[Biosphere Collapse] 420 days of blazin' it

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skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

openly being further left than that has had an unfortunate tendency to get you purged from academia for the past 70 years or so, which probably doesn't help

It's not an authoritarian regime you live under, you're just fired and refused employment if you aren't right wing enough :nsa:

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Rauros: Aug 25, 2004; wanna go grub thumping?

gently caress COREY PERRY posted:

don't forget dying of thirst/hunger!

speedrunning no potable water

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RadiRoot: Feb 3, 2007

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1696964396168167779

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toggle: Nov 7, 2005

Puppy Burner posted:

Civilization is the transformation of wonder and beauty into a sterile and silent tomb.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 20:43

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

Rauros posted:

speedrunning no potable water

Someone should do something lol

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:05

HAIL eSATA-n: Apr 7, 2007

The Oldest Man posted:

Someone should do something lol

Vote.

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goochtit: Nov 2, 2021

no wetland ever offered me a job

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:26

ThatBasqueGuy: Feb 14, 2013; someone introduce jojo to lazyb

When the hurricane beat my home, I didn't curse it I said thank you for your service

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:28

toggle: Nov 7, 2005

Rauros posted:

speedrunning no potable water

lmao wtf. a very progressive president.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:33

starkebn: May 18, 2004; "Oooh, got a little too serious. You okay there, little buddy?"

Engorged Pedipalps posted:

I mean it's not even like those things are the leading cause of microplastic contamination

Fishing nets and dust from tires are most of it, right?

We created a feel good solution for waste because it's easier than just consuming less

And washing synthetic clothes

# ? Aug 30, 2023 22:37

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

toggle posted:

lmao wtf. a very progressive president.

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:15

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

give the order, mr president

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:15

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/30/martha-stewart-iceberg-cocktail/

quote:

Those looking to boost their craft cocktail game have in recent years turned to �luxury� or �designer� ice in place of the ordinary tap-water variety. Its proponents champion luxury ice as the superior way to chill cocktails � boasting that it is individually carved, slow melting and has no minerals or chemicals that might affect how a drink tastes. Such an indulgence can cost nearly $10 a pop.

Martha Stewart bested all of that Monday by chilling her cocktail with an actual iceberg.

On Monday night, Stewart posted on Instagram a photo of herself in a winter hat and parka, showing off a beverage in a tumbler with the wilds of Greenland behind her. In the caption, she revealed that, while sailing aboard a Swan Hellenic cruise off Greenland�s east coast, they had �captured a small iceberg for our cocktails tonight.� Other photos showed still-intact glaciers with breakaways floating in the sea below and a pair of �captured� icebergs on a bar cart.

Some of her 1.9 million followers bristled, chiding her in the comments for being elitist and �tone deaf,� given that climate change has made Greenland the fastest-warming region in the world, where ice melts at twice the pace of Antarctica.

�Global warming and melting ice caps but we need glacier ice for cocktails?!� one person commented.

Someone else said that keeping cocktails cold using the remnants of a glacier �sounds like a line from a dystopian novel.�

What Arctic ice tells us about climate change

Perhaps, but plucking an iceberg out of the sea is not a big deal, said glaciologist Eric Rignot, a professor in the Earth system science department at the University of California at Irvine. In fact, Rignot, who studies how climate change affects the polar ice sheets, said he has done it, too.

�It is not like she went to a glacier and carved a piece of ice off it,� Rignot wrote in an email to The Washington Post. �Icebergs float at sea already and slowly melt. Whether they melt in the ocean or in your glass does not make a difference.�

Glaciologist Ian Allison, a professor at the University of Tasmania�s Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, agreed, saying the environmental impact from the fossil fuels powering the cruise ship was far greater than that caused by Stewart putting some ice into her glass, which he described as �zero (or at least no greater than the beating of butterflies� wings in the Amazon).�

�Popping a bit of ice into a drink is no worse than taking a glass of water from a river,� Allison wrote in an email to The Post.

Bringing aboard one or two ice fragments has been a common practice for decades among expedition cruise ships like Swan Hellenic, said Lindsay Brean, a spokeswoman for the cruise line. It gives guests a chance to see and touch the shape and structure of the ice. As the ice melts, it breaks up, allowing guests like Stewart to put some in their drinks if they choose to do so.

But no one ever breaks ice off a glacier; what they collect is �already in the sea,� Brean said.

�It�s supposed to be an entirely respectful experience,� she added.

Even though Stewart didn�t do anything harmful in Rignot�s view, she could have taken the opportunity to highlight �the beauty of the place and how sad it is to know that it is melting away,� he added.

Stewart does not appear to have done that, at least on her Instagram account. But her travel companion Brian Kelly, who founded the Points Guy travel site, did so in an Instagram post that he published around the same time as Stewart. In his caption, Kelly said climate change has hit Greenland especially hard, but �its beauty still cannot be understated.�

�Icebergs are pieces of art and watching them float by never gets old,� he wrote. �The magnitude of the glaciers is humbling and frankly hard to fully comprehend.�

Stewart is aware that some people must think she spends all of her time indulging in the luxuries of the world, but in July, she told them she is also conscious of the crises it faces. In mid-July, she told her Instagram followers that a recent storm had dumped eight inches of rain on her Maine estate, washing out roads, felling trees and rotting her vegetable garden.

She used the storm and the damage it caused to highlight the increasingly severe effects of climate change.

�And what are we doing as a nation to remedy this erratic weather and global warming??� she asked rhetorically. �Think about it and start to act responsibly please!�

Although he�s a glaciologist, Allison said he was concerned about Stewart�s cocktail-iceberg pairing. The ice in Greenland is formed from layer upon layer of snow compressing each other over time, which traps and pressurizes air bubbles, he said.

�If Martha�s piece of berg had once been buried to depths of hundreds of meters, it would gently effervesce in her drink as it melted,� Allison said.

The glaciologist had a suggested pairing for just such a piece of iceberg.

�Highly recommended with a single-malt scotch.�

This is what makes climate activists really angry. Not something that matters. :allears:

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skooma512: Feb 8, 2012; You couldn't grok my race car, but you dug the roadside blur.

The only person that I've actually met on my IG that posts about climate change and cutting out meat... is one of the only people on there that frequently takes island vacations.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:24

ben shapino: Nov 22, 2020

skooma512 posted:

The only person that I've actually met on my IG that posts about climate change and cutting out meat... is one of the only people on there that frequently takes island vacations.

Well yeah someone has to offset all that carbon

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:26

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Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

Unironically yes. Now you're getting it.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:29

The Oldest Man: Jul 28, 2003

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

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Dokapon Findom: Dec 5, 2022; But have you considered whether the child murdered by the driver of that truck was riding an oversized bike?!?! Children riding oversized bikes are the scourge of our roadways!!

I'd like to visit the Cook Islands and I'll probably do so as the benefit to me for going far outweighs the benefit to humanity for me not going. That plane is flying whether I'm on it or not! Only private jets are bad :colbert:

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:34

Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

yeah exactly, we should be mad at him for his pro-natural gas, pro-coal policies too!

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ram dass in hell: Dec 29, 2019; Can't post for 3 hours!

rex rabidorum vires posted:

Unironically yes. Now you're getting it.

i assure you that he is not

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:40

Mean Baby: May 28, 2005

I had a cocktail once called global warming and it was a big ice block and the spices melted the center.

it was real good.

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:47

Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

rex rabidorum vires posted:

Unironically yes. Now you're getting it.

lol

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SixteenShells: Sep 30, 2021

california ignored SCOTUS orders to reduce their prison population for years while Harris was the state attorney general. eventually they had to comply but they came really loving close to answering that question of "what if we just told the courts to gently caress off". the people running the country as we speak, are no stranger to playing fast and loose with what the court says. the question is what policies they do that in service of. so far the answer is "policies of cruelty".

SixteenShells has issued a correction as of 00:01 on Aug 31, 2023

# ? Aug 30, 2023 23:58

JAY ZERO SUM GAME: Oct 18, 2005; Walter.
I know you know how to do this.
Get up.

SixteenShells posted:

california ignored SCOTUS orders to reduce their prison population for years while Harris was the state attorney general. eventually they had to comply but they came really loving close to answering that question of "what if we just told the courts to gently caress off". the people running the country as we speak, are no stranger to playing fast and loose with what the court says. the question is what policies they do that in service of. so far the answer is "policies of cruelty".

profit

# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:04

FlapYoJacks: Feb 12, 2009

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

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ben shapino: Nov 22, 2020

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

he's the president he can do it if he wants

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Thorn Wishes Talon: Oct 18, 2014; by Fluffdaddy

ben shapino posted:

he's the president he can do it if he wants

lol

# ? Aug 31, 2023 00:21

Rectal Death Adept: Jun 20, 2018; by Fluffdaddy

skooma512 posted:

The only person that I've actually met on my IG that posts about climate change and cutting out meat... is one of the only people on there that frequently takes island vacations.

I browse that investment kickstarter thing wefunder sometimes and recently some climate grift machine on there had the investor perks at spending time at the creators mansion in bali.

$10,000 towards their machine that is very carefully never claimed to actually work and you get 7 days at their house.

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TehSaurus: Jun 12, 2006

I can respect that since my dream job would be scamming vcs out of cash.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 03:41

Cup Runneth Over: Aug 8, 2009; She said life's
Too short to worry
Life's too long to wait
It's too short
Not to love everybody
Life's too long to hate

Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

yeah biden and his agencies should just ignore court orders

I mean, what would we do if our elected officials just flouted the authority of the branches of government, like, for example, refusing to elect a new US Supreme Court justice for an entire year in order to run out the clock to your party gaining power and being able to choose? Decorum would be destroyed. It would be anarchy.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 04:47

Trabisnikof: Dec 24, 2005

yes, we might be risking human extinction, but at least the Supreme Court�s authority wasn�t challenged.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 04:49

biceps crimes: Apr 12, 2008

ben shapino posted:

he's the president he can do it if he wants

that's right

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CODChimera: Jan 29, 2009

didn't Extinction Rebellion give up?

# ? Aug 31, 2023 05:12

jetz0r: May 10, 2003; Tomorrow, our nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment of the imagination, but a fact. Tomorrow we will lead the world, Allah willing.

Why would XR give up? They're wildly successful at their goal.

# ? Aug 31, 2023 05:15

Fuck You And Diebold: Sep 15, 2004; by Athanatos

FlapYoJacks posted:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/30/martha-stewart-iceberg-cocktail/

This is what makes climate activists really angry. Not something that matters.

that loving owns lmao

# ? Aug 31, 2023 05:20