Cabbages and Kings posted:

Charlatan Eschaton posted:

Had to say goodbye to my parents 20 year old cat the other day. We got her from a seafood restaurant that has long since been torn down and replaced by a big apartment building. She was a strong but happy animal who liked being around people, all varieties of foods, and chasing around the occasional lizard or bug. Hated the sound of garbage trucks and always wanted to see where they were for her own safety, we think she might have lost some family members to one since she grew up near a dumpster. I imagine some of her longevity was partly from her begging days diet of bits of fish and fries from there. I will miss visiting with her and sharing meals.

Living in florida i used to have fish three or four times a week until a few years back that had to stop because it started making me feel dizzy for a couple days after eating it. Probably accumulated metals or other kinds of pollution, idk. There are only a few decent restaurants left that have good fried fish or shrimp anyways and who knows where their suppliers get it from. When i was a kid there would be groups of shrimp boats out in the bay with their nets hanging wide off the sides like wings, haven't seen one of those in ages. Last I heard of them the few remaining ones were being used to pick up dead sealife from the big red tide bloom in July. Weird to think about how the places i grew up and the foods that our bodies were built on have changed and disappeared.


Also lost my friendly window lizard a couple months back. I was gone in the afternoons more and he lost interest in the window, moved up higher in the trees and roof area exploring more (they are somewhat territorial and keep in a 1 or 2 meter range usually.) Last time i saw him he was looking down on me from on the roof and watching the garden. Then a few days later i saw a crow out of the garage window eating something and got a quick picture before flying away. Felt pretty bad not having him greet me from his branch out there any more but it's good that his energy went to another animal. Lately some younger ones that are probably his offspring will peek in for a moment to watch me doing kitchen stuff and then scurry off.


Lots of loss last year, two older neighbors to the virus, some animal friends, the mass death in the water from red tide. Seems progress changes things only for the worse. At least i have memories to keep and there are still some living things out there to hang out and share time with. Thankful there are still birds in the parks nearby and waterways that manage to have little schools of fish to watch swim as the tides rise.

500 good dogs posted:

people always talking about that vegan eating poo poo here made me think it was sincere

Stereotype posted:

the comet is going to hit the earth

Stereotype posted:

the comet is going to hit the earth

SKULL.GIF posted:

finished Don't Look Up

Unbelievably, staggeringly hamfisted but it's the type of topic that you absolutely must be hamfisted about. I didn't mind it but no wonder all the stenographers got all heated about it and began moaning

I was able to maintain sardonic chuckles up through 75% of the movie but when they start going off about the hashtags and the Ariana Grande concert and blah blah I just couldn't take it anymore, just way too loving real and utterly useless just incredibly stupid culture war poo poo

The Blumpf analogue was silly and distracting but Blumpf Jr was funny and the Musk/Jobs/Zuck amalgam is spot on.

God, no one's going to do anything, are they?

500 good dogs posted:

the only impact the movie will have on the world is that the movie will be used as a source for memes as the planet burns

SKULL.GIF posted:

God, no one's going to do anything, are they?

SKULL.GIF posted:

I never expected the movie to have any actual impact but the hashtag war through to the ending is exactly what we're going to do//doing about the climate collapse and having that mirror held up only confirms my grim view of this doomed, decadent world

SKULL.GIF posted:

God, no one's going to do anything, are they?

SKULL.GIF posted:

I was able to maintain sardonic chuckles up through 75% of the movie but when they start going off about the hashtags and the Ariana Grande concert and blah blah I just couldn't take it anymore, just way too loving real and utterly useless just incredibly stupid culture war poo poo

SKULL.GIF posted:

God, no one's going to do anything, are they?

Colin Mockery posted:

they're going to make art about it, to help themselves and others process the emotions they feel

Slavvy posted:

I don’t think we’ll hit 1.5/2C but the proposal that it won’t be solved isn’t true either. We’ve decoupled emissions from economic growth. It is possible, see Europe.

Slavvy posted:

I don’t think we’ll hit 1.5/2C but the proposal that it won’t be solved isn’t true either. We’ve decoupled emissions from economic growth. It is possible, see Europe.

Chamale posted:

Saying we're all going to die is optimism. It's a hopeful thought that the most destructive species in the history of the planet might kill itself in the process of killing millions of other species. But humans are too vicious and stubborn to get completely wiped out, and there'll be a few communities left eating whatever weeds and vermin can survive +8° C. Actions now can make a difference in whether a billion people survive, or only a few thousand.

Chamale posted:

Saying we're all going to die is optimism. It's a hopeful thought that the most destructive species in the history of the planet might kill itself in the process of killing millions of other species. But humans are too vicious and stubborn to get completely wiped out, and there'll be a few communities left eating whatever weeds and vermin can survive +8° C. Actions now can make a difference in whether a billion people survive, or only a few thousand.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

We have never invented our way out of catastrophe despite that being the common wisdom.

Stereotype posted:

we haven’t gone extinct yet and therefore we never will

Xaris posted:

to me the dinner scene was the best part

500 good dogs posted:

human species: too big, too fail

SKULL.GIF posted:

McKay, who wrote the screenplay based on a story idea by journalist David Sirota, just doesn’t care enough about popular culture or social media to effectively skewer it. Not that the film compellingly digs into the things it allegedly is invested in. Don’t Look Up wants to paint our inaction with regard to climate change as the result of denialism and being distracted by silly things like, say, a movie streaming on Netflix. But climate change isn’t a comet headed our way in less than a year — a lousy, faulty metaphor for where we’re at right now. Climate change is a slow-motion disaster that’s been brought on by generations of industrialized existence, and to contend with it requires us to think about ourselves collectively as a species and act on behalf of lives beyond the scopes of our own, in terms of the future and in terms of the whole planet.

SplitSoul posted:

SKULL.GIF posted:

to contend with it requires us to think about ourselves collectively as a species and act on behalf of lives beyond the scopes of our own, in terms of the future and in terms of the whole planet.

The Protagonist posted:

...no grand plan is within our reach

SKULL.GIF posted:

McKay, who wrote the screenplay based on a story idea by journalist David Sirota, just doesn’t care enough about popular culture or social media to effectively skewer it. Not that the film compellingly digs into the things it allegedly is invested in. Don’t Look Up wants to paint our inaction with regard to climate change as the result of denialism and being distracted by silly things like, say, a movie streaming on Netflix. But climate change isn’t a comet headed our way in less than a year — a lousy, faulty metaphor for where we’re at right now. Climate change is a slow-motion disaster that’s been brought on by generations of industrialized existence, and to contend with it requires us to think about ourselves collectively as a species and act on behalf of lives beyond the scopes of our own, in terms of the future and in terms of the whole planet.