NathanielThomas

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[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Colonel Nicholson: Yes, Clipton. I understand, truly. But don't you see it's a matter of principle? If we give in now, there will be no end to it. No!

Major Clipton: Sir, we're lost in the jungle, a thousand miles from anywhere. We're under the heel of a man who will stop at nothing to get his way. Principle? No one will know or care what happens to us! Give in, sir! Please!

I guess she thought she'd win like Nicholson.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Only the capitalists care

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what a solution is but I do think that we should encourage people to not have children, stop handing out the baby bonus, and reduce immigration. I feel these moves can provide a (non-genocidal) way to relieving the pressures of human overpopulation. For example, Japan is doing great work in reducing their population, a trend that will reduce the strain of housing and services in that country.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago

We shouldn't but here we are.

What else can we do?

By the way, news companies are also run by maniacs.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

No, I don't think depopulating the Earth is a fascist concept. I think murdering specific groups of people is fascist. I'm just talking about the unsustainability of the human plague.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Immigrants are at least partly to blame for the pressures. I mean, it's impossible they're NOT impacting the cost of housing. If you add 400,000 people to a country and do not add 400,000 units of new housing that year, you're in a deficit. It's Grade 1 math.

But what is genuinely to blame is a cogent political strategy to house Canadians. We can't just leave it to the private sector to maximize profits. We can't expect homeowners to make secondary suites. We can't do nothing.

Cutting immigration is a sure-fire way to prevent over-demand for a scarce resource. It may sound right-wing but that's the way it goes.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

There's always going to be meganerds who find insane builds in games.

I remember in Divinity Original Sin 2 I was at the final boss and it was stupid hard. So I went online to ask for help in Reddit and minmax nerds were like: Do you have skin graft? Do you have Green Tea? Do you have Adrenaline?

And sure enough, after respeccing the fight was a joke.

Of course, you can just beat DoS2 with barrelmancy, the most OP skill of all!

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)

All I know is that despite all evidence that our world is increasingly turning into an inferno, that humans are still pro-human and will continue to want more humans. I guess we're just going to have to reap the predictable consequences of our obsession with overpopulating ourselves.

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I still call anyone who is infatuated with a topic of interest a nerd, but usually tongue in cheek because the likelihood is I'm also interested

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Of interest, in Canada's 2011 federal election the Conservative party with Stephen Harper won by painting Michael Ignatieff as a book nerd professor from Harvard University.

They ran ads with taglines such as "Just visiting," "Just in it for himself," and, most notoriously, "He Didn't Come Back For You." These all suggested he was an erudite professor from the USA who wanted to run Canada for his own self-aggrandizement and mocked his intelligence and academic bona fides.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnjFyIbcCw

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years ago

They are among the best at it, you have to admit

[–] NathanielThomas@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

it's just pathetic that in 2023 we still consider AC to be a luxury when heating is mandatory. All humans require climate control for both extreme heat and cold. AC isn't and shouldn't be a luxury.

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