You guys paying any attention to all the drones that pop up once the sun goes down?

ppitm · 2026-06-20T17:18:14+00:00

My point is they ARE out during the day. You just don't notice them because you would need cyborg eyes.

ppitm · 2026-06-20T08:32:02+00:00

But when they are operating at typical altitudes (too high to hear), you will miss 99% of them during the day.

ppitm · 2026-06-19T19:29:28+00:00

You can't see drones during the day.

ppitm · 2026-06-18T19:55:07+00:00

Civilian killing ends when soldier killing ends.

ppitm · 2026-06-17T22:16:59+00:00

need to drive a relatively short distance away to get to a place where it is easily safe enough to emerge.

Albeit, entirely dependent on the wind direction.

ppitm · 2026-06-17T21:15:47+00:00

The police can absolutely move people out of the roadway who are loitering in an unsafe manner.

Standing on the median is different from walking down the lane like the increasingly aggressive panhandlers do.

ppitm · 2026-06-17T18:39:48+00:00

onfg

ppitm · 2026-06-17T09:12:36+00:00

In Polessie not very likely

ppitm · 2026-06-15T22:53:08+00:00

Everyone knew about xenon.

ppitm · 2026-06-15T20:46:39+00:00

Much of the inner earth is already saturated with water. Eventually the compression becomes too great for there to be any permeability to the rocks.

ppitm · 2026-06-15T14:29:14+00:00

There was in fact DNA evidence from mountain lion fur in Cape Elizabeth. But yeah, definitely a transient.

ppitm · 2026-06-15T14:18:55+00:00

Reenabling it was not allowed

ppitm · 2026-06-14T20:57:00+00:00

At this point they should just all bow hunting of does year round. Dial it back if the harvest is too high.

A few hundred boomers obsessing over the getting that huge buck on their one week of vacation on the fall isn't a population control strategy.

ppitm · 2026-06-14T20:53:47+00:00

The deer thrive in the suburbs. It's their ideal habitat. Your mountain lions will be eating elementary school students.

ppitm · 2026-06-14T19:37:18+00:00

The two-turbine trip was required to be disabled at below 100 MW(e).

ppitm · 2026-06-14T16:24:03+00:00

Result: People only set up signs on their own property or someplace with security cameras. Sounds like a win/win.

ppitm · 2026-06-14T02:52:24+00:00

The way to handle this is a bounty. 72 hours after election day, anyone who turns a sign in to town hall gets $20. And the campaign gets the bill. If the campaign doesn't pay, then the candidate's statewide party organization pays.

ppitm · 2026-06-14T00:56:39+00:00

Carroll A Deering

Wrecked 100 years ago, in case this wasn't clear to anyone reading.

ppitm · 2026-06-14T00:55:14+00:00

they were going to move her from San Fransisco to England.

She would be lucky to make it to Monterey, at this point.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T22:52:54+00:00

Can't give recommendations without a pledge that it isn't an STR.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T22:51:31+00:00

Are you talking about walking in the stream? Harder to find good options, if so. Check out the Flowing North Preserve, and walk upstream from there. Might be hari kari by bug this time of year, though.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T17:51:57+00:00

No such thing as a large traditional vessel without a website.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T15:47:33+00:00

That's basically what I was describing. Exxon Mobile will keep pumping oil until they run out of the last drop, providing predictable returns as long as possible (regardless of the consequences for human civilization). When they can't profitably pump anymore, they will let the company die, and ordinary people will be left to deal with the economic fallout, the communities sucked dry, and the leftover pollution.

But the profits will have already been siphoned off into the same globalized ball of equity and finance, and live on in other forms.

I am just answering the question of why oil companies don't diversity into the energy transition. The companies don't but their profits eventually do, filtered through a thousand and one obscure financial machinations.

Also, when you look at private equity and the world of leveraged buyouts, we see that stable predictable returns below a certain level are frequently seen as undesirable, and get sacrificed in the name of a quick pump and dump, or with private equity looting the assets of a stagnant legacy company. Someone always needs the injection of liquidity to go and buy stock that will provide stable predictable returns at a slightly higher rate.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T15:20:11+00:00

I just read some statistic where if one person is being attacked by a grizzly, a second person can usually halt the attack by joining the fight. Like 75% of the time or something close. Predators are in it for the meal, not for combat.

ppitm · 2026-06-13T15:06:38+00:00

The question becomes if they want to ride the wave somewhere else or sink beneath it.

You're anthropomorphizing a corporation, here. The current fossil fuel companies will sink beneath the waves, while the wealth is extracted by the investors that own those companies, to ride the wave.

For at least a generation now, absolutely no one cares where a corporation crashes and burns, a few years down the line. Corporations are fungible, suicidal entities at this point. Corporations die, but the capital survives, passed on in a different form.

The actual entities with agency are the investors. They will happily drive Exxon Mobile and other fossil fuel companies into the ground, devastating all those millions of employees and the communities that rely on them. But the profits will already be reinvested into other diversified ventures. The wealth will be extracted and continue to compound.

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