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Rectal Death Adept posted:what did a dodo bird taste like? like chicken
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 00:26 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 12:25 |
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That's a bigass bird though. I bet it was like turkey.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 00:28 |
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i think that's smaller than a turkey. turkeys are big
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 00:32 |
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Shima Honnou posted:they turn the throat into shoes and the penis into twine to sew the shoes, truly magnificent So Faroese are constantly deepthroating dolphins just by walking around.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 00:40 |
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nice
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 00:51 |
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Wakko posted:gonna be real i will never understand ya'lls obsession with the forum for liberalism. is the idea that if you beat the liberals here it will make up for neoliberalism killing the planet. is it something with your dads. like what kind of damage makes someone subject themself to d&d I think it's basically like people who are into true crime or sudoku or something, I don't really learn anything from the exercise and there's not a real puzzle to solve but in the moment it somehow feels interesting anyway
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:16 |
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Gotta be right.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:23 |
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Wakko posted:gonna be real i will never understand ya'lls obsession with the forum for liberalism. is the idea that if you beat the liberals here it will make up for neoliberalism killing the planet. is it something with your dads. like what kind of damage makes someone subject themself to d&d if you are marooned on a desert island with someone and spend long enough watching them pretend they are at home, complete with hours long commutes in fake cars and sitting at a coconut desk to type on a wooden plank 40 hours a week, you are eventually going to get annoyed enough to kick over their sand chipotle. Rectal Death Adept has issued a correction as of 01:28 on Oct 8, 2021 |
# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:24 |
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Rectal Death Adept posted:if you are marooned on a desert island with someone and spend long enough watching them pretend they are at home, complete with hours long commutes in fake cars and sitting at a coconut desk to type on a wooden plank, you are eventually going to get annoyed enough to kick over their sand Chipotle *Looking increasingly nervous as the sand police are taking longer than usual to arrest this vagrant* This neighborhood has really gone to hell since Trump.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:27 |
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Wakko posted:nice
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:43 |
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Can someone please share that comic about how terrible the future will be where someone says "We won't even be able to die"? edit: thank you very much Chamale has issued a correction as of 02:00 on Oct 8, 2021 |
# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:54 |
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 01:59 |
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The Shitularity
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:11 |
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Thinking about insulation a whole lot rn. Like how eventually there's just holes in it
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:14 |
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Rectal Death Adept posted:what did a dodo bird taste like? Bad. Another name for them was "taint bird" because they tasted like tainted meat. Sailors caught them in large numbers when food was scarce, but it was mostly rats, cats, and dogs that wiped them out. Then there was a mad rush to kill and stuff the remaining dodos once they realized there were almost none left. Galapagos tortoises taste amazing - like mutton with butter. And you can stack them upside-down to keep them alive and fresh for a long sea voyage. Penguins taste bad but they're so high in fat that they were sometimes used as boiler fuel in coal-powered ships.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:22 |
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while this is new information i am not surprised we shoveled penguins into coal engines
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:26 |
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Decades posted:https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/0...vGLb6U9U6Aovc3f So like, absolutely every thread regular should listen to this podcast, for reasons I will elucidate below: A. Michael is very obviously mentally unstable. They bury the lede on this early on when they mention he was an evangelical christian in college, but the signs are there throughout the tale. Obsessive focus on a (back then) non-tangible issue, relentless proselytizing on it, bursts of unnatural rage, hero complex etc. As Herbert wrote "Woe to the society which finds itself in the grip of a Messiah." A family unit is just a tiny society, as is our thread here. While most of the seriously unstable goons have been weeded out of SA by this point, recent events demonstrate that there are still posters in CSPAM who fit this mental niche. We should be aware of this and looking out for one another. Despite my one-track posting around here, I don't talk about this poo poo much IRL and try to remain self aware enough to avoid falling into this kind of vicious psychological cycle. Regularly questioning if you are going a bit too hard on the confirmation bias kool-aid is important, and I hope most posters here do so. B. As his daughters point out, his actions have achieved nothing. They were worthless. Years of speeches and presentations, jail time for turning off a pipeline, torpedoed career, and for what? He destroyed his daughters childhoods and his family now refuses all contact - and the world is still burning down at a furious pace. This dude really is a poster child that even if you go to Direct Action, it is meaningless against the inertia of 8 Billion people who just want to consume and a system built to facilitate that consumption at any cost. This is why very early in my climate posting career I pivoted to heavily denouncing both direct action and personal token gestures. The former, because at best you are just going to ruin your life and those of your loved ones to achieve nothing, the latter because it is almost always aggressively preached as a solution and rarely as just a perfectly acceptable way to assuage personal anxiety in the face of an insurmountable crisis. C. As the ex-wife saliently notes, if it hadn't been Climate Change the dad would have attached himself to something else eventually. Be it Q-Anon, Pizzagate, or CoVid conspiracies. The family just had the misfortune that he picked the one thing which is demonstrably real and happening but not at a rate fast enough to vindicate him immediately, which complicates them coming to grips with his mental issues but also allows them to escape from the toxic relationship. Particularly obsessive posters over in the Succ thread should take note, lol. Taken as a whole, this is strongly a warning tale for anyone too deep down the biosphere rabbit hole. Indeed, any rabbit hole. There is little to be gained other than suffering by pivoting your entire life around trying to save the planet, or any single issue, the trite old parables of "a single raindrop raises the sea" do not apply in the context of a global consumer-capitalist hyper surveillance regime. There are more important things in what little time we have left than acts of empty heroism to feed the ego. Cherish your family and friends and unless they are unrepentant chuds don't make their last years worse than they need to be by never shutting the gently caress up. Work hard to cultivate self awareness, as it is the first and best defense against a religiously dogmatic mindset which will only lead to suffering. Keep a watchful eye on those you do converse deeply about this with, to make sure they don't do anything colossally stupid either. We could all be wrong, after all. And if we aren't, well, why make things that much worse for those we love?
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:30 |
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I dodged that bullet by being unable to love anyone.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:34 |
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Why did someone recreate this, change the layout, and remove a word from the punchline?
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:37 |
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Rime posted:So like, absolutely every thread regular should listen to this podcast, for reasons I will elucidate below: the whole bit about being trapped in a car plummeting off a cliff in the dome video also makes this point quite well
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 02:43 |
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Why did someone recreate this, change the layout, and remove a word from the punchline? You're right. That's weird. I found a low-quality version of the original on google images, it was "we'll live shittier lives forever". I wonder if the cartoonist uploaded two versions.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 03:08 |
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Yeah I was a bit flippant in my recap but I found it really complex and fascinating and tragic all around. Rime posted:There are more important things in what little time we have left than acts of empty heroism to feed the ego. Cherish your family and friends and unless they are unrepentant chuds don't make their last years worse than they need to be by never shutting the gently caress up. Work hard to cultivate self awareness, as it is the first and best defense against a religiously dogmatic mindset which will only lead to suffering. Keep a watchful eye on those you do converse deeply about this with, to make sure they don't do anything colossally stupid either. Strongly agree
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 03:11 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:the whole bit about being trapped in a car plummeting off a cliff in the dome video also makes this point quite well Toonces the legislating cat is driving us all over the cliff https://youtu.be/5fvsItXYgzk Video for you young whippersnappers
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 03:15 |
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Conspiratiorist posted:I dodged that bullet by being unable to love anyone.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 03:17 |
Chamale posted:Another name for them was "taint bird" same
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 03:27 |
T-Paine posted:same Every now and again this white noise post hits hard
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:02 |
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Decades posted:Yeah I was a bit flippant in my recap but I found it really complex and fascinating and tragic all around. just finished it and yeah, nothing to really add but +1 y'all should listen to it don't blow up your life like that dude did
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:19 |
yeah, throwing yourself in front of a train is just making a mess for other people
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:21 |
yeah, throwing yourself in front of a train is just making a mess for other people
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:21 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:they couldn't even grok the "you got cancer and 6 months to live" analogy i voted to see a different doctor and get rediagnosed in 3 years so maybe you could put some of your hyperbolic posting to good use too, huh?
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:37 |
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toggle posted:you need a holiday agreed lets pool together and buy rime an around the world plane ticket to see things that don't exist anymore, like some empty glacier valleys, dead coral reefs, soy farms in the amazon, etc
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 04:44 |
we need to automate the train cleaning process so that more people can feel comfortable throwing themselves in front of trains. no, we will not provide new jobs for the prior train cleaners, why do you ask?
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:11 |
an alcubierre drive train that vaporizes jumpers would do the trick
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:13 |
Brb filling provisional patent for coal fired alcubierre drive
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:21 |
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Rime posted:So like, absolutely every thread regular should listen to this podcast, for reasons I will elucidate below: there is a place for direct action and there is a place for someone like michael. it should not, however, be at the head of a household deputizing his children in his crusade there are a million different alternate timelines where i didn't meet this crucial person or i had this significant experience and i ended up as a dumbass chud or a coal roller or something. that didn't happen, luckily, and now i consider myself a communist and an environmentalist. i won't condemn someone like michael who had a similarly confused trajectory cuz... he's misguided in an alienated society, but he still ended up on the right side. he's a cautionary tale, not a cave diving grim reaper "go no further" sign. and the presence of mentally unstable people on a dead gay internet forum shouldn't mean we just give up on direct action forever and start watching each other like mormon roommates, unless i'm misinterpreting you here? like obviously we don't tolerate people saying crazy poo poo here, but it seems like you're asking us to take it a step further
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:27 |
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"proselytizing" about the state of the biosphere has certainly cost me a few friends, as i've readily admitted here before, but ima still do it. "raising awareness" is stupid bullshit, but the truth is the truth, and a person who knows the truth is better able to adapt to horrifying new realities that will soon be unleashed upon the world (which is what i'm hoping my loved ones will be able to do). is that me ruining the last few good years of their life? nah, i didn't do poo poo. fossil fuel companies and the rich did that, and sometimes those friends are very grateful to me for illuminating for them just all the ways those two parties have ruined their lives!
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:35 |
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this must have been posted before but WHO CARES https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/ i like it because (a) it's hosted on an old laptop powered by solar energy in germany. if there's not enough sun, the website goes offline. to comment, you need to send an email, which then gets edited into static html. (b) the articles are calm, to-the-point, and the guy runs the numbers on everything. which really drives home how incredibly wasteful and energy intensive "normal" western life is. like the misting shower article, he calculates that everyone on earth could have an off-grid, wind-powered 4.5 minute hot mist shower every day. Mola Yam has issued a correction as of 05:56 on Oct 8, 2021 |
# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:39 |
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Wakko posted:gonna be real i will never understand ya'lls obsession with the forum for liberalism. is the idea that if you beat the liberals here it will make up for neoliberalism killing the planet. is it something with your dads. like what kind of damage makes someone subject themself to d&d Because the forums are an outlet for my cracking and pinging. I can yell at libs and laugh maniacally at the coming catastrophies so that I don't do that around people in my real life who I do not want to alienate and have happy positive relationships with .
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 05:53 |
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bag em and tag em posted:Because the forums are an outlet for my cracking and pinging. I can yell at libs and laugh maniacally at the coming catastrophies so that I don't do that around people in my real life who I do not want to alienate and have happy positive relationships with . all of this.
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# ? Oct 8, 2021 07:39 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 12:25 |
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i just finished How to Blow Up a Pipeline and it's almost like a D&D-acceptable post that anticipates all objections to make a very simple point that could easily be summarized but requires about 150 pages of context for DECORUM. It's basically just, accepting as a given a liberal perspective, if one diligently applies a liberal perspective, direct action against carbon emissions is justified and even necessary. Put another way, it is NOT a radical book. It is about how blowing up pipelines ISN'T radical and if you reject radicalism and embrace common sense, sabotage is still in many cases the answer I'm not trashing it; I liked and and it has a grounding perspective. Even if it is optimistic at times, the rejection of doomerism doesn't rely on optimism but on maintaining a sober assessment that things could always get worse. Contrary to the title of the book, it's a lesson in how to describe how bad things are and the urgency for change to normal people without sounding crack-pinged
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