• pezhore@infosec.pub
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    12 days ago

    This is why I’ve stopped listening to 99% Invisible.

    “Oh, cool that’s what the bumps in the sidewalk/curb are for - blind accessibility stuff. Wait, why did it take that fucking long to actually make those a reality and why isn’t it everywhere?”

    Even their more lighthearted ones tend to dive into some orphan grinding machine territory.

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    This is why I watch kurzgesagt so I can have EXISTENTIAL crisis about things that will never actually affect me like the sun burning out, or the universe going completely dark, instead of more worldly crisis.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      1·
      12 days ago

      Kurzgesagt has a tendency to put neoliberal spin on the solutions they offer and they’ve recieved heat for it in the past. Careful with that channel

  • ConsumptionOne@sopuli.xyz
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    12 days ago

    This is me but with anti-car urbanism. Ever since I discovered Not Just Bikes, my feed has more and more videos showing how much better life can be if we shut off car brain and build for medium density with mixed use zoning and multi-mode infrastructure.

  • archonet@lemy.lolEnglish
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    12 days ago

    wait til you figure out that all of human history is one giant cycle of people being incredibly cruel to other people for incredibly tenuous reasons and realize this cycle will, presumably, never end; and thus every interaction you have with other people is if not driven by transaction (what can you do for them), likely to be driven by cruelty.

    sweet dreams, it doesn’t get better.

  • UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    I try my best to have my kid stay ignorant to politics , but sometimes it’s hard. Ignorance is bliss until you can’t escape.

  • nthavoc@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    You should be more focused on the complete monsters of those documentaries rather than the system used by society. Monsters have always existed and always will exist regardless of the system. Drawing attention away from them and letting them hide in society just let’s them get away with it.

  • -☆-@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Yup! This is why we need to take money out of the hands of the wealthy and give it to the people they exploited.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      it’s deeper than that.

      money is the incentive to corruption. the actual cause of corruption is indifference to suffering of minorities and the disenfranchised.

      the answer is easy. you don’t have to donate. you don’t have to protest. all you have to do is call out the smallest corrupt mistreatment of your fellow human beings.

      see someone getting accosted by police because they are guilty of being black? start recording and ask the cops to identify themselves.

      see someone being mistreated at a store because they are trans? call them out on it. get angry, tell make sure they are aware of how people that act like they do are treated.

      also, don’t stop going there. go there every day. make sure they aren’t doing it again, and when they do, call them out on their bullshit again.

      the only way to stop people from behaving badly is to teach them that it’s unacceptable behavior.

      a society that stands idly by while people in that society are attacked is doomed to suffer and die.