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Post #639392

2026-03-13 11:23 UTC

On the plus side, at least future generations won't have the cognitive skills to judge us harshly.

Replies (13)

  • @mayintoronto@beige.party 2026-03-13 11:28

    @elizayer Ooooof

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  • @abhayakara@mastodon.nl 2026-03-13 11:35

    @elizayer If only this required cognitive skill... :(

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  • @knowprose@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 12:11

    @elizayer ok, that hurt. I don't have kids. Now it hurts less...

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  • @joost@freesewing.social 2026-03-13 12:21

    @elizayer following you on the strength of this post 🫡

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  • @Npars01@mstdn.social 2026-03-13 12:24

    @elizayer https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/09/trump-oil-ceo-donation https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/09/climate/trump-oil-gas-mar-a-lago.html https://www.iisd.org/articles/insight/cost-fossil-fuel-reliance-governments-provided-15-trillion-2023 https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/fossil-fuel-subsidies The fossil fuel industry plans on 1 billion climate change deaths this century alone https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-warn-1-billion-people-on-track-to-die-from-climate-change https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2024/04/02/how-to-avoid-one-billion-climate-deaths.html We cannot be confident that there will be "future generations" with ecocidal oil oligarchs running global policy. https://hsph.harvard.edu/climate-health-c-change/news/fossil-fuel-air-pollution-responsible-for-1-in-5-deaths-worldwide/

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  • @eLearningTechie@mas.to 2026-03-13 13:17

    @elizayer That's exactly the right way to put it. As painful as that is.

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  • @drliss@toot.lgbt 2026-03-13 13:20

    @elizayer I tried to laugh at this but it just came out as a sob....

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  • @nickrauchen@c.im 2026-03-13 13:30

    @elizayer Devastating, but also plausibly true. 🙄

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  • @crisps@mastodon.social 2026-03-13 13:38

    @elizayer said every generation ever.

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  • @IncHulk@mastodon.green 2026-03-13 13:39

    @elizayer Are you not a little too optimistic in your opinion? Are you sure there will be future generations?

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  • @elizayer When I saw Idiocracy for the first time, maybe a year after it came out, I remember laughing. I'm no longer laughing.

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  • @hypostase@bsd.network 2026-03-13 13:45

    @elizayer before or after they rediscover archeology?

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  • @elshara@www.mediacy.net 2026-03-13 14:09

    @sb @elizayer That's something that I don't want them to have to inherret our bad decisions as a generation.

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