There’s an entire decade you’re missing - in the late 70's there was wide acceptance of things like the greenhouse effect, and taking steps to correct damage to the environment. It became fashionable and profitable! NYT has a great article on this that I can never find the link to when I want to look for it again.

And the trolls in the thread (not going to ungrey them by responding) now say “we know all this, we get it, it’s nothing new” when they literally have been disputing and arguing about the facts up until a microsecond ago and they clearly don’t get it.

Well, crap: I was hyped to see this opening weekend but forgot all about this crap.

she has Asperberger’s

I'm happy to see that incels are finally classified as extremists. About time!

We all say we want innovation...then make fun of it when it comes.

China is not a party to the third Optional Protocol, the mechanism they’re bring a complaint through (you can find all 51 signatories of the protocol here). All five countries are in the G20, and a ruling in favor of kids would have potential to have repercussions with the bigger emitters like China, U.S., and all the…

The reason they chose those 5 is because they agreed to allow themselves to be subject to hearing legal complaints made against them for not holding up their commitments. That’s why those kids chose to make the complaint. The major developed polluters (particularly the US and China), however, did not sign the…

It must be comforting to those lost to mass shootings and their families that lighting or a drunk were going to get them anyway.

I own a gun. Got it at a gun show. Super easy. Too easy. Way too easy. I can shoot whoever I want now. I'm not going to, but part of why I have one is because there are other people out there who got a gun just as easy as I did. So... Ya know

From another article in my city’s paper, some of this stuff seems to stem from there being no real regulation on these things. DEA has the opioid crisis to deal with and the FDA saying its not their responsibility, its on the DEA lol. Practically anyone can get in on the THC/CBD cart business and that has led to people…

Instead of banning flavored vapes (but leaving nicotine and menthol vapes alone) perhaps the authorities should consider legalizing cannabis usage at the federal level. It’s not surprising that people may be getting adulterated products when they’re forced to use the black market.

The problem is the NRA, and hardhead who refused to give up gun “right”. Meanwhile vaping have no solid group to back it up, so it’s easier to dealt with.

Samples have been found in South Africa, and there’s rumors that France and North Korea have samples. And smallpox is a hardy little bug, enough so that there’s legitimate concern that the corpses of historic smallpox victims could release the virus (akin to the worries about Inuit buried in permafrost during the…

For added special effects, use a phone with a smashed screen.

I think it’s a deliberately vague term designed to sway opinion. If people believe that an inanimate object alone is the sole problem, then obviously that’s something “controllable”. 

Probably this:

Jesus, not this shit again. You don’t have a first amendment right to have the New Yorker publish your dumbass takes. If this idiot wants to rant about climate change he can self-publish. 

I’ve been rather worried that fatalism like Franzen’s would come out of the heavy focus on the 2030 deadline. 

Anybody want to take a guess at how BLOTUS will manage to shit the bed on 9/11? I figure a whole lot of hate tweeting Hollywood and probably accusing Ilhan Omar of having masterminded the attack.