"Elmo is just checking in! How is everybody doing?" the X page for the Sesame Street character posted. Many answers were brutally honest and downright cynical about the dread people are feeling.
  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    927·
    5 months ago

    Words are cheap. I don’t want people to be “nice” to me. I want them to stop burning fossil fuel.

    • kattenluikEnglish
      221·
      5 months ago

      It’s not one or the other, you get both words and actions.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        717·
        5 months ago

        We haven’t gotten any action yet. Covid showed me that the best of us will only take half measures and be proud of it.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      5 months ago

      I don’t want people to be “nice” to me.

      That much is clear. And the quotation marks don’t seem necessary.