I see, thats actually good practice, just unusual. The “who” also sounds less odd.

Not a native speaker but the last one, using ‘it’ instead of ‘they’ would sound the most natural to me

I think Cyberpunk is more likely. Huge buildings, no plants, no animals, everything controlled by big corps and law is basically non-existent except if rich folk are affected

Maybe they are friends but have different political and social values. That happens.

If supporting fascists in taking over the USA is a deal-breaker to you, thats totally understandable though. But remember it is the easy way out, convincing them would be the right thing but much harder.

I couldnt care less. I never understood how people would be angry at others for forgetting their birthdays. Its just a damn anniversary…

I guess first of all from the deep thought process involved. Most people dont analyse social interactions this deeply and dont put much thought into it. Also, you taking the statement quite literally, questioning whether actually noone cares, who it is that doesnt care or whether the statedment is logical in itself. Usually those thoughts wouldnt even arise in people (in my experience), the sentence would mostly produce a set of emotions and thoughts in the listener depending mostly on the context not necessarily on the choice of words or their meaning in a completely neutral setting

You dont want to be judged for your preferences but at the same time you judge others for theirs. Thats whats wrong, not your preference itself.

What the fuck are you talking about xD The amount of narrow-mindedness is off the charts here

Usually it would be used as a substitute for “shut up”. Your second paragraph explains it pretty well. Telling someone that doesnt talk to you personay “I dont care” is egotistic because you dont consider others opinions. Assuming noone cares makes that person seem like a kind of spokesperson for everyone else.

The response is difficult and depends heavily on the situation. A good general purpose response could be “speak for yourself”. Judging from your post, you seem to be a socially awkward person (not trying to offend you, sorry if I am), so chances are you are actually annoying people by eg talking a lot. If you arent sure, you could leave it at that. If the person trying to make you shut up is just a bully or doesnt like you in particular, you could start talking again after your response. The same for if what you were talking about was important to you.

You could also just try to confirm the statement. “does actually noone care?” Dont be needy or whiney about it though, keep your dignity. Chances are you wont get a response even if some people didnt mind you talking but wouldnt go so far as to say they were actively interested. But in case someone steps up and says they care, your win. If noone cares, you can accept it and stop talking but dont be offended, sometimes its hard to know when to shut up and you could use this as future reference.

Of course another good response would be something along the lines of “sorry, but you dont have to be mean about it”. It doesnt force the other person to get defensive, so the situation doesnt escalate. Also you dont leave yourself insulted.

Oh and also your point about people caring when the say “noone cares”. That is not the case. Caring about telling you that noone cares is not the same as caring about the topic itself.

I smell everything I grab. Sometimes my wife comments on it but it doesnt bother her. We use our senses to make sense of the world, big news.

I guess for 10-20 years. I have 2 pairs of jeans I wear regularly, but could shift to any other pants if necessary. I dont have a job where I need to dress up nicely, so I can basically wear whatever. T-shirts are my passion so I have at least 50 of them. Problem would probably be socks and underwear, maybe shoes.

Those are all valid points but I dont think thats what OPs question was about. They asked about effective ways to fight climate change. Not doing anything can never be an answer to that. Whether or not it makes sense to spend your hard earned money on other peoples behalf is a different question.

Also, no we are not doomed. Yes, climate change will have a huge impact on humankind, but earth wont randomly explode or something. Humankind will adjust to higher temperatures and more frequent natural disasters, but the extent to which this will affect everyone can still be minimized. The poor will be fucked the hardest, ‘accepting our fate’ and not doing anything will cost millions more lives than it could.

I actually made a separate comment with my suggestions^^. I think political change and research would have the most impact, so my proposal would be donating to organizations like FCA or CATF (which btw I already do with monthly payments to a climate fund because Ive been asking myself a similar question in the past)

As I havent seen a single actually effective answer:

Donate it to organisations fighting climate change. For example FCA (researching climate friendly ways of producing cement, steel, fuels), gfi (researching food alternatives), CATF (tries to influence political changes)

Wont have much impact unfortunately. Climate zones are shifting already, those trees will die before growing up because they would belong further north by then.

Really good idea. Rid the world of enviromnetally responsible people so climate change is accelerated. Thanks for the counter-argument.

This is bs, please dont spread misinformation like this. With your logic, we should all stop voting because a single vote doesnt have impact.

Every person is responsible for their own decisions and 10k from a single person have a huge relative impact. If every person with 10k available would use those for fighting climate change, we would have overcome it already.

Unfortunately investing money does veeeeeeeery little against climate change. Think like 0.1% of your invested sum. The money you invest still goes to shareholders, just those of companies that meet certain criteria.

Of course it is better (i.e. has bigger impact) than investing elsewhere, dont get me wrong. But investing doesnt promote actual changes. For someone to make changes in politics or public opinion, they need to be paid. Spending the money on such projects is the way to make actual change.

Source: my spouse works in ESG scoring at a big bank

Yeah I think its just that minus the waking up again part. Probably just nothing. But yeah noone can know for certain.

I imagine being anesthesized could feel similar, as the consciousness fades away and thats what we use/need for experiencing life.