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TenPastTwo

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Progress will cure. Progressive in all senses, socially, culturally and scientifically.

I'm an engineer, I love space exploration, I have no shame in that. However I do appreciate the bounty of science has been abused by capitalism to create endless pointless shite that is suffocating our beautiful planet.

Banner picture is the ship in the iconic movie Silent Running which made me cry as a boy and left the deepest of impressions.

#GTTO #Science #Green #Sustainability #survival #techno

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pvonhellermannn, to random
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#ClimateDiary Kidney disease is high and rapidly worsening in coastal Bangladesh due to rising sea levels increasing water salinity as well as extreme heat. For many, like 65yo Khatun, dialysis is too expensive.

The whole of Khulna, once a thriving city, is affected by saline intrusion due to frequent floods, cyclones and tidal surge.

“The global climate crisis is essentially a water crisis,” says Dr Mohammad Shamsudduha at UCL.

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/24/its-in-our-rivers-and-in-our-cups-theres-no-escape-the-deadly-spread-of-salt-water-in-bangladesh?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

TenPastTwo,
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@pvonhellermannn

I remember reading years ago how only a modest rise in sea levels will effect drinking and irrigation water for countless millions.

TenPastTwo, to random
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Meanwhile in Brexit Englandshire we have to boil our tap water. From the same water profiteering thiefdom that said we have no right to swim in the sea.

https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2024-05-15/brixham-devon-news-today-water-cryptosporidium-symptoms

RichardJMurphy, to random
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The Greens were the biggest winners in the local elections, so why aren’t they getting fair air time? https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/05/07/the-greens-were-the-biggest-winners-in-the-local-elections-so-why-arent-they-getting-fair-air-time/
Proportionately, the Greens won most seats at the recent local elections, but they are denied airtime, and we get Reform instead. Why?

TenPastTwo,
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@RichardJMurphy

Just like UKIP, the English media give disproportionate airtime to anyone right of the Tories as if that's an alternative view.

compost, to random
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“The most environmentally friendly product is the one you didn’t buy.” —Joshua Becker

For you can start a compost pile and take the habit of composting the benefits are amazing.

TenPastTwo,
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@compost

Composting is amazing, arguably it worm ranching. Although we are very careful with plastic it still really highlights how freaking indestructible it is, bits stand out a mile in compost.

randahl, to random
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Trump's trial begins tomorrow. What does it say about his religious supporters, when the sinner is dragged into court with a porn star and a playboy model on the witness stand, who will testify to his infedelity?

Short comment:
https://youtube.com/shorts/Gx9QTDeVqCg?si=AeUwa9m0SVH-ugB6

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TenPastTwo,
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@benroyce @BLTpizza @randahl

Totally agree. Alas few see this incredibly deep sense of self entitlement among conservatives. During the early Covid period in the UK our conservative government did a feeding frenzy of self enrichment via in-club PPE contracts for businesses they only just set up and with no history selling PPE. Procuring sub standard or sometimes even absent product and selling at massive mark up.

As someone else said; Money is conservative's only god and only country.

ChrisMayLA6, to politics
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Are the attacks on Anglea Rayner driven by snobbery, or to be clearer; classism?

Well when we compare her political treatment & the DWP's now toxic position on unpaid carers, with the lightness of touch when dealing with the wealthy (either in politics or when found to have broken tax-related laws), I think we can safely say that distinctions of class as drivers for public/official attitudes are ver much alive & kicking!

#class #prejudice #tax #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/12/angela-rayner-tories-targeting-labour-deputy-tax-class-shaming

TenPastTwo,
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@JimmyB @ChrisMayLA6

For sure, the "all politicians are just as bad" narrative is a powerful conservative propaganda message indeed.

A message that gets extra propagation as progressives generally hold each other to such high standards.

However in Angela's case I'd still assert the greater reason she's criticised so is that she's a woman. Misogyny runs even deeper into the establishment political psyche than class.

fkamiah17, to random
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Are there teams of bandits lurking menacingly around box junctions that I don't know about? 🤣

TenPastTwo,
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@fkamiah17

Do they sit around brainstorming what bit of everyday life they can spin into outage and grievance?

What propaganda rag is this from? The font looks a bit Telegraph to me but it could be the Times. I so rarely look at them.

TenPastTwo,
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@fkamiah17

Sadly it works. An in-law of mine who I ended up showing my frustration to over the weekend just parroted all this conditioned outrage against utter trivia as his justification to vote Tory later in the year.

Literally on one hand there was climate, the fate of NATO, Covid corruption, trade embargo with our nearest neighbour etc etc, and his only counter argument was car free roads and positive discrimination being prejudiced again white males.

Mostly he's a reasonable person.

TenPastTwo,
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@fkamiah17 @IndyRichard @Lassielmr

They actually look at you like you're some tinfoil hat conspiracy theorist when you mention any of the evidence that the Tories are the septic hateful thieving grifters they endlessly prove themselves to be.

We need to understand how we break such people out of their trance not condem them as irredeemable.

TenPastTwo,
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@fkamiah17 @IndyRichard @Lassielmr

The other insidious MSM message that works really well is that all politicians are just as bad. I've heard other acquaintances, including some very progressive at heart, utter that as the rational for voting for the corruption you already know rather than some other corruption.

thejoliesfleurs, to Catroventos French
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🇬🇧🗣️ #English 'doesn't exist' and is just badly pronounced #French, linguist claims 🇫🇷

« Bernard Cerquiglini, a linguistics professor from Lyon, points out that the English #language uses thousands of words taken from French about 1,000 years ago »

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13181993/English-exist-badly-pronounced-French-linguist.html

TenPastTwo,
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@thejoliesfleurs

A radically simplified and grammatically improvishered German linguistic base extensively augmented by badly pronounced French.

TenPastTwo, to random
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Post Office Chair alleges a top civil servant told him to delay (effectively withhold) compensation.

Just like the suspect erasure of Johnson's Covid WhatsApp messages yet another indicator of senior civil servants acting politically to protect the Tory Party. Seeing GB News refers to the UK's civil service as the blob and plenty of Tory ministers flaunt breaking rule of law and engage openly in cronyism I fail to understand such unrequited loyalty. #GTTO

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68357074

DigitalTaoist, to random
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One has to wonder what the Tories genuinely believed Brexit would bring(?) Clearly they knew it wasn't going to be the great cake-fest they were promising everyone (fishermen, farmers, fans of the NHS), yet did they have any inkling of just how bad it would be?

John Crace is on fine form here:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/farmer-rish-woos-the-nfu-conference-in-full-on-panic-to-secure-rural-vote

TenPastTwo,
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@DigitalTaoist

Brexit meant the super rich would have less tax risk for their off shore hoards. That is all that ever mattered to the Tories.

Some kippers probably believed in the fantasy but for the Tories it was a cynical calculated sinking of the UK to save the rich tax and make a load of hedge fund cash shorting their own country.

SubtleBlade, to BBC
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' customers affected by - News -
In an email to customers seen by the BBC, it said data including names, dates of birth, national insurance numbers, bank account details and reference numbers could have been stolen.'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-68284475.amp

TenPastTwo,
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@SubtleBlade

In a better world companies would pay a hefty sum to their customers for such personal data breaches. As we the customers carry the risk of crimes against us once our data is stolen.

_L1vY_, to random
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Via Ashley K. Smalls
1:49 PM · Feb 11, 2024

"People had the privilege of never seeing these diseases thanks to vaccines and then told themselves they didn’t need vaccines because they had never seen these diseases. Great job guys!"

Now Spreading in 9 States Amid 'Staggering' , Warns:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/measles-now-spreading-in-9-states-amid-staggering-outbreak-cdc-warns/ss-BB1hZhyE?ocid=socialshare&cvid=69581c0bdc6a4ed080306f3199c0caeb&ei=16#image=1

TenPastTwo,
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@simSalabim @_L1vY_

I fear that the is projection from the Right, albeit in the actual implementation it'll be desease and environmental collapse that'll achieve the outcome of a reduced impoverished and oppressed population.

GottaLaff, to climate
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Humans are pathetically self-serving and short sighted.

This alert just popped up, via WaPo:

"Hurricanes are getting so intense that scientists are proposing a new tier: Category 6
For years, meteorologists have debated whether the five-step hurricane scale adequately captures the hazards of today’s storms. In new research, scientists say a growing number of storms merit a new tier, including five storms since 2013."

TenPastTwo,
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@Npars01 @samhainnight @GottaLaff

Some of them I really don't think get it, like you say not only will Zuckerberg's cattle need to swim I don't know where all his macadamia nut trees he feeds them will grow.

Chillingly the one who does perhaps get how bad it's going to get is Thiel, who's bought a large high ground raunch in New Zealand with a deep mountain fed water supply. Yet of the pack of silicon valley fascisy nut jobs he feeds the flames of our demise more than any of them.

TenPastTwo,
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@ajsadauskas @thepixelfox @Zagorath @pineapplelover @dgriffith

Totally agree. In Australia and NZ most school uniforms are simpler, and therefore more affordable than the UK, typically just a polo style shirt and trousers, rather than blazers and ties. Also more practical.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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You have your first look at the Guardian blog for a couple of hours and the first thing you see is this 🤬 🤬

GPLB: "£9.9bn of £13.6bn spent on PPE during Covid written down because it's unusable or its value has fallen, DHSC reveals"

TenPastTwo,
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@fkamiah17

#GrandTheftTory

HeavenlyPossum, to random
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There’s a weird phenomenon in nature: the ant death spiral or, less morbidly, the ant mill.

Basically, if a group of army ants loses track of the pheromone trail they’re following, they just start following other ants. If those ants happen to double back and pick up the pheromone trail left by the lost ants, then they start following each other in a big circle.

They will then follow each other in an endless circle, trying to find their way home, until they die of exhaustion.

This is an example of an emergent phenomenon. By following an incredibly simple set of rules, a complex behavior emerges from interactions that the individual ants would never behave this way on their own.

And it’s an incredibly maladaptive emergent behavior. These ants don’t “want” to fruitlessly March themselves do death in an endless circle, but, by following that simple set of rules for survival, they end up destroying themselves.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill

TenPastTwo,
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@HeavenlyPossum

Also that the evolutionary advantage to ants of being able to mobilise enmasse to follow a scent trail is so crucial that even though it sometimes leads to ant mills which can destroy entire hives, it still remains.

palin, to random
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TenPastTwo,
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@drmike @thepoliticalcat @palin @soc_i_ety

The constant stream of fabricated outrage dished out by media outlets like Fox certainly helps. Hate has to be stirred and fed, it doesn't endure otherwise.

hart, to random German
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Rotes Rathaus Berlin
Antifaschistische Demo

verhindern

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TenPastTwo,
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@abulling @HistoPol @GottaLaff @noondlyt @flexghost @hart

I also think in the US (and a slightly lesser extent the UK) that the far right have subsumed the traditional mainstream conservative parties. People feel that to call out what was the historical mainstream is too radical, something that only crazy fringe people do. In most of continental Europe the far right have their own parties so it's not seen as so radical to call them out.

phil_stevens, to random
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Life's to short to read or reply to tankies and armchair anarchists who think it's morally superior to sit out elections and make it easier for fascists to take power.

Voting is imperfect. Representative democracies are compromised. The systems are rigged. None of this means we shouldn't use every lever at our disposal to try to shift things.

TenPastTwo,
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@phil_stevens

I actually think it's the final stage of gaslighting, once someone sees through all the other projections and smokescreens and sees conservatives globally for the greedy hateful planet wrecking treasonous fascists they've become, then the final gaslight is to convince those who came that far that resistance is futile, voting is pointless and hope is gone.

Block them, they are unconscious agents of the oppressor.

inquiline, to random
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"we're all in this alone" said the only truthful yard sign

TenPastTwo,
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@inquiline

For sure but the hopelessness of that sentiment is arguably the last reserved gaslight for those if us who no longer fall for all the others.

davidmack, to random
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2020: The UK follows through on “Brexit,” screams “We quit, you Euro fuckholes!”, spits on the EU Council, and takes a collective shit on the floor of the EU Parliament.

2023: Britain cries out at the EU in dismay and rage, “Why aren’t we invited to your picnic, you scheming fucktards?!”

TenPastTwo,
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@ToniScott @davidmack @Nigel_Purchase

Would be great to see Northern Ireland on this graphic too.

RickiTarr, (edited ) to random
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Here's something I've been thinking about lately:

Does society need psychopathic behavior? Does it exist for a Social or Natural Evolutionary purpose?

I have edited the questions somewhat to emphasize behavior and not a person themselves.

TenPastTwo,
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@RickiTarr

I wonder if some societal models are more or less susceptible to psychopaths? A small peaceful materially poor community in say a harsh environment where people must work together to survive would have high immunity to freeloaders of any sort including psychopaths. Where materially wealthier or more warring societies would have more opportunity for psychopaths to work the system so to speak. Capitalism happens to be a system particularly favourable to psychopaths.

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