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Cake day: July 17th, 2023

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  • On the off chance you aren’t here in bad faith… I’ll attempt to clarify.

    indeed there are cycles in earths climate and we are at a particularly stable time in earths history. The issue is scale. Outside of cataclysmic event, caldera explosions / asteroid impacts for example. These cycles are particularly slow, so slow that the majority of species that would be affected will naturally adapt with the environment. We are experiencing an incredibly rapid change in GLOBAL climate.

    And what’s more damning is that we can actually see this acceleration at exactly the same time we started to pimp pollutants into the air. To within a couple of years.

    A good example of this is oceanic currents, we KNOW that they can collapse and change course. But geologic evidence along with ice core samples and fossil evidence shows that while such things do happen. They are slow and a usually paired with feedback loops that can limit the runaway. What we are seeing in one generation is a process that should be on the scale of hundreds of years. Not decades.

    So yeas, when the earth formed it was much hotter, but we can see and explain quite well how we got here and what’s even more telling… We have been predicting this since the 70s (and in some cases earlier). We can measure the pollutants and calculate the effects… And so far we have been incredibly accurate considering the immense number or variables.





  • This is precisely why all of my school essays painfully recounted every detail of any persons vaguely attached to the subjects entire life story. Including tangentially related anecdotes about what may or may not have been there favorite meals.

    Not just to pad the word count, but to make sure that future generations would know about how Charles Dickens is experiences a child influenced his writing. On the off chance that every other reference was destroyed in the apocalypse and for some reason a paper copy of my essay magically survives said apocalypse.








  • You know… In my worst moments…

    I wonder if this ship will survive.

    Just let me get my tinfoil hat for a moment.

    If conditions are as bad as they say… Then once back home there’s going to be a lot of vocal seamen. What is the US government pulls a false flag and scuttles the ship with all the crew.

    All of a sudden you’ve got a focal point to rally around, Iran (for example) looks more villainous and the gov has a bunch less angry sailors corroborating stories of what’s going on aboard.

    Tinfoil hat goes back in the drawer.