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I’m in my late 20s and I’m on the same boat. Especially when it comes to politics. People are often much more than their politics. Unless they’re in the extreme horizontals of their beliefs.

That nice barista at the coffee shop? Could be a liberal. The dude at the office who held the elevator for you? Could be conservative. That’s just the way it works

Recently started listening to Classical on Apple Music. If not, just Pink Floyd

I live in Bangalore, India. The local language here is Kannada but I don’t speak it nor do I have many friends who speak it. I named my cat Bacardi and would call him Bacoo. Turns out the word for cat in the local language is also “Bacoo”. So for any local who saw me interact with my cat, it looked like I was calling my cat “cat”! I found out around a year later!

I personally am much more optimistic about this. There exists something called “Green Premium” which is the extra price we consumers need to pay right now to reduce our emissions. Being from India, I can’t really afford some of those Green Premium and neither can I blame people around me getting Air Conditioning or improving their living standards by getting a car in such hot and humid conditions.

My realistic hope is that the Green Premium will come down enough or even be on par with the regular price eventually where it won’t even make economic sense to have such a huge carbon footprint. I see efforts towards this end and I’m confident we’ll pull through.

That said, I also think some of the big cities in places like India will be unfortunately uninhabitable by the time we get there (around 2050)

Why won’t EVs save us?

Not all meat is bad right? My understanding is that cattle farming is harmful to the environment because cows fart methane

I think we’re looking at this wrong. “Lemmy” as it is won’t get popular. It’s an underlying platform to create an internet forum. Individual instances are what may get popular

You’re not likely to read “cocksucker619 on lemmy said so and so” in a news article. Whereas “dickrider69 on an internet forum called dickriders.world said so and so” is a more likely proposition

But when it doesn’t tell you it definitely isn’t

How expensive is it where you are? I’m not in the west and cinema costs me USD 5-10. Which means I can easily watch one or two every week

If you’re on iOS, NetNewsWire is absolutely amazing. It’s very native, fast and FOSS!

It’s strange. In my limited perspective, it doesn’t work all that well in places where you have good choices. WeChat, Grab and Gojek has worked in their markets.

MYN is struggling in India. They do everything just a little worse than the leading company.

They do cabs but not as good as Uber. They do shopping but not as good as Amazon. So and so.

Someone like Amazon should be able to venture into most of these areas easily. But somehow dedicated companies do things better most of the time

Clearly you don’t know Elon nor how citizenship works!

Can you explain why? Are you using wefwef on Android?