I’m about to check my inbox on here and there better not be any clownery in there. there better not be any silly stuff. i am a serious man. a severe man. not a man of levity. and if i see so much as one frivolous or goofy message in that mailbox then, boy, i will be very upset. and i’m walking over there now to check it
Love the contrast between the Americans’ “Apollo” and the Soviets’ “Sputnik.” You got the Americans naming their rocket after a Greek god trying to communicate the grandness and importance of this rocket. And you got the Soviets naming their rocket “fellow traveler.” Like a friend you go on an adventure with together. This rocket is our little friend lol
They found those who make enough income to be in the top 10 percent of American households are responsible for 40 percent of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions. The top 1 percent of households accounted for 15 to 17 percent of the nation’s emissions, with investment holdings making up 38 to 42 percent of their emissions.
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Then there were “super-emitters” with extremely high overall greenhouse gas emissions, corresponding to about the top 0.1 percent of households. About 15 days of emissions from a super-emitter was equal to a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10 percent in America.
look at the washington post burying the lede, trying to turn neighbor against neighbor.
fyi - to fall in the top 10% of the richest americans, you have to make around $173k a year.
and because the initial statistic about the top 10% is already pretty attention-grabbing, it may do its job in distracting you from the more extreme and illustrative case of the top 1% and “super-emitters.”
the data on the top 1% and 0.1% show that wealth is not just linearly related to emissions but seems to have an exponential relationship, where the emitters in the absolute highest income brackets are contributing far more to emissions relative to their numbers. for example:
Top 10% of Households: responsible for 40% of emissions.
Top 1% of Households: responsible for 15 to 17% of emissions.
“Super-emitters” (Top 0.1%): 15-day emissions equal a lifetime of emissions for the poorest 10%
the top 1% of households alone, which is just a tenth of the top 10%, are responsible for almost half as much of the total emissions attributed to the entire top 10%. this a pretty fucking disproportionate contribution, wouldn’t you say?
if the top 1% contributes to 15-17% of emissions, the remaining 9% (those who fall in the top 10% but not in the top 1%) account for around 23-25% of emissions. that’s not a substantial increase when you consider that it represents nine times as many households!!!
these numbers get even more ridiculous when considering the “super-emitters,” where an even SMALLER portion of the population causes emissions that are wildly disproportionate to their numbers.
15 days of emissions from a super-emitter equals a lifetime of emissions for someone in the poorest 10%. assuming an average lifespan of 75 years, that means a super-emitter’s 15-day emissions equals the emissions from the poorest 10% over 27,375 days (75 years times 365 days). this represents an 1825x increase in emissions.
the problem is not the average american. the problem is not even the top 10% richest americans. the problem is the super-wealthy and their continued rape of our planet. do not let articles like this convince you otherwise.
I don’t know if this is obvious to the twitter commentariat or not, but the intent of this legislation is not directly to control the way kids in a classroom refer to one another. It is meant to bind the hands (and gag the mouths) of teachers and administrators.
And you know who the enforcement’s going to land on, too. They’re not gonna be punishing teachers who call a kid Tommy instead of Thomas or Kat instead of Katherine. It’s gonna be the teachers who call her Kat instead of Thomas or Tommy instead of Katherine
fun fact, this is the single most viewed thing i have ever made, far more than anything i’ve ever drawn, and it was all because i was in a volcanic mood about the companion variety in baldur’s gate 3
No clue why this happens, but the Monster Original flavor just makes me daydream about bottoming for the following 5 hours. No other flavor has this effect, but there I am thinking about wanting someone to smush my face into a pillow and…
