Pat @Pat@qoto.org

#climate #change #sarcasm #ClimateChange #BrainFuck

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"Climate change is here to stay. We need to get used to it. It's endemic. We need to live with it... Here's a vaccine that will make you feel better about our world falling apart. Make sure you take it every 6 months."

#invention #ideas
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Remote controlled gum.

Whoever voted yes, please let me know where you heard that. Thank you.

The closed captioning is small and hard to see, it says...

Right. So, what happens when we die?

We drop into limbo. Are you serious?

Limbo?! Unconstructed dream space.

(The last CC sentence was not spoken in this clip, it's for the next spoken line in the scene, which was cut off in this clip).

#science #fiction #ScienceFiction #SciFi #FTW #film #movie #drugs #addiction #race #racism #limbo #subversion #IHaveADream #dream #gravity #regrets

Retro SciFi Film of the Week…

Inception (2010)

What if M. C. Escher, Timothy Leary and David Duke got together and made a Hollywood tent pole?

This one has amazing computer graphics along with great acting performances, especially by Elliot Page, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Marion Cotillard. Unfortunately, there was extreme racial bias in the composition of the cast with no black characters in this large cast besides bit parts.

In this film everyone had a dream except black people.

There were just two bit parts with black characters. One was a man interfering with the main protagonist and yelling at him in a foreign language, the other one was a stuntman who fought against a protagonist and was killed in an unusual manner, followed by another protagonist who laughed and said, “Did you see that?” (And the producers chose to have an actor of Indian ethnicity, Dileep Rao, deliver that offensive line.) Other than background, those were the only black people I saw in this two and half hour long movie.

Another huge issue I have with the film is the promotion and glorification of drug use. The film was produced right after Obama took office, when there was a massive, subversive campaign to encourage drug use in the US, along with a huge increase in racism, among many other efforts to undermine society during his administration.

Because of the racism in this 21st-century film, I don’t recommend watching it.

(short, fair use clip from the film, no spoiler)

Did anyone get all four them?

#people #silos #culture #PeoplePoll

Can you describe who these people are and what they are famous for?

(click each one that you know)

#Covid19 #policy #US #China

In China when someone is infected with COVID-19, they lock them up in a quarantine center until they are free of virus.

In the US when someone is infected with COVID-19, they lock them up in coffin and bury them 6-feet underground.

#zeroCovid #China

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7544475

#MSM #media #OldMedia #COVID19 #censorship #accountability #USPol

Have you ever heard anyone from mainstream media ever say that it is wrong that a million Americans died because of what the CDC did (hording 100s of millions of respirators during the pandemic, and telling people to take their masks off), and that policymakers should be held accountable for what they have done to our country?

#covid19 #flu #influenza #respirator #N95

In the US, there are currently 8 times as many deaths due to COVID-19 as there are to the flu.

A properly worn respirator, like a N95 mask, prevents infection and spread of disease from all variants of the flu and COVID-19.

#USPol #journalism #words #ambiguity #NewRule

New Rule:

From now on, any politician, journalist or commentator who uses the word "fulsome" will be sentenced to serve five years at Folsom State Prison in California.

#nuke #energy #covid19 #statistics
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You are more than 5,000 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than from a nuclear power plant accident.

ALOI

This one takes us lightyears away
to a new land, for a bit of a stay.
They say it has a presence of mind,
signs of intelligence, the artificial kind.

Retro rockets, down to the Pale Blue Dot,
search throughout, but intelligence it has not.
Lots of product of artifice we sense
but just artificial lack of intelligence.

So the answer we send back home,
nothing here, no matter how much we comb.
Alrighty then, on to the next shore.
Sounds interesting, let’s hear more...

#MastoPrompt #smallPoems #retro #poem #poetry #artificial #PaleBlueDot

(fair use image, Marvel, Guardians of the Galaxy 3)

#media #oldmedia #fear #tactics
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Today's message from old media...

"Be afraid. Look at all these scary things. Don't you feel anxious now? Good.

"We want you to feel fear so you are afraid to change anything. So if a revolution starts you will be so afraid of change that you will just keep this totally fucked up, shitty system that we have now rather take any risk whatsoever.

"(But keep coming to work and dying of Covid, so our sponsors can make lots of money.)"

**** TruthBeTold Spoiler ****

This one is 100% true…

The image shows a specimen of the brown Bubblebee bat with its wings spread out in a simulated microscope field next to a diagram of the cross-section of a human hair. This is absurd, of course, a hairy mammal smaller than the width of a single hair itself?

But the words of the TBT say, “length” of a human hair, not “width” of a human hair. The bat is actually a bit over an inch long (~30cm).

This bat species is the smallest bat and probably the smallest mammal species.

#TruthBeTold #microscope #hair #animals #SizeMatters #Words #relativity

The truth is...

The Bubblebee bat is the smallest mammal, smaller than the length of a human hair.

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

(image CC-BY-SA-3.0, Momotarou2012, mediawiki commons, modified)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/anderson-cooper-dog-personality-60-minutes-2022-11-27/

(I apologize for the youtube link, but I couldn't find this video anywhere else.)

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Here's an entertaining answer to the question, "Why is the sky blue?" by Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice.

Even though the answer is directed towards a lay audience, it talks about EM wavelengths and Rayleigh scattering.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=UvmWxm3nR6E