[-] andyburke@kbin.social 92 points 1 year ago

sad and amazing how true this is.

to find anything worthwhile in Google search you often needed to add site:reddit.com

to find anything at all on Reddit you needed Google

well, glad I don't go to those websites anymore...

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

I like the idea that life sucks so much that meth makes it better and the answer to that isn't to try to improve lives but to lock people up so life is even fuckin worse.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

"The West" is essentially the group of nations attempting to abide by a moral code. It is not always, or maybe even often, successful, but there is a vast gulf between their morality-based approach and what China, Russia, DPRK, and other fascist/semi-fascist nations are doing.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago

Additionally, I'm not sure how China would have reached this position without a specific effort by the United States to engage in increased trade with them.

We said we would trade more in the hopes of an improving human rights situation and steps toward democratic self-rule.

We didn't get what we were promised. Stop whining, Xi.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago

Also the group was collectively pregnant, injured and hypothermic - just so we are clear on the dire threats they posed to the crew.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

The pieces of wood shaped like slices of bread are disturbing.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How much do you think you'd need to get out? (Asking, in a kidding way, as a Californian who is tired of these memes about how it's bad to live here when you're just describing any major urban center in the world.)

Edit: you're not wrong about the challenges, it's just that they're not unique to California.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Certainly can, and will! Nothing justifies another country just annexing that territory. Nothing. No amount of you talking will justify it. No number of people there who speak Russian justify it. There is no justification.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

Sorry, but this is such fatalistic bs.

So much has changed.

I remember acid rain.
I remember leaded gas.
I remember 12mpg cars.
I remember the photos of terrible brown smog floating over Los Angeles.
I remember before anyone had a recycling bin.
I remember...

The list goes on. And I'm only a handful of decades old.

Can we do more? Yes.
Should we do more? Absolutely.
Are more people aware of that than ever before? Yes.

Humans have technologied their way out of so much shit, I am not ready to give up on us yet.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I mean, they've definitely lost people to the fediverse, the majority here at this point are probably reddit refugees.

They may have gained in total users for all I know or care. This place just feels more like the old internet I like. Really looking forward to the slow decline in people here caring about what's happening on Reddit, regardless of how big and successful or how terribly failed it is.

[-] andyburke@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some people haven't realized almost all animals are just tubes with various fancy shit glued on.

Edit: including humans

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