T-Paine posted:

A species that is the culmination of a process in which the strong kill off and outbreed the weak (or more/less well adapted if you prefer) just might not be able to rise above those biological impulses at the end of the day. It's too easy, too comforting, and God wants us to destroy the planet anyway so flame on

Minera posted:

Was gonna finish throwing out the last of my plastic bowls recently, and grab a few more ceramic bowls. Went to look at the options walmart had, and half the "clay" or "ceramic" pots all listed using "BPA-Free" on the bottom of the barcode, despite not listing what the ingredients are otherwise besides it being named "clay bowl" or "ceramic bowl".

so I'm guessing it uses plastic, either as a core or as part of the paint or a coating around an otherwise very rough ceramic base. like, you just cannot avoid getting poo poo made out of plastic. there's no loving way to know. and like other people have stated before here, even if you go out of your way to avoid buying or using things made out of plastic, plastic was still used all throughout the production process for various things. it's insidious and everywhere and you cannot know it. lol. it owns so much

god i love plastic planet

Samuel Glompers posted:

Glass? Could be your last way out

IAMKOREA posted:

Before one studies the Biosphere thread, lol are lol and lmao are lmao; after a first glimpse into the truth of the biosphere thread, lol are no longer lol and lmao are no longer lmao; after enlightenment, lol are once again lol and lmao once again lmao.

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Narrator: "The glass was also plastic"

mawarannahr posted:

have you tried volunteering? a ceramics class might be rewarding also

IAMKOREA posted:

Petition to make "have you tried volunteering?" the new "things aren't that bad, yet"

Rectal Death Adept posted:

Narrator: "The glass was also plastic"

IAMKOREA posted:

The virgin Canadian windmill engineer vs the Chad Han nuclear engineer

Pryor on Fire posted:

No I am not interested in chaperoning teens wtf is this how you guys recruit mods?

Mola Yam posted:

vibes are off itt

IAMKOREA posted:

gets a 30 day ban for posting about white genocide | builds nuclear technology that will eventually be used to effect white genocide, doesn't even know what somethingawful.com is

Rectal Death Adept posted:

[...] this thread isn't about you. Can you not see that?

some plague rats posted:

sure thing dude. very cool.

Tony Tone posted:

Funny that the doomer you were responding to (me) is probably the most radicalized of anyone here.

All this salad word educatedbrain poo poo is totally irrelevant to any remnant of humanity in the future. Any attempt to pass on divine experience-based knowledge about space communism or biosphere awareness to future generations is a purely masturbatory occupation that completely ignores literally all of human history that actively rejected science, facts and even literal experience from whichever wise elders there were in pursuit of their own ambition.

Whoever will "survive the cliff" gets a one way ticket to incomprehensible madness and ruin. What we once survived using faith and old myth about greater things than ourselves are no longer there to soothe the mind and spirit amidst the millions of dead because we killed them, too. There was never any meaning to their deaths, and never any meaning to history. Just the abyss.

I went through the phases of ideology, believed in communism and socialism and whatever else could help one reconcile some sense to this world. The last decade broke any remaining illusion about there being any redeemable quality to us or the people. The lowest classes are guilty of ignorance, the highest are guilty of greed and it has been like this since time immemorial.

And it will continue to be like this until circumstance allows it, and then we will turn to one another and rip each other apart with our bare hands.

Wakko posted:

if you're ever feeling down, just reflect on the big picture. we're right at the cusp of culminating a project that started 1.5 million years ago. how cool is that?

The largest mammals have always been at the greatest risk of extinction – this is still the case today



and the pace of extinctions is increasing every day!

Goa Tse-tung posted:

pay neat hetero dude no mind, he is a known liar and troll, he derailed this thread into a flamewar and then retreats to the glenn thread to gloat with his discord buddies

NeatHeteroDude posted:

children are hosed.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Will everyone please stop posting about posters

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Four times Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel said on Thursday that climate change had made him question his job as a driver traveling the world to race cars.

Speaking on BBC Question Time, a television panel show mixing politicians and celebrity guests, the German was asked whether his position on the environment made him a hypocrite considering he was part of a "gas-guzzling" sport.

"It does, it does, and you're right when you laugh," the 34-year-old father-of-three replied. "There's questions I ask myself every day and I'm not a saint.

"Certain things are in my control and certain things are not. It's my passion to drive a car, I love it and every time I step in the car I love it.

"When I get out of the car, of course I'm thinking as well 'Is this something that we should do, travel the world, wasting resources?'"

The Aston Martin driver wore a T-shirt before last weekend's Miami Grand Prix with the slogan "Miami 2060 - first grand prix underwater - Act Now or Swim Later" to highlight the effects of climate change.

He has also been outspoken about the environment and renewable energy as well as addressing human rights and LGBTQ+ issues.

Vettel said Formula One, which is making a big push for sustainability, also played an important social role as entertainment.

"There's things that I do because I feel I can do them better. Do I need to take a plane every time? No, not when I can take the car," added the driver, who is out of contract with his team at the end of the year.

Formula One is aiming to achieve a net zero-carbon footprint by 2030, with 100% sustainable fuels from 2026 when a new engine is introduced.

Vettel also offered opinions on Brexit, the war in Ukraine, whether Finland should join NATO, energy dependence and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's involvement in a "partygate" scandal over breaches of Covid-19 pandemic restrictions.

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UK airlines have missed all climate targets set since 2000 except for one, a new report claims.

The aviation industry sets its own goals for cutting its environmental footprint.

A representative for the UK aviation industry said it was committed to significantly reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2018 air travel was responsible for 7% of the UK's greenhouse gas emissions.

Possible, the charity behind the research, investigated the issue to find out whether airlines can be relied upon to tackle their role in causing emissions that lead to climate change.

"Companies set grand-sounding targets with a lot of fanfare and announcement. They talk about them for a couple of years - then the targets sink without trace, never to be seen again," Leo Murray from Possible told BBC News.

The research looked at environmental goals airlines have set themselves since 2000. Most of the targets focussed on using greener fuels to power airplanes or making fuel more efficient.

EasyJet was the only company named in the research that was found to have met a target. It successfully reduced fuel burn per passenger kilometre by 3% by 2015, Possible says.

Egg Moron posted:

cryptocrash got me thinking about all the co2 emmitted by the crypto mining outfits for absolutely loving no reason at all

Cold on a Cob posted:

Homeless Friend posted:

th eglenn discord is filled /w 100+ ppl and they are ranked according to irl glen ranks. head honchos have david and glenn rank, 2 heirs to glenn, and than the 100s of dog ranked stormtroopers

blatman posted:

just lol if people like you enough to invite you to an offsite discord

blatman posted:

just lol if people like you enough to invite you to an offsite discord