Coffeemonkepants

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[–] [email protected] 281 points 1 year ago (10 children)

This is incredibly fucked up. Handmaid's tale was a documentary.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, no? In case it wasn't clear from the article, these are the people that voted for this shit. It's also ironic they're already on Medicare (in their 20s) as it is. This should be an 'I get it now' moment for these families, but they'll learn nothing.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Point of note - it's just 'Ukraine', not the Ukraine. 'The Ukraine' is a label used by those who see the nation as a region part of Russia. Small, but important thing I had to change when referring to it as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Very true. I mean, people think rising sea levels just means losing beach front property, and they ignore the cataclysmic chain reaction of mass fish die off, acidification, and severe weather. Not to mention the increasing temperatures are allowing for pathogens - in particularly fungi to adapt to higher average temperatures, which means humans (and other mammals) won't be able to use fevers to fight them off. We'll continue to see more novel diseases, pandemics, etc. It's for the best anyway. The sooner the earth can get rid of us, the sooner it can return to equilibrium.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pushing 50 and I tend to think that there's maybe one or two generations left to live before society collapses due to this shit. The copium being taken by some people on where we're at is pretty nuts, not to mention the outlandish solutions people are proposing like putting reflective particles into the atmosphere to 'dim the sun', rather than just do the things scientists have been shouting for decades. I've done my part (which amounts to measurably nothing). But as you said, it's over kids. We're at the part of a roller coaster ride where the first couple cars have started down that hill and there's no way to stop the acceleration of everything else, only unlike the roller coaster, the bottom is the end of the ride.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

These specifically are invasive species to these states and negatively impact the ecosystem. It won't affect native species.

Edit to add that these mosquitos are the carriers of yellow and dengue fever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The funny thing is this article talks about kids. My Mom is in her 70s and I maintain her phone and she currently uses a pixel 6, so it's the latest os of course. Whenever I see her, I have to declutter her notifications. They're constant. Apps and websites have gotten more noisy and aggressive in prompting users to enable notifications or sending constant push crap and I don't think most people know how to disable them while retaining what they're actually wanting to get.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Damn indeed

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I finally have a void kitty myself and I amuse my friends by sending pictures that state there is a cat in this picture. He is so incredibly light absorbent it is insane.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You can also pay for it and get a refund, which is what I did. It isn't anywhere close to being finished.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I find this very sad

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

And you still can! Only now you can see Brand, errr, Snow as the narcissistic womanizing asshole that he is!

 

I'll start with a movie line - without searching, quote the next line from the movie, then ID the movie, and then post a new quote from another movie - and continue!

"Hi, my name is Werner Brandes..."

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