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Funky See Funky Do posted:Be a good friend. Tell him he doesn't want to know and that he'll be far happier living in ignorance. This isn't something where we need to inform people and raise awareness anymore. You're not doing this guy a favour by ruining any sense of hope he may have for the future. Tell them the climate went to live on a nice big farm upstate.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:24
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I told my friend to read the IPCC reports, good call. Cheers allMayor Dave posted:hmm i've gotten mileage from the open source textbook from Oregon State: https://open.oregonstate.education/climatechange/. It focuses pretty heavily on the science of climate change; just make sure that he skips the last few chapters because they read like D&D posts Trabisnikof posted:the IPCC reports, especially the Summary for Policy Makers are honestly pretty readable if there's a desire to read them. This is perfect, thank you! Perry Mason Jar has issued a correction as of 02:35 on Nov 19, 2021 |
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Nov 19, 2021 02:29
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Watching a movie called Finch and I'm pretty sure it's just about Rime. Last working windmill in the climate desert wasteland.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:32
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Be a good friend. Tell him he doesn't want to know and that he'll be far happier living in ignorance. This isn't something where we need to inform people and raise awareness anymore. You're not doing this guy a favour by ruining any sense of hope he may have for the future. Take an ethics class! It's malpractice to not disclose a terminal illness.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:32
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mod sassinator posted:fun slice of life about what's going on in BC from the guy that likes to camp in storm drains: why is he in a hotel. this seems like a wasted stealth camping opportunity. he could be squirreling away content for the next year
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Nov 19, 2021 02:43
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Perry Mason Jar posted:Take an ethics class! It's malpractice to not disclose a terminal illness. You're not keeping a secret from him. I think it's more ethical to fully prepare him for what he's going to discover if he goes down this path and then let him decide whether or not really wants to go down it. I go out of my way not to talk about any of this stuff with people in my life unless they have already gone and torn that bandaid off themselves. I just don't see what purpose it serves other than to crush someone's spirit. The world is going to do that anyway at some point sooner rather than later. Let them enjoy the time between now and then.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:50
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Rutibex posted:why is he in a hotel. this seems like a wasted stealth camping opportunity. he could be squirreling away content for the next year camping in a drain pipe during the worst flooding in centuries seems like a really dumb thing to do lol
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Nov 19, 2021 02:51
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mod sassinator posted:fun slice of life about what's going on in BC from the guy that likes to camp in storm drains: holy poo poo. I love this guy, hope he gets out ok.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:52
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We're all doomed to get destroyed by forces beyond our control, like Captain Ahab. And maybe, like him, from hell's heart we can stab at one of those forces. It might not do much, but it feels good.
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Nov 19, 2021 03:14
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Wakko posted:the most backward take. humanity stands at the cusp of realizing its grand destiny. tens of thousands of years of consumption have brought us here, and you whine? imagine a tuberculosis bacterium mewling like this as the host's lungs start to fill with fluid. generations have stood on the shoulders of one another, all working together to bring us here. its is only now, at the great dying, that we realize true meaning. Plastics.
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Nov 19, 2021 03:28
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petit choux posted:Plastics. 
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Nov 19, 2021 03:49
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Steely Dad posted:Realizing that
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Nov 19, 2021 03:56
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Cabbages and Kings posted:mild effortpost Wow thanks.
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Nov 19, 2021 04:23
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about some childhood books
in terms of how unflinching it is and how quickly everything disintegrates. Without giving a spoiler of more than the basic setup,
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Rime posted:My stark and grim prognostications on how civilization is going to play out over the next few decades were definitely strongly influenced by encountering both No Blade of Grass and Threads fairly young. I wonder why British apocalypse fiction is decidedly less utopian in outcome than American.  but Brunner's The Sheep Look Up and as a result of that, Silent Spring.
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Nov 19, 2021 04:26
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Car Hater posted:Uncle Teddy's one weird trick for realizing that goals are the problem And that we need to kill the libs. He was quite clear about that. It's all the fault of the libs.
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Nov 19, 2021 04:46
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Marenghi posted:I was being tongue in cheek. I know his class analysis is lacking, I did read something he said about effeminate socialists being as bad as the fascists. Did not know he was turbo-racist. To distant college professors iirc
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Nov 19, 2021 04:52
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:i reckon' that should be fixed in a couple days And we can send the residents to Disney World while we do it.
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Nov 19, 2021 04:53
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Something I was noticing over the past couple of weeks before this, which has exploded into an inferno since these storms broke BC, is the smooth-brained lunatics developing an entirely new messaging by remixing a couple old conspiracies into the "Great Reset" nonsense. Climate denialism is old-hat, natural disasters being part of a grand Q-esque conspiracy to turn the world into an authoritarian nightmare state? That's the hot poo poo: https://twitter.com/MTBRiderSS/status/1461393229719371776 https://twitter.com/chadlattanzio/status/1461317344979042312 https://twitter.com/RealM1SC/status/1461322287525687296 https://twitter.com/niki_jay_1/status/1461396742579101703 https://twitter.com/HansensHemp/status/1461332828654759940 https://twitter.com/emeraldtyger/status/1461412739687927810 This is going to be the next stage in the messaging, it lays the groundwork for violent resistance to climate activists, and it is going to be grassroots in nature. It is no longer just that climate change doesn't exist, now the line is that any disastrous impacts are either outright faked or were orchestrated by nefarious schemes for a nebulous authoritarian agenda. Because to admit otherwise would be to face reality, and these people do not and cannot live in reality. They are everywhere, they are your neighbors and potentially your friends, they are gathering more and more scared and desperate people into the cult every day, this process of increasing mental hoop-jumping is short circuiting their empathy and rationality, and they often have a lot of guns. And that should scare you, way more than the megastorms.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:05
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take_it_slow posted:This! Look up “direct drive” or “daylight drive” solar. Doxxing myself a bit here, but the farm I’m living on (still not a cult) is extensively employing this tech. We have a dc well pump that pulls water up 250 ft, moves it 1/4 mile to the house, and pressurizes our tanks to 60+ psi, at 10 gpm, on 180 volts of solar. Bookmarking this.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:29
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any real climate activist already has 1 gun and 1 bullet so to win the chud war we just gotta up the bullet count
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Nov 19, 2021 05:32
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Complications posted:When you consider all of the factors, Washington D. C. is in an excellent position to withstand climate change with only minimal action... The suburbs, maybe - the city itself is still vulnerable to sea level rise. Old Town Alexandria floods *all the loving time* and basement drains in the District like to back up and gush sewage every so often.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:32
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Raine posted:any real climate activist already has 1 gun and 1 bullet so to win the chud war we just gotta up the bullet count gently caress that, I want to see how horrible it all gets. I have the rest of Time to contemplate nothingness
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Nov 19, 2021 05:36
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At least we all get to post together, right? 
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Nov 19, 2021 05:37
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Rime posted:Something I was noticing over the past couple of weeks before this, which has exploded into an inferno since these storms broke BC, is the smooth-brained lunatics developing an entirely new messaging by remixing a couple old conspiracies into the "Great Reset" nonsense. Climate denialism is old-hat, natural disasters being part of a grand Q-esque conspiracy to turn the world into an authoritarian nightmare state? That's the hot poo poo: every once in awhile, a post in this thread manages to be chilling despite my thoroughly crack-pinged brain. today, this is that post
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Nov 19, 2021 05:39
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A friend got really into Kenshi over the summer and really wanted me to try it. I lasted like maybe a hour, the absolute bleakness of that game just reminded me far too much of what our climate future would be like and I'd rather experience it for myself than a facsimile of it
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Nov 19, 2021 05:40
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Jokerpilled Drudge posted:it does taste funny but no way does it taste bad enough to necessitate more additives or avoiding iodine altogether. I wasn't bothered by the flavor so much as it turning color when you pour it in an aluminum container.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:42
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Hmm... https://twitter.com/fox_sheldon/status/1461464712667930631
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Nov 19, 2021 05:45
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Rime posted:Something I was noticing over the past couple of weeks before this, which has exploded into an inferno since these storms broke BC, is the smooth-brained lunatics developing an entirely new messaging by remixing a couple old conspiracies into the "Great Reset" nonsense. Climate denialism is old-hat, natural disasters being part of a grand Q-esque conspiracy to turn the world into an authoritarian nightmare state? That's the hot poo poo: The really worrisome part of the QAnon movement is that it encourages people to view the world as one giant Da Vinci code. It's addictive, it encourages the community to become more tightly knit, and since it's an amalgam of all the big conspiracy theories anyone who believes in one is susceptible to getting sucked in. Once this stuff gets into the social media dopamine loop it's nearly impossible to dislodge, and because the people who are discussing the theory tend to be active in related spaces their attitude of anger and paranoia spreads to people who haven't even heard of Q. These people are going to continue 'baking' reality and getting increasingly violent and we really don't have a way to stop it.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:50
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for fucks sake will people stop trying to drive through flood water? jesus christ
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Nov 19, 2021 05:50
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Lacrosse posted:for fucks sake will people stop trying to drive through flood water? jesus christ But what if I can make it across
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Nov 19, 2021 05:52
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Mayor Dave posted:The really worrisome part of the QAnon movement is that it encourages people to view the world as one giant Da Vinci code. It's addictive, it encourages the community to become more tightly knit, and since it's an amalgam of all the big conspiracy theories anyone who believes in one is susceptible to getting sucked in. Once this stuff gets into the social media dopamine loop it's nearly impossible to dislodge, and because the people who are discussing the theory tend to be active in related spaces their attitude of anger and paranoia spreads to people who haven't even heard of Q. These people are going to continue 'baking' reality and getting increasingly violent and we really don't have a way to stop it. what about banning social media???
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Nov 19, 2021 05:56
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Mayor Dave posted:The really worrisome part of the QAnon movement is that it encourages people to view the world as one giant Da Vinci code. It's addictive, it encourages the community to become more tightly knit, and since it's an amalgam of all the big conspiracy theories anyone who believes in one is susceptible to getting sucked in. Once this stuff gets into the social media dopamine loop it's nearly impossible to dislodge, and because the people who are discussing the theory tend to be active in related spaces their attitude of anger and paranoia spreads to people who haven't even heard of Q. These people are going to continue 'baking' reality and getting increasingly violent and we really don't have a way to stop it. it's called gamification of the metaverse op
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Nov 19, 2021 05:57
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Complications posted:When you consider all of the factors, Washington D. C. is in an excellent position to withstand climate change with only minimal action... LOL it's true. PLUS with all the filthy lucre floating around it's a lot easier to make a living there, so long as you like servile work.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:59
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Mayor Dave posted:The really worrisome part of the QAnon movement is that it encourages people to view the world as one giant Da Vinci code. It's addictive, it encourages the community to become more tightly knit, and since it's an amalgam of all the big conspiracy theories anyone who believes in one is susceptible to getting sucked in. Once this stuff gets into the social media dopamine loop it's nearly impossible to dislodge, and because the people who are discussing the theory tend to be active in related spaces their attitude of anger and paranoia spreads to people who haven't even heard of Q. These people are going to continue 'baking' reality and getting increasingly violent and we really don't have a way to stop it. It's a net made out of fish hooks. Trying to free yourself just gets you more entangled. My 71 year old mother refuses to believe that the supermarket will ever be barren. She refuses to believe that we are inexorably headed towards a future where to have any chance of getting food at supermarkets, you'll have to line up at something ludicrous like 3am to have a chance to nab what they'll GIVE you off the truck for exorbitant prices. And sure, there'll always be plenty for the privileged. That's  . Grocery delivery will still exist. For a while. Until the trucks they're using now start getting hijacked JoBurg-style and switched to *armored* trucks with armed guards (again, JoBurg-style) giving you your cantaloupes and generic flavored seltzer.The US media isn't talking about BC at all. Not even some *extremely online* and well-informed friends of mine even knew about what was going on up there. We can't doubt the Almighty Number so close to the holidays. It's oh so sensitive.
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Nov 19, 2021 05:59
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I was searching Canadian social media groups for reactions and news on the flooding. In the process I found off-the-charts settler racism towards the Wet’suwet’en protesters trying to block a pipeline. Imagine being such a shitbag moron you cheer for big oil and the RCMP to crush indigenous environmentalists while climate change is destroying BC.
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Nov 19, 2021 06:05
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Is all this conspiracy poo poo happening because people can't control what's happening? Is it the same as all the anti mask/vax dogshit? Will people be protesting to stop "geo-engineering our land away" soon? we're fukn doomed 
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Nov 19, 2021 06:23
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BIG HEADLINE posted:The suburbs, maybe - the city itself is still vulnerable to sea level rise. Old Town Alexandria floods *all the loving time* and basement drains in the District like to back up and gush sewage every so often. Haha that happened to me once in DC, and my poor blind roommate took a shower and tracked it all over the house.
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Nov 19, 2021 06:25
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toggle posted:Is all this conspiracy poo poo happening because people can't control what's happening? Is it the same as all the anti mask/vax dogshit? Will people be protesting to stop "geo-engineering our land away" soon? Precisely. SKULL.GIF posted:A friend got really into Kenshi over the summer and really wanted me to try it. I lasted like maybe a hour, the absolute bleakness of that game just reminded me far too much of what our climate future would be like and I'd rather experience it for myself than a facsimile of it Kenshi is fuckin' radical. Thread approved.
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Nov 19, 2021 06:30
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Perry Mason Jar posted:I told my friend to read the IPCC reports, good call. Cheers all important thing to really hammer home to him wrt reading the IPCC papers, even if it’s just the policy makers abstract, is that the WORST CASE scenarios outlined in the IPCC are definitely going to happen, and that literally nothing of note has been done to prevent that.
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Nov 19, 2021 06:30
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toggle posted:Is all this conspiracy poo poo happening because people can't control what's happening? Is it the same as all the anti mask/vax dogshit? Will people be protesting to stop "geo-engineering our land away" soon? Our brains just suck at processing reality and 99% of us are never taught how to tell good information from bad. That plus once a belief is formed and connected to some kind of emotional need our brains will do whatever they can to see that we continue to believe it. If I had some hypothetical proof that climate change was a hoax and posted it here almost nobody would be able accept it at first. No matter how solid and irrefutable it was - we'd find ways to refute it. Some people would never accept it.
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