GreenEngineer

Nice bait and switch.

You should be asking about the original movie actors. And indeed, they bear no fault. (Also, they were kids)

All vegetation on these dunes is first removed, then sand is added, and rows of dune grass stumps planted. Monoculture, plus nothing natural grows in rows.

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I’m frustrated by the sounds of chainsaws & diggers, dune grass is replanted in rows, all wild growth & leaves removed, ‘cultivated’ plants arranged in manicured settings …

Are all these gardeners & foresters, employed by the community, really ignorant?

#dunes #ecology #coasts #nature

Picture it:
Al Gore won in 2000.
There was never a 9/11.
He started many "green new deals" to save the planet from ourselves.
Our homes and cars are now powered individually by owned wind and sun power and there is no need for gasoline, grids or entanglement anywhere that is oil rich.
Could've been.

On the other hand, this treatment would largely improve most of Charles Dickens’ work. (He was paid by the word and *it shows*. I would never suggest doing this to a decent author.)

If Israel has any idea what they are trying to accomplish that puts them well ahead of the US.

And that was before Trump took a giant shit on global oil markets.

On the bright side, 20% of global oil production just got shut in.

Might distract their weapons operators but probably won’t help with the mines.

My favorite bit of agricultural automation is Pasturebird’s giant solar powered chicken tractors.

As an engineer who has also farmed, I assure you that they are not.

Ultimate Discourse: most developed countries should be farming less generally and focusing on restoration of natural ecosystems they have mined (yes, *mined*) for centuries.

I assumed that the test was not of vision, but of response pattern and timing. Though it would surprise me if an AI system couldn’t learn to imitate a human response pattern.

Plus there’s the monetization aspect: those results are being sold for AI training (or at least they were; maybe no longer)

Don’t show this map to Trump, or he’ll suggest solving the problem by excavating that spit of land… probalby with nukes.

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

The really don’t want to win.

Pretti and Good were killed, we are wasting billions in Iran, the president is a corrupt fraud and his peons are bloodthirsty fascists.

meanwhile Democratic Senators don't want to win. Bad politics, bad policy, just cowardice and stupidity

And even if they somehow stop Trump, no one is going to restrain Netanyahu.

Look at the emperor’s gorgeous new outfit! It’s *amazing* (what utter fucking cowards all our leaders are).

The challenge for the US press has reached the point of "we can die, yes including you, the editors, and real soon" vs "you can admit that not all positions people hold are equally good and not all beliefs are equally true." It's not clear which side they'll pick.

Yeah. Both of the principals in this war are felons.

Netanyahu is probably marginally smarter than Trump, but I wouldn’t give him credit for being that much smarter.

And if Trump TACOs, Israel could find itself with its back against the wall.

Oh, no, they are running hundreds of sorties and bombing energy and *water* infrastructure all over Iran.

I don’t see any reason that we would use nukes, except that I assume Trump wants to use at least one before he leaves office.

Israel, on the other hand, is entirely off the leash. I will be actively surprised if we get through this without *them* dropping at least one.

What part of energy policy is not materialist?

I’m sure that our ongoing decades of support for Israel has nothing at all to do with them being a friendly regional superpower in the world’s oil patch.

At this point in the history of American culture, we really ought to be prepared to round up on the Nazi score.

The path to dealing with our Nazi problm is not to make alliances with people who are sympathetic to that way of thinking but just find it a little too intense for comfort.

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That’s a nice fantasy but that’s all it is.

Eating fruit out of season at a low price without someone somewhere paying an externalized cost? Not gonna happen.

You can have two but you don’t get all three.

Our support for the Palestinian apartheid regime is not exclusively about energy politics but that’s a big (and largely acknowledged) part of it.

And any time you are talking about food production you’re talking about energy.

Have you tried an oral appliance (jaw repositioner)?

SnoreRX is a boil-and-bite oral appliance you can buy online.

Damn thing probably saved my life. (A real one from a dentist is better but the SnoreRX is quick. SnoreRX wears out after a month or two.)

Also hard to explain leaving the Corps over it.