Hexbear2

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[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Why not just make the subway free and fund it with a tax on wallstreet? I'd run for mayor on that platform and be elected. Also, how does the Governor have any say over the city subway system?

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (11 children)

It's all food, with maybe one exception, honeycrisp apples, but all sub variants of the honeycrisp are worse! In an effort to appeal to mass market, all food is being purposely made more bland. Then you gotta pay more for "high quality tasty food" it's disgusting. Food science is a mistake, return to grandma cross breeding heirlooms.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

I don't think there is anything wrong with it. You are looking at hunting as a sport. I am looking at hunting as a means of obtaining food. I used to go hunting for rabbit and pheasant mostly, for food. It's way more humane than modern livestock for chicken, pork, cows, etc, and for deer, it keeps the population to a manageable level since most of the natural predators were unfortunately wiped out.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I immediately assume these types of posts are astroturfing, it's just so damn "campaigny" and reads like something an intern would write.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

It could definitely happen. Civilization will first collapse, maybe some humanity might hold on. We'll see 500 PPM CO2 by 2040. It's right around the corner. Mass starvation and die offs of billions, may lead to resource wars, and then all bets are off.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Call me a doomer, but I don't think humans have even 1,000 years left without major sociological revolution that focuses on the welfare of humanity and the planet.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Kinesis split keyboards are the way to go.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)

The whole concept of crewed space travel using rockets of any type (including shuttle) is flawed and will never work, it's too expensive, not good for the environment, and not scaleable. Humans have no business going to space, it's just a flag waving contest. Aerospace engineers have known this is a scam for decades and there's been little/nothing done about it. China might do it someday, we'll see. The only way to get to the next step is to build StarTram, the world's first international space launch port, up the side of the highest equatorial region mountain. If we do that, and reduce the cost per lb by 99%, we can build self-assembling modules in space and then send them out to mine the asteroid belt for rare earth metals, which are incredibly important for the next phase of human civilization. None of this will ever happen, and humans will be extinct before it does. Hell, humans will probably go extinct before even making it to Mars, not that we have any reason what-so-ever to send humans to mars and we shouldn't be holding that up as something to aspire towards.

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

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm not sure I believe it. You would be evaluated and either discharged or committed to the psych ward within the first day, you wouldn't be kept in emergency in-patient.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Psht. Clearly that's Misilucky

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Whatever you do, don't self-immolate. Sadly, this guy will get 2-3 days media attention, and then be forgotten, having accomplished nothing. We can all put our energy to better use.

You're only accountable for the things you can control. For most people, that's not very much, sadly. Think about what you can do within your ability, for example, speaking out, attending protests, donating to causes or volunteering for causes that support the people of palestine, etc. Someone might come along and say you're not doing enough, but doing something is always better than doing nothing, no matter how small.

[–] Hexbear2@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All Americans, since US of America became a country, have been alive during slavery. Slavery was never fully outlawed. Does any American actually read their constitution? Maybe start with the 13th amendment?

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

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