It looks like oil giants are going to face a lot of lawsuits over the damage they have caused. If it’s shown that they knew how bad climate change was going to be and kept quiet, the payouts could be huge.
With too many governments paying lip service to fighting climate change, then subsidising the polluters, I think this is what is needed. Money is all most of the people involved understand. I they lose enough, they’ll comprehend the need to change.
I primarily go to the St George’s Day parade for the scooters at the end, but there are always a few other cool vehicles passing by before them. The first half of the video is the Jeeps, Land Rovers and trucks that also attended, the second half the scooters.
For a while, it looked like the scooters weren’t going to make an appearance. I don’t know what held them up, but it must have been frustrating, and no doubt explains why they seemed more rowdy and anarchic than in previous years.
The Dunbine mini diorama build ends, with the base painted up and the mecha given some finishing touches. You can support Spinneyworld on Patreon.
Here’s an interesting piece from Wired on how hard it would be to truly know and understand alien beings. Or, for us writers, how to depict them in a way that emphasises the alienness whilst still being somehow comprehensible.
https://www.wired.com/story/aliens-science-fiction-literature-imagination/
Given that the new voter ID laws exclude younger and ethnic minority voters, it could be argued that voter ID is voter fraud.
Britain is in the top ten richest countries in the world, but the income gap is massive and poverty rates are at their highest in half a century. We need a wealth tax on billionaires and multimillionaire, to go towards redressing the balance.
If it results in some of the parasites leaving the country, as in Norway, that’s a feature, not a bug.
The Guardian is doing a series of reports on its, and Manchester’s, links to slavery. This introduces the subject, and gives a graphical representation of the city’s growth and rise.
I thought I’d replace the BBC’s title with something more to the point.
To answer their question, I think some are doing it for attention and money, whilst others have convinced themselves that the lies they parrot are true. The former group are more shitty than the latter, but the deluded ones cause just as much pain. Potentially more, in fact, because they’re the ones more likely to stalk people, or try to kidnap children to save them from made up Satanic abuse.
Do ‘disaster trolls’ believe the conspiracy theories they promote? – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65201949?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA
Let’s have a look at some custom cars from the early nineties. A fair amount of pastels and sharp graphics. And some very crazy limousines.
I’ve created a few original characters in my various works, and I hope to make money from them when they catch the public’s imagination. But I don’t see the point of them then being locked away from other authors for 70 years after I’m gone because of copyright. I’d like to see that come down, but for now, we should enjoy stuff like murderous Winnie the Pooh and other reimaginings of nineteenth and early twentieth century characters.
https://www.wired.com/story/winnie-the-pooh-blood-and-honey-copyright-fair-use/