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

@SFHC

The idea is that since we forced the name “Alt right” onto them during the election, they can force the name “Alt left” onto us now.

Wasn’t “alt-right” something they called themselves? I can see why you might want to do a bit of rebranding when everyone else is happy to call you a neo-nazi, for example. Given how much the moniker fails to describe the politics of the awful people who’ve embraced it wholeheartedly, I don’t think it was a creation of anyone outside of the alt-right, and it wasn’t forced on to anyone who would describe themselves as such now.

I just find it amusing that the “alt-political-leaning” pattern has become so toxic given its association with awful, awful people that they’ve taken to using it on their opponents as an insult. Critical self-awareness check failure.

@Victorious Parasol:

Makes me hope the upcoming Lumberjanes movie triggers mass apoplexy.

They’re making a movie! YAY!

@LindsayIrene:

Trump is now demanding a congressional inquiry into the whether or not Obama tapped his phones.

In response my brain can only summon the word ‘idiot’.

Wasn’t “alt-right” something they called themselves?

This is like how global warming “became” climate change when the warming “stopped”.

The meme comes from the fact that the Bush The Dumber administration started to say climate change because that sounded less scary, and thus less important to deal with. In other words. In the scientific literature there’s no switch, the two terms have both long been in use.

But now the right accuses the left of what the right did.

Actually I thought ‘climate change’ happened because so many people couldn’t (or wouldn’t) understand the difference between average global temperature and their local temperature.

@ lith

Yes! Huzzah for all fans of Hardcore Lady Types!

@MrsObedMarsh
Never really liked their less funny list and clickbait articles due to lack of research and fact checking. But when they tackle serious topics they’re quite competent.

OT:
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/trump-travel-ban-iraq/

The order will make clear that lawful permanent residents (otherwise known as green card holders) are excluded from any travel ban. Also those with validly issued visas will also be exempt from the ban, Conway said. It will be effective as of March 16.

“Let’s do the same thing, but exclude residents and Iraq, but include the stipulation of ‘Lawful’ so we can do the same thing as before.”

It must be strange working in marketing for something as basic as paper towels. You have to differentiate your product from all the other brands, but, in reality, they’re pretty much all the same. All your customers care about is the price, and how eco-friendly the product is. So kudos to whoever came up with this Brawny thing: they’ve managed to briefly make paper on a roll seem almost interesting.

But more importantly, it’s an SJW’s wet dream, and I bet the gators will start howling anytime soon if they haven’t already.

Dude, they were in a tizzy when it turned out that in the game you play as a woman, and I’ve heard they’re doing more so since the game came out.

So far I’ve heard good things with the exception that maybe it shouldn’t have borrowed so heavily from Native Americans and stuff.

Otherwise, like, I wish I had a PS4 so I can do and shoot robot dinosaurs with a bow and arrow. I want it so much.

@JoeB

Can felons run for other offices? I know they’re disqualified from the Presidency…

Normally, this would preclude him from being able to run for office, as it was a felony and being able to vote is a requirement for running for office. However, Larson’s voting rights were restored as part Governor Terry McAuliffe’s program to re-enfranchise felons who have paid their debt to society.

Nvm.

Jesalin: Plass 1956 uses “climatic change” — which seems to have been simplified to “climate change” circa 1980 in the literature. He does not have a handy term to discuss “global warming” and instead a variety of phrases including “rise in the average temperature” and “general temperature rise over the entire earth.” He didn’t invent the term either, or at least not in that paper.

I’m not sure of the genesis of the term “global warming.”

Fourier talks of the “température du globe terrestre” — global temperature. That’s 1827. He doesn’t talk about global warming yet, but he does mention that the atmosphere is important.

Tyndall in 1861 figured out *what* in the atmosphere is important: water and CO2. He threw out a one-liner saying maybe changes in the
atmosphere could account for “the mutations of climate.”

The Plass paper is basically the modern understanding of CO2’s effects on climate. Some of the details have been improved since, but the gist of it has been confirmed to be right: CO2 is the thermostat.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.2153-3490.1956.tb01206.x/abstract

The Fourier and Tyndall papers are chock full of WTFs — they knew next to nothing and were working with the shittiest instruments. The first few pages of Tyndall61 are about the colour of silk to use for his instrument to fight the fact that his copper coil isn’t pure copper.

(I’d never actually read these papers; thanks for the excuse!)

@ jesalin & numberobis

When I was a kid the climate worry was that we were heading into a new ice age. Of course that’s still a possibility. We’re currently in an interglacial period and warming could paradoxically alter ocean currents to trigger an ice age. One fact that’s both amazing and perhaps terrifying is that in the last ice age in the UK we went from clear ground to mile high ice sheets in just 30 years. Also the country is ‘springing back’ from the weight of that ice like a see-saw. How cool is that?

The first prediction of global warming I can remember is in the film ‘Soylant Green’. But that had some environmental expert advising the producers.

@Jack

Dude, they were in a tizzy when it turned out that in the game you play as a woman, and I’ve heard they’re doing more so since the game came out.

They’ll have more to write screeds about when they’re done with the story then. She does everything only real manly menz should do, and things even they shouldn’t do. She STEMs the fuck out of old world devices and tech (learns how to turn Machines to her side, for example, but the rest is spoilers). She defies the order and traditions of her tribe, then of pretty much every other tribe. Not only that, but it has a political impact on everyone around too. She’s got one hell of a smart mouth and every conversation is a damn pleasure to listen to, especially when she’s talking to someone she doesn’t like. And she’s pretty kind, but not to point of being overly forgiving of any sort of asshole.

Oh, and she’s a fucking badass who hunts GIANT ROBOT DINOSAURS.

There’s a dialogue with a reactionnary priest in which she calls him out on his “tantrum, [his] cry for attention” with a tone that seems straight out of this very comments section – she also hunts trolls \o/

Basically, she’s everything they hate, and she makes a mark on a world that is in many ways everything they want : burdened by tradition, xenophobia in some tribes, sexism in others, religion in most, and a good deal of general backwards thinking in all of them. Hell, the main antagonist is a fanatic who will interpret every dumb little fact (like physics, for fuck’s sake) into “proof” that his god demands whatever.

And of course the whole thing is supported by pretty masterful writing, so I can’t not swoon.

Re : that article. Yeah I was kinda bugged by the “post-Native” look at first. Though, ain’t my place to say so, but now that it’s out and as far as I can gather (and I’m always willing to be corrected), it’s turned out to do a pretty good job at it. Not “making up for it”, more like “not just cultural appropriation”. Aloy’s tribe (ehh, sort of, she ain’t exactly just gonna forgive and forget about how they cast her out at birth) is one of those that look “savage” in chara design – and actually gets treated as such by their neighbors. Every aspect of that colonial smugness is explored, down to the “chronicling” of them by “civilized explorers” – with the expected hilarious-if-it-werent-so-sad wrong interpretations, speculations rather than fact, etc.

So yeah, it borrows from Natives without actually speaking about Natives… but it speaks some volume, and accurately so, on how Natives are treated, by a transposition that is impossible not to make. I don’t know whether that makes it okay in the end or not. I’m still giving it credit for being careful about that approach and subverting the stereotypes rather than giving in to them. Tomorrow I’ll do some research on how that’s been received and then I can form a more definite opinion.