To Keep Up the Habit
I'm doing this post to keep up the habit of posting nightly. I'd like to do nightly posts until I leave, and I might continue in Denmark as well, however, I'm probably going to switch over to Danish when I get there.
Guh, today is a bad day. For posting.
Nothing really post-worthy happened. Well, there was a bit about genocide in class today.
Alright.
So, people are always saying, "we need to help these poor people in _________!"
I'm certain you and your Abercrombie hoodie do need to help them.
"This affects all of us!"
Yeah, because I don't drive my car using the oil their genocide gets us for a better price.
I heard this guy in the local coffee house discussing how slavery is such a bad thing, and how corporations are oppressing people, and I wanted to walk right up to his Jnco jean wearing, college hoodie wearing ass and remind him of all his fancy products that are the produce of slave labour. His cute little laptop? Underpaid workers (possibly children) in China. His brand-new sneakers? Indonesia.
Really, sir, if you want to make a point about something, do it right.
I don't believe in going green. It's a fad. It's totally a fad. What's worse, is it's a very wasteful fad. Consider this- people freak out about wasting things, so they instead buy more of less wasteful things.
Propel will be my example. Instead of buying Propel in bottles, now, people buy propel in packets to add to water. And where do they get this water? Well, funny I should mention it, because the little packet is just enough to make a regular bottle of water just the right Propel flavour- now they're using up a bottle AND a little packet of powder, as opposed to just a bottle of the regular stuff.
So who's going green now?
Or, let's point out ethanol. All the dirty hippies want ethanol because it's better for the environment- well, problem there, 'cause the farmers are finding it more profitable to sell their corn for ethanol than fuel, and it takes just over a gallon of diesel to make one gallon of ethanol. That means we're pretty much burning twice the gas to drive the same amount.
The lesson-
No matter how good your intents are, if you're blind to your own actions, you might as well have the opposite intent.
Guh, today is a bad day. For posting.
Nothing really post-worthy happened. Well, there was a bit about genocide in class today.
Alright.
So, people are always saying, "we need to help these poor people in _________!"
I'm certain you and your Abercrombie hoodie do need to help them.
"This affects all of us!"
Yeah, because I don't drive my car using the oil their genocide gets us for a better price.
I heard this guy in the local coffee house discussing how slavery is such a bad thing, and how corporations are oppressing people, and I wanted to walk right up to his Jnco jean wearing, college hoodie wearing ass and remind him of all his fancy products that are the produce of slave labour. His cute little laptop? Underpaid workers (possibly children) in China. His brand-new sneakers? Indonesia.
Really, sir, if you want to make a point about something, do it right.
I don't believe in going green. It's a fad. It's totally a fad. What's worse, is it's a very wasteful fad. Consider this- people freak out about wasting things, so they instead buy more of less wasteful things.
Propel will be my example. Instead of buying Propel in bottles, now, people buy propel in packets to add to water. And where do they get this water? Well, funny I should mention it, because the little packet is just enough to make a regular bottle of water just the right Propel flavour- now they're using up a bottle AND a little packet of powder, as opposed to just a bottle of the regular stuff.
So who's going green now?
Or, let's point out ethanol. All the dirty hippies want ethanol because it's better for the environment- well, problem there, 'cause the farmers are finding it more profitable to sell their corn for ethanol than fuel, and it takes just over a gallon of diesel to make one gallon of ethanol. That means we're pretty much burning twice the gas to drive the same amount.
The lesson-
No matter how good your intents are, if you're blind to your own actions, you might as well have the opposite intent.