Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
'Earth Now Has 50% Chance of Hitting 1.5°C of Warming by 2026' I remember when I was a kid in school, and I am only in my early 20s fwiw, and we were told that 2c was more or less apocalyptic and could happen within 50 years and that's why we have to act asap. we all know nothing will happen in 4 years to stop climate change so 1.5c is as good as happening, already. we're gonna hit 2c before 2035, and god knows what 2050 could look like as environmental feedback loops become exponential
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I've lived in california my entire life. We used to need rain gear for at least a couple months out of the year. Now it's maybe a couple days out of the year.
We are so unimaginably fucked.
And we get to commiserate with our sister land of eastern Australia about all the shit burning up in our horrendous annual fires. Yeehaw!
Don't worry we've pretty flooded right now
I'm still waiting for "Carrington Event" to hit the media
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Don't worry, I'm sure the next massive solar storm will happily conform to our strict hell world standards by happening at a time when the middle of the Pacific Ocean is experiencing midnight.
I live in the US South and our temps are now swinging from 110F in the summer to around 0F (or less) in the winter, for days to weeks.
In the 90's, 32F in the winter would get news stories about how cold it was and if it was going to snow this Christmas. Now we're getting fucking sub zero blizzards when a cold dome settles in the middle of the USA.
None of our shit is able to handle swings like that in our area.
it's also worth mentioning that figures like 1.5c and 2c and so on are averages. there will very much be times and places that this is much higher and are hit much harder. and honestly, going by how EVERY climate report worth its salt goes these days, these are conservative estimates that will be blown out of the water within a year or two with an even more dire report that still was hushed and watered down
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:doomer: Ah, isn't it great to be young and looking forward to all this?