| After some drama, one day of work and a good night's sleep, I've managed to deal with the most important (not all) things that had piled up while I was gone. I have to say right away though that the response on Second Life to climate emergency ranged from rude and dismissive to ultra-hateful and threatening. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The truth is that save for a very few people on my Discord server the message was slammed. It amazes me how much swearing some people manage to fit into one sentence. I will never understand why people have to get so angry when they disagree with something. These responses were on average twice as long as the single sentence I sent with the link to https://climateemergencyeu.org. There is no reason to angrily attack someone when you disagree with a message. |  |
Swearing at a person and threatening them "don't/do that or else" will never work on people like me. We are fighters, our reaction will always be FIGHT BACK and never "oh, we better stop doing everything we believe in".
Climate is not political, just as the wearing of masks or global pandemics are not political. Many, many people can no longer differentiate in between fact and opinion, and everything is getting politized. That must change soon for our all sakes.
This is no joke. If you can't be bothered with climate, then at least be bothered with decency, truth and civility. Those people who get so aggressive should try standing in front of a mirror and yell at themselves to see how ugly it makes them.
Facts can either be TRUE or FALSE, but proving that is not done by stating opinions, it's done by measuring, testing, comparing and compiling data. Scientists do that.
I saw people linking YouTube clips that were 100% fact free but claim to "tell the truth about XYZ". Stuff like that isn't just some fun, or could ever be made more legit by claiming it was "just for the purpose of entertainment" - it is dangerous because it makes people dumb who then repeat the dumbness and create other dumbs.
Nobody wants to be dumb, and nobody deserves to be dumb.
People with a lower education level often pick this infotainment stuff up as witty or clever intel. Obviously it makes you look more "insider" when you can bring up controversial "facts" at lunch break or at the pub, and it can be a pleasant experience when others become curious and amazed, but this is NO JOKE, we have a real climate emergency.
That said, I want to move on and get some stuff done. It's Sunday, alright, but I was sick for so many weeks, I'm excited to start working again on my collar toy.
Climate is not political, just as the wearing of masks or global pandemics are not political. Many, many people can no longer differentiate in between fact and opinion, and everything is getting politized. That must change soon for our all sakes.
This is no joke. If you can't be bothered with climate, then at least be bothered with decency, truth and civility. Those people who get so aggressive should try standing in front of a mirror and yell at themselves to see how ugly it makes them.
Facts can either be TRUE or FALSE, but proving that is not done by stating opinions, it's done by measuring, testing, comparing and compiling data. Scientists do that.
I saw people linking YouTube clips that were 100% fact free but claim to "tell the truth about XYZ". Stuff like that isn't just some fun, or could ever be made more legit by claiming it was "just for the purpose of entertainment" - it is dangerous because it makes people dumb who then repeat the dumbness and create other dumbs.
Nobody wants to be dumb, and nobody deserves to be dumb.
People with a lower education level often pick this infotainment stuff up as witty or clever intel. Obviously it makes you look more "insider" when you can bring up controversial "facts" at lunch break or at the pub, and it can be a pleasant experience when others become curious and amazed, but this is NO JOKE, we have a real climate emergency.
That said, I want to move on and get some stuff done. It's Sunday, alright, but I was sick for so many weeks, I'm excited to start working again on my collar toy.