Climate change, and how we’re doing fuck all about it.
There are news stories about wildfires, droughts, water shortages, hurricanes, changing weather patterns, etc. But the climate change part is usually mentioned as an “oh by the way” and it’s rarely tied to stuff we need to do.
Depending how far we push it, climate change is either “just” going to cause mass starvation and novel weather patterns; or it’s going to make the Earth uninhabitable for humans.
Either way is fucking bad.
There’s virtually no mainstream news coverage of what we need to do. People say to buy EVs, but that’s not enough. We need to either radically limit the amount of energy we consume, or dramatically change how we generate energy. Probably both.
But there’s no coverage. Just tRuMp HaTeS wInDmIlLs.
Housing crisis. In our country, it’s being framed as an immigrant problem, but it is both a political choice and political inaction that is the culprit.
Also, big inflation…
I think a huge issue online is just how incredibly mean people can be to each other - and the fact that they don’t even see themselves as mean. They’ve built a story around how their behavior is justified, so they keep doing it, completely oblivious to the fact that they’re part of the problem.
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Hard to say it’s not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.
But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can’t happen overnight.
“uncontroversial”
I don’t think you know us very well, do you?
(that’s purely Bugs Bunny sarcasm there)
Right! Emphasis, however sadly, on ‘should be’.
The worst is that a lot of professions will use metric even in the US. So you spend your childhood learning this fucking crazy imperial and go to become a doctor and have to relearn a lot of metric stuff
Going to university for engineering showed me the light and has blessed me with an everlasting appreciation for the number 10.
I have received complaints over sharing weather screenshots in Celsius and I just chuckle.
Aviation is very heavy on the imperial system. It’s taught to future airplane mechs and pilots, and that’s a pretty large industry.
Interesting, I never knew. Is that the case for aviation industry in other parts of the world too?
The Epstein Files
Reporters need to keep asking until Trump has a mental break.
Win/Win.
Lemmy mod log is authoritarian shit that does not say who took actions. It is cowardly garbage that should absolutely be the lynch pin for this place unless transparency is restored immediately.
There are thousands of diseases that need more research. For every ice bucket challenge, there are a hundred more diseases with similar prognoses that go under-researched.
I think this is a result of severely misplaced priorities in society. How many marketers do we really need? Couldn’t they be doing something far more useful?
Education around the actual cause of the housing crisis.
Everything in the news and politics is intentionally ignoring the core issue and blaming it on scapegoats (immigrants, corporate landlords, developers)
The single biggest group making the most money off housing by a massive margin? Regular everyday single house owners.
They make up like 65%+ of the residential market, and yet we’re busy blaming everything else under the sky while trying to protect that group.
You want affordable houses? House prices have to drop, A LOT, for EVERYONE.
Why would they educate you on that.
They don’t even teach people about alternatives to FPTP, good thing there is the internet to cover the missing info public schools decided to hide.
That we are no longer in a democracy and have left it in the past.
Enjoy everybody.
Very USA-Centric of you, there are still functional democracies around the world.
Lol take it as you will.
