Majorllama

I had an account from 2013 with hundreds of thousands of comment and post karma. They banned my account without even telling me why. I filed an appeal and that was a month ago now. Still haven’t heard anything back.

I made a new account under a new email with a new Internet connection and a new device. It got banned after 30 minutes. I literally left one positive comment and upvoted a few things.

Reddit and their power tripping admins/mods can suck it.

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After 9/11 all flights were grounded for 3 days. Because there were no planes flying around over the US constantly for the first time in a long time they were able to observe insane drops in air pollution all across the US.

When the stay at home order kicked in at the start of COVID and practically every car in the US stopped driving around we noticed a similar drop in air particulate buildup in the air all across the nation.

The issue isn’t that the wind doesn’t blow it around and it eventually settles out of the sky into our drinking water or whatever. It’s always doing that. The problem is we are just also continuously producing the pollution.

I don’t think we need to go full dark ages and stop all planes and cars, but I do think it would be nice to work towards less planes and cars or at the very least less pollution producing vehicles. I think short range domestic flights should all be electric planes maybe they can figure out how to get solar panels all over the wings and battery tech will get to the point where one day they can fly across the oceans on battery as well.

Now it’s not all bad news. We have already gotten SO much better about these things in the past ~80 years alone. The smog in major cities back in the 50s was horrible.

Heres a snippet of this article: https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/news/the-origin-story-of-the-air-quality-index-and-the-toxic-smaze-that-came-before-it/#%3A~%3Atext=In+the+1950s%2C+a+toxic%2CDaily+News+Archive%2FGetty+Images]

“In the 1950s, a toxic shroud of pollution settled over New York City for six days as a shift in the weather trapped emissions from local coal power plants, factories, and cars. Some people called it “smaze,” a portmanteau of smoke and haze; the word smog hadn’t been fully popularized yet. After pollution levels spiked, dozens of people died. The same thing happened in 1963 and 1966.”

A long time ago I worked from ~10pm to ~6am. I would wake up at 9pm and inhale some food before taking off. When I got home I would eat my “dinner” and then see everyone else waking up to start their day. I would typically hang out and take care of human existence stuff until like 1pm at which point I would go to sleep.

I was single and living with family at the time so it didn’t mess up my social plans too often since my gamer buddies all kept terrible hours anyways so on my days off I would just play all through the night with them.

I actually prefer being awake while most of the world sleeps. I find it oddly comfortable knowing most people aren’t out and about. It almost feels like a weight off my consciousness at night.

But if you require social planning flexibility having flipped sleeping hours with the rest of the world can be a really big problem.

Dude who are you arguing with? I never said anything about those incredibly specific situations you’re talking about.

I already gave two things that a smaller population size might effect when it comes to elections. I am sure there are many other things that having a smaller population affects that I haven’t even considered.

I should have been more clear. I never said the words “egalitarianism” or “authoritarianism”.

That would be those “either” of the things I was referring to me having not said.

Smaller population simply means each person’s vote counts for more. Easier for small groups to have an effect when they only need to reach a smaller number of potential voters.

EDIT: spelling

…I never said either of those things?

I’m a bit more optimistic. This is just the pendulum swinging back as it always does. Don’t worry it’ll probably swing the other way in 4 years most likely.

Doesn’t sound like the worst way to spend an afternoon all things considered.

Well that’s… Good to hear? Certainly sounds better than whatever shit show the US currently has kicking off.

I’m not gonna pretend I know the exact details of how much of a slide and to what severity each countries election is going. I was nearly saying that it seems global we are in the middle of a shift right is all.

I never said the politics were the same as my country.

And many countries are currently in the middle of or already have elected right wing leaders. Not really propaganda when it’s verifiably a fact.

Oh absolutely not. It’s a much smaller population and being an island it’s got a figurative and literal buffer to the rest of the world.

I have always loved New Zealand. It’s like the cooler uncle of Australia minus all the spiders the size of my head.

And it’s just a beautiful place. Makes me wanna go frolicking in the mountains with an elf, dwarf and old white guy lol

Isn’t New Zealand currently going through their own slide to the right? The Māori only represent like ~17% of the population over there. New Zealand just elected a conservative coalition.

Seems like you’re just moving from one place you (presumably) don’t agree with to a new place that also just signed up for shit you probably aren’t going to agree with.

I mean it looks beautiful but if your travel is for political reasons I fear you’re just heading to a different slice of the same.

Have a safe flight.

Oh I am very aware. We once had like an inch of hail build up on the streets around here. This is a city that hasn’t seen snow or ice on the roads since like 1897 mind you. Anyway when that small sheet of slushy ice plopped down it basically gridlocked the city with accidents because nobody slowed down or anything. People really don’t take changing conditions into account very often.

Rare restraint from the Floridians. I’m surprised nobody is out with a lifted truck, rope and sled. We usually see that every time is snows below the typical elevations around here.

Snow>beach

That being said you live in Florida and you’re being robbed of your sun which ain’t cool.

How are the drivers handling it? I know when snow goes places it typically doesn’t go lots of drivers don’t change any behaviors which leads to many many cars in ditches and piled up.

Trumps victory squarely falls on the shoulders of the Democrats and the greater left. Not some genius plan from king Cheeto. It was a master class in how to lose an election by the Dems.

I really REALLY want them to learn their lesson but I fear they super won’t.

You’re not the brightest sandwich in the toolshed are you.

Also based. We need more people like the two of you around here.