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I’m sure children won’t be pushed towards violence just because they’ve lost family and friends, home and childhood, to Israeli attacks.

It could be worse than a blank check. Quid pro quo all over again.

I guess the silver lining is that we won’t spend the next few months worried about violent retaliation and a second insurrection. But we’ll have to live through the bickering and multiple finger pointings among non_MAGA people on whose fault it was. Then January 20th will come and we’ll be too busy worrying about our well being to continue the blaming.

It really does parallel Brexit in a way. People are so similar.

What’s really crazy is when Jewish people point out Israel’s crimes and get labeled antisemitic.

A brief overview by Stefan Rahmstorf.

Good stuff throughout the whole thing to understand what the AMOC is and how its slowdown or collapse could affect things, but two crucial points he makes is that IPCC models assume a stable AMOC in their projections since it’s still a big unknown, which is obviously a problem, and that he says in this video most likely the tipping point for a full collapse was past early in the century (not sure if he means earlier in the last hundred years or early in the 20th century, but probably doesn’t matter).

Exactly. I guess the missile accuracy varies depending on the direction launched.

Not enough unpopular to make differences, but it’s definitely a hot topic of discussion, or not talking about, for fear of being labeled. Meanwhile we’re still doing what we’ve always done. It’s almost like it goes much deeper than who is the President…

More of an early Stark Industries. So yes.

The Lady of the Lake…

Forgive the Reddit link, the artist has only posted it there that I can tell.

There’s emissions for any activity, but the nuclear fuel cycle seems pretty spread out to suggest it’s anything comparable to what the fossil fuel chain of fueling is like.

I believe the biggest source of emissions for nuclear actually come from the construction phase, so getting past that, maybe. Still would be preferable to also reduce energy use so that the “better” source can be spread more efficiently.

Unfortunately everything has byproducts and emissions that we do. The only real solution is to reduce, which is difficult given the population and so many third world nations wanting to join a higher standard of living. Natural gas is probably better than coal overall, but on the scale of bad for the environment where 10 is the worst, is an 8 or 9 better? Technically, yes.

Brings back memories of that one Lost episode with the unstable dynamite.

Also an episode of Grey’s Anatomy.

Keep in mind that being immunized protects you from developing worse conditions, not from getting it at all. Which also means you can absolutely be a carrier to others, you just won’t have it at a bad level for as long to be contagious. And the new strain is apparently more contagious (but possibly less of the rest) this time. Just wanted to add that in, because some people read the “immun” part and assume they can’t get anything. Avoiding infection is always the best way, with vaccination as protection if/when you do get it anyway.

For those suggesting that this makes them less of a threat, all you need is one missile to make it all the way to ruin pretty much everyone’s day. Also, have a number of live payloads do a failure on launch, they don’t make it to the target, but whoever is downwind…again, day ruined.

Robber beats you up, knocks you down, and takes your wallet.

“Hey, that’s my money?”

“Tell you what, I’ll just take 30% and call it peace.”

“Okay…just don’t do it again, right?”

Robber runs away laughing.

The first publishing of “Limits to Growth” suggested that if immediate actions were done to curtail growth and use of resources, the world could possibly in many decades peak and then come back down to a sustainable flat line. That was in 1970. 54 years ago we may have had a chance - although the research didn’t include many things not known to them, including the impact of climate change that was already underway and just not obvious (the ocean was buffering much of the effects for a long time).

My non-scientific opinion is that crossing the line of hunter-gatherer to agriculture was the real point of no return. We gained a lot from that, but it also sealed our path and fate. Finding the rich energy source of petroleum was the final accelerant.

On the flip side, it’s difficult to build enough momentum to change things. Your last line can be used for virtually any of the political systems in the world. Even the “free” ones.

Much harder when any differences of opinion results in a “disappearance”.

It’s much cheaper to tell everyone there’s stealth planes over there…than to send any.

Aka Robin Williams joke - instead of building all these stealth bombers, you put some wreckage in the desert and say one of them crashed.

Bringing down a helicopter is just a matter of removing the miracle that keeps it up there. I’ve always been wary of them, but after seeing that one tragic Ring video of the small helicopter that just came apart in midair and a straight plummet down. Never. I mean they are great strategically, but when they fail…it’s pretty complete.