You’re unrealistically optimistic. The earth will cook us off the face of the planet along with 90% of species. It’s starting now and will take a few years to really get moving.

Don’t worry, we don’t have long enough left to institute an insect food delivery system of any note. Pretty soon the bugs will be eating us.

The fix was in on our climate by the 90’s, the Co2 levels are above 450 ppm. This doesn’t have an equivalent in many millions of years. The effects of heat building is cumulative, the earth still has plenty more room to store heat energy, and we’ve already put more than enough Co2 in the atmosphere to warm well past 2C. We’ve got years left, not decades. Wait till food distribution systems break down, that’s when it’ll hit everyone that this is already a done deal. Things will begin to break down rapidly in the next few years.

Yeah but it’s not a fucking city dude, the comments are addressing the hyperbole in the comment.

I wonder kind of damage it’s obscuring.

How do you clean your ears, bellybutton, toes? And hopefully in that order. Some stuff needs extra attention, and some people have different skin types than you. Go scrub out your toes.

I remember watching a black comedian many years ago and his bit started “Why don’t white people use washcloths?”, and it got me thinking. I started using washcloths and noticed I came away cleaner, soap on a hand doesn’t cut the skin oils and dirt like soap and gentle abrasion can. I also noticed, because I’m hairy, that I get lots of ingrown hairs, especially on my legs. Switched to one of those “poofs” and now I vigorously scrub my hairy bits and no ingrown hairs. Exfoliating helps.

Use a washcloth and don’t forget to brush your tongue, you filthy animal.

Oil production and distribution is an international operation, and oil markets are just that, Markets. Very few if any countries drill, produce, refine and consume their own petroleum sources. Most countries may have only one or a couple facilities that can extract or refine oil. All crude oil is assessed by its grade and given a value on the international market. Extractive economies (Russia for example) have to either refine and consume their own product which they can’t use to put currency in their economy or they sell raw crude to, say, India for US Dollars. India will either refine it for it’s own needs or sell it at market. Canada extracts it’s oil from oil sands, sends it down to the gulf coast for refining and transshipment to other markets. This is classically a Capitalist supply and demand market, and oil producing countries use oil proceeds to buy foreign currency reserves, regardless of their political system. The entirety of it is Capitalist from beginning to end.

That you’re even attempting to try and deflect the various excesses of Capitalism with specious reasoning like “Communist countries produce oil too so not Capitalism” is puerile and an argument in bad faith. You’re trying to work back towards your hypothesis “Capitalism good” without doing the work of actually building the argument. Your ineffective points are useless and wholly unconvincing. You’re just a shill without an intellectual understanding of what you are attempting to put across. Your ham-fisted defense of Capitalism is simple refutation, you haven’t posited anything yourself, you’re just attempting to refute what other’s have responded to your bait question. Saying “nuh-uh” isn’t a defense or a rationale.

I’ve wasted more time on this than I cared to.

If you’re going to continue going to bat for Capitalism as your growth fueled world begins to burn around you, you might consider putting the blame at the feet of the petrochemical industry which is decidedly Capitalist. Have a nice day.

Capitalism exploits resources with an eye on ever-increasing “growth”. Capitalism abhors anything that either lessens “growth” or doesn’t actively encourage it. Growth for growth’s sake is a dead-end road, one we’re rapidly approaching. That China had the same mindset isn’t an aberration, the CCP and Chinese economy leverages the tools of Capitalism and the proceeds go to Communism (and corruption), to fuel stratospheric growth in order to counter Western hegemony. That China embraced Capitalistic growth models is a means to an end, it may be called Communistic Capitalism. It’s an economic model, not a political one.

Permissions to grab the data in your phone. When you authorize the app by installing and agreeing to terms you are giving a green light for it to suck up all the data you have put in the device as well as anything you do ongoing. That means the app tracks your current location, purchases through your phone, contacts list, email accounts, etc, basically anything inputted into your phone the app has access to, except for the walled off stuff that Apple protects, like unique thumbprint or facial recognition ID. About 95% of the stuff in your phone is up for grabs with that app.

All of this, scroll down a bit to App Privacy and see that you have none. BTW, the “sensitive info” is racial, sexual and biometric data. Apps themselves are privacy-destroying, always look carefully at the app privacy. Check out the Mastodon app as a contrast, it wants none of your data.

I would do it, I mean the carpet sucks and the stock lighting is awful but the deck isn’t bad, decent view of the slough. Basic amenities are serviceable. If I were a single guy and wanted to live in the area I’d consider it. The HOA fees are too much unless it comes with security.

Cheap food is no longer cheap, Mr. Giant Food Conglomerate CEO smart guy. Even fast food is the price of a sit down meal at a restaurant just three years ago. I’ve been cutting all inessential food purchases and leaning into staples. I’m a former chef, it’s easy for me to plan cheap high-quality meals for my family but I imagine most people don’t have the skillset to make it work, or the time, or enthusiasm.

“It can’t be us” is the refrain of the willfully ignorant. No introspection whatsoever about food inflation and shrinkflation.

AMC is a huge multiplex chain, they seem to own about half of all theatres in the US, as a result they can overcharge to their heart’s content because they might be the only one in town with the movie you want to see. They also attempt to pass their service off as a “premium” experience. In reality it just means larger seats. For this they’ve destroyed the movie-going experience. Not much love lost on my end, however, I’m not really a movie person. It mostly sucks when my child really wants to see something.

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Political affiliation is not protected, religious affiliation is. It’s true that the Right has been doing their level best to politicise their religious feelings into public life, so that barring Trump supporters effectively excludes Evangelicals and a majority of Catholics. This may not be their desired outcome, but perhaps they shouldn’t have tied their religious sentiment to political causes.

Sorry for the delay. I can see three avenues for helping bees locally. 1) Very bee friendly plants on your porch if you have one. 2) Providing a steady water source for bees. This one I think is better as most people have no knowledge that bees require water especially in a heat wave. 3) Support local beekeepers by buying local honey, like from your particular region, county or city. I used to sell honey by zip code.

If you have a porch there are a number of plants that bloom ridiculously often or even continuously, African Blue Basil is a great example, blooms constantly and doesn’t produce seeds as it’s a sterile hybrid. Bees are insane over it.

Watering is a bit trickier. Getting bees to recognize and interact with a stable water source long term is difficult. Often they know of a leaky water hose or A/C unit to draw water from. I’ve had success getting bees attracted to a water source by adding just one or two drops of lemongrass oil to freshly poured water. The lemongrass is a natural attractant and then they find the water, and tell the hive. Do this on really hot days for a best chance at attracting them. You can do this anywhere, just sneak a bowl or container around the grounds of your apartment building or get tricky and hang something from a window. If you have a porch then you are set. DON"T LET IT DRY OUT! They won’t return once they have figured out another source. Consistency is best.

Buying honey from local beeks is an obvious and easy way to help.

Hope that helps!

“Some people in UK government maybe consider thinking about doing something because something happened”. Much better title.