I encountered this book while staying at a friend's house over the weekend. The book itself is bizarre enough, but the acknowledgements page is the work of a special type of adult brain.
Elaine begging her boyfriend Joel Rifkin to change his name so he doesn’t have the same name as a murderer & suggesting “OJ” after looking through a sports magazine, less than a year before OJ Simpson would murder 2 people, is probably the single funniest moment in tv history
The guy sitting next to me is wearing a hat with a picture of the American flag made out of bullets and his phone notification sound is an alpha sounding dude saying, "I'm free".
The entire scientific world: The Earth is getting dangerously hotter and threatens our very existence
Dave936 on Twitter: I was 9 in 1976 and I remember it being hot. There’s nothing to worry about, have an ice cream
Left wing conspiracy: a bunch of guys in the CIA killed a village of women and children to obtain their resources organized by George Bush Sr.
Right wing conspiracy: there’s a giant Jewish laser in the sky that’s making me gay
I'm amazed by how prevalent climate denial still is. Even at 1.3°C of global heating in 2022, with the world burning and melting all around us. If everyone agreed this was an emergency, we'd halt it in a few years.
It's crazy and telling that there isn't a federal budget item for educating the public on climate. Billboards, TV ads, youtube videos, whatever it takes. Hire the best in the business.
"Why is gas so expensive?
2022 Q1 profits:
ExxonMobil - $5,480,000,000 (a 100% increase compared to 2021 Q1)
BP - $6,200,000,000 (highest quarterly profit in a decade)
Chevron - $6,260,000,000 (a 400% increase compared to 2021 Q1)
Biden was nominated to crush our political imagination, and it’s worked. We could be nationalizing these price-gouging industries, but instead we’re told even mitigating their strangulation of the working class is unrealistic.