He’s all too aware. As powerful as he is, he doesn’t have the ability to solve everyone’s problems everywhere all the time. This is a source of tremendous grief for him. That’s the whole reason he’s a compelling character and not just wish fulfillment.
Wow, thanks for the recipe! I have a 12 inch cast iron skillet as well as a 10 inch carbon steel pan (3mm thick and oven safe), but no 10 inch skillet. Can I use one or the other?
Cornbread is so delicious! I’ve loved it every time I’ve had it but I’ve never made it before!
Yep. Steam sales are the way they get people to buy hundreds of games they’ll never play!
Kids used to read comic books pretty habitually.
Otherwise what’s your point? We’re talking informally here anyway, so what exactly do you mean by logical equivalence?
Kids talking back to their parents is as old as time. Before they were lost to AI, it was social media. Before that, it was 4chan or SomethingAwful. Before that it was IRC or forums or newsgroups. Before that it was BBSes and D&D. Before that it was TV and video games and movies and comic books.
On and on and on it goes.
That makes sense. Plants have no control over what chemicals they intake. Whatever is in the soil and water around their roots, they’re going to take up. If there are chemicals that damage the plant’s stem cells’ DNA, they need a way to protect against a bunch of mutations that harm the plant’s ability to grow correctly.
I buy dark roasts from a local coffee roaster in my city. They don’t have any fruit or floral notes, but they taste like dark chocolate, not burnt rubber. They’re good dark roasts. Starbucks is still crap. It only tastes good in a giant cup of milk and sugar and caramel sauce.
No one does that though, because Starbucks coffee is terrible. It’s over-roasted charcoal crap. If you order a black coffee, do yourself a favour and get a nice, light-roasted pour over from an independent cafe serving locally roasted, single-origin coffee. Good coffee should smell like a mix of dried fruit, floral perfume, and toasted nuts, not burnt rubber.
I guess you just wrap them in hardware cloth?
That is so cool! I hope your mom and the beaver are able to keep the peace. I know some folks get really frustrated by them!
Yeah, my purpose is not to suggest that we haven’t affected the environment; we have, dramatically. It’s just to say that there is way more than 1 kind of natural state.
We haven’t even gotten into the ways many other animals shape environments. Ungulates can destroy trees, yes, and wolves can limit ungulate populations, so more wolves tend to lead to thickets, whereas more ungulates lead to more clearings.
Beavers are another shaper of habitats, by their damming of rivers, creation of lakes, and the silt deposits in those flood plains which can lead to the ecological succession of forests.
There were a lot of places in the world that went in reverse from this scene. Managed/coppiced woodlands date to the Middle Ages, and resemble the first picture much more than the third.
I would also point out that there are plenty of completely natural areas that have resembled the first picture since time immemorial. Savannahs, scrublands, steppes, and prairies are naturally sparse in terms of large vegetation, due to the grazing of large herds of ungulates. These voracious herbivores rapidly destroy young trees, leaving wide gaps between the larger trees that have beat the odds to reach the critical size needed to survive.
In North America, the disappearance of bison (due to European settlers’ destruction of their populations) has led to woody forest encroachment on areas that were previously prairie grasslands with no trees. So in that case the whole progression shown in these pictures is running in reverse.
No, of course not. But that’s not a very charitable take, is it? Obviously the sinking ship situation goes away with the life jackets and the setting for buying the Pokémon cards is more typical, like a convention or a hobby store.
She’s about to start bawling and he’s already grabbing the box of Crayolas!
Yes exactly. Replace the life jackets with Pokémon cards and the moral dilemma goes away. Cruise ships are required to carry enough life jackets and to give them to the passengers for free in an emergency. If someone is selling life jackets on a sinking ship then society’s rules have broken down, and it wouldn’t be surprising for people to get violent as they struggle to survive.
I’ve been using Swiftfin for a while. It’s very much an alpha product. I don’t want to pressure the devs though. They’re volunteers releasing something nice for free. All the other apps in the space are paid or even subscription based. Ugh!
Sign me up for bulldozing entire cities to rebuild them without sprawl. I’m not too optimistic about it getting approval though.
It definitely seems like a lot of people think the future is bleak, though most people feeling that way have no idea what things were like 100 years ago.
My grandparents grew up on farms with 10+ siblings and left school after grade 8. They lived in tiny houses with multiple kids packed into a single room. They worked heavy manual labour on the farm and in forestry. It was very common for young children to die of the flu or measles or the common cold. My grandfather’s little brother died as a child. They had no idea whatsoever that the future was going to be as good as things are now, so it’s hard to say they had any more to look forward to than we do now.
They also had 2 world wars in their future, and for all the war we have going on right now, we’re fortunate that it isn’t even close to as bad as the world wars of the 20th century. Climate change is definitely a legitimate thing to worry about, but it’s really hard to predict how much it will affect any of us individually.
After Trump is gone they may admit it.
Dunno why people don’t realize that Trump never admits he’s wrong about anything. He’s an extreme narcissist who throws tantrums like an overgrown toddler. His ego is inflated to such an extreme degree that any hint of any kind of fault on his part drives him into rage spirals from the cognitive dissonance.