petit choux posted:

His novel had people living in tents and wearing paper clothing like in ancient times.

Trainee PornStar posted:

When were said ancient times?

petit choux posted:

My education is a bit spotty but I think we're talking 12th C or so?

Trainee PornStar posted:

I'm no expert but that was just after the crusades & I'm pretty sure we were not living in tents & wearing paper clothes.

WorldsStongestNerd posted:

Maybe your ancestors weren't Mr. Moneybags.

Trainee PornStar posted:

I'm no expert but that was just after the crusades & I'm pretty sure we were not living in tents & wearing paper clothes.

quote:

"These rags came from discarded clothes, which cost much less than the very expensive parchment which was previously used for books. In the 13th century, so it is thought, as more people moved into urban centres, the use of underwear increased - which caused an increase in the number of rags available for paper-making."

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.

Pryor on Fire posted:

This post really rings true for me, I think you're onto something. The way these people talk is always half in code, it's like a video game they are trying to figure out on social media and in their own heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQ0_-tLo68&t=2460s
they both ded of covid

they won't even say words like vaccine or fauci because they think the algorithm is scanning them all the time, this fantasy video game will never end

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I am continually reminded of the TV show Years And Years (highly recommended for this thread btw) where one of the main characters meets someone who denies that the US nuke on China ever happened, despite the overwhelming evidence

e: even the soundtrack is very This Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl90ZByp4XY

1glitch0 posted:

I just watched the first episode because of this post. Thanks a lot...

quote:

The deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, was furious with the protesters when he visited Singleton this week. Appearing at the train station as a coal load sped past, he claimed each train load of coal was worth about $1m in export value.

He said that by Monday the blockades had disrupted $60m in exports.

“If they’ve got other ways that this nation can earn money right now, then we’re all ears,” Joyce said. “[But] in the meantime, we’ve got to make a buck.

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?

we're fukn doomed

quote:

Two things happened at the end of this summer that seemed irreconcilable. The first one is that in the midst of a historic drought, following months of record-breaking heat waves and a fire season that generally peaks in the fall but was already well underway in August, more than 1.5 million acres of California burned to the ground. “Every acre can, and will, burn someday in this state,” the state fire chief said. “Be ready now.” The second is that my boyfriend and I decided to remodel our kitchen in a house in a Northern California town that has a pretty good chance of burning down at some point in the not-so-distant future.

...

Articles about climate collapse (I refuse to use the phrase “climate change” because it fails to describe what we are facing) often follow the same emotional trajectory: The writer begins in helplessness; the writer weighs the options and discovers that there really aren’t any—choosing either death or to keep living with fear, grief, and horror. Because the writer can strike this note but can’t possibly end on it, the story will say something like “Hey, I know this new kitchen isn’t taking shape in a perfect world. But when has the world ever been perfect? I’m going to cherish my new kitchen, knowing our time together will be short. Because really, we have only this moment anyway.” Another possible ending: “I remember that my family and friends are what matters and that home is not my kitchen; it is wherever those people who love me, whom I love, are. So even if my new kitchen burns down, the center of my home, which is love, can never be taken away.”

The first ending refuses to take into account anxiety or dread. Meaning, the expression “Be here now” is fine if you’re a dog, but I am not a dog. No amount of meditation will make me one, and frankly, I would have preferred a life in which every time I appreciated my beautiful new kitchen, I did not in the same moment also imagine it as a heap of ash. I will never have that life, and all I can say about that is that it loving sucks.

As far as the home-is-where-the-heart-is ending, obviously I would rather lose my kitchen than my boyfriend. Ideally, I would like to feel secure in both. The sad truth is that nothing about where I live is secure anymore. I love my boyfriend, but loving him does not obscure the horror of the recent realizations that we are more likely to lose our home than we are to keep it and that I might spend my most feeble years going from place to place, seeking the sense of relative stability I had until the summer of 2021, the summer when no one could ignore that the planet was falling apart. So for now, home is the place where we are installing a new kitchen because if we didn’t, we would have to admit that we live in a world so treacherous that there is no point in remodeling a kitchen, even one this ugly. This might be true, but living with our ugly kitchen is so depressing, we can’t possibly take on more depression by being honest about the futility of building a new one. For now, we have a home. But we will never be able to settle into it. The fact that neither of us tries to make the other one pretend this isn’t true is such a relief that it feels a little bit like home. It’s not. But it will have to do.

Mayor Dave posted:

https://twitter.com/fox_sheldon/status/1461464712667930631?t=phd0m7f1HQAUsBFkdQhnVg&s=19

Lol

Cold on a Cob posted:

apparently a lot of grocery stores are completely loving barren in bc now, rip

this is why you hoard BEFORE the disaster hits

The Wisest Moron posted:

The mayors of Miami and New York being so gung ho on mining and using bitcoin is so loving funny because those are probably going to be two of the hardest hit major cities from rising sea levels, and they're out here just pumping as much extra CO2 as they can for fake internet money. Real sicko death wish poo poo.

Cold on a Cob posted:

apparently a lot of grocery stores are completely loving barren in bc now, rip

this is why you hoard BEFORE the disaster hits

Paradoxish posted:

NY makes slightly more sense because we'll probably let DC go underwater before we give up on NY,

petit choux posted:

I know, we'll use the magic of computers to make money out of thin air! We'll be rich!

JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:

we already have mortgages and the stock market

The Wisest Moron posted:

The mayors of Miami and New York being so gung ho on mining and using bitcoin is so loving funny because those are probably going to be two of the hardest hit major cities from rising sea levels, and they're out here just pumping as much extra CO2 as they can for fake internet money. Real sicko death wish poo poo.

Pryor on Fire posted:

This post really rings true for me, I think you're onto something. The way these people talk is always half in code, it's like a video game they are trying to figure out on social media and in their own heads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZQ0_-tLo68&t=2460s
they both ded of covid

they won't even say words like vaccine or fauci because they think the algorithm is scanning them all the time, this fantasy video game will never end

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

I am continually reminded of the TV show Years And Years (highly recommended for this thread btw) where one of the main characters meets someone who denies that the US nuke on China ever happened, despite the overwhelming evidence

e: even the soundtrack is very This Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl90ZByp4XY

petit choux posted:

I thought they used heavy parchment for clothing items, maybe not. Okay, what I'm seeing now is that the clothing was used to make the paper so it appears it was a misunderstanding on my part? I'm not seeing any corroboration so I guess it's up to me.

Behold, somebody who admitted they were mistaken. Must be gay or something.

Trainee PornStar posted:

chill mate, I wasn't having a pop at you.

petit choux posted:

You can't really launder money with fast turnaround with those though, can you?

Rectal Death Adept posted:

illegal deforestation

bowser posted:

Can't wait to protest side-by-side with these nuts against stratospheric aerosol injection when world leaders say it's the best way to slow down warming without hurting the almighty Number.

https://twitter.com/harpersbazaarus/status/1460958025888546822?s=20

That's it, that's how the article ends. Do you hear the sound of cracking and pinging? It seems to be getting louder.

petit choux posted:

Milo and POTUS posted:

Yeah the finance class will just abandon wall street and just move to chicago Charlotte

Perry Mason Jar posted:

I'm actually not totally convinced what the proper course of action. It is my feeling that Truth is paramount at all times - this includes that if I know a Truth it is wrong for me to hide that truth from you. I'm not really in the business of protecting people's feelings, I feel, because... well, I think because it's a bit of an insult really? I don't know whether someone will crumble before this truth or not and assuming they will doesn't seem correct. More than that if they are scared it will only be through facing directly that they can build courage. They will need courage.

I really am not a fan of analogies but let's see if this is worth anything: if you have a child and a relative who is dying and the child asks "Is my relative dying?" what should you say?