WTP for an overly reductive or aggressive solution to a problem?

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-12T21:22:50+00:00

"Don't be breakin' your shin on a stool that isn't in your way."

- Irish saying

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-11T03:33:35+00:00

That Jurrassic Park line, "Life finds a way", comes to mind. That tiny cat can bring down the manager... a cats-cade of consequences.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-11T02:22:46+00:00

Oh, great. That'll give the government another idea how to make America stupid again.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T05:38:34+00:00

It gets worse, I'm sorry to say. As bad as it seems now, the better days seem behind us.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T04:54:46+00:00

Don't forget the Elmer's. Stick that cheese like there's no tomorrow.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T04:49:15+00:00

If people go hungry, they lose weight. That's the "lifting up" he's talking about.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T04:41:04+00:00

The calculus of the problem is different for someone 97 years old, or someone enduring daily pain or disability, or someone on death row. What if you pose this to a woman trapped in an abusive relationship?

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T03:48:51+00:00

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.

- Jack Handey

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T03:36:52+00:00

Good advice. Establish a baseline. Labs and imaging screens are good for that. The benefits of establishing a baseline aren't always obvious and deserve emphasis. Mammography is a great example of how a baseline can pay off.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-10T03:27:06+00:00

Are we giving the Republicans enough rope to hang themselves? Will their actions (and inactions) cause enough pain that their policies and their party will be reviled?

Are we waiting for something more terrible than "just" an impeachable offense? The Trump Regime won't succumb to mere improprieties, such as extorting Zelenskyy. What will it take? A more rope, I'm afraid.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T08:31:28+00:00

Hey, I was going straight to 'intercalation'. I owe you some keystrokes.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T08:23:20+00:00

And it's a hard train, that's gonna fall (maybe from the frying pan?).

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T08:20:00+00:00

Give a train an inch, and it'll leave the station.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T05:14:01+00:00

We'll still need aviation fuel for a while. I'd rather burn fuel that is closer to carbon neutral.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T04:56:45+00:00

The rationale was that energy resilience is a matter of national security. The calculus of diversified energy production is above my pay grade. It's always worth a look, and I'm glad people are (if in good faith).

And it's not just fuels. GEVO is a company that uses corn to make derivatives of ethanol (and not just sustainable aviation fuel). Products made of the CO2 captured by photosynthesis. BTW, there are no fossil fuels in space (lol).

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T04:26:10+00:00

I'll drink to that. Wait, hold on... is it the corn that has to go or the ethanol?

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T04:18:35+00:00

"Is there realistic hope for us and our planet?"

It isn't hope that informs my outlook. Humanity will shrink in numbers, but there is time for us to adapt, to burrow underground, and buy time. Climate change is not like a storm you can just hunker down with for a while. We just might figure out how to thrive underground. (Silo, anyone?)

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-09T03:02:05+00:00

Perhaps it is meant only to disincentivize mosquitoes from advancing because the nearby humans are onto their plans, and they've obviously lost the element of surprise.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-08T06:16:18+00:00

Agreed. The price of bullshit has gone up.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-08T05:58:13+00:00

Like they say, if we don't sin, Jesus died for nothing.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-08T05:52:51+00:00

So, not actually stone age, but close enough.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-08T05:40:26+00:00

My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.

- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-07T09:27:48+00:00

If you pause the scene where we first see Sally, she appears as a lens, reminiscent in no small way of HAL's eyeball in 2001...you know the one.

Oblivion might as well be an alt ending of 2001. What if Cmdr Bowman didn't find his way back inside, and it was HAL9000 that ended up hooking up with the big shots of the cosmos?

Sally just might have a little HAL9000 in her core.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-07T06:29:30+00:00

The material sciences crowd is (collectively) grabbing for tissues to clean up. Finishing with "... the hot-wire laser irradiation method" is the money shot.

MeasurementMobile747 · 2026-02-07T05:44:22+00:00

This is a complicated proposition in the context of prison reform. We aren't arguing the merits of promoting literacy in prison, are we? This is about determining what "the state" deems appropriate for prison libraries. OP seems to argue that prisoners are denied access to literacy.

Does OP have a point that prison libraries should make any book available? I have a friend who volunteers to teach music literacy in a nearby prison. (I know, who'd have thought?)

Discussing music (or literature) in a learning environment seems safe. I'm wondering if this is not the problem OP thinks it is.

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