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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I mean, it’s weird to encourage people not to increase their physical activity if they’re trying to manage their weight.

    While it’s true you can’t out-train a bad diet, exercising, even for just 30 minutes every other day will go a long. Running a 5k will take about half an hour depending on your fitness level and will burn a good 350 calories or so, more if you’re overweight. Do that 3 times a week and that’s the equivalent of a about 2 meals you’ve burnt off (or one really unhealthy meal). Plus getting outside and exercising is good for your mental health.








  • If you enjoy fighting this hard, if you have the free time, and the money and the energy to do so, and it makes you feel good, you should, but recognize it comes from a place of privilege.

    Most people are overworked, broke, and tired. To expect them to cycle to work and grow their own food, and spend their weekends community building, when megacorporations are polluting more everyday than anyone ever could in a lifetime, is out of touch with reality.

    Until we can make sweeping systemic changes to society, any individuals efforts to reduce consumption is futile, and thinking that everyone must do everything they can to save the human race because humans are so vital to the universe is delusional. Humans can go extinct, it’s fine, it wont matter.



  • We’re not going to all die in half a century.

    We haven’t even reached the tipping point yet so if you want to believe humans can still be saved, that is still technically a possibility - at least short term.

    Ultimately humanity will go extinct one day, there’s no way around that. If you want to believe the worst news (I’m not saying you shouldn’t) then sure, it looks like humanity is in its way out sooner than later. But it’s not within your lifetime, not even your kids if you have one, This is a slow burn, it’s gonna take hundreds of years at least.

    And ultimately there’s nothing you can do about it. Even if you go vegan and stop driving, it’s not going to change billionaire superyachts and private planes. It’s not going to stop Nestle ruining our rainforests. Or BP destroying our coasts with oil spills. It’s not going to stop our politicians being unable to enact policies to save ourselves.

    The extinction of humanity is not in your lifetime and not your fault. Stop worrying and go watch TV