I haven’t gone the cold shower route, but I take 2min showers. I know bc my toothbrush is on an automatic timer.
How can you brush your teeth and clean yourself at the same time? Especially in 2 minutes? I’m bald and I couldn’t get that done.
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This may be your problem.
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It’s called Sunrise. I help them write stuff. I do find them a bit too anti-capitalistic for my liking though.
Then STOP IT.
Both you and @unreal24278 . Stop worrying about all this shit. Let working adults handle it. (Shut up, @zecarlo 
. I know what you’re going to say about the “adults” part.)
You’re STUDENTS. Go focus on your studies and picking up skills while preparing for your prospective careers.
If you MUST stay, do something more constructive at your point in life like finding ways to procure funding for whatever cause you guys are into. Think objectively. Like an entrepreneur. Whatever. Do something that will benefit you later in life first.
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I feel like this is the “hold my beer” equivalent uttered by each generation right before they go epically bungle some shit for successive generations. Speaking only for mid-thirties Americans, we’ve really handled the shit out of our current situation, haven’t we? This is the only time you get to study without the burden of additional expectations, so don’t misinterpret this as me saying studies aren’t paramount (edit: or that worrying excessively about issues of this magnitude is healthy). I’m just saying I don’t mind seeing the next generation playing more heads-up ball than I did at the same age.
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If it’s having such a detrimental effect on their psyches, then they shouldn’t be doing it.
It is also why I suggested an alternative. Which is to focus efforts on doing something for their causes which will enable them to pick up useful skills at the same time.
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Well, I want to be a professor and I’m spending summers and a lot of the school year doing research and econ research club is my primary extracurricular. I’m also self studying various maths
Enterpreneurship isn’t for me. I want to invest though
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It’s not about entrepreneurship. It’s about thinking about the business side of things, which requires objective thinking and some knowledge about how the world works. How are organizations getting their funding? How do they convince corporations to spend their CSR budgets on them? How do they get 3rd party vendors to do pro bono work? How do they convince places such as restaurants and hotels to allow them to conduct fundraising events for little to no cost? What must you give them back to obtain these? Exposure in your campaigns? Networks? Industrial goodwill? How do you make them trust that you aren’t going to fuck up their reputations or even investing their money in you instead of something else? How do you show that you aren’t going to do a shitty job with regards to things like your events? Can you write a proper proposal? Lots of things to think about.
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But that’s not really what has happened. Shit has been bungled, I’m not disputing that. That said… We’ve inherited the best situation ever, by far, in all of history. Today. Right now. As we speak.
Things are far from perfect, but let’s stay grounded. I was contemplating this line of thought on my drive home today when I probably should have been focused on driving.
If my 2014 Toyota Tundra with the outstanding 5.7 liter V8 was a time machine and I could somehow travel back to 1980 with it and everything I had in it during my commute, I’d be the richest man on the planet.
BY FAR.
If my original form factor i-phone SE somehow retained all of the capabilities it has today for me, right now, I’d be the most unfairly advantaged human to have ever been born. I’d be so far ahead by an unfathomable margin for anyone who came before the information age that my capabilities would seem like magical omnipotence. If I had the most recent model instead of my battery-deprived relic, I could probably start the most self-serving, backwards religious cult to have ever existed.
That’s a fact, not hyperbole. Trickle down economics may not mean automatic prosperity for everyone when compared to their contemporaries, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that the poorest among us today (at least in the USA) would also be the richest person ever, by far, in the same imaginary time travel situation to 1980 that I described above.
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Great! right up my alley
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I’m not worrying about climate change and whatnot. It’s the prolonged snap/start/stop lockdowns that’s having a negative impact on my psyche due to prolonged periods of flat out isolation that ensue each time we lock down.
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Yeah, I know. I was making a general statement. You are very smart. I’ve very sure you can find something to focus your mental and physical efforts on that will benefit you and, perhaps, society.
I can give @anna_5588 some suggestions because I’ve done shit like that and she’s studying something that’s a little similar to what I do. I’m not sure what to suggest to you other than make general statements as a guide for your thought process, which doesn’t mean I don’t equally give a fuck.
I’m not doing this in a patronizing manner even though you’re young enough to be my son. But you both lack life experience and sometimes you need to hear certain things to get out of a rut. And also realize that you’re already above lots of your peers when it comes to intelligence and maturity. So I’m pretty fucking confident you can do it.
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This is a lot, but I agree with you in principle. My point is that each generation usually creates or leaves at least a few dumpster fires that outlast that generation’s ability to manage them. So if the 20-somethings are getting a head start on the solutions, I’m not going to be the one to shush them.
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I’ll take up that torch whenever the 20-somethings, or anyone for that matter, start to advocate for nonsense policies shrouded behind a flimsy pretense of “trusting the science” without presenting a shred of evidence.
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I can provide quite a bit of literature on the topic of global warming that would potentially make even the most staunch of climate change deniers somewhat concerned.
There is modelling comparing fluctuations in temp/polar ice cap density over thousands of years vs the unprecedentedly rapid pace we are seeing glaciers, ice up in the Arctic circle/within Antarctica melt at.
The data regarding weather extremes, particularly heat, droughts, the strength and frequency by which tropical cyclones are devastating regions within the Pacific. The current level of CO2 in the atmosphere over the past few hundred thousand years and more. There is a direct correlation regarding human activity, dependence on fossil fuels and the likes and the rapid deterioration we are seeing within the earth’s climate
The past 40 years in particular appears to have done a looooooooooooot of damage. Chalk it up to whatever you want, but at a certain point various regions will become inhospitable. We are already seeing this in certain shithole third world countries wherein temperatures are getting so hot the human body literally can’t handle being outside without being doused in cold water every few minutes. There’s hot and then there’s “shit, you actually can’t stay alive if you live here” heat.
Is that going to happen everywhere? Probably not, but those who already live in arid climates ought to be extremely concerned. My biggest worry about global warming is that at some point snow will become a rare commodity… I doubt this will happen, but it’s my favourite form of precipitation and I’d be devastated if I was unable to ever see snow again… Haven’t seen snow in years
The outback is an example of a region with weather so extreme it’s virtually uninhabitable.
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I’m sure you can present that. I wasn’t suggesting that you could not.
I was speaking broadly, not specifically.
If you want a specific example of what I was talking about, please refer to your own thread about the government-imposed restrictions you’re presently expressing a great deal of distaste for.
What is the pretense for all of that?
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It’S fOr ThE gReAtEr GoOd.
That’s how the restrictions are rationalised. Thankfully it FINALLY appears people are growing tired of this bullshit, though they’re still unwilling to say anything about it because we’ve been conditioned to expect covid zero. Any other alternative scares people shitless due to the political grooming that has been going on throughout the past year
At the same time people are getting fed up, but they’re very afraid of the alternative to constant lockdowns… Which is covid going through the community leading to preventable deaths within primarily the elderly as the median age of death from covid 19 is beyond that of the average male/female lifespan. Lockdowns also lead to preventable deaths through other means but apparently a covid death is more important than a death from drug overdose, depression, cancer etc.
The worry is that hospitals would reach capacity and overflow, thus barring those with other legitimate medical predicaments from receiving treatment… But here’s the thing, lockdowns cause this too because our public healthcare system shuts down every time a lockdown ensues and elective surgeries and procedures through the public system are put off until MONTHS after lockdowns end.
Currently with a statistical majority (50%+) of the elderly/at risk demographics vaccinated (despite otherwise low Vax rates) the death toll of the outbreak in NSW appears to be relatively low, the hospitalisation rate is also acceptable. We have tens of thousands of covid ICU beds in Aus… Put them to use, otherwise why did we build them?
Chances are hospitals would be strained, but they wouldn’t quite reach capacity.
There was only one self-proclaimed climate change denier in this thread dude. And I don’t even think he’s really a “denier”. He does question the science but the underlying issue for him, I think, is he just thinks the solutions suck.
Are you suggesting that you don’t trust the science as it is being presented to Australian citizens? Why else would you object to the conditions you’re being subjected to, you retrograde droog?
What’s wrong with you? Why are you anti-science?