CHEERS TO GUY WALTON FOR “OUTING” THE FOSSIL FUEL COMPANIES
From the article:
Walton has devised his own criteria for named heatwaves in the US, based on duration and extremity, on a one to five scale similar to hurricanes. Heatwave Chevron is classed as a four and is “historic”, Walton said. The meteorologist said he has a list of 20 oil and gas companies – including Exxon and Shell – for upcoming heatwaves and will turn to coal companies if he runs out of names.
Aquarius(January 20th - February 18th) is the eleventh astrological sign and is equatorial constellation of the zodiac, between Capricornus and Pisces. In Greek mythology, Aquarius is sometimes associated with Deucalion, the son of Prometheus who built a ship with his wife Pyrrha to survive an imminent flood. They sailed for nine days before washing ashore on Mount Parnassus.Traits associated with Aquarius include being independent, enigmatical and unique. There is no one quite like an Aquarius, and because each is so incredibly individual, it can be tough to describe them as a group. They don’t like labels, and may shy away from any adjective (even the good ones you might bestow upon them). Aquarians have deep passion, but they know jumping into somethingtooquickly cancause more harm than good. They are often big-picture thinkers who can see connections in a way that eludes others. However Aquarians can sometimes seem as if they don’t care about their individual relationships, or they are holding something else at a higher value. For example, an Aquarian may cancel at the last minute because a friend or family member is in need. It’s not personal, nor it’s not a bad thing. Regardless, they always believe in the innate goodness of people. An Aquarian will never doubt you, even when you doubt yourself. Their ability to see the best in all people, even if people don’t see those qualities in themselves. Overall Aquarians just love to lift people up and lighten the mood in the process.
I’ve heard this rule of thumb about finances: never cheap out on things that are supposed to keep you off the ground. Shoes, the wheels of your car, flooring, mattresses. Whatever budget you’ve got for anything else, if the thing’s main task is to be between you and the ground, you’ve got to invest in quality. You do your research and find the best ones you can afford, even if you go cheap on everything else and the rest of your life is kept together with duct tape. Bad is infinitely better than nothing, but if you can get something good, you get the good suff.
I think the same principle applies in music in movies and video games. The best possible graphics of the time will age faster than you can blink, your special effects will look goofy in about 3 years if they don’t look so already, but great music does not age. And that’s what keeps the whole thing off the ground.
CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it’s part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions
if CGI animators unionized, it would kill the MCU. straight up. the the entire business model is built on exploiting CGI animators
Their flagship store and New York has unionized along with 3-4 other stores! This is happening! People are tired of being seen as dollar signs and being made to work just to get to work more, to survive instead of thrive. Keep it UP.
I said this a couple years ago (one year ago?) and most of the comments on tumblr actually did not know this, so to reiterate what you’re up against: a VERY mainstream belief among American Christian fundamentalists is that they are the only ones who experience love. They raise their kids to think that everyone “living in sin” (all other faiths, atheists, and LGBT people) goes through life sad and empty, falsely believing they know what love feels like, and will never know until they’re “saved.” It’s not as simple as them diminishing the humanity of others out of hate, but being deeply brainwashed to believe others are automatically mentally less human.
They are also very good at convincing new converts that they really are experiencing this “real” love for the “first time;” the same way members of all cults can become wholeheartedly convinced that they’re receiving psychic alien messages or communing with spirits. Cult conditioning is simply that powerful.
The flip side of the redefinition of “love” is also that Christians genuinely believe they can “love” someone by calling them to repentance for their sinful lifestyle. They genuinely “love” their gay kids by not supporting their ~homosexual lifestyle~. They genuinely “love” people in foreign countries by continuing to send missionaries to colonize “spread the gospel.” “Loving other people” gets twisted into “doing what you think is best for other people,” regardless of if it’s actually good for that person or if that person wants you to do that.
Happiness get redefined too. As a child I was taught that while “people without the gospel” may claim to be happy, they couldn’t experience true happiness, because “true and lasting happiness” only came from the gospel. Other people could only experience temporary worldly pleasure, like the kind you get from buying something cool or riding a roller coaster (yes that was an actual thing that was said) or “indulging in sin,” but it would ultimately make them unhappy in the long run.
I was told that, since those people had never known the true happiness of the gospel, they mistook worldly pleasures as happiness, but in reality their lives were empty and less meaningful and deep down, they could sense something was “missing.” Also, apostates were all depressed and angry alcoholics who couldn’t be truly happy bc they’d rejected the gospel.
One of the techniques cults and high control groups use is redefining words to make the definitions suit their purposes. Love and happiness are just two words that get redefined this way.
there’s no hate like Christian love, but it also seems like there’s no missery like christian joy
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