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Read a good book on risk and insurance like Against The Gods, and you’ll see a pretty good case that all modern progress – of EVERY type, even the progress that people who hate “progress” value most highly – was enabled by insurance at some basic level – ie being able to properly manage risk.
Insurance assumes consistent rule of law, equality under the law and NOT a corrupt, continually chaotic society. No insurance then.
Just look at what happens in Discworld when Twoflower introduces In-Sewer-Ants-Polly-Sea in Ankh-Morporkh for the first time. (It has something to do with, er… Echo-Gnome-Omics? The subterranean acoustics of gnomes?!??) A society totally incapable of HAVING insurance. Results in the city burning down. (Start with The Light Fantastic if you’ve never read Terry Pratchett, it’s basically fantasy Douglas Adams.)
Seriously, what do you want The West to do about CO2, nuke all of China’s industrial centers? Threaten to hold our breath until China stops?
Well, we’re probably making tons of CO2 with the Ukraine war. Nothing is probably coming over on the slow boat, but being shipped over in cargo planes. Even Taylor Swift isn’t producing THAT much carbon. Plus there is presumably additional resource, industrial, and transportation activity going into it from all sides.
So we will see Climate Change believers protesting against the Ukraine war to stop the massive CO2 it is producing in 3… 2… 1… Not to mention demanding answers on Nordstream, the biggest release of greenhouse gasses by humans ever.
Wait no they are all except for a little statistical noise, from a practical standpoint universally, wearing ukraine pins, putting ukraine signs in their front yards and chanting Slava Ukrainia…
Oh hey. Just like the European Union, of whom Copernicus Climate Change Service is a tentacle
“Copernicus online portal offers terrifying view of climate emergency. Looking at the mass of information, there is only one conclusion: we are running out of time…
“…it seemed to this observer that scientists have been underestimating for some time how quickly the situation is deteriorating.”
So naturally, you’ll be VPNing in behind the lines of China’s firewall to fight The Real Enemy, the prime source of Climate Emergency – Communism, the world’s largest CO2 producer BY FAR, right?
This is your: “I’m goin’ in boys!” before you head into action? Or are you here to crusade just against Apsnaz or something?!?
Or you’re HERE complaining to westerners who are already reducing CO2 output despite rising population and GDP BECAUSE China is already communist, right?
Russian Warships Enter Red Sea As Rival US-Led Coalition Patrols
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-warships-enter-red-sea-rival-us-led-coalition-patrolsIf someone were to position air and naval assets in a sea and then relay intelligence and targeting data to a nearby combatant who then sank a ship of yours, that’s fine. That’s just “observing.” Heck, they can even provide missiles, torpedoes, sea and air drones that did the sinking. That’s just “supporting,” not an act of war.
Ohhh it IS??? Oh. Isn’t. Wait no, is. Isn’t. Auugghhhhh.
The piers themselves were pretty vulnerable.
BUT there were 2 island/pylons just before you get to the bridge.
The ship tracking (and the video) showed the vessel cranking hard right.
On ship tracking, it’s cornering tightly around that protective island/pylon like a Formula 1 car. (as much as a ship its size could anyway) Could be a totally coincidental path that just so happened to be perfect to hit the pylon.
It’s easy to blame communism
…because it makes the most CO2. Duh.
One reason China has enormous CO2 emissions is that it manufactures a huge quantity of finished goods and semi-processed materials for the rest of the world.
AFKTT – CO2 producing activity is bad, BAD!!!!
Communism produces the most CO2 by multiples of the US
AFKTT – Don’t worry, that’s just Communism engaging in CO2 producing activity. That’s why it’s easy to blame them.
But why does it sound like you are minimizing the maximal source of CO2 when you talk about China …as if there’s something more important to you than CO2?
Is it because Critical Race “Theorists” care more about Marxism than black people, Critical Gender “Theorists” care more about Marxism than trans folks, Critical Feminist “Theorists” care more about Marxism than women, and Critical Climate Change “theorists” care more about Marxism than CO2?
…considering your entire doctrine comes FROM a self-avowed Marxist Climate Change Pro-Democide Ecoterrorist whose favorite saying is “we need to tear it all down”?
You had a softball thrown to you to say something, anything negative about Communist China, and you instead showed yourself spinning as best you could FOR Communist China. Weird, huh?
All this crying and raging about “anti-semitism” comes down to just one thing.
The end of the gravy train.
No more free shit for Israel.
Tell ya what, I’m gonna love the hell out of jews and isreal with all my heart and all my strength, and due to that abiding love, cut you off from all the free shit, because of how much I love you, because it is bad for you like hard drugs. The withdrawal will feel bad, but it is for your own good.
It’s been kind of hilarious seeing the Daily Wire enthusiastically implode itself over this stuff.
CO2 does not cause atmospheric warming.
Neither methane clathrates nor water vapor can help prove CO2 warming.
Afewknowthetruth brings them in as allies/support for proof of CO2 warming WHILE claiming CO2 warming will cause both of these things.
Things that CO2 supposedly CAUSES cannot possibly support CO2 causing warming unless you abandon things like time and causality. The methane clathrates heated themselves – see, CO2 warming.
Afewknowthetruth, for 3 years I’ve watched you post tens of thousands of words here about CO2.
Clearly, CO2 is the most important issue to you.
Communism is the greatest emitter of CO2
Yet Communism has had a cloak of invisibility for years now. You can’t see it.
The invisibility cloak extends to posts here in TAE about Communism’s CO2 output.
How come you can’t see Communism’s ginormous, grim, ferocious CO2 creation?
Does it have anything to do with you posting a manifesto here at TAE from a self avowed Marxist ecoterrorist who advocates for democide and whose favorite saying is “We need to tear it all down!” (where have we heard that before?)
Does it have anything to do with you adhering perfectly to his creed?
Does it have anything to do with you “educating” us here on our False Consciousness as coined by Engels, ported over to race as “White Consciousness” or sexuality as “Binary-Cisgendered” etc? Only Through The Lens Of Climate Change/Climate Meltdown?
Let’s do it. Let’s fight the real enemy together. Communism. Biggest producer of CO2
And we can, together, give some effusive praise to western countries in Europe as well as the US for decreasing CO2 output while increasing GDP and population. After all, you like the things you uh, like right? So thank all of us here at TAE in Europe and the US like you deeply want to while we deplore Communism together.
There was no extensive guard piling system protecting the support piers at Francis Scott Key bridge.
Yeah that raised an eyebrow when I was looking via street view etc yesterday.
But they do have rather substantial pilings/islands to the left and right of the channel right before you get to the bridge. Fairly close in, but separated from the actual bridge supports.
Unless a ship is turning hard after passing them, they really should be enough protection. The engineers probably reasoned anything nimble enough to corner that quick is either small enough or going slow enough. Or it’s big and sluggish and can’t corner fast enough to hit. But the bridge was designed before such things as maneuvering bow thrusters.
I watched the track the ship took – it did a perfect tight cornering maneuver around the protective island on the right and IMHO only barely managed a head on collision by absolutely cranking its righthand turn. Had it stopped turning at all it probably would have scraped its side or missed.
Obvious from both the video footage and the tracking video.
They are saying in the news that the police closed off the bridge, but I saw the lights of traffic going back and forth with my own eyes in the footage yesterday. It seems doubtful that no cars were on the bridge.
I watched the video a few times yesterday before coming to that conclusion. It’s now gone from yesterday’s posting. Various Zerohedge commenters think there are now doctored versions circulating with an explosion in the ship’s bridge or on the bridge added. Idunno.
The response seems more similar to the ginormous Ohio poison mushroom cloud than say 911.
since my name has been used with contempt
…you decided to review your behavior and try a different— oh.
CO2 does things it never ever did in millions of years because there’s Ozone. Golf clap.
You really start to come off as someone who has trouble with context and therefore meaning. On a 3 year time frame- the year I lurked here daily and the 2 I have posted, it is what I have seen.
The comments about miniscule changes in CO2 (0.00005% if I recall) are in response to YOU. They are a response to your continual superlatives both in reference to vast amounts of CO2 and terror/alarm.
YOUR assertion is that the planet will turn into Venus – your name for it is Climate Meltdown – if a tiny change disturbs a very precarious balance.
Nothing about what you’ve just said changes that:
—CO2 follows temperature changes rather than leading it
—-atmospheric CO2 has been many multiples higher many times already and your Venus chain reaction non-theory has been proven false
—-atmospheric temperature has been much higher than your most dire warnings many times and your Venus chain reaction non-theory has been proven falseAfewknowthetruth, we should really be fighting the real enemy – the biggest source of CO2 in the world – Communism.
In 3 years, I’ve never heard a peep out of you. But if CO2 is paramount, then the biggest source (well, man-made) of it is therefore the biggest problem.
We need to criticize all forms of Marxism and Communism through the lens of Climate Meltdown.
I am ready to join you in your valiant criticism of Marxism, AFKKT!
Reminder: Despite denying it, James’ campaign was based on promises of political vengeance.
Uh, reminder:
Vengeance – vĕn′jəns
Punishment inflicted in return for an injury or an offense. Synonyms: Retribution, Retaliation, etc. See revenge.Vengeance foooooooooooooooor……. ?
What’s with that sharp turn there at the end, directing the ship straight at the support?
Every time it went dark, it stopped turning towards the post, every time it powered back up, it turned towards it more.
There were at least 2 instances of it turning hard at the support.
Considering it hit the support with its front right, had it not turned right at least 2 times and rather sharply at that, it would have missed.
Was someone powering it off to STOP it from turning, but it kept powering itself back up? Which Windows version was it running?
Recruited anonymously on Telegram?
That’s like a step away from placing a bunch of high value, extremely dangerous Pokemon in the building and these losers were the ¡Pokemon Go! players that showed up.
I’ve seen suspicious comments on the intertubes suggesting there could have been a second group of pros involved.
Why not be just the tiniest bit less idiotic and say the Russians did the Moscow bombing?
Cite the shelling of the Russian occupied nuclear plant and destruction of Nordstream as conclusive proof on how dastardly and sneaky the Russians are, coming up with new ways of punching themselves.
“It’s known Russian Behavior to… Putin’s One Weird Trick Explained Not What You Think…” C’mon Journalist hacks. They are going to put Chat GPT on this and you’re going to end up working in a call center if you cannot put in some minimal effort.
GRU = CIA
ISIS = CIAoh no no it wasn’t the CIA. Maybe it was GRU oh no no, it wasn’t GRU it was ISIS.
Could you say something that points elsewhere like “Martians came down from space in flying saucers and did it”
Or maybe use reverse psychology? “It was the CIA!”
Remember when that pro basketball player got caught trying to smuggle pot on a plane inside a water bottle?: “Congratulations sir. You just got caught smuggling one thing illegal to have on a plane inside another thing, also illegal to have on a plane.”
We remember:
—The masses of white brand new Toyota Tacomas,
—The used truck from a plumbing company in Texas,
—The coincidental withdrawals that let ISIS overrun arms warehouses and banks in pristine condition,
—The brand new white high tops for everyone,
—The giant visible from space stolen oil convoys peacefully operating for years despite NATO forces doing continual airstrikes “against ISIS”
—The occupation of 1/3 of Syria by US forces
—…with satellite images of US forces positioned as if in cooperative defense with ISIS as opposed to prepared to defend against or attack ISIS.
—The strident complaints by the US State Department demanding Russia stop when Russia started bombing the crap out of ISIS and its oil convoys
—The almost immediate cessation of all ISIS activities in non-US-occupied Syria as soon as a tiny Russian force bombed them after years of NATO “Bombing ISIS”
270,000 dead to Fentanol since 2015?
I kind of don’t get it. Don’t you run out of people wanting to TAKE the drug? Where do all these people come from? If it kills too fast, don’t you essentially burn out the drug culture – no one to induct more people? Who volunteers to take some and why?
I saw a thing a couple days ago estimating deaths of despair if you put suicide, drug overdoses, alcoholism related deaths etc in America are at around 200,000/year???
80,000/year from a single drug is like a fairly significant war. 58,000 total US dead in Vietnam.
An explanation I keep coming across is that Fentanyl is put into all the other drugs – meth, cocaine, pot, everything. “They” lace all the other drugs with it.
But you are killing your customers. What gives? And… they are killing their customers, why are you stepping up to the bar for your own helping? Can you not find some pot seeds and potting soil instead?
To sum up, I suppose Dr D argued that added value activity is what objectively matters …and I argued that negative value activity objectively matters.
Turns Out We Do Have A ‘Deep State’… And It’s “Awesome”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/turns-out-we-do-have-deep-state-amd-its-awesomeNYT, wait, weren’t you berating us last year there is no deep state? And every year for the past few decades?
from the New York Times:
When we hear “deep state,” instead of recoiling, we should rally. We should think about the workers otherwise known as our public servants, the everyday superheroes who wake up ready to dedicate their careers and their lives to serving us. These are the Americans we employ. Even though their work is often invisible, it makes our lives better.
Ohhh so the actual real workers are The Deplorables, while invisible government paid bureaucrats who do stuff without your approval or knowledge, against the wishes of the representatives elected by the people, demonstrably against your welfare at times, with your tax money or with debt created in your name, THESE are “tEh woRkErZz™”
The continual donning-of-victim’s-flesh-skinsuit crying “I am that thing!” continues.
….continuing my rant just a bit – Like just for instance, real world effects of losing 8,000 years of human progress – on how to imperfectly exist as a living human being in a real world and far more importantly as a society OF humans, which purely personal spirituality, philosophy, etc does not help with and can even be detrimental to.
Your doctor killing you is now the #3 cause of death.
Medicine, Science, Technology didn’t rest on a foundation of truth or materialism or the scientific method. The base layer was the painstaking 8,000 years of bit by bit wisdom, forms of understanding, behaving, upon which science rested, without which it turned into nihilistic deadly garbage.
And are we factoring that massive cost into what is happening to us economically? Couldn’t just Medicine drag us down all by itself??? (isn’t it actually doing just that right now?)
Convert all the cost incurred by Medicine into energy equivalents – which essentially it ends up being – and then calculate how much energy we free up if we just subtract it out of our economy? Not just money spent directly on medicine because medicine is incurring far more costs to us than just that. Is our medical establishment currently the energy drain value of all the natural gas on Titan? All the hydrogen on Saturn?
And that’s just ONE industry spinning its wheels completely disconnected from reality and its ostensible purpose for existing. And actually spending its energy on something indistinguishable from malevolence.
And that’s just material effects not actual human societal well being which you could have even if the technology was stone age, bronze age. The physical stuff is just a finger pointing back to that.
As far as Western or world economies headed for a slump, that paper seems to consider everything except what’s actually happening.
If any resource is in decline, then the response is to adopt greater and greater efficiencies. Find new technologies, new solutions, reduce demand (which you don’t do by continuing to facilitate population growth but with weird, wasteful, destructive policies like getting rid of a reasonably functional native population while continually transporting millions of people thousands of miles…)
Instead, we’re seeing greater and greater waste. Through corruption and devoting resources to foolish things. We need to take control from all these fools because of all this waste and harm being caused, but the waste and harm keeps increasing the more controls are put in place, the less individual independence there is.
It’s difficult to measure all the bribery, blackmailing, lawfare, kickbacks, money laundering, monopolization and quasi monopolization, barriers to entry via law and regulation, massive ACTUAL disinformation via media, education, etc. And the entities with monopoly power just force more stupid things on the public while losing money.
The major things making everyone miserable aren’t even IN those graphs and charts. We’ll refer to “energy” and “complexity” and perhaps find looking at it that way supports something we’d like to stand on a soapbox about, when really it’s that everything is fucked up and bullshit and like Voltaire said, we must tend our gardens. Which “They” have decided are ALSO sinful and awful and CO2 creating and need to be stopped. The symbolic and literal becoming one.
There’s nothing in those charts and calculations factoring in Fucked Up And Bullshit which dwarfs the other factors by multiples.
I think I get it now about housing.
Free money pours into rich people and institutions – the same ones in their own mental fart bubble that hate normal people and want insane policies disconnected from reality – they buy third and fourth homes. People a little down the scale buy additional homes to rent out on AirBnB and Vrbo to maintain a hold on upper middle class by their fingernails. Financial institutions buy homes and hold it back as “shadow inventory” leveraged at infinity to one.
Millenials, GenZ, and laggard GenXers wait patiently for a change in the housing market while 100% of homes are unaffordable- but as such a deflationary downturn looms, the government rushes to bring in 10’s of millions of illegals to occupy and squat in all those extra homes, while the Boomers bid the following generations bon voyage as they depart the earth for Hale-Bopp knowing they were the best, they were the most virtuous, gazing with satisfaction, as they float up into the sky, down on a nation of their homeless children and grandchildren but with every house, apartment, condo, and town house filled to capacity by more deserving folks.
I’m being unfair, there’s plenty of awesome boomers out there – who will get the point I am making, I think. And it isn’t about money or physical property. The Germans got bombed back to the stone age and were stacking bricks, putting on plays, making excellent cars and consumer goods almost immediately because everything was emergent from culture and they had one that supported those particular things – once they didn’t have an ideology wasting their time, resources, and lives.
Everything following generations ACTUALLY want is more along those lines, more difficult to define, more valuable, but we can more easily point to specific effects. Things implicitly follow from those too – no home, no household formation. No sane interrelation between sexes, no family. Like, the normal human life cycle. Everyone’s birthright, built up over thousands of years, substituted with stuff that had not taken being alive, an animal, a hominid, a human, on planet earth into account. The ones taking it away superior to it, above it, demonstrating it by taking it away from future generations – but benefitting from it more than any generation that ever existed.
Like, we use a 12 hour clock because people 8,000 years ago really liked 12 and figured out a great way to apply and use it, so we also use multiples of 12 like 60 seconds and minutes. But by all means keep throwing out the bombproof rock solid thing that was there for everyone generation after generation. Because old stuff is bad or unjust or whatever. Make everyone spend the time of their lives learning everything from scratch instead of taking the 8,000 year old solutions and doing cool stuff.
Like sharks and dolphins are the same basic shape. They have to live in water. How long did the dolphin’s DNA take to figure out how to live skillfully, artfully, in water and catch up with the shark?
Thanks. Bookmarked for later reading.
I absorbed some of my Anglo-Saxon culture knowledge through Parke Godwin, another bookish Englishman, writing fantasy history for Britain like Tolkien. His books on Arthurian legend: Firelord and Beloved Exile, as well as his Robin Hood books – Sherwood and Robin And The King – are excellent. I especially recommend Firelord. Magical, horrific, wonderful.
https://archive.org/details/firelord00godw
So many good fantasy novels have the best times as a fallen beforehand. The Lord Of The Rings has a mostly depopulated middle earth with the Elves not able to oppose evil the way they did in previous ages, a fallen Northern Kingdom, a diminished Gondor, a dispirited Rohan, etc. Narnia books repeatedly start with everything ruined, IN ruins, fallen, before our heroes get to even TRY anything. Firelord is of course in the ruins of the Roman empire, with greatness in the rear view mirror.
ACTUAL Anglo-Saxon culture:
–loyalty extends STRONGLY both upward AND downward – loyalty TO your sworn man
–the greatest king must ask permission even from the lowest free man to enter his home
–the king is subject to the law
–you can only be tried by your peers“The West” is a weird blob thing that hates Western European Civilization with the heat of a million suns.
Civ 6 is Civilization For Retard Snowflakes. Maybe the chip made him stupid and unable to play a real Civ game like anything 1-5. Preferably, what, Civ II?
Idunno why nobody just makes a computer version of the original 1980 Civilization board game, except that current-year people would start instantly crying and shitting themselves over a game, like when they pull the Civil War card, lose half their empire, which starts attacking them. That’s just life, buttercup.
(same people who can’t just roll 3d6 for each stat in D&D and then just play the character they rolled – good way to filter out wokies from your group, who won’t psychologically be able to play through on a character that rolled a 3 for idunno, Dex, Str, or whatever, which would be ACTUAL incorporation of disabilities into D&D – no, it involves having a “battle wheelchair” while being super awesome and special… better than anyone, really)
I also could not make it through more than 2 games of Civ 6. Went back to Civ 5. Then Civ 3. Then Civ 2.
Sid Meier’s 1999 Alpha Centauri was far, FAR more palatable and enjoyable with an environmentalist theme.
Testing nukes?
Er… hasn’t it been demonstrated that there are weapons that fit in a minivan that can ignite metal and water close to instantaneously?
I guess range is still in question.
The Japanese did successfully develop a Death Ray that could explode the heads of test animals and seize up combustion engines and that was like 1944.
But then, it had a maximum 9 foot range.
For those 20,000 Frenchmen getting called up to fight in Ukraine, if they don’t want to fight and die in Ukraine for… not sure what… they face hard choices. Where will draft dodgers hide? How will they have a place to sleep, a job? Fugitives with no rest or peace.
I think the best course of action would be to get some fake papers establishing one’s identity as Ukrainian, then apply for all the welfare subsidies. Or if not Ukrainian, then take a couple trips to the tanning salon and make it North African or Syrian or something.
How can they test you? “No sir, I will NOT tell you what country I am from – you will send me back! No, I will NOT speak my native tongue. You will determine where I am from and send me back! I am a refugee, an asylum seeker, I do not feel safe and you may cause Harm, I am too afraid!!!”
“France’s forces are “ready,” Schill told Le Monde, stressing that “whatever the developments in the international situation, the French can be convinced: their soldiers will respond.” Schill said France has “international responsibilities” and is linked by defense agreements to “states exposed to major threats,” and must therefore have its forces trained and interoperable with allied armies.
The general said that France currently has the capacity to commit a division of around 20,000 men within 30 days and has the means to command an army corps of up to 60,000 which includes allied divisions.”
So France might be able to field a single division if given at least 30 days — but has the headquarters resources to command THREE.
In 1914, France committed a 4 million man army in the space of about 2 weeks with a population of 39 million.
France can now commit a 20,000 man army in about a month with a population of 65 million.
(For comparison, the Free French army in WW2, which operated completely outside France and without any manpower or other resources to draw from France, had a 50,000 man army)
Forgot to mention, they have Trinity/Carrie-Anne Moss doing a palm-forward stop-a-thing-with-magic thing over and over in the trailer— exactly the thing that was the climax, used ONCE to stop bullets in The Matrix when Neo finally cracks the Matrix code.
She’s using it to stop knives, punches, etc. I forget how many they cram in there, but considering it’s what Neo does to stop bullets and Carrie-Anne Moss was in the Matrix, it is really awkward/embarrassing seeing her do it over and over in a 2 minute “Star Wars” trailer.
Like a 6 year old girl playing pretend in the boy’s treehouse “Okay but now Trinity is in Star Wars and SHE’S the hero, but she’s the one who does the stoppy thing with the palm not Neo, but she’s way wiser and cooler and better than Neo and Luke Skywalker and….”
And next thing you know after you kicked her out of the treehouse for being lame, she brought the parents back with her, who forced you to “let her play too” and now she’s making everybody have a tea party up there in the treehouse with all of her dolls and stuffed animals and your action figures. To make it fair.
The latest update in large corporations and the people that own them hating profit and money…
Disney cancelled several movies/shows, realizing they were such unmitigated garbage that they couldn’t be used. Somehow The Acolyte, directed by the acolyte of Harvey Weinstein, IS still going ahead!
The trailer has prompted descriptions of the upcoming Disney+ show as “Lesbians having a slap-fight in space”
They’ve got Trinity from the Matrix in, apparently, an important role. The trailer has her doing a martial arts fight LITERALLY like a Matrix fight. The same awkward stylized movements that WORKED for a different movie. Why am I seeing it in Star Wars? No doubt I look forward to seeing Carrie-Anne Moss doing Hong Kong style wire fighting a quarter century older. While her opponent strikes dramatic Last Airbender poses that work in a cartoon but not in live action. Shut up and take my money.
Hilariously, in the TRAILER, they have a character saying “This isn’t about good and evil. It’s about power and who gets to use it.” Right, just straight-up put the Alinsky in the TRAILER, don’t make the first 3 episodes passable and then start laying it on thick in the typical bait and switch.
No, you have to put it in the TRAILER because no one is going to actually watch this garbage. Negative people will watch it as Disney+ subscribers run away screaming. I suspect much of the current “members” count comes from bundling Disney+ into people’s unlimited wireless plan. Didn’t ask for it but there it is. So you put it in the trailer as your last chance to communicate that message – for the not yet released show.
You would think that George Lucas would at least silently welcome a change in management, to rescue his much-abused creation?
Nope, in response to the recent attempts to replace board members, George Lucas decided to vote all his Disney stock for the current people, making a public statement in support of them. The man has billions of dollars. 5 Billion just for the sale of Star Wars, right? Can’t this guy do literally anything for the rest of his life? Only thing he has in limited quantities is TIME, so he spends some of it helping degrade the thing he should be most proud of in his life? As if he CAN’T do what he wants?
Maybe he watched the Red Letter Media Plinkett reviews of the prequels and it permanently broke him, who knows.
China is the largest producer of CO2
China is Communist.
If you spent 2 years and tens of thousands of words on CO2 and made not a peep about China, then I’m going to need to see the same volume of text criticizing China and Communism Through the Lens Of CO2 and Climate Meltdown for 2 years before I see any other CO2 type post.
Communism makes the most CO2. Compare it to Sweden – socialist, but not pure socialist. Less CO2.
Climate “scientists” posted warnings, having studied tree ring data, that the world has experienced unprecedented warming in the past 20 years. Alarming! Terrifying! But not surprising.
In fact, it was SO unsurprising that real actual scientists tried, as an experiment on the computer algo being used, chopping off the data 25 years earlier.
The results were shocking but unsurprising – the Climate “science” model extrapolated out the same kind of temperature spike at the end of its run, only 25 years earlier. We’re all underwater and dead decades ago, folks!
““Have you all lost your minds?”
Yup. And no one will pay the slightest attention. That’s the point of engineering a mass formation psychosis. It’s an impenetrable force field against “Reality.” They can, will, and always do, literally die by the hundred thousands first. Or rather, THEY die by the thousands and make US die by the hundred thousands.
What if you were in 30’s Germany, watching the NAZIs preaching a whole set of propaganda WHILE progressively engaging in activities aligned with that propaganda leading towards the deaths of millions.
What if you had a guy that incessantly, with a one track mind, preached the same belief system. All the same underlying sentiments, supposed facts, judgements derived from it….
Studiously avoiding very specific things that could harm people but in all other respects just rabidly incessantly preaching the same exact creed which you KNOW is for the terrorizing and killing of millions upon millions.
Oh hey, there must just be a factual or scientific misunderstanding – Cosmic Coincidence that he agrees with this massive push for death and suffering.
How do you exorcise someone who is possessed? Anyone have a tale of successfully doing so?
Tolkien seems to review quite a few characters possessed or acted upon by malignant forces.
Theoden – weakened, pessimistic, demoralized until the spell is broken
Treebeard & the Ents – who “do not like to be roused” and suffer passively until roused
Denethor – who is overwhelmed and wants to put everything of value on a funeral pyre and have it burn with him
Boromir – who is overwhelmed, but comes to his senses and redeems himself.
Each acted on covertly.
Or Aragorn, who looks into the palantir on purpose, knowingly struggles, and wrests it away from evil
Or Gandalf, who goes down to the depths with the Balrog – the entire account can be read as symbolic – purified when he manages to win.
I can’t think of anyone possessed being actively rescued, unless you count Frodo with the bit of Morgul blade in him, or Eowyn and Faramir being healed – part of the healing, of a necessity being to confront the darkness they always carried with them before the Morgul Breath. And Frodo at least had to make it across the Ford
But in each case, seems like Tolkien is saying that ultimately nobody can do it for you.
426 ppm (current) is not good for ecosystems evolved for 230 ppm (800,000 year average)..
“Not good for”? The trees, grass, shrubs, etc are doing great out here, I just took a look.
Tell you what, if you do a double blind experiment in which you have to repeatedly stand in a room that is either 0.004% CO2 or 0.002% CO2 and can tell us which concentration it is with oh… 70% accuracy in 20 tries. I’ll become a Science Denier with you.
Did you mean “not good” as in no discernable effect not-good? Or harmful in some way?
Then it should be easily noticeable to YOU, who you claim “evolved for” 230ppm.
What scale does evolution occur on?
In any case, consider that CO2 levels will go up far beyond what you say is catostrophic with or without humanity doing anything. The current cycle of high CO2 levels has repeated about 40 times with no human civilization at all.
Here’s a sample.
going a little further back than Billy Bragg
Alas! what evil customs now prevail in Hellas! Whene’er the host sets up a trophy o’er the foe, men no more consider this the work of those who really toiled, but the general gets the credit for it. Now he was but one among ten thousand others to brandish his spear; he only did the work of one; but yet he wins more praise than they. Again, as magistrates in all the grandeur of office they scorn the common folk, though they are naught themselves; whereas those others are ten thousand times more wise than they, if daring combine with judgment.
Andromache, Euripides 424 BC
It occurs to me Climate Meltdown is a huge attention and energy sink.
What were we talking about for say, 2 weeks before AFKTT popped up again? What might Climate Meltdown take headspace away from that we were looking at? Anything in particular?
Just a thought.
Afewknowthetruth, a request before you get started today.
Not only did you post the manifesto of a marxist wannabe ecoterrorist “professor,” you’ve consistently stuck to his message, line and verse, for years.
Not only that, you “educated” us on the Marxist concept of False Consciousness. Ported over to “climate meltdown.”: The climate version of Whiteness or White Consciousness.
The people inside The System that Benefit From It therefore cannot see its problems and will even fight to preserve it. They cannot see reality – cannot even process it because they have a False Consciousness (what is the consciousness but the soul? Soul-less. Subhuman)
I tried for what, 6 months at least to talk with you like a human being. Over that time I slowly dragged successive layers out of you, things you would not openly say. You seem to think everyone is obliged to have amnesia for you after taking a break.
Do you think you could possibly have a DISCUSSION in which you treat people with basic respect, like human beings? Instead of only thinking in terms of tricks and what to obscure? If you could come out and actually state where you stand without evasions, reframes, etc? I could respect you then.
Just come out and say the ACTUAL beliefs, ideology, whatever you have and stand by it. If you have to keep it hidden because it would be a detriment, what does that say about it?
Your alternative is that I will get better and better, more incisive, more concise, more varied in responding to the surface concepts we know you don’t even really care about and you will get stuck right there.
We can rely on jb-hb to attempt to downplay a horrifying state of the atmosphere by using fake/fraudulent mathematics, better described a non-mathematics.
Dude, if you cannot do the math to convert parts per million into percentage, I can help you:
https://www.omnicalculator.com/conversion/ppm
Please, I would LOVE to see you demonstrate that 5.31 ppm does not equal 0.000531%
I was sporting and took your largest figure, which you described as shocking and exceptionally large without even arguing the point.
The increase over the year-ago level is both shocking and unsurprising.
It is shocking because there is a recent set of results with exceptionally large* year-to-year increases
0.000531% was the biggest number you had, so now you’re down to, as usual, throwing adjectives around.
When calculating a percentage change we take the new value minus the previous value and divide by the original
Only when you want to obscure CO2 as a percentage of the Earth’s atmosphere, that the change was — which if we are NICE to you and assume was 5.31 ppm, that’s a change in the Earth’s atmosphere of 0.000531%
When the big pharma companies were trying to hoodwink people into taking the notavax, they described it as 98% effective didn’t they?
They came to this calculation in this way (approximately):
You’re only 98.9% likely, as an average of the entire population including octogenarians, morbidly obese, type 20 diabetes, etc.
There’s only 1.1% remaining from 97.9% to 100%
1.1% x 98% = 1.07%
Don’t double check our (non) scientific methods, but since our official statement is that we improved your chances of survival by 1.07%, that means our medication is 98% effective.
Guys! Look. we figured out a way to express the small number as a big number!
Because we divided the thing by the thing. Our “vaccine” is so super effective
Since this is what you call non-fraudulent math, Afewknowthetruth, would you like to call the incessant promotion of the non-vaccine as 98% effective as super honest, best way of describing its benefits?
Either that reasoning – YOUR REASONING- works on both the notavax and how we express CO2 changes or it doesn’t.
I’ll just observe, as anyone watching you is, that you want to represent a change in the atmosphere of 0.000531% as 20%.
Since CO2 is only 0.04% of the Earth’s atmosphere, you’d HAVE to turn to any method that lets you quote big numbers, wouldn’t you.
Or you could just not be a dick. You posted a marxist nihilist manifesto in favor of blowing up all the hydroelectric dams and destroying all the infrastructure of civilization and said 7 billion dead people would be a good thing. You might want to work on that before getting into CO2 numbers again.
