KnitWit

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Annular throbber? Is he trying to one up Trump and the microphone?

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think I read something once that the ash cloid would create a nuclear winter that lasted at least two years. Sticking to those 1.5C goals!

Personally, I’ve been on team Hypercane ever since the Portland heat dome made it theoretically possible.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That’s the power of propaganda. As long as she is pro-choice in her voting, I don’t care what she thinks it’s called internally. Like the people who demonize Obamacare but support its individual policies. They usually vote against it though.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

With many of the recent supreme court rulings that have ignored or outright destroyed precedent, I could easily see a situation like you described. Somewhere offscreen a ruling had been made and this is the fallout.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I love seeing these right wing attacks on Kamala that were clearly made for Biden. MFers really did just scratch his name out and write Kamala instead.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It should scare people more that so many scientists have basically started to say ‘our carbon sinks are sunk, so I don’t know what to tell you anymore.’ The majority certainly don’t hear it though.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Read that for the first time a couple months ago; it very much felt like where I’m at now with everything.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Right on, thanks for the input. That’s vaguely what I remember hearing about it years ago, which had me intrigued. Personally, I just don’t think I like the writing so far. But it seems to read fast so I guess I’ll probably keep going for now. Plenty of books I’ve felt this way about before at this point and been wrong, so we’ll see.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

We’ll let’s put those kids to work!!

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by KnitWit@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world
 

Does this book ever pick up? I’m about a quarter of the way in and so far ‘The Adventures of Mary Sue As She Looks For A Date’ is just not doing anything for me. I remember tears ago hearing of it and thought it’s political world building, but so far it seems to be nothing more than ‘theater kids rule the world but- no touching.’ It seems like it wants to dive into the politics, but then again very other page it derails itself itself with ‘those damn eyes.’

Idk, I guess I’ve probably already made up my mind, but would be interested to know if it ever gets out of its own way.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At this point I hope this is a simulation. Some kid in the oververse is getting bored with their game of EarthRealm and they are just throwing crap at the sim until it fully tanks.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Ok article overall, although the title should probably be more like ‘Here is why we will never degrowth.’ Although this paragraph really got my hackles up:

As a result, the first problem for the degrowthers is that voters in rich countries have experienced a form of degrowth since the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and they don’t seem to like it all that much

Being less well off because of corporate fuckery is not what degrowth is, if anything consumerism has massively increased even with less free income around.

[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I know for me personally, I don’t want anything printed out ever. It’s just waste, and if I see any flyer or those letters for example it just upsets me. I get the sentiment and maybe in years past, but outside of official communications from an agency don’t send me shit.

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