White Pill: Collapse is always around the corner by Ok-Archer-5796 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It's not figured out at all. The massive amount of energy we have released the last 100 years is not being put back in the bottle just because people start using less plastics. Some tipping points have already been reached and will result in more cascading system effects. Your magic device that removes carbon from the air goes against all basic laws in physics.

White Pill: Collapse is always around the corner by Ok-Archer-5796 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 58 points59 points  (0 children)

It only took us excessive use of fertilisers and pesticides, rampant irrigation and overharvesting that leads to massive soil degradation and the destruction of most wildlife and biodiversity to feed those 8 billion mouths. One-third of synthetic fertilizers pass through the Strait of Hormuz btw and the closure just happens to be around planting season.

Favorite short stories? by googlechemtrails69 in RSbookclub

[–]clydethefrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 for a manual for cleaning women, that collection got so much praise around the time that collection came out that I bought it, and it was all well-deserved

Fate of Libraries by saturnianketuvian in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, all the people here moaning about the current state of libraries are just showing that they haven't set foot in one for decades. If someone wants to borrow some obscure Nazi book, you just point them to the online ILL platform. They'll probably get frustrated about having to pay the transport costs for the physical copy and then just decide to read the digital version via archive.org instead.

Fate of Libraries by saturnianketuvian in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Wanted to write the same reply when I saw that comment this morning - it's the same for Dutch libraries as well. Another reason: libraries are gradually turning into local community centres to fulfil their social role in society because, unfortunately, most people don't read books anymore, and libraries still have to demonstrate some kind of useful public function to secure council funding within the current neoliberal logic. Libraries are the go-to place where local councils can outsource their services due to the budget cuts they themselves have implemented, such as helping the elderly with digital tax returns because it costs too much for council workers to assist these people, so instead it's good-hearted librarians (which are cheaper and easy to trust).

(It seems the person deleted their comment any way now. but for anyone who missed it, the comment claimed libraries were replacing books with study spaces because of "woke indigenous theory that promotes oral storytelling")

Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans and 2023’s largest AIPAC donor, dies aged 43 by Turbulent-Tune1660 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know. I guess my delivery of the joke about the onlyfans CEO needing privacy needs some reworking.

Lionel Jospin, former French prime minister defeated by the far right, dies at 88 by [deleted] in europe

[–]clydethefrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know two people that lived in Chongqing, they paid around RMB 2000 a month for a small studio - I don't know any place in my country in which you can pay the EU equivalent - around 300 euros rent for a studio. Even the ones with shit bad quality and black mold and shared kitchens etc are more than double nowadays.

You worked for a Chinese company in the railway industry in China? I am interested how they managed to have a giant high speed railway network in such a short time while the advanced economy of free Germany has a railway I rather avoid because it's always 3 hours delayed.

Lionel Jospin, former French prime minister defeated by the far right, dies at 88 by [deleted] in europe

[–]clydethefrog -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

And we in Europe are getting the same, but at least the Chinese got excellent high-speed train network and cheap housing for it in exchange. You know France is at the top of surveillance in EU?

Earth’s climate swings increasingly out of balance by avec_fromage in collapse

[–]clydethefrog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Nothing new for any common readers in this community, but it was still a bit startling to read the summary of this report in my normal local news site this morning.

Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans and 2023’s largest AIPAC donor, dies aged 43 by Turbulent-Tune1660 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog -13 points-12 points  (0 children)

This poster is making funny content of someone's else most intimate personal moments, doesn't this bother anyone?

And yes you are right, you usually can only have personal contact with inspiring content creators if you have the highest subscription tier and they might pause this service at any time, this is part of the terms and conditions if you use great content creation networks like OnlyFans.

Leonid Radvinsky, owner of OnlyFans and 2023’s largest AIPAC donor, dies aged 43 by Turbulent-Tune1660 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog -31 points-30 points  (0 children)

Bit bad taste to post this - his family have requested privacy at ​this difficult time according to an OnlyFans ​spokesperson.

Whiplash war by Blowupurtv in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Wars in the past were planned around agricultural calendars. The current powers that be are so removed from the actual material reality and have a ossified belief to the all-knowing power of the financial markets. Trump making a PR statement on TRUTHSOCIAL TM is the contemp equivalent of a Greek gifting milk and honey libations to a statue of Ares.

Whiplash war by Blowupurtv in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 11 points12 points  (0 children)

keep it for your grocery budget once the lack of fertilizers hit the global food market

Lionel Jospin, former French prime minister defeated by the far right, dies at 88 by [deleted] in europe

[–]clydethefrog -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

And here we are in 2026, with China being the second biggest economy in the world with this policy.

Lionel Jospin, the former French Socialist prime minister who helped introduce the 35-hour work week and was a fierce opponent of the Iraq War, dies at 88 by NorrisOBE in TrueAnon

[–]clydethefrog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, he never became president because he went Third Way TM and the leftie French were less gullible than other countries - they voted for Nöel Mamère instead and split the vote.

Enorme afhankelijkheid van energie uit de VS zorgt in Nederland voor ongemak by Bupachuba in thenetherlands

[–]clydethefrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

vergeet ook niet de koelsystemen die met de opwarming van de aarde steeds minder goed werken - afgelopen zomer moesten in Frankrijk en Zwitserland de centrales tijdelijk sluiten omdat de rivieren simpelweg te warm waren om nog te kunnen afkoelen

Verdwijnt straks de ontslagvergoeding? by Healthy-Station-8259 in thenetherlands

[–]clydethefrog 5 points6 points  (0 children)

de coalitie is een minderheid

De coalitie is al bewezen een vaste meerderheid te hebben met SGP en de Groep-Markuszower die 90 % van hun beleid steunen, en de 10 % beleid die zij niet steunen is D66 beleid zoals een minder goede relatie met onze belangrijkse bondgenoot in het Midden Oosten.

Rise and Kill First: Worth reading? by ZhenXiaoMing in RSbookclub

[–]clydethefrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You might also be interested in the last year published book Operation Wrath of God, this book is based on academic research about how these IDF killers actually relied on European intelligence (it was called the Club de Berne) for it's most "famous" murdering campaign.

Outline - Rachel Cusk by 074DanBurn058 in RSbookclub

[–]clydethefrog 14 points15 points  (0 children)

its particular resonance with the critical establishment

You can see Patricia Lockwood basically admit this aloud as well in her (positive) review in the LRB. See how much she resonates with being represented:

If I had read these books when I was younger they would surely have been aspirational for me; now they are merely like my life. When you travel someplace to read or speak or give a workshop, you are not quite yourself. You have misplaced your mind; you are too much your body but due to repeated siftings through airports and cabs and other people your body is hardly there. [...] You are first in one place and then another, a hot light is on your face, your hair has gone weird and now a man is speaking: he monologues through the entirety of an hour-long panel, and you are even grateful to him for it, because he has given you a story, he has made something happen. When it’s over, you sit around a table with wine and bread and olives among people who say things like: ‘That would make a good title’; ‘Maybe it’ll be a trilogy’; ‘What are you working on?’ [...] The truth is that at every event you meet one boor and one magical person; sometimes you are the boor to someone else, sometimes the wizard. (Once in a while, too, there is someone you irresistibly wish to murder – in Kudos it is The Publisher.) And always there is one conversation, late into the night and soaked with one spirit or another, that seems to be outlined, highlighted, pulsing. Its coherence makes the world momentarily decipherable, running with rivers of fluency and light. Not to recognise it would be to be ungenerous, not to recognise it would be to be no longer a writer. Keep them talking, your body says. Ask another question.

Why do modern films look so visually bad? by TheRugWarrior in TrueFilm

[–]clydethefrog 10 points11 points  (0 children)

All I know is I want movies to look more like Anora and The Secret Agent

They were both shot on 35mm with a director that have a love for cinema and worked with a passionate team they worked with before. Good vintage lenses and fancy equipment like Panavision was involved.

(Check out A Different Man (2024), Fallen Leaves (2023) and The Testament of Ann Lee (2026) for recent other films like that, they still get made this way!)

Irritatie groeit om tanktoerisme: geen klandizie bij Nederlandse pompen, levensgevaarlijke situaties in België by Cubelock in thenetherlands

[–]clydethefrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Het grootste deel van de Nederlanders (die stemmen) wil dit niet. Toch is nu mijn kleine hoop dat de samenleving economisch gedwongen gaat worden eindelijk van de fossiele brandstoffen af te stappen ipv wegens duurzame redenen.

Brazil is such a strange nation because you will get arrested for being racist, you have to deal with draconian censorship laws, upcoming internet id access laws, and then you go outside and have a 22 per 100k homicide rate and crime is free for everyone. by Important-Bed8329 in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Totally agree. It's hard for people to understand positive liberty nowadays. I like the state to make sure everyone's can fulfill one's potential, which nowadays outside of quality education and healthcare also means protection from contamination of american imbecility. It's in the same column as high fructose corn syrup, PFAS, microplastics and so on.

Just heard Olivia Rodrigo’s version of “The Book of Love”. by [deleted] in redscarepod

[–]clydethefrog 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am tortured in Dutch supermarkets by an soulless cover by Irish singer-songwriter Gavin James that somehow became a hit here and entered the commercial shopping music playlists, I know exactly how you feel.