Minera posted:

hope every carposter itt stalls at an active train crossing

Minera posted:

hope every carposter itt stalls at an active train crossing

Leroy Diplowski posted:

My actual bug out plan is permanently borrowing one of these puppies from the local sailing club.

Sleeps 4, room for months of provisions, renowned for heavy weather handling, has windvane and watermaker, needs no fuel to cross oceans, could make it to Europe eventually, offers potential of exciting death by pirates.

500excf type r posted:

What you want is a KTM 500excf on / off road motorcycle that will allow you to go literally anywhere on the planet in ways four wheeled vehicles could only imagine

Alobar posted:

lol carjackings will make a big comeback, i think
i've seen someone get carjacked, it doesn't look that hard

Leroy Diplowski posted:

My actual bug out plan is permanently borrowing one of these puppies from the local sailing club.
Sleeps 4, room for months of provisions, renowned for heavy weather handling, has windvane and watermaker, needs no fuel to cross oceans, could make it to Europe eventually, offers potential of exciting death by pirates.

Kicked Throat posted:

Bullets can be exchanged for goods and services.

tiberion02 posted:

fwiw, carjackings in cleveland are absolutely insane right now.

Real hurthling! posted:

carjacking is in the news everyday now in nyc too

Real hurthling! posted:

carjacking is in the news everyday now in nyc too

quote:

My husband calls her his "girlfriend" (and I'm surprisingly ok with that) [...] She is believed to be in foal and I would like the foal back upon weaning.

munce posted:

Massive increase in lightning in the arctic in the last few years. This seems ominous somehow.

https://twitter.com/angelafritz/status/1478786108397961226

fits my needs posted:

https://twitter.com/PageSix/status/1479302297704448003?s=20

Koirhor posted:

I was wanting one of those segway edirtbikes and figure out a way to charge it up over a day or 2 with solar and leave society behind

quote:

Climate change reportage routinely declares we are destroying the planet, wrecking the Earth and imperiling the world, as if the entire geologic mass is about to go poof. The countdown is on for the number of years—50? 30? 10?—we have to save the planet.

These characterizations are not quite right—and overstating the consequences of a warming climate may already be undermining efforts to take needed action. A warming climate is undoubtedly changing the planet in ways dangerous to humans and other living things. But the Earth isn’t on fire, and the planet itself is not endangered. What we’re damaging is our own habitat, and those of other species. The planet will carry on one way or another.

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the Earth has been as warm as it is now at least three times during the last 400,000 years, according to data from Columbia University’s Earth Institute. Species have come and gone, but a warming climate has never threatened the Earth itself.

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Yet existential alarmism is counterproductive when public support is crucial to addressing a problem as vast as climate change. Most people, if told the planet is on fire, can look around and plainly see that it’s not. Others may feel a sense of dread and think it’s pointless to do anything, if we’re really doomed.

Even people who know climate change is making floods, fires, droughts and storms worse can rightfully ask how urgent the problem really is and how much climate activists exaggerate. For all the people killed and displaced by freakish weather, there are many more who still don’t feel any direct impact from a warming planet—and might even think a shorter winter in northern climes would be welcome.

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Plainer truths about climate change, and what’s at stake, won’t make it an easy problem. But realism will be essential to generating the public support required to move the needle.

Exaggerating a reality that’s already bad enough may slow our reaction time rather than speeding it up, since separating fact from fiction always entails delay.

Xaris posted:

i saw that yesterday and was just like, well, what is there to even say

Rectal Death Adept posted:

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But the Earth isn’t on fire, and the planet itself is not endangered.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Let’s stop making this climate change mistake
https://money.yahoo.com/lets-stop-making-this-climate-change-mistake-151934749.html

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SKULL.GIF posted:

money.yahoo.com

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Let’s stop making this climate change mistake
https://money.yahoo.com/lets-stop-making-this-climate-change-mistake-151934749.html





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Raine posted:

quote:

The movie’s built-in ambition appears to be simply crude demagogy, reaching an apotheosis in viewers who’ve just watched at home opening their poorly insulated windows and yelling into the street, “Climate change is real!,” without any demand of policy or awareness of actions that the need to slow it might demand. The blame goes on the Peter Isherwells of the world, who seek to profit from it, the Orleans, who deny it or manipulate it for the sake of power; it’s assumed that their lies and distortions are all that keep ordinary people from demanding action. There’s no sense of political psychology, of the tendency of people to look first to immediate personal interest and needs—whether employment or income, convenience or sustenance—and either consider climate change to be distantly abstract or suspect that their present-tense well-being would be sacrificed to climate-favorable policies.

Instead of a political movie, “Don’t Look Up” is a cynical one. It’s basically a Jill Stein movie, a shrug that there’s no difference between the parties, that government is in the corrupt pocket of business and that the élites of all sorts are indifferent to the country’s actual interests. (Though there’s no mention of parties, the movie pointedly shows a picture on the President’s desk showing her beaming side by side with Bill Clinton.)

Why does Hollywood tackle environmental calamity? Why do stars get involved in wildlife conservation? Why are there so few celebrities who put their name and their talent behind, say, voting rights—without which no progressive project such as the Green New Deal has the slightest chance of being signed into law? It’s not only because everyone loves animals, or because movie stars prefer to spend their vacations in the distant wild than in Maricopa County but because it would be impossible to make a film about the suppression of voting rights without considering whose rights are being abrogated, who’s doing so, and which categories of voters supports the measures. The critique of climate change, by contrast, allows the targeting of mega-businesses and political leaders while leaving individuals—meaning, potential moviegoers and ticket-buyers—outside the scope of criticism. In short, what Hollywood people don’t want to do is to critique a political party, because there goes half the potential box office.