I think Earth Hour is a pretty noble idea and have no qualms with it.
It's not a noble idea, Kagera. It's slacktivism. It's doing something entirely meaningless for a brief period of time that barely inconveniences you, and then promptly not giving a shit about it for the rest of the year.
In actuality, in most areas that sort of rapid unilateral power down during a peak energy hour actually puts strain on the grid and wastes energy, and even when it isn't directly wasteful it still does fuck all to actually change anything or affect the environment.
The WWF (the Panda people, not the wrestlers) are all "Oh, but look at the energy that was theoretically not used during that hour!"
Yeah, you know what? That theoretical energy? It doesn't just go in a box somewhere and somehow that much less strain was put on the environment. That is not how modern electric power grids work.
It actually just gets wasted and goes nowhere and does nothing.
Earth Hour is one of the worst examples of pathetic slacktivism that has caught on recently. It's stupid and self-congratulatory and idiotic, and I do nothing but scowl at its participants and proponents.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
Cass the only way that webcomic could have been worse was if you replaced the women by poorly-sketched cat-men.
I've been working on a complex calculation that determines just how bad a webcomic is. Part of it includes expectations, so like, if you look at the website and art and actually there is clearly effort in there (even if the result is bad), or its professionally done, that means it takes a way bigger hit than some sixteen year old drawing cat men on lined paper.
GOD I READ SO MANY BAD WEBCOMICS
There is no complex calculation needed. If you like it the comic probably sucks.
This is so mean, I like lots of good webcomics, and most of the bad webcomics I don't really like, I just ... it's a symbiotic relationship, okay. They sustain me.
I don't really mean it Cass, and even if I did who gives a fuck what I think about your taste in comics. As long as you are entertained that's all that matters.
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My neck, my back, my FUPA and my crack.
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LudiousI just wanted a sandwich A temporally dislocated QuiznosRegistered Userregular
Honestly, as easy as it is to hate on slacktivists, at least they believe in incremental morality. To them, life isn't just "oh man if I can't be 100% environmentalist I might as well be 0% environmentalist and shit on anyone who tries to help in whatever way they can"
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"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Honestly, as easy as it is to hate on slacktivists, at least they believe in incremental morality. To them, life isn't just "oh man if I can't be 100% environmentalist I might as well be 0% environmentalist and shit on anyone who tries to help in whatever way they can"
Eddy, tossing a couple of cans of beans into the food bank at Christmas isn't, you know, really helping homelessness or whatever.
But it is doing something. That something is pretty minor, but it's something.
Earth Hour isn't "something". It's nothing. It isn't helping. The people who organize and encourage it don't really understand how electrical power grids work, and they're not very good at actually seeing where the causal relationships between electrical power and environmental damage begin and end.
Isn't belief in agency just as important as agency itself? I don't give a shit what Earth Hour is or does or even if it is ultimately harmful to energy consumption or the environment. What the actual effect is is meaningless - the importance of these largely symbolic acts is placing the locus of control to the ordinary person, to understand that saving energy is in fact a desirable goal.
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"and the morning stars I have seen
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Isn't belief in agency just as important as agency itself? I don't give a shit what Earth Hour is or does or even if it is ultimately harmful to energy consumption or the environment. What the actual effect is is meaningless - the importance of these largely symbolic acts is placing the locus of control to the ordinary person, to understand that saving energy is in fact a desirable goal.
I completely and utterly disagree, beginning right with the first sentence and going forward to this entire post.
Mim I searched for "Jake Shields butt" in GIS because really that's his best feature but it was all stuff like "Jake Shields is training his butt off to fight GSP" because google is sexist towards my desires to ogle bro butt.
Take her out to dinner and then give her a firm handshake
Sometimes when I fantasize about my goals I think
1. Film school
2. Graduate
3. Get a job
4. Get my own project going
5. "Oh hey, have you met Alison yet? I was just telling her about your next project... "
because I am naive.
At some point after 5 she and I have sex, if the implication wasn't clear enough.
Mim I searched for "Jake Shields butt" in GIS because really that's his best feature but it was all stuff like "Jake Shields is training his butt off to fight GSP" because google is sexist towards my desires to ogle bro butt.
I typically only like muscular men if they're doing each other.
I'm all about skinny/chubby/scrawny dudes.
I had a teacher who was overweight, he was so fucking hot to me. I'd stare the entire semester at him with loving eyes. Like "Oh my god, date meeeee."
I'm more about personality in general though. If you have a sexy personality, I'll find you sexy. Allison Brie seems like she has a great personality so she's sexy to me. Same with Brandon Routh.
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TehSlothHit Or MissI Guess They Never Miss, HuhRegistered Userregular
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So it's like chitterlings then.
/flips table
/carefully picks table back up, arranging everything just so
/flips table
GOOD QUESTION!
also this
What the hell are chitterlings?
/not black enough
It's not a noble idea, Kagera. It's slacktivism. It's doing something entirely meaningless for a brief period of time that barely inconveniences you, and then promptly not giving a shit about it for the rest of the year.
In actuality, in most areas that sort of rapid unilateral power down during a peak energy hour actually puts strain on the grid and wastes energy, and even when it isn't directly wasteful it still does fuck all to actually change anything or affect the environment.
The WWF (the Panda people, not the wrestlers) are all "Oh, but look at the energy that was theoretically not used during that hour!"
Yeah, you know what? That theoretical energy? It doesn't just go in a box somewhere and somehow that much less strain was put on the environment. That is not how modern electric power grids work.
It actually just gets wasted and goes nowhere and does nothing.
Earth Hour is one of the worst examples of pathetic slacktivism that has caught on recently. It's stupid and self-congratulatory and idiotic, and I do nothing but scowl at its participants and proponents.
I don't really mean it Cass, and even if I did who gives a fuck what I think about your taste in comics. As long as you are entertained that's all that matters.
pig intestines.
Black people LOOOOOOVE them.
No, it's like a poorly executed penis joke.
No but seriously fill [chat] with Allison Brie.
Hurting myself.
People just don't understand me.
I almost want some.
Almost.
OH. Chitlins (I spell it how I pronounce it).
That shit is awesome with ketchup.
One day I will combine my black side and my puerto rican side and make chitlins with rice and gondulas.
Honestly, as easy as it is to hate on slacktivists, at least they believe in incremental morality. To them, life isn't just "oh man if I can't be 100% environmentalist I might as well be 0% environmentalist and shit on anyone who tries to help in whatever way they can"
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Who would?
French Canadians.
too white for primetime
Meh. It's okay.
Gets bothersome when you're expected to be part of a hivemind.
Or when people assume I speak Spanish.
No, sorry. I'm a failure as a Puerto Rican.
Eddy, tossing a couple of cans of beans into the food bank at Christmas isn't, you know, really helping homelessness or whatever.
But it is doing something. That something is pretty minor, but it's something.
Earth Hour isn't "something". It's nothing. It isn't helping. The people who organize and encourage it don't really understand how electrical power grids work, and they're not very good at actually seeing where the causal relationships between electrical power and environmental damage begin and end.
"You've lost weight!"
This is terrible because it means he monitors my weight and if I stop stress vomiting and put it all back on he will see and judge
Sigh, fine
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Hot. Fucking. Damn.
I completely and utterly disagree, beginning right with the first sentence and going forward to this entire post.
Don't worry, I'll fix it.
Oh, that'll do. Yes, that'll do just fine.
Agreed
twitch.tv/tehsloth
Ehhh.
Brandon Routh would be better.
Maybe even Woody Allen.
Yeah I have weird taste in men.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
And I just can't see Annie the same anymore after reading the interview where Brie details some of her past...ahem, exploits.
(maybe NSFW)
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you don't want to.
EDIT: That last pic is forbidden, Fluffy. what are you trying to pull.
Sometimes when I fantasize about my goals I think
1. Film school
2. Graduate
3. Get a job
4. Get my own project going
5. "Oh hey, have you met Alison yet? I was just telling her about your next project... "
because I am naive.
At some point after 5 she and I have sex, if the implication wasn't clear enough.
I typically only like muscular men if they're doing each other.
I'm all about skinny/chubby/scrawny dudes.
I had a teacher who was overweight, he was so fucking hot to me. I'd stare the entire semester at him with loving eyes. Like "Oh my god, date meeeee."
I'm more about personality in general though. If you have a sexy personality, I'll find you sexy. Allison Brie seems like she has a great personality so she's sexy to me. Same with Brandon Routh.
Forget that, this is my plan:
twitch.tv/tehsloth
I got to see it.
Guess you're just not on the list.