It wasn’t my answer, but I’ll play the part.

I agree with you in cases where individual change is hard, costly and has barely any influence on the big picture (like your “individual CO2 footprint”). But in this case the individual solution is to quit using a terrible browser and install a free extension in the new one, and it has all the impact it needs because it makes the problem go away. I can’t take anybody seriously who will willingly put themselves through youtube ads when they are this easily avoided.

The problem stays the same, why should the answer change?

Quit threatening and do it already!

Yoda is a soldier. He’s not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It’s literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.

Like all the anti-war movies whose main characters are soldiers? That’s a shallow point of view if I’ve ever read one.

Yoda saw the fall of the democratic nation he wanted to protect, the rise of a fascist empire, and lost everybody he ever knew and cherished along the way, only to end up as a bitter hermit in a swamp. Soldiers are victims too, even if they don’t die in a war.

for right-wingers, there’s nothing rational about their political decisions.

I agree. But what we’re seeing is voter migration from e.g. the social democrats to the fascists. Those can’t all be “hardened” right wingers (yet) who are lost to democracy. Otherwise, why would they ever have voted social democrat before? There’s a lot of people who are disappointed with politics and feel that no government ever did anything for them. But they turn to the people who openly tell them that they’ll fuck them over even worse.

And now that they’re disappointed with him, polls move further to the right, so they still don’t get the problem.

It’s a very stupid way to reduce CO2 and they knew this when they started it.

That’s the cost of around 20 GW in wind turbines btw.

They are on lemmy too.

Hey, weird idea but stay with me: A fat orc wearing orange warpaint, slightly demented, always slightly tilting forward, occasionally shitting himself, as the main villain.

Sorry to hear that.

I liked the “Trails” games a lot. “Trails in the Sky” (the first installment) has remakes in more modern graphics if that’s important to you.

and they’re used to subsidize lower prices

Nothing is subsidized here (in the sense that Sony could not offer those lower prices to other people if some didn’t pay more ). If that were true, Sony would still make more money if they just didn’t make these lower priced sales. No corporation will do that, unless they are amazon and want to buy market share.

This means, Sony could offer the lower price to everyone and still make a profit. They are just trying to squeeze everybody for the highest amount they can get away with.

Amaze!

This only works up to a point. Many loving parents will say their kids need to make their own experiences, but they will still keep them from sticking their hand into a power outlet. I wouldn’t say the kid’s choices have no meaning because of this.

Also, if this is true, God also gave us our murderous instincts that make us use our “free will” in this way.

What does it mean? To me it’s like words pulled randomly out of a hat. (i.e. the emperor has no clothes on.)

The post title says

Germany consecrates …

which isn’t accurate, because that would mean the government or the country as a whole had a hand in it. The actual article title is correctly referencing the “German catholic church” (maybe edited after the fact).

I prefer to take the risk of a compromised vendor over all the things google will 100% do with my payment data.

My bank uses an app as 2FA for online credit card payments. Without this app I couldn’t use my cc for online shopping.

Erm … no. Microslop is not responsble for viruses on your PC.

How do you know that your OS installation doesn’t include malware?

How do I know that when I do online banking through a browser on a Linux or Winslop PC? Yet somehow I can just log in on those with my credentials and be done with it. (And please dom’t give them ideas.)