Wait, wait, let him cook

I mean if you want to talk about sequestering carbon, there’s all sorts of natural lawn options that aren’t actively planting an invasive species that has proven to be really bad at doing any sort of water filtration or absorption. In fact, I’d wager that planting (and letting grow) prairie or whatever your native biome supports probably sequesters more carbon, assuming your native ecosystems aren’t straight up desert. Even if they are, you’re now using so much less water that it’s a huge net win there.

As an environmentalist, fuck Kentucky bluegrass, fuck golf, and fuck lawns while we’re at it

Perhaps the frustration is exacerbated by the lack of progress relative to the amount of money spent and time since these issues have manifested. It’s also particularly visible in our increasingly globalized and interconnected world.

Who the hell is beef stroganoff

It’s a protectorate of the greater Sugondese nation

Controlled burns are unironically based and a good way to cut down on old biomass that can cause these huge uncontrollable wildfires

Heh

Appeals to authority are only as good as the Authority figure you’re invoking. If you appeal to an incompetent person, then yeah it doesn’t mean shit

Ahh, the Gipper strikes again. Famously an expert Economist, Rocket Scientist, and “totally not a racist”

No but like that’s the point - the basic human decency thing means that it’s basic, inherent and needs no qualifiers. Even people you disagree with are still people who have inner lives all their own. They don’t deserve to starve and die just because they didn’t play some arbitrary money game we decided was important however many centuries ago the right way.

I hear you, but what if, and hear me out here, human beings deserve the basics of living even if they, say, lost all their money due to medical debt, education debt, credit card debt, natural disasters, and/or just plain shit luck?

I don’t think anyone is saying that the average person looking to retire is planning on throwing millions of tax dollars around, they literally just want to live a decent quality of life. If you had to rely on something like the government when you couldn’t work any more, wouldn’t you want the same kindness?

There’s been some interesting modern takes on the Greek schools of philosophy, with particularly stoicism seeing an uptick. If I had to recommend someone who was all about questioning assumptions - similar to cynical philosophy - Hume comes to mind, I think? Maybe someone else has a better recommendation than that, though!

Ay, based- the smth was an abbreviation of “something”. Confucian ethics is absolutely at odds with your post lol, but Confucius isn’t everyone’s vibe!

I think that there’s this place that a lot of people reach when grappling with the meaninglessness of existence, where they get stuck in existential despair.

My comment was glib, but the core of it was meant to be like: “keep going, keep investigating those ideas and push yourself to learn more.” If you can get ahold of some Emil Cioran, Kirkegaard, Ernest Becker, and José Ortega they’re good- I’d revisit Camus, then touch on Cioran first, probably. Deals a lot with absurdity and failure. Try not to get put off by the religious overtones of Kirkegaard.

Stick with it!

Dang bro go read Nietzsche or Camus or smth. Learn to love the boulder

One of my favorites!

Is this just better SWTOR?

“the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” or smth