I'm deep in phase 2, just building up to phase 3 I think.
ADHD memes do seem to resonate with me, but I'm not sure I experience the deleterious effects to a severe enough extent to really have diagnosable ADHD.
Even if I am, I'm not sure stimulants would be the right way to go, and I'm already doing my best with ADHD style interventions to support productivity et cetera.
Australia checking in. It's a Tyre. Tire is seppo spelling.
Sure but we don't link to paywalled services do we.