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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Alaska is indifferent towards climate change because it will mean a permanently open northwest passage, which in turn means a buttload of shipping goes through the Behring strait.
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Not normal in the United States at least. There was that one time Vladimir Putin went AWOL for several days while two oligarchs were having a major squabble.
edited 1st Feb '17 12:37:44 PM by CaptainCapsase
Personally, I'm not too worried about the long-term survival of the collective human species, since I'm very confident about humanity's ability to survive and recover from even so-called "apocalyptic" disasters-they'll just slow us down a bit. Short-term survival of civilizations and individual people though? That's legitimately something to be worried about. The Earth isn't under insurance, and I don't want to pay out of pocket to fix it.
edited 1st Feb '17 12:37:55 PM by Protagonist506
Leviticus 19:34
One of the issues is that in the event of the collapse of human civilization, there's every possibility the planet simply won't have enough readily accessible resources for the surviving humans to redo industrialization, and we'll be stuck on this miserable rock until something eventually does wipe us out.
Is it weird that I can't help but imagine that Trump's only going there to desecrate the corpse, on the basis of "I like soldiers who don't get killed"?
How about the eight-year-old girl who was killed in that same raid? Does he have anything to say about her, or nah?
Or perhaps more importantly, was she killed deliberately?
edited 1st Feb '17 12:44:51 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."So I've been calling the numbers listed on The Sixty-Five
and they're all tied up, both Republican and Democrat. Is this good or bad? I'm hoping this is a sign of high call volume.
Seems two GOP senators are joining the Dems in opposition to De Vos. All they need is one more and she's doomed.
Quietus? (I swear I don't live in a cave).
@Capsace Opening up the Bering Strait will benefit California and the Pacific Northwest only if Alaska is stuck rebuilding its entire infrastructure. I don't know how red states do on development in general, but GA is sitting on a development plan for Savannah that would open the place up to modern oceanic shipping (and incidentally, would save cruise-goers an eight-hour drive to New Orleans or Tampa).
As for civilization... In essence, people with money and connections will endure, and "karma" will hit those who weren't so well placed.
edited 1st Feb '17 1:08:14 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives![]()
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The GOP don't seem worried, though. They remain confident that there will be no further defections, and Pence will be able to serve as the tiebreaking vote that allows them to begin dismantling the education system.
edited 1st Feb '17 12:56:23 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."So, apparently Trump's called to the Mexican President was an epic disaster (no surprise there). To the point where Trump even threatened to send Federal troops to Mexico...
"I don't need the Mexicans, I don't need Mexico," Trump reportedly told the Mexican president. "We are going to build the wall and you all are going to pay for it, like it or not." ... "He even complained of the bad role the [Mexican] army is playing in the fight against narco trafficking," Estevez, who writes for Forbes and is close to Mexican journalist and anchorwoman Carmen Aristegui, said during an interview with Aristegui's eponymous news outlet. ... Trump "even suggested to [Peña Nieto] that if they are incapable of combatting [narco trafficking] he may have to send troops to assume this task," she said.
But, hey at least we didn't elect a warmonger for President, amirite?
New Survey coming this weekend!During the campaign Trump openly called for the reprisal killing of families of terrorists who joined ISIS, so I wouldn't completely rule it out.
to quote him- "It's a horrible thing. They're using them as shields. But we're fighting a very politically correct war. And the other thing is with the terrorists, you have to take out their families," he explained. "They, they care about their lives. Don’t kid yourself. But they say they don’t care about their lives. You have to take out their families.”
edited 1st Feb '17 1:03:15 PM by carbon-mantis
Cause when push, comes to shove, I will kill your friends and family... to remind you of my love!
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Keep calling.
edited 1st Feb '17 1:13:14 PM by RBluefish
"We'll take the next chance, and the next, until we win, or the chances are spent."Well it fits the MO of a mob boss, and considering his pay-to-play actions, leaving the Saudis off the Muslim ban because they're making him money, and Ms Haley's statements to the UN, Trump isn't hiding it...
edited 1st Feb '17 1:14:39 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives"It's too late to do anything."
"Why would we do anything, when [insert group I don't like here] isn't doing anything?"
"Climate change is happening but it isn't caused by humans."
"I'll be dead by the time it gets too bad, why do I care."
I mean, Hillary or Bernie or Kanye West could have been swept into the White House on a wave of cheering supporters and we still probably would have been screwed; human self-interest being what it is. I've been tilting at these windmills since I was 14, none of this is new to me. But you would think voters would at least recognize a vested interest in having their rivers not catch fire ever again.
edited 1st Feb '17 1:25:35 PM by Pseudopartition

You would think Florida would be leading the charge on climate change, along with Alaska (it's not like disappearing permafrost will be a good thing, and any great explosion of plant life is thousands of generations of detritus away).
Even GA is still stuck in on-again, off-again droughts.
edited 1st Feb '17 12:29:18 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives