It's obviously droid who snidely called my thread a monstrosity snidely called vim sophomoric and snidely called Barty snide lol
"Eschatology and climate change - The psychology, history and social origins of apocalyptic thinking and its relation to ecological crisis"
I don't really mind them but it's a weird way of participating on the thread and I dunno why people revel in the opportunity to have a pop anonymously when it's all pseuodonyms on here anyway.
I think it allows people to express their frustrations (very often with me, let's face it) without needing to get into a head on confrontation.
i think i'm really bad at navigating this stuff. i very much overestimate how chummy written language can come across. i've definitely done tags about people in the past assuming it's all fine. maybe they're coming across as a lot more venomous than i've intended.
i remember datwun was upset with the tags on the deep tech thread (which was well before my time) and i was surprised.
this applies to posts as well i suppose.
Well yeah, that must make it particularly irritating to be dismissed by the Trumps of this world. Surely many of them would love to hear Sarah Palin or Trump or whatever saying "Oh my God, the greens were right all along" even if it was seconds before the entire human race was wiped from the planet.Also wrt greens 'wanting to be right', as its been brought up previously. Dunno how closely you follow things but there is a major problem in climate science and activism with depression, burnout, suicide etc. That's not ideological desire at work.
Also, they are right.
Yeah but too many of us have met in real life for that to mean anything now.I don't really mind them but it's a weird way of participating on the thread and I dunno why people revel in the opportunity to have a pop anonymously when it's all pseuodonyms on here anyway.
i very much overestimate how chummy written language can come across.
lol yeah, same.
I've noticed that a decent amount of art that addresses global warming in an ostensibly serious, intellectual manner seems to use it as an excuse to imagine a fantasy world. thinking in particular of a VR thing I saw at the local "cool" art museum a few months ago. james ferraro and daniel lopatin's recent stuff exemplifies that as well. it doesn't make a lot of sense to say that by making this stuff, you're fighting against global warming. more like making it look cool.
It's funny that tags are used for something completely different from their original "cataloguing" intention though.