“Some species were simply sitting ducks as other species migrated from one area to another.”

That isn’t true. There are lots of species hunted to extinction by indigenous peoples prior to the existence of colonization.

No need to read that article. I’ve already read Thomas Malthus. Every person predicting the end of humans as a result of consumption has been proven wrong because they can’t possibly envision the future in any manner other than dystopian. Nobody ever factors in human ingenuity into their calculations.

“tells us the [traditional indigenous knowledge] is as valuable and important as we have always said it to be and known it to be.”

Wait, are you arguing that we should listen to children and that they do have relevant life experience to drive government policy?

No. It isn’t relative at all. Increased human suffering is objectively worse. We already know smart animals get depressed. See bonobos, whales, dolphins, and others when a member of their group dies. Clearly being close to nature doesn’t stop the crises of the mind animals (including humans) face. It does increase the…

They are coming from across the country. Assumptively this means using planes. Planes have a huge carbon footprint. There are lots of youths. If the youths cared, they could hold large demonstrations in lots of cities simultaneously.

That seems pretty ridiculous given that pre-grain, everyone was living a subsistence lifestyle which is absolutely miserable. The infant mortality rate for hunter gatherers was 100 times greater than current US infant mortality rate and 30 times the current worldwide average. There was almost zero leisure time. This…

I assume some of these have to be only banned for non-prescription holders. There is no way there is a professional sport that doesn’t hand pain killers out like candy as needed.

Well after they do a bunch of unnecessarily polluting to get to DC, I am sure these little malthusians will set us straight.

“That debt has inspired a group of teenagers across the country to plan a march on Washington, D.C. on July 21 to kickstart a new, young climate movement under the banner of Zero Hour.”

While we should definitely work on climate change, this idea that we should listen to the political voice of people who needed a government PSA to stop eating tide pods is laughable. Kids know almost nothing and hearing their opinions on pretty much anything is useless.

The comment didn’t, the article did. Also, the Putin picture is pretty candidate specific. My point is that picture could have been taken during Bush, Trump, or Obama and you wouldn’t know.

Turn over is just as shitty at minimum wage places as it has always been, because the work sucks. It isn’t hard to get a minimum wage job. I’m not some boomer who is saying you can work a minimum wage job and pay your way through college. I don’t even think there many good options. I just think it is laughable and…

Where do you get this insane idea they don’t? If a city is populous enough to have Uber service, there are likely hundred of open minimum wage jobs that you could make more money at. Since the report says the drivers make less than minimum wage, this seems preferable.

So you don’t understand how the taxi industry works in most cities? You, a private contractor rent a cab for 12 hours for money from the owner. You pay your own licensing fees. You pay your own gas. You make as much as you make which could be a lot more or a lot less than what you paid to rent the cab.

That’s probably because they understand how cabs work in more cities. There isn’t a guaranteed wage. Most cabs aren’t owner operated. Cab drivers are generally contract workers who rent out the cab for a $100 or more dollars for a 12 hour shift and have to pay for gas. Depending on how busy the day, they may lose…

The idea is ludicrous. If the statement was, people have lots of choices, albeit most of them zero percent fulfilling, fun, or interesting, then sure, that is accurate. If they are saying uber drivers make less than minimum wage, then you likely have 100s of options to make more money than you do at uber.

No. If your argument is that most people don’t get to do what they would love to be doing, then you would be correct. Even with zero experience, no car, and a work permit, I had the option to work at Arby’s or Taco Bell. As I got older, I continued to have options, albeit shitty ones until I got experience and an…

You realize that in most cities, cab drivers work as contractors as well? They just rent the cab for a shift. It is only a full time job if you make back the money it cost you to rent the cab from the company that holds the medallion. You start your day at least a hundred bucks in the hole plus gas.