Iconoclast

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

What an wonderful and inspiring human, I rarely see uplifting stuff like this so I enjoyed reading about him. I hope he can achieve all his dreams and see the end of coal in his lifetime.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried 1) with my mother, who is sadly hooked on right wing news sources. The fires in Europe are being laid by disgruntled migrants and the "elites" are withholding their geo engineering powers due to greed, they could simply make it rain, but that isn‘t profitable enough or something.

She didn‘t really listen to my perspective. Overall, as always, it was a waste of time trying to communicate about anything of substance. I‘ve had a similar experience with a coworker recently, making me feel pretty hopeless sometimes how many people like that are out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I loved this, thank you for sharing. I was in this industry when I was young and it was so awful, we basically learned how to brainwash people into buying shit they don’t want or need. Article described it all well. I turned anti-ad for life.

Sadly, most people seem to either enjoy it or not care. I try to do some good as an IT person by teaching about adblockers, but get this: some people want to see ads, yeah I‘m baffled. So it would be a battle to get rid of ads. Neat to hear there is some small progress though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ok so the evidence of this "division" is one guy who made his own NGO and shits on the others, so he can get those who are annoyed by the protest to donate to him instead I guess. Not a bad financial move overall, if those who complained actually gave a shit about the climate, which I don‘t think they do. Those who do probably stick to those groups who we can visibly see doing these protests.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is some real "if life gives you lemons" type of stuff, I like it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It‘s just a deflection again, basically spreading the blame onto everyone and anyone, which makes a lot of people defensive and double down or act as useful pawns for conservatives, who want to stall any action on climate change that could hurt their pockets.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I guess it‘s great compared to other big cities, but it could still be better. Not trying to be a downer, but complaining is how we keep the politicians working on this here so it’s in my nature and Vienna could do with even more affordable 2 bedroom apartments. I‘m looking to move there next year and it‘s still a bit too much for someone earning median wage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ratatouille, the provencale version (stew like). Eggplant, bell pepper, onion, garlic, zucchini, tomatoes and sometimes olives, I serve with either baguette or rice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I came here originally cause I think this instance is likely to defederate from Meta (and cause I enjoy the content and want to contribute a bit of course), though I‘m also not the type to raise a big stink if it didn’t, at most I upvote and affirm posts like this.

I really like about the Fediverse that I can basically just move on to another instance which suits me better, if I notice things going a way I don‘t want them to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you a good suggestion, this is interesting and actually maybe I could make it to this!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah so I edited my comment like 5 times cause I felt so insecure voicing all this, cause I did get a lot of pushback from pretty much anyone I know and ridiculed before even online. So I was afraid they are right, so far it works for me though and I went from suicidal to alright, just from working less.

I hope you can make your coop work, seems like a cool idea too, though it‘s also so hard for small business, a friend of mine has one and it‘s almost like he is his own king and he isn‘t kind to himself either, mainly cause the competition is so fierce.

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