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Climate “ambitions”, huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an “ambition” now…

It’s still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I’m sure that will be remedied before long.

Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store’s pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city’s sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.

Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city’s economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will…

Along the same lines, let’s not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers’ convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.

Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, “Advertising doesn’t work that way”.

https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/

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Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.

(see other person’s same-level comment too)

good point and true. Not the case where he’s going to be charged with treason, anyway, but you’re right, I should take care to refer to the case properly. Especially if my reason for commenting is to clarify which matter is being discussed!

Good point, and true; and the way I put it probably plays into the pattern of Trump voters thinking “well yeah, that’s morally questionable but not illegal and not worth this big of a systemic reaction.”

I will adjust my mentions of this in the future.

That’s in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.

I too am wondering what’s dumb or otherwise wrong or undesirable about a second coat of paint. Seems context dependent but they left the context general/generic

I’m still angry that the naming of a large sewage treatment plant in San Francisco after George W. Bush didn’t stick.

He was never fucking charming…

I mean, granted for sure he’s gotten worse, but I don’t trust people who gave him a pass before the past couple of years.

I was pleasantly surprised to learn that a similar, perhaps in some ways better system exists to this day in the world of Islamic finance. It’s far from perfect and has plenty of real-world flaws and downfalls, but it was cool to learn about the spirit and morality behind it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_banking_and_finance

My favorite way to visualize the meaning of “asshat”: the person is such a sad waste of human life that their entire upper body is effectively just a hat for their posterior.

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The Guardian article mentions a likelihood that in the Amazon region the wet and dry seasons would trade places, making it nearly impossible for many species located there to adapt in the time frame at hand.

It’s going to hurt, this century and even this half century.

The population is in massive overshoot beyond planetary carrying capacity (i.e., its resources that we find useful/necessary and their natural rate of self renewal) by anywhere from 8:1 to perhaps 10:1.

For anything even remotely resembling a smoother landing in the inevitable population decline (i.e., a slower and more just+equitable process involving more natural attrition and less war, murder, famine, and pestilence) the humans currently enjoying the highest levels of technology/development/lifestyle would need to cut their consumption by 80-90 percent – they would need to start living as if it were (perhaps, approximately) the 1700s. This would need to be phased in both very soon and very rapidly.

Of course, those same population groups also have (for the time being, at least) the resources and might to resist that needed reduction by whatever means they can, including war and/or creation of closed enclaves that no longer allow immigration or participate in many forms of external trade. While blaming almost anything and anyone other than the real mechanics (simply massive and growing resource deficit relative to population) of what’s going on.

It’s just going to suck, this time ahead. We who are alive now have to bring this situation home and lay it to rest in the least awful ways we can, and we are rapidly growing very constrained in terms of remaining options.