LOTR Sean Bean Meme: “one does not simply TAKE kharg island!”

How come the FBI is investigating this and not like local cops or university police? Is it because they’ve classified being part of Palestinian supporting actions as domestic terrorism?

Oh snap had completely forgotten about this song until you reminded me, awesome.

Yeah I know it’s Putin thang, but if anyone on earth could achieve something like this at this point, I’d put my money on china. Anyhow it’s a joke, but also: old people in china are generally pretty spry (thinking of all the grandmas I saw at night doing dance music aerobics in xian) so a Chinese 80 is a hell if a lot different than an American one. Plus Xi is rumored to be lifelong moderate in terms of his appetites no?

Him and Putin were allegedly talking about living forever via organ transplants (I think on a hot mic at the PRC military parade) so maybe we’ll never have to find out!

I haven’t sussed out the details of this proposal so don’t know, but could we speculate that this is similar to the disavow AIPAC then take money from an adjacent org that is essentially AIPAC without the name thing? Ie no more direct funding bill to give israel money to buy weapons, instead this will now be done through a budget line at the DOD, and this will be great because no one can untangle the DOD budget and it’s a meme they can’t pass audits, so no more congress funding votes, just reliable cash stream that the public can’t fuck with.

Ok but the CIA being just one big chain of idiots and the George Clooney robo dildo machine were pretty amusing.

Fair point. Monsters still have mothers…

Peter Theil has family??? That doesn’t seem plausible.

Yeah I’m always conflicted recommending it because I don’t think it’s a good book, felt kinda like “here are 10 interesting ideas about how to approach the climate crisis” and now I have to weave them into a narrative. But I do want to take week long airship tours to see wildlife at some point…

I feel like that section should be excerpted and collected as a useful communication piece… it doesn’t really rely on the rest of the book, and, alongside some other pieces of media I’ve read/seen, (egan’s perihelion summer the part where main char goes to Perth to try and get his family | weirdly: the lost bus movie; not wonderful, but visualizes a real climate catastrophe in a very intimate and accessible way) function as a very grounding-in-reality sense of the horror contained in climate catastrophe.

Or just put another away, all of these narratives left me feeling queasy; they helped me understand that I, or people I know and care about, may experience something like this. Instead of it being a compartmentalized dread about future events that await us, these kinds of outcomes are here now, and the experiences of those affected by them will be devastating.

Edit: one more piece of media—the episode from the apple ‘adaptations’ series that takes place in Mumbai (maybe ep 3 or 4) where you follow the two guys driving cargo across the country at night and sleeping in insulated sleeping bags in the morning.

Yeah I was shocked at how much that section stuck with me. It’s one of those things that takes the idea from a compartmentalized and distant fear to a very understandable reality, and you realize something like this is gonna happen in the near future and it’s horrifying.

The first part of Kim Stanley robinsons’s ministry of the future has a really chilling narrative of a wet bulb event in India over a couple days. Absolutely terrifying and has stuck with me. Resting the bookings meh, but that section is excellent for playing out and making real the horrors of something like this.

Haha yeah, things are very “faster than expected” so who knows how high we’ll get. Maybe we should stop worrying and think of it as a civilization al high score.

I’ve read that Anthropic’s yearly revenue is in the single/double digit billions (want to say 13.5, but I’m not sure) so this company’s error would account for 4% (if my 13.5b is the number) of their yearly revenue in one month…

Ok thanks for that, I was going back and forth and then just defaulted to my double add 32 that I do for outdoor temps (my wife thinks in metric and I’m hobbled with Fahrenheit so I do ballpark conversions) but I thought something was off about 40 degrees lol

Trying to understand—is y axis surface temp in Celsius? So like mean forecast is a 4C temp anomaly in the positive…? Like a 40 degree F temp difference, totally wild.

Curious to know also, I know this is largely sited in pacific/equatorual, but if you have this kind of temp anomaly, does that have any implications on ice free arctic? I mean I guess obviously yes since it just means there’s more heat in the overall pool of water, but wondering how much it would increase timeframe/likihood.

Guessing that offer was to humiliate her prior to Mossad calling to give her the real deal: we’ll hurt your family. “You’re so insignificant and below us that we can buy you off with a traffic fine bribe” j/k we’re going to hurt you and your family.

Oh man… something was tweaking my brain and this is it.

It does feel like a strange choice… are they doing a corpo retreat that weekend with the cabinet; trust falls and a hike? Is Trump going to have some of them executed and buried in the woods? Find out in the next episode, airing Sunday prime time!