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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyz•BlobfishEnglish
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    5 days ago

    …and this is the puffy-faced fizzblood. We have learned many interesting things about Terra from these creatures. For instance, while they often cry blood, occasionally their eyes will just, you know, burst. Seems to be pretty random, we think they evolved to burst their eyes to confuse predators

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoAntiwork@lemmy.world•People call hard-work a ‘scam’ and no longer think it will lead to a better life
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    13 days ago

    I’m self employed. I enjoy my work. It’s very rewarding, but every time i get a little extra money sometime comes along and takes it.

    I have no retirement savings. My retirement plan is to kill myself when I’m too sick to work. I’ve made sure my life insurance is written so that it will pay out to my wife even if I off myself.

    I come from a long line of men who don’t die easy. I watched my grandfather refuse food or water after being diagnosed with stage 4 bone cancer and still live for two weeks. That was after ten years of enduring strike recovery. My dad coughed up a lung from congestive heart failure for over two years before finally wasting away, looking like a pregnant Holocaust survivor. Same for several other uncles and great-uncles. I figure I’ve got another 25 years before I’m a liability. I’m already physically miserable. Middle age sucks. Old age sucks even harder and I’m not even there yet.

    I’m gonna follow one of my great-uncles examples and go for a walk in the woods. I’ll make sure whatever SARs volunteer that draws the short straw isn’t too traumatized when they find me. Just another old man that chose his own time

    ETA: to be clear, i don’t wish to die (any more than normal lol). But I am pragmatic about the reality of old age and my likely path. Will I feel the same in 25-35 years? Maybe not. We’ll see what happens. Perhaps our fortunes will change for the better, perhaps we will be able to immigrate to a nation that has better social safety nets, perhaps we die in a meteor strike in 2039

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoScience@mander.xyz•Transparent paper-based material can hold boiling water and degrade in deep ocean in under a year
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    3 months ago

    I think you missed the second part of my response.

    Lemme spell it out more explicitly. The majority of voting humans will not accept a world without single use plastics. This is because they are dumb as shit. If an alternative is presented that is functionally the same the masses will more readily accept a ban on petroleum based single use non-biodegradable plastics (paper replacements are not functionally the same. see paper straws). Now I don’t want to get bogged down in pedantry, so let’s keep this broad.

    Packaging materials, coffee cup lids, shrink wrap, the list goes on. The world is addicted to cheap throwaway plastics and they will need to be weaned off or the petroleum lobby will just rile up the majority and regulation will fail. This is what I’m saying. Will the alternative have it’s own problems? Absolutely. The hydrophobic coatings they’ll put on food containers will give people cancer. Your scenario at the top is very probable, or something like it. But good luck convincing them to jump straight to sustainability.

    Hell, I’m typing this on a device made of materials mined by children and assembled by political prisoners. And when it breaks, I’ll go buy another, because I need it to work. If you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go drink until I’m not thinking about this anymore