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Because the water would go where they want it to go. You just don’t understand where they want it to go or why.

You think they want it to go to where the fires are. That’s wrong.

They want it to go into the central valley to refill the giant lake and swamp ecosystem that used to be there.

They don’t care about the short-term needs of people who need to drink or put out fires or grow crops. They are making decisions entirely from the perspective of longtermism. They see restoring the central valley’s swamp ecosystem as the overwhelming long-term good, regardless of any short-term consequences.

Right idea, reckless implementation. It’s also not clear that just dumping as much water as possible into the central valley is the best way to restore the swamp ecosystem. So much of the valley’s hydrology and ability to retain water have been damaged since the cotton farmers drained the lake after the civil war. This is a restoration that needs to be done slowly and deliberately, both to not kill people who currently rely on that water and to manage the environmental impacts on the basin of suddenly reintroducing water that it’s spent 150 years adapting to live without.

That means try with energy conservation, and if that fails you’ve got a lagrangian to try least action.

No one thinks they’re a bad person, but bad people exist.

Person is singular and people is plural.

Humanity is many concurrent experiments.

Yes, a rather important collection of them have rotted.

The old world is refusing to gracefully build for the new one to grow into its place.

What do we want to build after this wildfire?

Vishnu’s defense against the rage of Shiva takes priority now. Vishnu must think and plan to defend what resources to preserve for Brahma to start growing something new.

I’d say that caring for our planet, our planetary neighbors, and our people are more important than any profits, petroleum, plastics, wars, or mass surveillance spyware systems with giant data centers chugging our freshwater to inefficiently do things we had solutions for in the 90s.

I had to fill out an outlook form on my phone for a job fair. Slowed down my phone so much I had to wait for the letters to appear after typing. Scrolling and moving between text fields was also a pain. Crashed once and I had to refresh the page and start over. Why isn’t this a simple html webpage? Submitting forms with text fields is basic html. Lightweight, low power use, works everywhere. The page needed nothing else.

Web2.0 (e.g. Twitter, Facebook, Amazon Web Services) was a scam takeover of a free technology system by oligarchs just as the general public started to use it writ large thanks to smartphones. Everything since has been them using their oligarchic control over our societal brain to take over society itself.

Psychopathy, or psychopathic personality,[1] is a personality construct[2][3] characterized by impaired empathy and remorse, in combination with traits of boldness, disinhibition, and egocentrism. These traits are often masked by superficial charm and immunity to stress,[4] which create an outward appearance of apparent normalcy.[5][6][7][8][9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy

Had to look it up, but apparently yes.

Weeds are a healthy part of the environment and soil restoration.

Malicious misinformation is toxic and prevents anything healthy from growing.

What’s that supposed to be in the picture?

Right, but this isn’t weeds in my garden, this is someone intentionally dumping toxic waste that’s killing me and anything I try to grow, including any weeds that might have tried popping up.

I’m more struggling with the intentional and ill-willed type.

That misinformation is too hard to fight.

functional ovaries

I don’t want a pill. I want a full organ integrated into my body that releases hormones responsive to my body’s natural rhythms and diet and environment.

I don’t care if it’s via cybernetic augmentation or a stem-cell grown uterus combo package.

Free Mike Gravel for life!

I tried googling about the rule but only got pictures of couches with their cushions parted and covers unzipped.

That’s the year that Nixon and the US govt declared war on poor people drugs.

What a wild ride. I did a lot of cool shit, and my best to do good for the world. Overall I’m proud.

There are still some niggling details I’m trying to figure out. Reverse? Or just revisiting? Regardless I feel it irresponsible to move forward if I leave the loose ends dangling.

Well, olives can’t grow in Canada, but can in the Gulf States…

If we run the pipes in reverse, we need pumps to go uphill instead of using gravity.

Probably still less carbon impact than keeping the petrol flowing.

Instead can we use it to get canola oil from Canada?

Vermin Supreme shouldn’t fight gravity.

Democrats cannot continue to fall into the trap of discussing toilets and sports as if these are the pivotal issues of our lifetime. We should make it clear that the mistreatment and abuse inflicted on trans people is an attack on us all.

Absolutely. Toilet desegregation campaigns won before in this country. Let’s do it again. All toilets should be for anyone that needs them.

Highschool sports are about having fun. That’s the most important fact to come back to. That’s the target for any discussions.

Individuals staunchly opposed to gender-affirming care for trans youth and active duty trans military personnel should consider what type of life they expect for them to live while they ‘hurry up and wait’ until either age 18 in the case of the youth or retirement in the case of active duty personnel. Instead of engaging in the abstract, the Democrats can humanize trans and gender non-conforming youth by posing these very real questions.

That’s not enough to work. “Individuals staunchly opposed” to trans issues have a different understanding of gender than the queer community does. There is a language barrier that prevents the proposed questions from being adequately posed such that everyone understands them the same way. There is a lot of communication necessary leading up to these emotional appeals being understandable to most of the country.

How we communicate with voters and prospective voters looking ahead is an economic issue, a national security issue, and a social fabric issue, and it is time that we start acting like it. The Democrats’ next step should not be a reverse in the party’s social and civic-minded positions. It should be towards working to repair a loss of trust with voters by hitting restart on how the party communicates, looking further to find capable and moving messengers, and creating a culture – one that Biden himself said he wanted to foster – of proudly and loudly boasting Democratic wins and policy positions that meant something to people.

Great finish.

Great question, and only sort of!

With the evidence you present, we can conclude that the pic was taken during the November 2018 signing of the terms of the agreement.

Then the countries negotiated an enforcement agreement which was signed in December 2019.

The bill took effect in July 2020.

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I agree that he couldn’t have made things better, but he could have made things much worse.

For one, he could have caved and signed away the mineral rights.

He also could have engaged in the clown show at the white house last week. Instead he refused to even play dress-up and stood his ground. He communicated the truth well to anyone who cared to listen.