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auk OP Mod , 4 months ago

Just posted it as a separate post.

My thinking was that jobs for tech people who want jobs was better than volunteering or phone banking, was why I posted the one as soon as I found it, but they're both good, yes.

I have to say I'm a little alarmed by their strategy (what I can see of it from a quick glance over volunteer positions). Phone banking seemed okay 8 years ago but does anyone still even answer their phone? Their social media strategy is Twitter? Guys this is why the Republicans are horrifying but they still keep winning...

auk OP Mod , 4 months ago

You're that one guy in the zombie movie that freaks out and winds up having to get tied up while talking crazy and begging to be let go again.

auk OP Mod , 4 months ago

I think a bunch of people are going to die, yes. I also think, like a lot of experts who have studied the issue, that action now will produce effective results from among some different possibilities, not all of which are extinction. There's still a potentially drastic reduction in the level of horror that's involved in the outcome, largely because the outcomes at the bad ends of the possibilities are so, so bad.

That's why I use the example of the zombie movie. You're trying to argue that because the situation is horrible (which, yes, it is), it's okay to resign yourself and everyone else to an even more horrible future, and you're actively trying to discourage people who are trying to at least do what they can. I think that's a stupid and counterproductive thing to do.

auk OP Mod , 4 months ago

If you think we're all going to die anyway, can I have your money and your things?

auk OP , 4 months ago

Thanks! And yeah, let's see.