"The superbloom of 2019 blanketed Lake Elsinore’s Walker Canyon with a layer of vibrant orange poppies. They proved irresistible to phone-wielding, Instagram-posting visitors, who clogged roadways and trails, trampled the growth and occasionally needed rescuing due to heat and exertion and at least one rattlesnake bite."

Omfg I hate people

Dammit I thought you the article was DeSantis opposing centigrade/celcius as foreign influence, in favor of farenheit.

You realize that's possible.

I am 67. I HAVE ESCAPED DEATH! YAY!

Most of the purveyors of this shit fantasize about the size and scale and thoroughness of ownership and control of literally every aspect of the "world" they think they're creating. It's greed in its purest form. They're so disconnected from reality they simply cannot see their own lies.

I care about it -- negatively. I hate those fuxls so much I will scream with joy when it fails. Luckily for me and us I think it will.

Facebook is textbook "second system syndrome". Their arrogant confidence truly undermines them.

Damn then. I'll have to find a better anachronism. Sigh!

Datum is singular, but archaic I think. I use it just to be an asshole.

That's my experience talking to younger folk. It's a fkn revolution, no shit.

As an oldster let me say...KIDS THESE DAYS ... (lol) are so much better off, so much kinder to each other, so open, so don't give a fuck about gender, ... never I'm the world would I have imagined this possible. (out gay man here, loudmouth anarchist weirdo).

The bigot monsters are outnumbered, they thrive only by oppressing others, their major power, division, enforced ignorance and lies and deceit, undone by people ACTUALLY TALKING about shit like being unhappy and depressed and having at least some people be kind to you.

If you had done that in my time you'd have been whisked away out of sight.

"The closet" is a concept broader and wider than just sexuality. Silence keeps people fearful divided and silent.

LA has parrots. They're fkn loud! And argue, lined up on phone lines. Once in a while one will whack another, and it will spin on the wire, gripped with two feet, like in a cartoon.

Yeah and Jamestown bought Irish women as slaves. Then the Dutch brought in kidnapped black folk. Fkn white euros were ruthless monsters all around.

For DNA, it is old. But yeah, sloppy seems to be the standard.

Tires do not grip roadway in snow. All the talk of tech, motors awd and brakes, the limiting factor is there is no tire grip.

If you must drive in snow like that, 25 mph is far too fast. There is no tech above the tire tread that can fix it.

Assholes are all driving waaaaay too fast.

You have drive at the speed that you can safely stop. That's not much above walking speed in fresh snow.

Boston and rural SE Mass trained driver here. You have no fkn idea how fast I can drive in reverse.

Thanks. I overgeneralized. Edited accordingly.

Wow that's nuts! (Lol I h8 podcasts but the transcript feature is great). Thanks!

I'm not the paranoid type but you gotta wonder at how much we are all (all animals etc) affected by bugs and chemicals natural and otherwise. There's this western idea that each of us stands alone! and suchlike. But we're all organisms in this big soup of a planet...

They don't. Evolutionary biology has no concept of intent. There is no "because". Of the zillions of tiny and arbitrary changes/mutations organisms undergo, some confer advantage or disadvantage, usually little tiny ones, essentially unmeasurable. They add up (or not) over long periods of time. But there is no plan, no purpose, etc.

This is essentially the point where (edit: some) religious folk cannot accept evolution theory.

Order arises from the rules of physics. It's only taken a few billion years....

This is fairly terrifying.

It makes one wonder if something similar could be behind some of the more virulent human extremists.

Bummer. Recalling experience back in the BBS modem days, yeah, a lot of European telcos were quite retrograde. So I can see how that would happen.

"Someone" must have done a survey of approaches to this. Maybe eff would know.

He makes really bad decisions. He says terrible things. His major advantage in life is that he has a lot of money. He makes for a very disappointing "hero".

That is an excellent question. Many eu countries do it this way. But pipes don't have the same liabilities/exposures as the media sites do. Some of this is long and we'll studied, tl;dr here.

I'm surprised it's still running. Time will tell if it's just solid work done in the past, amazing luck, or maybe us bystanders don't know as much as we like to think.

The thing about the unknown is, you don't know what it is.

Not off hand. I'm not sure it was ever seriously proposed that USPS run it. In 92 I was managing an internet "share" that grew into in ISP ("toasternet") in 93, 94. Before that I was doing FidoNet stuff. I had my hands full then.

Maybe cypherpunk archives. Early/pre EFF. Though I later ran then sold an ISP I was in it for the network building. By 95 it was over, big money taking over as is now quite obvious.

You're hired.

It was! In late 1993 we had the very first commercial T1 from MCI Govt Sys Div. From SF we could ping London in 10 mS (I think it was), two hops.

Ummm maybe with you? Lol

Twitter is already banned in China. China's interest is in disinfo in the US.