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Well we very much enjoyed Don't Look Up, though my wife finds herself flipping between finding it very amusing and horribly depressing. I'm actually very glad this movie was made because I've been having pretty much that very story idea knocking about in my head for years - Armageddon, but national and international politics gently caress up the response in various ways and the asteroid hits the planet. I think I would have preferred a serious treatment of the concept but in a post-trump world I think a comedic treatment is what we all deserve. Still, the absurdity was a bit much at times... and even the very idea that there's another earth out there within reach gives the film a more optimistic tone than perhaps they thought it would
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Dec 27, 2021 10:45
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Yeah I was really scoffing at the idea of the colony ship. Especially the idea that they could freeze themselves like that.
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Dec 27, 2021 10:52
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im sure the 20-something thousand year cryosleep segment was supposed to be taken seriously
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Dec 27, 2021 11:09
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a realistic equivalent would be escaping climate change consequences to underground bunkers or remote locations etc, and eventually the capitalists get torn limb from limb by whatever exploited labor force they took with them
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Dec 27, 2021 11:18
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I watched this with my parents over the holidays. Everyone liked it, my dad said "solid 3 out of 4, what's with some of these reviews", and I pointed out that the Guardian doesn't even make the parallel to climate change and some people just won't confront the reality of it all and would rather nitpick brunch politics, and he said, well yeah. If only public discourse on this issue had been this realistic and naked 40 years ago 
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Dec 27, 2021 11:43
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my socdem wife crackpinged hard watching the movie and is now incredibly angry she yelled at me for ordering AAA batteries over amazon instead of buying them locally and told me she’s tired listening to my noble speeches if I’m not going to live the values it’s a cspam holiday miracle
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Dec 27, 2021 12:32
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wynott dunn posted:my socdem wife crackpinged hard watching the movie and is now incredibly angry ordering stuff from amazon probably uses less carbon than getting in your car and driving to the store lol
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Dec 27, 2021 12:40
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get rechargable batteries you planet-murdering monster 
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Dec 27, 2021 12:56
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wynott dunn posted:my socdem wife crackpinged hard watching the movie and is now incredibly angry Tell her that to really live any kind of just like you'd have to move to the woods and live off the grid, or do something that would land you in prison, and neither of these are going to help avert what's coming anyway
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Dec 27, 2021 13:55
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you can still do stuff to reduce your impact including buying used/vintage clothes furniture etc (which are usually cooler and cheaper than new stuff anyway) and refurbished consumer electronics (literally no one needs a new iphone) and of course adjusting your diet up to an including going vegan of course none of it will make a difference in aggregate but i think there is virtue in doing the right thing
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Dec 27, 2021 13:59
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wynott dunn posted:my socdem wife crackpinged hard watching the movie and is now incredibly angry lol she hasn't crackpinged hard enough if she's still placing individual responsibility on you
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Dec 27, 2021 14:17
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T-Paine posted:Tell her that to really live any kind of just like you'd have to move to the woods and live off the grid, or do something that would land you in prison, and neither of these are going to help avert what's coming anyway yea this. literally everything you do in the west has negative impact upon the biosphere: it has to. it’s not in equilibrium. even if you lived like an Amish Luddite it’s still not a neutral existence. now if you could get half of America tho become an Amish Luddite then hat would at least stem the bleeding substantially. however they would eventually become uncomfortable or verge of dying before running back. ELTON JOHN posted:of course none of it will make a difference in aggregate but i think there is virtue in doing the right thing I think people should stop consuming gluttonously lest they get addicted to it and fight anyone who says that’s too much ant wants to take it away; and learn to live with less and make do better with what they have. but I also think deep down most everyone knows there will be day they can’t consume as they have and will just accept it (voluntary or otherwise). I don’t fault individuals for just wanting to tune out and turn off and keep trucking as usual — a business as usual hedonism. it’s only human within the modern-constructed superstructures. yet the struggle there for those who don’t is mentally assuaging the self in trying to live “minimalist” (even though it’s net-negative) so at the end of the day tou can be like Leo and crew at the dinner table saying “we’ll we put up a good fight didn’t we?”. and just for the spiritual self there’s probably some mental value in that even if it’s a lie. really the only feel good thing to do is work in a community and prepare collective-prepping and be ready to take in and give others all you have when the disaster (be it mega drought and no incoming shipments of food, and/or wild fires, or an extended bomb vortex, flood, whatever) comes. anyways I’m gay and hail satan
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Dec 27, 2021 14:22
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the ending was cheapened by the idea that escape was possible, the colony ship shouldve just been destroyed flying into a bit of earth as it was trying to leave. or it landing and every single cryopod has failed and everyone is mush was also missing a "community action" angle, like "we need to throw a big rear end piece of iron at it or it wont work so we need your, yes Your, pots and pans" and have people cheat at doing their part cause its minuscule compared to the whole thing.
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Dec 27, 2021 14:24
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https://twitter.com/jasonhickel/status/1475456882223595527
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Dec 27, 2021 14:24
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Cup Runneth Over posted:Yeah I was really scoffing at the idea of the colony ship. Especially the idea that they could freeze themselves like that. I thought it was a great punchline, because everyone on it was too old to perpetuate the species. Edit: Also, they had no survival skills, and were immediately eaten by the indigenous predators that didn't have thousands of years of evolution that made them avoid humans. Iron Crowned has issued a correction as of 15:25 on Dec 27, 2021 |
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Dec 27, 2021 15:20
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ELTON JOHN posted:you can still do stuff to reduce your impact including buying used/vintage clothes furniture etc (which are usually cooler and cheaper than new stuff anyway) and refurbished consumer electronics (literally no one needs a new iphone) and of course adjusting your diet up to an including going vegan Also following this advice will probably make a positive impact on your life anyway, even though it won't make a difference to climate change. To add to the list, anyone who can plant habitat for native animals in their garden should do so.
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Dec 27, 2021 15:42
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i greatly enjoy cottage cheese rear end ending
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Dec 27, 2021 15:53
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Iron Crowned posted:I thought it was a great punchline, because everyone on it was too old to perpetuate the species. So we're the Golgafrinchans from hitchhikers guide?
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Dec 27, 2021 15:54
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covid is basically like if a comet hit indianapolis and killed everyone there
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Dec 27, 2021 16:09
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Alobar posted:covid is basically like if a comet hit indianapolis and killed everyone there Have you ever been to Indianapolis? It's not a big loss.
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Dec 27, 2021 16:10
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Iron Crowned posted:Have you ever been to Indianapolis? It's not a big loss. I would miss Sun King Brewery
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Dec 27, 2021 16:13
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Cup Runneth Over posted:lol she hasn't crackpinged hard enough if she's still placing individual responsibility on you her counter argument was that, while useless, it makes her feel psychologically better she didn’t appreciate me pointing out how good it feels to recycle plastic even if it ends up dumped on a beach in the phillipines
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Dec 27, 2021 16:31
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wynott dunn posted:her counter argument was that, while useless, it makes her feel psychologically better Isn't it easier, cheaper and much less time consuming to just make prayers to God?
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Dec 27, 2021 18:15
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wynott dunn posted:my noble speeches there's your problem. if you talk the big talk you gotta walk with extremely long strides
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Dec 27, 2021 18:20
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-_VPRCtiUg loling and lmaoing in synchronicity
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Dec 27, 2021 18:38
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https://twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1475476213384761345
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Dec 27, 2021 19:57
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Well we very much enjoyed Don't Look Up, though my wife finds herself flipping between finding it very amusing and horribly depressing. https://youtube.com/shorts/clc_ch7nago?feature=share
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Dec 27, 2021 20:25
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Trabisnikof posted:there's your problem. if you talk the big talk you gotta walk with extremely long strides I’m only talking a big talk in comparison to the average people in our circle who don’t like looking up
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Dec 27, 2021 20:28
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i usually don't watch TV or movies unless i'm entertaining others, but i liked all the background gags they had going on 
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Dec 27, 2021 21:13
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dont look up is pretty accurate qnd really the ultimate lesson is sephiroth was right
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Dec 27, 2021 21:38
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T-Paine posted:Tell her that to really live any kind of just like you'd have to move to the woods and live off the grid, or do something that would land you in prison, and neither of these are going to help avert what's coming anyway it’s fun realizing that the cabin guy they make fun of on the good place is completely correct and everything else is disgusting cope.
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Dec 27, 2021 21:44
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Same, then she told me that my "doomer laugh" just sounded like the Everquest skeleton my new apocalypse survival plan is to take ur cracked staff and sell it for beans
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Dec 27, 2021 21:54
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lol/lmao/lmbo that Belgium is going ahead with their plan to shutter all the existing nuclear power plants and replace them with brand new gas fired power plants
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Dec 27, 2021 22:06
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bedpan posted:lol/lmao/lmbo that Belgium is going ahead with their plan to shutter all the existing nuclear power plants and replace them with brand new gas fired power plants what a really dumb loving move
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Dec 27, 2021 22:14
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fanfic insert posted:the ending was cheapened by the idea that escape was possible, the colony ship shouldve just been destroyed flying into a bit of earth as it was trying to leave. or it landing and every single cryopod has failed and everyone is mush i kinda like how it led to the scene of people so out of touch with reality that one of them tries to pet a large carnivore which immediately starts eating her
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Dec 27, 2021 22:21
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Alobar posted:what a really dumb loving move it has been law in Belgium since 2003 to shutdown the nuclear plants but it is not until this year that the green party, who are now in government, have been able to make good on their promise to the voters to replace nuclear with natural gas and coal
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Dec 27, 2021 22:40
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quote:Nuclear plants release few pollutants into the air, which have made them an option as nations around the world seek clean energy to meet climate change targets. However, their construction and demolition produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.
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Dec 27, 2021 22:42
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how the hell is anything I can do on a personal level going to outweigh a sovereign nation voluntarily closing an existing nuclear power infrastructure in favor of more natural gas natural gas and brown coal?
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Dec 27, 2021 23:00
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bedpan posted:how the hell is anything I can do on a personal level going to outweigh a sovereign nation voluntarily closing an existing nuclear power infrastructure in favor of more natural gas natural gas and brown coal? btw germany is closing down all nuclear plants end of 2022 and it's going extremely badly. nat gas use is way up, they do fake 'carbon accounting' with 'biomass' which means just stripcutting forests in canada, brazil, us, crushing them into pellets, and shipping them out on bunker fueled mega-freighters and out onto trucks so they can burn them out into the atmosphere and say 'we did it!'. 2021 data is extremely grim there and expect lng and oil use to rise another 10% next year. nord stream 2 is also going to get approval soon because lng demand in europe is rising massively as oops turns out weather is getting more extreme and need more heating and air conditioning.
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Dec 27, 2021 23:15
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fanfic insert posted:the ending was cheapened by the idea that escape was possible, the colony ship shouldve just been destroyed flying into a bit of earth as it was trying to leave. or it landing and every single cryopod has failed and everyone is mush Escape was impossible and the colony is doomed. They're all too old to have kids and they don't appear to have any means of building anything or even protecting themselves from the native life. It just enhances the message - even the people who think they're smart enough to escape will fail
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Dec 27, 2021 23:18
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