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Comment We need to increase the penalties. (Score 3, Funny) 46

I suggest:

First offence: Have to watch CSPAN for 5 hours a day, for a week, without sleeping through it - evidence to be provided in court

Second offence: Have to sing Miley Cyrus songs and Baby Shark on TikTok - sober

Third offence: License to practice and all memberships of country clubs and golf courses revoked

Comment Re:Bad for us, but not "our fault" (Score 1) 106

The real reason we will never be able to "fix" the drought is because the American West is not in a drought right now.

Basically everyone who lives in the area or studies the climate or hydrology would tell you that you're insane.

The West's rapid aridification isn't being caused by a "once-in-a-century" weather event

More like a once-in-a-millennium event. Though I suspect it's going to be considerably more common going forward.

What we're dealing with in the West is not a drought because the current lack of rainfall isn't "abnormal" for a desert. Dry is the default setting. And you can't call it a "drought" because you wish deserts were wetter.

Deserts have some amount of normal precipitation, too. And when you get a lot less than normal, that's called a drought. Yes, even in a desert.

Comment Re:God forbid Accountability come into play. (Score 1) 162

Basic epidemiology: when a vampire feeds on a person, that person also becomes a vampire, and vampires are immortal. So it won't be long before everyone's a vampire. Can vampires feed on each other? (According to Blade, there are second-level vampires who feed on other vampires.)

As I've read the books and seen the movies...NOT every victim becomes a vampire too.

Only if the vampire wants to turn a victim....they drain most of the blood to almost point of death and then have the still alive victim drink blood from them......then they turn into one.

Comment Re:Watch, Nerds! (Score 2) 101

Each time some nerd says "Let them censor I have a VPN" he forgets that the next step is to crackdown on VPNs. Technical defenses against political problems only give you a bit of time, but will eventually fail.

Even worse is when they compromise the VPN operators and then monitor your usage until you do something that makes them decide to crack down on you.

People erroneously think of VPNs as privacy protectors. They aren't, not unless you have very good reason to trust whoever is running the server. If you don't, then they're concentrators for likely subversive traffic and its origins.

Comment Re:The God-fearing and the Accountants (Score 1) 162

You don't get to create and then destroy life just to prolong yours

Why?

I made it to earth and processing oxygen...why should I not make and have the opportunity to extend my run for as long as possible?

I guess my innate sense of self preservation is much higher than yours.

I really love my life and I love being me and there's not much I'd not do to keep that going.

Why would I not?

Comment Re:God forbid Accountability come into play. (Score 1) 162

Hey....all the smoking, drinking, general partying and getting laid as much as possible was FUN as a kid and young man.

I feel it has been a life worth living so far....sure, things are starting to fail and fall apart a bit, but whew....glad I got to travel the road I did....not boring, and really ....how much life did I lose with all that in the past?

Comment Re:I've seen this movie (Score 1) 162

Hell, if there really were such things as vampires, I'd become one in a heart beat....well, err....I'd like to lose some weight first, I'd hate to spend eternity being chubby like I am right now, but I'd do it.....

I dunno about so many people I really really like being ME and would like to do so for as long as possible....and would do almost anything to prolong that.

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