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Third tennis star now taken.
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What is so strange to me is how little we notice how much has changed.
For the moment, let's just step aside from the issue of whether or not the changes in the weather in my zip code are caused by human activity. What's freaking me out is that no one acknowledges that the weather has changed at all.
Everyone always says they envy me for living in Los Angeles because of all the sunshine. But the climate here during the last four or five years bears very little resemblance to what it was like about a quarter century ago, when I first move to the hills.
There was always a phenomenon called "June gloom." It was a kind of foggy period every morning that lasted four to six weeks; it's the reason I almost never went body boarding until July. No big deal-- my friends told me all about it when I first moved here.
Now it is constant. I have an old plastic barometer that I bought in a big box store about 15 years ago; it still sits in a dusty corner of out back porch. It is now extremely rare that max humidity is less than 75% in the morning, and it's usually 80% and often 90%.
Another day today when I cannot see to the other side of the canyon. The fog is that thick, and this now happens three to five days per week, all year round. In early December, we went to Palm Springs for the weekend; my wife and I were stunned because neither of us had ever felt humidity like that in the desert. When it was 80 degrees out, it felt like stepping out of the subway in June in Manhattan.
It snows here now-- in downtown Los Angeles, in Santa Monica, just a light dusting-- about every other year, and people post pictures of it on the news and call it hail. That's... not something that happened for the first 25 years I lived in Los Angeles. WTF-- am I the only person in L.A. who grew up in the northeast? If we saw that stuff dusting the cars in New York, we would call that snow.
It is like the folks living in tent cities on the streets. Why are all walking around, going to work every day (or working at home) and acting sh*t is normal when it's definitely not normal? When will we start noticing? What needs to happen?
If there was a flying saucer a quarter mile in diameter parked over downtown, I think people would just say, "Hey, check out that blimp!" or maybe "Cool promo for Men In Black V."
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Those rats - What a ballsy move!
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Our daughter in L.A. was ranting on about “Red states” polluting the earth with fossil fuels until we were in a McDonald’s drive through and I pointed out an operating pumpjack on an active oil well in the McDonald’s parking lot. She didn’t say a word about global warming afterwards.
It’s still there 3 years later:
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Here’s another manifestation of the existential crisis. I’m sure these observations will be debunked soon by the same crowd now going after Dr. Fauci.
www.theguardian.com
‘Drastic’ rise in high Arctic lightning has scientists worried
The region’s air typically doesn’t suit strikes – so they have become an important climate crisis indicator
www.theguardian.com
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That fits with the narrative that Djokovic's father is spinning. I guess that puts Scott Morrison in the role of Pontius Pilate?
"Shame on them, the entire freedom-loving world should rise together with Serbia," he continued. "They crucified Jesus, and now they are trying to crucify Novak the same way and force him on his knees."
Seems a bit of a stretch to me, but whatever. As long as a French sub doesn't surface off the coast of Melbourne and starting launching
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Joke Of Itch:
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I haven't got that deep into it yet so much other stuff going on remember this" The poor and powerless fight the wars of the rich man"( most of the time you cannot opt out either)
The rise of Nationalism in America is starting to steer the country in a bad way, some groups(I will not step on any toes rifgt now) are getting too much protection from the fraternities and its costing lives and treasure.
War is basically poor young people dying because of the greed and/or stupidity of old rich people.
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FWIW
"When elected officials gather on Capitol Hill to formally convene the 117th Congress on Jan. 3, they’ll do so with 91 veterans among their ranks, the lowest total since at least World War II."
My days in DC.
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Living in a highly military community I went to a new high school, the only one in the US
with it´s own planetarium that also offered a course in Asian history. Viet Nam was such
a senseless unnecessary disaster. At the end of WW2 Ho Chi Minh was eager to ally
with the US, but we chose to support French colonialism & a puppet regime. Thus abandoned,
& given the power & proximity of China, he had no choice but to look there for help. For
big oil & the M.I.C. this was an enormous cash cow. Same for Afghanistan really. Neither
really had anything to do with ideology or defending this country.
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20 years ago I watched with dismay as only ONE congressperson voted against sending troops to Afghanistan. How stupid I thought. The Taliban had recently kicked the Russian's ass and now they're going to eventually kick ours and for nothing. All they had to do was gather intelligence and when the time was right send in an elite team. Kinda like they did eventually in Pakistan.
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It's a racketThose rats - What a ballsy move!
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So now that the putz brigade is less insane over using medicines for purposes other than its first or intended use, it has been found that viagra has an astounding other possible use...to waken people from hopeless covid coma ... virtually raising the dead....again.... and it's also being investigated for anti-covid properties such as bringing blood supply to lungs.
NYPost:
"She recovered from COVID-19 – with help from the little blue pill, according to a report.
Monica Almeida, 37, a fully vaccinated nurse in the UK, spent 28 days in a coma after contracting COVID-19 and was just 72 hours from having her ventilator turned off when she was saved by a “large dose of Viagra,” the Lincolnite reported.
Almeida, an asthma sufferer who has worked as a respiratory specialist for the UK’s National Health Service in Lincolnshire, tested positive for the deadly bug on Oct. 31, 2021, according to the outlet."
NYPost:
"She recovered from COVID-19 – with help from the little blue pill, according to a report.
Monica Almeida, 37, a fully vaccinated nurse in the UK, spent 28 days in a coma after contracting COVID-19 and was just 72 hours from having her ventilator turned off when she was saved by a “large dose of Viagra,” the Lincolnite reported.
Almeida, an asthma sufferer who has worked as a respiratory specialist for the UK’s National Health Service in Lincolnshire, tested positive for the deadly bug on Oct. 31, 2021, according to the outlet."
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The Greedy. Old. Pahricks. will never miss a chance at profit no matter how many die. Goes for Dinos too.
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Those are PRETTY hard to miss around here-- particularly on that stretch of South La Brea and La Cienega that's often a route to the airport. Surprised she missed those, I noticed them the first time I visited!Our daughter in L.A. was ranting on about “Red states” polluting the earth with fossil fuels until we were in a McDonald’s drive through and I pointed out an operating pumpjack on an active oil well in the McDonald’s parking lot. She didn’t say a word about global warming afterwards.
It’s still there 3 years later:
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Not wild about "Red State" or "Blue State" generalizations, though I hear plenty of them from the young adults I work with!
To transcend moments of despair, I sometimes fine myself singing the Mad Magazine Election song, which I'm capable of delivering in a loud, somewhat atonal baritone to my wife and dogs to the tune of "Try to Remember":
Alfred E. Newman, though slightly subhuman,
Will win, just like Truman, who came from Missouri,
Try to remember this coming November
Vote for Newman, vote for Newman...
If we bring back the draft for any new civil or oil wars, no one under 40 should be allowed to fight, and those who makes less than $50,000 should also be excluded. Infantry should be solely people over 60 years old who make over $250,000 per year.
We might also consider banning anyone with military training, as well as police and first responders from active combat. Anyone who has actually voluntarily put themselves at risk to serve the public already should be allowed to watch the next one on TV. (Though I think we banned television about 30 posts ago, and for good reason.)
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That is health dept and government's job.
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