...that the Navy is not being used any more as the handmaiden of a huge, overarching psyop that's gone for more than a half century, the deliberate discrediting of paranormal phenomena and those who can -- intelligently and credibly -- bear witness to them.

True. As a case in point, had you posted as a registered user you would be modded up at least to +3 for this.

$1000 is too low for a single cell, which might contain an object, more than just an atomic fact. We would need a surcharge to apply to every property and a supercharge to apply to every method derived from or referring to that object. In other words make our metadata too expensive to use at all, unless there is a contractual obligation.

//plenty of alternatives// Like Google+. Oops, Plus is dead. Long live dirty rotten Facebook.

It's hard to believe, but I actually miss seeing insect guts on the windshield and swallowing bugs by accident. At least gnats and mosquitos are scarce where I live. Haven't seen a bat in years -- but have seen bluebirds and lots of bald eagles and woodpeckers, contrary to expectation.

You've been spending too much time indoors for many years, and not enough outside walking around. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or entomologist to see what's going on right under our noses. Drive a car during summer in the last twenty years? Google "insects on windshield" and read the buzz there. The collapse of the insect population is real, planet-wide, and happened in the last fifteen years.

It's not just the rainforest. In the Catskills and Hudson Valley of New York, the insect population has been devastated. There were practically no crickets or katydids in Kingston in September and October. It was wierd. The zombies living around me scarcely noticed. People are oblivious or in deep denial. There's been no sudden deforestation, uptick in heavy industry...hell we even cleaned up a few Superfund sites. And except for some drought in the late 90's or early 2000's the climate has not been exceptionally hot, cold or dry. Just damn irregular. Something else is going on -- or we reached a global ticking point. Personally I find it hard to imagine that so many species, especially hardy ones with plenty of food like crickets, katydids and moths, suddenly reached a tipping point due to our local climate change. "Chemtrails" perhaps? Who the fuck knows.

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