Das Wichtigste ist es nicht zu fliegen, das spart sogar Geld.

Beim Strom könnte man auch als Mieter zu einem Ökostromanbieter wechseln, die sind auch nicht mehr unbedingt teurer.

Statt Fleisch kann man entweder auf Lebensmittel zurückgreifen die günstiger sind (z.B. Haferflocken, Bohnen, Linsen, gefrorenes Gemüse, Falafelmischung) oder es mit pflanzenbasierten Fleischalternativen ersetzen. Die von den Lidl und Kaufland Eigenmarken sind inzwischen mindestens so günstig wie Billigfleisch und die anderen Supermärkte sind auch auf dem Weg.

Also nachhaltiger zu Leben geht auch als Mieter und ohne reich zu sein.

Unsustainable consumerism is a big part of this problem and if we continue to give them even more money to lobby against us, we have already lost.

The belief that consumer habits don’t need to change and that everything can be solved by just voting for the right party every 4 years is not based in reality. I wish it was this easy.

If people buy and drive gas cars when they don’t have to, they are perpetuating the fossil fuel industry. If people choose to buy factory farmed products, they are funding factory farming with their money.

The sustainable options like electric cars and plant based alternatives also need demand to compete with the much more destructive counterparts. We have to push for the solutions, not finance the problems.

Can you think of a more profit-friendly message than “Just keep on consuming more, it’s fine, don’t question the consequences, keep up the status quo”? I can’t.

I don’t think the official one is gonna be bad by any means. They will probably fix the biggest flaws with hindsight and modernize the graphics, and it will be a big improvement over the original if everything goes right.

But ultimately they had deadlines to meet and many more games in the pipeline, whilst the Skyblivion team can work on everything for as long as it takes, experiment much more and put as much detail and soul into everything as they want. I think that will make a difference, but both will be good games.

Offering at least one option that don’t include factory farmed food, that caused a lot of animal suffering in it’s production, should be the bare minimum.

“When I specifically go to a restaurant run by animal lovers and I can’t even get any dead animals from them, you shouldn’t be able to get food that didn’t harm animals in any restaurant!”

Wow. I guess there really are people who want to make it even harder to avoid causing cruelty, for no reason… Just why?

Skyblivion (the fan remake) will probably have much more attention to detail and will also release this year, after over 10 years of development. The dev log videos look amazing. I’d be very surprised if the official remake is as good.

Mein Eindruck ist dass viele Milliardäre Trump eher für niedrigere Steuern, Deregulierung und Einfluss unterstützt haben um Profite zu steigern. Die Entwicklungen in die Richtung werden ja auch sehr schnell vorangetrieben. Eine Weltwirtschaftskrise würde im Gegensatz zu diesen Interessen stehen und ein Risiko darstellen, dass sie einen Teil ihres Reichtums verlieren und andere Akteure als Gewinner hervorgehen.

Eine Diktatur nach Russlands Vorbild ist eigentlich auch nicht ideal für sie, weil sie sich dadurch Trump unterwerfen müssen, viel mehr seiner Willkür ausgesetzt sind und alles viel unberechenbarer wird. Die bisherige Situation, in der die politischen Parteien mehr oder weniger direkt dem Kapital dienen, scheint mir für die meisten Superreichen prinzipiell vorteilhafter zu sein als eine oligarchische Diktatur.

Die Frage ist was passiert wenn die meisten Milliardäre da keinen Bock mehr drauf haben. Können sie Trump abhalten oder müssen sie ihn loswerden?

If you’re browsing on mobile, I can recommend the app Voyager for Lemmy or Thunder for Lemmy. I liked their layout the best from the few I tried.

I wonder if they were just too blinded by greed to act rationally or were under the impression that they can control Trump enough to keep the economy afloat.

Die Frustration teile ich, aber man muss auch bedenken was für massive negative Auswirkungen das haben wird wenn die dringend benötigten Investitionen nicht getätigt werden, insbesondere für die Ukraine und unsere Demokratie. Ich finde die Grünen müssen ordentlich verhandeln dass der Klimaschutz und Soziales nicht auf der Strecke bleiben. Gar nicht zuzustimmen ist aus meiner Sicht keine Option.

Aber… aber… Arbeit muss sich wieder lohnen! (natürlich nicht durch einen angemessenen Mindestlohn, sondern durch Armut wenn man nicht jede Schinderei mitmacht)

We also got Russia and the US weaponizing social media to support far-right parties. The EU needs to get their shit together.

The climate impact of the poorest is nothing compared to the pollution of rich countries anyways and the same is true for factory farming. The money will likely be used for much more environmentally destructive things now instead. There’s nothing positive in this from any progressive perspective.

I can imagine which kind of gun enthusiasts will form militias then, and what kind of values they will enforce… Certainly not equality and the rule of law. Many would probably hunt or terrorize immigrants and LGBT+ folks for leisure, for example.

Sure, police culture and accountability are broken in many places (especially in the US), but just getting rid of them while leaving a power vacuum for any nut jobs with power fantasies to fill, with literally 0 accountability, would be even more of an absolute nightmare for minorities.

And when it’s the only way to keep their family from starving, for example, people will consent in droves, securing supply.

I feel like if a child with a similar level of cognition as the cow harms other children, most people will say they have no moral agency yet, and will still see harvesting their leather as immoral.

There are two ways to resolve that inconsistency…

And the good thing is, when demand for (human) leather is higher than supply, people will just breed some more humans, keep them on farms, use their labor and sell their leather. With nothing going to waste, just the beautiful circle of life.

We’ve gotten quite efficient at doing that so there’s plenty opportunity to have more jobs, make a profit and to provide a product at an affordable price point, at the same time, all with human leather farms. Just have to compromise on welfare and sustainability step by step for more profit, but humans are already really great at ignoring such things when it’s advantageous to them, so most won’t ask any pesky questions anyways. We just have to normalize human leather (from factory farms) and everything will be great.

Machine learning has some genuinely good use cases though. Protein folding is probably the most useful for society yet, especially for medicine research. LLMs can at least save a lot of tedious work, depending on the task, if used responsibly.

Regarding fossil fuels, it really depends on the use. For new electrity production, residential heating and cars for example it’s usually not needed anymore, and just a massive waste of carbon budget. For other stuff, the alternatives still have a long way to go to become practical.

If murder of a minority group was legalized and someone decided to murder their innocent neighbors and steal their stuff to make a buck, would all of the responsibility really fall on the legislator and none on the murderer?

Imo an immoral act stays immoral whether or not it’s encouraged or discouraged by the government or social environment. I find it somewhat more understandable how people can carry out something cruel if it’s legal and completely normalized, but “It’s not their fault” is much more apologetic than I’m comfortable with. Especially when they make millions off the suffering and deaths of other people (due to inadequate medical care).

Crypto bros depend on more people speculating with their currency of choice to increase the market value. If they’re pissed, that’s a good sign.