Are we all fucked?

[astfgyl]

Sounds like heaven when you spend an hour in horrific traffic with cunts acting the cunt non-stop, wrecked from work, back into the shit wagon you haven't paid off yet to the gaff you'll pay off when you're seventy to argue on the internet with a 'peace land and mickey amputations' enthusiast who enrages you further.

Sign me up.

Haha.  Spent plenty of my summers footing and clamping turf.  No place more peaceful, ceannabhains and snipes and blue skies to the horizon.

Like a fool, traded it all for a 'mess of pottage' sunny climes and exotic pussy.

Jaysus I'd say you're regretting that now. What sort of cat is it you have, could you bring it home with you maybe?

[ochoill]

Change that €120 to real money though, no company funny money

No we have to keep it some way mildly frustrating and it has to benefit a load of companies greatly to be even partially realistic.  But we can make the supermarket tick for one of those Tescos with the petrol pumps if you like.  Also if you get fired or move job you lose your house regardless of what you paid off the company mortgage.  But the deal is 20 years otherwise and you own it and can do as you like.  You also don't have a choice in electricity, gas, internet or TV provider they are all through the job.

[Yung Led Zeppelin]

Lol, you're right

[Mower Liberation Front]

Oops.

[astfgyl]

https://www.mintpressnews.com/john-pilger-silencing-lambs-how-propaganda-works/281884/

Here's a piece by John Pilger who I think is the far right these days but one can never really tell, as he touches on in the piece itself. I found it an interesting read but it's not a thousand miles from what I thought of things anyway so maybe that's my confirmation bias kicking in before I go home to watch some American film or TV series.

I wonder if American Gladiators is still going?

[astfgyl]

https://m.independent.ie/news/environment/climate-change-denial-deserves-the-death-penalty-irish-activist-takes-his-message-to-egypt-42123194.html

Ok. Anyone want to discuss how the existence of this article shows that we are far more fucked than even the most pessimistic here would like to believe?

[Eoin McLove]

Spanner 

[astfgyl]

This is what I want the news to do in the future. Find the biggest lunatic with a placard at absolutely everything and frame the articles around them

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

That basically is what the news is in the US 

[astfgyl]

On second thoughts then let's not go to Camelot. Tis a silly place.

Mandela effect in full swing probably but sure that's how Nelson Mandela predicted it would go after he deciphered the best few quatrains out of the Nostradamus collection

[astfgyl]

Can't believe none of ye heard the dog whistle!

Did I not blow it loud enough?

It's the blondes that we're up against this week so don't forget to burn one of your friends to be in with an unrealistic chance of winning a prize that you aren't quite sure exists because not only have you not won it, you also don't even know one single person in the whole world who ever really won at anything other than easing the passage into the eternal unknown and there's every chance it wasn't easier at all. We could all be going down and the most thought provoking part of that is the thought that none of us have the slightest idea no matter what we believe. It's not great craic tbf

[mickO)))]

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oxfordshire-council-to-trial-a-climate-lockdown-starting-2024/

Yet another one of those crazy conspiracy theories slowly starting to become a reality.

[Eoin McLove]

That's insane. I'm guessing there's more to it than is being let on in the article, but even so it seems ludicrous. More self-flagellation around complex issues that demand real solutions. There are many sensible climate experts who are thinking about the problem in a practical way, not just piling guilt upon middle class westerners who are already the most fucking green minded people on the planet    Ah sure, those experts are all crackpots and Nazis, I'm sure.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Do you recognize any of your own red flags micko? A text that blames a council decision on "communism" because it's Labour run, which later says Britain has been "edging closer to naked communism for at least half a century" despite Brexit, UKIP, and the Tories having been in power and running the place into the ground for more than a decade now. Plus, the first ad I got hit with? A conference organized by the Heartland Institute, the same charming people who worked with Philip Morris to downplay the dangers of smoking and have since moved on to climate change, with a helping hand from the likes of ExxonMobil. No crazy conspiracy theory there; just the same old corporate self-interest bullshit!

Not surprising then that the same mooks who advertise for the Heartland Institute have interpreted an initiative (which may or may not work) to keep cars out of the city centre as a "lockdown", even though it clearly isn't that by any definition of that term. You'll still be able to walk or cycle or bus or train anywhere you like, and you can drive to any other place too whenever you want, just not into the city centre. But you'll nevertheless still be able to drive there up to a 100 times a year. Naked communism indeed: those gulag exiled didn't know how lucky they had it! 

[Eoin McLove]

Didn't attempts in London to curb car use through charging people to drive into the city and closing loads of lanes to traffic result in more pollution a few years ago? Punitive measures don't work. Trying to force people to walk, cycle or use public transport doesn't work. People want to drive, it's as simple as that, so they need to think about other strategies. It seems that most of the pollution, as in the vast majority of it, is coming from developing countries and not the developed ones so they are using useless strategies in the wrong places. That said, I'm all for reducing pollution where possible but I think that innovative approaches to planting trees in built up areas or along roads and highways would be more effective. More electric cars too with more charge points and tax breaks for people who want to buy them. Building or upgrading nuclear power stations while investing into more R&D for renewable energy to get it up to scratch. Make it something attractive to people's lifestyles, something they want rather than spanking them for doing what they have always done. Give them new, more desirable options. People want to go green in general, but they also want to live.