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guay too hot!
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Sep 22, 2023 02:08
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE
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Sep 22, 2023 02:35
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Real hurthling! posted:guay too hot!
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Sep 22, 2023 02:39
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so were we using the amazon rainforest for anything important or
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Sep 22, 2023 03:31
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Mola Yam posted:so were we using the amazon rainforest for anything important or Does economic activity happen there?
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Sep 22, 2023 03:54
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FlapYoJacks posted:Does economic activity happen there? it does now that we’ve clear cut a bunch of it for cattle
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Sep 22, 2023 03:58
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i've been reading adrian tchaikovsky's "children of time" and the premise that in our death throes we'll deliberately salt the earth behind us with chemical and biological warfare to the point that thousands of years later the shattered remnants of humanity are faced with extinction as the mini-ice age from blocking out the sun melts back and releases them. if we could, we, as a terminally stupid species, would absolutely do that. we already do exactly that to the best of our ability, leaving minefields to deny the land for generations to come. also the intelligent spider matriarchy rules. it's a great read and very thread appropriate.
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Sep 22, 2023 04:07
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Mola Yam posted:so were we using the amazon rainforest for anything important or yeah that's where they built the amazon carbon capture and oxygen fulfillment center
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Sep 22, 2023 04:23
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Harik posted:i've been reading adrian tchaikovsky's "children of time" and the premise that in our death throes we'll deliberately salt the earth behind us with chemical and biological warfare to the point that thousands of years later the shattered remnants of humanity are faced with extinction as the mini-ice age from blocking out the sun melts back and releases them. This was such a good book. I just looked and there are sequels! Was wondering what I was going to read next. Another thread appropriate read is Tender is the Flesh, which is more horror dystopia but is also amazing and so well written.
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Sep 22, 2023 05:12
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moana posted:This was such a good book. I just looked and there are sequels! Was wondering what I was going to read next.. ahh, neat. I hadn't decided on what to read next but there we go.
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Sep 22, 2023 05:59
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The sequel is... interesting. Makes intelligent, hyper-evolved spiders seem almost quaint. I did enjoy it though.
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Sep 22, 2023 07:50
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Thanks for reminding me of the terrible Lost in Space remake from 1998
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Sep 22, 2023 08:00
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Harik posted:i've been reading adrian tchaikovsky's "children of time" and the premise that in our death throes we'll deliberately salt the earth behind us with chemical and biological warfare to the point that thousands of years later the shattered remnants of humanity are faced with extinction as the mini-ice age from blocking out the sun melts back and releases them. it's a great series. the second book i really struggled to wrap my head around but the birds in the third book are so so good
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Sep 22, 2023 08:43
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does "going completely loving insane" come after lol, and lmao? because i think thats where im at. post enlightenment, perhaps.
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Sep 22, 2023 08:46
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The three stages of jokerfication 1. Lol 2. Lmao 3. Completely loving insane
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Sep 22, 2023 08:47
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Microplastics posted:The three stages of jokerfication def feeling better that these are the 12 steps to bdelloid-recovery
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Sep 22, 2023 09:32
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Stereotype posted:I was assured that it isn’t that bad yet That was last week
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Sep 22, 2023 11:13
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"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad." "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here."
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Sep 22, 2023 11:15
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Dokapon Findom posted:Thanks for reminding me of the terrible Lost in Space remake from 1998 yeh but it has 1998 era heather graham
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Sep 22, 2023 11:30
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Dokapon Findom posted:Thanks for reminding me of the terrible Lost in Space remake from 1998 The film that blossomed my Gary Oldman and Gretchen from Mean Girls love cannot be dissed.
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Sep 22, 2023 11:55
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 quote:Bad News Climate Change
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Sep 22, 2023 11:56
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Just a Moron posted:For reference, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs released 420 zettajoules of energy. Since 1980 we've added 200 zettajoules of energy to the top 700 meters of ocean. Not a full accounting but probably the vast majority. It's not as devastating as releasing all that energy all at once, but it's still essentially an instant on a geological time scale. That's also comparing a single impulse event to an increased ramping of the forcing function that we've locked in for decades (centuries?), so the overall event will end up surpassing the Chicxulub Impact. It's a dumb but mostly accurate abstraction to say more energy->more chaos->more things break and we just dumped a stupid, gargantuan amount of extra energy into our environmental system. Hey thanks for this, it’s a really neat comparison! But! We’ve also created microplastics, forever chemicals, and nuclear weapons! Before the end, we will unleash horrors far beyond what can be achieved with a simple explosion. There’s a part of me that is sad I won’t be able to see or study it because man, how many times could something like this have happened in the universe? But then I remember that would involve bearing witness to incomprehensible amounts of suffering and nah I’m good actually
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Sep 22, 2023 12:19
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The comparison to the Chicxulub Impact is interesting but not hugely helpful since the real damage isn't the energy inserted in the event but the long term changes to how solar energy is absorbed and radiated away. The impact threw up a lot of dust that reflected sunlight in the short term, and triggered volcanism that increased CO2 and trapped heat in the (very) longterm (if I recall correctly). I think we've potentially inserted more CO2 (or are on course to do so) over a much shorter period of time so the long term damage of that CO2 sitting there will be much worse than what the impact achieved. However we didn't start off the industrial revolution by triggering a global cooling, and in the longterm I'm not sure if that would have been better or worse for the biosphere if somehow it did.
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Sep 22, 2023 12:30
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no you go insane first, lol lmao is when you come to terms with it via cackling nihilism
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Sep 22, 2023 12:34
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MightyBigMinus posted:no you go insane first, lol lmao is when you come to terms with it via cackling nihilism
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Sep 22, 2023 13:05
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"lol" and "lmao" are the involuntary sounds you make as you compartmentalize yet another man-made horror you could probably be doing this before or after you go insane i think
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Sep 22, 2023 13:41
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Sanity is being rational and following your best understanding of how things are, but it is also agreeing with whatever the Big Other’s view of the world might be. When those things end up in conflict I’m not sure there is any way to be sane, kind of irrespective of if you’re right (The Big Other being the sort of phantom entity that moderates what we think is acceptable to say and do, whether that’s “God” or “Society” or “Other People.” What “Other People” believe might not be what the actual humans of the world outside believe, because it is really the Big Other in a mask.)
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Sep 22, 2023 13:54
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Microplastics posted:The three stages of jokerfication
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Sep 22, 2023 15:01
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Puppy Burner posted:"But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. 
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Sep 22, 2023 15:15
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I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore! Gaslighting sack of poo poo society
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Sep 22, 2023 15:24
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I'm mad as hell and I'm gonna keep taking it
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Sep 22, 2023 15:28
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Microplastics posted:The comparison to the Chicxulub Impact is interesting but not hugely helpful since the real damage isn't the energy inserted in the event but the long term changes to how solar energy is absorbed and radiated away. The impact threw up a lot of dust that reflected sunlight in the short term, and triggered volcanism that increased CO2 and trapped heat in the (very) longterm (if I recall correctly). I think we've potentially inserted more CO2 (or are on course to do so) over a much shorter period of time so the long term damage of that CO2 sitting there will be much worse than what the impact achieved. However we didn't start off the industrial revolution by triggering a global cooling, and in the longterm I'm not sure if that would have been better or worse for the biosphere if somehow it did. The Permian-Triassic is a better comparison. Thankfully that wasn't that bad. Didn't get a special name or anything. Interesting tidbit - we're extracting carbon at a rate 10 million times faster than it was deposited. It's fine though, societies have collapsed before.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:32
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https://twitter.com/SaraHor76174949/status/1705225568982065329 Angry cattle ranchers burn down rainforest restoration project because grass feed for cows is more important than any sort of biodiversity.
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Sep 22, 2023 15:48
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/SaraHor76174949/status/1705225568982065329 That’s right. One is economic activity, the other is a dumb forest.
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Sep 22, 2023 16:04
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I wonder at what point people start harming the ranchers flocks and the ranchers themselves. They seem to think they’re entitled to unlimited rainforest land.
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Sep 22, 2023 16:16
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skooma512 posted:I wonder at what point people start harming the ranchers flocks and the ranchers themselves. They seem to think they’re entitled to unlimited rainforest land. The law protects the ranchers from this as that is private property and part of the economy.
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Sep 22, 2023 16:21
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the land will be even richer for the next forest now
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Sep 22, 2023 16:28
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skooma512 posted:I wonder at what point people start harming the ranchers flocks and the ranchers themselves. They seem to think they’re entitled to unlimited rainforest land. The governments will send out armed escorts for cattle before they let anyone even think about this
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Sep 22, 2023 16:38
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Jizzny Princess posted:https://twitter.com/SaraHor76174949/status/1705225568982065329 tree law abandons us when it is needed most
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Sep 22, 2023 16:41
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SixteenShells posted:tree law abandons us when it is needed most 
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