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Mayor Dave posted:and if my sister is living in switzerland and i can kill two birds with one stone? don’t kill birds their populations are already like 40% depleted but hey i’m not the boss of you so if you wanna hang around switzerland and germany and stuff who am i to diss you
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personally i'd rather animals and nature survive. if I were rich I'd have a wildlife sanctuary and before you ask, yes it will be walled off and have turrets to deal with the raiders
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Whitenoise Poster posted:Why hasn't anyone taught a crow or an elephant or something to post on the internet. We're not that far off. Chimp using instagram.
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Conspiratiorist posted:It's not like that, really. I thought it was clear by now that I don't care that much about myself.
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AceOfFlames posted:I thought it was clear by now that I don't care that much about myself. That's not true at all, you just don't like yourself. You quite clearly don't care about anything in the world other than yourself. e: This shouldn't be taken as a moral judgement, by the way. I don't think anyone would expect anything else of someone who's never had any genuine contact or relationship with another person before. M Condriano has issued a correction as of 12:21 on May 25, 2019 |
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M Condriano posted:That's not true at all, you just don't like yourself. You quite clearly don't care about anything in the world other than yourself. I care about people who care about me. I care about the few (mostly one) friend I do have. I care about the people online who are empathic towards me. I just can't seem to find any IRL. And I don't know what I do wrong. I don't know if I just talk too much or too in detail, if at this age people already have their social circles locked in, if it's because I never invite people anywhere because I don't know where to take them, or all these things. I do care. But more often than not, people don't care back.
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Shut the gently caress up AoF. In other news, this thread on the Arctic Sea Ice forum is fun. I've never seen such dramatic language being used (in some posts towards the bottom referencing the ECMWF forecast): https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,2591.1000.html
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I am not exactly sure when the fireflies are supposed to emerge in masse, however so far it has been literally five or less versus the hundreds or thousands in the years prior. I notice some firefly events at my local garden mid June which I would assume is the height. Getting close to that and nothing.
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dream9!bed!! posted:Shut the gently caress up AoF. Yeah, the ice has been in absolutely garbage shape for the last couple years, but we've been bailed out by weather far less conducive to melting. Looks like that streak is coming to end in spectacular fashion.
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dream9!bed!! posted:Shut the gently caress up AoF.
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I remain really really impressed that despite having been linked in lovely subreddits for years, the ASIF hasn't been swarmed by uneducated shitlords and remains a valuable resource.
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Rip Testes posted:I am not exactly sure when the fireflies are supposed to emerge in masse, however so far it has been literally five or less versus the hundreds or thousands in the years prior. I notice some firefly events at my local garden mid June which I would assume is the height. Getting close to that and nothing. I was really glad last summer that I got to see a few fireflies before they go extinct. I heard that there used to be a lot of them around but I only saw a few.
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I saw the synchronous fireflies at my backcountry campsite in the great smokies last year, and I wasn't even aware it was a thing. It was so moving I'm going back next week to try and catch them again.
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May 25, 2019 20:48
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M Condriano posted:I was really glad last summer that I got to see a few fireflies before they go extinct. I heard that there used to be a lot of them around but I only saw a few. yeah when i was a kid there were jillions even in built up areas
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I haven't seen a mantis in probably 10 years and we used to get them a fair amount. Fireflies I haven't seen any yet this year and we had some breeding out here just last year. I have seen like two butterflies but that's all, no moths yet. No crickets either and they're usually common. It's unusually devoid of insect life so far this year and I can't tell if it's just because of the hosed up climate change winter where we got like 12 start-stop winters or if it's because they're all gone extinct now.
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I always thought it was just nostalgia or being a kid or what but I distinctly remember all kinds of caterpillars, junebugs, moths, wasps, hornets and different kinds of flies, not just house flies. I haven't seen a caterpillar in 3 years, I've seen like 2 butterflies last year (neither of which were monarchs) and moths seem to be getting rare too. Same with beetles and harvestmen, come to think of it.
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Shima Honnou posted:I haven't seen a mantis in probably 10 years and we used to get them a fair amount. Fireflies I haven't seen any yet this year and we had some breeding out here just last year. I have seen like two butterflies but that's all, no moths yet. No crickets either and they're usually common. It's unusually devoid of insect life so far this year and I can't tell if it's just because of the hosed up climate change winter where we got like 12 start-stop winters or if it's because they're all gone extinct now. it's both. they aren't coming back. population growth is mostly exponential but then fed off excess by other animals to keep an equilibrium. populations have dropped so much that reproduction to replenish stable numbers isn't even possible and every associated thing is dying off as well.
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May 26, 2019 03:15
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the missing bugs things fills me with more extisential despair than anything else in this thread
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May 26, 2019 03:18
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Weirdly enough there's still plenty of songbirds though I have noticed I haven't seen a pigeon around here in many years now.
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May 26, 2019 03:19
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i always hated those bug bastards so they can all go to hell
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May 26, 2019 03:19
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It's extremely lol that bugs once ruled the planet and now we've killed them all in like 30 years lmao
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I like that there's at least something visible that we can point to to help people understand that the entire planet is dying, and the problem is not just co2 (though that alone will be enough to end global human civilization, I'm sure). Pretty much everyone understands to some degree that insects are the base of the food web, and anyone can see with their own eyes that the insects are disappearing.
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Shima Honnou posted:I haven't seen a mantis in probably 10 years and we used to get them a fair amount. Fireflies I haven't seen any yet this year and we had some breeding out here just last year. I have seen like two butterflies but that's all, no moths yet. No crickets either and they're usually common. It's unusually devoid of insect life so far this year and I can't tell if it's just because of the hosed up climate change winter where we got like 12 start-stop winters or if it's because they're all gone extinct now. quote:The causes, however, appear to be clearer: a combination of habitat degradation and loss, light pollution, destruction of water tables, and pesticides, Pfeiffer said. Somebody's quarterly report was really great Pity about the next quarter 
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Complications posted:The fireflies are absolutely dying. This article's from 2016 but lays out why. the most efficient way to distribute scarce resources, if you don't intend to have any after a couple hundred years
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Rime posted:I remain really really impressed that despite having been linked in lovely subreddits for years, the ASIF hasn't been swarmed by uneducated shitlords and remains a valuable resource. it's got a high barrier to entry just in terms of scientific literacy alone
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Socks4Hands posted:it's got a high barrier to entry just in terms of scientific literacy alone You get shitlords every so often jumping in complaining that people are using big words, only to quickly get laughed off the site.
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Conspiratiorist posted:You get shitlords every so often jumping in complaining that people are using big words, only to quickly get laughed off the site. I've actually never seen a thread move at the speed the linked thread is currently moving on the ASIF forums. Nearly three pages in 24 hours.
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I know, poo poo's real and it's great. Who was it that called last year that 2019 would see some record poo poo in Arctic instability and North American agricultural losses? Might've been in the other thread.
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M Condriano posted:That's not true at all, you just don't like yourself. You quite clearly don't care about anything in the world other than yourself. I really doubt that guy has no contact or relationships with other people. That's virtually impossible
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turns out most of the thread movement has come from a slapfight, here's a choice quote from a member who just joined:quote:Looks like you're afraid of logic itself. Not surprising for someone that is most likely a progressive ideologue. I'll match my logical prowess against yours any day. Any subject, any context, any stage.
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Socks4Hands posted:turns out most of the thread movement has come from a slapfight, here's a choice quote from a member who just joined: I ask everyone not to post any of the many memes this makes you think of and just appreciate it as a thing in itself
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Spent some time outside tonight and all I saw were a handful of mosquitoes and a single silverfish, we're so hosed lmao
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I hate using anecdotal evidence to support claims but I've noticed significant numbers of wildlife gone from my area and I've lived in the same rural area all of my life. It's really happening.
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The Ultimate Doge posted:I really doubt that guy has no contact or relationships with other people. That's virtually impossible Of course I have contact with other people. It's just that I don't have anyone who I can say effectively cares if I live or die except for my parents who do it more out of possessiveness more than anything. There's no one who invites me to events or even to watch a movie since I left college.
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ace could you please start the aceofflames megathread where you post all about yourself every few hours so we can all be sure to keep up in one easy to find place that is not here
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My cat loves to play with moths. Sadly I haven’t seen one in the last 2 years. I used to have to keep windows closed so my apartment didn’t fill with them, not anymore.
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Posted to my local neighborhood board about the lack of fire flies and that's kicked off observations from neighbors about other missing wildlife that used to abundant, or at least fairly common until really recently. Asking the questions on social platforms might surface some really depressing shared observations and wake folks up to how truly screwed we are.
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I usually don't get melancholy about climate change stuff, but the lack of insects is one of those things that gets me this time of year. I'm like the old man in the post apocalyptic movies. "There was a time when after a long and hot day when evening crept in and broke the heat just a bit your work would be rewarded with a cold beer and fireflies dancing electric in the dusk sky and dark trees..." I say as finish off the 5th of whiskey and roll over in a recliner, the drone of the window AC unit struggling to keep up as the bottle falls to the floor.
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CODChimera posted:everything happening faster than expected or being worse than expected is starting to get slightly worrying No it's fine, just go with it or else number might not go up
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