I’m an expert on capitalism and everywhere I look I just see pain and ecological destruction.
Some girl called me cheap today because I’m learning to sharpen my knives instead of just buying new ones. Consumerism is a cancer.
Ignorance might be bliss, but knowledge is joy.
Eh. More often than not knowledge is suffering as well.
not nerd enough to see it
This is basically the entire concept of the podcast 99 Percent Invisible
I’m always noticing things. Interesting things, weird things, funny things. My mom has asked me multiple times, “How do you find so much interesting stuff?”
All I’ve ever be able to respond with is, “I look around.” She misses a lot around her, my brothers and I even mess with her sometimes by “hiding” things in plain sight around my parents’ house and waiting until she says something.
This is my answer to people who are sad that FTL space travel is probably impossible. There are wonders right around you that you don’t even know about. Space will always be there for humanity to explore. We don’t have to be in a rush. Tons to learn about right here. It’s not worth going to space if we leave a burnt cinder of a planet behind us.
Or even people who insist on going to other countries for their holidays. For most of us using Lemmy, there will be so much in a 200 mile radius of us that is wonderful but we will never see because we insist on holidays going even further afield.
Unless you live in the Midwest, in which case I don’t blame you for going further.
My colleague insists on always flying abroad “tickets are so cheap!” When we live in one of the most scenic country on the planet.
There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
That book has been on my list for too long!
… But if you’re bored, then you’re boring.
The agony and the irony, they’re killing me!
Where I am, everywhere is inaccessible private land, except for a tiny sliver of roads between them.
There are a few places which allow you to temporarily exist there for the purpose of commercial exchanges.
But most of my world is simply forbidden to access. There are endless forests and fields here, all littered with “no tresspass” signs.
It is all owned and I can’t go there.This planet is 0% magical
This planet is 100% magical, we’ve just let capitalists divide it up into tiny preserves for their own pleasure.
I am a leftist online poster
My specialty is being toxic and reminding you how bad everything is
See this thing other people are enjoying, its bad, fuck you
Do you see those things over there, fuck them too
If you don’t agree you’re a fascist and they fucking suck too
also fuck AI or something
Also, making things up to exaggerate how bad things are. Even in the US, there’s more public libraries than McDonald’s. You have parks, museums, community centers, etc. Even if you live in a town that has somehow privatized literally everything, that doesn’t reflect on “the planet”.
Rocks aren’t magic but if you dig into the subject you’ll find that rocks are incredibly diverse and form in a number of different ways. Many are also found located hundreds/thousands of miles away from where they were formed, meaning they somehow moved.
Are you suggesting
coconutsrocks migrate?
That book sounds wonderful. My local library has it through Libby
I missed the colon in that book title at first and was very confused about a book for their mother entitled “on looking eleven…”
That book sounds pretty neat
