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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


and the master says to the student

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

MizPiz posted:

1) You don't need to cut off outside lines of support if your set of beliefs are the norm.

Yeah but that's a classic social definition thing.

The belief in invisible forces controlling the world is religious until it isn't, then it just becomes social reality.

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

capitalism is more of an inescapable fact of life that will assert itself in human culture with your permission or not

like toilets

no one really likes toilets, but the people that want to talk about abolishing toilets are insane

they want to discuss a world without toilets and when you try to get them to explain how they plan to arrive at this utopia it becomes clear that the sum total of their plan is to make pooping illegal

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Corky Romanovsky posted:

Usually people come here to post the takes of 3rd parties.

oh don't worry, but it is from sa :v:

Trabisnikof has issued a correction as of 09:22 on Aug 2, 2018

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


https://twitter.com/bryanbinaxas/status/1027292600947171329

https://twitter.com/bryanbinaxas/status/1027899976746237952

https://twitter.com/bryanbinaxas/status/1027905618613547010


very not mad

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Boing posted:

I mean, he kinda has a point, but also it is climate change.

its funny because scientists in other fields would tell him why this is dumb and wrong (hint: its about values and not *trusting scientists*) but weird he doesnt listen to them

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

chapo had someone on who said latinx outloud

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Liberals love to imagine subtly burning people with sublime microaggressions, because they can't imagine doing any actual aggressions.

In 15th century Russia, occupied by Mongols, a farmer and his wife walk along a dusty country road. A Mongol warrior on a horse stops at their sight and tells the farmer that he will now rape his wife. He then adds: “But since there is a lot of dust on the ground, you should hold my testicles while I’m raping your wife, so they’ll not get dirty. After the Mongol finishes his job and drives away, the farmer starts to laugh and jump with joy. The surprised wife asks him: “How can you be jumping with joy when I was just brutally raped?!” The farmer answers: “But I got him! His balls are full of dust.”


This sad joke tells of the predicament of dissidents. They thought they were dealing serious blows to the Party Nomenklatura, but all they were doing was getting a bit of dust on the Nomenklatura’s testicles. Is today’s critical left all too often not in a similar position? We think we are doing something terribly subversive, but we are just… Our task is to discover how to make a step further. Critical leftists have hitherto only dirtied with dust the balls of those in power. The point is, to cut them off.”

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

got any sevens posted:

i wonder why the diff
did big straw not lobby as hard as the grocery companies?

i think big straw now just sells green dyed straws that cost the same to make at a higher price and restaurants dont push back because its a an easy excuse to cut costs by not offering straws or show off how much you care about the earth

the regulations on compostable plastics are such a joke

Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005

Zedhe Khoja posted:

it would be if the electrical grid wasn't dependent on fossil fuels.

In addtion to what others have said about point-source, indoor air pollutants, we also have to consider the lifecycle emissions of getting that natural gas to homes. the natural gas system is insanely leaky and methane is a very potential greenhouse gas so the carbon intensity of delivering natural gas to everyone' homes is really massive compared to the grid now.

we will have to stop doing it and shut down the entire system if we ever intend to take meaningful action on climate. that's why bans on new natural gas connections have started in the most climate accepting locales, to begin phasing out the system.

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Trabisnikof
Dec 24, 2005


The issue isn't energy use, the issue is that we have to shut down the natural gas system because of the greenhouse gas emissions.

(This is one of the myriad ways our government is failing us, by not starting the outreach making people understand what and why now to make those transitions later easier.)

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