#source: writingtoolofdubiousintegrity

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Artificer: hey I wonder what happens if I put powdered milk into carbonated water Artificer: my cereal is loud and it's demanding to know why I would sin against both nature and the gods so thoughtlessly Fighter: ... how does it taste? Artificer: bad Wizard: the fizz comes from carbonic acid in the water splitting up into CO2 and H2O over time. And carbonic acid is- as an acid- sour. Wizard: By adding milk to sour water you've created a very convincing emulation of spoiled milk, so I'll believe in a heartbeat that the taste is Not Great. Artificer: I have mastered the potion: Instant Spoiled Milk, therefore earning the rank of shittiest alchemist currently alive.

[theshampyon]

To add on, here's some reasons to suspect a post like that blitzkrieg fool's is a load of bullshit:

It uses a screenshot, not links. You're not being given the tools to check the supplied 'sources' for yourself.

The screenshot is of the result of a Google Search, not actual articles. You can't read the contents to judge them for yourself.

The search wasn't even for the topic: Australia's bushfires. He was proactively searching for any result matching his assumption that "eco terrorists start wildfires", not even specifically to Australia, but in general.

Three of the results aren't even about real events. One is a thesis imagining the potential for using wildfire in an ecoterrorist attack. One is a subreddit dedicated to imagining the end of the world. Another is a climate justice site arguing against claims of ecoterrorists starting wildfires. None of which support the claim that ecoterrorists started the Australian bushfires.

Only one even mentions the claim that ecoterrorists started the Australian bushfires. It's not an Australian news source. It is a blatantly biased right-wing paper from the UK. It is a paper so biased it has been boycotted by almost the entirety of Liverpool, England for over thirty years, over politically motivated lies the paper told which blamed innocent people for deaths in the Hillsborough Disaster and falsely painted helpers and victims on the ground of the tragedy as cruel, thieving opportunists who pickpocketed the dead and urinated on emergency response crews.

The article itself doesn't offer any evidence of the claim. It is merely reporting on a single right-wing politician who was Just Asking Questions in extremely vague manner. Most of the article is also hidden behind a paywall, so you can't even get their whole story, let alone the whole truth.

So even before you try to look for the facts yourself, you're getting a very good hint that the claim is false. A true claim wouldn't need this many layers of deception to support it.

PS: I've been debating how to go about responding to this since knights-freedom first made his response, and an empty post has been sitting in my drafts since bltzkrgfrtz-thirty-five posted his deceptions. But this topic hits close to home, and it wasn't until writingtoolofdubiousintegrity's post that I saw an angle where I felt I could contribute without just going into how it all personally affected me.

I'm Australian. I live in one of the affected areas (by this, and a bunch of other recent natural disasters). We lived with the smoke coming into our house, not being able to go outside without N95s due to the potential for lung damage, the sun dimmed by a thick brown haze. We were finding soot in our noses even after a week of living inside, never leaving the house, all windows sealed shut. I also dealt, and even now still deal, with gullible people and politically motivated idiots who spread false narratives about these fires. The dingbats above are the first I heard of "ecoterrorists".

There were some lies about arson, but mostly our dickheads blame it on "the Greens" (our left-wing political party) not allowing safe burnoffs - which is also obvious bullshit to anyone who knows a damn, because both the Greens and the "greenies" (environmentally-minded people and hippies) promote Indigenous-lead land management and bushfire prevention techniques which primarily rely on, you guessed it, safe burn offs.

Climate change narrowed the window for safe burnoffs. The states narrowed those windows further in order to aid the logging industry, which operates within our state forests, against all advice from our fire services. Our state fire services also had their budgets slashed by Liberal-National Coalition (our right-wing) governments, ensuring any fires would be much harder to deal with. Their budgets were slashed so much they had to rely on the stop-gap plan that other states would loan personnel and resources if a fire hit them - a plan that immediately fell apart in the face of a fire that hit every state.

The devastation of these bushfires is literally a result of capitalism, climate change, and right-wing false notions of "fiscal responsibility".