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Broooo what if the enemy was poverty and the wall kept out the enemy so we built the wall to keep us free because we have what they have not and they want what have got but what we have got is a wall to work upon and the work is never done and the war is never won????

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Have you played VAMPIRE THE MASQUERADE ?

By Mark Rein-Hagen

Dark and moody urban fantasy vampires struggle with their inhumanity and deal with faction intrigue.

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We have already averted truly apocalyptic levels of global warming.

Yes, read that again. Let it sink in. This is what the science now says. We have already averted truly apocalyptic global warming.

To quote David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth, from his huge feature in the New York Times:

"Thanks to astonishing declines in the price of renewables, a truly global political mobilization, a clearer picture of the energy future and serious policy focus from world leaders, we have cut expected warming almost in half in just five years... The window of possible climate futures is narrowing, and as a result, we are getting a clearer sense of what’s to come: a new world, full of disruption but also billions of people, well past climate normal and yet mercifully short of true climate apocalypse." (New York Times, October 22, 2022. Unpaywalled here. Emphasis mine. And yes, this vision of the future is backed up by the current science on the issue, as he explains at length in the article.)

So we've already averted truly apocalyptic warming, and we've already cut expected warming IN HALF in just the past five years.

The pace of technology, of innovation, of prices, of feasibility, of discovery, of organizing, of grassroots movements, of movements in other countries around the world, have all picked up the pace so fast in the last five years.

Renewable technology and capacity are both increasing at an exponential rate. It's all S-curves, ones that look like this:

-via The Economist, June 20, 2024.

How much more will we manage in another five years? Another ten? Another twenty?

I know the US is about to fucking suck about the environment for the next four years. But the momentum of renewable energy is far too much to stop - both in the US (x) and around the world.

(Huge shoutouts to India, China, and Brazil for massive gains for the environment in renewables, and Brazil for massive progress against Amazon deforestation.)

We're going to get there.

Say it with me. We're going to get there.

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get this an oscar

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Jerome, we must at all times preserve our dignity.

weeeeee

(via)

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Just as Niemöller wanted to boost Hitler because Hitler targeted people he hated, so most Republicans, many CEOs, and some Democrats see Trump as good, or at least acceptable, because he promises to come for people they would also like to come for.

Will John Fetterman, or Mark Zuckerberg, or Mitch McConnell, ever spend any time reflecting on why they embraced atrocity? Probably not. But whether or not they do, it’s important to understand that Fetterman, Zuckerberg, McConnell, and so forth, are not throwing marginalized people under the bus out of indifference, and not even really out of a selfish failure of empathy. They have embraced atrocity because they think certain groups of marginalized people deserve to be harmed, and they like the fact that Trump has promised to harm them. Fascists can and do use and build on indifference. But their real source of strength is hate. John Fetterman hates. Republican voters hate. Martin Niemöller hated. It wasn’t all he did; it wasn’t who he was in his best moments. But his hate brought him to fascism. The poem he left us would be more useful in our current moment if it admitted as much.

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YES, THANK YOU!

I just realized The Most Dangerous Game uses “game” in the hunting sense and not in the gameplay sense.

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Dudes get divorced at 45 and realize they don't know how to cook or clean or do taxes and suddenly they get really into avenging some city state that was humiliated 1000 years ago. (Drunk driving with a firearm)

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three degrees of done