The point is uziq is living a first world lifestyle in a first world country - and one of the biggest coal burners at that, his environmental footprint is right up there in the top 1% however much he says it isn't.
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Its another example of the Police thinking they can do whatever they like.
I thought the whole point of owning guns was you could use them to defend yourself and your family, seems a bit redundant of the police can just disarm and detain you on a whim. Doesn't really matter if you're an officer, its worse really - try to do your job - get arrested.
I thought the whole point of owning guns was you could use them to defend yourself and your family, seems a bit redundant of the police can just disarm and detain you on a whim. Doesn't really matter if you're an officer, its worse really - try to do your job - get arrested.
Over 100% is bad.
Recently the world has had ebola, covid, monkeypox, dengue fever and polio outbreaks.
Recently the world has had ebola, covid, monkeypox, dengue fever and polio outbreaks.
Not so much energy intensive production though.
Australia produces immense quantities of food, iron ore and coal - much of which imported by South Korea.
Australia produces immense quantities of food, iron ore and coal - much of which imported by South Korea.
Erm, singles have been around for a while
Holy shit, just one man and a guitar.
Holy shit, just one man and a guitar.
I'm suggesting you use less electricity or stop whining about what other people are doing, ideally both.
South Koreans have per capita CO2 emissions comparable with people in countries with energy intensive primary production.
Seems like people like you use too much electricity, stop it.
South Koreans have per capita CO2 emissions comparable with people in countries with energy intensive primary production.
Seems like people like you use too much electricity, stop it.
^ I wonder if that was legal.
Even in America electricity production creates more greenhouse gases than transportation.
But yeah, if people like uziq blame everyone else as they pump out C02 and methane nothing will ever happen.
LMAO
But yeah, if people like uziq blame everyone else as they pump out C02 and methane nothing will ever happen.
LMAO
When are they going to stop blaming the white people who bought them and blame the black people who sold them?
White people are the victims here.
White people are the victims here.
Top Gun: Maverick
Could literally predict every scene and every line as it went along.
I suppose the only takeaway is the 'muricans are still promoting the idea they can determine what other countries are and aren't allowed to do and they can bomb the shit out of them if they so choose.
Could literally predict every scene and every line as it went along.
I suppose the only takeaway is the 'muricans are still promoting the idea they can determine what other countries are and aren't allowed to do and they can bomb the shit out of them if they so choose.
And they provide a service, employ people etc. A PS4 farm converting coal into CO2 doesn't so much.
Yes, focus on the changes other people need to make, not the ones you can actually do now.
Most nations can print money and keep track of it without burning up gigawatt hours of energy.
'those huge fossil-fuels projects that australia is embarking upon' are what keep your lights on, power your heating, cook your food etc.
Feel free to do without.
'those huge fossil-fuels projects that australia is embarking upon' are what keep your lights on, power your heating, cook your food etc.
Feel free to do without.
uziq wrote:
imagine thinking indians living on $3 a week are the problem when this is the norm in your culture.
related:
https://twitter.com/brenttoderian/statu … je4NfqwC4g
Electricity use is the bigger problem, suggest turning off your refrigerator.
Study after study shows I've owned guns for a long time and haven't shot anybody.SuperJail Warden wrote:
Study after study has shown that owning a gun makes you much more likely to be a victim of gun violence than protect you. A lot of guys who buy guns for protection later use it on themselves or their loved ones. Much more common than somebody stopping a home invasion.Dilbert_X wrote:
Most people are found to be wanting when it comes to it, blowhards especially.
I guess the police aren't special 'wolf-dogs' guarding the 'sheeple' after all, when in fact they're more keen to taser and pepper-spray unarmed parents than face the 'bad-guy' they've supposedly been training hard and itching to take on their whole lives.
If I lived somewhere where the police had no duty to do anything they didn't much feel like doing and were as likely as not to arrest or shoot you and some bystanders as do their job I would certainly want guns for my own defence.
The police in this country discredited themselves through the drug war. Marijuana is legal in my state but I still can't help but to see cops as pig people who will ruin your life over a dime bag.
But if anybody looks at me funny.....
Burning up oil for a useful purpose and burning up the electricity of a medium sized nation to keep your imaginary balance up to date aren't really comparable.
Found an old picture of my cat showing off his one tooth.
Probably ben posted before, also the twitter thread.
https://www.news18.com/news/world/cops- … 62991.html
https://www.news18.com/news/world/cops- … 62991.html
Most people are found to be wanting when it comes to it, blowhards especially.
I guess the police aren't special 'wolf-dogs' guarding the 'sheeple' after all, when in fact they're more keen to taser and pepper-spray unarmed parents than face the 'bad-guy' they've supposedly been training hard and itching to take on their whole lives.
If I lived somewhere where the police had no duty to do anything they didn't much feel like doing and were as likely as not to arrest or shoot you and some bystanders as do their job I would certainly want guns for my own defence.
I guess the police aren't special 'wolf-dogs' guarding the 'sheeple' after all, when in fact they're more keen to taser and pepper-spray unarmed parents than face the 'bad-guy' they've supposedly been training hard and itching to take on their whole lives.
If I lived somewhere where the police had no duty to do anything they didn't much feel like doing and were as likely as not to arrest or shoot you and some bystanders as do their job I would certainly want guns for my own defence.
Lots of revolutionary technologies turned out to be stupid.
Just the megawatt-hours required to keep it doing nothing ought to be a clue.
Just the megawatt-hours required to keep it doing nothing ought to be a clue.
More buses and electric cars are the only options, besides abandoning complete cities like Detroit.
Or put a big fat tax on petrol to fund public infrastructure like most developed countries.
Or put a big fat tax on petrol to fund public infrastructure like most developed countries.
Really you have to be insane to think something conjured out of thin air and not backed by anyone or anything is worth putting your money into - unless its a small sum for a very short time, ie minutes or hours, for some transaction or other. Even so its still a bad idea.
I do know two people who claim to have made small fortunes getting in and out at the right time and admit it was largely dumb luck.
If they can get their money out, which they can't.someone who bought bitcoin a few years ago is still doing remarkably well. a return on investment way beyond anything one could achieve from regular stocks.
I do know two people who claim to have made small fortunes getting in and out at the right time and admit it was largely dumb luck.
Americans like living in large inefficient houses well away from other Americans.
Seems like America is starting to boil though, maybe they will wake up.
Seems like America is starting to boil though, maybe they will wake up.
Haven't you been moaning that old people should step aside to make way for the next generation?
Pretty sure you have.
Pretty sure you have.
So how about those bitcoins? Amazingly people can't get their money out even after its crashed 80%.
And to think, I was about to cash in my Jaded Monkey NFTs and buy bitcoins.
And to think, I was about to cash in my Jaded Monkey NFTs and buy bitcoins.
I'm looking forward furziq deciding there is someone more deserving of his career and stepping aside, like, you know, he tells everyone else to.
How many times have you droned on about your macbooks?
You were traumatised by nerds, I was traumatised by having to read The Mayor of Casterbridge, I'm going to be the big man here and say its about time you called it quits.
You were traumatised by nerds, I was traumatised by having to read The Mayor of Casterbridge, I'm going to be the big man here and say its about time you called it quits.
What I have I bought exactly? You're the Apple fanboi for reference.
Literally every book presented to us in English Lit was miserably dull and valueless, all but one of the English teachers was a pretentious and snooty bore who inflicted dismal crap on us when the syllabus was full of interesting alternatives.
It was a bit more than "one book was boring".
Anyhoo, it hasn't stopped me reading completely, back to WW2 - Operation Jubilee.
It was a bit more than "one book was boring".
Anyhoo, it hasn't stopped me reading completely, back to WW2 - Operation Jubilee.
Point on the doll to where the nerd touched you.
Isn't the whole of academic literature built around deducing what dead authors really meant?
What a waste of life.
What a waste of life.
Both sides of American politics truly suck ass, and not in a good way.
I hated every aspect of english literature classes, the shit books, the shitty teachers and teaching, the lack of structure or useful feedback.
There are enough accounts of authors not meaning what critics think they meant that its all irrelevant.
There are enough accounts of authors not meaning what critics think they meant that its all irrelevant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watership_DownWatership Down has been described as an allegory, with the labours of Hazel, Fiver, Bigwig, and Silver "mirror[ing] the timeless struggles between tyranny and freedom, reason and blind emotion, and the individual and the corporate state."[25] Adams draws on classical heroic and quest themes from Homer and Virgil, creating a story with epic motifs.
The Hero, the Odyssey, and the Aeneid
The book explores the themes of exile, survival, heroism, leadership, political responsibility, and the "making of a hero and a community".[27] Joan Bridgman's analysis of Adams's works in The Contemporary Review identifies the community and hero motifs: "[T]he hero's journey into a realm of terrors to bring back some boon to save himself and his people" is a powerful element in Adams's tale. This theme derives from the author's exposure to the works of mythologist Joseph Campbell, especially his study of comparative mythology, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), and in particular, Campbell's "monomyth" theory, also based on Carl Jung's view of the unconscious mind, that "all the stories in the world are really one story."[26]
The concept of the hero has invited comparisons between Watership Down's characters and those in Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid.[25] Hazel's courage, Bigwig's strength, Blackberry's ingenuity and craftiness, and Dandelion's and Bluebell's poetry and storytelling all have parallels in the epic poem Odyssey.[28] Kenneth Kitchell declared, "Hazel stands in the tradition of Odysseus, Aeneas, and others".[29] Tolkien scholar John Rateliff calls Adams's novel an Aeneid "what-if" book: what if the seer Cassandra (Fiver) had been believed and she and a company had fled Troy (Sandleford Warren) before its destruction? What if Hazel and his companions, like Odysseus, encounter a seductive home at Cowslip's Warren (Land of the Lotus Eaters)? Rateliff goes on to compare the rabbits' battle with Woundwort's Efrafans to Aeneas's fight with Turnus's Latins. "By basing his story on one of the most popular books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Adams taps into a very old myth: the flight from disaster, the heroic refugee in search of a new home, a story that was already over a thousand years old when Virgil told it in 19 BC."[5]
Religious symbolism
It has been suggested that Watership Down contains symbolism of several religions, or that the stories of El-ahrairah were meant to mimic some elements of real-world religion.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/201 … ts-rabbits“It’s just a story about rabbits.”
"Are you for or against trucks/cars/guns"
"uh its a bit more nuanc..."
"You're an anti then! Fuck you!"
"uh its a bit more nuanc..."
"You're an anti then! Fuck you!"
Hardy. Hardy is worse than Dickens.
If the job is advertised for three days and no-one gives a fuck about the interview chances are its a non-interview.
Either they have someone lined up already and are going through the motions or some other reason.
Every interview is good experience though.
Somehow my current area is next to the recruitment area. Listening to this end of the screening interviews is painful, the bored bimbo interviewers ticking boxes as some poor person is pouring out their life experience. This stuff should be confidential anyway, not done at 105 decibels in an open plan office. Tell me about a time you were proactive/how do you deal with conflict/what are your salary expectations etc.
Either they have someone lined up already and are going through the motions or some other reason.
Every interview is good experience though.
Somehow my current area is next to the recruitment area. Listening to this end of the screening interviews is painful, the bored bimbo interviewers ticking boxes as some poor person is pouring out their life experience. This stuff should be confidential anyway, not done at 105 decibels in an open plan office. Tell me about a time you were proactive/how do you deal with conflict/what are your salary expectations etc.
Whats interesting is how many morons, especially Americans, fixate on some stupid thing and it becomes their whole life and identity.SuperJail Warden wrote:
"Psychotic MAGA Nazis with AR-15s harass parents at an anti-gun rally"
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout … arents_at/
Why are people like this?
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Good article from a conservative author about how gun ownership has changed for the worse in this country. The author is a reasonable conservtive which is why he left National Review.
"Against Gun Idolatry: As American gun culture moves from defense to defiance, it puts our democracy at risk."
https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/a … olatry?s=r
How many times have we heard a guy say "I'm a truck guy/car guy/gun guy" and its literally their whole identity?
Don't start me on the miserable books I had to read at school.
Black Banners - Ali Soufan
Interesting stuff. Obviously he was big-noting himself but probably he had a right to. My god the CIA are morons.
Anyone remember the discussions about torturing people on this forum?
I think that makes book #53.
Black Banners - Ali Soufan
Interesting stuff. Obviously he was big-noting himself but probably he had a right to. My god the CIA are morons.
Anyone remember the discussions about torturing people on this forum?
I think that makes book #53.
Overall white supremacists are a fairly trivial threat.
What if I told you blacks aren't the only marginalised group in the world?
Pretty well every non-white group in America feels hard done by I'm sure. Why is all the focus on blacks?
American Indians have more to complain about really, they were slaughtered and dispossessed, not brought to a better country.
What if I told you blacks aren't the only marginalised group in the world?
Pretty well every non-white group in America feels hard done by I'm sure. Why is all the focus on blacks?
American Indians have more to complain about really, they were slaughtered and dispossessed, not brought to a better country.
You're right, we should let the black supremacists take over.
Why do Indians hate Indians?
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61777306
If they'd just followed the British plan, which was to keep Indians away form Indians, all this could have been avoided.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-61777306
If they'd just followed the British plan, which was to keep Indians away form Indians, all this could have been avoided.
I'd say people like uziq are the biggest problem today, burning up coal like there's no tomorrow - which there won't be - and partying like its the end of the world - which will happen soon.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … ar-cluster
Partying, thats the great evil of today.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 … ar-cluster
Partying, thats the great evil of today.
Yes, if we discount all non-white supremacist mass-shootings and riots then pretty well all mass-shootings and riots are committed by white supremacists.
wHiTe SupRemAciSts ArE tEh pR0blEm
wHiTe SupRemAciSts ArE tEh pR0blEm
The Uvalde shooter was Hispanic, not a white supremacist.uziq wrote:
it’s funny, no matter how many times you make the point to dilbert that white supremacists are the biggest problems today, not islamic terrorism or BLM rioters (or pride rioters, as it were)
Except they didn't have weapons.… he still doesn’t want to get it. you ever see a van full of armed black people going to another group’s event with weapons and aiming to incite a riot?
BLM incite their own riots, which is to say looting sprees.
It seems you're the one whose brain goes soft whenever this kind of thing happens.i guess all the ‘patriot’ talk and ‘defenders of civilisation’ rhetoric makes his legs go all gooey and suspend rational judgment.
Do you think I'm going to identify them by name here?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
Do you learn any of your coworkers' names or do you just identify them all as race/gender. I understand you wouldn't want to write them here but the way you talk about it makes me wonder.
Of course I know their names, I write them down to be sure.
White privilege is about all I have at this point.
Could be me, could be my colleague who is struggling to deliver.
He's in a shitty spot because he had a project dumped on him at the worst possible moment, just before production launch, and the Indian who'd had it for the previous 9 months seems to have done next to fuck all then quit. The team leader is also at fault for not making sure the Indian did his bit.
Now its all a bit fucked. There are other issues, the design team have fucked up in multiple areas and are very keen to blame all the problems on process, and I have a feeling this guy is going to be the fall guy.
Could still be me though.
Could be me, could be my colleague who is struggling to deliver.
He's in a shitty spot because he had a project dumped on him at the worst possible moment, just before production launch, and the Indian who'd had it for the previous 9 months seems to have done next to fuck all then quit. The team leader is also at fault for not making sure the Indian did his bit.
Now its all a bit fucked. There are other issues, the design team have fucked up in multiple areas and are very keen to blame all the problems on process, and I have a feeling this guy is going to be the fall guy.
Could still be me though.
Seems odd that the PGA would be butthurt that players are playing in another series.
You'd almost think that handcuff contracts mean the whole thing is just a grifting scam.
Does anyone even watch golf? Why?
You'd almost think that handcuff contracts mean the whole thing is just a grifting scam.
Does anyone even watch golf? Why?
When one of my colleagues laughs he reminds me of the weasel creature in Suicide Squad 2.
I can't cope with this.
I think someone in my team is about to get fired. The job is advertised and people are being interviewed but my manager has denied it, which is odd because its on the company website.
Could be me I guess.
I can't cope with this.
I think someone in my team is about to get fired. The job is advertised and people are being interviewed but my manager has denied it, which is odd because its on the company website.
Could be me I guess.
Are these the same people who took out a loan for an F350 because everyone else in the trailer park had an F250 and they had to go better?unnamednewbie13 wrote:
the people who have to budget a bag of potato chips
I have exactly zero sympathy for people who buy monster trucks, drive huge distances then moan about the price of everything.
So many anecdotes, so little time.
The current price of petrol, which here is the equivalent of U$13.3/US gal, hurts me not at all.
Buy an efficient vehicle, drive less and/or shut up, I don't care.
Find something to do at the weekend besides driving would be a start.