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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Evan. Happy Earth Day, Happy Birthday to John Waters and Iggy Pop, and Chag Pesach Sameach.

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Gammarae's avatar

does anybody know how to block a financial scam troll on my substack? i'm afraid to hit anything for fear of enabling some kind of nonsense.

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rawrtigerlily's avatar

Click on their name where ever it is you seem them trolling you. This will open their profile. Then on the right hand side you will see a block with three dots in it like "..."

Clicking on the three dots will show you the options like muting, blocking, and reporting them.

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Cincinnatus's avatar

George Carlin's America the Beautiful (1971):

O beautiful for smoggy skies

Insecticided grain

For strip-mined mountain's majesty

Above the asphalt plain!

America! America!

Man sheds his waste on thee

And hides the pines with billboard signs

From sea to oily sea!

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Stanta Knows's avatar

I remember the first Earth Day. Junior in High School - I was feeling my political and earthy crunchy roots awakening. Took part in a walk-out from school and marched to a nearby park where we felt confused and hopeful. In the aftermath I was suspended from school for 2 days and that cemented my distrust in authority. And this was less than two weeks prior to the Kent State Massacre. Fuck the Man!

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Happy Camper's avatar

I, too, was a junior. We had several discussions in various classes. I remember reading about ZPG. I credit earth day and the environmental awareness young people had with the inclusion of the right to 'a clean and healthful environment ' in Montana's constitution in 1972.

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LP's avatar

I was in junior high, too. Our whole school marched; one of my favorite teachers wore a gas mask. It was awesome, and for a short time, it looked like we might be able to change the world.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"We all had the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark--that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." Hunter Thomson

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Anonymous Venezuelan's avatar

I remember thinking back then that burning all this fossil fuel was harming us and that we should find a way to wean ourselves from it, and learn how to live with renewable energy.

Of course, I was brainwashed by Jimmy Carter to put on a sweater when it's cold.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Smog was death-dealing in California then...much better after unleaded fuel...

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Anonymous Venezuelan's avatar

Lead was known to be a potent poison throughout the twentieth century. Yet I had to spend my tender years in soup of tetraethyl lead, and lead on the walls.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Me too...I remember days when the smog was so bad I went to my room and hid my eyes in my pillow and cried. I was probably 4-5....

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Anonymous Venezuelan's avatar

In the southwest, temperature inversions are a thing that cap a mass of air over cites, choking them in their effluent for days.

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Anonymous Venezuelan's avatar

Wow. I remember it being in the news, and then reading a book of Bill Maudlin cartoons with lots of smog themes.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Respect.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

."..:Come Hell or high water..." well, they're both on their way...

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Ruththecatlady's avatar

OT: Minding my own business at work, getting coffee. RWNJ comes in, wishes me a happy Passover. Bit of a surprise, but ok. But then. He can't leave well enough alone. He starts talking about the war. And how "they need someone strong, not weak like Biden." Now, I have some big, complicated feelings about this war. I'm Jewish, I'm liberal AF.... big, complicated feelings. And here's dumbfuck trying to get me to agree with his politics based on a war he doesn't understand and has no connection to. He said a few more things, and I shut him down pretty hard, but now I'm pissed off and upset. I don't want to set off a discussion of the war, here. I just wanted to vent about an asshole.

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Richard S's avatar

This is the ONLY place where I feel comfortable talking "politics".....

And even here, there are some discussion topics I don't get involved in.

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Boogie Mama's avatar

In some ways it's easier than working a job with a bunch of clueless liberals who put up "from the river to the sea" artwork without having a clue that it's about the extermination of Israel. "Ceasefire Now" soaped all over the cars with no message about returning the hostages. The kids are making "Free Palestine" flags in class but I'm pretty sure they're not getting any lessons about what happened to the settlement the PLO negotiated. If you're telling one side to stop fighting, you're not actually advocating for peace. Sigh.

I haven't said a word yet but it makes me tired and sad every day.

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Eileen's avatar

I understand you COMPLETELY.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

It is furiously frustrating but I long ago learned to NEVER bring up my politics at work. I'd already been thoroughly disillusioned by virtue of once respected coworkers who started spouting Tea Party rhetoric, therefore casting them into aspersion and suspicious disregard on my radar.

And I'm someone who was labeled as a "...communist with a small "C" when I was in grade 10. I would've been ostracized entirely at the hospital of my former employ for that.

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Ruththecatlady's avatar

Yeah, I limit my politics to my friend who is also a screaming liberal. Which makes it that much more aggravating that this asshole invaded my mental space to force his on me.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Once again, it's furiously, often ferociously frustrating but it's in your best interests to suck it up and save it to share here with your equally indignant kindred.

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42tontom's avatar

Nothing better than someone who is confidently uninformed!

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Ruththecatlady's avatar

Ain't that the truth.

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Ruththecatlady's avatar

Not one of these assholes would even know when Passover is if it weren't being used as a tool by Faux News.

I also work with a lot of RWNJs - thankfully no longer exclusively, though it was for a while there.

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Gammarae's avatar

oh please, doesn't every xtian church now have seders?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

That is TOO entirely accurate. While I was involved in a very serious relationship with a fellow of the Jewish faith I was more than a bit taken aback by the overwhelming ignorance of too many people I encountered on a daily basis.

On the other hand one of the aspects of the Jewish faith that appealed to me the most was its' more focused and respectful regard for what was being celebrated. There didn't exist ANY of the myth augmented or crassly commercialized aspects of holy days I'd become too accustomed to as a Catholic.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I have developed a genuine affection for President Biden.

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Russell Jones's avatar

Same here. Ol' Joe was something like my 5th choice at the outset of the 2020 Dem primary season, but he's been a genuinely superb POTUS. Who knew that competence and extensive experience in public service count for something! :D

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I truly believe that my comparisons of Biden to FDR have been entirely accurate.

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OT - “I’m going to put the entire U.S. budget on blockchain so that any American — every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget anytime they want 24 hours a day,” Kennedy said Sunday during a rally in Michigan.

Spit my coffee out on that one.

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EyeQueue's avatar

These people are delusional and dumb as boxes of hair.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Boxes of Hair Libelz!

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Russell Jones's avatar

lol

It's hard to imagine cramming that much dumb into a single human being, but there it is.

And it's a lot easier to imagine now that it ever had been before, what with the rise of the Brain-Injured Howler Monkey wing of the GOP and all.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

He's going to fry entire servers with a stunt like that.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Flying Spaghetti Monster Libelz...

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Cool, cool, cool....

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

*chef’s kiss* to NYT Pitchbot. He really outdid himself.

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Lance Thrustwell's avatar

Silly me - and here I thought the US Budget was already a publicly available document.

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Edith Prickly's avatar

Wow.

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Whatwhomever's avatar

How can someone so woke be so sleepy?

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SkeptiKC's avatar

No one can argue the fact that Handsome Joe rocks those sunglasses.

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Kay Ducky's avatar

Ugh, I hate that Colbert impression. Am I the only one who thinks the monologues are getting tedious?

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

Needs moar Dick Jokes....

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Suffice to say that one's worn out its' welcome.

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Kay Ducky's avatar

Stop agreeing with me!

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Kay Ducky's avatar

dick :)

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Justin, disciple of Apollyon's avatar

The earth is 70% water and uncarbonated, so technically it's flat

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Kay Ducky's avatar

SMRT!

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SkeptiKC's avatar

[obligatory however sharp toned "Rim-Shot"]

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gnomemansanisland's avatar

Some water is naturally carbonated.

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Kay Ducky's avatar

Some is naturally ionic. In fact, a lot of it is. Enough to learn that most of the water on this planet did not come from comets, it came from rocky bodies, not the icy ones.

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Lefty Proud's avatar

OUT!

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PrimerGray's avatar

I sent away for a detailed model of our home planet but I misspelled what I actually wanted and wound up with an Eartha Kit. I'm keeping it.

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Richard S's avatar

I'm waiting to find some World Processing software.....

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SkeptiKC's avatar

That woman IS and always will be a goddess as far as I'm concerned. She was unquestionably a force of nature.

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Hail to the Chief! Here comes Dark Brandon, aka my favorite Irish uncle!

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Mr blob's avatar

OT: I feel like it’s an underreported story JUST how much Elno industries has tanked in the year of our lord 2024.

https://stocks.apple.com/symbol/TSLA

It was trading over 260 on December 27th. It was over FOUR HUNDRED when he bought Xitter TWO YEARS ago. This is even before the earnings call he has tomorrow where he has to explain away the fact that every cybertruck sold broken and there never will be an affordable consumer model and they’re betting the future on robotaxis in three months that 100% will not exist and 1000% will not have level five autonomy.

The only thing to do in this situation is give Elon musk 50 billion dollars

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Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

He’s gonna be gakked out of his fucking gourd to control that much anxiety.

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coco lurks from home's avatar

I am really not sure... do people with that much money and no conscience whatsoever even know what anxiety is?

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Our_Man_In_Redneckistan's avatar

There’s almost always a reason someone who behaves oddly uses lots of drugs.

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

They see us building the Tumbrels...

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Gary Seven in Space's avatar

U beat me 2 it.

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Bradthe🤖's avatar

But he’s kept every single product promise he’s ever made so far!

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Fifth Dentist's avatar

But I read he is still hereby demanding a $56 billion bonus, even after the board told him to pound sand.

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No Quid Bro Code's avatar

Well if there’s a “hereby demand,” you have to.

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Bradthe🤖's avatar

A judge told him to pound sand. His enablers on the board might still give him the money.

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PrimerGray's avatar

Flat earthers are the people who are always screaming "Globe fuck yourself!"

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SkeptiKC's avatar

Those flat earthers are always talking in circles.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

You can find flat earthers in every corner of the globe

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Catstro's avatar

Bunch of circle jerks

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I have rather impatiently been sitting here drumming my fingers WAITING for someone to make such a reference [snickers salaciously].

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Catstro's avatar

Other people might be too dignified to pick low hanging fruit, but not I

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SkeptiKC's avatar

I just know that I've got one of their CDs around here somewhere...

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fair_n_hite_451's avatar

Every time I find myself coming around to one of their arguments, I'm just right back where I started.

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PrimerGray's avatar

I don't get them. I really don't.

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Toomush Expectashuns's avatar

it's logic. Circular logic...

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Robert Eckert's avatar

Circular logic works because circular logic works.

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Martin Shobe's avatar

I'm sure he started a round that time.

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PrimerGray's avatar

Don't read above.

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Mike_Cramer's avatar

Re: "Earth Day."

If the Earth was sentient, it would likely reply "Oh fuck off you lying, performative, hypocritical vermin!"

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