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Blog Action Day
aroberts writes "Today is Blog Action Day which means that lots of bloggers will be writing on one general topic for one day in an attempt to see what might be achieved through coordinated posting, and I am one of them so my humble contribution amongst the hundreds of thousands is entitled individual action is not enough. The topic for this year's blog action day is the environment." You can almost hear the sound of the vacuum created by bloggers thinking that their words matter when the people with control don't even know how to read the tubes. Lick a stamp or march- that's harder to ignore.
So if this is offtopic spam... wouldnt the hippy environemental stuff be offtopic spam as well? It's something people designated a particular day to.
Seems like circular redundancy to me...
Shut up!
Your stupid little rant doesn't make you appear clever. Nor does it add any value or insight to the post. All it does is remind the readers that behind one of the more influential and long-lived websites in the tech sphere is a whiny little nerd who still hasn't grown up.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
My pet projects? I see. So you're the kind of person who leeches clean air and water off of the ones who actually care about the long-term future, not just next week or next quarter. Environmentalism isn't about what I want, it isn't even about you want - it's about what you might want in 20 years or what your kids might want after you're done composting. Everything else is just you complaining that you don't want to be bothered to make a sacrifice where the payoff isn't immediately visible.
Here's some other parts that crack me about your post. You want tax incentives to install solar panels, then claim that this will let the free market come up with a solution. You do realize that tax incentives are free market distortions, and that you pay for them, even if indirectly? You want free babysitting service for things that you ought to be doing (like, uh, participating in town hall meetings, for example), but can't be arsed to do. You claim that I'm not donating money (hey, that's what you get when you address readers directly), but want to make you donate - which is just you rationalizing your complete lack of engagement in anything that goes beyond your "family". It's so much easier to do when you think that no one else is doing it.
In short, as someone else pointed out, you're the worst of the NIMBY crowd - you want all the good stuff that comes with sacrifices (clean air, clean water, safe energy, safe roads, safe country, but you're absolutely unwilling to lift a little finger to help with that. Though I do find it amusing that you are happy to pay for these things with tax breaks - which ultimately come out of your pocket anyway. Your - very shortsifted - claim that family comes before idealism simply tells me that you value your comfort and your life over anyone else's comfort and life.
Asshole.
Those who can, do. Those who can't, sue.
"You don't understand basic scientific debate and treat it like some petty argument where people are "right" and "wrong"."
Hmm, that's funny, I said nothing about the debate, and spoke only of objective fact. For which there is a "right" and "wrong".
With that in mind, I have to say, you're one of the people I talk about when I say "fucking idiot".
Keep making excuses, it seems to be all you're any good at.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.
"There are no 'objective facts'..."
I stopped reading there, as it was obvious you weren't going to say anything worth reading after that point.
Just saying this is worth a KITN, believing it deserves sterilization.
You are dumber than I could have imagined.
I only go to buffets for the unlimited soft serve.