AdamSmith

Workers may have found Paul Revere's outhouse http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2017/09/27/paul-revere-outhouse-found-in-boston-vo.hln

Legal Weed May Be a Windfall for McDonald’s and Taco Bell The munchies are driving up fast-food sales in states where marijuana is legal. Cannabis has been shown to increase users’ appetite, sending many customers of legalized dispensaries to fast-food chains, according to a new study by Green Market Report and Consumer Research Around Cannabis. Forty-three percent of legal-marijuana users ate at a McDonald’s restaurant in the past four weeks, the survey found. Eighteen percent ate at Taco Bell, while 17.8 percent went to Wendy’s. Those results were significantly higher than among respondents who hadn’t visited a dispensary... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-27/legalized-cannabis-may-be-a-boon-for-mcdonald-s-and-taco-bell

OTOH! We as a species do our best when confronted with existential threats to our continuance. So my curiosity, not my hope, keeps me going to look what might happen.

LOL Too true! You know his fellow scientists, when he was young and working on development of radar for the RAF during WWII, nicknamed him 'Ego Clarke.'

But. You know. Geoengineering is the Only Way Out. So we may as well pursue it. We can't make things any worse than they already are. And I draw what faint threads of hope still seem available from my favorite-of-all idols (role models), Supervisor Karellen: 'Human beings are remarkably ingenious, and often very persistent. It is never safe to underrate them...'

The one thing that gives me some hope, but far more terror, is the experimentation into planetary geoengineering that we ever-too-clever apes are inevitably going to throw ourselves into, once the true scope and scale of climate disaster for our species hit home. (As if they had not already.) That is going to be the greatest tampering with the lock to Pandora's box that we will ever have undertaken. Justifiably so, though, as we have already (400ppm) cut ourselves off from any other way out.

I wholly agree. She is doing so even now, beginning the tide of events that will in not too long eliminate us as pests visiting a nuisance on Her and Her planet. The term 'tide' used advisedly.

I love PR, and Martinique, and St Martin, and St Barts, and... The inevitable loss coming, and indeed already here, is too terrible to think of.

And with what we Homo sapiens (dreadfully ironic name) have done to the climate, it is going to be like this -- and keep getting worse -- from here on out. We have broke the planet. The only one we have for now, as Hawking et al. point out.

Zubin.

von Karajan, of cuss.

Black working guys here (Raleigh NC) use that term 'BBC' liberally in their ads. We white -- and Latino, and Asian, and black--- clients like it, and go hire them. Sex work, selling and buying both, is about what turns you on. We relate to each other, in the encounter, as precious individuals privileged to be together. In absolute spiritual and personal equality.

LMMFAO Clearly the Zarathustra performers had too many potatoes for dinner.