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Breadtube if it didn't suck.

Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.

Low effort / spam videos might be removed, especially weeb content.

There is a cytube that you can paste videos into and watch with whoever happens to be around. It's open submission unless there's something important to commandeer it with at the time.

A weekly watch party happens every Saturday (Sunday down under), with video nominations Saturday-Monday, voting Monday-Thursday. See the pin for whatever stage it's currently in.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

They went mask off the second bill gates bought them out.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure what the vid is about and I don't care to watch. Feels like an odd video for them. They should stick to making mildly thought provoking videos about space and ant colonies.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

Their ant videos were classics, now they just do pop science that just barely managed to not cross over the edge of being an obvious propaganda stunt to their audience.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

astronaut-2 astronaut-1

The franchise was well past the point of no return by the time of the "if 99% of humanity died off from climate collapse, rejoice because that is still a net win for humanity because vague hopes of innovation and rich assholes magically thriving with their offspring after that" video. bootlicker

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't like how it starts off with the sensationalist "millions of people will disappear". A lot of this stuff is undergrad environmental science but packaged in an orientalist way to drive clicks.

Also they will never ever confront capitalism lmao. Don't want to anger their donors.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Millions of people are disappearing right now due to dying but when I make videos lamenting it I get called an antinatalist and then told to kill myself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't understand the anti-antinatalist stuff. Having a kid is literally the worst thing you can do to the environment. Shouldn't we reckon with that?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having a kid is literally the worst thing you can do to the environment.

If you're equating a random child born anywhere in the world with a billionaire's carbon and pollution imprint, that's a staggering false equivalency.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The audience on Lemmy is self-evidently overwhelmingly from developed nations, where most of the ecological harm per-capita is done.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even then, I'd argue 20 middle class kids in amerikkka don't equate to even half of the ecological harm of one billionaire's private jet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

But by simply subtracting the number of kids I'd otherwise have by one, I'm preventing 21 tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere every year.

https://www.pawprint.eco/eco-blog/average-carbon-footprint-globally

There is simply no way to make enough lifestyle changes to offset that. I'd have to live car-free for 55 years to offset just a single year of a theoretical child's existence... and that kid is going to live for 70-100 years.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literal ecofascist , "muh overpopulation" talking point

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right here, in living color for you:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now compare the emissions of having a child to military activities and billionaires using their jets constantly for like 30 minute trips

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Obviously those things are on a different scale, but there are 3.7 million children born in the US alone every year.

That means it would take 193 million people -per year - switching to an entirely car-free lifestyle to negate that.

Or 400 million people per year switching to a plant-based diet.

Billionaires and the military doing bad stuff doesn't justify the ecological harm of enlarging the human population.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Reckon with human life itself being bad for the environment? No, I don't think we should reckon with that, because the only actionable conclusions from that assumption are "we should make being alive less bad for the environment" where you end up on the same page as everybody else or "we should all die."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm kind of antinatalist, but where the child is born makes a huge difference. A single USian is practically the same carbon footprint as some whole villages in Africa, SE Asia, and elsewhere

But also 70% of carbon emissions are from 100ish companies, and "carbon footprint" was coined by ExxonMobil Mobile to deflect from this fact. Or maybe it was Shell.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

It's just more social democratic nonsense that ignores labor value and the fact that declining birth rates are either due to state intervention (China) or a greater share of surplus going to the wealthy

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't think it was that bad. It says birthrates are low because people can't afford to have kids. And it's harder to raise kids now because people are more atomized. And it rejects overpopulation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it rejects overpopulation

Alright. No more Bill Bucks for you, mister

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

It's OK, only African population growth is bad. us-foreign-policy

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Reminder that one of Epstein’s projects was funding and fundraising studies and researchers to fulfill his fantasy of spreading his seed throughout the world

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I saw this but thought better than to click. Maybe I'll click

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

South Korea has fallen,

Millions must become kpop fans

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Just make space videos please I'm begging you

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

I haven't watched a kurzgesagt since that one video on climate change, I just can't anymore, it was so bad I think I still have trauma from it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago