Currently residing in a cabin in the woods and I only have a radio (and wifi lol). But I accidently stumbled upon a classical music channel that is having some sort of medieval theme today. I didn't know medieval music could be this fire.
The irony of having to make 14-15 hour days volunteering for a party that fights for better working rights is not lost on me. Working towards communism may actually give me a burn-out.
I'm active on a number of local communities, some of which are mostly English-language, and some of which aren't. Demographically though, it's pretty much the same people.
In the English subs the amount of Zionist glowposting is maybe twenty times higher. It's staggering.
All because Israel's troll farms and bots don't speak my language.
Surely climate change must be happening much faster than we think. The last few years have seen much more extreme weather. Over here it's been raining non stop for days now and parts of the country are again flooded.
In short, the US significantly under reports their emissions from natural gas because they don't sufficiently consider the short-term impact of methane or the degree of methane leakage occuring.
Even the best climate scientists have been underestimating feedback, which is amplifying and accelerating the effects. A ton of models are linear when reality is exponential. We're finally in 2023 seeing more climate scientists admit that they've been far too conservative/optimistic.
My region is experiencing a lot of problems this year. We had no rain in summer so we had really low water levels at the dams that supply water for farming thus water will be limited and thus yields will be lower, our entire economy revolves around farming so this hurts everyone. Also some tropical storms hit us during planting season, which hurts planted crops and delays yet-to-plant fields
There are several reasons, among which (the list is not exhaustive):
Many positive (and negative, but the overwhelming effect is definitely positive) feedback processes are known to exist, but cannot be quantified. If they cannot be quantified, they are not taken into account into the models, only as vague "climate tripwires" with no certainty of when the trigger will be pushed or in some cases if it has or hasn't already. Some of those have the potential to rival human emissions in scale if we do trigger them.
Many other similar feedback processes likely exist but we are not even aware of them.
The source of governmental decisions is the IPCC; when an IPCC report is published, the research it uses is already years, sometime more than a decade, out of date (this makes sense but it does mean there is a lag between current reality and decision-making).
The IPCC report itself, once actual scientists have finished writing it, is then provided to political actors (the US, the UAE, etc.) in order to reword or rewrite parts of it they deem incompatible with their strategic objectives. There was a leak of the politically-unedited IPCC report about two years back, and the wording was very different.
Many scientists self censor, consciously or not, because they'll usually end up being called "alarmists". This, among other things, results in the models the IPCC designs and uses being highly optimistic.
As a sidenote, and only somewhat related to your initial question: for a few years now, all IPCC trajectories that do not end up in widespread societal collapse and potentially human extinction rely on imaginary technologies.
Wikipedia on wartime deportations within the Soviet Union: "100 bajillion people died on account of Stalin being evil and bigoted and a member of the Russian KKK."
Wikipedia on the English enclosures, the Highland Clearances, Siege of Drogheda, etc: nOOance
I hope Hamas takes special note of the seed-thirst of and aim's directly for the balls. Forget the head. Shoot the balls. Least armoured part. Most effective hit.
Picked up a magazine about "carreers in engineering" not long ago. The level of liberal brainworms in there was so unbelievable. Not going to take photos because that might dox my city, but it was basically:
Advertising for the imperialist army
Technology is going to save us from climate change
You should work more than 40 hours a week (says guy who would benefit from you working more hours a week).
What is interesting, they ended it with a sentence like "If your work is for the benefit of society and fulfilling for yourself, it doesn't make difference how many hours it is." Which... I can't say I disagree entirely. But under this society? Lol no.
I did get some pointers I was hoping to get from there, so it wasn't totally pointless. But still, the entire time I was reading that, I was thinking "How can anyone take this seriously?"
This whole article is proof of the failure of settler-leftism. This guy, as critical as he has been of Israel's fascism in the past, is now practically indistinguishable from a fascist.
An equivalent of the population of Soweto/Frankfurt from a city the size of Stockholm has been displaced and the body count in 40 days is triple the annual homicides in the Gauteng Province despite being 1/7th the size.
Nothing especially wrong work is just busy and annoying, and i've been more or less disassociated for the past 6 or so weeks so I need to try very hard to reassociate because I have a lot of things to get done
The South African Parliament has FINALLY called a to formally suspend all relations with Isisrael, which includes de-colonizing the 5,100 square meters in Pretoria and extraditing Eliav Bellend to Cape Town to have the penguins carry out sentencing by guillotine expelling the Pissraeli ambassador.
But there's of course plenty of room to disappoint.
This recent Letter to America discourse is so fucked. I completely abhor the idea of news stories and documents being censored and purged but also, I'm not going to praise Bin Laden. Guy was still a monster.
I swear the only reason Americans care at all is because Bin Laden was on TV for years (either him or people talking about him) and in America, TV man = serious opinion. It's ironic blowback from trying to portray bid laden as the "King of All Terrorism" a decade ago.