What is wrong with the snap store? It’s not something I’m aware of.

I go to terminal. I sudo apt-get

I get Firefox, I get my VPN, I get deluge, I get my audio player.

I use those things. I sleep well at night.

I’ve used Ubuntu for 10 years. I love it for stability, ease, and simplicity If i need to do anything there are plenty of guides. I learned how to do a lot of cool stuff on linux but I don’t really need or want to do any of it.

Mostly I just pirate movies, use a vpn, torrent, listen to music, write. My career doesn’t require much computer stuff. Why should I try something different?

I’m not working with a huge amount of interest in or energy for complicated customization. I just wanna turn it on and have it work.

I will never give up my aux.

The fuck does tendentious mean and how do I even pronounce it?

You said we will still use oil because it’s profitable. I said that we can’t stop using oil, because our earth is too hot, because we are too much burning oil. How am I off topic?

My point is, it’s not economically viable for an elderly Texan to spend 500 bucks on inflated energy prices during a heatwave, but it’s not like there is a choice. We’re gonna burn it all up because we don’t know how to stop.

Don’t tell us facts. We’ve already decided to believe whatever the fuck we want regardless. /s

We’re already forced to burn oil to power air conditioners so our elders don’t die in heatwave. Just imagine the inside of a giant Vegas casino without electricity.

My retirement plan is to die in the climate/water wars or famine or disease. If not then I’ll be working till I die. Both are suboptimal choices.

My boomer parents try to help me feel better by reminding me of a social security that will not exist, pension funds that will not exist, and social stability that will not exist. Yay. Thanks.

If I heard “traditional lifestyle” out of context and I had to assume the rest, I’d be thinking about, yeah, living with your family unless married. Most of the people in the world live like this still.

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.

It’s a circle.

Heres another layer; AI arguing about whether an AI written article is misinformation.

I am and always will be the left Ubuntu user

You like saying people go around pointing fingers, but I only see your finger pointing at me.

Did I use rude and insuting language at you? Did I make unsubstantiated claims and then back down when asked for clarification?

Your shit stinks just like everyone else’s

This entire comment chain of you trying to deflect away from taking action

Where exactly? What action am I deflecting?

You’re the who’s moving the goalpost

Please elaborate/ substantiate what have I said that is contradictory?

You said ‘voters won’t change anything’ but voting green is the way to change… If only people would vote green. So which one is it???

climate denial bullshit

Please point to the place where I denied climate change.

You’ve pointed your finger at me the entire time we’ve talked, while failing to own your own words. You can’t move the goal posts and expect anyone to give a shit about your opinions. You are saying voting can’t change anything, while saying voting is the way to change the problem. Pick one please.

What you originally said…

They could vote for policy makers that bring change, or go into politics themselves. But they don’t actually want to be affected by such policy changes. It’s always the others, always just finger pointing.

This implied that if we voted green, if I went into politics on a environmental platform, if I inconvenienced myself, it could change things. This does, indeed, suggest some sort of solution. I politely disagreed for a variety of reasons, you rudely misunderstood. Did I blame China? No I pointed out that voting green wouldn’t change China. Did I say America is awesome. No I said America is a major part of the problem.

You say everyone is out there finger pointing, but you are unclear, and blaming me for not understanding what you are trying to say perfectly. Point the finger up your tight butt instead of at me.

How shall I help again exactly? Voting? I didn’t blame China, I simply pointed out that your solution, ‘voting’ doesn’t work in a place that doesn’t have participatory democracy. China is to blame just like America is. The wealthy, powerful Chinese and Americans, who actually could do something besides idiotically arguing, decide to continue fucking the world, our children’s futures, and everything else that gets in the way of their maintaining that power. Mostly the people with power over the problem actively ignore or disregard the problem. I do vote. I pick up trash. I avoid buying new stuff, beyond that, since I’m not the CEO of Exon Mobil, I really don’t have agency.

Okay. Thanks for politely correcting me. But which country is the largest emitter of CO2?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/271748/the-largest-emitters-of-co2-in-the-world/

Not that this changes anything. It’s just another idiotic talking point as you so politely pointed out. But then again, I never asserted the idiotic notion that we could simply vote the problem away either.

You did.

Then you politely pointed out that it was stupid to talk about America.

Then you made sure to call me an idiot, because America is the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses.

Care to elaborate on any of this in a productive manner?

I felt an existential crisis about this a few years ago. I wanted everyone to simply stop everything, appreciate what they had. I sat down and spent an entire year as simply as possible. Eating simply, consuming very little. The truth is, it’s difficult to do and in our society it is not rewarded. I felt like it was a period of self improvement, but the ultimate truth is, I could not control anyone else, even if I was the living personification of self sustaining anti consumerism. Now I teach early elementary. Participating in this very small way feels like a vast improvement to hiding out like a hermit.

I can’t control anyone, especially wealthy adults. But I can influence the future adults.