This is pretty fundamental trolley problem stuff. If one choice kills 10 million and the other choice kills 5 million but protects the other 5 million, you refusing to participate entirely isn’t a noble stand, it’s saying you don’t give a shit about the other 5 million.
I care too much about these vulnerable people to help these other vulnerable people while not actually helping the other vulnerable people is just being an idiot.
It must be so freeing to live a life so simple and ignorant that you think your little world can be zero harm and morally perfect while living a lifestyle that would be remotely sustainable for the world. The world is a big and scary place and a democracy is made up of a myriad of perspectives on the world. We all do the best we can with the choices we have. To pretend that we can accomplish anything by refusing to participate in an imperfect system is absurd fantasy.
By all means protest, organize etc toward noble goals. But don’t act like “both candidates bad, myeh” is a real stance.
Dude fuck off, I’m sorry but there is no viable “tell Israel to get fucked” candidate. Biden isn’t bombing Gaza personally, the US military isn’t bombing Gaza. The GOP has showed they staunchly want to see it escalate and wipe Gaza off the map completely, this is a holy proxy war for them. Israel and its genocide has overwhelming support in US politics. None of this makes it right, but it does make it not a relevant issue in this presidential race.
You don’t pick a candidate that shares every belief and opinion as you. You vote for the candidate which will do the least harm and the most good and only the frontrunners count as candidates and you know it.
I can’t believe I just got my CLP and no part of my study material told me or warned me about this term.
Never has your misinfo warning tag been funnier.
I assume the proportions of people who spoof their OS is slanted towards Linux
Or unless you have a weird roll holder that is super prone to overfeeding.
I do love our opossums but they are technically an invasive species in a lot of their current range. But they coexist so well with people that it’s hard to mind.
Raccoons are a national treasure and should be recognized as such.
There are 100% branded butt plugs out there.
Other places exist, but also it’s not even that far from half. About 20% of the total US population identifies as Catholic.
“or something”… You hid it didn’t you lol
You’re firing guns wrong
Have you ever noticed when you look into a telescope that it takes a little bit to position yourself right to see what you’re looking at? And it seems like you used to be able to do it a lot faster? That’s not age, that’s actually lag time added to cover decompressing the data.
I have some… Disappointing news for you…
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Y’know what, I think I either completely fabricated a memory in my head or more likely got the person confused. I very vividly remember hearing about a prolific wealthy author who got called out for taking credit for a lot of other people’s work but I now can’t find any word about it being RL Stine despite my memory. No idea who I’m remembering.
MSF and Heifer International I think are two of the more unimpeachable charities afaik
I feel like I’ve also heard nothing but good things about Habitat for Humanity
Planned Parenthood imo is a great cause as well. Or IPPF internationally.
These are partially listed as strong examples because they are considered very good charities that help people but also because of the aid multiplication effect of them. Charities that provide stop gap aid are important but not at the expense of aid that provides knock on effects. Ie. More homes and shelter and more sustainable living leads to less poverty down the road, less crime, less broken homes etc… Helping the sick and injured removes need for intensive long term care by family and hopefully produces a new productive person who can help their community. Heifer International helps establish agricultural infrastructure that the locals own and operate themselves, not just feeding people. And perhaps most critically of all, Planned Parenthood gives women the right to take care of their bodies and make choices on it. A woman who grows up healthy and has choices gets more educated and doesn’t make unplanned children that nobody is ready to care for properly. This has incredibly positive affects not just on the women’s lives but on society down the road. Simple birth control/sexual health access produces incredible ripple effects in society, better educated women, better educated children, less poverty, lower crime.
MSF and Heifer International I think are two of the more unimpeachable charities afaik
I feel like I’ve also heard nothing but good things about Habitat for Humanity
Planned Parenthood imo is a great cause as well. Or IPPF internationally.
The landfill thanks you.
I don’t love the difficulty of extremely fast individual identification but there is something to be said for the ease of extremely fast collective identification, it makes it very easy to see which group of apps each app belongs to, which is also valuable.