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kel
FuckMisogynists!
We're all fucking doomed if the US, China, and India don't tow the line! I think the US might, eventually, but it's going to take some time to pursaude those fast expanding economies.
Whenever this comes up I always think that it's quite something for a 'developed' country to tell other 'under-developed' countries that they can't develop any more like 'we did' because... the environment! Even if it is true!
Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
I dunno. We are old enough to have been born in the fuck-around century, but young enough to have to live in the find-out century.
We're doomed. Might as well be ready for it.
scy123
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Fucking around too much seems to what have gotten us into this. Their is a theory that civilizations become so advance they destroy themselves. The great filter I believe it's called, which hypothesizes why we can't find intelligent life on other planets, they all destroy themselves when reaching a certain technological point. (not exclusively this, but including this)
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florduh
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Last year I read a near future sci-fi book by Kim Stanley Robinson called "The Ministry for the Future". It offered a mostly positive vision of how humanity can get over the climate change hump and come out stronger on the other side of it. The book begins with a heat wave in India that kills something like 20 million people in 48 hours. This mobilizes the global community to start taking climate change seriously. Having lived through the past year, I'm a bit skeptical if that would be the global response to a mass death event. Hopefully I'm wrong.
The book introduced me to the concept of "wet bulb heat". Basically after a certain level of heat and humidity, sweat can no longer cool the human body. So you sort of boil to death from the inside. Living in Floriduh, this is pretty terrifying. Not really sure how a tourist State is going to work when it's too dangerous to be outside during the day for half the year. And that situation is coming to a Sunshine State near you, much sooner than expected.
The book introduced me to the concept of "wet bulb heat". Basically after a certain level of heat and humidity, sweat can no longer cool the human body. So you sort of boil to death from the inside. Living in Floriduh, this is pretty terrifying. Not really sure how a tourist State is going to work when it's too dangerous to be outside during the day for half the year. And that situation is coming to a Sunshine State near you, much sooner than expected.
Dangerous humid heat extremes occurring decades before expected
scy123
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A paint so white that they claim "a surface coated with this paint is cooled below the surrounding temperature without consuming power."
Technology can be so intriguing sometimes. Could just be a lot of smoke though, who knows.
kel
FuckMisogynists!
Amazing!!! but I can see it now...
Pilot blinded by hyper-reflective paint crashes into environmentally friendly home causing ecological disaster!
Abysmal Vapor
Supersniffer 2000 - robot fart detection device
Well it can get dirty from polution and stuff and stops being so white,lol...
florduh
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I don't know how this doesn't happen everywhere W goes. He and his collaborators should never know a peaceful moment in public.
Bush has made 20-35 million in speaking fees since leaving office.
Edit: Oh shit it looks like it might be a trend! Warms my heart.
Bush has made 20-35 million in speaking fees since leaving office.
Edit: Oh shit it looks like it might be a trend! Warms my heart.
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kel
FuckMisogynists!
yep... and Blair!
I read the 'white paper' they published proving the existence of wmd and it was a massive pile of steaming utterly worthless crap - 100% smoke and mirrors! Not one iota of evidence that I could see, just some blurry aerial photos and a lot of words saying what these photos were but no meaningful correlation between the words and the pictures.
I read the 'white paper' they published proving the existence of wmd and it was a massive pile of steaming utterly worthless crap - 100% smoke and mirrors! Not one iota of evidence that I could see, just some blurry aerial photos and a lot of words saying what these photos were but no meaningful correlation between the words and the pictures.
florduh
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When the US finally pulled out of Afghanistan a few weeks ago, I quietly seethed as every stateside early 2000's neocon ghoul cried about how 20 years of blood just wasn't enough. But then, when my girlfriend and I were driving, there was a quick news hit on the radio with Tony Blair calling the withdrawal "shameful". For some reason, that's the one that set me off. I immediately yelled "Oh GOOOD!!! I was really wondering what Lord McFuckface had to say on the matter!!! FUCK!!!!!!"
My gf thought I was a psycho. I'm becoming my dad, shouting at the radio. Just with polar opposite politics.
Yep. It was all bullshit. Bush said to start drawing up the Iraq invasion plans in October of '01. They made the decision and then went to look for justification. Being able to perpetrate this level of fraud and mass murder without any consequences is sort of amazing. Now, this is my face anytime I hear someone say "this is a nation of laws".
florduh
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lol I was in college when the Iraq War started. My girlfriend is 8 years younger than me, so she doesn't really remember how insane the early 9/11 era was. During all the retrospectives a week and a half ago, I tired to give her a taste of the deranged war mongering happening at the time. Even Oprah got in on the act!
IATSE calls for historic strike authorization vote by crew workers
Hollywood union workers could start a historic strike as early as next week that would halt almost all film and television production across the entire US.
florduh
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IATSE calls for historic strike authorization vote by crew workers
Hollywood union workers could start a historic strike as early as next week that would halt almost all film and television production across the entire US.www.dailymail.co.uk
A record number of cargo ships are stuck outside LA. What’s happening?
Port complex of Los Angeles and Long Beach, already the busiest in the US, has seen major traffic this week as imports boom
www.theguardian.com
kel
FuckMisogynists!
Afghanistan war: UK's lowest payout for civilian death was £104.17
The compensation payment is one of hundreds by the Ministry of Defence, revealed for the first time.
www.bbc.co.uk
Bologna
(zombie) Woof.
It's about time...!:
www.laweekly.com
I can't wait til cannabis is added to the Big E (which is currently in progress) and other smaller local fairs like Topsfield!
Cannabis Competition Added to 2022 California State Fair - LA Weekly
The California State Fair announced today it’s adding a cannabis competition.
www.laweekly.com
Ramahs
Fucking Combustion (mostly) Since February 2017
The stupid, it burns! 
www.digitaltrends.com
Inside the Strange and Scammy World of Anti-5G Accessories | Digital Trends
Fears about cell phones emitting harmful radiation have been around for decades. Now that 5G is rolling out, sketchy retailers are using that fear to cash in
www.digitaltrends.com
scy123
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Scammers Sell 5G Repellent Cream Online and People Actually Buy It - reportinghour.com
Every once in a while, you come across a product so scandalous that it simply cannot be ignored. Such is the case with this 5G repellent cream found on eBay. No proof The ad states that the lotion is from a brand named “5 guard” and charges $36 for it without even giving away the size of...
reportinghour.com
"It turns out that it is just a very old Vaseline lotion mixed with very old sun screen"
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kel
FuckMisogynists!
Meanwhile in the UK Bojo the Clown continues to excel at being the most singular worst leader the world has ever seen... absolute carnage, it's hard to imagine anyone doing a worse job of being PM if they tried. Today's complete and utter management failure is chaos at the petrol pumps! Look at them, so, as well as empty supermarket shelves, because UK doesn't have enough HGV drivers because "we're putting an end to freedom of movement", we now have empty fuel stations and no one can get anywhere... outstanding! Absolutely outstanding!!
Oh, but Boris is going to save Christmas, again!
Newspaper headlines: 'Petrol panic' as 'transport chaos spreads'
Dominating Saturday's front pages is the ongoing supply chain crisis - and No 10's plans to tackle it.
www.bbc.co.uk
Oh, but Boris is going to save Christmas, again!
scy123
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I find this interesting enough to be appropriate.
filtermag.org
Where is my free lab tested uncut cocaine.
"hosted the public demonstration outside the Vancouver Police Department"
handing out free hard drugs outside the police department lmao
Vancouver Activists Hand Out Drugs, Demand Better Safe Supply Options
The action was intended to highlight shortcomings in the available safe supply options amid unprecedented overdose deaths.
filtermag.org
Where is my free lab tested uncut cocaine.
"hosted the public demonstration outside the Vancouver Police Department"
handing out free hard drugs outside the police department lmao
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florduh
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My whole life, I've heard that people working in the service industry (restaurants, stores, hotels, etc) deserve to make so little that it's a struggle to survive. Because, don't you know, their jobs are so easy that a MONKEY could do them!
But investment bankers and finance bros, they deserve to make more than 99% of humanity. Because their jobs are so hard and require so much skill.
www.npr.org
But investment bankers and finance bros, they deserve to make more than 99% of humanity. Because their jobs are so hard and require so much skill.
A Crypto-Trading Hamster Performs Better Than Warren Buffett And The S&P 500
A hamster named Mr. Goxx enters one of two tunnels in the his cage, which determines whether he will buy or sell. As of Friday, his portfolio is up nearly 20%, according to his Twitter account.
www.npr.org
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