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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    13 hours ago, zero said:

    so they can eventually build more shit. maybe build their pie-in-the-sky future dome cities. dig, scrape, drill, burn the land, in order to produce more and more shit! that's what these delusional humans sitting at the top of the world order think is the right way. always making plans for the future. never being content with what they already have. this is a world driven by ego fucking maniacs. as long for profit industry exists, we'll never be able to stop further ecological damage to the planet.

     

    no. so they can secure fertile soil. buy it up so no one else can, and sit on it until the time is ripe. they have access to lots of information before it comes down to citizens, which allows them to make decisions for the next couple of decades. these people operate with a lot more information about the future than we do.

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    On 9/1/2023 at 8:41 PM, zero said:

    remember what Thommy Yorke said while speaking through his speech synthesizer - "pragmatism not idealism." I agree in theory with all you said. but remember these are all ideals, and it's very hard to turn ideals into reality for the majority of people on the planet. IMO citizens living their lives aren't the biggest factor contributing to the environmental problem here. it is the big companies doing the worst damage, in the name of the almighty dollar. 

    but if we're talking citizens, I know "we have to start somewhere." but it seems that the "start" part is the toughest thing to get off the ground in regard to practical solutions toward climate change. for example, recycling gained massive popularity in the 1980's with average citizens as a way to help the planet. has it helped? climate change continues to get worse. recycling is an easy way to "do" something to make ourselves feel better. but is it really helping? I think most of recycling got debunked along the way. plastics don't actually get recycled, etc. and it is way too small a dent in the big picture any way... and then there's the whole eco-friendly organic food movement, which is only for people who can afford it. for all those scraping by trying to survive, they eat anything they can get. to grow their own food requires knowledge + capital, and where does that realistically come from? who is going to show them how to do it? this used to be passed down generationally, but that time has now passed us by, since the majority of humans in western countries are no longer living off the land. 

    I guess my point is small steps with easy to understand "instructions," are what it takes to get people changing their lifestyles. throwing climate change bad news in their faces through media, as is currently done, will only make them yawn and ignore... again, the biggest problem is for profit industries wrecking the environment. yes those companies are powered by citizens. and the citizens need income to live in the world. to stop for profit industry, we'd have to change the current structure of modern society completely, and uh, yeah...that for sure is an easy thing to do lol.

     

    i do realize that we can't all go back to living in villages and be craftsmen, nor should we expect that from anyone, frankly. i believe in a certain amount of freedom and liberty, but i also think that certain regulators must always be in place. i also strongly believe more emphasis should be given in individual education into "things that matter" on a personal, nuclear family level.

    what i was trying to get at, is a bit of a paradigm shift... of course all major polluters are corporations, but so is a general excess of consumerism; you can't have smoke without the fire. if people gradually stopped buying into that excess, the footprint of major industry would be much smaller. of course there are immediate needs that can only be solved by mass production and global logistics, etc. but not everything! we tend to build tools and systems and organisations that fit all the issues and challenges, but it's not necessarily so. as if one shoe should fit all the feet. not everything can be solved by centralized supply-demand and businesses competing for the same percentage. some models work great for some problems, but work increasingly bad for other (to the point where the individual net gain does not in any way justify the overall expansion and pollution).

    i think the corpo think tanks have struck the perfect balance of educating the consumer to be just the right amount of dumb to not see the big picture, and claim "why can't i be the one to benefit from the global excess and sit on my arse all day (or when i come home from work)". It's a good balance of entitled egoism, comfort, and manufactured stupidity. therefore, a gradual swing into more pragmatic, less excessive society can only be done on the lowest levels, emerging as a new 'trend' if you like that, once gains enough weight, cannot be ignored. new problems will then arise, for instance the pushback from the corporations (mostly by influencing legislature).

    why do you think wealthy fuckers are buying all the farmland nowadays?

     

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    study basic engineering and practice hand-working, invest in self-sufficiency, learn plants and their uses, grow and herd your food, repair, reuse, walk, cycle, learn terrain and water and be cautious around new-agers, astro-vangelists or whatever, idk, play less games... this is a lot to change, and we don't all want to, what do you live for? but it can be a generational thing, a long goal (we used to do that for a long time, and very well, too). this is hard to do. it's probably as hard, as it is to turn the entire 'system'.

    one can think like an ant, and wait for the queen to make a decision, and remain an ant. or one can think like a free-will individual connected into a larger organism.

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    ALIEN / PROMETHEUS / COVENANT - SPOILERS INBOUND!!

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    13 hours ago, Pirtek said:

    Nightmare Asylum was easily the best story with amazing art by Den Beauvais.

    I've been thinking of getting myself Nightmare Asylum, but reading about the story kind of threw me off... idk if the first three Alien movies made such a grand impression on me that all story adaptations featuring growing and training aliens and bringing them to Earth (or just general Xenos on Earth) kind of rubs me the wrong way. To me, they belong to the space where no one can hear you scream :rdjgrin: the one novel that was truly terrifying was the Dr. Church's survival inside the alien Hive. I think it was called Alien: Labyrinth (maybe I remember wrong). God, that story is overwhelming horror.

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    What would you do if you won the lottery?

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    On 8/7/2023 at 4:20 AM, zero said:

    if other people you're friends with know you won the lottery, you're fucked. other people are the reason winning the lottery would ruin the experience. those fuckers come out and will wanna grab on to any $ they can get. people are predictable. greedy. sadly this is how it is. you win the lottery, and your life is fucked hahaha 

    i heard about that, but i always thought who tf has the nerve to just ask for money like that you know... i mean i know there's lots of different kinds of people, shameless and toxic etc. i can't imagine this happening in my social circle. i guess one can't really know people until the opportunity arises... i can imagine, though, one 'friend' of mine trying to coerce me into giving money away in a 'joking' manner, you know the one who is trying to get something out of you by 'joking around'.... heh

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    'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'

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    On 8/18/2023 at 4:39 PM, ignatius said:

    you'd have to clarify the 'we' because there's a lot of people.. who don't deserve it.  there's specifically handfuls of people in board rooms making decisions for the last 75 or so years who deserve it.. lot's of it.. and yeah, plenty of duped stupid americans who's faces are going to be eaten by the proverbial leopards... but most average people making whatever limited choices they can make to survive are just pawns.. or worse.. they are fodder for a big nasty machine. 

    america is a preposterous place. mind boggling when looking at the scale of stupidity and selfishness in how this place was built.. the inefficiency, the waste.. how cities were built and changed for cars.. suburbs etc..  someone looking around at earth from space might laugh at the stupidity of this place.  the they look south and think "wtf they're wrecking all those forests and jungles for cows to make burgers for fast food places? palm oil... what a bunch of cruel idiots".

    to clarify; i meant that all functional people in society are responsible. that is, excluding babies and children and mentally handicapped people, and others that fall into similar categories. i mean that on a global scale. i believe there is no excuse anymore to allow this raging greed-driven system to continue pillaging our planet and exploit everything they can put a price tag on. the ignorant should inform themselves, the passive should become active to demand accountability from the sociopaths and psychopaths who put themselves on top of our society - because we allow them to be our leaders. i'm sick of watching the legal system to let all this shit go on. we should demand proper ways by sheer mass of disobedience and show these fucks we cannot be pushed around and manipulated anymore. we should become a force again, the rich and powerful should fear journalists again, and legal repercussions.

    not just about global warming, but  e v e r y t h i n g  that is rotten in our society.

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    Forum Discussion/Issues

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    2 hours ago, J3FF3R00 said:

    People still having issues, try changing themes. 
    ✅ = works  //  ❌ = busted af

    “WATMM Classic (Default)”  ✅

    “Tomorrow’s Harvest”  ✅ (also dark)

    “4.4 Default”  ✅

    “WATMM After Dark”  ❌

    “WATMM Muted (Dark)”  ❌

     

    thanks, man!

    @Joyrex these bright themes are crapping my style, dude, i'm losing my mojo!

    What would you do if you won the lottery?

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    renovate and make some modifications to the house I currently live in, buy some reasonable real estate for my mother and sister
    nothing fancy, just quality of life stuff so we don't need to worry about it

    the rest would go into some investments into good causes (nothing political) while travelling the world

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    Cycling bikes

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    Salve!

    Preparing camp for tonight inside ancient Roman fort. Very hot day today, and I shouldn't have eaten lunch in the afternoon. Saped my strength to fight the inclines and the heat. I know better for tomorrow now as i will face harder and longer inclines.

    Deus Mars nobis iterum subrisit. Ita omnes hostes Romae comprimentur.

     

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