I didn’t say that

Good catch

This shot would been somewhere in the 70x to 120x zoom. The pixels aren’t that great towards that end

The only post processing I did was to crop the image

I have no issue with communists. I’m in the anti capitalist camp myself.

I guess all I’m trying to say is idealising nations as utpoian is unrealistic and demonizig them as dystopian is equally as unfair.

There are obviously exceptions where governments do treat their citizens like trash. I don’t like what America is doing at the moment. I try not to think in binaries generally, learning not to anyway

Yeah I believe that

All that is true. But I think it’s still useful building a world where your phone is not your constant default to reach for. If you make your phone less interesting your less likely to reach for it. The device could be a nice part of that strategy

Unlike this picture, real life contains many shades of grey. There are some areas that could be improved but in other areas they excel about any other nation. It’s not black and white.

Life doesn’t have to be about identity and this picture screams “my identity is a tankie”, which is cool but just means it’s shit bias. Equally, saying a generic “China bad” screams that someone doesn’t alot about its politics

That’s one major criticism of Steve Irwin, he used to wrestle and get in the face of dangerous animals.

I’m not actually sure of how it happened but I wouldn’t be surprised if he was messing around with it.

All this being said, I do believe he was a genuine, caring, lovely guy who was obsessed with conservation. Him dying was a real loss

He is white

Yeah I totally agree with you. I’m just saying that problem is not specific to hunting animals. Wealth inequality finds its way into most parts of life. But yeah I’m with you

I find this discussion really interesting.

The other night i watched Loius Theroux’s African Hunting Party documentary where he goes to Africa and interviews Americans who pay big money to kill wild animals. Some of them endangered i believe. The money made from it goes into conservation to ensure these species are kept alive to keep the whole thing going.

I remember years ago there was a guy who killed a rhino on one of these hunts. People went mental about it. Turns out that rhino was killing baby rhinos and was itself depopulating the already small population of rhino. He paid $350,000 to do it too. Radiolab did a great episode on it here

I have been a vegetarian for the last 15 or so years. I doubt i will ever eat meat again and i most certainly will not eat factory farmed meat every again. In the film, the hunters ask the question “is this worst than buying meat from the supermarket?”. Honestly, i dont think it is, the virtually live in freedom untill they are killed. The conditions of factory farmed animals is much much worse. Im not likely to pick up a gun and start hunting myself anytime soon (unless its a pest) but i thought its an interesting conversation to have.

God forbid a girl have hobbies

/s