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2023-09-21 at 12:54 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-09-21 at 12:53 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2023-09-21 at 12:50 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2023-09-21 at 12:21 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-09-21 at 12:18 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
Originally posted by Speedy Parker Did you used to polish your hall monitor badge every night before bed when you were a tyke?
Originally posted by Speedy Parker The army taught me to make a mess and let the losers clean it up loser.
Lack of respect for society is why your society is in it's current state. -
2023-09-21 at 4:27 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastLook Scaredy, you're losing more freedoms:
The U.S. Banned Farmers From Using a Brain-Harming Pesticide on Food -
2023-09-21 at 3:34 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-09-21 at 3:31 AM UTC in Cart Narcs
Originally posted by Obbe The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. The return of the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do; because it is correct.
A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.
The shopping cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society. -
2023-09-20 at 11:44 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastLeaders of world’s biggest polluting countries skipping UN climate summit
Leaders of some of the world’s biggest polluting countries are skipping a UN summit on Wednesday aimed at generating some progress in the spluttering effort to address the climate crisis, during what may be the hottest year ever recorded.
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2023-09-20 at 11:24 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastWildfire smoke is eroding decades of air quality improvements, study finds
Over the past two decades, air quality improvements have slowed or been reversed in most of the country, eroding about a quarter of the recent gains, according to a new study in the journal Nature. Some states — Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Washington and Wyoming — have rolled back 50 percent or more of their progress since 2000. In Oregon and Nevada, wildfire smoke has completely erased their gains.
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2023-09-20 at 10:44 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastBiden uses executive power to create a New Deal-style American Climate Corps
In an announcement Wednesday, the White House said the program will employ more than 20,000 young adults who will build trails, plant trees, help install solar panels and do other work to boost conservation and help prevent catastrophic wildfires.
The climate corps had been proposed in early versions of the sweeping climate law approved last year but was jettisoned amid strong opposition from Republicans and concerns about cost. -
2023-09-20 at 10:23 PM UTC in Oh no, Starfield is like... really good.Starfield is the death of videogames as we know them
Starfield is a gigantic, choice and customization-driven Bethesda RPG game, and a true successor to the likes of The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, and Skyrim. The promise of Starfield is that, more than any videogame ever made, you can go anywhere, do anything, be anyone – boundless opportunities await, in a universe designed to allow for any of your preferences and decisions. But there is another side to Starfield. What it proposes, that you may do what you want and the game will facilitate and accept this (within some parameters), represents how mainstream videogames, over the past 15 years, have become increasingly banal, empty, and without any type of vision. With Starfield, the mainstream videogame, as a cultural artifact, has reached its nexus point. The archetype of the triple-A game has to change or accept artistic oblivion.
I'm about 10 hours in and feel like I've barely cracked the surface. Enjoying it, taking it slow. -
2023-09-20 at 10:19 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2023-09-20 at 12:52 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastSpeaking of fairytales:
An inside look at the plot to make climate denial mainstreamBelievers say that the United Nations is led by a shadowy group of elites who are trying to create an authoritarian global government, using the World Economic Forum as a cover for their plans. They claim this group is coercing national, regional and local governments to implement climate initiatives and digital technologies as a ploy to eliminate people's human rights and freedoms. They claim climate change is not occurring or, if it is, is not caused by humans burning fossil fuels.
Scientists agree climate change is caused by human activity, primarily the burning of fossil fuels. The United Nations is a democratic coalition of nations; it has no global governing authority and cannot force countries to adopt specific policies. The World Economic Forum is an international organization that aims to promote collaboration between businesses and governments, best known for hosting the annual Davos summit in Switzerland. -
2023-09-20 at 12:40 PM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2023-09-20 at 3:50 AM UTC in Cart Narcs
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2023-09-20 at 12:36 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastDamn aliens.
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2023-09-20 at 12:13 AM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastHow Exxon tried to twist climate science for profit | New internal documents reported by the Wall Street Journal illustrate exactly why thousands are taking to the street to protest fossil fuels this week.
Two major news items this week illustrate well why people are so fed up with inaction on climate change.
The first is a historic new lawsuit from California, which claims that ExxonMobil and four other oil giants deceived the public by downplaying the climate risks of fossil fuel development, thereby costing the state tens of billions of dollars. The lawsuit, as Amy Westervelt explains masterfully for Drilled, is essentially “a super-case” combining all the arguments of other state lawsuits against Big Oil. It’s a big deal.
The second is a new Wall Street Journal investigation of Exxon, which reveals just how far that cover-up extends. According to never-before-seen documents, the company undermined climate science to protect their bottom line from the 1970s to at least 2015—and specifically tried to twist the science of the IPCC, the world’s leading scientific body on climate change. -
2023-09-19 at 11:49 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecast
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2023-09-19 at 6:15 PM UTC in World to hit temperature tipping point 10 years faster than forecastThe pace of climate-driven extinction is accelerating, new study shows
"The magnitude of extinction we found over the past seven years was similar to that seen in other studies that spanned almost 70 years," said John J. Wiens, a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UArizona, and the senior author of the study.
