OT: The News Thread

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

This whole reflex of tipping towards authoritarians when we're remotely inconvenienced instead of leaning into known data and plausible solutions over the last 10 years has me thinking similarly tbh. When the first real volleys of climate change start to land (north atlantic conveyor is probably the first big one), I think we're going to react very, very poorly to the lowered standards of living.

We act like the level of civilization we've achieved is permanent.

Because we in places like North America feel entitled to our standard of living. Never mind that most of the world lives in various stages of privation as long as we get to do whatever we want, whenever we want and (most importantly) however we want. It's the ultimate in white privilege.

Look at our friend Count. Lifelong Liberal voter....until his affluent lifestyle was inconvenienced by Covid and mask mandates. Now he thinks Meatball Ron should be President. His main complaints these days are the quality of the food in the first class airport lounge and how much legroom he has on the plane. The world's on fire you say? Meh. I'm going shopping.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Even worse when you consider that the previous couple of years were considered really bad for fires.

 

[MindzEye]

 

[MindzEye]

Who had "Hurricane hits Los Angeles" on their 2023 "Climate Change Will Kill You All" bingo card?

 

[SundinsTooth]

love the reader added context...omg. I also saw that Kong was spotted in San Fran...

 

[MindzEye]

Yup, I'm leaving it up just for that now

 

[MindzEye]

 

[MindzEye]

On an unrelated note...

I miss the old blue check system on Twitter.

 

[SundinsTooth]

It's awesome...the perfect scam...just timely enough to land...perfect.

 

[MindzEye]

It's awesome...the perfect scam...just timely enough to land...perfect.

I will never trust a Mexican rug dealer again in my life

 

[zeke]

 

[MindzEye]

 

[worm]

https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1692582075130405334?s=46&t=moEoHBmqH0l4NE3F_49J3Q

My brother lives in West Kelowna. Right on the edge of town. They are still evacuated.

Seems like their house might be okay.... So far.

 

[worm]

The past 10 years or so have left me utterly convinced of that.

Human civilization will die in the cradle sooner rather than later.

It's just the dark ages part 2. We will survive. Barely.

 

[anne25]

My daughter and husband staying with his parents for the summer had to evacuate twice but no word yet from his parents about their place but they are trying to be hopefull.

 

[zeke]

Nice. India just landed on the moon.

(Popr putin)

 

[Wayward DP]

Nice. India just landed on the moon.

(Popr putin)

I mean that's cool and all, but Modi is still an ethnonationalist tyrant in my view.

 

[LeafGm]

I mean that's cool and all, but Modi is still an ethnonationalist tyrant in my view.

Modi is absolutely a blood-soaked fascist ethnic & religious nationalist.

Even so, I can still enjoy Putin and the once-mighty Russian space program getting egg on their face.

 

[lecoqsportif]

All of this can be true.

 

[lecoqsportif]

This is a perfect example of the Kremlin’s delusions of grandeur. They resent unipolar world brought about by their defeat in the Cold War. They are vengeful and call for a new multi polar world order to restore their imperious greatness.

But this new order is already slowly emerging as demographic weight, economic power and technological diffusion are brought to bear. Except it doesn’t include Russia as one of the powers, does it.

Today’s lunar landing is right on the nose.