@MadeMeSmile

Every time I think I have a handle on the general forms life can take they haul something even weirder out of the ocean.

@pixie @kathhayhoe

I don't believe the atmosphere distinguishes between per capita and national, so I've never really bought that justification.

I also don't believe in the idea that any nation is entitled to an empire. Yes, China was once a great imperial power who colonized their region and then fell, and was subsequently abused by another imperial power. But to say they are therefore entitled to a new empire is the same logic the zionists use for what they are doing in occupied Palestine.

@sherbang @kathhayhoe

So I'm to weight a single year over the clear trend of unabated rise in emissions?

Every other nation shows the same pattern of rise and decline over the last decades except China. The scale to which China has spiked their emissions means that even if they have started declining the damage is still catastrophic and will take decades to stop. There's a reason China left the Paris accords, they decided they were entitled to an extra 40 years of emissions in their own goals

@thegarbagebird @TorbenI @kathhayhoe

Because it's not a normal country and the regime has a long history of lying and manipulating information to save face. They have fleets of heavily armed, illegal fishing vessels stripping the oceans right off the coasts of countries as far as South America.

A better question to ask is how people have been massaged over the past 20 years into accepting that China is normal and pretending that they are a friend to the environment or human rights.

@kathhayhoe

It's a lie that China's emissions have peaked. Their annual emissions are a vertical line. How are people suppose to take this argument seriously? Their coal production has outpaced even that of the US.

It's pure wishcasting by people who want there to be a "good guy" who will save us.

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions

@BlytheCycles

The great obvious secret is that we don't need them. People can live and thrive without an aristocracy.

@Bwaz @MJmusicinears

No such thing. He wants something out of it, if it's even real.

@Laukidh

LA Taco is doing good work, but it's an incredible indictment of our press that some random guys who had a taco business and felt compelled to try and infirm their community are having to pick up this mantle.

@benroyce

I too look at someone like Chuck "The Lesser Evil" Schumer right now and think the dem's problem is progressives and "toxic idealism" of wanting a government that works for people.

If only we had more like Schumer (again), then Dems would start fighting back...surely. I mean, I know those exact kind of Democrats just voted to fund DHS, twice, but if we just cover our eyes and vote blue no matter who it will all work out. I mean it's gotta, right? Right guys?

Jesus fucking christ.

@katrinakatrinka @randahl

They can't do the whole country, but they don't need to, they just need to do certain districts. This is about holding on to a razor majority in congress.

And you have to remember, states like Texas with Greg "the fucker" Abbott are going to be gleeful little helpers in making this happen.

I don't want to demoralize people from voting, but we have to be prepared for the real possibility of it being stolen.

@vkc

Yeah, I feel that, I've definitely touched up against some pretty insane parts of the Fediverse. Honestly it's kind of difficult to get an overview sense of the general vibe of the place because of how odd and messy federation (and defederation) works.

Everything will be smooth sailing for the most part and then you run into these people with these crazy groups of people following them around who will target you for some percieved slight, and then just as quick you never see them again.

@etchedpixels I remember when it was seen as bizarre and unserious for elected representatives to release official statements over social media like twitter.

@pekkatahkola

My love of snow and ice grows as I get older. I used to get frustrated by the inconvenience and discomfort that can come with it, but when you accept winter's rules and work on it's terms it's an opportunity for a lot of pleasantness, joy and coziness.

@pikesley

Which is why they still beg for work from actual human artists and shame them for trying to protect their work, they need fresh data constantly or their machines start to get inbred.

@Briosafreak @dansup

https://joinloops.org/

It's not yet in Playstore/Apple store, so you download it directly from the site. Go to Join Beta and then follow the directions.

@Some_Emo_Chick

Like a real life version of The Eye of Aldhani from Andor. We live on a magnificent jewel.

@VeroniqueB99

"That's the problem with old men. You can kick 'em down the stairs and say it's a accident but you can't just shoot 'em."

@ReggieHere @hajni @thordis

As a millennial I always got the impression that the Boomer generation (and I only speak generally, obviously) was planning on dragging every single thing they can into the grave when they finally go. The economy, the environment, our democracies etc.

Deprivation and salted earth is the punishment for my generation not being right-wing enough or buying into the neoliberal "grand plan".