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cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/42801359
Has anyone heard someone blame Canada as if the nation of Canada was personally attacking them?
Had a relative do that yesterday and it was a reminder in a moment that should have been a low stress, loving moment with family a rage inducing reminder that we're fucked.
Trump called it an invasion and threatened tariffs. Your relative is probably watching Fox News or something more depraved.
it's those guddam lazy Canajians refusing to rake those leaves!
Tariffs will fix this!
We're in the 'FIND OUT' phase of what happens when you clear cut an entire continent and replant our forests on a massive scale while thinking that 'oh all that sequestered carbon will just be recaptured in the new trees we plant'. No - whats happening instead is - the trees we mass replanted don't capture that carbon back at a rate we expect - I am pretty sure the forestry industry knows this - but hey profits right?
Also I reckon if we have retained our old growth forests, it wouldn't be this bad. It would still be bad, but at least our forests would be more resilient. As for those that have no idea what a old growth forest is - think massive trees that are wider than 2 cars at the base and that are over a thousand years old each at minimum. Go visit one when you have a chance - they are increasingly rare because governments are still fucking allowing logging companies to cut them down. Also, you'll find they're a lot more humid than young forests (~200 year old ones). It's a travesty. In BC, for example, 97% of the province have been clear-cutted and our forestry industry likes to tout themselves as 'sustainable'. It's bullshit. What's even crazier is that we got barely any industry other than shipping out raw lumber for processing elsewhere while we lose jobs and taxes on value added industries.
People spent decades preventing wildfires. Fires are a natural part of ecological systems. Overgrowth and a build up of litter cause more intense fires and increase their ability to spread. In northern regions, people were also preventing beavers from doing their thing that helps reduce wildfire spread. At least in Florida we pioneered controlled burns to simulate nature and save lives.
Lmao Florida didn’t pioneer controlled burns
Australian Aboriginals have been doing it for centuries. Their methods are still used here by the state fire departments.
Edit: sorry, millenniums.
You have no idea what you are talking about, the forest in Ontario is bigger than Texas.
I don't know what you are talking about. I was just saying interesting things about ecosystems. Do you have questions?
I don't think many Americans understand how much of the Country is forests. In Quebec everything past the river plains north of A40 or 138 is forests.
Controlled burns in North America predate Florida.
Here's Ontario's page on it:
You're not wrong. Indigenous regularly burned. Florida's pioneering I mentioned was about policy. California still struggles to get it right.
Thank you for your elaboration.
-I had no idea people would hate sharing knowledge. Look at the downvotes!
I was waiting to be seated at a restaurant Friday when I overheard the same sentiment but then took a hard right turn....
"It never used to be like this" 'i know' "All the liberals stopped the logging in Canada and now look at them burn and here we are dealing with it."
God fox news is stretching more and more
When the point is barreling straight for their nose and somehow misses them
Its just propaganda. The most effective of which seems to be false explanations and distraction conspiracies. Anything but allow people to see whats going on and who's doing it.
The most important thing to them is their pride. They will literally prefer the world to be burnt down then give that up.
Nah, the actual problem is all the wind mills and solar panels. They're screwing up the weather!!!
(I seriously had a chud tell me this.)
of course you are producing storms if you plaster everything with giant fans!!!
Last I checked wind farms are accelerating earth's rotation. Something like that will obviously change the climate.
Meanwhile he's paying a literal Nazi monthly for a blue checkmark on his fascist platform...
A literal Nazi who uses illegal generators to power his “AI” data centre and pollute Michigan. That is, massively contributing to climate change.
Cunt calls someone else out when his own hands are filthy.
Weird context to see Geoff Thew.
Context for those out of the loop, Geoff Thew runs an anime review channel on YouTube called "Mother's Basement".
And in case anyone asks, back when I followed him he had moved out of his mother's basement to live with his girlfriend. No idea if that's still the case
His channel drives me nuts because he'll act like some anime is the lewdest, trashiest piece of smut he's ever seen then you go to check it out yourself and it's like, two brief panty shots.
Look dude, if I'm coming to restaurant called chez garbage, I'm not here for the slightly soggy fries appetizer
Sounds like someone I should check out. He's absolutely right to call shit like that out
Anime has a pervert problem. Any other media would get raked over the coals for how much and how often the characters are sexualized, especially in stories where it doesn't fit. But in anime, it's just brushed off because its become so normalized, but it really shouldn't be.
Think about this, what was the last piece of non-anime media you've seen that featured a girl's panties? Not a woman. Not an adult getting dressed. But an underaged girl's panties. Because that shit is everywhere in anime, and it's played off as cute or funny. It's fucking gross.
Show me where I said underaged in my comment. We're talking about legal smut for consenting adults, chill out.
And yeah dude, that would be fine if the point was to call out trash in anime, but it isn't, the point of his videos is to celebrate the trash. We aren't talking about PG-rated anime sneaking in gross pedo shit into their shows for children here (which is unquestionably gross), we're talking about ecchi shows made explicitly for adult audiences with the primary intent to titillate.
It's not like The New Yorker doing an exposé on the porn industry, it's like the porn industry doing a sensationalized preview for a video called "Extreme Anal Nurses Gangbang 7" then finding out that the movie in question actually only features one nurse and she's fully dressed the whole time.
Take your pearl clutching somewhere it's at least halfway appropriate, please.
I'm a casual fan, but IIRC he and his girlfriend moved to Japan.
So now he lives in his girlfriend's basement?
Better sounding than having a girlfriend in your basement.
Such a handy channel for me as someone who doesn't watch much anime. His quarterly recommendations mega videos usually align with my tastes.
I mean, he's pretty openly actually leftist, which is more common than you'd think in the anime sphere.
Didn't know the name, but that's logo did seem familiar.
I grew up in Northern MI. 1989-2011. I do not recall any summer of wildfires smoke coming across the lake.
In the 90s and early 2000s, we had lots of "smog days" in southern Ontario. Of course those were mostly from coal plants in Ontario and Michigan, not forest fires. I wonder if its related.
A dumbass on dumbass-platform X calls another dumbass "dumbass". What a dumbass.
We are all a dumbass on this blessed day.
Wildfires hitting a specific area is also just rare. I grew up in a wildfire-prone area and we only got significant smoke once. So not remembering any doesn't really say anything meaningful necessarily.
The name is "Doo-Moss"