mcbigski

Want to give plenty of notice, i'm not going to play this league next season. Got to cut down to a more manageable number of leagues and this is one i'm letting go. Good luck.

I am definitely not making that up. If you stick to WaPo or NYT you likely would never had heard that. But I assure you, that story didn't start with me. Obv I tend to believe it, but I certainly didn't make that up.

Great reads overall. Though for anyone looking into them Sundiver is first novel in the timeline. Might a short story set before then IIRC but pretty sure that was written later. Is that accurate? Even it assuming it is, is it relevant? I feel like a million years ago there was a hominid species that is now extinct. But their descendants aren't. Even if Neanderthal, Florensis, and maybe others got mostly out bred, their descendants also alive. As far as the original question, assuming the intelligence agencies and State Department don't railroad us into WWIII in the next six weeks, humans will almost certainly be around in 1000 years. (Though pretty sure even a full nuclear exchange wouldn't drop the human population to under 10k or so a few years out.) Energy wise, we have more than enough fissionables to give every human US levels of carbon free energy usage for thousands of years. And golly, high energy, prosperous societies have far fewer kids, so population not really an issue, if there's stability and prosperity. After that, we can do orbital solar, and in 1005 years we'll probably have fusion too. Though there is a pretty big segment of people that, despite those clear truths, think that people are the problem and need to be culled. Those could be a problem especially with designer viruses. We'll probably still have plenty of assholes a thousand years out though.

Depends. If they're setting up in hospitals, schools etc, and using innocents as human shields, then they're the war criminals. Remember that please. That being said, I'm still very sad that so many UN aide workers and an Iranian ambassador or two had their junk blown up in pager accidents. The Israelis should have been less scatter shot.

They sent them pallets of cash. Doesn't sound like unfreezing assets. Not sorry to see Freeland go. What an authoritarian. "Peaceful protesters with bouncy houses? Yeah, let's debank them."

Bibi says "Iran will be free." From his lips to God's/Allah's/Yahweh's ears. Reminds me of that meme of Iron Dome: "Your tax dollars at work" with the split screen being all the Iranian missiles: "Somehow also your tax dollars at work." I'm not sure that Obama and Biden sending billions of dollars to Iran is the only thing keeping the Mullahs afloat, but I sympathize with the every day folks tired of that theocracy shit.

Yeah, first season Heroes was solid. Mostly crap after that. Been rewatching BSG. Definitely a lot less space porn in season 3 though. Approaching Baltar's trial on the rewatch, and the character moments are still far above most shows. As for the ending, apart from the let's ditch all our technology, I feel like they did most everyone still alive well as far as endings. The last season was mostly great, but Chuck and Hamlin or whatever his name was were great foils. Was higher stakes emotionally when Chuck was involved.

Got two "how you doins" from two different exes this week. Is there some sort of holiday lonely thing going on?

The public doesnt have to listen. Current level AI is total shit. And maybe i m panglossian here, but the public at large is going to say "fuck your disimformation". ...assuming there are alternate free speech options.

The thing about global sea level is that it's global.

Eh, I'm sure we'll be fine. Large language models are crap, and AI isn't taking over anytime soon. LLMs, if you can even call it learning, are learning from the mass of data on the internet, where stupidity is even more prevalent than hydrogen. Gonna take a while for Skynet, if that's the best we can make.

Eh, pretty sure we'll be fine. Models that show vicious cycles are way more compelling for more research funding than models that show small to no effects. We've been 10 years from global warming, destruction, and massive flooding for about 30 years now, but I can still walk around the Back Bay or Battery Park.

I was expecting to miss the playoffs. Apparently someone got Jamarr Chase'd last night?

Well, I'm pretty sure you were the one who said about 6 or 7 years ago that Trump's line needed "to be extinguished, root and branch". (I reported that at the time, maybe it was addressed, maybe overlooked.) I'd like to think you're less susceptible to corporate owned and government controlled media now, considering all the bull shit we've seen meanwhile. I've only looked over the last 8 pages of this thread or so, but considering the topic, let's all spark a rock for Hunter!

Eating the last of the Thanksgiving cheese cake my aunt made. She's 93. I'm savoring.

I don't know his dietary status and left turkey as an option. Clinched first in the big league, and even if I lose the side bet with my brother (1K most points, thought I'd shut him up but he took it), I'll still be in the black for the year, so everything playoff in my cash leagues is gravy. Bit miffed about my family league where I'm the commissioner. I'm about 5 points from being fifth in points scored, and firmly ensconsed in 12th place.

Off topic, but how is Dune Prophecy? Sure there's around a 10 to 20 thousand year time frame to fit that it as a prequel, IIRC the timeline correctly. But I haven't bothered to watch it because I can't figure out what's going to be compelling about a prequel that promises to eventually make a prophecy about a story already predetermined. It's like a hobbit baking prequel for Fellowship.

He was on track to be a hall of fame kicker, but he's been ordinary the last year or two, and no where near Morten Anderson old.

It sounds like you're in favor of more testing, so that there can be unnecessary medical interventions. Personally, I feel like treating only the people that need care is probably the right level of care. Frankly, it's probably easier (though not less profitable) to not design infectious diseases in the first place rather than treat them. Might be barking up the wrong tree here.

Uconn back on track tonight. Probably not because my nephew was pre game honorary captain at center court, being 8 now and cancer free for a year. But great time being there with the family. And they covered at -40.5. No disrespect to UMES, I'm sure they have way better beaches, but when I was told about this game, I was 50/50 whether it Eastern shore of Maryland or Michigan. Both potentially valid.

Aluminum seems to be one of the best recyclables as well as being a very common element. Not going to run out of it ever as long as there is energy enough for industrial processes. (So until we run out fissionables, since solar is just a pipe dream.)

I do like Bhattachayra for the NIH. If you want to trust The Science it helps to have someone who follows results instead of The Narrative, especially when there's a personal cost for the former.

Been a weird year for me. Dynasty and C im a middling team with middling records. My biggest league (2 matches a week and lions share is regular season) im up 2 wins with two weeks to go. But middle in points. Scored 3rd lowest last week but won both matches with most of my team on bye. I should send ameer abdullah a ham or a turkey.

Leaving the even bigger nonsense aside, the earth itself is more than 1% aluminum. Possibly the US has some of that. Maybe not as much smelting capacity anymore but that could change with the right incentives. How many countries send foreign aid the United States?

That sounds enthralling. Gonna wait and see what people think just in case that isnt awesome.