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... anyone seeing the resemblance to Goebbels here?

I think a lot of the powers that be are relying on automation to take over a lot of manual labour jobs rather soon. Can't see it filling the gap that is needed in any way near a satisfactory fashion, but that appears to be the path being taken.

Frozen Planet II. "Here's the awe inspiring beauty of the poles and the life within it... and here's how our species is categorically fvcking it all up for them." Absolutely worth the watch.

It's been talked about for years that potable water - and all the uses it has, including growing crops - will become a vital strategic resource in the future as the world changes. The people that have the power to do something about it (and tbf a lot of the people that vote for them) just haven't listened enough and considered it not a problem in their time, or have listened and let it happen anyway because being top dog in a broken world is better than actually being one human being among many in a more equitable one.

Remember folks - a hug is always less costly than a bullet.

If this is the case, then I reckon there are two options: - Sit down and talk and come to an amicable agreement about differences - Let things escalate until the obvious outcome occurs (lots and lots of death and suffering of innocent people regardless of demographic) and when enough blood has been spilled, then talk. Always thought the second option seemed rather pointless and redundant but it seems that others think differently.

I reckon there's a whole load of horrible about the 90s-2000s music/showbiz industry that we don't know about yet.

Pretty much. And that is the real problem - it's that the extremes of weather are showing up more frequently. Those extremes are only going to become more pronounced as global average temperatures increase.

... and it seems that trend is alive and kicking into May, too.

Par for the course for the Heil.

Yeah. Even if the latter will, in the end, be responsible for a toll of misery orders of magnitude higher than the former. Edit: and that's the true art of science communication; you can't sidestep that lack of rationality, so you have to account for it and make things work in spite of it.

It's remarkable how inability to learn from the past appears to be buried into the human psyche, isn't it?

And the problem is that there are people in high places that know this and are encouraging the social deprivation because firstly it's good for business in of itself, and also because a good race/religion/ideological divide keeps the attention away from them, as well as (for some of them) being exactly what they want in terms of their own ideology.

If he is, then I think the final part of that sentence will become pretty much a certainty. Here's hoping the UK follows the recent Canada/Australia route instead.

I totally agree that things appear to be being pushed to 11. I also think folks like Farage are doing a lot of the pushing, and it is worrying because logically I only see it ending one way.

If these are both true, then all we can really do is preserve what we can for the record to ensure that whatever intelligent species succeeds us doesn't repeat our short-sighted and self-interested mistakes. But speaking personally, I'm not giving up just yet.

It was ever thus, mon ami. The real trick of SciComm is to use the one to get people to care - and act - about both.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyglw20lg2o Trump's sycophants not happy that the new Pope sees a large chunk of in need human beings as exactly that rather than something that they found on the bottom of their shoe... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2q937wlqgo ... but these in need human beings are apparently deserving of their help. I wonder why?

This keeps getting proven to be the case and the clock keeps ticking down.

You may well be right tbh, it's clearly only a hypothesis based mostly on anecdotes rather than anything near tested right now. I guess my own worldview in this matter can be a bit twisted as well by the amount of casual cruelty I've seen in online interactions.

There is a link between human behaviour towards animals and the like and their attitude towards humans that can offer no consequences to any actions they might do, so there is a kind of precedent there. Speaking personally and anecdotally, I'm very much of the opinion that people who are inclined to be dickish in the digital world can and will often be dickish and abuse power over those who cannot or will not respond in the flesh, too.

The Attenborough brothers is a good story of a couple of Leicester lads come good. It is darkly amusing however the amount of people out there who will watch one of Sir David's shows and call him a national treasure in one breath and then vote for policies that are his absolute antithesis in the next.

That tallies. Tbh though looking at it more simply, in terms of base value judgements if you're on the opposite side of them to people like Vance, then usually you're on the right side.

Well, thinking JD Vance is wrong is a good start.

Both grandads saw action. Paternal one was in the Royal Engineers, he was with the BEF evacuated at Dunkirk and then saw action in North Africa, Eighth Army. Maternal one was Navy, was based in the Far East for the most of the war. Neither of them wanted to talk much about what they saw and did, which I think is entirely justifiable. Never Again.