I realized a few days ago that even though I will not check Greta Thunberg's Chirp Club account, I can check her Instagram account. I didn't want to do this in case I was wrong, and you do know me, since I felt me checking Greta Thunberg's Instagram account would make you less happy.
I will watch your Twitch stream "kinda moody td but i have an hour before my meeting!! hello!!" but I don't think I will learn anything from it. And so I felt justified in procrastinating. Based on the title and the timing of this stream, I felt that if you do know me, it wouldn't make you less happy if I started checking Greta's Instagram account, so I am now doing that as well as checking Malala's Instagram account.
The reasoning is that if I check Greta's Instagram account, or do anything else (like I had been thinking of checking climate trends, and decided against it for the same reason), then it's like I'm trying to get Greta to share the idea. Even if I'm not trying to get you to share the idea, I didn't want to imply that I was just trying to 'use' you by convincing you to share the idea, even if that might in fact be the case.
Now I feel like, if I am wrong and you do know me, then you are convinced that you will not share the idea and that it's only a matter of time before I stop paying attention to you, and that it would be better for that to happen sooner rather than later.
By checking Greta's Instagram account, I am removing any suggestion that it might be better for the world if I stopped paying attention to you.
It seems that Greta might only, like, repost things from other people. I did not even know this was possible with Instagram, but when I clicked on her most recent three posts, they all redirected to posts by other people. It appeared the only way to know this for a particular post was to click on it, since the URL when mousing over each post still included her username @gretathunberg, and it only changed to a different username when loading the post in a new tab.
Instagram frequently redirects to a login page so I am forced to use Picuki to check a profile more than once per day, and there doesn't appear to be any way in Picuki to check who the author of a post was. So I am just assuming Greta only reposts things, based on incomplete information.
So, her second-most-recent post is about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Alex_Pretti#Shooting.
Law enforcement in the US shooting unarmed people is a topic that I am familiar with. Most people didn't care that the police shot Dzhokhar Tsarnaev many times when he was getting out of the boat, which led to uncertainty about whether he would die and then uncertainty about whether he would be able to speak again as he had been shot in the throat. And most people also didn't care when an acquaintance of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother was fatally shot by law enforcement while wielding a plastic broom as a weapon.
So I just thought of a poll that could be interesting: "Would you rather that ICE reduce its anti-immigration raids by 50%, or that the Border Patrol agents who shot a nurse 10 times in 5 seconds while he lay on the ground go to prison?"
It seems doubtful that the agents who made poor decisions that led to someone's death will be punished. But do people really care whether the agents are punished?
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