Yes, people meed to litter constantly to provide jobs for people employed to collect it.

Most emplpyment is provoded by small business, they are not billionaires but their business can be destroyed by them.

Some of what you mentiond is just bread 'n circuses to keep you deliberately distracted from what’s important

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority

and much of the rest is just infantilization

https://theconversation.com/the-infantilization-of-western-culture-99556

Living with purpose and helping others provides meaning.

Be mindful that it’s a tool, use it to benefit youself

I jave been onlone from the dialup and BBS days of the 1980’s when it was the reserve of nerds, it’s accelerated the enshitifcation process in the last 20 years and commercialisation via advertising is why, it’s the only reason Googke, Facebook etal exist

I’m reminded of this article

https://theintercept.com/2023/10/29/william-nordhaus-climate-economics/

To understand the gap between climate scientists and climate economists, one must first understand that most economists — the folks we call mainstream or neoclassical economists — have little knowledge of or interest in how things really work on planet Earth. The problem of their ecological benightedness starts as a matter of training at university, where a typical undergraduate course in economics prepares students for a lifetime of abject ignorance about the complex underpinnings of the thing called the “market.”

Any economic system that doesn’t have ecology as the base can only be rubbish

As early as 1991, a report from a commission on “graduate education in economics” warned that the university system in the United States was churning out “too many idiot savants,” economists “skilled in technique but innocent of real economic issues” — unable, that is, to look into the real nature of things.

Models are useless things for economic forecasting

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.” — Ezra Solomon, professor of finance, Stanford University

Ignorance of systems has its way of plowing forward, juggernaut-like. Nordhaus has opined that agriculture is “the part of the economy that is sensitive to climate change,” but because it accounts for just 3 percent of national output, climate disruption of food production cannot produce a “very large effect on the U.S. economy.” It is unfortunate for his calculations that agriculture is the foundation on which the other 97 percent of GDP depends. Without food — strange that one needs to reiterate this — there is no economy, no society, no civilization. Yet Nordhaus treats agriculture as indifferently fungible.

Why would you follow a user ? Isn’t that more Mastodons forte?

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Not workin and not having kids to force them into wage servitude, now into the climate hellhole we’re creating.

Loathe corpratised social media.

$200k and live frugllay, that should also allow you to grow your capital a little each year.

$400k and live frugally is easily doable, in 20 years you shoukd be well ahead a d have had your own time.

Couple caveats, no kids, live in SE Asia minimally explorng the world.

I quit work at 40 and am now 60.

I’m content with my life but can never be happy.

I’m wary if “happy” people, theyre either deliberately ignorant of the world around them, or dont care. In either case, their sociopaths and/or utter cowards and I’d rather not have anything to do with them.

Ignore him and keep doing your thing.

When he says drivers should be thanked you reply “only the decent ones”

Anecdotes on herbicides not pesticides

I regularly see my local council on quad bikes with a giant resiovior of herbicides and the user spraying the sides of the roads. Apparently the destruction of the enviorment is a fair price to pay for no long grass on the verge

Live ina rural area, lots of broad acre gaemibg, during potato season a helicopter witha giant bucket flies around dropping fungicide onto the potato crops to fight blight.

On another note, giant trucks full of fertiliser drive around the fields with a spreader on the back distributing fertiliser. To grow grass watered by massive pivot irrigarions fir cattlw (dairy and beef) and for silage thwb teucked aeoubd the state. The massive relase of NO2, a 300x climate CO2e gas and pollution of the waterways with run off is a no fucks given moment to behold

What a fucking ecological mess :(

“The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had” Mad World, Tears for Fears.

Stuck with me from when I listenerd originally.

Boost and Jerboa (on Amdroid, the latter from F Droid)

They were manipulated.

If I applied that argument to drunk drivers you’d be as forgiving ?

That aside, we’re all manipulated, it’s relegions resson de entre for example, but why wern’t they manipulated by people kindness, togetherness etc ? 80% literally dont care about good and evil.

Kurt Vonnegut, on Susan Sontag

She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.

No, banks are closing braches in Australia all over the plave and moving online and digital. In the nearet big town to me, 2 gas stations have closed but a thrid one was refurbished. Australia is rolling out elecrric cars slowly and they don’t have partisan political support.

It’s convenient to live in a walkbake city. People oppose that all the time.