Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else do this? I really hate suffering (also bullying) of any kind and this extends to saving worms drowning in puddles, snails in the middle of the path ready to be trod on, bees in the middle of the road and such like. Today I walked past a worm drowning in a puddle and had to turn back to go save it. Any kind of animal suffering means huge emotional turmoil for me, more so than any suffering of humans. I’ll think about it for the rest of the day. It also means I really struggle with adverts asking for donations and showing donkeys in awful states and whatever other animals they show. I have to turn it over as I can’t physically do anything to help them and get an awful feeling in my stomach.
Sorry to see you have left Zoe.
In case you still read the forum, just wanted to wish you all the best in life.
I'm skeptical about "experts" trading on their competence in one area to back up their arguments in another. He's a linguist not a military strategist. Anyway when it comes to science ... and even more so politics, my approach is 'nullius in verba' which roughly translated is 'I don't care who said it.' If an argument needs to be propped up by a reputation its not much of an argument.
As for nuclear winter my understanding is recent projections suggest this 'winter' might only role temperatures back to pre global warming levels. Thats assuming the loss of around 100 major cities on earth. If tomorrow north korea nuked seoul and tokyo and America nuked pyongyang the global climate would not noticeably change. Don't get me wrong millions would die but even the nations involved wouldn't vanish.
Oh no, though I do like bees I don't keep them, it's an inside joke about my pronouns with another person who kept getting stuck on the plural version.
What's the deal with you and Bees? Do you keep them?
Obviously if you're on the Right you may not like him. I'm a fan though.
I'm glad you feel similarly towards snails. It always fills me with dread if I accidentally hear a crunch because it's not as if they can just quickly get out of the way when they see us coming.
If I see a snail crossing a path I'll pick them up and drop them off on the other side, I viscerally hate the thought of someone just walking through with no regard for them because it's not like a snail can just get out of the way.
Noam Chomsky is regarded as the worlds most foremost intellectual.
By whom? Is the a committee I can apply to for that post
" As a youth i used to weep in Butchers shops." - Montague Withnail.
Noam Chomsky is regarded as the worlds most foremost intellectual. And he says the Nuclear Threat is one of two key challenges for humans. And both challenges threaten human survival on earth.
Some humans may survive it. But huge numbers would not. Human civilization depends on farming and agriculture. Agriculture also depends on crop pollination. Which is why saving the Bee's is so important. No Bee's, no humans.
When I was a kid I used to always hold my breath when I walked past the butchers. I'm lifelong vegetarian and can't stand the smell or the thought that I'm breathing in... dead animal particles.
I Sperg said:AND unlike patriot, their anti ballistic missiles systems are quite effective.
and only deployed around Moscow.
Very recently, I was reading that the Russians have just completed a program of sending a large portion of their "boomers" (nuclear strike equipped submarines) at full speed to literally and overtly surround the United States, before they dived out of sight...
About a year ago they went onto full combat alert, (we are still only at Defcon 3 overall and Defcon2 in Europe, Africa (for some reason) and the middle east, last time I looked) and moved a portion of their mobile attack force a few hundred miles westwards.
They've recently fielded a slew of new missiles (since about 2018) that are way better than the missiles that our counter measures were made for, including some real novel stuff like their Poseidon and Khibinyhy systems (not sure I got the spelling right there) AND unlike patriot, their anti ballistic missiles systems are quite effective.
I remain astounded that there aren't street protests going on right now about Britain's conduct in this matter.
I can only hope that my astonishment is an artifact of my Autism, and not a valid response to a real shared lack of interest out there in all of your own survival, as it would appear to me..
That’s only if it’s a global nuclear conflict. Nato vs Soviet Union type stuff. And we’ve had supper long winters in the recent past which humanity and civilisation survived.
I read somewhere that just one nuclear conflict, would bring about a nuclear winter, that would fundamentally alter the atmosphere of the planet.
We had 2 of our cats runover - it was really sad- they were strays we took in. People always went too fast where I lived and the poor cats had no chance- the only reason the latest stray is still alive is because she is terrified of the road (and plenty of other things) and doesn’t go near it
Yes me too- there used to be a cycle path that i went on where at dusk the path would be covered in snails with shells- I stopped cycling there as it was almost impossible to avoid them and I also almost fell a few times in my attempts to avoid the snails. I also often rescued snails - especially when growning up as we had a large garden- I also liked to place them on dandelion leaves which they like to eat and I would then watch them do that.
Shudder
We occasionally get days where there are hundreds of them all over the path outside the park where I walk the dog. It does feel like they're up to something.