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World must cut emissions by 18% in four years ‘to find our way back’, UN says

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Sorry I'm saying I don't think they have cognitive dissonance, I don't think they care about the environment and don't think about it. They think about making more money in the current instance and short term future than the other guys making a lot of money and nothing else matters. Everything is a short term grift to make more money. If they have to think about the environment it's only because someone is using it to get in the way of the current grift and the issue raised is now a cost of doing business that is eating into the monetary lead they have against the next richest grifter. They will happily ignore those environmental costs if noone makes them think about it. The triple bottom line is two too many bottom lines.

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Bari Weiss Exposed for Pushing CBS to Smear Democratic Candidates

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Look just don't worry about them, they were voted out so they can't do any more damage. There's a gentleman's agreement that we don't prosecute our opponents when in a position of power otherwise it makes it okay. Also it's not right to meddle in the affairs of the private sector. They can hire staff and direct them as they want. We really want to roll back all the work done by the last administration but lots of people made critical financial decisions based on the rules at the time so if we roll back anything those people will lose some money. Just sit back and be happy that the adults are back in charge ..

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smart people can admit mistakes and apologize

Sadly telling someone with baby brain that they are stupid and have a baby brain isn't going to help them change. Baby's don't learn like that. We need to sing them songs and make learning fun until they have a leap and want to learn more all by themselves. Also cutting their screen time to zero until their brains develop well into toddler brain is supposed to be super beneficial.

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I don't think so

I'm not entirely convinced that Google and Microsoft are Elrond in this particular issue .. or that uBlock Origin is the one ring .. it feels like this meme is something Sauron would push to make people think the good guys are bad guys ..

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Few places nowadays is it legal to lay around & do whatever you want outdoors, usually getting cited for loitering or something. Thank goodness for beaches, we're mostly free here.

In some places the nice beaches have been privatised by local hotels or clubs so you gotta pay them to sit on the beach or go sit somewhere less nice. Coming from Western Australia where we have the nicest beaches in the world (all free), I take this concept of "owning beach space" as a personal affront.

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Bingo

Yeah the internet was fine when it was just nerds talking about nerd stuff and relentlously fact checking each other. As soon as people realised they could make a lot more money from it by making it more accessible to regular schlubs it's been a shit show. It's a giant multi-dimensional tabloid newspaper now.