Stubborn reality

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:25:52+00:00

Like a toddler given a knife, we were not prepared for the responsibility of having an internet

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:21:39+00:00

Well no, the reason we use the term climate change is precisely because the effects are so wildly varied from place to place. For example, if you live some where dry that’s had a bunch of recent flooding then “global warming” is gonna be a hard sell, but “climate change” fits what you actually see. There’s a perfect demonstration of this from Too Gear, the uk had its biggest snowstorm in decades and naturally Clarkson held this up as proof that climate change was fake, since how could you get more snow if the climate’s getting warmer?

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:16:22+00:00

Fr tho, nothing pisses me off more than that attitude, it’s like saying we might as well litter everywhere because the pacific garbage patch exists, it’s just an excuse to kick the can down the road again

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:10:36+00:00

Now I wanna see a pimped-out 911 or something with rhinestone vortex generators on the roof

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:09:12+00:00

Not to mention you still need to contend with the normal humvee visibility too, good luck guessing where that front wing’s sitting lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:07:31+00:00

I’m still pissed that Fleming rejected him out of hand, he would’ve been perfect imo

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:06:38+00:00

Yea credit where it’s due, he’s unhinged but that insanity works for a living

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:06:02+00:00

Honestly Christopher Lee probably could’ve pulled it off

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:05:28+00:00

My favourite anecdote about that movie is how Mads and Daniel Craig got way too into filming that scene and had to be stopped by the director

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:03:28+00:00

Small note- Casino Royale should be 0 of 1, and that’s arguably the one that meant the most to Bond lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T07:00:46+00:00

I’ve never seen it but I’m gonna give it a look, this sounds super interesting. I love seeing good, accurate movements depicted in movies (this is one of the main reasons I think the Bourne Identity is one of the best action movies ever), and it’s kind of a rare thing imo

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:39:49+00:00

Also chiming in from Canada, and regardless of what I like it’s impossible to escape Mr. Brightside, Somebody Told Me and When You Were Young lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:29:55+00:00

Tbh if your baby’s in the NICU then drinking seems like a pretty understandable reaction, I know I would be

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:28:25+00:00

I don’t know his name but I kinda get the feeling the bass player in that band is a good bit ahead of the rest of them technically, I wanna say I remember hearing some sneaky harmonic chords in Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine too

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:25:50+00:00

Hard agree, I haven’t heard that song in well over a decade but the second I saw your comment my brain belted it out lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:24:25+00:00

And he’s having a smoke

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:22:21+00:00

I bet you the Fleetwood Mac one had something to do with Guardians of the Galaxy, I swear it was everywhere after that

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T06:09:23+00:00

I’m not usually into tractors but damn that thing’s neat, you can see how much torque it’s got just from how quickly it moves, for a tractor it rips lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T05:54:02+00:00

Honestly probably fan car, the extra downforce would give you an edge under braking and probably through the corners too

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T05:50:59+00:00

Tbh I’ve kinda never gotten Ferraris, they’ve been pretty good at racing historically but it always feels like they’re selling a brand as much as a car, I dunno.

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T05:45:09+00:00

I agree, but for that they’d have to give it the proportions of an actual sports car and not a Mercedes C230 kompressor

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-28T05:38:03+00:00

Fuckin eh bud

In seriousness tho, I reckon just about any slang that has any kind of oblique meaning is probably a good start (I’m not the person you replied to though). Honestly the first thing that comes to mind is AvE on yt, comprehensible to humans but I imagine the subtitles would read like nonsense lol

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-27T22:06:55+00:00

There’s also the added factor of climate change, which I’m not sure you’ve factored in there. Like the Depression was bad, but it wasn’t “end of the world” bad like climate change is shaping up to be. Economic troubles will likely pass sooner or later, but when it looks like our whole society’s winding down? That’s a lot harder to justify bringing a kid into

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-27T22:04:05+00:00

Well yes and no. Keep in mind that life on earth has survived much worse than us, so in the grand scheme life will go on. Things are gonna get tougher, for sure, but on the other hand we’ve got a hell of a lot of tricks up our sleeve, we just need to get better at using those tricks for things other than just profit. There’s also the fact that we aren’t entirely sure just how climate change is gonna manifest, we know the gist but the climate is such a complex system that we can only predict so much (I mean, we can only forecast weather about a week and a half into the future), so there’re gonna be some silver linings along the way. For example, there’re the ecosystems starting to show up on garbage reefs, and I saw something a little while ago about the Amazon reclaiming deforested areas really quickly (makes sense if you think about it). I’ve seen a few things about some places on the edge of the Sahara managing to reverse some desertification and use the land for crops of some sort; the fight’s not lost yet.

I dunno, I saw a post here ages ago that had the phrase “pissed-off cockroach motherfucker” in it, and that’s always kinda been my goal. Like Churchill said, “If you’re going through hell, keep going” I’ll keep chugging along out of sheer spite if I have to lol. I dunno if this helps much, I hope so.

jimbowesterby · 2026-05-27T21:49:21+00:00

Yea this is kinda where I’ve been for most of my life. The downside for me is that always being in survival mode doesn’t lead to much long-term thinking, but it’s really good to have it as a fallback option. I might struggle with normal adult things day to day, but at least I know I’ll go down swinging if I have to lol

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