You could hear the birds all the time. I don't care about cheap gas, but cars make cities noisy, ugly, polluted and dangerous. I only realised this in covid when almost all of the cars went and councils allocate more space for everything else for social distancing.

I"ve been trying to figure out what ya'll were trying to say about no cars, etc.....then it dawned on me that ya'll must be living where they had lockdowns.

Where I lived, sure, traffic was lessened due to more WFH, but it certainly didn't go away to any levels of no cars on the roads and hearing the birds chirping any more than normal....

Glad I didn't live where ya'll do.....for the most part my life didn't change all THAT much after the first month or so...it was largely getting back to normal.

Your hypothesis is that Japanese people aren't having as many kids because of climate change?

I guess so....apparently it is too hot outside for young people to fuck....?

Wow...that never was much of a deterrent to me back in my younger days...

Aww, I was getting excited for Jews in space.

I'm still waiting to see Hitler on Ice.....

;)

Pension schemes generally work like long-running intergenerational ponzi schemes that won't collapse as long as the next generation is always bigger and/or wealthier than the last. It's not a good system but trading off some "bigger" for some "wealthier" by reducing inequality could mitigate it. Inequality is also the root cause of falling births in developed societies (that the same ownership class that most wants endless population growth prefers to tiptoe around) so it would improve both issues.

In related news, call center wait times have increased markedly, due to an abundance of of no-shows at work today.

Outage expected for at least the next week or two...

"We matched you with somebody who REALLY likes horses!"

Hey....Tim Walz needs love too you know....

Came here to say that the only surprising thing is that it was *sold,* I assumed it was just handed over for free since at least 9/11.

Then maybe they have already relaxed the more stringent gun video standards then....or were any of these you watched particularly old videos?

I know I've seen channels like MAC and Sootch , etc complaining they couldn't show this or that without getting strikes...

but there was a major (and predictable) power outage in Lousiana two or three weeks ago that made the national news.

I LIVE in the New Orleans area in Louisiana, and I know nothing about this power outage you speak of....?

I never saw anything about this on local or national news....?

I'd be happy with YouTube, for a start, to relax the mods on gun content...these days they cannot even show a video of disassembling a gun to show how it works or how to clean it...

They ban videos showing someone screwing on/off a silencer these days.....it didn't used to be this strict....

Hey...as long as the earth doesn't go tits up before I'm done with her....I'm good.

Yeah, because "Al Gore" is a scientist. ... right? Maybe you should see what "the Science" is....

You are correct sir!!

I do believe the title of "the Science" has been claimed by one Mr. Faucci....

;)

If I had a rubber for slashdot I could fix this.

In American slang, "rubber" commonly refers to a condom. It's an informal term for a contraceptive device.

Yup...I was confused at him replying he wanted to fuck it safely.....

At this point, I still have no idea what he's trying to say here.....

Look at what recently occured both in Spain and in Louisiana, despite certainly some healthy effort (and planning one would hope) to keep the grid in those areas running fine under difficult conditions.

Not sure what you mean about Louisiana...?

I mean, we've not nothing like Spain hit us....

A few years ago, I believe it was Hurricane Ida that hit and knocked down all transmission lines into the greater New Orleans area....power was out there about a month, but that's Hurricane damage....catastrophic damage to an area which you expect to lose power for a bit.

Are you referring to that or something else which I don't know about.....we've not had anything hit similar to Spain.

I was thinking the tsetse fly should be another top candidate, in the past they made it almost impossible to keep animals for livestock or transportation in large swathes of Africa, and the control efforts that continue to this day are massively destructive including wantonly burning natural foliage and killing wild animals they could feed on!

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