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Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs
phyrebyrd writes "How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labor — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn't include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health."
You should be unhappy. The more unhappy you are, the greater your environmental virtue.
Think of it as penance for the world's energy sins. Let your suffering be a beacon to all the unbelievers, climate change deniers, and evil capitalists out there.
You are one of the virtuous greens. Your sacrifice means hope for us all. You have saved the planet.
2. There is no God.
3. Go fuck yourself you jealous, ingrate piece of shit. You'll be fearing us when we get tired of your silly shit and stick a Me damn missile up your ass! Oh wait, you've probably already got some other faggot Frenchman's "missile" up there already.
4. You know you watch US TV shows you lying frog so cut the whining bullshit.
That's not what he's saying at all. Or if it is, it's the clumsiest way of saying it that I've ever seen.
Let's say I steal one dollar from you. You should be upset.
Now let's say I've been stealing five dollars a week from you for the last two years. Should you not be upset about the one dollar I stole from you today?
I use the analogies not because they are a perfect match for what we're talking about, but because people who really ought to be intelligent enough to understand these issues in the first place aren't fucking getting it, and I'm trying to put it into terms that they might be able to relate to, because that is less scary than asking them to have a new thought which is something of which they are apparently entirely fucking incapable.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"