This convention that summer "begins" at the solstice is so weird and disconnected from the commonly understood definition of summer. Flowers bloomed months ago, it's baking hot, days are about to start getting shorter. It's already summer.
Well done for being ethically coherent. Estimates vary, but to be sustainable on a planet of 9 billion, the number of flights per person per year has to be really low indeed, functionally zero. So I'm with you more or less - almost no more flying.
Nothing you say contradicts my point. Answering political questions with violence is a road that leads directly to civil war, wherever the road starts. This finding is about as reproducible as findings come in political science. And it's what the assassination-cheerleaders (in this community and others) do not want to engage with.
For typical middle-class people (like the ones probably reading this), usually the single worst thing they do is flying. It's the only way to blow your personal carbon budget for the whole year in just a few hours.
This is going to trigger people who just forked out for "insanely expensive" gym memberships, but it's obviously true.
I can think of two caveats:
body-weight exercises are clearly healthier than pumping iron, but they will only get you toned, not jacked (personally I think being jacked is ugly as hell, but whatever)
presumably many gym-goers are there for the same reason that sociable people do all kinds of things in groups - because otherwise they would not find the motivation
Congratulations, this is a genuinely unpopular opinion. I know that because I agree with you and I regularly deploy the exact arguments you have just made. Individual humans have a deep aversion to accepting that they - personally - are part of the problem. It's completely irrational and something of a mystery to me.
This radical dualism is partly an American thing. Here on the other side of the pond, most people believe (IMO) that one can be simultaneously a "piece of shit posing as a human being" and a great actor.
Leonardo DiCaprio. I get huge, cringy ‘imposter syndrome’ vibes from him
Exact opposite feelings here, and I generally have a hard time suspending disbelief. I remember seeing The Basketball Diaries (this was before Titanic) and being blown away by his acting. I'd say this is a rare example of an actor being held back by good looks. A lot of folks have just not wanted to admit that this particular heartthrob has genuine talent. To contrast with, for example, Keanu, or Clooney.
This discussion breaks community rules, not server rules. The breakage is so flagrant that I don't know why you're bothering to argue. Just say you don't want rules.
The only possible way to get to a shop is "a car"... Poor Americans!