Climate "ambitions", huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an "ambition" now...
It's still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I'm sure that will be remedied before long.
Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store's pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city's sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.
The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.
Almost 4pm now and there's a good strong breeze along the Embarcadero. Yet it's still warm enough for shorts and T-shirts. Perfect!
Edit: in classic form, only minutes later it's already gusting to over 20mph (my estimate) and only occasionally falling to a light breeze. Kind of halfway expecting to see the fog peek over before long 😖 but that's just how it goes.
Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!
Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city's economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will...
Along the same lines, let's not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers' convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.
Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, "Advertising doesn't work that way".
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/
Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.
If I shared the same insane and impotent obsession with the future, I would pay more to be turned into a fossil, all my cells replaced with minerals. Much more durable and the same zero chance of ever living again.
This just happened as I opened this post to read about this stuff... Gemini chose that very moment to message me for the first time offering to be of service in my future use of Google messages. That's both creepy and kind of hilarious. I wouldn't be surprised if their system is (anonymously, but still) intaking the content of all Google messages regardless of what they or their legal and privacy departments say about it.
oh never mind, guess I can't upload an image with this comment, but the content of the message from Gemini was "Hi, I'm Gemini in Google Messages. Chat with me to draft messages, brainstorm ideas, plan events or simply have a fun conversation." 🙄
Ouch. I read this and followed links to read numerous other posts of his. Seems spot-on in his analysis and entirely parallels what I think and feel about our world. I'm struggling to avoid sheer terror in addition to the already present crippling anxiety and burnout. The only comfort, much of the time, is that none of us are truly or purely alone in all of this. The catastrophe surrounds everyone we know, regardless of whether their personal circumstances have yet broken down to a degree that allows them to witness it consciously.
This was a good read and you beat me to posting it by minutes :)
(see other person's same-level comment too)
good point and true. Not the case where he's going to be charged with treason, anyway, but you're right, I should take care to refer to the case properly. Especially if my reason for commenting is to clarify which matter is being discussed!
Good point, and true; and the way I put it probably plays into the pattern of Trump voters thinking "well yeah, that's morally questionable but not illegal and not worth this big of a systemic reaction."
I will adjust my mentions of this in the future.
That's in one of his other court cases. This is about the one where he paid a prostitute to keep quiet after he paid her for sex.
I too am wondering what's dumb or otherwise wrong or undesirable about a second coat of paint. Seems context dependent but they left the context general/generic