It’s like 99% of our problems are caused by these fictitious entities called states asserting their perceived entitlements to rule over lands and people and compete with other states.

If your cat or dog can’t see it or experience it, it’s not real.

Business = cat can’t see it, isn’t real
Money = can’t see it or pieces of paper
state = can’t see it, isn’t real
borders = can’t see it, isn’t real
law = can’t see it, itsn’t real, some point at paper with marks on it as proof
POTUS = big smelly orange man
SCOTUS = old people in robes
house = big shelter with food
apartment = shelter with food
Store = bigger shelter with more food
2003 Toyota Corolla = shelter that moves
Lamborghini = shelter that moves
gender = can’t see it, isn’t real
sports = play

Real Things

tree = tree
food = food
suffering = suffering
consent = consent
love = love
home = home
family = family
community = community
sex = sex
violence = violence
defense = defense

nfkea is the new hotness

We have to realize that a majority of the USA is some combination of fascist, and dumb and strategize from there. Needing fascists to become non-fascist or dumb people to become smart at scale will ensure failure.

I was talking about 8 billion people, the approx. population of Earth.

You’re thinking of a virtually impossible situation, that is, people living in abject poverty in all ways but they take a plane flight once a decade, this isn’t how things work. The people that travel by plane use far more resources than these poor people. It’s almost certainly far less ecologically damaging for an already wealthy person that can afford a plane flight to add an additional flight, than the damage of bringing a poor person into a class that could afford plane travel for the purpose of becoming more cultured. The poor people I’m talking about have serious food insecurity and often live in war torn areas or in the middle of civil wars, they’re not interested in becoming enlightened.

A 9x reduction of our current levels still leads to ecological collapse, it just takes a few decades longer. You gotta think about much more than the plane flights themselves, think about everything it takes to enable plane travel, the resource extraction needed to design, build, and maintain planes and airports, etc. Plane travel doesn’t exist in a vacuum, it’s an artifact of a fundamentally unsustainable way of life.

If all the poor people started flying, would those who fly multiple times reduce their travel to make up for it? I don’t think so.

Most plane travel is for enlightening people about other cultures, it’s for business, or for visiting distant tourist traps, not worth the damage or exclusivity.

We’re technically well past “half of 8 billion”

Doubling the amount of plane travel we have today would be devastating to our environment.

So encouraging travel as if it’s an inherently good thing we should all aspire too is incredibly destructive, and if you think it’s ok that only some can afford to do this, then it’s an exclusive club for the rich which I don’t think we should be promoting as a good thing.

You should stop skipping math class.

Is your cultural enlightenment worth the destruction of the environment and half the population living in poverty?

There’s 8 billion people on earth, if even half that number traveled the environment would be toast. The only reason we’re alive right now is because 4 billion people are living in abject poverty.

Sustainable travel doesn’t stop invasive species from tagging along, besides the fact, nothing an industrial population of 8 billion people do can truly be called sustainable.

Sure travel is good in some ways, but is it worth the cost of being an exclusive club that destroys the planet?

Travel is actually bad. Sure it allows some subset of wealthy people to “become more cultured” and use it as a status symbol but that’s because it’s inherently exclusive. There’s 8 billion people on earth, we can’t all get on planes and experience different cultures. Is it good to promote something as important to a life experience that’s only available to wealthier people?

If a person needs a plane ride to experience other cultures to no be an asshole, I suspect that they’ll be an asshole either way.

Allowing species to move into new areas and damage ecosystems is one of many problems with travel (not just planes either).

I did some traveling, I loved it, but was it worth the damage and pollution? I don’t think so.

That’s a hangworthy act.

Evil confers longevity, this should be obvious by now.

Dolly is one of the few people you can say this about in her eulogy and it wouldn’t even be disrespectful.

Dolly was a real one, as someone who doesn’t usually care about celebrity deaths, or country music, this made me sad, she will be missed.

Here’s a little story: In my garage growing up we had a metal can (idk if it was like a bedroom trash can or what) that had Dolly on it. I’m guessing it caused me to have a dream that I thought was real until I was about 10 years old. I had a memory of pulling up to Dolly’s house (which in my false memory was like a 3-bedroom in southern California a few blocks from my house) with my Mom and her and my mom had a conversation sitting in Dolly’s living room as I played on the floor with toys. I must’ve been about 10 before it clicked into my head that there was no way my mom was buddies with Dolly Parton and that she lived just around the way lol. But I grew up thinking she was a family friend. In a way, she was.

in-groups and out-groups

There are 2 types of people, those who think might makes right and those who think consent makes right. The might-makes-right type form rigid hiearchies and well defined in-groups and the group leaders are always working to shrink the group and demonstrate status.

I call for something else lol.

I mean, it’s basically like a black KKK chapter, so satire would be the natural conclusion in a sane-ish timeline.

The Luigi Method

He probably things Kegsbreath is hot. I bet he waxes on about his appendage.

ish

Jayme Leagh Franklin

Where might one get one of these robots?

Took out Lady G, I think he was a fan of longitudinal research (in his butt)

The theater handy lady?