@TonyStark most of the people who feel nostalgic for the great glory of US manufacturing also raised their children to believe that there too valuable, special and entitled to do such menial work. But they’re also deporting the people that will do that work. #CognitiveDissonance is the tagline of all MAGA pursuits. Cognitive dissonance is such a diplomatic way to say #Hypocrisy

@Free_Press I sincerely do hope that all the cretinous magamorons are pleased that they continue to think that the climate crisis is a myth, or a commie plot run by left-handed trans librarians.

@Alpha1Nine Sorry but i call bullshit.

Australians want nature protected

If that were genuinely so, #TheGreatUnwashed would have abandoned Shit1 & Shit2 long ago, then swung behind the Greens in droves.

Any nation whose populace still gives 30+% support to cretins & creeps like Liebs & Nuts, is absolutely NOT serious about climate crisis, biodiversity, environment, & numerous other acts of decency.

#AusPol #Greens #VoteGreens #ProgIndies #WeAreTotallyFscked #WeAreSelfishCruelBastards #Misanthropy #FsckOffDutton! #ShitParty1 #ShitParty2 #ComeOnTanya! #WhyIsLabor #NatsAreNuts #NoNukes #racism #FuckRacists #OzElection2025 #ClimateCrisis #NonLinear #TippingPoints #PositiveFeedbackLoops #FossilFools #RenewableEnergy #ChangeTheSystem #StateCapture #RightToProtest #Biodiversity #WeAreTotallyFscked #Misanthropy #Karma #NativeForests #StopLoggingNativeForests #FsckCapitalism #CognitiveDissonance

@ajsadauskas @jaystephens Ta, interesting. I vaguely recall some of that, but your helpful toot defo provided more info than i knew.

I think something like this is why i feel, & tbh remain, so archly cynical... If Straya, & frankly the rest of the world, was genuinely honestly doing all the serious shit needed NOW to decarbonise & ameliorate, then seeking engineering solutions in flood zones like this would be ok. Knowing though that we & most others are totes NOT seriously addressing the crisis, fuels [boom tish] my severe pessimism, coz eg, engineering designs need engineering assumptions [in this case including expected heights & frequency of floods]. Such assumptions necessarily must be predicated on a certain "steady state" belief [plus safety margins thrown in]. That's all fine, IF we had reason to trust such assumptions. I do NOT trust them, simply coz there IS no steady state; humans are continuing to add more & more CO2 & CH4 to Gaia's atmosphere, thus more & more raising the enthalpy, ergo the heating energy, ergo... yada yada.

@feather1952 Paul has mixed feelings, but i don't; i feel quite clear on this. IMO we are federally, governmentally, little more than mega-greenwashing climate-criminals, & absolutely do not deserve to host this. Given ofc my opinion counts for nothing, & we prolly will host it, coz this world just rewards abject shitfuckery, i do hope at least that ALL OS attendees make official public statements vigorously condemning us. This fraudulent govt [& predecessor] deserves excoriating opprobrium, not praise.

@MichaelTBacon @futurebird @PeterLG @TobyBartels Reminds me of the case of Roy Cohn. Helping Joe McCarthy pass vicious anti-gay legislation by day, getting blowjobs in every men's room in DC by night. #hypocrisy #CognitiveDissonance #CompensatoryBigotry #SelfUnawareness

BBC offers video taken near Gounsa Temple, a large and historic Buddhist temple built in 618 AD, which they report as having "burned down" among raging wildfires in South Korea.

For some of us, our minds race, imagining ourselves there, what would we do? Measure the distance probably, decide if we're safe. We hope no action is required. If we're far enough away, we hope to decide we can go about our lives. This is not about us.

That a static measuring tool reassures us about a kinetic event is a hint about the kind of denial we're in. Too many people unconcerned about walls that are closing in, preferring to see it is a problem only for those closer to the walls. It fuels in our society a love of politicians willing to tell us that this will not affect us. No wonder alternative facts are so appealing.

If we can just be left alone to get through our own lives, surely it can be seen to be someone else's problem.

https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/c7982w809jno

@Shdwdrgn

@martingb @MugsysRapSheet @syntaxseed Yes, his #literacy has diminished in importance relative to his #cognitiveDissonance , #cognitiveDecline and #irrationality.