LtG has been pretty on point with its modelling compared to real life data since its publication.

BUT LtG wasn’t a prediction for the end of the world, it was/is a model of interconnected metrics about our society at large and to illustrate two points:

1. You cannot have infinite growth in a finite system.

2. Society has to maintain a harmony of these metrics to prevent itself from collapsing.

Basically what happened after its publication, a bunch of economists attacked it with their can openers. Some whackjobs claimed the club of rome was an illuminati front, a few scientists recalibrated the model with updated data, showing evidence in its favour and the world moved on ignoring it and the myriad of other climate warnings

These apps are designed to literally put you in this position, they erode your self esteem intentionally so that you spend money on their platform.

So first of all, none of this is a reflection of you as a person; it’s a malevolent act by a corporation that you’re victim of.

My advice is to find someone through mutual interest, personally my goal this year was to get healthier so I’ve picked up a few activities to keep me fit; rock-climbing gym, community gardening/permaculture, boxing and archery.

I’ve met some lovely people through these activities, and bonding over a mutual interest gives you time to weigh up whether a romantic interest would work or not. There’s also the potential to be set up/hit it off with a friend of theirs if they think you’re a catch.

Whaddup my dudes! Same era, first computer I used had 10GB of HDD and 64MB RAM, still have a backup of the files somewhere…

Shit dawg all you had to say is citation needed.

Thornton, A., 2019. Gender equality in STEM is possible

Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSRs policies pushing more women into these careers.

People don’t realise that these norms they hold as dogma are so short-lived and subject to change that opposition only shows them unable to comprehend history past their lived experience.

It’s ashame they have to drag us down with them.

@BaroqueInMind@piefed.social

See what I meant when I expected the Australian government to do something over those protests? I guess it did make me feel good about myself after all

Pretty sure I had Embrace Extend Extinguish as my ‘status’ when microsoft inevitably introduced that linkedin style social media bullshit to a git server.

Plenty of good alternatives out there, or roll your own!

No I know, I agree with you. I just feel compelled to make that statement because without it people might be more complicit in the destruction of their world after reading yours.

That doesn’t mean we should stop trying for a better world however.

Watching that sub collapse from the influx of people realising something was wrong with the world always amused me, I tried my best to stop people blowing up over Sam Carana posts, doomsday apocalypse predictions, the newest fad political posturing/doomsday devices.

There was a lot of great information there; it was pretty much the only reason I kept reddit around. Thanks for modding.

There has to be someone without to create the demand for capitalism to work, I totally support what you’re saying and in a perfect world those people wouldn’t suffer but there is still an imbalance of power between capitalists and workers and that tension means both sides have to be perpetually hyper vigilant in protecting their own interests against each other.

Mind you, I don’t think communism is a good system either; humanity should be considering new forms of governance given our technological advancements have solved a lot of problems that these systems initially intended to.

Anyway that’s my perspective, appreciate you asking for an elaboration hopefully it’s some food for thought even if you don’t agree with me.

I disagree capitalism requires a bottom class that has to suffer for it to function, that makes it an inherently bad system regardless of government intervention.

I support this kind of protest, but let’s not get this twisted: this is only happening to make people feel better about themselves,

I went to this protest, I don’t expect Israel to do anything in response except call me an anti-semite. I do however, expect the Australian government to listen to it’s consitutents and take a hard stance against this fascist regime.

Barotrauma, I checked it out on a free to play weekend a few months back and have been hooked since

Lots of tinkering and the modding community is extensive, best played with friends but the single player is good too

Oh shit PS5 has no games?

How did the cat garden end up going?

These things are great for charcuterie boards

Cigarettes have a myriad of carcinogens like toluene, benzene, formadelhyde, hexamine, napthaline and acetone

Stating that vapes are more toxic than cigarettes over one metric is disingenuous journalism.

I’m not disagreeing about the lead content but studies like this get picked up by journalists with the comprehension of a tomato and are then misconstrued into these fear-creating headlines for engagement.

The adoption of vapes tremendously ate into the big tobacco profits, its an extremely effective way of getting off cigarettes. (for better or worse)

If we instead listened to these studies and developed a similar form of nicotine replacement therapy with harm minimisation in mind under industry regulation we’d do far more for smokers, vapers and our healthcare systems than any fear mongering ‘don’t do it!’ campaigns which time and time again do not work.

If you read the paper, it assumes a 100% absorption rate of the heavy metals emitted.

I’m not here to defend vapes but I think that is a seriously overlooked flaw in this study. Most people don’t puff a cigarette/vape and hold it in their lungs until it’s completely absorbed.

Couldn’t see anything about the bioavailability of these carcinogens via lungs factored into the absorption rate either.

Ontop of that the sample size from this study is abysmal and from the same manufacturer and there is also a declared conflict of interest.

IMO more studies need to be done before we can conclusively determine the damage and risks of disposable vapes.

And they have the gall to act like they’re better than you because you’re working a mininum wage job on a Sunday.