The Knuckledragger 3rd Memorial Slow Forum Post

[Grahame]

^How do they feel about NextDoor? 

E.g.

[Grahame]

 

 

 

[Craig Sawyers]

Here's a reason that we've fucked the climate up. Way back a hundred million years or more, the world had a hot and tropical climate. Over tens of millions of years, trees fell, the continents shifted and buckled and locked up much of the greenhouse gasses that originally caused a hot world. Safely underground. Fossilized at coal, and gas from the products of tree decomposition.

The resulting temperate climate allowed - well us - to evolve.

So when we dig up all that locked away carbon dioxide that took a geological age to produce, and burn it in a few decades, there is little wonder that we're heating the planet up again. It ain't rocket science.

[Dusty Chalk]

[Dusty Chalk]

On 2/22/2023 at 4:56 AM, Craig Sawyers said:

Here's a reason that we've fucked the climate up. Way back a hundred million years or more, the world had a hot and tropical climate. Over tens of millions of years, trees fell, the continents shifted and buckled and locked up much of the greenhouse gasses that originally caused a hot world. Safely underground. Fossilized at coal, and gas from the products of tree decomposition.

The resulting temperate climate allowed - well us - to evolve.

So when we dig up all that locked away carbon dioxide that took a geological age to produce, and burn it in a few decades, there is little wonder that we're heating the planet up again. It ain't rocket science.

So...here's a mental exercise -- what if we didn't?  What if some biological weapon capped us all in the reproductive organs before the industrial age (like steampunk gone awry, where steam and mold give everyone killer allergies)?  Then all the fossil fuels could have sit unburned, and then explosively detonated like the New York City sewer system, except on a planet scale.

Then where would we be?

We'd be extinct, that's where.

[Knuckledragger]

I'm sorry to post such distasteful content:

Spoiler

Overwatch is horrid.

 

[Craig Sawyers]

19 hours ago, Dusty Chalk said:

We'd be extinct, that's where.

Sounds like the probable outcome, considering everything.

[swt61]

I'm a gay Carpenter. 

I'm virtually extinct already.

[Knuckledragger]

Tice just reminded me of this:

Quote

"They've got more fecking sea monsters in the great Loch at Ness than they've got the likes of me."

 

[blessingx]

Anyone shopping today? 
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CoILbpKMIl5/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= 

[skullguise]

Loved this....

 

[Craig Sawyers]

That dates us - that we can remember the irritating windows paperclip

[swt61]

Well yes, but Fred and the rest of the Scooby Doo characters date back to 1969.

The fact that I was 8 when I first watched Scooby Doo dates me more.

Clippy started life in 1997 comparatively. 

BTW, Fred is almost certainly a power bottom.

[robm321]

 

 

[Grahame]

There was a tweet, and then this happened.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/world/europe/gary-lineker-tweet-match-of-the-day.html

summary:

 

[Craig Sawyers]

Too fucking right Grahame. We have a morally bankrupt government here who have decided to deflect the raft of woe that they have inflicted on the UK population after 12 years in charge by adopting an inhumane policy and showcasing it.

If it was easy to find a solution to dangerously overcrowded rafts crossing the busiest shipping channel in the world - why in fucks sake have they not done it before now? Answer: political expediency.

Fuck fuck fuck them all.

[Knuckledragger]

There's Dartmouth, MA and Falmouth, MA.  Then there's what appeared on a Cape Cod weather report:

Someone's got a Fal Mouth indeed.

[Craig Sawyers]

Hedy Lamarr. Apart from being drop dead gorgeous she co-invented spread spectrum communication as a secure communication method as WW2 was getting going.

[Grahame]

Indeed. 

 

 

https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/bombshell-hedy-lamarr-story-documentary/9906/

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/hop-skip-and-a-jump-remembering-hedy-lamar/

 

 

Edited March 15, 2023 by Grahame

[swt61]

I'm not sure why so many people are stunned to find out that Heddy Lamarr was a genius? I guess they still have a hard time realizing a person can be both beautiful and brilliant. I'm constantly a victim of this same stereotype. 

[Grahame]

1 minute ago, swt61 said:

I'm not sure why so many people are stunned to find out that Heddy Lamarr was a genius? I guess they still have a hard time realizing a person can be both beautiful and brilliant. I'm constantly a victim of this same stereotype. 

Brent has no such problems.

[Craig Sawyers]

38 minutes ago, swt61 said:

I'm not sure why so many people are stunned to find out that Heddy Lamarr was a genius? I guess they still have a hard time realizing a person can be both beautiful and brilliant. I'm constantly a victim of this same stereotype. 

Not at all. It is simply that Hedy Lamarr is principally known as an actor.

The equally striking lady below is the founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, at the leading edge of product development in Quantum Computing https://oxfordquantumcircuits.com/

At the helm of a company currently with 79 staff and rising.

[swt61]

1 hour ago, Grahame said:

Brent has no such problems.

Inside every man of questionable beauty, is a young, beautiful soul trying to come out! Set that beautiful, young soul free Brent!

[Craig Sawyers]

And while we are on dog things

[Dusty Chalk]

On 3/15/2023 at 8:07 PM, Craig Sawyers said:

Not at all. It is simply that Hedy Lamarr is principally known as an actor.

The equally striking lady below is the founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits, at the leading edge of product development in Quantum Computing https://oxfordquantumcircuits.com/

At the helm of a company currently with 79 staff and rising.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-camila-ramirez-r_women-womenintech-ai-activity-7041769368640188416-G_KS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop