Alaska. Gorgeous state.

You’re supposed to have the “balanced breakfast” with all the things you see placed alongside it in the commercials.

That nobody ever does this is not a problem for people who make commercials.

When it’s a truly great question, there won’t be an answer. It’ll be at the fringes of knowledge of any expert.

I was at a panel with Joel Robinson once, and I asked how he’d compare getting started in public access stations vs doing YouTube today. He said it was a great question, but didn’t have much of an answer. He’s self-admittedly an old man who didn’t have to start from scatch on YouTube.

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Poison Ivy is like Magneto. It becomes harder and harder every year to say they’re wrong.

They must have had a Visa/MasterCard/whatever product placement in mind that fell through, and then they did the scene, anyway.

Pierce Brosnan was great as James Bond. Goldeneye probably saved the franchise from oblivion. He got shit scripts after that, but he was right for the role.

Also, Dalton’s first movie as Bond is highly underrated.

OK, so not your first time. I misread that.

I would recommend having someone around as a trip sitter for a first time.

Depends on how many states we’re talking about and their geographic distribution. 1M isn’t enough to hold the whole country. It probably can’t even hold New York City. It could probably hold New Hampshire.

Current US military doctrine suggests you need 1 soldier for every 3 people you’re trying to occupy. This is especially true when you have to assume every civilian is a potentially armed insurrectionist, and the US has a lot of guns in civilian hands. That said, fascists tend to throw out hard won wisdom like this, and tells the army they aren’t trying hard enough. For as much as they drone on about how they’re a bunch of tough guys, they are complete shit at actually fighting a war. Here’s a former US Army intelligence officer talking about the numbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyBIqRunQ5Y

Oh, and while the existing military might follow orders to take over states “in rebellion”, they’re going to be doing a lot of malicious compliance. The way they did Trump’s birthday parade proves it. They 100% phoned it in on purpose.

One of the side effects of Trump trying to move so fast is that he doesn’t have time to purge the military and refill it with loyalists. That would take over a decade. Stalin did that to disastrous effect; the Winter War was only a technical win with catastrophic losses, and the later German invasion was barely held back. Hitler didn’t really try to purge the Wehrmacht, with the Night of the Long Knives being mostly a purge of their own SS people.

Trump therefore has to rely on already loyal people with guns, which is mostly ICE, local sheriffs, and police. None of them are big enough to hold the whole country, either, or even a major state.

Instructions unclear, now sitting in basement.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152766

“In the European region, heat stress is the leading cause of climate-related death in the region,” he said. “Temperature extremes such as those we’re experiencing at the moment are really exacerbating chronic conditions, including cardiovascular, respiratory and cerebro-vascular diseases, mental health and diabetes-related conditions. The extreme heat that we’re experiencing is a particular problem for elderly people, especially those living alone. It can also place an additional burden on pregnant women.”

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On 22 July 2024, the daily global average temperature reached a new record high of 17.16°C, according to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. On 23 July, the preliminary value was 17.15°C. On 21 July, the temperature record was 17.09°C. All three days were warmer than the previous record of 17.08°C, set only last year on 6 July 2023.

This is a real and growing problem. Stop sticking your head in the sand.

We’re at around 1.5C for a few years. That’s not the same thing as a sustained average.

What that means is that we still have time to fight for better policy.

If the alarmists are right, we’re completely fucked already. Might as well do nothing and enjoy the benefits of a petro society while it lasts.

This is not what climate scientists are asking for right now.

Much of Europe is getting hotter. AC is literally a life-saving technology on extremely hot days. No, it’s not mere “comfort”. Old people, in particular, are at high risk.

And it’s not like Europe is completely blameless when it comes to global warming, either.

I came.

How airtight is airtight? Cheap Ziploc bags or Tupperware won’t be enough in the long run. Maybe if you used a pressure sealed preservatives jar. Those will need to be heated up in a pressure cooker, so butter will melt and reconstitute.

Sorta. Anything fatty tends to pick up flavors from the environment. Now, in the cold, those chemical reactions are slowed down, but they’re not stopped. If you leave it there for a while, it’ll pick up off flavors. Still generally safe to eat, but you won’t like it.

Seems like every time the hype is about to die, there’s a big announcement about a model breakthrough. The breakthrough usually isn’t as revolutionary as it first appears, but it’s enough to keep funding going.

It’s a historical way to be a socially acceptable introvert. The point isn’t necessarily to catch anything. It’s to have an excuse to be alone with your thoughts.

This advice may not have been funded by the Feline Mafia, but it wouldn’t sound any different if it was.