frank

Don't worry. Everything is going to be ok.

If you're 80 years old, don't you see the same stories played out over and over? Can't you tell where the train will end up by just looking at where t...

Speaking of flying creatures, there's an abandoned starling in my front yard. I asked the neighbors if anyone wants it. They make good pets, but they ...

Confusion about probability is pretty rampant. I heard a nurse practitioner tell a woman that she was "more than likely going to have a stroke.". What...

The oceans scrub about 3 bmt's per year, so I guess you're right. :nerd:

Population is contracting in all the core nations. The next generation will be the first to experience the problems associated with this. Japan will b...

I don't think the rate of emission matters much. Produce the emission size from the 1890s over a period of 500 years and you've got a climate crisis.

That doesn't make much sense to me. I don't see how it would matter whether we emit 100 billion metric tons per decade or per century. Can you explain...

The 1890s required a lot of coal. Remember London was in a giant coal smoke fog back then? The 70s was post combustion engine, so that won't work. We ...

Everything is a hoax. The whole damn thing.

Probability is a massive hoax perpetrated by positive atheists to convince the lay people that God isn't necessary.

I keep tripping over the second paragraph of the third meditation: So he lays out the foundation he's discovered: F: I exist and I am a thinking thing...

Horror is an oddity. The image I took away from Hanover's thing was a child covered in drying cement, for some reason looking behind her. She might sh...

They moved me on a truck to the landfill where I sank deep into the earth like a whale saying goodbye to the sun She threw up before she died and I wa...

Right, but people who volunteer to do wildlife rehab are bleeding heart do-gooders to need the challenge to give their lives meaning, so you're really...

I would call the local wildlife rescue people and see if they know someone who will relocate the bats for free. Doesn't hurt to ask.

One thing that's hard for the leftist in me to swallow is that one of the parties contributing to a real solution is a megastar of capitalism: Bill Ga...

I think Bangladesh will be gone soon. Similarly, the east coast of North America is going under. We wait till the hurricanes destroy the coast before ...

There's something kind of dreamlike about your comics. They almost make sense, but then they turn. They could be used for divination like the I Ching.

:up:

I appreciate and honor that. I'm not alarmed. I'm just kind of heartbroken. I think the most actionable path would be fusion r+d. As the article @"jgi...

I didn't say everything will be fine. I compared the coming event to the end of the Bronze Age. The only social collapse that compares to that is the ...

No.

I'm into the Third Meditation. I'm reading and rereading it to get the whole thing to hang together. Should we go through it a step at a time? Or just...

I agree with that. I think it will be like the end of the Bronze Age. Lots of wars, displaced people, breakdown of the global community.

There's no reason to believe climate change will cause human extinction. Primates originally evolved at the poles during the PETM. The surface was hot...

This is going to be an El Nino year. It's going to be pretty warm.

:groan:

:cool:

On a tiny island lived a little village where no one knew of the outside world. They thought there was nothing but water in all directions forever. At...

What would be an example of an organization outliving its use?

Do real anarchists have meetings? Honestly, I don't know what their goal is. But I have the same problem with Marxists.

Oh. Then he should figure out how they're getting in the attic, shew them out that opening and put a screen over the opening (assuming it's a vent.) I...

I suppose it would be. Seems like things would get bloody from time to time.

I would love to have bats in my attic. I think you can sell the poop.

That's why they're so sleepy! They're working on proofs of God all night long.

I work for the Sleep Foundation. I must have been asleep when they put that message out.

I think your point is that if someone wants to bitch about what Florida and Texas are doing, they won't be able to take it to the SCOTUS. They'll have...

Parties sometimes switch polarity.

But Texas is doing it too. Plus Trump appeared to be a dictator wannabe, as he's likely to be the Republican candidate for president. It's the appeal ...

90% of the population of Athens were slaves. Plato didn't know shit about democracy. But that thing you describe from time to time, where there's no g...

So does this mean Republicans are veering away from conservatism?

If we say that there are strong forces in any democracy toward oligarchy (and I think there are), then that still serves NOS's purposes, which is to p...

But I've never heard a conservative defend small government by pointing to the wording of the Constitution. It's usually about how the government shou...

pre-women's suffrage?

Republican state governments in Texas and Florida are overriding local governments. In Florida, De Santis has changed the times for school openings ba...

Yes. The copy of the Meditations you're reading is an utterance. An utterance is sounds or marks. I agree. It's by the utterance of a sentence that a ...

You're an early Gen X. You were born during a baby bust.

People would have been watching I Love Lucy reruns when the Bay of Pigs incident happened. You're a young baby boomer. The adult generation at the tim...

That moral ambiguity of the 80s was maybe a reaction to the earlier super-naive, super-good Donna Reed type of world. If you watch I Love Lucy and see...