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The Smoke Room

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Remember "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" ? I feel like there's been a distancing from the "reduce" and "reuse" part and a favoritism towards "recycle" by corporate American.

Capitalism can still thrive with recycling in the mix. You buy Plastic Thing 1, throw it away after one use, and they take that and recycle it into Plastic Thing 2 and sell it back to you. All while continuing to harm the environment.

Reusing puts a damper on things. They can't sell you Plastic Thing 2 when you're still using Plastic Thing 1. Plastic forks, for example- there is literally no reason why you can't reuse plastic forks more than once (aside from maybe microplastics, but it's too late for that)

Reducing is the one everyone wants to ignore. Just don't buy Plastic Thing 1. You don't need Plastic Thing 1. Pick up a set of metal forks and use those for years. Convenience is killing the planet

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stoppppp posting pictures of food bro i’m so hungry i could eat a. fluttershy cover your ears. i’m so hungry i could eat a horse man.

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a few sizes too small

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"A snack? For me?"

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A popular artist suddenly made a trans man comic, and the viewers are not getting it

Being against a trans man's transition because you think it's too boring is transphobic, actually.

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is racial profiling actually Woke? is excessive punitive justice actually Woke? could a surveillance state solve feminism? many such questions. but the jury is still out on arresting all white people. you heard it folks!

the experience of living in the UK so far has been like, i go outside to infrastructure, markets etc. that americans cannot fathom, and then i go inside and hear that like, parliament has reaffirmed its commitment to banning air conditioning. and then i get hungry and go outside again and get a decent meal for single digits USD (also unheard of in america), and on the way i see that the walls are advertising about #RaisingBoysRight obviously written by weird spinsters who've never met a human boy in their lives, the corner stores are advertising financial services for remittances to nigeria, and the buses are advertising islam

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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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unnecessary tangent but every technology moral panic is seemingly always unnuanced like this. with TV, we took the "it's rotting your brain!" route and there never was a moment in our culture where we had a evidence round-up wrap-up, "screens give kids ADHD" type shit just sort of faded into background noise when all tech after smartphones, web 2.0., etc. came on the scene. we never do actually end up collectively understanding what technology does to us, and the media cycle's alarmist tendencies doesn't help any

i'm saying this as someone who does think that "chatgpt is bad and harmful and makes you more stupid" or whatever, but i think responding to "every new form of technology has had a moral panic attached to it, so ai is fine" with "well actually all the moral panics were correct and just" is not a particularly compelling argument and doesn't help with the stereotype that all opponents of generative ai are reactionary luddites, when your argument against new technology is indistinguishable from religious groups who think that collecting pokemon cards and listening to rock n roll will rot your souls. except souls aren't real. but brains are. so this moral panic is actually rational this time, believe me!!!

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I am so, so sick of the pop-feminist take that men are hurt by patriarchy too. Poisoning the well. What-about-ism. It ends up with people never learning all the parts where men stand to gain massively from buying into patriarchy by making them all crybaby victims. Let’s all sit in a circle and accept that a man talking about his emotions and everyone taking him seriously is like, the peak of the feminist movement

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thougt to myself i am going to anthropomorphizr the fuck out of this cloud

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There's an endless amount of nuts bullshit in that NYT anti trans article from two days ago but one of the strangest is the guy argues "trans issues are more complicated and difficult than gay issues bc there's medical care involved."

Like...hey. Hey buddy. You made a whole big thing about how you did soooo much research for this article. Did you check to see what the initial lighting rod for gay rights and recognition as an organized national movement was? The one that brought us to the attention of the whole country and made us into a political concern? Here's a hint: they made the hit musical RENT about it...

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"If you're not american, why do you even care-"

US-based company YouTube just nuked the government funded channel for HIV prevention in Germany. The channel is purely educational and had no prior (or current) violations.

Assuming you guys get elections again; if I see a single person telling non-US-americans to stay out of it, it's on sight.

(german source) As of writing, the channel has been reinstated due to public backlash, but is missing several videos.

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I wish Americans fucked with more foreign music. You don’t have to know the language to appreciate a good record. Folks in other countries listen to our music and don’t speak a lick of english. Music needs no translator

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What did colonoscopy do? I never got good vibes from them.

colonoscopy isnt a user i have a colonoscopy scheduled for next week.....

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i say this in all seriousness, a great way to resist the broad cultural shift of devaluing curiosity and critical thinking is to play my favorite game, Hey What Is That Thing

you play it while walking around with friends and if you see something and don't know what it is or wonder why its there, you stop and point and say Hey What Is That Thing. and everyone speculates about it. googling it is allowed but preferably after spending several minutes guessing or asking a passerby about it

weird structures, ambiguous signs, unfamiliar car modifications, anything that you can't immediately understand its function. eight times out of ten, someone in the group actually knows, and now you know!

a few examples from me and my friends the past few weeks: "why is there a piece of plywood sticking out of that pond in a way that looks intentional?" (its a ramp so squirrels that fall in to the pond can climb out) • "my boss keeps insisting i take a vacation of nine days or more, thats so specific" (you work at a bank, banks make employees take vacation in long chunks so if youre stealing or committing fraud, itll be more obvious) • "why does this brick wall have random wooden blocks in it" (theres actually several reasons why this could be but we asked and it was so you could nail stuff to the wall) • "most of these old factories we drive past have tinted windows, was that just for style?" (fun fact the factory owners realized that blue light keeps people awake, much like screen light does now, so they tinted the windows blue to keep workers alert and make them work longer hours)

been playing this game for a long time and ive learned (and taught) a fuckton about zoning laws, local history, utilities (did you know you can just go to your local water treatment plant and ask for a tour and if they have a spare intern theyll just give you a tour!!!) and a whole lot of fun trivia. and now suddenly you're paying more attention when youre walking around, thinking about the reasons behind every design choice in the place you live that used to just be background noise. and it fuckin rules.