Hubbert posted:

sir, that's known as a vichy vintage

MightyBigMinus posted:

its like we made original sin real

tuyop posted:

It's been spring for a little while but between wildfire smoke, rain or unseasonable coldness or pain, I haven't gotten out to observe the little patch of nature around my apartment.

Yesterday I sat outside and it was just an incredible amount of birdsong. Based on my observations, I think we have least eight different species* around us rn.

All last year we fed them roasted in-shell peanuts and sunflower seeds. Regulars have probably seen some of these pictures:




The goal was to ultimately befriend these creatures so that they would give us presents. Like feathers and little shiny things and maybe even some bugs! Other than what the nuthatches smear everywhere to keep us safe from predators

This morning was another nice weather day so I sat outside to have my coffee. Cat sat in my lap and I tossed a bunch of peanuts and sunflower seeds around the area, off the edge of the balcony.

I heard a bunch of weird chirps and blue jay coos and croaks, and a mangy-looking fledgling clumsily flew over and perched on one of the farther branches from me, but still right in front of me. I had no camera or anything and I didn't want to move. A couple more tiny, hideous birds arrayed themselves on the branch.

Then I saw one of our blue jays (I think I can recognize a couple individuals but not this one, from this distance) sort of supervising from a healthy distance to the right, and another one landed in the tree to the left of these little birds and they all just kind of sat there, preening for a few minutes while I watched.

When they left, I checked what blue jay fledglings look like and I'm pretty sure they were introducing me to their family because we fed them enough for a nice, healthy brood.

After the morning rush, all the horrible machine noises of the urban day replace the bird song and it's back to business, but I feel very held and regarded by the silly little pocket of nature around my balcony.

* crows, of course, blue jays, european starlings, nuthatches, chickadees, robins, woodpeckers (downy or pileated, not sure) and I just saw house sparrows which are new to the neighbourhood this year.

celadon posted:

yeah the response to covid was what broke me of any hope that we could even remotely handle climate change

and then china dropping zero covid broke me of the hope i didnt realize i still had that china could at least handle some of it

r u ready to WALK posted:

I've always heard that brain plasticity is a good thing

celadon posted:

yeah the response to covid was what broke me of any hope that we could even remotely handle climate change

and then china dropping zero covid broke me of the hope i didnt realize i still had that china could at least handle some of it

Cold on a Cob posted:

for real, people have trouble with accepting a no-win scenario

the real kicker for me right now is i don't think the covid pandemic is a no-win scenario but the fact we're not winning is part of the reason i think we're hosed for climate change.

lol. lmao.

Cold on a Cob posted:

having people lecture anyone presenting totally plausible zero-covid ideas as "unrealistic" because a hard 4 week lockdown might make NUMBER sad while turning around and calling people like me idiot nihilist doomers for thinking we won't be able to stop runaway climate change is real loving funny

MightyBigMinus posted:

its like we made original sin real

MightyBigMinus posted:

its like we made original sin real

Stereotype posted:

lol

a strange fowl posted:

i was smugging to myself recently because i don't have children, not because i don't want them but because i want a totally informed opinion first on the various environmental dangers they will be exposed to so i can protect them. not like all these other idiots popping out babies and drenching them in pfas and pesticides. i am a smart.

but then i realised that my ovaries have been inside me all this time, long before i knew about any of this poo poo. it actually doesn't matter what i do - the cumulative poison is already there, in my eggs. there is absolutely no way i can avoid exposing a hypothetical baby to all this poo poo, because my body is where it will grow, and that's already poisoned.

ping!

MightyBigMinus posted:

its like we made original sin real

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

it started going down

tuyop posted:

It's been spring for a little while but between wildfire smoke, rain or unseasonable coldness or pain, I haven't gotten out to observe the little patch of nature around my apartment.

Yesterday I sat outside and it was just an incredible amount of birdsong. Based on my observations, I think we have least eight different species* around us rn.

All last year we fed them roasted in-shell peanuts and sunflower seeds. Regulars have probably seen some of these pictures:




The goal was to ultimately befriend these creatures so that they would give us presents. Like feathers and little shiny things and maybe even some bugs! Other than what the nuthatches smear everywhere to keep us safe from predators

This morning was another nice weather day so I sat outside to have my coffee. Cat sat in my lap and I tossed a bunch of peanuts and sunflower seeds around the area, off the edge of the balcony.

I heard a bunch of weird chirps and blue jay coos and croaks, and a mangy-looking fledgling clumsily flew over and perched on one of the farther branches from me, but still right in front of me. I had no camera or anything and I didn't want to move. A couple more tiny, hideous birds arrayed themselves on the branch.

Then I saw one of our blue jays (I think I can recognize a couple individuals but not this one, from this distance) sort of supervising from a healthy distance to the right, and another one landed in the tree to the left of these little birds and they all just kind of sat there, preening for a few minutes while I watched.

When they left, I checked what blue jay fledglings look like and I'm pretty sure they were introducing me to their family because we fed them enough for a nice, healthy brood.

After the morning rush, all the horrible machine noises of the urban day replace the bird song and it's back to business, but I feel very held and regarded by the silly little pocket of nature around my balcony.

* crows, of course, blue jays, european starlings, nuthatches, chickadees, robins, woodpeckers (downy or pileated, not sure) and I just saw house sparrows which are new to the neighbourhood this year.

r u ready to WALK posted:

ben shapino posted:

Lmao if you had hope even before COVID. Have you ever looked around you or interacted with people at all lol

ben shapino posted:

Like 15 years ago, a high school friend was adamant that climate change wouldn't really affect our lives or our kids lives, that the effects were decades or centuries away.

I explained to him that heavily populated areas and regions that grow our food will feel the worst effects first, and that will lead to mass immigration, migrant crises, and food shortages, all of which will impact our quality of life as everything gets more expensive or unattainable, so yes climate change will affect both of us as well as any kids we might have within our lifetimes. Unequivocally.

He sort of saw what I was getting at, but still insisted it won't be as bad as everyone makes it sound.

He has 6 kids now.





Lol

ben shapino posted:

Like 15 years ago, a high school friend was adamant that climate change wouldn't really affect our lives or our kids lives, that the effects were decades or centuries away.

I explained to him that heavily populated areas and regions that grow our food will feel the worst effects first, and that will lead to mass immigration, migrant crises, and food shortages, all of which will impact our quality of life as everything gets more expensive or unattainable, so yes climate change will affect both of us as well as any kids we might have within our lifetimes. Unequivocally.

He sort of saw what I was getting at, but still insisted it won't be as bad as everyone makes it sound.

He has 6 kids now.





Lol

bedpan posted:

plants were really big during the Jurassic period so food crops will be really big and healthy as climate change gets worse

bedpan posted:

"The weather is never as bad as the forecast"

My dad said this to me one day. No idea where he got it

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i was talking to a guy about increasing CO2 levels and he said "well at least trees are growing faster now since there's more CO2 in the air"

Cold on a Cob posted:

oh cool so the monoculture tree farms of canada being all on fire means we'll just see exponential tree growth

i'm sorry what? grow zones? what the gently caress are those?

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i was talking to a guy about increasing CO2 levels and he said "well at least trees are growing faster now since there's more CO2 in the air"

BoothBaberGinsburg posted:

my six strapping sons with plastics-enhanced skeletons will be carrying me aloft their shoulders while we scavenge a burnt out costco

Cold on a Cob posted:

most westerners think the climate apocalypse will play out like fallout 3 and they'll be the main character

also... i just had a realization that of loving course the north american post-apocalyptic fantasy world has cows in it, americans can't imagine a world without hamburgers or steak

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

i was talking to a guy about increasing CO2 levels and he said "well at least trees are growing faster now since there's more CO2 in the air"

ikanreed posted:

The oil industry put out a "co2 is plant food" disinfo campaign starting about 2010.


The flaws with this are easy to point out and irrelevant because they aren't backed with literally billions.