Darkonion

It’s literally the same issue. Changing climate is going to force mass migrations. Don’t like brown people? Maybe do everything you can to make sure their countries of origin remain liveable and prosperous. I’m guessing many would rather that then coming to some xenophobic land of full of a-holes in order to carve out some semblance of a future for their families.

Or they’d like countries that have a reserve be forced to abandon that supply and buy fresh stock.

My completely uneducated guess would be some sort of test piece for new smiths. Or a Thneed.

I think lead-brain is set to be replaced with covid-brain as the studies seem to be starting to emerge linking covid infections with cognitive impairments, with multiple infections having a cumulative effect. It is very early still, so hopefully studies prove this wrong, or I am wrong in my interpretation, or maybe the type of impairment will be different enough.

Yeah. Totally worth the $30 mill cut from the wild fire prevention services since 2018 (~25% of the budget). And the $350 mill cut off the wildfire contingency fund (~75% of previous budget). Get used to the smoke everyone.

The political party I think you want is on the other side of the current democrats. Ideally, as a nation, you’ve gotta go left so hard that the current dems would split into right and left. It is a daunting task, and a number of elections in the making…

I honestly think it is too far gone now for it to be turned with only elections. The power is too concentrated and the methods of control are too refined. At minimum, I think it will require mass “illegal” protests along with strong voting. As a bystander in another country, I fear for you all.

Rapidly abandoning a compromise is GOP 101. They get you to come half way and then they get you to come half of what is left, and so on. This has always been the tactic.

When the person you are speaking to inserts ‘I have a boyfriend’ (or equal) into the conversation and it seems out of normal flow in any way I believe it does mean ‘please stop talking to me’ / ‘please stop spending attention on me’. I interpret it as them being uncomfortable for some reason as they have raised a defense. Best to just exit the conversation as politely and quickly as possible and move on.

In isolation it doesn’t reflect on you at all, you can’t know their mind. If it happens over and over and over, you may wish to reflect on your approach. Therapy maybe, or have a trusted friend watch your interaction for comments.

It’s nice that we are done bickering about whether or not we are screwed. Onward to bickering about how soon, where, and who’s to blame!!