Life Long Learning

hallie she/her 🏳️‍🌈, 24, environmental scientist

[riotd]

i’m very self aware. which unfortunately hasn’t solved anything

[macabrevampire]

it probably feels good as fuck to have the energy to live

[ecodyke]

Lmfao the amount of effort it takes to be happy is life’s biggest middle finger. Do the dishes! Do your laundry! Clean your apartment for the first time since January! Go to the gym 4x a week to feel good in your body… oh you missed three weeks because of a work trip? You ugly fuck! Meal plan! Go to the grocery store! Meal prep! Eat the meal prep! Oops you ran out of food for the weekend? Guess you won’t eat until you go to the grocery store on Sunday night! Talk to your family every week! Dedicate time to your hobbies! Talk to your friends from college for the first time in a month! Go to therapy! Take your meds! Doesn’t fucking matter! Still! Not! Happy!

[ecodyke]

Crawling the streets of Honolulu drunk asf w strangers

[192929020202020]

This time january has gone too far

[willow-flowers]

Tracy Chapman

[rederiswrites]

History will remember you today, Minnesota. Well done.

[leebrontide]

IN NEGATIVE TWENTY DEGREES!!!!!

Please spread this around. Don't let ANYONE lie and say my community is anything but ASTONISHINGLY UNITED in rejection of ICE's behavior. This crosses generations, race lines, party lines, class lines. THAT is how bad ICE is. THAT is how bad we want them gone.

THAT is how loudly we are DEMANDING they leave!

Do you understand what a crowd like this means in a small city like Minneapolis??? In weather that hurts to breathe???

Can you imagine what that takes?

[ecodyke]

I LOVE carpooling with my gf on the way to work! We don’t work the same schedule but when we do overlap I love love love getting to spend the commute with her + one less car in traffic + one less car emission

[bedupolker]

"don't worry scientists will invent a way to solve climate change!" They already did... several times over... just the people who didnt like their solutions (cough cough oil companies) had enough cash to shut them up both legally and illegally

[ecodyke]

Lmao the new marketing craze of adding protein to everything in the store is so funny because a box of cereal could say “high protein! 8g”

In what world is 8g of protein “high” mf go to the gym

[tjwock]

HEY.

HEY YALL.

USAMERICAN DEMOCRATS SUCCESSFULLY REMOVED EVERY ANTITRANS RIDER FROM EVERY FUNDING BILL

Spread the fucking word because LORD knows democrats fucking suck at spreading it themselves and will fail once again to inform their base

But just in case you’re sitting there going “the Dems aren’t doing anything,” THEY ARE

IT IS JUST SLOW

AND MOSTLY INVISIBLE

BUT THEY ARE

[doberbutts]

[ecodyke]

It’s wild to me that if you have $100 to your name as an 18-24 year old, you’re doing better than a quarter of other 18-24 year old USAmericans. Note: this is as of 2023, it’ll be interesting to see how this changes to date from 2026 when this gets updated.

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[officialgaryoak]

the fact that walls get dusty is ridiculous. you're vertical. act like it.

[toroimage]

[steampunkforever]

I believe wholeheartedly that if you're some sort of tough guy you really need to get into namby pamby stuff to at least a midlevel understanding and if you're some namby pamby softie you need to get into toughguy stuff as well. It's can't be ironic or subversive either. No edgy hello kitty or only engaging with art about Spartan warriors.

If you wear corduroy overalls and listen to Phoebe Bridgers you need to watch through at least seven John Woo films and get really into The Predator and if you're into MMA or read a lot about the Navy SEALs you need to be monday night quarterbacking local performances of The Nutcracker and getting really into oscar nominated short films from Iranian directors exploring family and identity.

[thecottageinthedark]

[eymurn]

In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[noah-wyles]

In your 30s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

[depsidase]

[donniehaspronouns]

also (and I feel the need to add this to every AI post) it is incredibly bad for our environment and is actively stealing water away from people’s homes.

you cannot argue away the environmental damage.

[depsidase]

no you are right for adding it to every ai post as it doesn't get talked about nearly enough. it is causing the world to blow past its emissions reduction targets. the positive climate and environmental gains of adding renewable energy production to energy grids is, in some places, being lost to these hyperscale data centres sucking up the juice and preventing fossil fuel generators from being decommissioned as planned. of course this is also driving up people's electric bills.

and its water use is a much bigger deal than people realize within the broader context of climate change and how its expected that glaciers (one of the main sources of freshwater on the planet) will be basically gone by 2100 which will cause insane damage to ecosystems, agriculture, economies, and drinking water across entire continents. (and this wasted water use doesn't just apply to data centres necessarily either. the industrial use of freshwater is something that needs to be seriously considered and heavily regulated.)

we're being incredibly stupid. and while it would be bad no matter what, we could at least have an excuse if we were using this energy and water for something actually useful or helpful but this generative ai shit is no different than lighting vital resources on fire just to watch them burn. its short-sighted and suicidal.

this is why we need economic democracy! because otherwise fascist billionaires completely disconnected from reality with fucked up dystopian ideologies and backwards belief systems control the use of the world's resources.

[rainyydoves]

i beat myself up for not knowing enough about my special interests a lot but then i remember the average person off the street has no idea what the carboniferous is and i feel better

[rainyydoves]

are you really bad at it or are you in "good at it" spaces

[bigbigtruck]

"are you really bad at it or are you in 'good at it' spaces" has derailed so much self-hate since I read it

this is a load bearing sentence in my psyche and I can't believe it's only 2 months old