Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
@voight This is very possible as we stare into the environmental abyss after decades of warnings, and today with countries around the globe we are still unable to address this crisis because of our economic systems that apparently value wealth more than human life and survival. I predict what it will take is food shortages, death by the millions, a general breakdown and then we are reduced back to small tribes, we’ll get a second chance or we’ll just continue to be selfish and repeat the cycle.
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@Huntn00 the level of grist going on in our society is probably worse than the late 1800s and early 1900s in the days of the #RobberBarons except with the added twist that we’re all going down the ecological shitter, and apparently, headlong into oblivion. Which the earth will survive, but we will not.
@voight “Recycled plastic” was the successful scheme to sanitize plastic as a petroleum product. Yeah, yeah, that’s it, we’ll recycle them! Except as you say they are collected as recyclables, but the joke is on us as these items are dumped in the landfill or burned. 😡
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@Huntn00 one other thing I will say, is that, in my work in the public sector, and seeing the goings-on that I do, I’ve noticed that most of the recycle that people think they’re putting into the proper bins, goes right into the trash, and isn’t recycled at all
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@Huntn00 I’m reading a really interesting yet enraging book called They are the Plunderers’s. It’s very hard for me to want to finish because it makes me so goddamn angry how far down we’ve gone in the society. But it is an excellent book.
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@Huntn00 I think what needs to be done, at least one of the multiple things that needs to be done, is we need to get rid of private equity firms, and we need to revamp our particular form of #VampireCapitalism.
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Instead of companies I think that these fossil fueled extreme weather events should be named after the people who helped to make them happen like for example, the Rex Tillerson Heat Wave and the Frank Luntz Flood.
@ProPublica Are the Ref States using these funds as intended? 🤔
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“We’re Huge in Learning Loss!” Cashing in on the Post-Pandemic #Education Crisis.
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Test scores are plummeting while tens of billions in federal aid flows to #schools. A visit to a recent education #technology convention provides a glimpse of the frenzy to profit from the recovery efforts.
@voight Mountains of trash (landfills) across the country and around the world, burning millions of tons of trash,spewing into the atmosphere, or dumping it into the ocean. Waste management as it currently exists is a huge red flag that our civilization is not as advanced as we pat ourselves on the back for. In our Capitalist systems it is hard to image every pound of waste being recycled. What changes are required and necessary? 🤔
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The Government Is Basically Burning Trash to Pad Its Climate Stats – Mother Jones
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This is what happens when you vote conservative. Fascism is always their goal.
BBC News - Israel judicial reform: Key bill becomes law amid mass protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-66258416
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Washington health experts agree COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere – The Columbian
“The thing that I fear moving forward is that people will forget about those lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic, and dismiss COVID as an ongoing threat in the community,” he said. “And I think that that would be a huge loss of all the knowledge that we had acquired during the pandemic.” Source: Washington health experts agree COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere - The Columbian
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Elon Musk: Twitter rebranded as X as blue bird logo killed off https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66284304 But he bought Twitter.
@realTuckFrumper The snake is upset about the mongoose, wondering why the evil worms of the Senate are not so willing to fling themselves off the nearest cliff on his behalf…🤔
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Trump Loses It on Senate Republicans for Failure to ‘ACT’ on Biden Allegations: ‘How Long Does America Have to Wait?’ https://www.mediaite.com/politics/trump-loses-it-on-senate-republicans-for-failure-to-act-on-biden-allegations-how-long-does-america-have-to-wait/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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Online games struggle to rein in hateful usernames, report finds https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/online-games-struggle-rein-hateful-usernames-report-finds-rcna95605
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The current El Niño is coming on strong. Much stronger and far more quickly, in fact, than most researchers expected.
From a report by the BBC...
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Scientists already fear some worst-case scenarios are unfolding.
"I'm not aware of a similar period when all parts of the climate system were in record-breaking or abnormal territory," said Dr Thomas Smith, an environmental geographer at London School of Economics. "If I'm surprised by anything, it's that we're seeing the records broken in June, so early in the year. El Niño normally doesn't really have a global impact until five or six months into the phase."
The average global ocean temperature has smashed records for May, June, and July. It is approaching the highest sea surface temperature ever recorded, which was in 2016.
The area covered by sea-ice in the Antarctic is at record lows for July. There is an area around 10 times the size of the UK missing, compared with the 1981-2010 average.
Alarm bells are ringing for scientists as they try to unpick the exact link to climate change.
Dr Caroline Holmes at the British Antarctic Survey emphasises it is not just a record being broken — it is being smashed by a long way.
"This is nothing like anything we've seen before in July. It's 10% lower than the previous low, which is huge," said Holmes. She calls it "another sign that we don't really understand the pace of change."
"You can say that we've fallen off a cliff, but we don't know what's at the bottom of the cliff here," said Holmes. "I think this has taken us by surprise in terms of the speed of which has happened. It's definitely not the best case scenario that we were looking at — it's closer to the worst case."
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FULL STORY -- https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66229065
#Ocean #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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My daughter: Have you ever been to a casino?
Me: Yes.
Her: What is it like?
Me: Imagine putting your money into a gumball machine but not getting a gumball
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Judge rules Kansas Highway Patrol was violating rights with traffic stops.
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
