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  1. 37 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Notice I said "clearcutting."  I would expect that we log federal land, because unlike sweeping forest floors, it's how you keep forests healthy from disease and fire.

    We definitely do. Look at a satellite view of Oregon national forests. Very patchy. Do we overdo it? I imagine so, lots of things need primary forest, which is practically an endangered habitat. But I'm pretty positive national forests aren't exempt from logging. That would be national parks only, or declared wilderness areas, I imagine.

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  2. 1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

    We are lucky. Any dumb motherfuckers that end up on Mars thinking it’s some sort of viable alternative to Earth are in for a rude awakening. It’s basically a rocky, dusty Antarctica with effectively no water or air, absolutely no life (so… nothing to eat or to use to make shelters or medicine), and zero protection from ionizing cosmic radiation. It’s basically the Moon but further away (and thus with depressingly low sunlight levels). 

    The maximum life expectancy for Mars colonists would be the duration of whatever food and water they were able to bring. Odds are they’ll die much sooner than that. Procreation and propagation of our species there is simply out of the question. 

    Mars is a dead-end for humanity. The severity of calamity necessary to make living on Mars more palatable than Earth is essentially world-ending. Like a collision with another planet or being swallowed by an expanding Sun. It’s not even a remotely better option compared to massive global warming, nuclear war, or even an extinction level asteroid strike.

    So of course the moron techbros running the world now think it’s a good idea. 

    It's like people want interstellar to be real life. There ain't no wormhole to save us, and Mars isn't going to cut it. Our technology is not remotely advanced enough. And if it ever does come to pass that we have to leave this planet, it would have to be pointlesslu far in the future to even contemplate if you think any but a couple hundred spots are going to be open. As I think has been posted elsewhere, Don't Look Up is a much more apt comparison.

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  3. 1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

    We are lucky. Any dumb motherfuckers that end up on Mars thinking it’s some sort of viable alternative to Earth are in for a rude awakening. It’s basically a rocky, dusty Antarctica with effectively no water or air, absolutely no life (so… nothing to eat or to use to make shelters or medicine), and zero protection from ionizing cosmic radiation. It’s basically the Moon but further away (and thus with depressingly low sunlight levels). 

    The maximum life expectancy for Mars colonists would be the duration of whatever food and water they were able to bring. Odds are they’ll die much sooner than that. Procreation and propagation of our species there is simply out of the question. 

    Mars is a dead-end for humanity. The severity of calamity necessary to make living on Mars more palatable than Earth is essentially world-ending. Like a collision with another planet or being swallowed by an expanding Sun. It’s not even a remotely better option compared to massive global warming, nuclear war, or even an extinction level asteroid strike.

    So of course the moron techbros running the world now think it’s a good idea. 

     

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  4. 2 1/2 year-old booked it out of the store toward a busy strip center parking lot while I was pushing the baby and Mom was otherwise preoccupied. I ran to the exit, pushing the stroller to a stop right at the door and sprinted to grab the kid a few steps from the parking lot. Meltdown then ensued in the car as we left his stickers behind. 

    Then, while trying desperately to kill time before the nap, as everyone was beginning to hate each other, we went for a bike ride, which became a bike walk, which became whatever this is. Is it Monday yet?

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, InkaUtexas said:

    As long as there is room for my papasan chair. Lazy B? Mechanical I hope. Not going to be any power unless we can harnass wind power. Meaning Brisket's capacity after burritos.

    I don't actually have one. Just a metaphor for getting very comfortable as I will be staying a while. I feel like I've said similar things about the ledge in the past, but always end up leaving, only to come back with even greater despair.

  6. 3 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    “Will?” Dude…we’re already there.

    I remember when your whole ledge thing seemed like a schtick that had run its course and was beginning to get tiresome. But apparently that dead horse needed to be beat much harder for most people to grasp how shitty things were going to be/already are.

    I knew shit was bad. I thought it might get slightly better. Then, I thought it would at least get shitty at a more gradual rate once Trump was re-elected. How naive my already very pessimistic and cynical view turned out to be. Everything is shit and we're all fucked. I'm bringing my La-Z Boy and a full cooler to the ledge and getting real comfortable. I don't imagine we'll be leaving anytime soon.

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  7. 11 hours ago, wood said:

    Most of my extended family is white trash in Tennessee and Florida and I have a pretty good idea how most of them think ... but idgaf because I cut all their sorry asses out of my life 35+ years ago. /csb

    My parents are no longer vocal about their politics, but they definitely voted for Trump 3 times. It was great initially when they moved nearby to have help with our 2 kids. They just left for the Valley for 2 months, which will be a good trial run for how much we actually need their help. As much as I hate to say it, I just don't care to be around them at all right now.

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  8. 1 hour ago, ChiTownDoc said:

    A military chopper and commercial aircraft running into eachother?   First RIP

    And this may not be dipshit’s fault.  But make no mistake, as he guts the government, we will definitely see more of this banana republic type of tragedy.  That’s Trump’s America.  

    The next 4 years are going to be like weather events with climate change. We can never know exactly how much each specific event was due to climate change, but it is damn sure playing a starring role.

    I'm sure there will be numerous tragedies the next few years that may seem like freak accidents. But when you put morons/oligarchs/bootlickers in charge and chip away at any and all regulations, this shit is inevitably going to occur at a greater frequency.

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  9. 1 hour ago, Spankytoes said:

    So are guns. Yet,do you agree that we should do everything we can to stop school shootings? Something has to give. 

    Comparing getting rid of guns to getting rid of humans, very cool. Do y'all have a simple equation over in DT for calculating how many brown lives equal one gun?

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  10. "The world has always been fucked" seems like a cop out to me. 

    I think quality of life was generally improving for most people across most of our lives, certainly in the US. Im not sure if that's going to be the case for my children. In fact, I doubt it will be. Outside of the obvious political stuff, the planet turning into an empty husk of what it once was is problematic. The fact that 90+% of people continue to treat this as some niche issue is mind-boggling to me. 

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  11. I was mostly rageful the first go-round with Trump. This time, while still incredibly angry, particularly with people I care about (like my parents) for voting for Trump, I am just very depressed. I had a pretty good idea what was coming, but seeing it actually occur still fucking sucks. 

    For my own sake, I'm happy I have kids so I don't just drink myself into an early grave. For my kids sake, this is the worst. Assuming the fat fuck lives long enough, he will be the first president my eldest remembers.

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  12. 1 hour ago, UpperWestside said:

    ISWYDT

    We are absolutely Fubar’d. I have never been more angry and embarrassed to be an American than I was today. The right words for today escape me. None would be nice though. 77 million people wanted today and got it. Elon Musk would have gotten beaten to death 80 years ago by every single American for what he did today and their orange cult leader would have been a laughingstock, but not today.

    I thought January 6th was pretty bad. Now, it's going to be groundhog day of January 6th for at least 4 years.

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  13. We should definitely be throwing all of our time, money and energy into making life suitable on Mars for a lucky few rather than just not fucking the planet we evolved to live on. We need more billionaires building rockets!!!

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  14. On 1/11/2025 at 1:55 PM, Chips O'Toole said:

    Just started season 2. Holy shit, episode 1 was the most boring hour of TV I've seen in a while and I couldn't see shit because it was so dark.  I'm assuming it gets better but goddamn, what the fuck was that. 

    I watched 4 episodes on my upstairs TV after taking valium for a vasectomy. Was too tired to figure out how to turn off the energy saving settings, so I couldn't see shit. Seems like I didn't miss much. I enjoyed the end of the season though. 

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