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Giridhar

@breadandcircuses point the finger wherever you want. We are all guilty. Nobody cares enough. It will happen someday. We really don’t care. And before someone starts a refutal, remember that you are using a phone or computer, none produced in an environment friendly way.

JennieMacfie Queen of Teacups

@gir1dhar @breadandcircuses Many of us *do* care. I am using a phone, yes, but that does not absolve Exxon of its culpability nor mitigate the degree of its culpability. If it had not funded misinformation there would have been commercial pressure to minimise environmental damage as we advanced into the computer age.
PS What you are trying to do is called in Scotland " whatabooterie". Otherwise known as distraction.

Giridhar

@JMacfie @breadandcircuses im not doing whataboutism. What im doing is mea culpa. There is a big difference. Im watching my part in the process.

Tappin Lisa

@JMacfie
I like the sound of "whatabooterie" more than "whataboutism."

JennieMacfie Queen of Teacups

@TappinLisa rhymes with another lovely Scots word that always makes me smile - "sitooterie". A place where you sit outside. 😊

Mary M. Redoutey

@breadandcircuses It is more pathetic than funny... Filled with pathos about the world then and now.

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@breadandcircuses You’re probably crying because the dinosaurs in the comic are very dear to this comic series public and have been for a while, and this strip implies their death. While the dinosaurs ending in real life is well-known, we never expected to see the dinosaurs on the series die. Seeing characters dear to you die can make you sad, and therefore can make you cry.

yofluke

@breadandcircuses pretty much all their comics are fantastic.

Humble Fan of Atty. Woo

@breadandcircuses

it is the best and worst of both worlds outcomes. carry on

michi

@breadandcircuses Don't Look Up on Netflix sums this up nicely.

Siue Allen

@breadandcircuses I know exactly how you feel, Exxon knew in the 70s that burning fossil fuels would destroy our climate but they kept quiet. Greed over planet.

myrmepropagandist

@breadandcircuses

Now I want a movie about an intelligent dinosaur civilization that is aware of the the catastrophe, debates and stalls, then at last, tries at the very last moment desperately to do something --and fails.

Then at the end they suppose that future life will *at least* remember them: but of course we don't-- all their tech was made of organics, and worked in ways we don't recognize now.

llewelly

@futurebird @breadandcircuses
in the 1980s, Harry Harrison wrote a series in which a civilization of intelligent mosasaurs (but, oddly more like amphibians rather than reptiles) develops tech, cities, etc, based on organics and genetically modified creatures. Submarines are genetically modified Ichthyosaurs, buildings are genetically modified trees, video cameras are genetically modified frogs, and so on. Unfortunately, the intelligent mosasaurs are the villains.

MementoMori

@breadandcircuses πŸ˜πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ€¦πŸΎ

Danneau

@breadandcircuses Decades, and some of the most important people knew really early on.

David Fetter

@christopheguinet @breadandcircuses that's cute and all, until you realize that the AnPrim message is very directly calling for a eugenics-based genocide because that is the effect that their suggestions, if implemented, would have.

Christophe Guinet β“‹ ⏚

@davidfetter well, would you point me to an example, I admit I don't know their other messages.

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