Guavanaut posted:

Sanitary Naptime posted:

Is 45 the 4 in this 4chan person that’s behind all this?

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1158345123178176512

Renaissance Robot posted:

If you hadn't said I'd have assumed it was some 1488 type poo poo

Guavanaut posted:

efb on 45 being Trump but the idea is that all these mentally troubled lone wolvesterrorists either directly buy into QAnon poo poo or radicalize themselves around whenever Trump talks about "invasions" and "needing to take them out".

Red Oktober posted:

I do sometimes find myself thinking ‘loving hell, Donald Trump is the US President, what the hell?’ So maybe he does need the hat.

(And I know he’s not the first celebrity, but I wasn’t alive during Regan)

Renaissance Robot posted:

If you hadn't said I'd have assumed it was some 1488 type poo poo

quote:

McDonald's paper straws cannot be recycled

McDonald's new paper straws - described as "eco-friendly" by the US fast food giant - cannot be recycled.
Last year, it axed plastic straws, even though they were recyclable, in all its UK branches as part of a green drive.
But the US fast food giant says the new paper straws are not yet easy to recycle and should be put into general waste.

Jedit posted:

Well, and now you know.

Calling Trump 45 is not a shorthand, exactly. Trump loves seeing his name everywhere, so some people started referring to him as "45" specifically so he wouldn't be identified.

CGI Stardust posted:

Noxville posted:

Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054

Noxville posted:

Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054

Noxville posted:

Love examples of capitalism being beyond parody https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-49234054

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Oh and get rid of all the loving guns, for fucks sake.

Tesseraction posted:

well, about that...

thespaceinvader posted:

The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation.

Renaissance Robot posted:

Love the people who always pop out of the woodwork to post "but then we'll just get mass knifings instead!"

And it's like, well, no, because those aren't really a thing, but even if they were nobody ever managed to kill anyone with a knife from the top of a clock tower. Contrary to what ninja anime would have you believe, it's not really possible to fatally pepper a crowd with daggers from a hundred yards away.

thespaceinvader posted:

The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation.

Tesseraction posted:

who would win:

the entire US military vs. redneck steve and his 40 gun collection

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1158345123178176512

Tesseraction posted:

who would win:

the entire US military vs. redneck steve and his 40 gun collection

thespaceinvader posted:

The big problem with 'get rid of all the guns' in the US is that there are SO loving MANY OF THEM and getting rid of them requires the cooperation of the gun owners. It's functionally impossible to disarm the US population without their participation.

quote:

EU citizens are being made homeless and destitute after being turned down for universal credit despite having the legal right to reside in the UK, in what critics are calling the benefit system’s very own “hostile environment”.

Ministers are being urged to review “unfair practices” after law centres and welfare advisers reported a surge in cases in which EU nationals without UK citizenship have ended up in debt or sleeping rough because of incorrect decisions to refuse their application for universal credit that cut off their benefits overnight.

Claimants who challenge the decision typically have to wait up to 40 weeks for an appeal hearing. Welfare advisers say they win their the appeal in almost all cases, resulting in back payments of thousands of pounds.

However, during the wait for an appeal claimants struggle to pay rent as the claim for universal credit automatically ends previous awards, including housing benefit. With zero income, they experience stress, eviction and debt, and rely on family loans and food banks to survive.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/aug/05/surge-in-eu-citizens-unfairly-refused-access-to-universal-credit

forkboy84 posted:

Ultimately none of it matters because until there's enough elected officials and states will to repeal the second amendment all they are doing is fidgeting in the margins.

Tesseraction posted:

who would win:

the entire US military vs. redneck steve and his 40 gun collection

His Divine Shadow posted:

The US military would to a large degree side with redneck steve.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/imbadatlife/status/1158345123178176512

Ratjaculation posted:

I'll make half an effort post about mass tree planting and why even a good thing has consequence if not done right...

So if you think of humans, our genetic differences are really visible like being a ginger with a huge donger, or a shortie, or a baldie. Plants have this too, even that ancient oak outside your local greggs has a unique genetics that have developed over thousands of years to be explicitly beneficial for the habitat of that individual (before it was concreted over). The issue is that due to anthropological activity, we've created ecological islands. Look at your favourite woodland on Google maps, zoom out a bit and you'll see its likely separated from any other woodland system by a few miles of farms, cities or other urbanisation Even though pollinators can move a fair bit, they rarely cross these voids. So these 'islands' have a very limited genetic diversity.

Seed and sapling nurseries almost always have extremely limited diversity too, with all baby trees only coming from a handful of individuals.

So when you plant these limited inbred trees across huge areas you are essentially undoing thousands of years of the trees naturally adapting to these environments.

You are also putting out an extremely limited diversity, that poses massive risks for disease. If you look at the current issue with ash dieback, it's real loving bad. It's potentially going to affect every single ash tree in the country, and it seems that less than 1% of ash have a natural resistance (from their localisation adaptions). If you spread a huge amount of ash trees from a single source across the country, and they mix with the local groups, you risk having a monogenetic system that could be entirely vulnerable to external forces.

There is no simple fix, other than trying to strengthen existing populations and using local seeds to expand habitats and create green corridors for genetics to pass through. It's why things like ancient hedgerows are so incredibly important in the UK.

Junior G-man posted:

I'm pretty OK with testing that thesis.

Sanford posted:

Nice cadderppliers - painted ladies? And whhhyyyy?

Renaissance Robot posted:

Love the people who always pop out of the woodwork to post "but then we'll just get mass knifings instead!"

And it's like, well, no, because those aren't really a thing, but even if they were nobody ever managed to kill anyone with a knife from the top of a clock tower. Contrary to what ninja anime would have you believe, it's not really possible to fatally pepper a crowd with daggers from a hundred yards away.

Ratjaculation posted:

A great idea, given its done right. Referring to my earlier post;


also good luck purchasing that land

Guavanaut posted:

Nails otoh...

I agree with Clemente that in these particular cases gun control shouldn't be the first thing we talk about.

Maybe talk about it in all the street violence in American cities instead of talking about "feral thugs", or talk about it when someone with a dozen domestic violence charges shoots their partner, or when someone gets shot by a toddler, or when there's another school shooting, but in these white nationalist terrorist attacks gun control isn't the first thing we should be talking about.

Not only because there's a huge difference between these internet radicalized terrorists and the guy that gets sacked and shoots up his office, in that the former is usually extremely online and planning for months, and you can build a bomb or intricately plan an arson attack where you block exits or just (in Texas) hire a 13 ton truck on a normal driver's license and plow it into a crowd if you want, but most importantly because a lot of centrist US sources are talking about it specifically to avoid having to talk about the undercurrent of toxic white male rage in the US (and the general West) and how to directly address that.

Renaissance Robot posted:

So if I'm reading you right, the thing to do if you want a big forest is expand existing copses until they join up?