βthatβs just how Iβve always done itβ is the worst when it's used as an excuse to avoid putting effort into personal growth
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I will not install your shitty app
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In relation to your hill: While you're entirely correct, that's absurdly small potatoes compared to industrial water use. Yes, we should be conscious of our water use and limit unnecessary overuse, but a higher priority ought to be regulating industrial use. Data centers are the obvious example of using way too much for bullshit that ain't worth the water or power. Speaking of power, we could reduce water use by power plants. Nearly all generate power by boiling water. I'm a power plant operator at a plant that happens to use reclaim water as our source water, and we purify on-site for the main process, and we have a brine concentrator and crystallizer on-site to recycle the cooling tower blowdown and remove the solids to a dumpster that goes to a landfill. Unfortunately we burn methane, so I can't say that we're green, but we at least discharge zero water into local waterways (except storm drains when it rains).
My hill: Vote with your wallet. If you really believe in something, stop giving money to companies fighting against it. I won't buy chikfila because the owners actively spend money on gay conversion camps and lobby to reverse the legality of same sex marriage. It's impossible to research every little thing before every purchase, and sometimes there's no reasonable alternative, but something like chikfila is easy to avoid. There is no ethical consumption under capitalism, but don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Little changes can add up, and doing anything even a little bit better is an improvement over not trying.
Bonus hill: Put your fucking grocery cart into the cart corral. It takes ten seconds and prevents cars from getting hit. It's kind of the simplest measure for societal decency. I don't believe in the death penalty, but what value are you contributing to society if you're too selfish to return your fucking cart?
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I want to share my photos of our trip with you, but I don't want you to upload them to Google, or apple, or amazon, or meta, or any social media.
If it's a pic of you, fine, do whatever you want. But please don't take my whole album and store it in your google photos.
Edit: to maybe disambiguate, I go on a trip with someone else, we both take photos/videos using our own devices, and then afterwards we are exchanging what we took. Not like, me sharing photos with someone who didn't even go on the trip.
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Taking a car for a 3km distance is unconscionable when walking or cycling are valid options.
Driving less than the speed limit will not kill you.
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My biggest pet peeve is people who scalp their lawns and spray shit all over it to make it green and kill the bugs. If it didn't kill the buggies 'n stuff I wouldn't care so much but I'd still think it's dumb cause all they need to do is not mow so aggressively and plant some clover to fix the nitrogen. Like their lawn needs less maintenance not more. Stop fucking spraying shit all over your lawn please AAAAAAAAAAAAAA.
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Dating apps are inherently dehumanizing
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I think Bernie was an idealist and I donβt buy in to a lot of his ideas while appreciating his work to create real change. Donβt crucify me for this.
I wholeheartedly believe there is an alternate timeline where Bernie won the 2016 democratic nomination and won the presidency and we avoided all this shit.
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To secure your stuff. Hacking and social engineering are both easier than you think and identity theft is devastating. I know most people here already know that, but having worked in tech support, it's unbelievably common to skip even the basics, not to mention my grandparents who think I'm just paranoid.
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Keep right except to pass. The passing lane is for passing.
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Using AI is amoral and I will never use it. As a programmer, every day it feels like I'm increasingly the minority.
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Everyone deserves health care. And a decent place to live. Even people without jobs!
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Have you tried replacing the grass with local flora?
Also, what your family uses is a drop in the bucket compared to what your local industry wastes.
There are probably a dozen or more open air, private swimming pools that sit filled, full of chemicals, and unused 350 days a year, within walking distance of your place.
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I ditched my smartphone over 5 years ago, and will NEVER go back. In fact, I don't have a phone of any kind. They are surveillance/psyop devices, and they are turning people into biological robots. The scifi show Dollhouse is basically where this is all heading.
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my hill: when i post an asklemmy, i place my answer as a comment, so the thread doesn't become a bunch of replies to my personal answer, so each reply to the post relates directly to the original question
The Sound of Music is not a Christmas movie.
My wife and her family and a whole bunch of Canadians all think it is and I am so flummoxed by it.
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I hate doing dishes like that anyway. I just scrub them one at a time under running water after letting them soak in whatever water can fill in. I donβt really think of the sink as a sanitary item regardless of how much you clean it. The drain is always going to be gross.
There is no free will. None whatsoever.
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People should be able to transfer their vote of their first preference didn't win. Sorry democrats, being forced to vote for you isnt democracy.
Suits are weird, they feel old and out dated, like cosplaying a 20th century business boy in grandpa's pajamas. Multiple layered long sleeve shirt, jacket, and trousers doesn't make sense for the majority of weather in most cities or even more if you're inside temp controlled buildings more often. In the winter you want something heavier like denim or fleece lined or water resistant, and in the summer you want breathable fabric, wicking, single layer, shorts, etc. Overcoats don't need backup jackets, and some of the people who did wear it like a uniform last century weren't people you'd want to emulate.
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ALL information, except what you can hold in your brain, should be 100% public, with no limits on use.
An unimaginable concept right now, but I think it is essential if we hope to ever trust each other and achieve global peace.
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