an even more frightening perspective
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although, his point does loose all credibility when he tries to offer Dumb and Dumber and Beavis and Butthead as examples of Mericans getting stoopider.
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We get it. You think anyone who disagrees with you on anything is dumb. 
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
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Did Illy just go full-Mich?
Never go full Mich.
Never go full Mich.
I only came to kick some ass...
Rock the fucking house and kick some ass.
Rock the fucking house and kick some ass.
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Deleted User 89
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anyone and everyone is welcome to put me on ignore
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What was your reaction to the highlighted excerpt from the book?BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm We get it. You think anyone who disagrees with you on anything is dumb.
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
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ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:12 pmWhat was your reaction to the highlighted excerpt from the book?BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm We get it. You think anyone who disagrees with you on anything is dumb.
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
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No real reaction i suppose. Just another one of the dozens of pointless tweets shared here daily that have some truth and over simplify/exaggerate/etc.ousdahl wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:12 pmWhat was your reaction to the highlighted excerpt from the book?BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm We get it. You think anyone who disagrees with you on anything is dumb.
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
Although i do think the part about 30 second sound bites/dumbing down of America is interesting since you are sharing a tweet and we have dozens of tweets shared here daily where people read a headline or few sentences and have whatever issue completely figured out in their mind.
I absolutely agree it's problematic when people see a tweet or meme and that's 100% of their "news" consumption with no effort made to actually figure out if what they read was actually true.
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Overlander
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Re: an even more frightening perspective
Coming from a serial arguer.BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
“By way of contrast, I'm not the one who feels the need to respond to every post someone else makes”
Psych- Every Single Time
Psych- Every Single Time
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Take it to the apple jacks thread.Overlander wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:24 pmComing from a cereal arguer.BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
I only came to kick some ass...
Rock the fucking house and kick some ass.
Rock the fucking house and kick some ass.
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Overlander
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Re: an even more frightening perspective
Dammit! Why have I not had Apple Jacks in years?PhDhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:25 pmTake it to the apple jacks thread.Overlander wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 2:24 pmComing from a cereal arguer.BasketballJayhawk wrote: ↑Thu Jul 01, 2021 1:54 pm
How do you have so much time to know everything about everything and still spend endless amounts of time daily pointlessly arguing with strangers?
Horribly underrated cereal.
“By way of contrast, I'm not the one who feels the need to respond to every post someone else makes”
Psych- Every Single Time
Psych- Every Single Time
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I wish I had Applejacks to wake up to with two percent milk.
Instead I'm sure all we have is Chia seeds with unflavored almond milk.
Instead I'm sure all we have is Chia seeds with unflavored almond milk.
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Eat some Apple Jacks and kick some bully ass!
On another note, in relation to Trad's post, last night my mother told me she was very upset with her good friend.
She told me that she had a phone conversation with her friend and she was telling her about my bro in law who recently died. When my mother asked her friend how she is doing, her friend responded, "well, if you ever stop talking maybe I'll tell you". I had to explain to my mother that we live in a time where everything is instant, many/most people tend to have much shorter attention spans than they did in the past, and they only want snippets.
My mother NEVER shuts up and just goes on and on and on about anything and everything.
As I often say about her, she takes 10 minutes to tell you about something that only took a minute or two and could have been explained in 30 seconds.
On another note, in relation to Trad's post, last night my mother told me she was very upset with her good friend.
She told me that she had a phone conversation with her friend and she was telling her about my bro in law who recently died. When my mother asked her friend how she is doing, her friend responded, "well, if you ever stop talking maybe I'll tell you". I had to explain to my mother that we live in a time where everything is instant, many/most people tend to have much shorter attention spans than they did in the past, and they only want snippets.
My mother NEVER shuts up and just goes on and on and on about anything and everything.
As I often say about her, she takes 10 minutes to tell you about something that only took a minute or two and could have been explained in 30 seconds.
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from NatGeo:
Humans take comfort in the idea of past as prologue. Our own lives move fast enough; the possibility of rapid changes in the world around can be unnerving. So, we lean on the things we find consistent. Baseball season starting in spring. Canada staying colder than the Mojave Desert. Cities growing and evolving—but not sinking into the sea.
Two recent tragedies focused new attention on just how quickly the world we know is changing, prompting conversations about how we must prepare.
In Surfside, Florida, as emergency crews continue sifting through the rubble of a condominium tower that fell to the ground with as many as 160 people inside, building experts and public officials are already talking about sea level rise. As my colleague Laura Parker notes, that’s not because any clear evidence has surfaced connecting climate change to the collapse of Champlain Towers on June 24—it has not. But when a 40-year-old building crumbles to dust in the middle of the night, it raises troubling questions about what else is coming and whether or not we’re ready.
Investigators scouring the rubble are exploring many factors, from cracks in support columns, to delays by a homeowners’ group in carrying out repairs, to an environmental risk that’s been known for a century: the effects of saltwater on buildings. As Parker writes, if mountains of building codes and armies of inspectors can’t keep a condominium safe today, what will protect oceanfront residents in coming years as “sea-level rise could dramatically eat away the beaches where towers now stand, and spread saltwater intrusion further inland, worsening its corrosive effects?” (Pictured above, oceanfront residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.)
And yet, Miami’s coastal construction boom rages on, even as experts like Hal Wanless, at the University of Miami, suggest accelerated melt of polar ice sheets could increase sea level rise beyond government projections. “We could well be two or three feet by mid-century,” Wanless says, noting those rises will occur within a 30-year mortgage cycle.
The disconnect, one former South Miami mayor says, is that it still seems incomprehensible that vast tracts of solid ground will give way to flooding. It’s hard for people to get their heads around the idea that land simply won’t be there. “They can hear you say it,” he says, “but they don’t have a mental construct for this kind of thing happening.”
A similar disconnect happened in Lytton, British Columbia. Temperatures, boosted by climate change, soared to never-before-seen heights across the Pacific Northwest and Canada for three consecutive days, leading to hundreds of deaths. But when tiny Lytton, B.C., broke its country’s all-time heat record, ticking up to 121 degrees on June 29, the phenomenon was so surreal tourists flocked to the tiny village.
But the following day, hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes ignited fires in Canada in one of the most extreme events meteorologists had ever seen. By week’s end, 90 percent of Lytton was gone, destroyed by a raging wildfire that killed two people. (The cause is still under investigation.) Some residents are still missing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tacitly acknowledged the past can no longer be our barometer. “Realistically we know that this heatwave won’t be the last,” he said. B.C. Prime Minister John Horgan got right to the point. The Lytton tragedy, he said, is something “we’re not accustomed to in a temperate rainforest.”
Humans take comfort in the idea of past as prologue. Our own lives move fast enough; the possibility of rapid changes in the world around can be unnerving. So, we lean on the things we find consistent. Baseball season starting in spring. Canada staying colder than the Mojave Desert. Cities growing and evolving—but not sinking into the sea.
Two recent tragedies focused new attention on just how quickly the world we know is changing, prompting conversations about how we must prepare.
In Surfside, Florida, as emergency crews continue sifting through the rubble of a condominium tower that fell to the ground with as many as 160 people inside, building experts and public officials are already talking about sea level rise. As my colleague Laura Parker notes, that’s not because any clear evidence has surfaced connecting climate change to the collapse of Champlain Towers on June 24—it has not. But when a 40-year-old building crumbles to dust in the middle of the night, it raises troubling questions about what else is coming and whether or not we’re ready.
Investigators scouring the rubble are exploring many factors, from cracks in support columns, to delays by a homeowners’ group in carrying out repairs, to an environmental risk that’s been known for a century: the effects of saltwater on buildings. As Parker writes, if mountains of building codes and armies of inspectors can’t keep a condominium safe today, what will protect oceanfront residents in coming years as “sea-level rise could dramatically eat away the beaches where towers now stand, and spread saltwater intrusion further inland, worsening its corrosive effects?” (Pictured above, oceanfront residences in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida.)
And yet, Miami’s coastal construction boom rages on, even as experts like Hal Wanless, at the University of Miami, suggest accelerated melt of polar ice sheets could increase sea level rise beyond government projections. “We could well be two or three feet by mid-century,” Wanless says, noting those rises will occur within a 30-year mortgage cycle.
The disconnect, one former South Miami mayor says, is that it still seems incomprehensible that vast tracts of solid ground will give way to flooding. It’s hard for people to get their heads around the idea that land simply won’t be there. “They can hear you say it,” he says, “but they don’t have a mental construct for this kind of thing happening.”
A similar disconnect happened in Lytton, British Columbia. Temperatures, boosted by climate change, soared to never-before-seen heights across the Pacific Northwest and Canada for three consecutive days, leading to hundreds of deaths. But when tiny Lytton, B.C., broke its country’s all-time heat record, ticking up to 121 degrees on June 29, the phenomenon was so surreal tourists flocked to the tiny village.
But the following day, hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes ignited fires in Canada in one of the most extreme events meteorologists had ever seen. By week’s end, 90 percent of Lytton was gone, destroyed by a raging wildfire that killed two people. (The cause is still under investigation.) Some residents are still missing.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tacitly acknowledged the past can no longer be our barometer. “Realistically we know that this heatwave won’t be the last,” he said. B.C. Prime Minister John Horgan got right to the point. The Lytton tragedy, he said, is something “we’re not accustomed to in a temperate rainforest.”
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Department of Wildlife calls for a voluntary fishing closure on the Colorado River due to low flows and high temps
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DNR/DWR have put out a number of PSAs about how to go bout fishing during the drought, but rather than put a moratorium on fishing they recently temporarily expanded the take limit by two...the rationale being that it’d result in fewer fish relying on depleted oxygen levels
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Amid A Megadrought, A Water Shortage Will Be Declared Along The Colorado River