Isn’t also a game at defcon to spread a harmless package to as many devices as possible?

Nah. By now you have to be willfully ignorant.

They aren’t still alive though right? I’m sure I could sell them on eBay or something. Oh well, at least Coca Cola is always paying.

Hi there, I’m just wondering does Shell pay well? I was thinking of moving over to them after the Soros and Koch checks dry up post election.

Not for long. It’s going to burn.

To be fair, we deluded ourselves into thinking we were the special ones that all this was created for, and deities wouldn’t let it be ruined unless we displeased them. There’s still a lot of people who believe that. And as late as the 1990s it was easy for a normal person to think the scientists were just being dramatic.

Of course now with a top ten heat year, every year, for the last several years, and breaking the record for half of them, it’s easy to look back and be harsh.

Leadership should have been more responsible. But they’re just normal people too. The decision was truly made by the oil corporations whose own studies told them this was happening. And they spent billions over the decades to fund denialism.

Yes but no. They have the numbers already reported to them for most of us. A proper database and front end would spit out the magic number. So it’s a one time project that they can’t fund because of lobbyists. Other countries have had this for decades.

My favorite was when he accused the entire world of giving people to Harris so she could place them into the US as harmfully as possible.

I agree it’s hard to leave any ecosystem. But while Apple maintains you don’t need any cross connection; Android, Microsoft, and (to an extent) Linux all play nice with each other.

Oh joy. I always wondered what it would be like to live in a pariah state.

Oh. In that sense yeah. But most of us are also trapped on earth under that logic. I do think we need some more competition in the operating system market but I’m not sure who could pull it off. Even Microsoft bounced off of it. There is Graphene but it’s a tiny sliver of the market.

How are we trapped in Google? It’s a burden to move if I wanted to, but I can interface with everyone except apple just fine.

For me it was the pure ridiculousness of trying to pass documents back and forth with one person in the group using a Mac. Maybe Apple is better about universal document file types these days but that was it for me. I was never going to contribute to an ecosystem that created that level of disruption.

I fought Iraq in 2003 but the first president I could vote for was Bush v Kerry.

If that doesn’t do it I don’t know what will.

Also, please stop reminding me how old I am.

Yeah I was thinking about LA and SD compared to the area directly east of them. Which it strikes me now that both areas are SoCal.

No, I got my geography screwed up. So I’ll just describe it from the map. There’s a line of hills/mountains east of LA and SD that scrape water out of the sky for the coast. On the East side it’s much drier but they’ve got farms all through there and a couple towns.

Unfortunately California is flipped. Which sucks because NorCal has awesome forests. Well for now at any rate.

There’s more water in SoCal than Central Valley. And we can always Solar->Desalination. Unlike the poor bastards in Phoenix who are just going to run out in a few years.

The entire Southwest. Arizona has had over 100 days in a row of 100+ temperatures.

We’re ready for the orbital solar power shade.

Even the Saguaros are too hot.

Crocs or sandals. Wear them with socks. This keeps your feet dry so they don’t smell and you can easily remove them for comfort and put them back on to go to the bathroom.

And

Any noise cancelling headphones with something to play music or podcasts. Even if you sleep through it, planes are loud, you should protect your hearing.