"... Im Taking Action Because I Feel Desperate, Said U.S. Climate Scientist Peter Kalmus, Who Along With

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1,000+ Scientists Worldwide Engaged in Civil Disobedience for Climate Action

Scientists chained themselves to the White House fence, blocked bridges and occupied buildings. Dozens were arrested.

"... “I’m taking action because I feel desperate,” said U.S. climate scientist Peter Kalmus, who along with several others locked himself to the front door of a JPMorgan Chase building in Los Angeles. A recent report found that the financial giant is the biggest private funder of oil and gas initiatives in the world.

“It’s the 11th hour in terms of Earth breakdown, and I feel terrified for my kids, and terrified for humanity,” Kalmus continued. “World leaders are still expanding the fossil fuel industry as fast as they can, but this is insane. The science clearly indicates that everything we hold dear is at risk, including even civilization itself and the wonderful, beautiful, cosmically precious life on this planet. I actually don’t get how any scientist who understands this could possibly stay on the sidelines at this point.” ..."

How I’m feeling now I’ve had time to process the bullshit I just watched

thoughts and questions and plot holes:

the air in the upside down is supposed to be toxic. the creators forgot will’s birthday. el didn’t know what will was painting but now she “practically commissioned” it for him. mike said that the best day of his life was when he met will but now he’s saying that it was the day will went missing. will was barely in this season at all and, once again, was just used as a supernatural sensor in the last five minutes. mike and el legit do not talk to each other for the rest of the episode after he says he loves her. nancy and jonathan still aren’t communicating. why was noah in a harness. why did they post pictures of a mixtape that said “for will”. there were a shit ton of press shots in general that just didn’t show up and didn’t make sense. they said that who everyone was looking at in the posters was important. is vecna now supposed to be the mindflayer? they never said why the upside down was frozen on the day will went missing. i feel like they hyped up nancy being connected to the upside down somehow and then just never explained it. robin did not explore nancy’s room earlier to just not be able to find music to help her. they said there were five deaths and then there just weren’t. why did caleb mclaughlin say that he would describe this season with the word “traitor”. mike’s behavior makes no sense without him being a repressed gay, it just makes him a jackass. THAT was mike’s monologue? in the press shots, the hug scene really looked like will was hugging two different people and then it just… wasn’t. noah gave some really emotional performances but the scenes were written WAY too fleetingly and made way too short to be believable. the duffers said that will’s sexuality would be directly addressed, where was that? the cast all said that relationships were changing and that mileven was growing apart. mike saying “it wasn’t destiny, it was dumb luck” about him and el meeting and making that sound like it meant something when it didn’t. what ever happened to owens, is he alive, dead, or still handcuffed down there, they totally left that plotline with sullivan wide open. what was the point of that cabin scene being so last minute and feeling so rushed. what about that letter thing that the stranger things twitter posted a while ago that said stuff like “i’m sorry this is late-” with all the dashes and blanks. why doesn’t mike care about his best friend in the world, he can’t hug him, he can’t talk to him, he can’t write to him, he can’t do anything. making el only be able to fight when a boy says he loves her in such bullshit, she’s strong as fuck without him and we do NOT support the idea that she needs to be dependent on someone else to be successful. did all of the d&d parallels and theories mean nothing? the whole reveal at the end that vecna wasn’t dead made no sense and seemed to just be thrown together really hastily. every emotional beat in these episodes felt rushed. how the fuck did max survive and why didn’t vecna rip her eyes out? how did the russians get access to the upside down? does the rift and the particles mean that the upside down and hawkins are now merged? where is murray at the end of all of this? why didn’t el tell them that she went in and saw max and tried to help her? what happened to the rest of the basketball team? why didn’t dustin get any fucking medical attention, he’s still limping around on his leg at the end. dustin rolled an 11 and it was a miss, but now apparently she was strong enough to hurt him or kinda kill him but not really kill him? we’re just not gonna address henry drawing like will? if they planned for that to be more, they could’ve done more foreshadowing with will.

there are a million other criticisms and thoughts i have but i really cannot find the words. byler aside, this plot just wasn’t it.

this season deadass feels like it’s not finished. where the fuck is the rest of it. there are too many fucking plot holes and unanswered questions and not in a way that makes theorizing fun, just in a “what the fuck” way.

this couldn’t been the best season yet. and instead, it’s just shit. genuinely. every plot point and little thing we noticed just ended up being surface level. i seriously do not understand.

- maybe it’s okay to be like the other girls

I...tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.

I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as "ecological deserts."

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