All this, so the worst of us can enjoy another yacht, or just watch a god damn number grow.

Yeah, felt similarly. This would not have happened had the glaciers not been melting.

I saw the footage last night and it was like something out of a nightmare. There was nothing anyone in the footage could do. No time to get to higher ground. No building to hide in. Just crushing debris and an ocean of water.

I can sympathise, it's infuriating that there is more focus on building AI slop than mitigating climate change.

just got a call from my mother. apparently a family member of mine was in the border building that got got by the mud ocean.

Reminds me of how I felt during peak USA covid where everything as it truly is was laid completely bare and people could easily connect their neighbors and relatives dying directly to the choices and actions of a few. And its surprising that we didn't have some libs or left types snap and decide it was

Believe you me, as much as I wish I could just take a flaming sword and scour the Earth, it wouldn't fix everything

Start with any local organizations you have, I started up (well, rebooted, but it's a long story and i'm tired, so another day) a Queer Pride group in town just because I wanted to meet some people who weren't awful.

Sure, some of them were awful, but the ones who stuck around because what I was saying resonated with them are really cool people and seeing as how i'm almost middle-aged, it makes those bad thoughts seem less big

It certainly helps with the alienation too