Early humans already had mountain streams, which are refreshing as fuck in summer (or year round for the tropics, or winter for south africa). And Africa is actually pretty mountainous, it’s kind of an issue for infrastructure development.

Yes, I thought it made more sense this way. Bit of a bad habit. I don’t think I’ve ever seen an ‘edited’ indicator on Lemmy.

In most situations, it would be rather strange to refer to a trans man as “female”. Might get away with it if it’s specifically about their chromosomes and you’re writing a scientific text about that, but that doesn’t really come up that often.

Are you Australian or just that freaky?

I mean, it’s winter sometimes.

The graphic includes long pants as an option - when it’s cold enough to wear long pants, it’s definitely cold enough for long sleeves.

You people sleep in tshirts instead of longsleeves?

I got a device from a competitor (the original company’s devices are >20€ nowadays). Worked great, too, but its longevity sucked - the next year, the ceramic plate didn’t get hot enough anymore, even with fresh batteries. Yet another example of “buy cheap, buy twice”.

One of those cocktail stirring spoons with a long, round handle. Makes stirring a glass full of ice extremely easier compared to normal spoon handles. In contrast, I found mixing glasses and cocktail shakers fairly optional (and those tend to be more expensive than $20 anyway if they’re decent quality).

Most land animals are crustaceans (insects, spiders etc.), actually. Unless you define crustaceans as fish, too, which stretches the word ‘fish’ even more than including all land animals but isn’t completely without logic, either. ‘fish’ is a really imprecise category.

The issue is that the yoghurt cup is only a tiny sacrifice, but it’s also only a tiny gain (as long as the alternative isn’t ‘just dump it in the river’). I suppose regular people don’t have a lot of opportunities to do a small sacrifice that will actually have a big impact compared to the effort, once they took the hurdle of not being a complete asshole.

Yes, that’s bad - so why not use that as an example? It’s about as equivalent as we’re going to get when comparing regular people to billionaires, and it’s still literally 50 times worse (or whatever the actually value is, it’s probably even worse considering that normal people usually share the plane with hundreds of unrelated people while on Bezos’ plane, it’s 100% just him, his “friends” and people who work for him).

Man that’s fucking dystopian.

I agree. Which is why the yoghurt cup example is so bad - it’s hardly a personal sacrifice and it’s very obviously low impact compared to vacation planerides. The issue is that things like plane vacations and other polluting consumer goods are actively promoted, and made even worse for the environment just to shave off tenths of percents in profits, by the ultra rich.

I don’t like this example, because it ignores that normal people take planes, too - sure it’s less frequent, and it’s usually public transport-style as opposed to just being one billionaire and their entourage per plane, but there’s also just a lot more normal people than billionaires. Not to say that the pollution made for billionaires’ personal lifestyles isn’t massive or that rich people’s economic and political activities aren’t the main driver of climate change, but using such an obviously bad example makes it too easy to dismiss the general sentiment of the joke. If every non-billionaire stopped taking plane rides, it would make a difference for climate change - the issue is that rich people do their hardest to make sure that something like that doesn’t happen. At least not until all the non-millionaires are so poor that they can’t afford to travel anymore.

IDK about you, but if I became a vampire, got 150 years old without visibly aging and recovered from severe wounds without medical assistance I would probably consider myself ‘immortal’.

*worst

Now that is a sick motorcycle sound!

Huh, that’s kinda neat. Though IDK if that really has the visual impact that people associate with cyberpunk …

… do we actually have “cool looking motorcycles”, especially compared what was already available 20 or even 30 years ago?