The Republicans we know have gone through this story arc.

• trump is amazing, he will fix all the problems
• he’s only been in for 100 days
• he’s only been in power for 200 days
• I’m not paying attention to politics any more (usually then add complaints about politically tractable issues that haven’t been addressed, cost of goods and services, problems with government programs etc)

They are not wrong and they didn’t vote for the wrong leader and they weren’t duped.

You can get that on your phone now.

Try telling that to all the older generations. They are all paying $100/month for cable packages…

In the future, Trump’s portrait will be replaced by an image of a Sharpie.

" Company says Disney+, Hulu and ESPN price rises were planned before uproar over Kimmel’s suspension prompted calls to cancel "

Imagine if you had a company that was so unpopular that you had to issue this statement? They want you to know they are doing two negative things, not just one.

Is there even a chance this cash grab wasn’t caused because they started hemorrhaging customers and investors?

https://coastalrisk.com.au/viewer

Presumably the entire city wouldn’t be affected but perhaps 10% would?

They are. All the major cities are on the ocean.

The half of the report that has been released to the public is in the news:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250919115033/https://www.theage.com.au/environment/climate-change/too-late-to-avoid-any-impacts-the-reality-of-australia-s-climate-crisis-20250916-p5mvif.html

TL/DR is that it’s officially “too late” on stopping climate change, we are past the point of no return according to the findings.

I remember a few years ago when he couldn’t lift his water glass with one hand.

To prove he could, he went on camera and put his other hand over the useless hand and lifted the glass with both at the same time.

https://youtu.be/sTqTFnzkaJU

The difference between the complexity of software inputs versus complexity in problem solving the real world systems is the energy and infrastructure it takes in the real world.

Joseph Tainter had a really interesting paper about how real world costs rise in an extremely non linear way after a certain threshold.

" It is not a question of expending a lot of energy to discover “more efficient” ways to do these things - that process amplifies the decline. "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity,_Problem_Solving,_and_Sustainable_Societies

So you imply there is a balance point, but what’s clear is that complexity in one area actually reduces resources in the other areas and drags lower the external standards to whatever problem you put a focus on.

So backing out and taking another look at this, the solution of adding any complexity in any area actually makes higher problems. More complexity in one area removes the existing complexity in another, complexity is constrained.

Foe example, the more software we make, the less talent, energy, money and resources go into, say, health care or food production…investments are finite.

This is an interesting paper by Tainter, its about how science and innovation and technology have diminishing returns on investment: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/sres.1057

People discover the big easy things first, then it costs more and more to make smaller and less useful advancements…the figures and graphs in this paper tell an amazing story. Society is paying more and more for all these failing sectors. …

You can use a spray bottle filled with water and 10 drops of dish soap.

Inflate the tire on the hard side of normal

Mist/wet the entire tire and rim. Give it a minute and look for bubbles, foam or hissing… This will trace the specific leak you are dealing with.

The solution will depend on if it’s the valve, rim, rim tape or tire that’s leaking

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On some of these northern boreal fires, the experience is that the fire apparently “goes out” when winter snows come along, but then the following spring the fire returns as a zombie fire. It has been smouldering underground in the peat soils.

For two generations, Canadians have been telling themselves that climate change would be totally beneficial for Canada. The basic idea was that the climate would be nice and stable and predictable but it would make the country warmer, make winters less harsh, increase the agricultural potential in the north etc

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions_per_capita

Canadians are among the worst CO2 polluting people on the planet on a per capita basis.

You can see this recent comment where a hapless Canadian wonders why Canadians aren’t totally winning yet. The propaganda goes extremely deep. The commenter is frustrated that Canadians aren’t profiting from the climate refugee problem – talking about selling foreigners a safe haven in Canada. The comment is posted under an article talking about how Canadians are now becoming refugees inside their own country! It’s a whole country sleep walking into major peril.

The boreal forest is a bigger source of carbon than the Amazon, and Canadians have been hard at work draining the muskeg swamps in order to improve the logging industry. With the water drained, it takes merely 3 days of off-the-charts heat to turn it into a wildfire risk. When the boreal carbon gets going, it will be a natural carbon emitter that equals humanity’s industrial pollution. An unstoppable train that will be uncontrollable by humans. It’s not if, but when.

There are both astronomical and meteorological seasons.

Astronomical summer is June 21 to September 22. Meteorological summer is June July and August.

I have always maintained that forests need to be maintained by foresters who are experts in the forest in question

It’s amazing to me that you know what the solution is but you don’t know the problem.

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Historically, dry forests in eastern Washington experienced frequent, low-severity fires, […] Western Washington forests, on the other hand, historically experienced high or moderate severity fires with centuries between major fires. These fires, that killed most trees in the forest, burned hundreds of thousands of acres. Given the naturally long intervals between fires, human exclusion of wildland fire in the last century has not had a large-scale effect on wildfire risk

You’re confusing two different ecosystems. The rainforests don’t have low intensity fires.

https://nwcasc.uw.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2019/12/FINAL-Managing-Western-Washington-Wildfire-Risk-in-a-Changing-Climate-12.5.19.pdf

The natural fire cycle is discussed in the introduction. It’s 200-600 years between major fires in the western Washington rainforest.