• padreug@programming.dev
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          24 hours ago

          alright, i’m disengaging from this echo box… everyone should go outside and sit in nature for a while

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              20 hours ago

              i’d be curious if you eat chicken from the supermarket? Have you ever lived next to a chicken factory, breathed and listened to that one? Do you drink Coca Cola? Sorry to break it to you, but we’re all complicit in things that are destroying nature and humanity and just because you’ve desensitized yourself to the other ones don’t mean they’re not happening. You can rage all you want at each one, but it’s not going to be constructive. At some point we just have to come to terms with reality that we’re also responsible for this reality and I don’t agree with AI’s effects on nature either, but I think if we’re smart we can leverage its capabilities in the window of opportunity available with the people who are most capable (good developers) to create pathways leading toward better things. Or just go yell and rage some more, as you wish.

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                19 hours ago

                Funny questions to ask me, specifically, but you couldn’t know that lol.

                To answer your questions: no and I haven’t for 20+ years, yes and yes also for 20+ years, and no. Not eating chicken and drinking Coke are about the easiest lifestyle changes you can make. You can cry about how you’re not actually responsible for the things caused by your consumption, but you’re still making it happen by consuming it.

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                  16 hours ago

                  ah, okay bravo 👏 I might gamble that statistics would be more on my side with those, but I think the point I’m trying to get across is still valid which is there is a lot of bad shit going on in this world that we are complicit in to some degree just by participating in society. Arguably, for example, even using the US dollar is promoting a war-fueled economy. Of course, I still use it, because the decentralized sovereign alternatives do not yet let give me the liquidity I’d like. I came to this sub looking to learn and mostly all I see are people getting angry about things they don’t like in a way that is not effective. Do they have the right to do so? Sure! I also have a right to be critical of it and say this is not the learning environment I was hoping for coming from reddit. I would rather go somewhere I can have constructive conversation over positive things within our control because there’s only so much time in the day and I don’t spend it all on my computer.