Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
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Originally Posted by
Beanz
Of course Britain is not like the Amazon, that would be weird. There has been people here for so long it is hardly surprising that deforestation has occurred. We have now fallen in to the trap of believing that conservation is the preserving of some static human free habitat when of course that is just a modern way of not being able to hold two thoughts in our head at once. There is a pretty strong branch of anthropology in which the agricultural revolution is not seen as the overwhelming positive sign of progress we have been taught and it makes some very strong arguments. The history of our landscape though is a clear demonstration of the same feudal divisions that still visibly mark the land and in which such a small number of people own so much land. Trees, woods and forests are still plentiful, with many cities and towns having several woods in each town as well as parks and hundreds of trees lining the streets.
I love living so close to the moors and inbetween two of the most beautiful coastlines in the country so maybe I am spoiled, but there is still plenty of green and untouched preserved wild open space in Britain.
You haven't got many trees, Luv. Just admit it. 😋
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
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Originally Posted by
Gandalf
Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area
A concern for the environment is hardly a left right issue. If it is then you have finally admitted to being the Tory boy you always claimed not to be. Now you are blaming an imaginary lack of treed on immigration. I can see plenty of trees from my window and that is on the council estate side of the road. You just invent stuff to moan about ;D
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
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Originally Posted by
Beanz
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Originally Posted by
Gandalf
Look at the data. The UK has less forestry than most countries in the world. Lots of grass, but an insatiable appetite for population expansionism which costs a lot of money. I knew the tree density was low but this low is a shocker. Still the lefties import 300,000 a year and go on about the environment. Absolute nutters.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...by_forest_area
A concern for the environment is hardly a left right issue. If it is then you have finally admitted to being the Tory boy you always claimed not to be. Now you are blaming an imaginary lack of treed on immigration. I can see plenty of trees from my window and that is on the council estate side of the road. You just invent stuff to moan about ;D
I am inventing nothing. Look at the data. I always encourage people to look at the data. Lack of trees is because of the endless thirst for land and food and economic growth. A concern for the environment is a human issue and there are too many people. You might see a few trees, but 10% tree coverage is inexcusable.
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
More trees and less migrants would be a fair correction. Not a Tory position. Tories keep borders open. ;)
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-tree-planting
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
It's true that England has less trees than perhaps it should. It is a small, densely populated and largely urban and industrialised country.
Wales and Scotland are very different, and there is quite a bit of genuine wilderness there
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Originally Posted by
X
It's true that England has less trees than perhaps it should. It is a small, densely populated and largely urban and industrialised country.
Wales and Scotland are very different, and there is quite a bit of genuine wilderness there
No it isn't. It is just an oft repeated myth. England is not a lot more urban than Wales and Scotland at all. Urban landscape in England? have a guess...about 10%. 93% of the UK is not urban. Proportion of English landscape that is built on?... about 3%.
There is hell of a lot more of enclosed farmland than anything else in England and there is plenty of room despite the rubbish people repeat to pretend it is full to bursting point. Crazy stuff ;D
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/me...habits_464.jpg
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
I meant 'urbane', obviously ;D
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
The power these companies hold is amazing. Google has 75% of internet searches. Facebook has well over a billion users. I hear people say I don’t use Facebook anymore I banned them I use instsgram. Well Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_by_Facebook
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walrus
The power these companies hold is amazing. Google has 75% of internet searches. Facebook has well over a billion users. I hear people say I don’t use Facebook anymore I banned them I use instsgram. Well Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_by_Facebook
And there are forces at work (in the company and on the platform) that utilize those platforms to silence dissent and browbeat any and all people into conformity.
In '1984' Winston Smith is a records editor at the Ministry of Truth where he rewrites and sanitizes history for the benefit of INGSOC and Oceania....this corporate fascism paired with outrage culture and the nanny state is part of how we wind up there. Another part is when beliefs become larger than people and the humanity you see in someone fades away thereby giving life to endless possibilities of the horrors that could occur without anyone stepping up and challenging those who demand you be offended or demand someone be deplatformed.
I've divorced myself from these social media giants. There's little if any good about them. Twitter is a hellscape worthy of it's own horror movie. There are bubbles in twitter and they lie in wait for anyone to disturb them. They contain wasp nests of victimhood and they'll nail you if you disturb them and at the end of the day they don't want an apology, they don't want to kiss and make up, they don't want a handshake and 'no hard feelings' they want to ruin you, ruin your life, ruin your job, ruin your company, shun you from society......it's wicked and sadistic.
I wonder when or if we will find out the SPLC are giving these techies some leads on "hateful content" ?
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Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
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Originally Posted by
El Kabong
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Originally Posted by
walrus
The power these companies hold is amazing. Google has 75% of internet searches. Facebook has well over a billion users. I hear people say I don’t use Facebook anymore I banned them I use instsgram. Well Facebook owns Instagram and WhatsApp
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List...ns_by_Facebook
And there are forces at work (in the company and on the platform) that utilize those platforms to silence dissent and browbeat any and all people into conformity.
In '1984' Winston Smith is a records editor at the Ministry of Truth where he rewrites and sanitizes history for the benefit of INGSOC and Oceania....this corporate fascism paired with outrage culture and the nanny state is part of how we wind up there. Another part is when beliefs become larger than people and the humanity you see in someone fades away thereby giving life to endless possibilities of the horrors that could occur without anyone stepping up and challenging those who demand you be offended or demand someone be deplatformed.
I've divorced myself from these social media giants. There's little if any good about them. Twitter is a hellscape worthy of it's own horror movie. There are bubbles in twitter and they lie in wait for anyone to disturb them. They contain wasp nests of victimhood and they'll nail you if you disturb them and at the end of the day they don't want an apology, they don't want to kiss and make up, they don't want a handshake and 'no hard feelings' they want to ruin you, ruin your life, ruin your job, ruin your company, shun you from society......it's wicked and sadistic.
I wonder when or if we will find out the SPLC are giving these techies some leads on "hateful content" ?
These companies have access to and can decide what information we view with algorithms and bans. It is quite amazing google may be one of the most powerful companies ever established on the planet
Re: Instagram and facebook and shit like that has really just fucking annoyed me
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Originally Posted by
walrus
These companies have access to and can decide what information we view with algorithms and bans. It is quite amazing google may be one of the most powerful companies ever established on the planet
Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter.....they're all DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) offshoots. Facebook of course was the Lifelog Project, Amazon had a $600 million (that we know of) deal with the CIA in 2014, I'm sure Twitter is also part of the Lifelog Project (as were probably MySpace and Friendster, hell I bet even some dating sites got their start with the CIA...I also bet 23 & Me and other DNA testing sites have nefarious beginnings as well), Google's founder Sergey Brinn got grants from the CIA and NSA to get his company going....it's not a mere coincidence or chance happening.
And the unpersoning that banks have chimed in with as well...it's creating a two tiered society there's the folks who either approve or are just go along to get along and then there's the "untouchables" the bottom of the caste.
I have been worried for quite some time how (after all is said and done) will we reconcile? How do we get back to having friendly neighbors we may disagree with but we enjoy the company of? How will we get back to the brotherhood of citizenship? Will it all remain "I approve comrade" or "That is unacceptable comrade"?
Big Tech needs to be busted up and as a society we need to limit it's impact on us socially immediately. I fear dire consequences, a lot fucking worse than being "deplatformed" and it will hurt a LOT of people.