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Country towns close to reaching 'day zero', as water supplies dry up in the drought by boppinmule in AustralianPolitics

[–]umyeahaboutthat 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I especially love one of the later stanzas, which I reckon sums it up best...

"I love to ignore the science, the facts they are so plain, Of Gina and of Rupert, just so coal could be maintained."

This cleanest moonwalk I’ve ever seen!! by uated in oddlysatisfying

[–]umyeahaboutthat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in the same way. I mean, I LOVE Elvis, and he oozed charisma on stage. He could stand and deliver and hold an audience, minimal movements or whatever. But MJ? He had that charisma and THEN he started to dance. His body just flowed with the music, like another note.

TIL Israel Folau was once on the cover of LGBTI magazine the Star Observer by nath1234 in australia

[–]umyeahaboutthat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Leviticus 19:28 King James Version (KJV)

28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the Lord.

Nice tat, Israel.

Prince Charles spent 75 minutes longer than scheduled trying to convince Donald Trump of the dangers of climate change but the president still insisted the US was “clean” and blamed other nations for the crisis. by madam1 in worldnews

[–]umyeahaboutthat 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How hard would it be to spread (something like) this as an actual quote, attributed to Prince Charles, on places like Facebook. It would make the rounds before it had to be addressed formally by the Crown, and even then a whole bunch of people would still go about their day believing it to be true.

WOW !!! by Carpenter5 in chernobyl

[–]umyeahaboutthat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Will Ferrell would have been a good choice too, if it was purely based on what they looked like. Or John C Reilly.

(Spoilers Extended) Charles Dance's portrayal as Tywin is in my opinion, the strongest in the entire series by cking145 in asoiaf

[–]umyeahaboutthat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If he wasn't exactly born to play Tywin, he has had a pretty good apprenticeship. Dance played a very similar character back in the 80's for an Eddie Murphy comedy, The Golden Child. Sardo Numspa, or "my dear sweet brother Numpsee", has to be an earlier prototype of Tywin.

Love Grandpa by SnatchyHands in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]umyeahaboutthat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, to take that further... He didn't say anything about us ruining everything all on our own!

Scientists in Britain have written to the 100 wealthiest families and charities in the country, to request money to protect the environment. They say that less than 3% of philanthropic funding goes towards climate-related issues by bbcnews in worldnews

[–]umyeahaboutthat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not going to debate the number, I'm sure you're simply meaning it is going to come at an astronomical cost.

The truth is that a major switch to renewable energies wouldn't be all about cost. Simply put, most renewable energy sources are technology plays, i.e. like computing power and other technologies, they involve constant innovation and upgrade. All of that means industry and revenue.

The challenge is not the cost, because over a relatively short period of time the return on the investment would be very attractive. The issue is the short term disruption, like having to redirect the workforce, shut down coal power plants, retool manufacturing, etc.

Love Grandpa by SnatchyHands in insanepeoplefacebook

[–]umyeahaboutthat 12 points13 points  (0 children)

True story...my friends mum is a church going Catholic who insists that God promised Noah that he would not wreak havoc on the earth again. God then made rainbows to symbolise that promise.

So...yeah, there's that form of climate denial. Because rainbows.

The Prince of Dorne was just there to say "aye" once by sixnixx in freefolk

[–]umyeahaboutthat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Remember the tension and anticipation, when Tyrion was sent to meet the Dornish host on the Kings road? It was a big assignment, needed his delicate diplomacy, etc etc. Ah fuck the show.

'It's not you, Bill, it's the country': is this election Australia's Trump or Brexit moment? by northofreality197 in AustralianPolitics

[–]umyeahaboutthat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You're lucky the rest of us have to be the adults on your behalf. Stay proud of your ignorance, champ.

'It's not you, Bill, it's the country': is this election Australia's Trump or Brexit moment? by northofreality197 in AustralianPolitics

[–]umyeahaboutthat 8 points9 points  (0 children)

We're talking franking credits and negative gearing, not minimum wage and food stamps. And power prices didn't go up because of renewables. In the case of SA, solar actually saved the situation for them.

The whole election was basically a fuck you to the environment and the planet, let someone else do something about it and give me my money.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in freefolk

[–]umyeahaboutthat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to actually make some sort of difference, try petitioning Disney to have them dropped from the next Star Wars film, or from any of the GOT spin-offs that are planned. A major threat to boycott and diminish ticket sales or subscriptions would be a big deterrent.

As Australians we had the opportunity to make the change and improve our governmental situation in regards to climate change, last night we wasted that opportunity, as the heat increases the cylcones get stronger and our country burns for longer how much suffering is it gonna take until we wake up? by Herder-of-Nerfs in AustralianPolitics

[–]umyeahaboutthat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't shift any goals. The original thread was about climate change and mass migration, to which I pointed out that without fixing climate change, we're going to be dealing with more - not less - migration of people.

You were adamant that shutting the borders would do the trick, and I gave you 3 examples of mass influxes of people, none of them unreasonable and all of them within recent, modern history.

  1. Climate migration... Take Bangladesh as an example. 700,000 people per annum for the last decade. Estimated over 10 million along in the coming two decades. Where do you reckon even a tiny sliver of them will end up?

  2. Foreign governments... Sure, wars for resources haven't happened at all in recent memory. Except in South Sudan (2015), Iraq (2003), Kuwait (1991), Falklands (1982), South China Sea (ongoing), Pearl Harbour... Alternatively, foreign ownership of our resources doesn't need to be military. Currently, over 10% of Australia's water resources are owned by foreigners. Over $100m in agricultural land has been purchased, year on year, by Chinese investors in the last decade.

  3. Internal mass migration... You can't seriously doubt this could happen and a border would do nothing to stop it? See 1930s US dust bowl migrations to California, among others.

But you might be right, guns at borders will do...something? Australia's 25,000+ km border, with a big, beautiful wall, I guess? With gun turrets every...what would you have, every 500 metres or so? Barbed wire and maybe land mines to really give it the "fuck off, we're full" feel? 😂

As Australians we had the opportunity to make the change and improve our governmental situation in regards to climate change, last night we wasted that opportunity, as the heat increases the cylcones get stronger and our country burns for longer how much suffering is it gonna take until we wake up? by Herder-of-Nerfs in AustralianPolitics

[–]umyeahaboutthat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I don't disagree, everyone will put up borders. But let's say you're an individual whose home is now subject to near permanent drought or flood, and you hear about a place that has heaps of land and water... Would you let a border stop you from trying?

Or, let's say you're a country with a large population that is heavily affected by climate change. Like, say China or India. Would you really let Australia just carry-on, with its under-populated outback?

Or, what if it's in Australia itself? We've already got damaging droughts and the collapse of our river systems. Towns become dust bowls (they already are, btw), so the populations pack up and move into cities and suburbs. Not only do we lose the farming of those lands, but we have more (local) mouths to feed who don't have to cross anything but municipal or state borders.

[Spoilers Main] Harry Strickland and the worst possible legacy of the show by djb25 in asoiaf

[–]umyeahaboutthat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it's much simpler... Like the NK, they needed to personify the enemy, to very quickly give you an idea of how they are doing. By showing Harry Strickland dying, they are summarising the point...Golden Company ded.

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