Doesn’t that list also include Iran?

I don’t have to like it, but it’s sort of a sound strategy. The Red Sea is on the way to the Suez Canal, and the world had a demonstration a few years ago about what happens when you block the Suez canal.

I thought that was called sealioning?

I’m afraid I don’t have a wall of links to support my argument.

The thing I keep thinking about, and I feel like I’ve never been able to properly communicate, is that the machines our society runs on are built to run in a certain temperature range.

The 2021 texas winter fiasco was a perfect demonstration of what happens when we try to run a society’s machinery outside of it’s expected temperature range. Yes, the ERCOT goofballs were trying to save money by narrowing that expected operating range because “It never gets that cold” and “It never gets that hot”, but my badly articulated point still stands - a system was made to operate in a temperature range outside of it’s capability, and it started to fail. They were minutes away from losing very expensive and hard to replace equipment. What we don’t want is for one of the more competently-run power grids in the world to start to buckle due to temperatures, because the same thing that happened in texas could happen on a larger scale.

And that’s just talking about the power grid. Anything with a heat exchanger in it, including your car and air conditioner and all the refrigeration that is needed to keep everyone fed, is designed to run in a certain temperature range, and will stop working if you run it outside of that range for too long.

But wait, we can just design stuff to run in a wider temperature range! We certainly can. But we would have to redesign everything that moves heat around.

The titty of the polar vortex sags ever southward.

Like drop the macho act and ask for help, buddy. It’s ok.

And watch the people who said they cared suddenly get real scarce.

I wish it wasn’t that way, and I’m happy it’s no longer that way for me. But there are people around you right now who know of they speak up, loved ones and friends will tell them “it’s no big deal” or “It’s all in your head” or my favorite, “man up”.

Christopher Dorner intensifies

He’s just really, really horny because he has to work in a situation that has hum surrounded by old white men. And that’s perfectly fine, he should embrace it, no matter what his imaginary friend says.

Hamas is a reaction to Israel’s actions of past decades.

Yup! Everything they do is metric.

And don’t send linemen in to fix the power infrastructure when the whole thing freezes again next month.

You know… in the past, big ridiculous wigs were used by people suffering from syphilis. Does anyone know if trump has a ridiculous wig?

It doesn’t bother them because it doesn’t affect them personally.

Before or after you drop a book on your face?

For me it’s usually “after”.

“I love the poorly educated”

A pile of speed camera guts, 10 meters of 900-pair phone line, a grounding grid from a substation, and some coils from an orphanage’s air conditioner, probably.

“Ron Desantis” is an anagram of “Sardine Snot”

I was going to guess Rabul. Oops.

Here is an excellent video showing how to defend yourself from a knife attack.

Even better would be for them to stop tasting american money.