Posts by giovanni tiso
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One day, of course, the sun's going to expand and the planet will be left to the microbes (and then not even them). That's the really depressing long-term. Hopefully we'll be out of the solar system by then; as you say, it's the only long-term survival strategy. But it'd be nice if we could keep this planet habitable for our species for a while first.
You know, I used to be genuinelly depressed by that long-term thought when I was a wee nipper. Now I'm depressed by the prospect that the human race might still be around when the sun expands to the point of killing everything but the microbes.
Okay, carry on.
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*Thank you* Russell!
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Great point Tim.
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She thought her husband might like it too - he's the chair of the RB.
Ahaha... fantastic.
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Disneyland is in California, so doesn't it already have the death penalty?
(Me, I'm more of a Baudrillard kind of guy. It's not Disneyland that it's a simulation of the US, Disneyland is real. It's the US that are a simulation.)
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What Danielle said.
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But QFT that making a lasting lifestyle change isn't as easy as flipping a switch.
I presume you meant "is" there? Then again, I'm reading Psychocybernetics, a self-help book written in 1960 by a plastic sourgeon who had discovered Weiner* and according to him it's exactly as easy as flipping a switch.
* Norbert, the scientist - oh, grow up! -
we spend a fortune on the apparatus of social authoritarianism. Measures such as closing prisons, cuting police numbers and legalising and taxing drugs would free a substantial "freedom dividend" that could be spent on more useful public services.
Now we're talking.
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heh..it's really a matter of acclimatisation. Welly to the Gold Coast is a shock at the very best of times. Very few of those living there seem keen to move to cooler climes which mostly says it all.
I lived in a very hot summer climate all my life and couldn't wait to get the hell away from it.
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Ohhhh...