I am certain. Science doesn't lie, and I don't have to take someone's word, I can examine data, understand chemistry, and see short and long term trends. The data is undeniable, the only thing wrong with what the media tells you is they paint FAR too rosy a picture. You would think, based on media reports, that if we did stay at only 1.5C above pre industrial levels all is fine, that's nonsense. Truth is 1.5C is where they theorized we lose all control and skyrocket up from there to....nobody knows where, but hot. I think we are on track to 1.5C before 2030, and the feedback loops are already kicking in now. Does that mean we die in 2030? No, but it means our collective fate is sealed and completely out of our control.

I do plant trees, I already have solar, I drive well under 4000 miles a year, in fact I haven't driven anywhere but the grocery store in the wife's car in over 6 month when my car broke, and I don't miss it, I don't have AC, and yes, I need to get on my bike more, for my weight and blood pressure. My money IS where my mouth is, and I still was willing to put it on the line....you aren't.

A big difference is, if somehow I am wrong, what I do is still proper, cleaner, safer, and actually cheaper. Your ideas and ideals lead to detrimental, polluting, dangerous, and more expensive actions and processes even if miraculously they don't lead to our extinction this century.

Are you snatching up cheap uninsurable coastline in Florida and Louisiana? Are you selling off your water rights because they're a dime a dozen? Are you short selling produce and grains on margin? Are you doing anything to risk your money based on what you say?

Your turn.

Edit: I don't do mobs. I prefer people who think for themselves.

From YT:

00:00 Zoë Bell
00:15 Lucy Lawless
00:20 Tara Macken
00:23 Drew Barrymore
00:27 Juliette Lewis
00:32 Tamiko Brownlee
00:38 Rosario Dawson
00:45 Amy Johnston
00:49 Cameron Diaz
00:55 Kim Murphy
00:58 Daniela Ruah
1:03 Michaela McAllister
1:09 Kaitlin Oslon
1:18 Lauren Mary Kim
1:25 Florence Pugh
1:38 Zoë Bell
1:47 Julia Butters
1:54 Angela Meryl
2:00 Sarah Irwin
2:08 Daryl Hannah
2:13 Sophia Di Martino
2:19 Tracie Thoms
2:32 Shauna Duggins
2:41 Zoe Saldana
2:46 Ming Qiu
2:50 Renée Goldsberry
2:53 Rosie Perez
3:01 Lilly Aspell
3:04 Thandie Newton
3:08 Mel Stubs
3:14 Jessie Graff
3:17 Zoë Bell
3:24 Monique Ganderton
3:32 Halle Berry
3:43 Heidi Moneymaker
3:51 Scarlett Johansson
4:00 Dayna Grant
4:04 Margot Robbie
4:12 Renae Moneymaker
4:18 Zoë Bell
4:25 KT Tunstall

I saw a good juxtaposition video of her toothless jokes about Conway and Huckabee-Sanders at what's usually a roast of the current administration followed by Trump talking about Rosie O'Donnell and others on the campaign trail and later.
Funny how exponentially more personal and nasty remarks about a private citizen being disgusting, fat, and ugly inside and out are funny to them, but a joke about the Whitehouse spokesperson using burnt facts as makeup are just uncalled for and totally out of line.
*facepalm

Well, things are not as rosy as folks like Steven Pinker would like us to believe. As much as I dislike resorting to Hollywood for philosophical insights, True Detective was absolutely on point in this quote:

„Transference of fear and self-loathing to an authoritarian vessel. It's catharsis. He absorbs their dread with his narrative. Because of this, he's effective in proportion to the amount of certainty he can project.“

Now, they were talking about a preacher. But I'd argue this applies to scapegoats as well. And if your arguments undermine the scapegoat, it starts losing its efficiency as a focal point of people's discontent.

Most of us have so much day-to-day shit to deal with that outsourcing the macro-shit to a boogeyman, any boogeyman, helps us get through the day without wanting to bash our head against the wall. Or bash someone else's head in, for that matter.

This doesn't excuse this level of self-delusion, but maybe it explains it to some degree. I'd say keep doing what I know you've been doing for many years: present your case in a respectful manner.

I wish I could say I'm surprised, but fucking hell, nothing that happens this year surprises me anymore.

And it's not like 2017 is looking that fucking rosy either....

What happened to the "less funny Rosie O'Donnell" line?

"A gun-control movement worthy of the name would insist that President Clinton move beyond his proposals for controls ... and immediately call on Congress to pass far-reaching industry regulation like the Firearms Safety and Consumer Protection Act ... [which] would give the Treasury Department health and safety authority over the gun industry, and any rational regulator with that authority would ban handguns."
- Josh Sugarmann, executive director of the Violence Policy Center

“If I had my way, sporting guns would be strictly regulated, the rest would be confiscated.”
– Nancy Pelosi, US Congresswoman

“US Senator, If I could have banned them all – ‘Mr. and Mrs. America turn in your guns’ – I would have!”
– Diane Feinstein, US Senator

"My view of guns is simple. I hate guns and I cannot imagine why anyone would want to own one. If I had my way, guns for sport would be registered, and all other guns would be banned."
- Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Dean of Harvard School of Public Health

"I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say 'Sorry.' it's 1999. We have had enough as a nation. You are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison."
- Rosie O'Donnell, Actress

“I don’t believe people should to be able to own guns.”
- Barack Obama (during conversation with economist and author John Lott Jr. at the University of Chicago Law School in the 1990s)

“We must get rid of all the guns.”
- Sarah Brady, Widow of James Brady

“I believe for example when Washington, D.C., passed a law that nobody could have a gun except law enforcement and it was struck down by the United States Supreme Court, that we should overrule the Supreme Court with a Constitutional amendment. I don’t believe that in our society that we should have guns.”
- Ed Koch, former NYC Mayor

“Confiscation could be an option…mandatory sale to the state could be an option.”
- Andrew Cuomo, NY Governor

“an assault weapons ban is just the beginning...a complete ban on handguns could be possible through state and local action.”
- Jan Schakowsky, llinois Congresswoman

“governments should start confiscating semi-automatic rifles and other firearms
- Dan Muhlbauer, Iowa state Rep.

Now, this was with a quick search on Google. I am sure there are more, but I just thought I would give a sample. Additionally, the really rabid activists have learned to rephrase statements to avoid the term ban. They aren't stupid, they know that they have to soften the phrasing to make it more palatable to the everyday citizen.

Just thought I would copy a comment from the link you gave. Not going to get into a discussion over this, since I've made my feelings clear elsewhere.

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Henny Roenne
May 17, 2015 at 4:56 am
Being a Dane, I would like to comment on your article.

One thing that makes the Scandinavian countries very different (or made them very diffferent until recently): countries with small enormously homogenous populations. This has changed the last few decades with an influx of people from countries with different cultures and ways of living. And actually all these fine figures have changed accordingly – at least for Denmark, A previous British ambassador to Denmark wrote: Denmark is not a nation, Denmark is a clan. I think this observation explains a lot and unfortunately the clan feeling has more or less disappeared.

Denmark has become a country which is much less safe to live in, prisons are filled to the brim, and standards in health and education systems have fallen dramatically. BUT previously things were quite rosy.

So the lesson to be learned for the US: this cannot be done with a country of more than 300 million inhabitants and a population mix that is like yours.

Sorry to be so pessimistic ……

voted actual size relative to your personal self-impression and quality of comments posted to-date. Also, understood the "my" in the title as meaning 'yours.' We'd imagine your testicular condition also, to be somewhat similar to Bullet-toothed Tony's explanation of Vinny and Sol's predicament in the pub scene from the film, 'Snatch.'

Make sure you've offered the correct system of measure as well for the unemployed here, the categories offered for Rosy Palm's bachelor-tackle of this site's toddlers seem a bit too gracious...

Awesome set, this kid's union society moment carved in stone (kids' so damn nervous about hosting the best guest ever, being the class clown that he is!) WHO do think can relate better than anyone who tries to 'speak-out' being tense or intimidated approaching and encountering social media as a greenhorn?? Uhh, ME!? Chinagaloggie loves to talk about assholes and idgits, and they STILL follow protocol that enhances their own asshole....Imagine the levels of chagrin and the energy fed the universal grid encouraging one so-inclined to re-engage??

Everyone can be their own worst enemy and their best friend's nightmare.


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Oh, and their own girlfriend (Rosy Palm and her five sisters) or their best friend's friend's wet dream


Oh, I'm great at parties btw...

I couldn't hear/tell who she was doing much of the time, but I did love Zooey Deschanel, Gwen Stefani, Christinga Aguilera, and Celine Dion.

Streisand sounded like Rosie Perez to me.

Rosie? How do you say that incorrectly?

Kitty DOES Play with It Episodes:

Rosie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X65Xjttn9c&feature=share&list=UUNTHi7T0rSRhjZ6pvXxuioQ

Digger http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyAEqhfHTE&feature=share&list=UUNTHi7T0rSRhjZ6pvXxuioQ

Dixie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONl273eQ7jE&feature=share&list=UUNTHi7T0rSRhjZ6pvXxuioQ

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The implication seems to be that everyone should learn to code So they can be successful software tycoons. Although I'd like my kids to code, I think this point of view may be looking at the last 20 years through a rosy rear-view mirror. Coding skils != success, and the NEXT 20 years may require some very different skills indeed.

>> ^chingalera:

Voter fraud. Can any of you in the U.S. with half a brain fail to admit that the PROCESS ITSELF has become a massive ballet of spin, misinformation, & media and political manipulation on a ridiculous scale to the degree that it is done in plain sight without impunity?? The entire process is complete and utter shit.
People involved should be publicly exposed and humiliated and exiled, and you the complicit should be spanked until bottoms are rosy and near bleeding.
Obama is re-elected because he was SUPPOSED to be according to his handlers.


Sorry Honey Boo Boo's on.

EDIT: Ya know what's sad. I made a joke about Honey Boo Boo to point out we're too busy to care about things because we're watching TV. Then the old guy came on the video and I recognized him instantly from a House Episode...I even could quote some of his lines and knew what problem he had (uses too much denture glue). So that tells you a bit about what we're busy doing, and I don't even own a TV.