I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said — “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
  • Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Interesting essay but it makes a lot of presuppositions about human nature from a very anglo-centric perspective steeped in capitalist realism.

    This sort of doomerism is terribly counterproductive and ironically idealistic.

    A better world is possible.

  • asg101 [none/use name, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Even if ALL human sourced carbon emissions ended today, the global warming feedback loops already in motion will end most life. Fossil records show that it has happened before.

    The thing about unsustainable systems is that they are by definition unsustainable. Humanity has fucked around and now we are finding out.

  • Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Fuck substack. Another attempt to paywall the internet while hosting nazi shit. Id hope all the people that fled reddit for lemmy wouldnt sign up for new reddit because they pretend to play nice in the beginning like…reddit.

    • Hillmarsh@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s not just nazis on substack. There were plenty of other people who joined it thanks to the willy-nilly censorship that was happening on the large platforms in the past few years. The problem is that it’s hard to avoid some parasitic free-riders like the nazis if you want to have a genuine free speech platform, which none of the major platforms are any longer.

      Personally I think it’s a good trend that more people are blogging and not all of the money is getting funneled away from creators to platforms owned by billionaire sociopaths like Musk and Zuck.