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unfuck the world
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root rot
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and of course, once the fraud is found out and we actually stop burning underground hydrocarbons for energy, the pumping and mining won't stop - we'll just turn it all into plastic that we'll fraudulently say is "recycleable"
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root rot
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this instinct is resulting from just how completely the idea that "nothing will fundamentally change" has consumed our entire culture - carbon capture was never anything but a distraction to delay the end of emissions
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Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
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Meanwhile, Mexico elects the mayor that gave 100,000 people ivermectin to treat COVID because “she did her research” only to then make the architect of the whole intervention the person in charge of a federal office for digital infrastructure. Epic hold my beer.
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root rot
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Centrists want another Trump administration, all the evidence is there, and the only way to conclude otherwise is to be reborn each day with a baby's brain.
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Max Berger
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I get why this is the case, but it’s so wild that one million Americans died of COVID because of Trump’s handling of the pandemic, and it’s not even remotely an issue in this election. What a country!
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Mayday Trippe 🦋
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The reason we hear so much meritocracy propaganda is that it's the only socially acceptable origin story for the people it happend to work out for, could stay in the game longer thanks to generational wealth, or are just pretending to have "made it." You can't grind your way to a just society.
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Grumpy Rootbeer
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More important to ensure your career can continue under the fascist state than to do anything to prevent the ascendence of the fascist state.
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root rot
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anyone I told this to called me a terrorist
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root rot
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"oh we gonna live out in the solar system bro" - fucking fix this planet before moving onto the next. don't break another one before we even figure out how to sustain this one
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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast)
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If you’re wondering why all of corporate media is working to end democracy and elect Trump it’s because it’s the business plot for the 21st century. We must stop these people if we want to survive.
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root rot
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The memoryhole shit is really strange; just 15 years ago the reactionary view on this was encapsulated by Dennis Leary: “Where I come from, we don't call a guy like that a victim of Asperger's. We just call him an asshole Who Won't Shut The Fuck Up.” - now it's straight up erasure
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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It's worth considering why the media - with many outlets funded by or directly owned by oil interests - does so many stories about difficulties of long road trips in EVs and so few about how you can fill your car up at home and never visit a gas station or charger ever. bsky.app/profile/tom4...
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@pouncingbullfrog.bsky.social
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We live in a time of economic fraud at a mass scale
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root rot
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root rot
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@theatlantic.bsky.social - I'm going to use today's piece to teach my students about how the stark fact of mass extinction and death will be obscured at every cost by idiots married to the status quo - we can't get people who believe this shit to change
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
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root rot
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manufacturing consent for a world consisting of nothing but humans, livestock, crops, and silicon openly dystopian attempt to make any other system of values go extinct - it's just natural selection!
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aheago to the polls
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holy shit “the Anthropocene is good actually” lmao
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root rot
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Loved living in Davis 2009-2018, and basically only drove to leave town, but a town of college people is more easily persuaded to bike. Permanent residents in town still drive way too much, and are why the town had to invest in all those protected lanes instead of closing more roads to cars.
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root rot
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Nah they do this down to TK now
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root rot
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DuFour stuff is the most maddening inspirational ed stuff - here's how we fixed everything by giving educators tons of money and time to be professionals, now you, with no time or money should do the same,I get a book sale either way and your boss gets a promotion for buying from us
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root rot
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people who don't get the appeal of conservative politics have never watched a cat play with a mouse
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Casmilus
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The fun thing about stories like these is they seem twee and inconsequential but are potentially more serious than any of the political stuff dominating the headlines, given the possibility of collapsing ecosystems, food supplies, civilisation.
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root rot
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The only way to survive living in a "Credulous Age" where the world has become so complex that we rely on experts for EVERYTHING is to become ruthless empiricists. But that is asking people to do a lot of cognitive lifting they would much rather not do.
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st. clueless, of the vhs
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the apocalypse is ongoing. it’s been happening since before we were born. if you’re waiting for some irrefutable tipping point to do something different; it’s not going to happen
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root rot
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bad thing
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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yes, we boiled the planet, but it was worth it to make a machine that, instead of adding two plus two, takes the statistical average of every answer to questions containing "what" "is" "two" and "plus" from a database of illegal cell phone transcripts and returns a fake nude pic of a high schooler
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root rot
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It's maddening because people refuse to acknowledge this problem - by parting out ecological catastrophe to "climate" "pollution" "biodiversity" people think the status quo just needs tweaking. "the transition to wind and solar mean we can keep doing what we're doing!"
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root rot
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The people who think Harris would do better than Biden have absolutely refused to watch the meltdowns that happen just about any time she gets near a mic. Call it a panic attack, fancy benzos we can only imagine, or just straight up android chatbot malfunction, it won't play well.
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gamera obscura
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One of the most painful things about our American crisis is how it takes focus away from climate change - the single most important issue of our lifetimes. Of any lifetimes. The first 6 months of 2024 were the hottest ever measured. So far.
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nattie winters
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this country was built on inventing infeasible crops and getting them subsidized
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Matt Novak
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Happy fourth
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root rot
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honestly hard to tell if she just accidentally takes a second Xanax some days or if that's when the chatbot breaks
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DeathsHead419
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Consent Machine goes: Bbrrrrr
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root rot
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Problem is "not uniquely bad" does not exclude "bad". Have you taken the time to watch her in front of a mic? It's uncanny valley shit - if AI is real it's powering this cyborg. That this also describes other bad candidates does not inspire confidence against trump.
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root rot
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Part of building power for labor, making progress towards social democracy, is staying motivated in the face of failure. I honestly don't know how to make progress past this moment. I'm sure there were times in the past when people were more dug into their positions than now but it's bad out there.
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root rot
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"Get organizing!" Have people actually knocked on doors, talked to their fellow union members, helped at a tail light repair clinic, etc? We've already mobilized who we can. All we have to show for it is "1/3rd of people want to kill 1/3 of their neighbors while the last 1/3rd watches"
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root rot
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what national committee organizes the primaries? controlling the format and messaging genuinely influences voters!
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root rot
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I'm a teacher. I work with generic liberals in deep denial. This is huge problem (that libs will go along with whatever is most convenient) for every leftist to figure out, not something to lol off as somebody else's problem.
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root rot
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IDK man, talking to my fellow union members, people are already mentally prepared to accept life under fascism as long as they get a paycheck. Might not be ideal, but as long as a basic level of comfort is met for them personally it's gonna be hard to get them riled up enough to strike.
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Pat Inverted Vibe Curve Blanchfield
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well, it was pretty shitty while it lasted
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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calvinball back
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root rot
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it is especially awesome to live in that world since the liberal consensus is becoming indistinguishable from Dr Pangloss
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root rot
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its hard finding out that what we learned was not the intended learning outcome
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Zack Labe
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The mean global sea surface temperature averaged over the last three months was the highest on record relative to any other March to May period...
Data from NOAA ERSSTv5: psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...
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root rot
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My memory is foggy on this one, but I'm pretty sure the guy behind the "data" telling us that there was a retail theft boom (there wasn't) was also closely connected to the people that sell anti-theft equipment. Gotta re-listen to the If Books Could Kill on this one...
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David_j_roth
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I don't want some egghead bureaucrat telling me whether there's poison in the water I drink. Ideally I'd want that decided by a 29yo judge who went to a "biblical law school" and does not believe dinosaurs existed, and then to have that decision reaffirmed six years later by the Supreme Court.
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root rot
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"every accusation is an admission" is a versatile strategy: trump looked like they gave him captagon before the debate, while biden looked like he's going cold turkey after a coke binge
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Tom Scocca
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Trump is objectively deranged and spewing nothing but lies, brainworm jargon, and sentence fragments, but Biden, the Guy Who We Need to Beat Trump, can’t do jack shit about it
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Ana Marie Cox
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Will we get to pick which camp we're rounded up into?
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The Onion
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Biden Advisors Think Strategy To Do Zero Prep And Keep Biden Awake For Past 72 Hours Working Great
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