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https://twitter.com/j_mcelroy/status/1410654902049595394?s=19 90% of Lytton was destroyed.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 19:40 |
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Enfys posted:Last night I was watching TNG (my nice comfort blanket of a show) and by chance it was climate change analogy episode that ends with Picard saying "we may have done a lot of damage but at least we have time to fix it" and it was just a huge sucker punch straight to the gut that made me tear up in some combination of rage-grief I've been watching through TNG (I've never really seen it before) and I like the hopeful, techno-utopian optimism it has but on the other hand I also know that TNG could not be made in modern times because that base optimism just doesn't exist anymore and there is no time left to fix things, just time to keep them from getting bad enough to end civilization
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 20:31 |
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It rained today and I nearly cried.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 20:33 |
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I remember watching the TNG episode when it aired, About a narrow space highway that was being ripped apart by warp drives right? lol warp drive is a more believable future than enough adults agreeing on a shared version of reality based on facts to make logical changes.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 20:37 |
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The thunderstorm last night in Northern BC was loving amazing. Great light show and I'm glad my apartment is a livable temperature again. Amazed I didn't lose power, though a building a few blocks away was struck and burned down. More expected later today. The wildfires this year are going to be madder than usual. Is this our punishment for last year being pretty chill on the fire front?
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 20:39 |
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Enfys posted:Last night I was watching TNG (my nice comfort blanket of a show) and by chance it was climate change analogy episode that ends with Picard saying "we may have done a lot of damage but at least we have time to fix it" and it was just a huge sucker punch straight to the gut that made me tear up in some combination of rage-grief Lol watch The Inner Light where at one point Picard laments the fact that his children in the probe-world won't get to live full lives because the planet is dying: PICARD: It breaks my heart to look at him. MERIBOR: Who? PICARD: My grandson. It breaks my heart. He deserves a rich, full life, and he's not going to get one. poo poo is hosed up.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 20:41 |
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HonorableTB posted:I've been watching through TNG (I've never really seen it before) and I like the hopeful, techno-utopian optimism it has but on the other hand I also know that TNG could not be made in modern times because that base optimism just doesn't exist anymore and there is no time left to fix things, just time to keep them from getting bad enough to end civilization The Orville is pretty much TNG with a few jokes. I'm not gonna disagree with your point about civilisational collapse though.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 22:04 |
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There's a lot of existential dread in this threat and let me just say, I'm here for it. We are hosed. Super hosed. And the loving is here.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 22:19 |
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The Onion Senate Passes Bill Wishing Younger Generations Best Of Luck Stopping Climate Change quote:WASHINGTON—Calling the legislation “long overdue,” the U.S. Senate passed a bill Wednesday wishing younger generations the best of luck stopping climate change. “As devastating wildfires, flooding, and droughts sweep our planet, there has never been a more urgent time to shift the responsibility onto someone else,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who explained that the bill, called the SEE YA Act, or Saving the Earth Entrusted to Young Americans Act, would allocate over $100 billion toward putting up billboards across the country that read “Good luck!” with pictures of melting glaciers. “We cannot allow future generations to inherit this mess without at least saying ‘you got this’ and giving them a hearty pat on the back. It is crucial that we dedicate significant resources to these well wishes. We know they have their work cut out for them, which is why every American under 18 will also receive a personalized signed photo of their representatives dusting off their hands and grimacing.” At press time, President Joe Biden had vetoed the bill on the grounds it would be viewed as too radical.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 22:43 |
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esperterra posted:The thunderstorm last night in Northern BC was loving amazing. Great light show and I'm glad my apartment is a livable temperature again. Amazed I didn't lose power, though a building a few blocks away was struck and burned down. https://mobile.twitter.com/COweatherman/status/1410621062778347522
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 22:48 |
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UnSmith posted:There's a lot of existential dread in this threat and let me just say, I'm here for it. We are hosed. Super hosed. And the loving is here. I'm reading the newest Kim Stanley Robinson novel "Ministry for the Future" and I am legitimately struggling with losing the frame of reference that this is science fiction because everything in it is not only extremely real, it is also currently happening. This leads to my brain losing the genre frame of reference and treating it like a factual history of first-person contemporary accounts of climate change impact and it induces a deep despair inside me, yet I cannot stop reading it.
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 22:53 |
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Bring on the earthquake!!!
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# ? Jul 1, 2021 23:57 |
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Aerial view of Lytton from today. Two confirmed dead, some still missing. It's too unsafe for coroners to search the remains of the town at this point.
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# ? Jul 2, 2021 22:31 |
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yeah this what I meant. the second I heard about the thunderstorms I knew what it meant. The season would have been awful regardless but goddamn three quarters of a million lighting strikes in one day.
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 02:01 |
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HonorableTB posted:I'm reading the newest Kim Stanley Robinson novel "Ministry for the Future" and I am legitimately struggling with losing the frame of reference that this is science fiction because everything in it is not only extremely real, it is also currently happening. This leads to my brain losing the genre frame of reference and treating it like a factual history of first-person contemporary accounts of climate change impact and it induces a deep despair inside me, yet I cannot stop reading it. The good news is that its about how we actually can fix the problems, the bad news is that this optimistic scenario is kicked off my ten million people dying resulting in a wave of ecoterrorism and India becoming a left-wing rogue state
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 02:30 |
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HonorableTB posted:I'm reading the newest Kim Stanley Robinson novel "Ministry for the Future" and I am legitimately struggling with losing the frame of reference that this is science fiction because everything in it is not only extremely real, it is also currently happening. This leads to my brain losing the genre frame of reference and treating it like a factual history of first-person contemporary accounts of climate change impact and it induces a deep despair inside me, yet I cannot stop reading it. See: vyelkin, wayback in 2019 posted:Over time everything gets steadily more expensive and you start not being able to always buy whatever you want, either because it's now out of your price range or because there are actual shortages of things like coffee. Weather gets more severe and less predictable. People you know have their homes and livelihoods destroyed by extreme weather events and have to decide whether to rebuild or start over somewhere new with nothing. If you're unfortunate enough to live somewhere like the desert (lol Phoenix, Arizona) then it will become actually unaffordable to live there at all because you'll spend more on air conditioning than you make in income. Every summer you hear about hundreds of elderly people whose air conditioning broke and they died of heatstroke in their own home. Diseases that haven't been seen in your country for decades or centuries start to reappear, like malaria. Diseases that have never appeared in your country before, like Zika or Dengue, also start to appear. Mosquitoes seem to be the one insect that isn't dying out. Sobering to look around and note how much of that is already here, two years later.
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 02:36 |
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Vampire Panties posted:https://www.orbitbooks.net/orbit-excerpts/the-ministry-for-the-future/ quote:
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 02:55 |
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I'm reading Ministry for the Future too. After the author appeared on a climate roundtable in the NYT. That inciting event is one of the most terrifying things I've ever read, but the book is still weirdly hopeful in that it describes a future in which mobilization actually happens. Contrast that to now, where we're fully aware of what's coming but mobilization is still a distant loving dream. Definitely tracks with my expectation that it's gonna take something really, really hideous before any nation starts to really move. anyway read the book. It's a grind you down, build you back up kind of experience and really good. typhus fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 3, 2021 |
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Caedus posted:yeah this what I meant. the second I heard about the thunderstorms I knew what it meant. The season would have been awful regardless but goddamn three quarters of a million lighting strikes in one day. Everyone should be thanking the fossil fuel producers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvesting_lightning_energy
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 05:10 |
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Duck and Cover posted:Everyone should be thanking the fossil fuel producers. 5 gigajoules in every lightning bolt sounds impressive until you find out that's equivalent to 38 gallons of gasoline 750,000 lightning strikes is only equivalent to 28.5 million gallons of gas the united states alone consumes 337 million gallons of gas a day somehow I don't think harvesting lightning is ever going to make up a meaningful amount of energy generation
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 05:24 |
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StashAugustine posted:The good news is that its about how we actually can fix the problems, the bad news is that this optimistic scenario is kicked off my ten million people dying resulting in a wave of ecoterrorism and India becoming a left-wing rogue state also the biggest hero is a cryptocurrency
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# ? Jul 3, 2021 06:59 |
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Tip posted:5 gigajoules in every lightning bolt sounds impressive until you find out that's equivalent to 38 gallons of gasoline Look at you thinking there won't be enough lightning in the future. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 06:44 on Jul 4, 2021 |
# ? Jul 4, 2021 05:20 |
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ThisIsFine.mp4 https://twitter.com/KyleTWN/status/1411430233547304967?s=19
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# ? Jul 4, 2021 07:30 |
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I'm still trying to process three straight days of heat records, followed by a whole rear end town in my province burned off the map. Not abandoned, but burned to a crisp. The wailing of the people trying to rescued their abandoned pets, not being allowed to exit the 'tour bus' that took them through their decimated home. I don't have anything nice left to say to climate deniers. I've ended my relationship with my father other this - he says Global Warming is fake because of Fox and we haven't spoken in half a year. I don't know what to do anymore.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 08:36 |
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So I had this drawer with dildos in it. Totally forgot about em. Went in there last night to find that some of them melted in the heatwave. I should've taken pictures, but I just tossed em. What a shame.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 20:37 |
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Scathach posted:So I had this drawer with dildos in it. Totally forgot about em. Went in there last night to find that some of them melted in the heatwave. Should have braided them together - are you brave enough for The Twist? You just made me check my toy basket as well and I've made the fun discovery that a bottle of lube sprung a leak, I'm guessing during the same heat wave, and I get to clean up a lot of stuff now An aside, I'm glad I bought air purifiers last year. Of course they showed up 2 days after all the smoke finally got pushed out of the area, but sounds like I'll be ready for this upcoming fire season.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 22:53 |
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Smoke's really bad up north right now, and we have another thunderstorm slated for today. Can't wait to watch it from the balcony. Hopefully the bit of rain we got this morning will help it from turning into even more wildfires starting or buildings burning down.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 23:33 |
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We've had 3 days of fires about 5 miles from here, but fortunately on the other side of the ridge line where there are no homes. Fires like to go up, but rarely come down a hill. There have been 3 tanker planes flying 16 hours a day, non-stop. They hit the big lake nearby and circle around to drop their load and then go back for more. Watching a plane scoop water out of a lake is pretty loving amazing. They hit the surface at about 2/3rds speed then ramp up the engines to full speed as they pull up. They make a rooster tail about 50' high and 100' long when they do their scoop. One hits, pulls up, the second is right behind it, then the third, etc. all day long. Thanks goes out to the crazy rear end firefighting pilots.
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# ? Jul 10, 2021 23:38 |
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Well my idiot neighbors across the creek have a campfire. Legal, even with a fire ban, but really loving stupid. Hope their dildos all melted too.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 05:34 |
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They didn’t melt I’m using one right now.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 06:04 |
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Just to be clear I’m not saying I’m your neighbor I’m saying I use your neighbors dildos.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 06:05 |
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Seems reasonable. I knew I saw a bird with a big dick flying around over there.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 18:36 |
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Maybe you could collect all the dildo-debris, buy a big mold, and melt them all down and remold an Ur-Dildo.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 18:48 |
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Maybe you could collect all the dildo-debris, buy a big mold, and melt them all down and remold an Ur-Dildo.
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# ? Jul 11, 2021 22:45 |
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...and at that time, I realized that the heat wave absolutely fried all of our brains.
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# ? Jul 12, 2021 05:11 |
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Scathach posted:...and at that time, I realized that the heat wave absolutely fried all of our brains. Whats your greentext from
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# ? Jul 12, 2021 06:04 |
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Soon all of CA will look like the central valley, except for the central valley which will look indescribable
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# ? Jul 12, 2021 18:28 |
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dont tell anyone about our massive abundance of fresh water
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# ? Jul 12, 2021 20:27 |
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Milo and POTUS posted:Whats your greentext from I haven't looked at SA from a computer until years and the app doesn't show. I didn't even know I had any. What does it say?
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Scathach posted:I haven't looked at SA from a computer until years and the app doesn't show. I didn't even know I had any. What does it say? Tap next to your name in any post to show the text.
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