Man, I wish I had a brain injury or something to explain why I can lose something I set down without moving from my chair. I learned long ago to just ask someone else and it's often right in the open.
That's a solid argument: we have several ways to achieve the same result and should limit the riskiest because market forces aren't going to correct for them. Much better than "get rid of this one possibly risky thing because I don't personally value it."
That painting on the wall could potentially fall and break in a hazardous way. The point is: regulation for its own sake is theater and it's impossible to account for every conceivable risk. If a product is plausibly harmful under normal usage, sure. If it causes cancer when force-fed to rats in impossible proportions? Leave it be, study further perhaps.
I also eat cake, red meat, smoked meat, vegetables high in oxalates, various fried foods, and occasionally drink alcohol. Life should not be about eliminating every risky behavior, it should be about fulfillment and weighing risk against probability and payoff. We all die eventually and I want to eat tasty food before I get there.
Sure, but consider that North Sentinel Island has been mostly isolated for tens of thousands of years. 23 square miles. That's how small of a rock we can cling to. Resource availability is the big question mark of course, and the exact nature of global ecosystem collapse and the water wars can't be known exactly, but my money is on "at least one sustainable holdout" somewhere.
Hopefully they can eventually scavenge the good bits of our mountains of waste.
Sure, but I'm unconvinced that would scrub the entire surface clean. Desertification of huge swaths not near the poles, ocean pH plummeting from carbonic acid causing a mass extinction of most plankton, algae, and the life that depends on them, and the end of countless evolutionary lines. But if there's a temperate zone in Antarctica, or even a swampy tropical jungle, there's gonna be humans eating snails and xylem for however long it takes something to start sequestering carbon again.
We bounced back from a 100,000 year bottleneck with a population of 1200. We'd seal that many in an underground cave complex with naught but lichen and crickets to eat before we rolled over and died out.
The empires will fall but the species will remain. We would have to kill the entire planet's ecology for humanity to go extinct, we're too good at adapting.
Tons of people happily eat insects too. Chapulines are pretty good, escamoles are popular, silk worm is eaten in Korea and Thailand, there's Witchetty grubs and honeypot ants...
Marginally superior. They've got their own problems with right-wing politics, genocidal past and continued mistreatment of native peoples, foreign investors upending local economies, unsustainable extraction of natural resources, and they're still connected to a heriditary monarchy for fucks sake. But they have better healthcare and safer cops.
People are indeed buying Super Soakers instead of just using a hose.
The point of this comparison is that they aren't at all the same thing. People don't want things that barely work and few have the time to learn new skills to craft what they want in an acceptable quality. Could any able-bodied adult pick up a knife and whittle themself a spoon? Probably. Most of those spoons are going to suck though and you can get one at Target for a couple bucks. It's a position that feels out of touch.
I'm all for taking care of what you have and repairing rather than replacing when possible, and I'd love to collectively move away from plastic crap, but saying "just learn to make bread with all the free time and functional kitchen you for sure have" helps nobody except the speaker patting themself on the back.
Well I was born well after McCarthyism destroyed all semblance of good-faith discussion of leftist politics, and the current world order is not just America's fault. Rupert Murdoch has been one of the most influential figures in that regard, his propaganda apparatus has pushed the entire Anglosphere right.
Flexible sure but not exactly easy. There's a lot of choices to make at every level and many of the feats have prerequisite, earlier feats so you functionally have to plan your entire expected progression up front.
I don't want 25 cents worth of checkerboard, I want a decent wooden object that doesn't make me feel like I live in a dumpster. And most people want a sturdy piece of decorated, folding cardboard that will last a century if nobody spills juice on it.
Your position sounds a lot like "why do you kids need Super Soakers anyway, we have a perfectly good hose."
Man, I wish I had a brain injury or something to explain why I can lose something I set down without moving from my chair. I learned long ago to just ask someone else and it's often right in the open.