It’s not child marriages but girl child marriages. Women aren’t marrying little boys. It’s men all over the world chasing or marrying literal girl children
As I sort my rubbish into 4 different coloured bins that all get emptied into the same landfill, switching off lights to save energy, billionaires cruise around in billion dollar yachts and build billion dollar data centers that waste more energy and water than entire continents.
Whenever I catch myself not reading things completely, I remember anti-intellectualism is on the rise, literacy is in decline, and I don’t want to be a VICTIM!
I cannot wrap my head around having enough money to end world hunger, homelessness, or poverty and just… NOT doing it. Like, what do you want to use all that money for? You’re literally going to die anyway?
icymi: over the next two decades, most of the planet is projected to shift into extreme conditions considered broadly unsurvivable for at least 25-50% of all Earth's species
Everyone actually hates capitalism, and it bothers them every day, but they don’t realize they hate capitalism, so they end up complaining about each issue separately as if they are unrelated problems with no underlying cause.
turns out, reading voraciously, moving your body, loving people without keeping score, protecting your solitude, chasing nothing but your own growth, and occasionally staying out too late with people who make you laugh until it hurts is not a bad way to build a life.
If you want to push back against tech’s encroachment into every corner of our lives, you need to be reading books. They’re keen to create a world in which most people are illiterate & addicted to slop, a world without poetry, imagination or knowledge. Reading is resistance.
1) get more interesting friends
2) look at yourself first - what’s your average screen time?
Yes, for a lot of my friends, free time = screen time. But I also have friends who:
• Are in a volleyball league
• Host poker nights
• Play instruments
• Learn new languages
Etc.
Being an American now is just waking up and being told how much more money the president and his billionaire buddies are stealing, then being expected to act like it’s a normal fucking day.
A truly intelligent species wouldn’t poison its own drinking water, strip away its topsoil, drive wildlife populations into decline, and create chronic illness through the very food system it depends on.
You need to be slowmaxxing. You need to be reading long, fat books. You need to be making 48-hour chocolate chip cookies. You need to spend hours watching wildlife, you need to spend 15+ min making your coffee. You need to breathe in and breathe out. You need to be slowwwwwwwwww.
If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, bailouts, legal protections, and trade barriers to survive? And when ordinary people ask for help, why is it suddenly called socialism?
“You’re not legally allowed to get an abortion, but I’m legally allowed to kill pregnant people.” This is proof that it isn’t actually a moral issue at all and that it’s just about controlling women’s bodies.