Either greed or religion has killed the most people before their time. One of them has to go.

I specially liked the part where he collected $50k by clueing the affected companies.

Sugar daddies …

Up to about the 1980s, the popular magazines used to frequently run cartoons with ragged-looking people holding up ‘It’s the END OF THE WORLD!!!’ signs. Guess they ran out of variants on that joke. But Doomsday Prophets have been around for centuries (some made big money from it) … and yet … here we all are.

We humans like to scare ourselves, but observation seems to show that it’s not a big worry. Will it all end, sure, some day. When? NOBODY KNOWS. Carpe diem, my friend … seize the day. And go ahead and make plans and execute them. Save your worry time for the little things that are inevitable.

Yeh, she was outstanding. That ‘poor little deer’ scene in that Brooklyn accent alone.

Yep, it’s really a lot of fun. A little hard on some parts of both southern culture and NY culture, but just enough to make it even funnier. Not just Pesci as a lawyer and all the lawyer jokes; making a judge out of Fred Gwynne so he could make all those facial expressions he’d perfected was a casting winner. So was Marisa Tomei. And the characters that played witnesses … to this day when I’m saying ‘I guess’ it always comes out with that drawl. Every scene in the film was comical first, and never let up. Masterpiece.

Other’n a couple others named? My Cousin Vinny.

(Some quotes to help my arguement: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104952/quotes/ )

Margaret Hamilton (witch) in a sci-fi Wizard of Oz remake. Oh hell, let’s throw Burt Lahr (lion) in there too.

The article points out that it’s not a new idea … it became fashionable back in the early 1800s. But it became completely -possible- by the time Sagan started talking about nuclear winter. That even inspired a couple of movies showing how much fun it would be.

So yeah, climate change would be a low slower. But have we been keeping our eyes on that Doomsday Clock? It reached 90 seconds to midnight 1-1/2 years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock

Climate change wud be preferable … it at least gives us a chance to change into warmer socks, and fix the boat.

True, of course. But housing FOR ALL has to include housing that’s affordable TO ALL. Market rate has been manipulated so that not all can afford housing. New housing has to be created so that ALL have a shot at it to solve our biggest problems, right?

Take the thorn out of the lion’s paw, and don’t charge him $10,000.

To see how well this works, we need to see how much each ‘new’ unit would cost to convert. Sometimes the cost per unit is insane … numbers like $30 million for 100 units mean $300,000 per unit. How long is the payback for $1000 per month? 300 months = 25 years. Before deducting for maintenance and supervision.

I questioned the methodology as soon as I learned that Seattle was even in the running.

Fine people here. But, smartest? mmmffff

How many times did people vote YES on a monorail? How many times did their votes get ignored?

The city doesn’t care what people think. As with everything, the public argues about the options for 10 years. Then, after noone cares any more, it does whatever (someone we never see) wanted anyway.

This noted meteorologist says average highs around these parts is 77-79F. And that it’ll be about 5 deg. or so warmer for 10 days … but “The kind of pattern that makes western Oregon and Washington warmer than normal is not associated with heatwaves…”

https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/

‘Theeeere once was a girl from Nantucket’ … well, sort of works.

As a very curious person with very wide interests, it is so easy to access really hard-to-find information. In the past five years I’ve satisfied my curiosity more than adequately on hundreds of topics I’d wondered about all my life … from home. One plus side of Covid.

On the darker side, there were plenty of predictions (from science and fiction) in decades past that are becoming very real. Too many heads buried in sand.

Another victim of COVID, and rents rising sky-high.

Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.

" We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe." — von Goethe