What if they gave a Brawny Boycott and no one came?

@Victorious Parasol:

Though I’m reminding myself that a movie isn’t a movie until it’s scripted, cast, and shooting has begun. I am, after all, married to a Terry Gilliam fan.

And even that’s not a guarantee. See the original attempts to film ‘The Man who Killed Don Quixote’, stopped by a flash flood and an injured star, as well as noise from the nearby military practice range. Though apparently there’s been an attempt at doing it again, almost twenty years later.

@brian

there’s an “alt-left” now?

Some of the other places I visit, people have been complaining about a “ctrl-left” instead. (Because they want to control everything, you see.) Which has led to a number of jokes about keyboard politics…

I read a page on that Larson character’s wiki and now would like a hug before I hide under the bed for a little while. As bad as you may imagine his platform to be, it’s worse.

@AsAboveSoBelow
The interwebz can be a scary place! Sending you cyber hugs.

…but not much absorbency.

Alan: turns out, Time did *not* have a global cooling cover in the 1970s! They had a short article in 1974, and Newsweek had one in 1975, but neither ever ran a cover. The Time Magazine cover I’ve seen is a photoshop of a cover that actually ran in 2007 … about global warming!

http://science.time.com/2013/06/06/sorry-a-time-magazine-cover-did-not-predict-a-coming-ice-age/

Lovelock is funny: in later years he went emeritus and started flip-flopping on whether global warming was going to be COMPLETE CATASTROPHE OHMIGOD ITS TOO LATE WERE DOOMED or ho-hum no big deal.

His Gaia stuff is a neat design for an ecosystem. It’s not related to how things actually work, but if you were to design a world, it would be a good stabilization system to set up.

The only thing to remember about Gaia theory is that it’s normative, not descriptive.

The Earth does not exhibit homeostasis, as evidenced by the mass extinctions, the snowball Earth and hothouse Earth periods, and the unstable equilibrium of glaciation/interglacial that our CO2 emissions are popping us out of.

Life has repeatedly nearly killed itself: First off, in the great oxygenation event, photosynthesis spewed out toxic oxygen that killed most anaerobic microbes except those in the deep soil and in certain deep sea areas, and burned up the methane in the atmosphere, so the Earth fell into a snowball Earth cycle.

Then, plants colonized the land in the late Devonian, which sped up geologic weathering (because the roots cracked the soil), and that drew down CO2, which led to another snowball Earth period.

Finally, in the biggest mass extinction (the P-T extinction), the Siberian Traps burned through coal deposits. That spiked CO2, which spiked the temperature, which reduced oxygen in the ocean, which led to anaerobic life thriving again in the ocean, even near the surface. That life emitted H2S rather than O2 as its waste product. Just as O2 is toxic to it, H2S is toxic to us.

Oh, post-finally, we’re currently causing a mass extinction event. So far it’s mostly been directly from hunting / harvesting, and through habitat destruction. But we’re also burning through coal deposits. That spikes CO2, which spikes the temperature, which reduces oxygen in the ocean…

Rhuu: http://www3.geosc.psu.edu/~jlm80/Geosc497/Kump2005burp.pdf

In the deep ocean, sulphate-reducing bacteria prefer to eat oxygen, but they’ll eat sulphate and burp out H2S when they have no oxygen to eat. Normally, that H2S drifts up to the surface, reacts with O2 to form sulphate, and that’s the end of it.

Kump et al calculate that there’s a critical point where the H2S overwhelms the O2 and starts leaking out to the surface — and that this has happened.

When that happened, our ancient ancestors got “toxic levels of H2S in the atmosphere. Moreover, the ozone shield would have been destroyed, and methane levels would have risen to 100 ppm.”

If that happens again, no mere paper towel, no matter how butch, will save you.

@John:

Oh, don’t worry, not even hours ago I saw somebody whining about how SJWs ruined Horizon because white guys do bad things in it and men and women of color are the ones who fix things.

Oh, don’t worry, not even hours ago I saw somebody whining about how SJWs ruined Horizon because white guys do bad things in it and men and women of color are the ones who fix things.

I just took at look at the ‘Horizon’ steam page. It looks like a standard 4X sci-fi game. What are the ‘bad’ things that the white characters do?

@Fabe

You’re looking at the wrong game. The one they’re angry about is Horizon : Zero Dawn and it’s a Sony exclusive, hence why it didn’t show up on Steam.

Among the bad things that white dudes (and people who aren’t white dudes) in the game do : xenophobia, misogyny, fanaticism, classism, screwing the environment, etc. So huh, pretty much the same things that white dudes (and people who aren’t white dudes, but meh, mostly white dudes) in the real world do. And yes, they do it with the same smug superiority.

Guess they mad ’cause it’s otherwise unrealistic, since the giant robot dinosaurs are hunted by a woman who very clearly doesn’t know her place and doesn’t even wear a metal bikini.

I just took at look at the ‘Horizon’ steam page. It looks like a standard 4X sci-fi game. What are the ‘bad’ things that the white characters do?

From what I’m guessing of how little I’ve seen, destroying the planet?

I mean, the holograms in the beginning are all monocolored and I didn’t eat a good look at them so I’m not sure they’re all white people or whatever.

But also, how could you say hunting robot dinosaurs with a bow and arrow is a standard scifi game? Where’s all the cool ass dinosaur hunting games that are standard?

I ask because, like, I don’t know much about the story yet other thank people seem to really like it a lot, so all I’m going on is the fact you get to hunt robot triceratops and crap in it which is what sold me when I first heard about it several months back.

The fact that it has a story making white assholes mad is just the cherry on top if I’m honest.

I’m just wondering something, do non-MRA/not-alt-right people ever use the term”virtue signaling” other than while quoting alt-righties? Or is this another one of those things, like calling people “SJW”, that can be used to detect people who have something against people asking them not to be assholes.

I’ve never come across someone on the alt-right “virtue signaling” in a way that actually signals virtue.

If one frequently needs to use shorthand that means “person acting virtuous while not actually solving any problems”, what does that say about the one using the short version?

I don’t know that I have any real point here, sorry.