I’m curious to hear what they think the benefit to exaggerating climate change would be. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to come to the conclusion that the people funding and making those exaggeration claims are probably also the ones that benefit from oil.
I have a barber that believes its about controlling the population towards different products. (ie reducing fossils fuels to remove influence from OPEC)
But the same person also believes that 5g towers is giving us all cancer so 🙄
yea ... sighs ... I've recently been unable to shake the thought/realisation that we've just made the whole "TV will rot your brain" thing worse. There was a moment there where the internet seemed to be an improvement on TV, but the net result now, and I fear irredeemably, is that it's worse.
I think it's just new. We can control the internet through decentralization, kinda like the project we're on right now. Expecting any brand new tech to be perfect right out the gate is just wishful thinking though, it needs development and refinement.
TV is literally just major corporations plowing things straight into your brain, though, with very little ability to prevent it except by not watching tv.
Well that’s the thing. That’s what the internet is now. And my fear is that it will stay that way for a good while as too many don’t see the point in making it something else which would just be more “boring”. But it wasn’t always this way. Putting aside the endless September, before big social, it was worth it. Now big social has captured a whole generations understanding of what it means to be online.
I think the key point is that improvement is possible here. Something humans have within the realm of things they could do. As opposed to tv, which isn't really fixable.
Staying away from the big platforms has worked out well for me. Those are well under the control of corporate interests like TV, but I now have access to several independent journalists from across the world, the ability to fact check a topic within minutes to hours instead of days to never, and a much easier way of organizing with like minded people.
The internet is a tool. It's more full of misinformation, disinformation, useless garbage, and scams now than it was, but it's still useful if you know how to sift through it. We should be educating our youth on how to do that and identifying the list of pitfalls above to help make it even better.
Yeah those are lab-made exquisitely engineered to tantalize all our senses and keep us addicted, popping one after another into our face holes, & keep buying more.
I always liken it to the anti-child/slave labor movement in the late 90s. Companies learned if they just sub-subcontract, they can use child and/or slave labor and just keep saying, “[GAP] vociferously objects to slave and child labor. And through our rigorous internal investigation, we have found that a company we hired has in turn hired a company that was participating in this disgusting act. We have officially severed ties with the contractor which so profoundly failed in their quality control and, in [GAP’s] humble opinion, in their morality.”
[GAP] spits on the idea of slave labor pointedly
camera flashes, press murmurs as spokesperson leaves stand
[GAP] hires the contractor under their new LLC and continues profiting from slave labor
Interestingly, I’m pretty sure she got that “dress” (really, it’s panties and a corset with a mesh dress over top) on Amazon. I saw nearly the same thing just today. It was $25 and listed as a rave costume.
So your drug hypothesis is supported so far….
(Yes yes, I know it’s not actually the same thing, but it might as well be… normal people wouldn’t go out wherever in that..)
Always had the feeling there was something fishy about these carbon offset programmes. It just doesn't seem like a problem that can be solved by throwing more cash at it. Sad to hear this is indeed the case for most of these companies.
Yeah, it takes having buyer and seller wanting to prevent emissions and using a third party auditor to verify. What we actually have is buyer and seller colluding with auditors to produce PR instead of emissions cuts
In prior years, it's been due to not having certain amounts of land in production, not growing certain things, or in one particular case having a business that has a direct financial benefit from selling subsequent generations and vegetative propagules of the plants involved.
That said, I'll certainly be reaching out again to our regional NRCS office tomorrow to see about a consultative conversation and visit
So when is it in our best interest to start eating the rich?
I wanna play a game. No one is allowed more than $999 million in wealth. Anyone who is found having more than that gets put on a worldwide manhunt. We could make it fun, every few weeks we spin the chocolate wheel starting with bezos, gates, musk, rhinehart etc
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