Random Thoughts or Whatever

[Mystic]

TWO SIDES OF THE GENERATION GAP QUARREL @ THE 21st CENTURY

YOUTH: MY GENERATION IS GOING TO START A REVOLUTION!
ELDER: YOUR GENERATION CAN'T START A LAWNMOWER!

also

YOUTH: I HAVE TO SET UP YOUR WI-FI & DELETE ALL YOUR VIRUSES!
ELDER: THERE ARE TOO MANY BUTTONS!

 

[Mystic]

Physics doesn't give a hang about feelings or opinion.

 

[ernieb1536]

Common sense is continually setting lower expectations of what defines common sense.

Common since is not that common

 

[ernieb1536]

Always a quandary for me, as I'm better at solving everybody else's problems than my own.

I think that goes for most people

 

[Mystic]

Loud, costly, and nearly impossible to control.

 

[ernieb1536]

Loud, costly, and nearly impossible to control.
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Sounds like my xwife !

 

[Mystic]

Sounds like my xwife !

You didn't have a Trans Am?

 

[highvoltage_]

Loud, costly, and nearly impossible to control.
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And the car is pretty nice too!

 

[Mystic]

And the car is pretty nice too!

Start 'er up!

 

[Mystic]

As of 15 June 2022 more than half of the reservoirs in California are at less than 50% capacity.

LINK: https://brooksbulletin.com/californ...tion-decisions-will-have-to-be-made-part-one/

 

[Mystic]

PRECIPITATION: CALIFORNIA & NEVADA, JANUARY-MAY 2022

 

[Mystic]

In 2014, a French meteorologist announced the forecast for August 18, 2050 as part of a campaign to alert to the reality of climate change. Her forecast that day closely resembles the actual forecast in France for the next five days. The future is now.

 

[Mystic]

Number of animals slaughtered per year for human consumption:

Cattle: 0.3 billion
Goat: 0.4 billion
Sheep 0.5 billion
Swine: 1.5 billion
Poultry: 65.8 billion

MEAT PIE CHART:

 

[Mystic]

Having collected fresh snow samples from 19 sites across Antartica, researchers from University of Canterbury (New Zealand) found an average of 29 microplastic particles per litre of melted snow, the most common particle being polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is (primarily) used in the manufacture clothes and soda bottles.

LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim.../09/microplastics-antarctic-snow-study-first/

 

[reddodge053]

Porterhouse please needa bigger slice in the cattle region!!!

 

[NH-MAN]

As of 15 June 2022 more than half of the reservoirs in California are at less than 50% capacity.

LINK: https://brooksbulletin.com/californ...tion-decisions-will-have-to-be-made-part-one/

They have been that low over 20 years ago when I lived there.

Maybe 15 years ago locals tried to fight a Nestle water bottling plant that would pull millions of gallons of water a day from the ground but of course it went through.

 

[Mystic]

There’s a new Puccini opera. An American buys a Japanese woman. Butterfly. He ought to die of shame, but does not. Butterfly does. What are we to make of this? Is it that Japanese do die of shame and dishonor, but Americans don’t? Maybe can’t ever die of shame, because they lack the cultural equipment? As if somehow your country is just mechanically destined to move forward regardless of who is in the way or underfoot?

– Thomas Pynchon

 

[Pio1980]

There’s a new Puccini opera. An American buys a Japanese woman. Butterfly. He ought to die of shame, but does not. Butterfly does. What are we to make of this? Is it that Japanese do die of shame and dishonor, but Americans don’t? Maybe can’t ever die of shame, because they lack the cultural equipment? As if somehow your country is just mechanically destined to move forward regardless of who is in the way or underfoot?

– Thomas Pynchon

"Winning is the only thing".
Attributed to numerous unscrupulous competitors, coaches, and politicos.

 

[NH-MAN]

Having collected fresh snow samples from 19 sites across Antartica, researchers from University of Canterbury (New Zealand) found an average of 29 microplastic particles per litre of melted snow, the most common particle being polyethylene terephthalate (PET), which is (primarily) used in the manufacture clothes and soda bottles.

LINK: https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim.../09/microplastics-antarctic-snow-study-first/

The thing that drives me nuts nowadays is incomplete journalism, like maybe complete the article by telling us about how they get into the atmosphere. I swear more than 90% of articles leave me asking are you going to actually do some work and find out the rest of the story like the normal who, what, why and how come .

Thats my fault though as sometimes I forget I shouldn't expect anything nowadays.

Not surprising though as 30 years ago we were supposed to reduce plastic usage and instead make more than ever yet recycle 5% of it.

 

[Lou F Quincy]

Loud, costly, and nearly impossible to control.
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I had that car for a couple of years in the 80s.
(Pontiac 400, 4 speed, no a/c, no power windows. Just too much decal goop. )
Unfortunately I didn't have the lass.