Deme

“neo-monarchist” “hardcore libertarian” I love it when people have coherent views which aren’t self-contradictory.

X being bad is no argument against doing something (even a little) about a different bad thing Y. Fuck excessive flight travel and fuck generative AI. There’s no need to only pick one thing to hate.

Not if it can’t spring off due to being pressed against the ground by the weight of the bird. I suspect that’s part of the joke. Don’t scare the bird.

Ah, whataboutism, how refreshing.

Ok, well in that case I guess we should just keep looking at those ugly as shit pixar-ish chipmunks. Maybe their cutesy faces will motivate someone of the 5k monthly visitors here to become the next unabomber who finally defeats Peter Thiel.

It’s just a single png. If somebody kicks up their feet and stops caring after getting the mods to change it, then do you honestly think that they could’ve gotten anything significant done in the first place?

how pretty the sky looks when I happen to notice it.

I second this one with every fibre of my being. Look at the sky every chance you get. Clouds are beautiful.

Photography also helped me learn to keep my eyes open for all the pretty sights around. There’s a lot more of those waiting to be witnessed out there than one might think.

None of that means that what OP is proposing wouldn’t still be the right thing to do. A drop in the ocean, sure, but still preferable to the alternative.