z3rOR0ne

z3rOR0ne, 2 hours ago

Ah yes, Mike Johnson and Donald Trump. Pinnacles of American virtue, as evidenced by Americans electing them into office. Indeed, all of our politicians are examples of the best America has to offer.

z3rOR0ne, 4 hours ago (edited 4 hours ago)

No. The convictions for rich white men will go as well as the Trump convictions have gone thus far.

The convictions will go through quickly for the LGBTQ community because that is where the allegations will be thrown at, and the jury will be hung for anyone cis white male, and will be unanimous in the conviction of everyone else.

z3rOR0ne, 5 hours ago

Nah. Trump came along and basically said “Hey, you know how we’ve been openly and loudly racist? Let’s do that…but MORE open and LOUDER.”

That’s what “make America great again” means.

z3rOR0ne, 2 days ago

People are so scared of a Trump presidency, and rightly so. But let’s say Biden gets elected, and finally, somehow magically, Trump just disappears and his followers quietly dissipate into the ether?

Do you really think the next election we won’t be complaining about the exact same shit? Fascism vs Declining Capitalism (AKA, Good Cop Fascism)?

This is your lives now folks, every four years, choose your flavor of Fascism, they certainly look different, but once you put them in your mouth, they all taste like the same shit.

Elect your Biden, and then don’t criticize your government, and get the fuck back to work and don’t protest and keep your heads down and your mouth shut.

Then four years later, compromise and vote for the lesser of two evils that somehow gets more evil every four years. That is all of us now. I’d say see you in hell, but we’re already here.

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago

Gotta say, I’m liking the logo. The fact that the devs let you choose to keep one or the other is a really nice touch. I look forward to the release!

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago

God I love that episode and that line. It’s so sad how that observation somehow became even more relevant today than it was back when that episode released.

Thank you.

z3rOR0ne, 4 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

There are many legitimate reasons to not use ecosia, and yes, from the ecological perspective.

Planting trees has shown to be not as effective at curbing the effects of climate change as previously thought. Contrary to popular belief, the oceans have a much larger effect on our climate than our forests, and we aren’t doing nearly enough to clean those up because the task would require us to fundamentally change the way we farm, fish, and obtain oil (i.e. pretty much stop everything we’re currently doing).

This isn’t to say planting trees doesn’t have some benefit, but there are much better ways to curb your CO² emissions which you can see at the end of this rant/post.

Sneak peak though, if you eat meat, and actually give a fuck about the forests, perhaps you should stop consuming animals. Eating meat in particular is directly related to deforestation, as often deforestation is done to make room for massive CAFOs, which even if the deforestation didn’t occur, would still significantly contribute to climate change.

Ecosia’s funding comes from advertisements, which incentivizes consumption, which itself contributes to climate change innately. Every purchase you make, every meal you eat, every time you travel by automobile, airplane, or petroleum powered boat, contributes to the ever growing mass of CO2.

Advertisements and marketing exacerbate climate change by cultivating a never ending consumerist desire for products that are almost entirely produced using a petroleum derived process and/or packaged in petroleum derived plastic, resulting in the consumerist behavior being inherently responsible for climate change.

Ecosia is a moldy old band aid on a gushing neck wound that honestly is causing more harm than good by distracting people from the real source of the climate crisis, which is modern capitalism and the resulting consumerism.

Actually fighting climate change requires more of you than some passive empty gesture. Here’s a bullet point list of things you can do today to make a real difference:

• Stop eating and utilizing animal based products.
• Stop eating foods that were grown using petroleum derived fertilizers (i.e. eat Organic).
• Stop eating foods that had to be trucked in from over 100 miles away (i.e. eat local).
• Stop buying plastic packaged goods.
• Stop traveling by any means that require oil.
• Stop living in or working in places which utilize electricity from the standard fossil fueled grid.
• Abandon the fast fashion industry.
• Only buy local goods and services.
• Stop buying new electronic devices unless absolutely necessary.
• Stop buying things you don’t absolutely 100% need to survive.
• Don’t use AI as it utilizes an insane amount of fossil fuel generated electricity and consumes an exorbitant amount of water.
• Same goes for playing AAA video games on high end GPUs.
• Same goes for participating in Cryptocurrency mining/trading.
• Protest the continuation of the exploration of space until Earth’s climate has stabilized, as the utilization of resources required for space exploration greatly contribute to climate change and encourages a techno futurism that “solves” the climate crisis by abandoning Earth, rather than actually creating a future where humans are the stewards of the Earth, not its masters.
• Get politically involved to pressure your local governments to implement safer spaces for pedestrians and cyclists and generally improve public transportation infrastructure like railways and metros.
• Spend all your spare time fighting the fossil fuel, plastic, and privatized water industries, because all of the above only makes a difference if those industries are GONE FOR GOOD.
• Don’t have children (biggest contributor to climate change is more consumerist humans).
• Don’t leave this problem to the next generation to solve. The moment is now or never. You either care about the future of humanity and their place on Earth, or you don’t.

There is a reason climate scientists are increasingly becoming climate activists. This is not something you can buy, recycle, or search engine your way out of.

As I’ve pointed out, there simply are far more impactful ways you can make a difference today than using a search engine that gets in bed with marketers and advertisers all in order to make relatively empty gestures while playing nice with corporations that, I guarantee you, are far more interested in pursuing business as usual than preserving the planet for their own children, let alone you and me.

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago

Link to background image?

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago

Sweet! Thank you so much!!

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

So we made Metalhead from Black Mirror? Cool…cool cool cool…so uhh… how do I wake up from this nightmare again?

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

• Even More News
• Behind The Bastards
• Party Girls
• Translash
• Antifada
• Tech Won’t Save Us
• Better Offline
• Factually
• Knowledge Fight
• The Hamilton Morris Podcast

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

Coffee, Tea, and caffeinated beverages have been a double edged sword to humans, and specifically human society, since its discovery.

Michael Pollan authored a book on the subject a while back. Here is an article which summarizes some of it.

Ultimately, Capitalism as we know it today would not have been possible without stimulants (like caffeine) and the invention of the lightbulb. These two factors allowed human beings to remain awake and alert 24/7, vastly expanding the time window for us to consume and produce, and ultimately further solidify Capitalism’s hold on the world at large.

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

Yeah, you must listen to Hamilton Morris’s Podcast! It’s a fascinating story and an example of one of the many roles stimulants have played in human history and society.

As a coffee addict and enthusiast myself (used to home roast High grade Arabica when I had more time on my hands), I’m not going to knock stimulants outright.

But it’s not lost on me that we wouldn’t have a 24 hour economy without caffeine and electric lights, which block the uptake of adenosine and production of melatonin respectively, creating the biochemical response necessary for our civilization to exist as it currently does, for better and worse.

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago (edited 1 day ago)

This article from the guardian indicates the need to develop and produce synthetic coffee in the future after climate change has ravaged land reserved for coffee production.

Honestly while coffee’s days are likely numbered, stimulants will likely only be further developed in the lab to be more finely honed to enhance potential human productivity levels and, hopefully, be made safer for human consumption.

Stimulants are necessary particularly to modern militaries and the usage of stimulants in a wartime context have been well documented since WWII.

Given the important role stimulants play in both modern capitalism and modern warfare, it’s unlikely we’ll see a “Stimulopocalypse” any time soon.

That said, the world you allude to might look somewhat like the world awakened by the Knocker-Up, although really it’s more likely all aspects of human life would simply slow down without stimulants.

z3rOR0ne, 7 days ago

Ever since bypass paywalls started getting hit and miss, I’ve been pasting this into my Ublock Origin Filter list. Works well from what I’ve seen.

z3rOR0ne, 6 days ago

You’re welcome.

In regards to which elements to pick out, I wouldn’t know what to tell you other than monitor the Network tab in the browser’s devtools and block one by one until it works? Other than that perhaps reach out to someone more experienced at generating these filter lists (like the Dev of the linked repo) and see how they go about it.

Cheers and good luck!

z3rOR0ne, 7 days ago

Lol, wait until Luz tries to explain what a Platypus is! 😂

z3rOR0ne, 5 days ago

Roflmao. 🤣

z3rOR0ne, 8 days ago

Great article. The author, Ed Zitron, covers this same topic on his podcast, Better Offline. I highly recommend it.

z3rOR0ne, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Oh I missed that, lol. Oh well, it’s worth mentioning regardless. Great podcast. Thanks for pointing that out.

z3rOR0ne, 9 days ago

Good. This generation will be the ones writing about this time period as the sad pathetic chapter of human history it is.

Let our children be the ones to rain down upon us unrelenting and constant reminders of our own compromises made with corporate and government fascists. Compromises where we were willing to sacrifice the lives, autonomy, and national identity of an entire ethnic group of people in exchange for imperialist power.

Don’t relent. Don’t let the fascists off the hook. Call out this genocide for what it is and fight to stop it. Fight until the world bows its head in shame and drops its arms, and then execute the war criminals.

z3rOR0ne, 9 days ago

Let the infinite forking on infinite platforms commence.

z3rOR0ne, 10 days ago

Probably something touching and inspiring right before my bowels loudly empty themselves and an unbearable stench fills the nostrils of my loved ones.

z3rOR0ne, 10 days ago

Arms Dealer. Anything to do with Wall Street. Law Enforcement and Incarceration. Human Trafficking. Anything dealing with the Military. Religion/Cult jobs. Scam artist. Lobbyist. Probably a few more I can’t think of at the moment.

There are lots of jobs you couldn’t make me do even with a gun to my head, let alone a paycheck.

z3rOR0ne, 11 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Don’t bother even giving them your traffic, just use a redirection extension to LibReddit or use Stealth