Are we all fucked?

[astfgyl]

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/indonesian-transgender-climate-change-bandung-b2522422.html

Not all of us, apparently     

Good fucking Lord won't somebody think of the transgender indonesian sex workers and just stop driving your cars and being warm in your homes!!!! 

Even funnier is that what the article actually goes on to say is that climate change is actually saving the transgender sex workers from the sex work and now their lives are improving because of it. Ah jaysus this stuff has to be taking the piss but I actually checked the date and it's not April 1st

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Conservative USA folks, confident ignorance central:
https://twitter.com/bibleradioapp/status/1781575636236247533

(Tucker Carlson denies the evolution of novel species on Joe Rogan, reasserts that "God created people [and animals] distinctly")

[astfgyl]

Well both God's Creation Theory and Evolutionary Theory have gaps in them and could also mutually exist in even the simplest of minds while also keeping a little room for the Simulation Theory as a possibility in there but of course at the end of the day they all go round in circles and finish with The Great Unknown which is how did it all get here. I suppose with the evolution you can see natural selection in real time in some examples. One that springs to mind is of butterflies in England going through natural selection which was interesting and certainly more interesting than tucker carlson saying he thinks God did it in some direct fashion. I think it seems more enlightened to consider that both the sciences and the magick can coexist simply by taking the view that there's loads we can only guess at for now and if lads want to take the God thing with the science they can just accept that evolution is part of God's Creation as best we can see it and now the God crowd don't have to be in opposition to anything. I think the aborigines have it best in their creation story which I was reading about in an old encyclopedia (1960s iirc) a few years back (was stuck for something to read while on the jacks, "A" was the closest letter) and it explained it as going something like "in the beginning, humans were the same as the animals. Then something magic happened and now they're like this instead".

Wait fuck this I'm gone off on a tangent altogether. Carlson oh yeah what was he on about again ah I dunno

[astfgyl]

https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/magazine/hajj-disasters-stampedes-infernos-and-a-bloody-siege-4280708

Before anyone starts saying the Hajj thing is a sign of global warming, here's an article of completely unrelated disasters that happened in other years

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Why "before"? That doesn't make sense precisely because those previous disasters were unrelated to temperature.

So far so manageable here towards the Atlantic coast, but I'm already dreading August.

[astfgyl]

Why "before"? That doesn't make sense precisely because those previous disasters were unrelated to temperature.

So far so manageable here towards the Atlantic coast, but I'm already dreading August.

I was trying to be funny was all. I'd actually come across the article as a sort of rebuttal myself and was amazed upon reading it that none of the previous appeared in any way heat related. I'll keep half an eye for more though because I wouldn't be too surprised if the headlines aren't telling the full story because headlines need to be screaming or nobody sees them. I'll see anyway I suppose, if I remember to look.

Weather here is lovely at the minute, nice and warm but not baking in the relentless heat or anything

[astfgyl]

Yes we are all fucked. And in ways only paranoid lads like myself saw coming

https://x.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1814004710824988711

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

You and Charlie Brooker!

[astfgyl]

You and Charlie Brooker!

Did he have something like that as well? I only know him from Screenwipe

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Black Mirror..?

[astfgyl]

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Black Mirror..?
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Ah yeah fuck I knew that and he wrote it I knew that but I've only ever seen 2 or 3 eps of Black Mirror. It was grand and all but it just passed me by in general. Like the couple I saw were not even futuristic and more an exaggerated now but I probably didn't need the reinforcement or something or more likely I kept meaning to and forgetting

Edit: I mean I forgot I did definitely know Brooker from that as well for writing it like but I always think of him for the Screenwipe

[astfgyl]

Slowly but surely

[Ollkiller]

Had to Google what maid is. That's mental.

[son of the Morrigan]

Slowly but surely

Jesus Christ !!!. They are gone stone mad over there.

[mickO)))]

I posted about MAID on here a few years ago. A man that lived in Niagara in his 50's with chronic back pain was being forced to move because the owner of his apartment wanted to sell. He couldn't afford to get a new place and rather than end up homeless he applied for MAID, did the doctor assessment and it was granted. Luckily after a local news outlet covered his story a go fund me was started and he didn't end up going through with it.

Another story was a female veteran who lost the use of her legs was waiting years to have a chair lift installed by the Government in her house. When she complained too much she was offered MAID as an alternative.

They have this in Belgium and a couple of other countries won't be long before it is available in Ireland.