one of the things i think is really overlooked about youtube is the incredible plasticity of the niche things u can learn about on it. yea netflix/cable can give me all 4 seasons of arrested development but can they give me a 13 minute 29 second video on the rise and fall of the beanie baby market manufactured by its morally corrupt corporate overlord and then shower me with videos on related subjects below??? for free, none the less?? i think not
rich silicon valley fucks can make reality tv shows on netflix about smoking/cooking weed and nothing comes of it. Rich celebrities openly brag about smoking weed on every platform and nothing comes of it. Musical festivals are synonymous with smoking weed and using other drugs like hallucinogens but they’re never searched or raided by police. Meanwhile people below the poverty line selling weed so they can afford food/rent will get put in jail for a decade or more. I dunno how you can sincerely believe the “”war on drugs”” is anything other than a really poorly veiled propaganda campaign to hide what is just getting rid of poor people and/or using them for free prison slave labor lol
Is there anything more insufferable than hearing commonwealth countries like Canada and the UK make fun of American injustice like the call is coming from inside the house girl
The extreme wildfires sweeping across parts of North America, Europe and Siberia this year are not only wreaking local damage and sending choking smoke downwind. They are also affecting the climate itself in important ways that will long outlast their flames.
Wildfires emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that will continue to warm the planet well into the future. They damage forests that would otherwise remove CO2 from the air. And they inject soot and other aerosols into the atmosphere, with complex effects on warming and cooling.
To be sure, the leading cause of global warming remains overwhelmingly the burning of fossil fuels. That warming lengthens the fire season, drying and heating the forests. In turn, blazes like those scorching areas across the Northern Hemisphere this summer have a feedback effect—a vicious cycle when the results of warming produce yet more warming.
Although the exact quantities are difficult to calculate, scientists estimatethat wildfires emitted about 8 billion tons of CO2 per year for the past 20 years. In 2017, total global CO2 emissions reached 32.5 billion tons, according to the International Energy Agency.
When they calculate total global CO2 output, scientists don’t include all wildfire emissions as net emissions, though, because some of the CO2 is offset by renewed forest growth in the burned areas. As a result, they estimate that wildfires make up 5 to 10 percent of annual global CO2 emissions each year.
I got some requests eons ago for resources to learn about antisemitism. Feel free to reblog or comment with more. My education was more formal, so these are resources that looked good, not necessarily where I learned.
ADL on Antisemitism – a pretty good historical overview of the history of Western antisemitism but doesn’t go into a ton of depth or talk much about modern antisemitism. Still a good place to start
– discussion of “American Jewish life during the rise of fascism, false equivalences between left-wing and right-wing anti-Semitism, and how anti-Muslim bigotry has become a shield for anti-Semites"
Jewish Virtual Library’s collection on Antisemitism – I haven’t read everything on here, but their content is always very good. I wouldn’t try navigating this without some background or a clear goal in mind. However, this list should be especially helpful if you’re looking for statistics & studies.
European farmers are counting the cost of a summer heatwave that has shrunk cereal harvests and shriveled pastures, leaving some farms struggling to survive and shutting the EU out of lucrative export markets.
The severe weather in Europe has coincided with adverse growing conditions in other major grain producing zones such as Russia and Australia, raising the risk that supplies in exporting countries will be eroded to their smallest in years.
The latest harvest estimates have underlined the impact of drought and heatwaves in northern Europe. Germany’s farmers’ association DBV on Wednesday forecast a 22 percent plunge in grain production this year in the European Union’s second-largest cereal grower.
Germany endured its highest summer temperatures in over a century as extreme weather gripped northern Europe from Britain to the Baltic states.
The combination of poor harvest yields and shriveled grassland has led to spiraling costs for animal feed, putting pressure on livestock farms.
I haven’t seen any communities for those of us who can’t leave the house from day to day so I made a discord server!
Who is welcome
Anyone who ends up spending a vast majority of their time at home due to a medical condition eg. Agoraphobia, OCD, anxiety, a physical disability, sickness etc.
REMINDER: The desexualization of fat people is a problem and its okay to fight to be recognized as sexual beings. It is ALSO okay for fat women to feel conflicted when this comes packaged with being objectified and dehumanized. One should never have to tolerate being objectified to have their sexual agency acknowledged.
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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