I don’t remember all these heat waves either but I do remember climate scientists saying we would have them.
Super tangent time!
The wild fire smoke filled the plant I work at until Friday night. They did not offer any sort of face coverings. One of the guys found a stash of N95’s that the guys at the paint booth used, so we had at least something.
I went to the hardware store the next day and got some 3M Aura 9205+ N95 masks. I work 8-12 hours on the shop floor, and wanted to have at least something that might help. Bought a 20 pack, offered them to everyone in my department. A couple people took some, but no one wore them. I wanted to make sure that the team at least had the opportunity to wear PPE. The smoke in the plant was way worse than it was outside.
They looked at me as if I were some paranoid nut. My lungs felt fine all night. I took the mask off a couple of times to have some water, and it was crazy how bad it smelled in the plant. With the mask on, it was just another Thursday night.
Fuckin’ libtards though, right? Got ‘em! Whatev, I felt quite comfortable knowing I did at least something to protect myself.
Saw N95, thought Nokia.
Do you happen to have the source for this?
here you can find a similar graph: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c72pp3yqzjyo
Thanks, it turned out my mom didn’t make it.
Ur mom
She is an anchor for a Michigan news channel, their legal page has a donate ad for reelecting trimp. https://www.michigannewssource.com/legal/
Vote for Trimp!
Thanks… I hate that.
With a passion, but I’ve also nearly pissed myself laughing. I guess I’m fine with it being here.
You have misspelled trumo
Tramp?
Prump
I can’t see that ad?
Spoiler
You left out the part at the bottom that says they are unbiased. Which is rich when the re-elect trump ad is to the right.
The screenshots are as far as I scrolled. The trimp advert was all i needed to see to see if they were a legit news source.
Scrump was the news
Yikes, wtf.
Those damn Canadians are smoking all that Cannabis again…
Nothing like a solid roast from Geoff Thew, “professional shitbag” (his words, not mine) and five golden-flaming-dumpster owner of Chéz Garbáge!
i love seeing a wild Canadian Geoff Thew, “professional shitbag” sighting
Didn’t think I’d see the guy who tells me about “trashy” anime on YouTube on this page!
Intentional or not, 10/10 ragebait
Unless this person is a paid disinformation agent I think we should react to ignorance with a bit more grace than this.
They are.
She a reporter from a local right leaning news org in Michigan
Right leaning? Oh hello Overton, have you shifted yet again today?
I’m familiar with the concept of the shifting window, and how most Americans on the liberal side would be considered right wing in more progressive countries.
But in the common speech of America politics, this is the way we express it
What are you on about?
It’s more than just leaning
As a society we used to motivate the ignorant fucks by singling them out and making sure they felt humiliated. At some point people felt we needed to coddle them with participation trophies and listening to their nonsensical beliefs about reality.
Now look where we are in the world.
Social stigma can be a powerful force, certainly, but mainly when you are in community with someone. In today’s fractured political landscape I don’t believe insulting people online really achieves anything.
This is mainly a result of the disintegration of real-world social networks that used to hold people accountable. You aren’t going to rebuild that by being a reply guy on Twitter.
If you, a ~40 yo person, spent the last 20 years managing to either learn nothing about climate change, or somehow get convinced it isn’t a problem…
You are fundamentally too stupid to be trusted to make any decisions that have any impact on anyone other than yourself. You are an invalid, you’re useless for anything other than manual labor, bullshit jobs, and being some kind of a public facing clown.
It takes such a staggering combination of ignorance, privelege and arrogance to be in that position, that you can be extremely confident that attempting to ‘rehabilitate’ such a person is a lost cause, a waste of time.
Yeah, you’re not gonna fix anything being snarky on Twitter.
Also, you’re not gonna fix anything, period.
Its too late. We are fucked. It is not possible to stop or really even meaningfully mitigate what is coming now, basically unless you are China, maybe.
Maybe, maybe you can make yourself a bit more resistant to the coming disasters, maybe you can relocate to comparitively less fucked areas.
So I think its totally fine to clown on a greedy selfish dipshit who has done her part to doom billions of humans to unneccessary avoidable suffering, and early, painful deaths… and thats to say nothing of the rest of the ecosphere.
I literally do not care to try to change the mind of such a rube. You shouldn’t either, if you value your own lifespan going further than the next 10 years.
Yep, happens to the best of us.
One of the only things that changed minds (and behavior) is peer pressure. But as you said, it has to be peer pressure. Pressure from your in-group.
One of the big changes in our society is idiots and assholes can run off to Fox or 4chan or whatever slimy gutter appeals to them, and find their fellow idiots. Fellow idiots and people manipulating them for their own reasons.
It sucks that reasonable people need to spend all this effort to babysit large children, but if we don’t then they go shit themselves and vote for trump.
The high road leads nowhere against these kinds of willfully ignorant fucks. But have fun being needlessly polite to Nazi sympathizers and the dangerously stupid.
There is an ocean of difference between incidental ignorance to be gently corrected, and paid, institutional ignorance driven by cult mentality and intentional shoving of one’s head in the sand.
Handing these people gently and with a respect they frankly don’t deserve is EXACTLY what got us here.
