The elitist attitudes surrounding Apple products is so unbelievable. “OMG, I have an iPhone!” Yeah, you have an iPhone, so what? You’re the best? You can FaceTime your friends, despite you and your friends probably having, like, 7 other apps to do so? And no UI customizability or jailbreaking?

I’m just unable to understand the Apple/iOS hype. It makes my eyes roll. I’m content with my Samsung and Android, thanks.

“It’s pretty much over?” Hey, I don’t mean to sound like I’m putting you down, but this kind of defeatist rhetoric isn’t exactly helpful. After all, it reflects the kind of attitudes that allowed oppressive systems to persist for centuries. I’m as anti-fascist as you, but I’m worried that adopting a tribalist mentality will only nurture fascism and shield the privileged from accountability. Giving in to cynicism and analysis paralysis will do little to resolve the ever-worsening environmental catastrophe, and cedes the moral high ground to those prizing individual gain over the greater good.

Instead of wasting energy on Schadenfreude, I believe it’s more productive for us to come together as a species, set aside our differences, and reorganize our social and economic structures for the common benefit. Although it might sound demanding, anyone can help, and we can go a long way just by working together. Small daily choices will aggregate into powerful movements, but only if enough of us opt for sustainability over excess, demand accountability from corporations and governments, and upend the industrial capitalist machine that created this crisis.

The progress may seem glacial, intermittent, or stagnant. But this should not be rationale to give up! Besides, let’s celebrate the positives, and look towards how far we’ve come - more people than ever, especially those most directly impacted by climate change, such as Gen Alpha and/or the Global South - are recognizing the danger we’re headed for, and momentum for a just transition is building. Bottom line: the battle isn’t hopeless, but if we make it hopeless, it will. Stay strong, warrior.

And people still say she’s “politically neutral”? BS.

Identify as a woman.

Also another problem would be that some languages are more character-efficient than others. E.g. Chinese vs English vs Navajo.

Looking at you, Trump.

Me neither. It’s alright to learn superstitions and traditional folk beliefs, but what you shouldn’t do is allow them to get in the way of safety and productivity. E.g. taking herbal supplements with adverse side effects.

I, too, used to have a phase where I went around telling people I was “agnostic”, but looking back, the only real reason I kept saying that was to show an apologist face towards my conservative Christian family. Really I was just atheist, but it took me quite a while for me to be able to confidently say that.

I recommend “folks” or “fellas”.

See, this is why we need more diverse representation in the media now. Manchildren always whine about “diversity ruining everything” when it’s really a truer reflection of America’s evolving demographics.

I still think we should try our best!

Not all people identify with the two-gender labels. For instance, I’m genderqueer, and I’d feel very dysphoric if someone told me “ma’am.”

The right to quit, if things get corporate and greedy and the people, the people who actually form the community only get screwed over. Whether it’s a job, a club, or a social media platform.

It’s July 4th today so I can relate a lot. It’s pretty shameful how individualistic and inconsiderate our culture can be.

And it infuriates me how war - people getting killed and cultural heritage being destroyed - is so capitalized like that.

Pretty sure it was the same deal with Vietnam back in the day, actually.

There’s a remarkable level of racism in the level of concern for Ukraine vs. somewhere with less white and European people like Yemen.

I remember the pork thing, and also reading that infographic about how it’s hypocritical to refrain from eating dogs and cats because those animals are smart, but to eat pigs and octopuses anyway despite their similar levels of intelligence. Things like these are what eventually set me on the path of embracing veganism.

Garbage in, garbage out.

What’s so disheartening is that a lot of fundie Christians actually use this logic to get away with twisted stuff like SH, SA, or CSA.

(And then the next day they collectively blame drag queens for allegedly doing the exact same thing to CYA, but that’s another story.)

Oh dear, I’m so sorry if I hurt anyone’s feelings!! It’s so hard to understand other people’s feelings. One of the hardest parts of being ND.

Not just fewer kids. But fewer conservatives too.

Gosh, I love it here.

Seriously privileged people in the US can be so entitled, they seem to not know life outside of their own little air-conditioned bubble. They take everything for granted and it’s so ridiculous.

It’s almost like there are more countries in the world than the US. And more cultures in the world than white America.