*shrug* I think you're dead wrong. It's been called another version of 'cold war', but it is what it is, and Putin isn't just going to sit back and be the despotic ruler of Russia until he dies (either by natural causes or someone slipping polonium into his food), he show all the signs of wanting to build an empire. Look deeper.
That's what Putin wants, and if you can't believe that at this point in time then you're either not paying attention or your powers of denial are wizard-level strong. Putin wants to bring back the Soviet Union, resurrected in his own image, and denying his own citizens as much free access to the Internet outside of Russia proper is just one item on his to-do list.
You keep focusing on INDIVIDUALS 'giving up things', like that's going to affect anything at all. I say to you again, sir: our entire SPECIES needs to change the way we do things. EVERYONE, ALL 7 BILLION OF US. It's not up to one person, or one class of people, or one community, or one country, or one continent, or one hemisphere; it has to be the entire planet full of humans. So stop asking me or any individual to do irrational things like 'stop driving your car' or 'stop using electricity' or 'go live in a cave and forrage for nuts and berries' or whatever silly thing you want to say. We need to change what EVERYONE is using to generate power and move themselves around. It may take a generation to get it done, but it NEEDS TO BE DONE. Oh and by the way we'll manage to clean up your 'local pollution' problems along the way, too, so don't bother bringing that up again. It's ALL POSSIBLE and talking about the reasons why it CAN'T isn't helping.
Here's the thing, though: crops don't convert enough CO2 into O2 to make a difference. It's (rain)forests and other vast wild expanses that do that, and we've been chopping those down for hundreds of years, and much much faster in the last 100 years. So don't worry as much about 'quality of crops' and worry more about what we're destroying to make croplands, if you're thinking about what plants use CO2 for.
From what I've been hearing and reading in the last few weeks, investors and corporations are moving away from fossil fuel investments and towards renewables, because they see the handwriting on the wall and aren't going to be late to the party.
Oh gee I'm sorry I'm so used to complainers on the Internets being abject cowards and do-nothings that I automatically assumed you were just one of them, my bad! xD xD xD
Also how do you know I'm not already 'bent', sweetie? xD xD xD (I'm not but I had to say it)
No savings. No retirement. Living paycheck to paycheck. One emergency away from bankruptcy -- yet I still see that we HAVE TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING TO OUR WORLD!
I already covered that; "not my problem, let the next generation worry about it" is about as despicable as you can get for this subject. People NEED TO CARE.
Unless people with power give a shit nothing will change.
Quit being an abject coward and at least exercise your right to freedom of speech AND COMPLAIN PUBLICLY ABOUT THINGS YOU THINK ARE WRONG, not just on anonymous internet discussions forums!
Well quite frankly there might be more 'incentive' to tackle local pollution problems if we didn't have to endure an Administration that puts someone in charge of the EPA that cares more for the 'health and welfare' of corporations (and their profits) over whether we have clean air to breathe, safe water coming out of our taps, and non-toxic land to build our homes, schools, and parks on. Also, who said that 'local pollution' problems aren't capable of being handled 'locally'? Or do you not speak up publicly when you see something that needs to be addressed, hold your 'local' officials accountable, talk to your 'local', representatives that you ostensibly voted into office, and so on, to get 'local pollution' problems addressed and corrected? If you don't so much as say something about a problem of any kind to anyone else other than gripe about on an online anonymous messageboard (mister 'binary'!) then don't expect anything to get done about it!
Face it: Whether or not it's human-caused, there is literally no downside to our species ceasing to dump unnecessary waste gasses and pollutants into our environment. Saying "it costs too much, it's too much of an economic burden!" is about as short-sighted as you can get. We, as a species, keep shitting all over the planet we live on, and through the magic of denial, expect there's going to be no consequences -- or worse, don't care because the consequences won't affect us, immediately, it'll affect future generations ("that's their problem, not ours, why should we care?"); reprehensible. We have the technology to move away from 100-year-old energy sources, why not use it?
So-called 'social media' in general needs to die. It is a CANCER for our species. It does not 'bring people together', it gives then reasons to stay apart, encouraging the absolute worst behavior that humans can exhibit, de-humanizing everyone, turning everyone into just words on a screen, totally disregarding the 'social contract' that keeps our civilization glued together. Watch this last weeks' episode of The Orville and you'll see the logical extrapolation of what so-called 'social media' could do to our species and to our world, it's pretty goddamned ugly. Eschew 'social media' and be social with people in the real world instead.
You say "Trump went to folks who are just skating by and said he'd do something that matters to them". What that statement ignores is the fact that these people of whom you speak, I'm sorry to say in such stark and cruel terms, are not very smart to begin with, and did not realize what the consequences of their actions would be when they cast their votes. They apparently couldn't see past their own noses, or think beyond next week. Also, sadly, it'll take quite a blow to them all, personally, before they actually regret their decision.
This sounds like a dominance game to me. Pretend it's an 'open standard' to get it widely adopted, meanwhile you're the one driving the so-called 'open standard'; voila, you're the de-facto alpha.
In 2017, with the way our entire species acts, you expect the Spanish national government to just let them seceed without taking physical action to prevent it? Furthermore you expect that there is not a single Catalonian who is not spoiling for a fight? How incredibly naive of you. Open your eyes: we are still ANIMALS and are prone to violence. I don't want it to be this way and it's not what my first choice would be but it's a fact. All it'll take is one trigger-happy cop or soldier, or one angry protestor throwing something at cops or soliders, and it'll turn into a physical confrontation. Whether that turns into full-on Civil War in Spain or not is still in question, but there WILL be some violence over this, that much is certain, because HUMANS are involved.
I don't think it's something that can be ignored, because regardless of Spains response or lack thereof, this is all looking to be heading towards a Spanish civil war. Whether the Spanish national government can head that off by deposing, arresting, and replacing Catalonian politicians is the question. If the news I've been hearing and reading about this issue is correct, the citizens of the Catalan region are divided on the issue; the question then becomes whether or not there is enough popular support for secession to force the issue or not.
The last thing Europe needs right now is civil war in any of their member countries. On the other hand I'm sure that Vladimir Putin is just thrilled to hear news like this, the more Western Europe is destabilized the better for him and his empire-building ambitions.
With all due respect, I think that's a bunch of bullshit. There HAS to be something that can be done about this or our entire economy could come crashing down. Legislators, judges, and law enforcement will FIND ways to punish them. If not, then there's no point in living anymore, because then we're just being ass-raped by everyone and what sort of quality of life is that?
The people responsible for making decisions at Equifax are completely and totally incompetent and/or have a total disregard for the consequences to the people whose data was allowed to remain at risk. So far as I'm concerned there's no yard-arm high enough to hang them all from, and hanging is actually too good for them; they should be drawn, quartered, the pieces convicted, and buried face-down in unmarked shallow graves. If you're getting the idea that this is pissing me off, you are most certainly correct. In all seriousness they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, incarcerated for the maximum amount of time possible, assets seized (especially any made from their sale of Equifax stock, which was done before informing the public that they'd been junglefucked), and legally prohibited from being employed in the finance industry (not even so much as being a bank teller!) for LIFE. That is, assuming, they have any life after this; I'd imagine at least one of the approximately 50% of Americans (not even counting overseas people affected!) whose lives may well have been ruined by this would feel motivated to track these people down and shoot them in the head -- and more power to 'em, I say.
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Overall it seems to cause more problems than the alleged 'benefits' it provides. Twitter, Facebook, etc, please just die.
*shrug* I think you're dead wrong. It's been called another version of 'cold war', but it is what it is, and Putin isn't just going to sit back and be the despotic ruler of Russia until he dies (either by natural causes or someone slipping polonium into his food), he show all the signs of wanting to build an empire. Look deeper.
I don't have anything to do with Reddit, but from what I've heard the whole place is a 'horror story'.
That's what Putin wants, and if you can't believe that at this point in time then you're either not paying attention or your powers of denial are wizard-level strong. Putin wants to bring back the Soviet Union, resurrected in his own image, and denying his own citizens as much free access to the Internet outside of Russia proper is just one item on his to-do list.
That's the hell we're living in currently, and it has to STOP.
See? Facebook is bad for you. Delete your account and never go back there.
Are we to the point where we're making pedantry into an actual story!? Is there nothing better to post on the goddamned front page!?
You keep focusing on INDIVIDUALS 'giving up things', like that's going to affect anything at all. I say to you again, sir: our entire SPECIES needs to change the way we do things. EVERYONE, ALL 7 BILLION OF US. It's not up to one person, or one class of people, or one community, or one country, or one continent, or one hemisphere; it has to be the entire planet full of humans . So stop asking me or any individual to do irrational things like 'stop driving your car' or 'stop using electricity' or 'go live in a cave and forrage for nuts and berries' or whatever silly thing you want to say. We need to change what EVERYONE is using to generate power and move themselves around. It may take a generation to get it done, but it NEEDS TO BE DONE. Oh and by the way we'll manage to clean up your 'local pollution' problems along the way, too, so don't bother bringing that up again. It's ALL POSSIBLE and talking about the reasons why it CAN'T isn't helping.
Here's the thing, though: crops don't convert enough CO2 into O2 to make a difference. It's (rain)forests and other vast wild expanses that do that, and we've been chopping those down for hundreds of years, and much much faster in the last 100 years. So don't worry as much about 'quality of crops' and worry more about what we're destroying to make croplands, if you're thinking about what plants use CO2 for.
From what I've been hearing and reading in the last few weeks, investors and corporations are moving away from fossil fuel investments and towards renewables, because they see the handwriting on the wall and aren't going to be late to the party.
Oh gee I'm sorry I'm so used to complainers on the Internets being abject cowards and do-nothings that I automatically assumed you were just one of them, my bad! xD xD xD
Also how do you know I'm not already 'bent', sweetie? xD xD xD (I'm not but I had to say it)
"Affluent"
Yeah LOL sure thing I'm so FUCKING affluent!
No savings. No retirement. Living paycheck to paycheck. One emergency away from bankruptcy -- yet I still see that we HAVE TO GIVE A DAMN ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING TO OUR WORLD!
Get correct.
Costs cannot be allowed to be more important than the long-term implications of a polluted, unhealthy world that people may not be able to exist in!
I already covered that; "not my problem, let the next generation worry about it" is about as despicable as you can get for this subject. People NEED TO CARE.
Unless people with power give a shit nothing will change.
Quit being an abject coward and at least exercise your right to freedom of speech AND COMPLAIN PUBLICLY ABOUT THINGS YOU THINK ARE WRONG, not just on anonymous internet discussions forums!
Well quite frankly there might be more 'incentive' to tackle local pollution problems if we didn't have to endure an Administration that puts someone in charge of the EPA that cares more for the 'health and welfare' of corporations (and their profits) over whether we have clean air to breathe, safe water coming out of our taps, and non-toxic land to build our homes, schools, and parks on. Also, who said that 'local pollution' problems aren't capable of being handled 'locally'? Or do you not speak up publicly when you see something that needs to be addressed, hold your 'local' officials accountable, talk to your 'local', representatives that you ostensibly voted into office, and so on, to get 'local pollution' problems addressed and corrected? If you don't so much as say something about a problem of any kind to anyone else other than gripe about on an online anonymous messageboard (mister 'binary'!) then don't expect anything to get done about it!
Face it: Whether or not it's human-caused, there is literally no downside to our species ceasing to dump unnecessary waste gasses and pollutants into our environment. Saying "it costs too much, it's too much of an economic burden!" is about as short-sighted as you can get. We, as a species, keep shitting all over the planet we live on, and through the magic of denial, expect there's going to be no consequences -- or worse, don't care because the consequences won't affect us, immediately, it'll affect future generations ("that's their problem, not ours, why should we care?"); reprehensible. We have the technology to move away from 100-year-old energy sources, why not use it?
So-called 'social media' in general needs to die. It is a CANCER for our species. It does not 'bring people together', it gives then reasons to stay apart, encouraging the absolute worst behavior that humans can exhibit, de-humanizing everyone, turning everyone into just words on a screen, totally disregarding the 'social contract' that keeps our civilization glued together. Watch this last weeks' episode of The Orville and you'll see the logical extrapolation of what so-called 'social media' could do to our species and to our world, it's pretty goddamned ugly. Eschew 'social media' and be social with people in the real world instead.
You say "Trump went to folks who are just skating by and said he'd do something that matters to them". What that statement ignores is the fact that these people of whom you speak, I'm sorry to say in such stark and cruel terms, are not very smart to begin with, and did not realize what the consequences of their actions would be when they cast their votes. They apparently couldn't see past their own noses, or think beyond next week. Also, sadly, it'll take quite a blow to them all, personally, before they actually regret their decision.
This sounds like a dominance game to me. Pretend it's an 'open standard' to get it widely adopted, meanwhile you're the one driving the so-called 'open standard'; voila, you're the de-facto alpha.
In 2017, with the way our entire species acts, you expect the Spanish national government to just let them seceed without taking physical action to prevent it? Furthermore you expect that there is not a single Catalonian who is not spoiling for a fight? How incredibly naive of you. Open your eyes: we are still ANIMALS and are prone to violence. I don't want it to be this way and it's not what my first choice would be but it's a fact. All it'll take is one trigger-happy cop or soldier, or one angry protestor throwing something at cops or soliders, and it'll turn into a physical confrontation. Whether that turns into full-on Civil War in Spain or not is still in question, but there WILL be some violence over this, that much is certain, because HUMANS are involved.
I don't think it's something that can be ignored, because regardless of Spains response or lack thereof, this is all looking to be heading towards a Spanish civil war. Whether the Spanish national government can head that off by deposing, arresting, and replacing Catalonian politicians is the question. If the news I've been hearing and reading about this issue is correct, the citizens of the Catalan region are divided on the issue; the question then becomes whether or not there is enough popular support for secession to force the issue or not.
The last thing Europe needs right now is civil war in any of their member countries. On the other hand I'm sure that Vladimir Putin is just thrilled to hear news like this, the more Western Europe is destabilized the better for him and his empire-building ambitions.
With all due respect, I think that's a bunch of bullshit. There HAS to be something that can be done about this or our entire economy could come crashing down. Legislators, judges, and law enforcement will FIND ways to punish them. If not, then there's no point in living anymore, because then we're just being ass-raped by everyone and what sort of quality of life is that?
The people responsible for making decisions at Equifax are completely and totally incompetent and/or have a total disregard for the consequences to the people whose data was allowed to remain at risk. So far as I'm concerned there's no yard-arm high enough to hang them all from, and hanging is actually too good for them; they should be drawn, quartered, the pieces convicted, and buried face-down in unmarked shallow graves. If you're getting the idea that this is pissing me off, you are most certainly correct. In all seriousness they need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, incarcerated for the maximum amount of time possible, assets seized (especially any made from their sale of Equifax stock, which was done before informing the public that they'd been junglefucked), and legally prohibited from being employed in the finance industry (not even so much as being a bank teller!) for LIFE. That is, assuming, they have any life after this; I'd imagine at least one of the approximately 50% of Americans (not even counting overseas people affected!) whose lives may well have been ruined by this would feel motivated to track these people down and shoot them in the head -- and more power to 'em, I say.