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shanesemler

@shanesemler@metalhead.club

I deleted my old account. Now I'm back. I make art and music (metal, electronic, industrial). I have a new album. Vegan. Metal head. ASD. Linux user. Gen-X greybeard.

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jerry , to random
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I just saw a commercial advertising “Freelance AI experts on Fivver”

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shanesemler ,
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@jerry I'm not sure what I'm sick of more, all the AI hype pushed by tech companies or all the people whining, loudly, about AI.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Wow, that's really cold.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts I literally lol'd.

Ailantd , to random
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Threads (1984): a terrifying must see.

shanesemler ,
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@Ailantd I'm going to give this a hard pass.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I wish I could unlearn this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts This is Cronenberg-esque levels of body horror.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Happy Met Gala Monday everyone. It's that time of year when celebrities show up to the red carpet dressed as a bedazzled taco, and brave souls take to the internet to boldly declare "Personally I would never dress like a bedazzled taco".

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts I’ve never seen a bedazzled taco, but now I must.

breadandcircuses , (edited ) to random
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Stan Cox warns that eco-collapse is coming soon, and says "Degrowth is the Only Sane Survival Plan"...

What is America doing today to break out of such a doomed trajectory and into a more sustainable one?

The answer, sadly, is nothing, or rather, worse than nothing. On climate, for example, the most immediate need is to end the burning of fossil fuels as soon as possible — something not even being considered by Washington policymakers in a country that hit record oil production and record natural gas exports in 2023.

Even a quarter-century from now, wind and solar energy sources together are forecast to account for only about one-third of U.S. electricity generation, with 56% still being supplied by gas, coal, and nuclear power.

The message is clear: curtailing ecological breakdown while improving humanity’s quality of life requires banishing the material extravagance of the world’s richest people, especially the growing crew of global billionaires. That would, however, have to be part of a much broader effort to rid affluent societies of the systemic overextraction and overproduction that threaten to be our global undoing.

Civilization itself is in danger of collapse. Growth — whether expressed as more dollars accumulated, more tons of material stuff produced, more carbon burned, or more wastes emitted — is coming to an end.

The only question is: Will it happen as a collapse of society, or could the reversal of material growth be undertaken rationally?

FULL ARTICLE -- https://tomdispatch.com/eco-collapse-hasnt-happened-yet-but-you-can-see-it-coming/

shanesemler ,
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@breadandcircuses Nuclear power shouldn’t be in the company of oil and coal. It’s a useful power source unfairly demonised.

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shanesemler ,
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@jeffowski now that’s a Tesla product I can get behind!

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That was back before cigarettes became woke.
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shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts Safe as every kid's favourite, the Bag O'Glass: https://youtu.be/veMiNQifZcM?feature=shared&t=84

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That's crazy.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts "Sternum punch, sternum punch!"

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Can't argue with that.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts Pure genius.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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We made a comic about dogs.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts awww

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That's so sad.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts It's hunger pangs.

breadandcircuses , to random
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Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?

Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...

"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"

The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.

As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.

But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.

Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.

The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.

FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/

shanesemler ,
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@breadandcircuses Capitalists will destroy, maim, and kill with no remorse, and they will get away with it. This isn't just our past or present, it's the future. And it will never end.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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People are once again mistaking me for a bot, so here's me holding Fishy. He is infinitely more photogenic than I will ever be.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts but how do we know you’re not being controlled by a bot? Or, you could be a vessel for a tiny alien that lives in your head, like MIB!

ariadne , to random
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and - a marriage made in hell - "‘We don’t know where the money is going’: the ‘carbon cowboys’ making millions from schemes - "...after a year of controversies, the wider market is in crisis – with some experts concerned other schemes around the world could be abandoned amid evidence that many projects are producing huge numbers of worthless credits that many believe do not mitigate global heating ... Much of the €100m revenue generated by Kariba has been carved off along the way by the project developers in fees and expenses: €86m went into costs and profits assigned to the broker and technical lead and to the project coordinator Green Investments. In the end, only a maximum of €14m went to Kariba’s communities through cash transfers and infrastructure improvements ... South Pole – which was not involved in providing any services on the ground – made €18m (£15m) profit, according to its figures, since deleted from its website – more than was spent on Kariba itself. The firm deducted €24m in costs before sending €57m to Wentzel for his 30% share of revenue, project costs and local communities."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/15/money-carbon-credits-zimbabwe-conservation-aoe

shanesemler ,
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@ariadne people abusing a questionably useful system put in place to appease (but not actually address) concerns about CO2 contaminating our environment! I'm shocked!

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I believe the Mordor scenes were shot in the subway.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts It seems we have a spam bot problem atm. Anyway, they really did shoot parts in downtown Wellington in a car park.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Ben Shapiro is the worst.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts The people here that think this is a real quote, ate the fuckin' onion.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Those were simpler times.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts Idk why, but I believe this is the first LQF that made me laugh out loud, for real. 😆

lowqualityfacts , to random
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That is good to know.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts Some dipshit somewhere, will believe this.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I think LeBron is on to something.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts He’s not wrong.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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I believe they start to develop them around the age of 12.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts You do realise that at some point, some chucklefuck will post one of your LQF as real fact so consequently, boomers and morons on Facebook are going to believe it.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Well deserved.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts Making the cinephiles seeth.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Poor Brian.

shanesemler ,
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@lowqualityfacts I almost like your made up quotes more than your made up facts.

lowqualityfacts , to random
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Got called a fascist by a Biden supporter for..... saying I support Biden?

Lesson of the day: Sometimes you just need to take a deep breath, put your phone down, and remind yourself that you simply cannot win on social media.

Me: That is exactly the problem I am trying to point out here though. It has become impossible to make the smallest criticism about one party without people instantly accusing you of supporting the opposing party. I support Biden, I am going to vote with Biden, and I think it is very problematic when people become afraid to criticize parts of a thing that they generally support. Someone replying to my above comment: Okay fascist, get the fuck off my timeline
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    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts He’s talking to the voices in his head. That’s not a joke.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    One year it went on for months.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts It's amusing to me that people get furious about inaccurate posts coming from an account called "Low Quality Facts". 😆

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Smart.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Fake news. Everyone knows solar panels are a deep state conspiracy by the socialist fascists Chinese lizard people.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Wow.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts I think this post gave me haemorrhoids.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Taylor Swift is a force to be reckoned with.

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This is, by far, your greatest Low Quality Fact.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That's so interesting.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts This one sounds like it might be moving into actual quality facts status.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    I never knew this.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts Having briefly worked in the fashion industry and seen the quality of some designer clothes, I'd believe it.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Makes you think.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts quality facts are slipping in there. The dangers of satire. :)

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    Please support me on Patreon so I can continue to write the Low Quality Facts that you all know and love.
    And if you're unfamiliar with my work, just look at a few glowing reviews from some of my biggest fans:
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    Comment: Idiotic post!
    Comment: That's 100% unadulterated bullshit.
    Comment: See, this is exactly how willful ignorance is spread, with misinformation like this.

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts I guess the name "Low Quality Facts" didn't give them a hint.

    lowqualityfacts , to random
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    That explains a lot.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    shanesemler ,
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    @lowqualityfacts There's an "artist" that actually does exactly that. It's gross and lame.

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