ProdigalFrog

Honestly, you may want to limit your exposure to climate change news sources, or even the news itself for a while. It's very possible to experience emotional burnout from too much negative stimuli, and the news is always going to focus on the negative and terrible, since that gets more engagement.

Try subbing to !upliftingnews@lemmy.world. There's some good things happening in the world, but you have to look to find it, since we humans have a natural negativity bias that needs to be consciously overcome.

No idea, I just grabbed it from this post over on !THE_PACK@lemmy.world

Steady on mate, steady on. It also shows how freaked out oil companies are at being held accountable, and how seemingly close this is to setting that precedent, and maybe starting an avalanche of lawsuits that will help weaken their grip as renewables potentially s-curve hard, no matter how they try to stop it.

Humor is how many of us cope with the darkness the world seems to be in right now, it's a good way to keep up moral as we truck along and try our best to bring this shit to an end, one wrench thrown in one gear at a time.

Hol up, lemme update the to-do list...

Fair enough, but in my experience Techmoan has always been trustworthy in his reviews, he's not sponsored by the manufacturer.

He lays out the financial reasons why you'd save money without a car, but it does assume you can afford to rent or get a loan for a house/apartment in a city in the first place. Are you suggesting that is an unreasonable demographic to target with this advice? Because that sort've implies that any cost-saving measure advice should only be for those in the most dire financial straights, if I'm understanding you correctly.

Homelessness is a horrible and cruel epidemic, but if anything, the advice in the video could be seen as helpful to avoid becoming homeless, or at least to ease the overall financial burden on people who are already on the edge, not for the wealthy, but that's just my take.

It mentions the neck-coolers being ineffectual, but at least according to a Techmoan review I saw, the model he had was surprisingly effective.

Not that I disagree with the point of the article, which is that we shouldn't need this shit to begin with and only the wealthy first world nations will be able to afford them, but the tech itself does seem to work.

The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson is an absolutely brilliant horror book, one of my favorites!

The Coming Race is an eerie early sci-fi book, considered one of the first, in fact.

It's not entirely cut and dry, your money in a stock market index fund tends to keep pace with property appreciation when accounting for maintenance costs and property taxes. But you would be insulated from skyrocketing rents.

Maybe I got the right message from it then; went from being a religious conspiracy nut to a scientifically objective solarpunk! :D

It's almost a shame that Deus Ex has the crazy illuminati conspiracies included, because (at the risk of sounding crazy again myself) there's a surprising amount of truth to some of the things talked about in the game, and on topics that essentially no other game has ever attempted to cover. Ross' game dungeon did a fantastic video on that topic specifically (linked to the relevant part).

I wrote more about it a while back in this post, if you're curious. But it's more on how I got out of it, and not the specifics of all the crazy shit we believed, which would be lengthy.