Yeah sure, clear more land for development, Australia, it's not like the lack of trees will dry everything out and raise temperatures in a place that is already dangerously hot. What's a heat island? Oh, look, fire!

Oh, you didn't even clear those trees for anything important planned and just stuck up a sign saying "new industrial opportunities!" Boy, that sure was worth cutting into a previously protected forest and killing a bunch of endangered koalas and quolls for!

Oh look, the slop warehouse you replaced that native forest with has a koala for a logo! We sure love our national icons! I wonder where all the real koalas went?

agony-shivering

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Currently stuck in a walled bougistani compound in the arid, exotic deserts of so-cal and I can report the people running this planet are the most banal idiots you can imagine. It's bad enough seeing all the destruction wrought, and then you see what they actually bought with their blood money and it's just the most banal shit imaginable. They're doing all this horrible shit and they're not even having fun.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      Currently stuck in a walled bougistani compound in the arid, exotic deserts of so-cal and I can report the people running this planet are the most banal idiots you can imagine.

      Ever get invited (so they can gawk at the member of the poors in the room and have an audience for their own meritocratic autoerotic tales of perseverance and individualism) to an actual wine tasting event? Shit sucks. Don't recommend, not even to get a buzz. Not worth it.

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        10 months ago

        hahahhahaha no I would actually rather die. Also I can;t drink for medical reasons.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          10 months ago

          Also I can;t drink for medical reasons.

          I don't feel like you're missing much.

          One of the wisest decisions I ever made during my wedding planning was making it alcohol free; made everyone I didn't like leave early and those I cared about stayed the entire time.

          • daisy
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            10 months ago

            That sounds like a damn good idea. Did the guests know about it beforehand or was it a surprise? I feel like if I were doing the planning, I'd make it a surprise, just to avoid certain guests bringing their own supply ahead of time.

            • Kuori [she/her]
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              10 months ago

              that level of disrespect should just get you tossed out. no x means no x, not sneak your own in like it's a middle school dance

            • UlyssesT [he/him]
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              10 months ago

              It was announced.

              They came, they did chud remarks and acted like chuds, but they left fairly quickly to get drunk. Worked for me.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        10 months ago

        Ask a wine-sipping Whole Foods enjoying Tesla driver what kind of wood is in their furniture and more often than not they'll say mahogany.

        You know, rain forest wood. eco-porky