To get serious for a minute…I was struck by your first meme, 'Canadian becomes world's first patient to be diagnosed as suffering from climate change'. So I did an Internet search on the headline. Turns out it's a true story from 2021: a small town Canadian doctor, during a heat wave and forest fires/smoky air, admitted an elderly asthmatic, diabetic, heart-diseased woman who lived in a trailer with no air conditioning where the interior temperature reached heights of (gasp!) 86° F/ 30° C. His unprecedented diagnosis made worldwide headlines.
This is analogous to the pandemic-era distinction of dying 'from Covid' versus 'with Covid'. Never mind that the patient was teetering on the brink already with multiple severe health conditions. This point is aptly made by the meme's photo of a random grossly obese person, almost certainly not the real subject of the diagnosis.
The most egregious thing about the story is the doctor's statement that “If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just going to keep falling further and further behind.” Of the dozen articles I read, all were composed in a way to implicate climate change as the *cause* of the woman's illness. Of course it's possible that the doctor was referring to whatever lifestyle choices the woman had made during her life to lead to such health problems, but none of the articles even suggested that possibility; it doesn't help that all of them appear to be based on one local news story. Did no one dig into this more thoroughly?
Still firing on all cylinders I see! I have 3 favorites this week.
I accidentally graduated from Art School when I was a kid. If you shake them really hard, then dump them out, Pick-up-Sticks have same result. At the time, I thought it was dumb, so I ignored it. Good thing too!
Kids and pie — getting to the heart of the matter, especially when dessert is involved.
I second @Thebrotatopchip32. I don’t even care that it’s a good joke, just that it amuses me immensely. What a send off! Like a character in Monty Python, I will tell the joke, gurgle, clutch a body part and keel over dead. I can’t think of anything more appropriate.
"CO2 worsens wildfires by helping plants grow—The greenhouse gas is a floating fertilizer"
Bullshit fertilizes bad science.
It does increase foliage growth but DEW fire starting equipment seems to be far more effective at climate change.
To get serious for a minute…I was struck by your first meme, 'Canadian becomes world's first patient to be diagnosed as suffering from climate change'. So I did an Internet search on the headline. Turns out it's a true story from 2021: a small town Canadian doctor, during a heat wave and forest fires/smoky air, admitted an elderly asthmatic, diabetic, heart-diseased woman who lived in a trailer with no air conditioning where the interior temperature reached heights of (gasp!) 86° F/ 30° C. His unprecedented diagnosis made worldwide headlines.
This is analogous to the pandemic-era distinction of dying 'from Covid' versus 'with Covid'. Never mind that the patient was teetering on the brink already with multiple severe health conditions. This point is aptly made by the meme's photo of a random grossly obese person, almost certainly not the real subject of the diagnosis.
The most egregious thing about the story is the doctor's statement that “If we’re not looking at the underlying cause, and we’re just treating the symptoms, we’re just going to keep falling further and further behind.” Of the dozen articles I read, all were composed in a way to implicate climate change as the *cause* of the woman's illness. Of course it's possible that the doctor was referring to whatever lifestyle choices the woman had made during her life to lead to such health problems, but none of the articles even suggested that possibility; it doesn't help that all of them appear to be based on one local news story. Did no one dig into this more thoroughly?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Canadian+becomes+worlds+first+patient+to+be+diagnosed+as+suffering+from+climate+change&t=osx&ia=web
My understanding is it was political from the start as they went on to demonstrate at the city hall after making the diagnosis.
Quite possibly you've done more research on this story than the world's media combined. :)
I too wish to die from laughing at one of my own jokes
I wonder if that dog was ever called a styckophant?
Happy Chewsday!
Still firing on all cylinders I see! I have 3 favorites this week.
I accidentally graduated from Art School when I was a kid. If you shake them really hard, then dump them out, Pick-up-Sticks have same result. At the time, I thought it was dumb, so I ignored it. Good thing too!
Kids and pie — getting to the heart of the matter, especially when dessert is involved.
I second @Thebrotatopchip32. I don’t even care that it’s a good joke, just that it amuses me immensely. What a send off! Like a character in Monty Python, I will tell the joke, gurgle, clutch a body part and keel over dead. I can’t think of anything more appropriate.
Overachiever
Oh, just perfect, doggo! How are you going to get through a fence with that pile o’ sticks???
The DMV meme reminded me of applying for my burn permit today. 😆
Yes. You are right.
Right on 👍