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Billie Eilish on how she's making touring less terrible for the planet
(www.nationalgeographic.com)
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this post was submitted on 25 Apr 2026
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You're like a child throwing a tantrum. I see this all over the Internet: someone thinks of a way to make something better and, like an entitled prince, you go "it's not a perfect solution so it's worthless! Problem not solved entirely, begone with you."
You're not suggesting anything, you're just being petulant. Sorry that there isn't a solution that makes everyone happy and doesn't even crush a single ant with how little it impacts the environment, sorry we don't live in the make believe land where that's possible. Better shut down any attempt to make the world better if it doesn't solve everything everywhere all at once forever.
Fuck you, and everyone who is like this, you are actively keeping the world shittier every time you do this.
Honestly this shit is like an entire culture at this point. There is literally always one that has to negatively shit on everything. It's like doomer shit personified. Must be quite a miserable existence.
I would bet there are AIs out there crawling social media posts to be the complainer like that if someone hasn't organically posted it already.
You're so nice, thanks for your kind words
You seem to have completely missed my point. I was not complaining about people trying to be "less terrible", of course that's good. But this is an "Uplifting News" community, and I found an article that says "well at least we're trying to be not quite as terrible, lol" not uplifting, but quite sad. I would find it uplifting if people were trying to be good, not "less terrible".
This would fit better in a "music" community, not "uplifting news".
If you wanted to convey any sort of nuance, try using more than 4 words next time.
Yes, thank you for pointing out my deficiency, I will do so. I'm not always perfect at expressing myself, even though I try to be, sometimes I utterly suck.
Saying you're not complaining about people trying to be less terrible then explaining exactly how you're complaining about people less terrible.
Sorry things aren't as black and white as you can handle, but let people work incrementally at least.
But that's what I'm saying, I'm not complaining about people being less terrible, I'm complaining about expecting uplifting news in an uplifting news community, but the news making me feel sad, not lifted up. I didn't say I was not complaining, just that I'm not complaining about what people are saying I'm complaining about, including you.
So you're complaining that you personally didn't feel good, and that's somehow OP's fault, or the article, or the industry, or the celebrity....
I think that you're not meeting things halfway. You can't just sit back and have people serve you a good mood little prince, you have to make a teensy bit of effort on your end, too. To not be a curmudgeon. Because anyone clever enough can just twist anything into bad news and a bad mood, like you did.
Instead of accepting the good news presented to you, you got a case of the "yeah but"s, which hiccup out of your mouth every time you get good tidings.
"People are trying new ways to clean the ocean" yeahbut it's not a perfect solution there's still plastic being made.
"People found a new way to treat cancer!" Yeahbut it's not a cure for all cancer what's the point.
"This person is trying to make the music industry better!" Yeahbut concerts are still bad, people should just listen to local musicians.
So, yeah, TLDR, skill issue on happiness, go touch grass and maybe try to just accept good news instead of whine about it
No one met me halfway, look at how this entire comment chain treated me, including you, people telling me to go fuck myself and how terrible I am, and everyone agrees. Even if I am a downer, I'm not doing it to make people feel bad either, that just wasn't my intention. I didn't attack anyone, I've been trying to be kind the whole time, and just because I have an unpopular opinion that I didn't keep to myself, I got trashed.
Nah, you did attack it. You started this off by trash talking people trying to make the world slightly better. Even if you didn't mean to step on someone's toes you still hurt them.
You talked shit then got consequences for it.
And you're saying you don't have to try to, for your own safe, accept that things can be made a little better rather than solved, because other people gave you those consequences.
I'm saying for your own sake, stop being picky when it comes to improving things, and stop talking shit if it's not up to your unreasonable standards.