• Psythik@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Because my neighbors are assholes.

    Also I want a yard. And an attic. I’ve got nowhere to go to enjoy some sunshine in private, and nowhere to store my shit. Apartment/condo living sucks.

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      11 months ago

      Wow, sunshine and storage. 2 incredible excuses that absolutely justifying utterly destroying the planet.

      Acquire less “shit”. Walk to the local park.

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        Compromise? There are just less of us.

        I’m not taking eugenics or genocide or any kind of policy, I’m just suggesting we allow declining birthrates to persist. Stop bowing to capitalistic urges, stop “keeping up with the Joneses”.

        Reducing the number of humans is the best way to reduce climate impact.

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          This is Malthusian nonsense. The United States, for example, is 4% of the World’s population but still uses 25% of the world’s resources annually. The United States outsources their pollution and their production to the third world, where the labor is cheapest due to imperialism, and then says “the third world is responsible for the climate change because of their carbon emissions! We need to cut down on the number of people!”

          You’ve got suburbanites with 5x the carbon footprint of the average citizen of the third world, you’ve got billionaires who own thousands of hectares of land, you’ve got celebrities burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel on 1 minute flights, there are way more ways to cut down on carbon emissions than Epic Meme Thanos Policy. You could start with solar, wind, nuclear, ending fossil fuel consumption, ending wars (which btw, war both reduces the population AND destroys the environment, showing the two aren’t as inversely proportional as you think), walkable cities, apartment blocks and public transit, but the reactionary fear of working class people of different backgrounds congregating with each other and realizing they actually have a lot in common, makes the ruling class scared.

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      11 months ago

      Most of the parks near me are fairly empty. There are also decent trails that are generally empty. Apartment/condo living is fine.

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        Parks and trails aren’t private. Maybe I just want to drop acid in a safe place anytime I want, and run around the yard naked, okay? Can’t do that in an apartment.

        Also you forgot to assess the issue of shitty neighbors. I need my space to get away from them.

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          Many parks are large enough that you can easily find privacy. Nudity is perfectly legal in most decent cities so dropping acid naked in a secluded part of the park would not be much of an issue.

          I didn’t address shitty neighbors because I don’t have a decent solution. Same with shitty neighbors in SFHs. I could see noise being more of an issue especially if insulation is crap.

          I’m not saying apartment living is perfection but I also would not say it sucks. Both apartments/condos and single family homes have their issues.

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      The worst six months of my life were spent in an apartment building with people living very loudly on both sides and above me, I got very little sleep that whole time. Couple above either fucked or argued in the early evening, children on one side were up at 3am screaming and the people on the other side were constantly moving shit around.