Re: OT: "We're not treating this as a terrorist attack"

On 5/01/2025 4:15 am, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 4 Jan 2025 11:14:32 -0500, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
 

On 1/4/2025 11:09 AM, john larkin wrote:
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Fox News et al. generates a whole variety of fatuous nonsense and they
see what gets clicks and eyeballs and what doesn't, throw shit at the
wall and see what sticks.
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Then they feed the most highly-rated nonsense to Trump/Musk/Vance et al
who bring it up in their next speech or X post and the hoi polloi are
like "Wow, they know what's on our minds. they really understand us!"

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You sneer at the people who keep you alive. Maybe they shouldn't
bother.

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Sure thing. Been waiting on you all to "go Galt" like you've been
waiting on San Fran to be flooded by global warming, looking at my
calendar like "any day now."

 My kitchen floor is 365 feet above sea level. The ocean here is rising
maybe 2 mm/year. We'll be wet in about 50,000 years, ignoring the next
ice age.

Linear extrapolation again?
There's a about six metres of sea level rise locked up in the Greenland ice sheet and maybe another four in the West Antarctic Ice sheet. All they have to do is slide off into the ocean, and they can do that quite rapidly - is the end of the last ice age is anything to go by.
It won't flood your kitchen but it may well flood the road to your to the nearest shops.

Speaking of which I figure you live in SF vs. Tulsa for a reason.

 I grew up in New Orleans and one day decided to reboot my life. I
studied the USA for six months, traveled and explored and researched
pollen distributions and ski areas. I decided to move to Portland or
SF and an incident tipped the scales.
 Can't complain. SF has good food, beautiful terrain, gay guys and
great women who like engineers.
 But I've never been to Tulsa. How's that? Have you been to Tulsa, or
is it just a target for sneers?

Somebody wrote a song about it.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney