• kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
      631·
      10 days ago

      My friend usess this argument all the time and it’s so annoying… Why should the wealthy suffer for destroying the environment when you also drive a car…

        • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
          63·
          9 days ago

          It’s not his fault though. It’s due to all the techno-optimist propaganda spouted out by various media channels by the techbros and the people profiting off of fossil fuels.

          • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            5 days ago

            Yah. In my youth I was hopeful of tech saving us. But now seems very unlikely. Just like AI. it’s not going to save us it’s going to make some people very rich.

            • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
              11·
              9 days ago

              Surely that’s not accurate… I’m sure you haven’t listened to as much Joe Rogan was he has lol.

        • kozy138@lemm.eeEnglish
          31·
          9 days ago

          On a global scale, yeah, probably top 10%

          Locally, not really. Just the average American income.

      • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
        71·
        9 days ago

        Because the majority of the population always tries to copy the rich. Eating lavish meals with lots of meat was the norm in high society so now it’s what everybody wants for dinner. A large manicured lawn was a show of wealth and thus everybody now wants their patch of well maintained grass, even in a desert. Flying and vacations on the other side of the planet was for the jet set so now everybody gets in economy class for holiday. Trickle down is also for habits, life style and consumption. They are the example to follow and should behave like it. It’s the old concept of noblesse oblige.

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        32·
        9 days ago

        See, structures dont exist and there are only differences if kind, not if scale. Anyone who says otherwise is a filthy fucking commie and needs to die in the camps.

        So your feiend sounds great. Great friend. Keep that one close. He (because clearly someone i agree with wouldn’t be of an inferior sex) is one of the good ones. Keep him close and never call him on his shit.

  • thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.worldEnglish
    931·
    9 days ago

    Diesel is sailboat engine are generally very efficient. Most the time she probably spends sailing, but if the wind isn’t strong enough or in the wrong direction you don’t really have another option.

    Source: I’m a sailor and own a sailboat

      • Ilovethebomb@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        9 days ago

        You do to sail into some ports, for example, but there are a lot of sailing vessels that are pure sail.

      • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        9 days ago

        I’m sure this varies widely by jurisdiction, but at least in my part of the states no. I just have a (smaller) sailboat and my “backup” is just ors and the coast guard haha

      • Knightfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        Even if it weren’t a legal requirement I would hope people would have the common sense and desire for personal safety that they would have it there for a backup. I imagine our knowledge and surveillance of weather makes it a lot easier to sail if you have that information, but you could easily be stuck for a very long time if you only relied on sailing. From what I have read the Mayflower was delayed for over a month at sea due to the changing of the winds.

      • Valmond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        You want to rely on motor in really bad weather, or when you get stranded in the middle of nowhere with no wind.

    • Apocalypteroid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      Beat me to it. If the sails aren’t up you just drift if you’re not under motor. If there’s not enough or too much or the wind is in the wrong direction then you don’t have any choice.

  • conditional_soup@lemm.eeEnglish
    692·
    10 days ago

    Ah ha, I have pointed out a minor hypocrisy, your entire existence is invalid!

    Everyone is a hypocrite. It’s pointless to point out hypocrisy for its own sake.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      91·
      9 days ago

      Only the absolutely perfect can be the enemy of the genocidal apocalypse cult. There are only two lebels of morqlity and no such thing as structural forces.

    • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      9 days ago

      Is it hipocrisy tho?

      Like if you say to someone that says that we shouldn’t use single use plastics for food, that they still use single use plastics for their surgery, that’s not hipocrisy. Context matters.

      Of course she isn’t going to deliver critical aid to where a genocide is happening via bicycle

      • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        172·
        9 days ago

        this guy bases his “”“decolonial”“” beliefs not on meaningful connections to the land like actual indigenous rights activists, but on blood and soil rhetoric

        he’s as much of a decolonizer as far-right europeans who want to expel all immigrants

      • puchaczyk@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        91·
        9 days ago

        He’s only a Zionist. All other tittles are there just to make people doubt by association that being Zionist is wrong.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      202·
      9 days ago

      Engagement are fake statistics. Look at the likes and retweets. Bashar is ratio’ing the Zionist 10x.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        32·
        9 days ago

        Engagement are fake statistics.

        Is it?

        Either way, being ratioed doesn’t matter. The troll was fed, en masse.

  • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comEnglish
    301·
    9 days ago

    The israel flag in the name of the guy really hits. Do they need to use the EXACT playbook of the fascists around the world? A couple of years ago I would have suspected satire but satire died some time ago, sadly.

  • BoycottPro@lemm.eeEnglish
    264·
    9 days ago

    Reminds me about what they used to say about Al Gore on Fox “News”. They said he takes private jets. It’s a bad faith argument because those people then go on to deny climate change. Also he’s a former vice president, I’m sure security reasons are part of that decision. Also if those private jets allow him to be more productive in fighting climate change the net benefit of him using it may exceed the additional carbon generated by the jets.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      281·
      9 days ago

      Greta actually follows this priciple pretty well and does not fly unless absolutely necessary. In this case she is taking a boat which is one of the most efficient ways of transporting goods such as humanitarian aid.

      • Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        161·
        9 days ago

        Minor addition - in this case, it’s literally the only possible delivery mechanism. Any other mode of transportation is functionally impossible.

        • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          31·
          9 days ago

          Israel should build a giant railway leading into to the Gaza concentration camp.

          For environmental concerns, of course.

      • BoycottPro@lemm.eeEnglish
        21·
        9 days ago

        That’s a good point, makes what Brian was saying about Gretta even worse.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      91·
      9 days ago

      The first name “Al” has been ruined, my first thought was “they’re making AI gore?”.

      • BoycottPro@lemm.eeEnglish
        61·
        9 days ago

        I wish fonts made the difference between uppercase i and lowercase L as clear as possible. I don’t understand why most computer fonts don’t put lines above and below the uppercase i like I think everyone is taught in school to do.

        • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.worldEnglish
          51·
          9 days ago

          Those lines are called serifs, and that’s where the term “sans serif” for different typefaces comes from (“sans” is French for “without.”) That Wikipedia page mentions claims that sans serif is more legible online, but I have not looked into the sources and don’t know enough about webpage design to make any claims about that myself.

          • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            9 days ago

            Serifs were always considered beneficial to reading fast or for conveying info. This is debated now I think because of course it is. Sans fonts mostly stayed in the headline and ad copy toolbox until shitty screens were shitty at displaying serifs. So they took off and leaked a little beyond their true stature among font styles.

            Serifs are better in the same general sense that OpenDyslexia is better as a font for both sufferers and some others. Your brain can do its thing, reading at any speed needs some of that back door stuff like serifs to stop you reading that letter (like Al and AI) and and tossing all that buffer to wonder what the fucking word is.

            Just my stoned opinion as a former graphics guy from the print days until Adobe went real extra stupid.

        • MBMEnglish
          11·
          9 days ago

          If adding serifs to the I is bad, I think a good alternative is adding a tail to the l (like a t without the bar). Some fonts do this and I’m a huge fan.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    122·
    9 days ago

    because it’s not the 1400s and you literally need an engine in a sailboat when docking or ferrying or, you know, when there’s literally no wind.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      21·
      9 days ago

      The best part is that people who criticise her for things like that are the same people who have a fuck greta sticker on their coal rolling yank tanks. So they should agree with her.