it was of course the jurassic health care that killed off the dinosaur. You see it was actually very good health care, good enough in fact that many of the genetically weak among them reproduced creating all sorts of problems as the effects of natural selection were negated yielding a dinosaur population that was unstable, and unprepared for the onslaught of disease and death that severe climate change brings.

Greenhouses are awesome. https://growgen.pro/autopilot-... I think CO2 is a very green gas as it's used to make plants thrive. I don't understand why everyone hates on plants. We should really be focusing on freeing the CO2 for a verdant future. There are benefits to raising the CO2 level higher than the global average, up to 1500 ppm. With CO2 maintained at this level, yields can be increased by as much as 30%

protests in the US don't ever even need to be justified. It is our right to protest always and for any reason. There are of course laws that also have to be followed while protesting, but these are limited to infringement on others rights generally.

So I don't consider myself a prepper really, but our family of four usually has 1-2 months worth of food in a basement pantry that we rotate through. There is little waste as we are eating the stuff anyway and we only store things that will last. Each year for about 10 years (we've been getting lazy so haven't done it the last three years or so) we would hold an austerity month, usually in feb. because it is short. For that month we would make an attempt to buy absolutely nothing. By the end of month we would usually have purchased unleaded gasoline and a couple of items that we hadn't thought of, but those we're added to the list and stocked for the next year....except the gasoline. I own a bunch of mountain and road bikes and can ride to work if I really needed to, but Feb. is really cold where I live....so yeah I'm lazy. At any rate if everyone had at least the basics (btw https://gossner.com/uht-milk/ is awesome and I don't work for them) it may help out for any sort of emergency that requires you to be stuck at home with few outside resources.

And you don't have to waste things you buy....just get more of what you normally use minus things that go bad quickly, and rotate through it. Frozen and canned vegatables and fruit aren't as good, but they're not terrible either on occasion.

I for one welcome our future clone overlords

First off I don't like elephant, I like cheap steaks and hamburgers that come from cows in tiny cages...makes 'em cheaper. The lead pipes and clean water stuff is fine because it has actual measurable damages. Generally US cities don't have water problems (minus a few very notable exceptions) Air problems are something I think I could agree to work on, but only with minimal funding and a cautious iterative plan. It's not an all or nothing thing, but in politics it is treated that way. That's why nothing becomes the vote from those of us that actually have to pay the bill.

As a matter of fact failed model projections have inspired many clichéd novels from the likes of Michael Crichton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and others. The media loves sciency models filled with tripe and manure...it sells copy https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/...

four words: proxy war China Russia. If you don't understand who is still propping up North Korea and supplying what little military might they have, then you perhaps need to listen to some old people between Matlock episodes.

your juxtaposition of your furnace to datacenters gives me an idea. What if seasonally in different locations your heating and electricity were both partially covered by a small data center in your home at the center of a fan circulation system. You get subsidized heating and someone else gets subsidized cooling, and power. If your local grid is serviced by hydroelectric, wind or some other eco-fantasy then you win at the eco-snobbery game.

Lol. There are many different types of "code" I was thinking that any coal miner could probably learn at least one of them ( I mean anyone should to copy and paste some python or shell script etc), but I'm not sure if any of them want to. As a matter of fact, I can guarantee that as a class there will be a non-zero percentage of coal miners that would rather do something else besides mining and coding. Biden is an insensitive clod for generalizing an entire group like that .... but I think his bigger mistake may have been lumping all constructive technology work into "code". There are thousands of different technologies and combinations of intellectual work that could be considered "code", some of them very specialized.

Also would have accepted bitcoin miner

that first interviewee Nat Friedman of Github actually works for microsoft. You see they (Microsoft) own Github (https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/10/26/microsoft-completes-github-acquisition/)... anyway, to your general point, I don't see Microsoft as a bastion of open source either. Sometimes when a company has a huge amount of cash from former glory years, they use it to try to buy their way back into the game. I have never seen that work out well in the end. Nat has spent his (enviable) career working for "has been" companies after his creation was purchased.

soooo.... what happens in 7 years? According to which models? hasn't "it" already escalated? or are you referring to something other than rhetoric? maybe California should sequester all of their firewood for a hundred years or so instead of burning it. Like maybe build homes out of it or something https://www.sfchronicle.com/ba...

My last couple google voice calls were from the "social security administration" with very foreign accents. They actually leave a US call back number (I assume a burner voip number). I usually autodial it all day when I get one, just to do my part and all.
When they pick up the first couple of times I keep them on as long as possible if I'm washing dishes or doing something boring by lecturing them about how they should find honest work. After a while they avoid my calls or just swear at me and hang up. This kept them from calling back for quite a while. I kind of want to set up an autodial hell that's an automated voip app for these kinds of calls.

yeah...if he was a citizen, he (or she) could already have the completed prison sentence completed or commuted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I don't really think anyone should ;-)