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The e-brake is humanity hitting the brick wall of limits to growth. Releasing the brake is global thermonuclear war. Probably.
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Feb 22, 2024 14:08
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:Sounds like "Koyaanisqatsi" would be a great counter-punch to that. I highly recommend it for anyone who's never seen it, it's kinda a perfect encapsulation of the industrialized world right as the shine is starting to wear off and people are starting to wonder for the first time "what the gently caress have we done" and it's set to some of the best music ever written My wife and I watched this last night, it owns, hauntingly beautiful and horrifying. Felt like an appropriate end to the day after checking out an exhibit about the loss of polar sea ice at the art gallery. Sure, we're destroying the planet, but the content is better than ever.
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Feb 22, 2024 14:08
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Karach posted:My wife and I watched this last night, it owns, hauntingly beautiful and horrifying. Felt like an appropriate end to the day after checking out an exhibit about the loss of polar sea ice at the art gallery. Sure, we're destroying the planet, but the content is better than ever. You’re lucky. I was going to take the missus to one of those exhibits, but all I saw was a puddle. 
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Feb 22, 2024 15:17
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this is some good music
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Feb 22, 2024 15:29
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-weighs-challenge-epa-good-neighbor-air-pollution-rule-rcna139630quote:Supreme Court seems willing to block EPA 'good neighbor' air pollution rule lmao anyone who doesn't promote court packing is a climate change denier. The most optimistic "politics as normal" approach would have a climate change denying court for the next 20 years at least, probably ah well, gotta remind myself that a 9 democrat court wouldn't make a difference because mainstream democrats are climate change deniers too
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Feb 22, 2024 15:59
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TeenageArchipelago posted:
"All the people I know say everything is fine.  "
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Feb 22, 2024 17:10
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I was at the grocery store last night and saw this guy stocking an isle of pallets of soda and a deep sadness came over me. I used to do it, backbreaking work really, bending over and lifting the entire shift. I noticed the Pepsi he was stocking was 10.99 a 12 pk.. Imagine busting your rear end and breaking your back and not being able to afford that carbonated sugar water with an hour of your labor. That’s how I think about wages these days, in terms of affording everyday things Imagine working 2 hrs for a loving Big Mac combo. At least slaves back in the day were fed and housed. This country has really turned to poo poo in the span of like 3 years. Unbelievable Soggy Muffin has issued a correction as of 17:17 on Feb 22, 2024 |
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Feb 22, 2024 17:11
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Ahh the sweet ASMR of February thunderstorms
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Feb 22, 2024 17:27
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don't short the capitalists like that my dude. it took 40 years of dismantling the new deal, and even more work to get their man ronnie in office before that. not quite as impressive an effort as our great common work, but certainly a generational project to return to the gilded age.
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Feb 22, 2024 17:28
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Spent some time in the mountains where it was still winter, now I'm back in the Midwest where it is definitely late spring. I give us 5 years tops before it's summer all the time
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Feb 22, 2024 17:37
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winter is when you put on a light jacket, right?
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Feb 22, 2024 18:10
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SixteenShells posted:winter is when you put on a light jacket, right? winter on the farm in Manitoba, Jan 2022:  winter on the farm in Manitoba, Dec 2023:  
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Feb 22, 2024 18:31
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Karach posted:winter on the farm in Manitoba, Jan 2022: nobody has to shovel snow in winter anymore AND we get free plastic in our tap water and people are upset? someone doesn't appreciate innovation 
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Feb 22, 2024 19:08
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manitoba completely devoid of snow is doing massive psychic damage due to growing up in Winnipeg in the 80’s
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Feb 22, 2024 19:13
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Scarabrae posted:manitoba completely devoid of snow is doing massive psychic damage due to growing up in Winnipeg in the 80’s all I know about Winnipeg is here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-d845wn-winnipeg 1. WINNIPEG IS A FROZEN SHITHOLE 04:32 2. WINNIPEG IS A DOGSHIT DILDO 03:53 3. WINNIPEG IS loving OVER 06:25 4. WINNIPEG IS STEVEN STAPLETON'S ARMPIT 02:52 5. DIE WINNIPEG DIE DIE DIE FUCKERS DIE 07:01 6. WINNIPEG AS MANTADORY SCAT FEED 06:49 7. WINNIE THE DOG POOH (REMIX BY NOT HALF) 04:06 8. WINNIPEG IS A BOILING POT OF CRANBERRIES (REMIX BY FANNY) 04:21 9. DIE WINNIPEG DIE DIE DIE FUCKERS DIE (REMIX BY SKM-ETR) 05:17
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Feb 22, 2024 19:17
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mawarannahr posted:all I know about Winnipeg is here: he's right (usually)
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Feb 22, 2024 19:17
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what perplexes me about climate change is I have smart friends who all know we're plummeting towards collapse in the next 50 years but they ALL are having kids left and right and I swear they never once made the connection between the two, its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated. "hey man did you see that the AMOC is slowing down so much that it could start an ice age in Europe? Anyways we're trying for another one, I'm hoping for a girl!" like, what dawg, these are actual human beings that will have to deal with stuff that you know is happening my guy, yall acting like you're out here buying a new car or something instead of producing an autonomous living being I'm not saying people shouldn't have kids but the complete and total compartmentalization of the two things, in particular, is wild to see.  more power to em though I guess! I hope everyone lives a happy life 
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Feb 22, 2024 19:27
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well I’m gonna say it for you people shouldn’t have kids
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Feb 22, 2024 19:34
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Taima posted:what perplexes me about climate change is I have smart friends who all know we're plummeting towards collapse in the next 50 years but they ALL are having kids left and right and I swear they never once made the connection between the two, its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated. We get this sentiment pop up often enough, and I always chalk it up to compartmentalisation. People can have in depth discussions on things and seemingly grok all the horrors the future has yet to show us. Then immediately go back to being that cog in the machine and carrying on without missing a beat, doing what humans have always done. I, personally, don’t get it, but it happens enough that people just go on to the next thing, like ChatGPT starting a new line of discussion with no memory of the previous one. Discussing the planet being literally on fire and then when that line of chat is tapped out, talk about where next best to take a weekend break (oh, but not Greece or Spain, since they’re on fire, if you remember the doomsday chat we just had indicating having kids is sub-optimal).
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Feb 22, 2024 19:37
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if it was easy for humans to integrate climate change into rational actions on an individual scale we wouldn't have this problem in the first place
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Feb 22, 2024 19:38
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mawarannahr posted:all I know about Winnipeg is here: winnipeg isn't that bad
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Feb 22, 2024 19:52
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SixteenShells posted:if it was easy for humans to integrate climate change into rational actions on an individual scale we wouldn't have this problem in the first place my baby is not subject to the pitiless march of history, because it's cute and I like it
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Feb 22, 2024 19:53
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Taima posted:what perplexes me about climate change is I have smart friends who all know we're plummeting towards collapse in the next 50 years but they ALL are having kids left and right and I swear they never once made the connection between the two, its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated. Historically speaking, having children was probably the most common retirement plan in the West prior to the 20th century ...
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Feb 22, 2024 19:59
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mawarannahr posted:all I know about Winnipeg is here: I heard it's one great city
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Feb 22, 2024 20:01
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Taima posted:my guy, yall acting like you're out here buying a new car or something instead of producing an autonomous living being Hubbert posted:Historically speaking, having children was probably the most common retirement plan in the West prior to the 20th century ... capitalism stays winning also there are 2024 hurricane season predictions out and looking insane, between record high water temps and lack of wind shear stuff going on. so there's that.
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Feb 22, 2024 20:11
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Taima posted:its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated.  vs  The eternal struggle
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Feb 22, 2024 20:25
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Taima posted:what perplexes me about climate change is I have smart friends who all know we're plummeting towards collapse in the next 50 years but they ALL are having kids left and right and I swear they never once made the connection between the two, its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated. Fulfill your obligations. Consume. Reproduce. Die conveniently. Hubbert posted:Historically speaking, having children was probably the most common retirement plan in the West prior to the 20th century ... Total alienation allowed us to fix problems like filial piety so that we could properly monetize and profit from people getting old and infirm.
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Feb 22, 2024 20:50
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Taima posted:what perplexes me about climate change is I have smart friends who all know we're plummeting towards collapse in the next 50 years but they ALL are having kids left and right and I swear they never once made the connection between the two, its like the parts of the brain are completely and utterly separated. ya this seems like a common goon problem. the answer is neat and obvious but deeply at odds with goon understanding of humans for some reason, don't worry tho, you're not alone
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Feb 22, 2024 21:03
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it’s almost like idiocracy is a documentary…
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Feb 22, 2024 21:33
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Hubbert posted:winnipeg isn't that bad average commute in Winnipeg: https://www.reddit.com/r/Winnipeg/comments/kh4n8v/witnesses_needed_description_in_the_comments/
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Feb 22, 2024 21:37
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For the first time in 19 years of living in seattle i am seeing really big efforts to clear the dead brush and himalayan blackberrys off the sides of the freeways and such. I think after last years constant random brush fires on the sides of the freeway and this years no real winter it feels like they're getting more serious about defensible space.
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Feb 22, 2024 21:39
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Karach posted:average commute in Winnipeg: winnipeg sounds badass
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Feb 22, 2024 21:48
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monarch butterfly outside my office good luck little guy
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Feb 22, 2024 22:13
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Chard posted:monarch butterfly outside my office just another idiot trying to have children
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Feb 22, 2024 22:21
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Homeless Friend posted:winnipeg sounds badass every day is a lovely day to die
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Feb 22, 2024 22:26
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Chard posted:monarch butterfly outside my office godspeed 
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Feb 22, 2024 22:29
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It’s because having children is usually done for selfish, if not narcissistic reasons. Listen to people explain why they have to have biological children. Adoption or step-parenting isn’t good enough. People have children they can’t take care of all the time. The well-being of the child rarely factors into the equation. Sometimes it’s also just stupidity, a magical belief that things will just “work out”
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Feb 22, 2024 22:51
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From a biological point of view it’s probably very advantageous for humans to be irrational about having children
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Feb 22, 2024 22:52
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unwantedplatypus posted:Sometimes it’s also just stupidity, a magical belief that things will just “work out” this thinking also works for covid, climate change, the economy etc
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Feb 22, 2024 22:54
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unwantedplatypus posted:It’s because having children is usually done for selfish, if not narcissistic reasons. Listen to people explain why they have to have biological children. Adoption or step-parenting isn’t good enough. username/post combo
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