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Thank you plastic
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:27 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 05:16 |
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Hubbert posted:sir, that's known as a vichy vintage i laughed at this
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:34 |
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MightyBigMinus posted:its like we made original sin real it was already real, just not metaphysical
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:34 |
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.
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:49 |
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I've always heard that brain plasticity is a good thing
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:49 |
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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. This is wonderful and adorable, thank you for posting it
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:52 |
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cool bird post
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 13:59 |
thanks You know that part in Exterminate All The Brutes where they quote an Indigenous leader who asks one of the first colonial leaders "Why would you take through violence that which we would happily give you out of love?" It loving feels exactly like that, except every single organism around us is a related and necessary part of making a life in a place and they give us all we need out of love. Sucks.
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:08 |
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celadon posted:yeah the response to covid was what broke me of any hope that we could even remotely handle climate change
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:08 |
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r u ready to WALK posted:I've always heard that brain plasticity is a good thing Well it's time to put that brain plasticity into use then and start realising it's bad actually
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:32 |
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celadon posted:yeah the response to covid was what broke me of any hope that we could even remotely handle climate change same Cold on a Cob posted:for real, people have trouble with accepting a no-win scenario 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
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 14:34 |
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Love pumpkin bird.
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 15:07 |
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MightyBigMinus posted:its like we made original sin real lol
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 15:22 |
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MightyBigMinus posted:its like we made original sin real
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 15:35 |
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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.
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 15:44 |
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Lmao if you had hope even before COVID. Have you ever looked around you or interacted with people at all lol
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 15:48 |
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MightyBigMinus posted:its like we made original sin real lol
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:04 |
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it started going down
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:19 |
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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:it started going down Democrats made it feel better
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:28 |
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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. Phew, thought you were gonna say the baby birds died from too much plastic or something
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:30 |
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"Ask your doctor if Cialis is right for you"
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:30 |
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ben shapino posted:Lmao if you had hope even before COVID. Have you ever looked around you or interacted with people at all lol rite? i have never once wavered in my certainty of our success at changing the climate. a certainty arrived at through the rare and difficult sociological process of "spending 10 minutes in a grocery store parking lot"
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:40 |
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It's a good thing that large bodies of water are well known for their quick temperature changes and ability to rapidly shed heat
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 16:45 |
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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
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:07 |
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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. yeah, to help him rule the wasteland while u cry on a pile of animes. sorry childfreeailures!
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:14 |
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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. plants were really big during the Jurassic period so food crops will be really big and healthy as climate change gets worse
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:15 |
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"The weather is never as bad as the forecast" My dad said this to me one day. No idea where he got it
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:16 |
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bedpan posted:plants were really big during the Jurassic period so food crops will be really big and healthy as climate change gets worse I thought I saw something that food would be higher in carbohydrates but not protein or vitamins or anything as a result of increased co2. So bigger food but it’s not healthier
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:19 |
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bedpan posted:"The weather is never as bad as the forecast" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_bias it's true but it has nothing to do with climate change, of course
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:19 |
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Its fine we already hosed up our food anyway https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/why-modern-food-lost-its-nutrients/
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:22 |
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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"
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:26 |
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heat kicked on last night got down to 48 and high of 65 today, apocalypse cancelled
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:26 |
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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" 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?
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:38 |
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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 our civilization is entirely unsuited to grapple with climate change. more effort and time will be spent on denying climate change exists than in addressing the climate change reality
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:40 |
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my six strapping sons with plastics-enhanced skeletons will be carrying me aloft their shoulders while we scavenge a burnt out costco
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:40 |
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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" 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.
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:44 |
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BoothBaberGinsburg posted:my six strapping sons with plastics-enhanced skeletons will be carrying me aloft their shoulders while we scavenge a burnt out costco 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
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:45 |
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Cold on a Cob posted:most westerners think the climate apocalypse will play out like fallout 3 and they'll be the main character yeah but i guess i can't blame anyone for daydreaming that they'll be mad max instead of like dying anonymously in a flood or from heat stroke or what have you
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:54 |
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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" true, to an extent CO2 fertilization is a real effect that has played a part in an observed global "greening" over the past decades and has contributed to the continously increasing land carbon sink of course there are other factors in biomass growth and IIRC research has already seen indicators that this increased growth rate has already begun to slow down on the average globally the kicker to this stuff is that the huge GHG concentration increases have happened at a time when the earth system mechanisms that remove carbon from the atmosphere have been constantly strengthening, if they stop doing so in the future it will be one more extremely funny graph to add to the collection
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:55 |
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# ? May 26, 2024 05:16 |
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ikanreed posted:The oil industry put out a "co2 is plant food" disinfo campaign starting about 2010. you could probably get a lib to pause by blaming oil industry propaganda on the russians
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# ? Jun 13, 2023 17:56 |