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SixteenShells posted:https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/09/14/a-psychologist-offers-3-tips-to-deal-with-solastalgia [Bad News Biosphere] The Gadgets We Cherish
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Sep 19, 2023 07:14
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*snuggling up to my phone in bed" I love you
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Sep 19, 2023 07:58
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Maybe we should get the air fryer in here too 
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Sep 19, 2023 07:59
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car honking sadly in the garage 😢
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Sep 19, 2023 08:35
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i'm doing my part
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Sep 19, 2023 09:52
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We will kill every pair of ragged claws Scuttling across garbage piles on the floors of dead seas.
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Sep 19, 2023 09:58
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frozenphil posted:We will kill every pair of ragged claws we're making good (horrible) progress on killing everything https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/19/mutilating-the-tree-of-life-wildlife-loss-accelerating-scientists-warn quote:The study, published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that at least 73 mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian species groupings have gone extinct since 1500. If trends had followed the average pre-human impact rates of extinction, just two would have been expected to disappear, they estimated. Those lost include the elephant birds of Madagascar, moa from New Zealand and Hawaiian moho honeyeaters. ok some good news there though. if you're honey you're less likely to get eaten quote:Due to habitat destruction, the climate crisis and the illegal trade in wildlife, losses are projected to accelerate in the coming years. ok but what's the worst case scenario. i need to know the worst case scenario so i know what to put my money on quote:In the worst-case scenario – that all currently endangered species groups disappear by the end of the century – the rate would be 354 times above the average for the past million years. lock it in. quote:The authors, Prof Gerardo Ceballos and Prof Paul Ehrlich, have previously found that species are becoming extinct on a scale akin to the event that wiped out the dinosaurs, hehehehHEHEHHAHAHA  quote:and warn that the loss is a threat to the persistence of human civilisation. it's the persistence of human civilisation that got us into this mess  quote:Prof Ceballos, of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, who led the research, told the Guardian that the results were worse than he expected,  worse than expected spotted quote:but oh?????? quote:said there was still time to act. go on quote:“As dramatic as the results are, what is important to mention is that we still have time. The window of opportunity is closing rapidly. There is hope but we need to act quickly,” he added. act quickly by doing what??? quote:it’s hard to see why global governments, leading businesses and the general public are not doing everything possible to mitigate this devastating loss,” he said. but "everything possible" includes things that make money sad. it's not hard to see at all  it's barely possible to not see it!! you even said it!!! it came out of your own mouth!!!!!quote:business look!!! there it is!!!!!!!
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Sep 19, 2023 10:08
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The only thing that would stop it is a massive reduction of our resource usage and there's only one way that we could do that, and we aren't going to do it so...
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Sep 19, 2023 10:34
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starkebn posted:The only thing that would stop it is a massive reduction of our resource usage and there's only one way that we could do that, and we aren't going to do it so... We are. I’m getting my anime villain monologue ready right this second.
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Sep 19, 2023 12:41
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Microplastics posted:*snuggling up to my phone in bed" Microplastics posted:Maybe we should get the air fryer in here too we all know you'd settle for a dutch oven starkebn posted:The only thing that would stop it is a massive reduction of our resource usage and there's only one way that we could do that, and we aren't going to do it so... V O T E
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Sep 19, 2023 15:16
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number of participants in climate action protests in Vancouver was 5k this past weekend. in 2019 it was like 100k. not sure what to think about this tbh
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Sep 19, 2023 15:56
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Cold on a Cob posted:number of participants in climate action protests in Vancouver was 5k this past weekend. we hit a critical mass of people resigned to climate death
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Sep 19, 2023 17:12
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Red Baron posted:we hit a critical mass of people resigned to climate death my thoughts are it's maybe that but also everyone's freaking out about cost of living and don't have time to organize as much as they did in 2019 i picked vancouver in particular b/c it wasn't as hard hit as other places this summer so good place to observe what people do when they see the manmade horrors but aren't currently experiencing them
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Sep 19, 2023 17:14
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Microplastics posted:i'm doing my part The funniest thing about disastrous, fatal climate change is that there are so many freebies we're not doing because the vibes aren't, like, you know, totally cool
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Sep 19, 2023 17:41
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Red Baron posted:we hit a critical mass of people excited for climate death
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Sep 19, 2023 18:02
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the crackdown on climate activists continues to ramp up https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/19/protester-who-held-sign-outside-london-climate-trial-prosecuted and not being allowed to even talk about your motivations for breaking the law (related) is some kangaroo court fascist poo poo
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Sep 19, 2023 18:02
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The Oldest Man posted:The funniest thing about disastrous, fatal climate change is that there are so many freebies we're not doing because the vibes aren't, like, you know, totally cool us being unable to make changes that are extremely popular really gives me hope about doing things that are extremely unpopular
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Sep 19, 2023 18:04
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Breaking in the last five minutes, Rishi Sunak now probably going to water down a lot of net zero promises such as ban on petrol/diesel cars in 2030, gas boilers in 2025 and other suggestions on efficiency and diet. How’s that saying go? lol, lmao
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Sep 19, 2023 18:05
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the only way we were ever going to fix climate change is if there was a solution that allowed the rich get richer even status quo isn't good enough for them
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Sep 19, 2023 18:15
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Stereotype posted:us being unable to make changes that are extremely popular really gives me hope about doing things that are extremely unpopular Actually western liberal democracies are very effective at doing things that are extremely unpopular as long as they are very popular with the top 0.1% of rich people Remote work: no End the suburbs: no Poors eat bugs: guessing that's going to be a yes as long as the rich still get steak Mass death: you know it
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Sep 19, 2023 18:19
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The Oldest Man posted:Mass death This is our favorite thing, we love this
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Sep 19, 2023 18:31
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Cold on a Cob posted:the crackdown on climate activists continues to ramp up lol she's being jailed for holding up a sign that says the same thing as a sign in the building where she's being jailed quote:Warner held up a sign outside Inner London crown court earlier this year spelling out the right of a jury to acquit a defendant on their conscience. She was referring to a famous sign in the Old Bailey celebrating the independence of jurors in the Bushel case in 1670, where a jury refused a judge’s direction to find defendants guilty. Old Bailey:  Her Illegal Sign: 
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Sep 19, 2023 18:36
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god would i love to do some jury nullification in the right circumstance. never been chosen in my life
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Sep 19, 2023 18:45
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one of the major reasons i want to be on a jury is so that i can nullify it
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Sep 19, 2023 19:07
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Trabisnikof posted:lol she's being jailed for holding up a sign that says the same thing as a sign in the building where she's being jailed Clearly different. Her sign says conscience and the plaque says convictions. Shameful really. Nothing to be done.
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Sep 19, 2023 19:08
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only nerds read plaques
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Sep 19, 2023 19:10
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Cold on a Cob posted:number of participants in climate action protests in Vancouver was 5k this past weekend. I’m pretty sure most people have some understanding that millions have died in the last three years and nothing got better or changed at all. they watched their activist acquaintances either get hosed up and destroyed by disease or propaganda. they’ve seen the writing on the wall that there’s no hope in collective action lol.
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Sep 19, 2023 19:45
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i wouldn't say hope, but i do think there will be an inflection point right about the time that most boomers have died and the number of voting age zoomers has grown faster than genxers and elder-millenials shift right as they age. rough eyeball of the numbers says in about 10 - 15 years everyone who's been paying attention since iraq is fully broken now, but the kids don't even know who don rumsfeld was! MightyBigMinus has issued a correction as of 19:52 on Sep 19, 2023 |
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Sep 19, 2023 19:50
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SixteenShells posted:https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2023/09/14/a-psychologist-offers-3-tips-to-deal-with-solastalgia "Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.”
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Sep 19, 2023 20:11
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skooma512 posted:"Once there were brook trout in the streams in the mountains. You could see them standing in the amber current where the white edges of their fins wimpled softly in the flow. They smelled of moss in your hand. Polished and muscular and torsional. On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming. Maps and mazes. Of a thing which could not be put back. Not be made right again. In the deep glens where they lived all things were older than man and they hummed of mystery.” Is that from The Dog Stars
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Sep 19, 2023 20:16
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Stereotype posted:that's still Stoicism though. The solution is always to improve yourself so that you can manage your own life within your specific conditions. Accept yourself as you are and the exact nature of world around you in relationship to you, because changing anything at all about it is not just impossible but also would serve no purpose. virtue is sufficient for happiness. This is only part of stoicism. In de meditationes every fifth sentence is how you have to work hard for your community, do your duty, make a better world. Rather than accepting the world as is, I'd say it's about recognizing the world as it is, working towards a better one and accepting the world as it is in the moment. Marcus Aurelius is my friend 🪿
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Sep 19, 2023 20:17
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500excf type r posted:Is that from The Dog Stars It's the last paragraph from The Road by Cormac Mccarthy
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Sep 19, 2023 20:25
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skooma512 posted:It's the last paragraph from The Road by Cormac Mccarthy Ahh thanks that explains it
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Sep 19, 2023 21:25
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FistEnergy posted:god would i love to do some jury nullification in the right circumstance. never been chosen in my life It's fun and cool to do, and been long enough that I can quote myself from the case I served on: "I totally believe that the defendant had a gun in his pants, but I don't believe that he threw it in the bushes while running from the cops on his way into his house. I also don't think tricking his mom into letting them into the house to search was legit. gently caress this let's go home."
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Sep 19, 2023 22:19
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tuyop posted:I’m pretty sure most people have some understanding that millions have died in the last three years and nothing got better or changed at all. they watched their activist acquaintances either get hosed up and destroyed by disease or propaganda. they’ve seen the writing on the wall that there’s no hope in collective action lol. yeah i remember when the cops came in on horseback, the teargas, and the makeshift open air prison they built in grant park when we protested the iraq war everyone’s noticed how many of the new leaders from ferguson “committed suicide” or disappeared summer of 2020 they ran out of teargas and it was easier to see the same response in every community when they wanted to kill and take congress hostage no one stopped them millions died a preventable death because their money needed to keep moving so much money has nowhere else to go so we all need to pay speculative finance rent - collective action is the most powerful force in the world, but folks have been threatened and gaslit for so long they doubt the stakes imagine meaningful sacrifice
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Sep 19, 2023 23:21
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Cold on a Cob posted:number of participants in climate action protests in Vancouver was 5k this past weekend. 2019 I felt like people being upset about a big bad global happening might spur change didn't feel that way by the end of 2020 wonder why 
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Sep 19, 2023 23:30
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Unless posted:imagine meaningful sacrifice Yeah capitalism is a game of prisoners dilemma with a million other people and they’re all hammering the punish button as hard and fast as they can but to make things better you have to cooperate and just lmao
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Sep 19, 2023 23:36
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SKULL.GIF posted:this weekend at the marina I was discussing some of the boats there with my uncle. there was this one yacht from chicago with a bunch of very obviously visibly-rich people on it. my uncle mentioned it burned 135 gallons of fuel a hour while operating I've been watching my fuel use since this post was made back at the start of July & I've finally done it! 35 minutes driving to work every day, 35 minutes driving home, miscellaneous local trips for things like groceries and a vacation that put a few hundred miles on my car- All this to achieve 1 millionaire hour of fuel consumption! A mere 11 weeks of effort to match what my social betters do in an hour! Tonight I shall sip a fine brandy and berate the peasants or some such. Huzzah!
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Sep 20, 2023 00:23
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TehSaurus posted:Yeah capitalism is a game of prisoners dilemma with a million other people and they’re all hammering the punish button as hard and fast as they can but to make things better you have to cooperate and just lmao This is the first time I've seen someone frame it like this, and it makes so much sense. It's prisoners dilemma with 8 billion people but even if one defects and the other cooperates the detector will eventually still lose because the world is ruined 
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Sep 20, 2023 00:53
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Prisoner's dilemma isn't exactly right, but it's a starting framework
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