yeah thank you for informing me about the details of the instance that i’ve been using for checks note 4 years and am very well familiar with

also the feddit.org controversy about israel was mostly overblown. idk, probably 1 mod’s personal views got exaggerated as “the whole platform thinks like this”

yeah ok. i’ve seen too many poorly designed kitchen utensils who have cavities that are basically impossible to ever get clean again. so i’m biased.

yeah golf is great (written from my nintendo Wii U)

FYI, you’d have to launch the objects with about 10 km/s, at which point the velocity is high enough to ionize the air around you and create a plasma that basically eradicates everything except the most resistant heat shields.

also the air friction slows you down so you won’t actually reach orbit

i heard iceland is only habitable because of the gulf stream

oh wait, we were talking about golf?

There’s also not that much wrong with it. You can absolutely do modern farming sustainably, it’s just many don’t.

uh, i like the example of the Kansas aquifer. It’s basically a whole lot of water that has been stored deep underground for thousands of years.

It is slowly being depleted. The reason is the center-pivot irrigation farming that produces food, and depletes water. The water is basically non-renewable on human timescales.

It will probably take another 100 years at the current extraction rate until the aquifer is completely dried up. So, it’s not sustainable.

And yet i’m fine with this. Because we probably won’t be around in 100 years anymore to actually worry about the water supply in the midwest. human population will shrink and we’ll be able to live within the renewable bounds by then. So, it is unsustainable (since we cannot do this forever), but also we won’t need to do this forever. So it’s fine enough.

the inherent problem with capitalism is that people strive for something. the moment that you want your situation to be B instead of A, you are unhappy (with A). that is how ambition inherently creates unhappiness. there is nothing you can do about it. only way to solve this would be to never strive for anything, but that’s not gonna happen for the vast majority of people.

and the same also goes for larger macroeconomic situations. if you want to have a nice boat, you gotta chop down some trees for wood. so you’re sacrificing a part of the peace of the landscape, for your ambitions. even if it’s the ambition of a whole country. you’re still sacrificing something.

instagrammers are a lost case …

the username really sells it

if you go to H&M and buy a t-shirt for $5, they’ll obviously rip off them poor asian workers who do all the sewing.

if you buy a tshirt for $10 at H&M, they will still rip off them poor asian workers just the same, just that the company will also pocket $5 while doing so.

pro tip: don’t heat the water in a kettle. just use the hottest that your tap will give you

i use 0.5 teaspoons.

you take a pinch of that stuff and pour it into a bowl of hot water. and done. coffee

ugh another barely cleanable kitchen utensil. i’d rather not have any of these.

Unfortunately for me, instant coffee gives me a headache.

that probably depends a whole lot on the brand and manufacturer probably

hell yeah! i bought a package for $10 about two years ago and it’s still almost full. crazy cheap. and very delicious, especially with lots of milk.

i’ve started recommending feddit.org (my lemmy instance) to people that i know irl, but the difficulty is the content: too much politics (especially trump and others), and not enough shitpost.

yeah i’ve heard about it.

very cool! there should indeed be a way to get to know people who are physically close to you irl.

yeah ok but i don’t have a github account (fck microsoft)