id please rather just stick with jim here bryan...
Jim, my compliments are only a part of that. im trying to identify with you because i really did feel alot like you on similar CT subjects several years ago, right up to the same music groups, iconography, and hobbies. i see that you are not stupid. you clearly have both technical and artistic talents. You have an obvious grasp of modern computer technology, and a much better than most ability with graphics and development software. Better than i ever got in that area.
This leads me to believe you do understand technology, systems, and science to some degree. one doesnt typically get into these hobbies without being an intelligent person with a particular skillset.
And i support your supposed position that pollution is a problem.
However, i must ask you to concede that you have recently switched your views to that. having been here long enough to be rather familiar with you, the position that "pollution causes climate change, climate change is a problem" has not been anything you have stood for here.
You state that the issues are very complex, and i wholeheartedly agree, but your very well produced imagery does nothing but over simplify and polarize.
Given your familiarity with graphic design this is a problem id assume you to be conscious of in your production, however it may be something you have overlooked. Your work glosses over any iota of disagreement presents vague possibility as fact, overstates minority opinion as consensus and in general appears to me as fear mongering. The fact that some of your work is satirical and intermixed into what you consider to be serious information, without obvious differentiation or labeling does not help this issue.
I get that you are not stupid. I understand that when you are posted information, sometimes you do read it, and when you do you understand a good portion of it, no different from any of the rest of us amateurs. However you seem to invalidate or overlook key bits of it to validate past beliefs of yours.
This is totally normal, most all people do it. it is an evolutionary benefit to survival, but given the nature of the information you have in interest in and your amount of exposure, i really wish you would try to be more conscious of it.
It seems obvious to me the pattern of what you over look. This may be a bold assumption, but i feel it is my place to make it because you seem to skip over things in the exact same pattern and for the very same reasons i used to. I draw this from your posting patterns, word usage, and obvious love of lulsec/anon iconography. As a kid who grew up on B, was around for the first public LOIC parties,took every anti-government stance i could, and had wet dreams about v for vendetta, i really feel i know where you are coming from. When i felt like this, i would very very often ignore things i now find obvious in order to find supporting information for things i felt.
Being an avid anon member, my fav conspiracies often involved IP rights, internet law, digital control, hacktivism, etc. Sad thing here is that those areas really ARE fucked up with revolving doors of lobbiests, warrentless actions, NSA letters, Patriot Act, SOPA, PIPA, XXXX-act, etc, all kinds of illegal(imho) shady shit who's ends may not justify the means. Then pile on RIAA/PMAA clusterfuck and you had me drooling with rage. This would naturally bleed over into military sort of CIA false flag libertarian conspiracy stuff because of what the patriot act meant to me, a kid who grew up under it from middle school forward. . of course none of that was justified, but it seemed to me that it was, by proxy. A cognitive bias called the halo effect if you wish to look it up.
This finally came to an absolute end when my friend group got into occupy/ pro-gaddafi lybia. They were just so obviously braindead, without direction lacking critical thinking and going nowhere it forced me to reevaluate my perspective on this. Now i see many of these things still as problems, and in the case of the digital law stuff, still shady, but i am very aware of cognitive biases, logical reasoning, and other things now which has allowed me to see most of these things for what they are, crappy solutions to crappy problems by crappy elected officials doing a crappy job. not some planed night op conspiracy.
hell, with immortal technique.. first i just ignored the religious/Jerusalem stuff. then i grew up a little and ignored that and the 911 stuff. Now i just listen to it from time to time for the stuff about the drug war and oppression in the 3rd world, intellectual property rights, and the fact he used the proceeds from his record sales to build a school in Afghanistan instead of a yatch and 30" rims. He really just seems kinda nutty to me now, but i used to chant the shit like gospel.
The whole point of my bullshit post about cars was to point out that the gas and metal emissions from the cars is VASTLY greater than that from planes, and that given a slant, anyone can outline a government conspiracy about anything, even the layout of roads.
You should be able to tell just from the volumes of fuel additives involved they are not a major source of pollution.
Many of us are short with you here jim, mick included, because of how long you have been coming here, posting something, dismissing everyone's posts, then claiming "See my proof was right!" only to walk off, publicly advertise your "proof", then to return with another bit of totally unrelated "data", pushing a slightly related or totally unrelated theory where the only connection is that the government is trying to get you. Often times the theory is perhaps even contradictory to the last several.
So maybe you can understand a little why some of us, myself most of the time too, are rather impatient with you. Does it show the worst side of us? probably yes, but we have shown your own good side countless times already, more than most users on a random internet forum. you are anon, you should be well aware of this...
Jim, i may have assumed a lot about you, and got some stuff wrong, but i really do wish to try to connect with you about this.