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Cold on a Cob posted:i learned a new word this weekend: Derecho These are crazy, I've never heard of these before either. I'm in utah so it seems like I shouldn't ever see one of these, so I look forward to having one destroy my city soon.
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May 23, 2022 16:01
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cool thing about derecho's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_derecho_events there were 8 of them between 1965 and 1990, and 7 of them in 2020
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May 23, 2022 16:03
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TeenageArchipelago posted:cool thing about derecho's: "we've got better at detecting them!" 
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May 23, 2022 16:06
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:I enjoyed the story but I really don't think anyone can take any real world lessons from it. The story of their failure to colonise a planet relies on the presence of an alien life form which infects them and is incurable. If it were trying to be more realistic it might have the colonists battling the environment alone. The alien life form is a bit of a deus ex machina in my view: "colonists try to settle a planet but the planet says No" It successfully crack-pinged one of my friends. "there really isn't a way out, is there?"
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May 23, 2022 16:16
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T-Paine posted:Anybody have any recommendations for further climate doom reading? I'm in the middle of the water knife now (very good btw) and I've read silent spring, uninhabitable earth, The Once and Future World, Lean Logic, The Golden Spruce, and The Ends of the World. Got Cadillac Desert on order im reading facing the anthropocene and theres just a short bit where it goes over how CFC's went down and its incredible how much of a near miss it was and how it could have been 100x worse had a different refrigerant been used lol
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May 23, 2022 16:21
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the cover image really isn't representative of the whole video 
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May 23, 2022 16:24
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silicone thrills posted:Man its been such a cool spring here in seattle that my plants arent growing for poo poo and now im just waiting for the tides to turn and just get burnt to a crisp   my pollinator garden is really sad so far this year, only a few tiny blooms on spindly little stems. sometimes i'll go out to parks n such and see only 1 bumblebee in a huge bush laden with flowers and it's hard to enjoy nature without that creeping dread in the back of my skull.
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May 23, 2022 16:25
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Homeless Friend posted:im reading facing the anthropocene and theres just a short bit where it goes over how CFC's went down and its incredible how much of a near miss it was and how it could have been 100x worse had a different refrigerant been used lol
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May 23, 2022 16:25
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the nasa satellites used to record the ozone layer ignoring the data because they'd because they'd been programmed to if the recorded data that was too far out of expected values, assuming it was errors in measurements 
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May 23, 2022 16:36
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Oglethorpe posted:the cover image really isn't representative of the whole video props to the guy for walking up and pointing the camera down into the four or five story deep canyon full of destroyed buildings kind of reminds me of this pic of soil erosion at point defiance I saw the other day 
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May 23, 2022 16:37
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empty whippet box posted:These are crazy, I've never heard of these before either. I'm in utah so it seems like I shouldn't ever see one of these, so I look forward to having one destroy my city soon. we're all gonna get hammered with extreme weather events, half the fun is learning which ones will hit us
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May 23, 2022 16:50
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i keep thinking about one of my grade school science teachers, sometime around the late 90s, telling us during class that he didn't use non-stick cooking pans at home, because they were considered a miracle material by many, but were going to be the "asbestos of our time". that guy was cool.
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May 23, 2022 16:51
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Lmao jfc T-Paine posted:Anybody have any recommendations for further climate doom reading? I'm in the middle of the water knife now (very good btw) and I've read silent spring, uninhabitable earth, The Once and Future World, Lean Logic, The Golden Spruce, and The Ends of the World. Got Cadillac Desert on order Too smart for our own good, Craig Dilworth.
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May 23, 2022 17:20
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T-Paine posted:Anybody have any recommendations for further climate doom reading? I'm in the middle of the water knife now (very good btw) and I've read silent spring, uninhabitable earth, The Once and Future World, Lean Logic, The Golden Spruce, and The Ends of the World. Got Cadillac Desert on order Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut is pretty good.
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May 23, 2022 17:48
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Thanks y'all, I had a $50 gift card so I ordered 5 of these books. All used, natch. Also I flagellated my back with a cat o nine tales for 15 minutes to make up for ordering from amazon
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May 23, 2022 18:00
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Raine posted:if you really wanna cool down, put something cold under your armpits as well as your neck Those ice packs usually contain ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor, and stockpiling them will very likely have you added to a list. Stockpiling ammonium nitrate and posting in this thread will be enough to get a one way ticket to a black site prison.
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May 23, 2022 18:09
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Does the black site have AC?
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May 23, 2022 18:17
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Marenghi posted:Those ice packs usually contain ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor, and stockpiling them will very likely have you added to a list. each box has 4 ice packs and i live in phoenix. i like my chances
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May 23, 2022 18:18
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Most of us are probably already on some sort of list at this point and going by how many lists mass shooters are on and still so murder it's probably not a problem
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May 23, 2022 18:21
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two-time fee posted:Lmao jfc Here's a link to Chapters 3 and 4, should help people decide if they wanna read the whole thing or not
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May 23, 2022 18:22
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T-Paine posted:Anybody have any recommendations for further climate doom reading? I'm in the middle of the water knife now (very good btw) and I've read silent spring, uninhabitable earth, The Once and Future World, Lean Logic, The Golden Spruce, and The Ends of the World. Got Cadillac Desert on order I can't recommend The End of Ice enough, it's by an experienced mountaineer and it's basically a moving story of one man coming to terms with the death of his hobby and through it climate disruption
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May 23, 2022 18:36
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“It’s possible to reach a place of acceptance and inner peace, while enduring the grief and suffering that are inevitable as the biosphere declines.”
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May 23, 2022 18:41
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https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1528779669306081280Mayor Dave posted:I can't recommend The End of Ice enough, it's by an experienced mountaineer and it's basically a moving story of one man coming to terms with the death of his hobby and through it climate disruption That's cool, I read The Will to Resist forever ago
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May 23, 2022 18:51
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it’s not new, it’s from March. we probably discussed this already and that guy forgot. old hat
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May 23, 2022 18:52
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mawarannahr posted:it’s not new, it’s from March. we probably discussed this already and that guy forgot. old hat He probably forgot due to lead poisoning (alcohol for me if you're right)
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May 23, 2022 18:55
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T-Paine posted:He probably forgot due to lead poisoning (alcohol for me if you're right) microplastics 
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May 23, 2022 18:56
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covid can cause memory loss, i don't think i've seen this brought up on the forums
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May 23, 2022 18:57
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Cloks posted:covid can cause memory loss, i don't think i've seen this brought up on the forums what forums
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May 23, 2022 19:00
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Marenghi posted:Those ice packs usually contain ammonium nitrate, an explosive precursor, and stockpiling them will very likely have you added to a list. after the OKC bombing they made it harder to buy truckloads of the stuff (in PA at least) what that means is you now have to take a couple hour class and a quick permit test down at the extension office. I doubt they’ll be coming after you for your collection of ice packs.
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May 23, 2022 19:02
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Microfantastic!
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May 23, 2022 19:03
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Cloks posted:covid can cause memory loss, i don't think i've seen this brought up on the forums big scoop if true..
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May 23, 2022 19:03
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Crazypoops posted:Microfantastic! 
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May 23, 2022 19:03
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Mayor Dave posted:I can't recommend The End of Ice enough, it's by an experienced mountaineer and it's basically a moving story of one man coming to terms with the death of his hobby and through it climate disruption The End of Ice is great. Great writing, I mean. The content itself is purestrain psychic damage.
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May 23, 2022 19:16
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has anyone read this book? I have it but haven’t cracked the ice yet. The Lamentations of Zeno A Novel by Ilija Trojanow Translated by Philip Boehm https://www.versobooks.com/books/2099-the-lamentations-of-zeno quote:
in climate fiction I read gun island. it had some nice parts but it kind of sucked.
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May 23, 2022 19:17
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T-Paine posted:https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1528779669306081280 its ok i wasn't using those iq points anyways
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May 23, 2022 19:17
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mawarannahr posted:has anyone read this book? I have it but haven’t cracked the ice yet. for some reason this reminded me of a book i loved as a teenager called towing jehovah, where god dies and his two mile long corpse falls into the ocean so they decide to tow it to the arctic to preserve it in a hollowed out iceberg guess they wouldn't even bother trying now
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May 23, 2022 19:28
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I have a many-years old theory that Gen X is as bad as it is (being cargo cult boomers) because lead pollution peaked during their lives
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May 23, 2022 19:33
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like boomers are dumb as gently caress but they get rewarded and have always been rewarded for their behavior. gen x got the ladder pulled up on them almost as badly as millennials but gen-x are like born again christianesque fervent true believer boomers
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May 23, 2022 19:35
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500excf type r posted:like boomers are dumb as gently caress but they get rewarded and have always been rewarded for their behavior. speaking as a "xillennial" idk about that, most genx i know were able to buy a house and build significant savings but then again genx feels like the first generation where those of us that hosed around too much missed the boat and are extremely hosed now (but not as hosed as millennials and zoomers) used to be you could "catch up" in your 40s and 50s but i don't see that happening now e: doomsday threads continue converging, cool cool
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May 23, 2022 19:43
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Cold on a Cob posted:speaking as a "xillennial" idk about that, most genx i know were able to buy a house and build significant savings yeah, my partner was born in the late 70s and didn’t make the “proper” career/training moves before the 2008 recession and it really disadvantaged her. a whole lot of retail and little to do with her speciality. no house but at least the car is paid off!
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May 23, 2022 19:48
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