BigNote

Were they stupid or deliberately misled, propagandized and manipulated by the fossil fuel industry? Sure some of them were stupid, but I don't think that's the whole story.

The problem isn't fire, it's that the waste at Hanford has leached into the soil and a plume of it is headed towards the Hanford Reach on the Columbia River. There's a mitigation plan in place and it looks like it's ultimately going to work, but it's very expensive and not something that anyone wants to see happen again.

The waste is vitrified, meaning that it's encased in what's basically solid glass.

Unfortunately NATO wasn't designed in a way that conceived of a rogue member state like Turkey. This means that it has a very limited toolkit for reigning in Erdogan's excesses. He also has a huge amount of leverage due to Turkey's pivotal role on the Black Sea which is obviously critical to everything happening in Ukraine. For now, NATO really does have its hands tied with regard to Turkey.

The argument would be that their findings are therefore somehow tainted and unreliable. However, without any evidence that this is so, simply pointing it out as if it's some kind of "gotcha" is in fact fallacious, as you suggest.

It's not that cold. It's the Gulf Stream, which flows south-north from a tropical origin so it's warmer than the water on the US west coast, for example, which flows north-south from the Bering Sea on the Alaska Current.

The Gulf Stream is also why northwestern Europe is as temperate as it is while being at the same latitudes as southeastern Alaska and northern British Columbia which have heavily glaciated coastlines.

If the Norwegian fjotds were in Alaska, for example, they would be the mouths of giant glaciers, but they aren't, again because of the warming influence of the Gulf Stream.

Not sure if that makes sense, but anyway.

I'm from Portland and my complaint is nearly the opposite; that the baristas try to be too friendly/chatty with me. I don't want to talk to you, I want my goddamned coffee and once I've had that I might be inclined to chat.

I even tell my employees not to talk to me until after I've had my coffee.

Actually the opposite is true. Most of the world tends to think that Americans are overly friendly and informal, though obviously there's a lot of variation.

This is a real killer. People have no idea and tend to overestimate the risk from wildlife and underestimate the risk from weather conditions and exposure. Far more people are killed by hypothermia caused by extreme heat or cold than anything else in North American wilderness areas.

I've been part of my local SAR community here in Oregon for decades now and while we don't have to worry so much about the heat, what gets people here is the cold.

If you are somehow lost or stuck in the high Cascades at night without adequate clothing or a heat source, you are in big trouble, especially if it rains or snows, both of which can and will happen even in the middle of summer.

River crossings are also a big danger since the current is always much stronger than it looks and the water is near freezing and if you fall in and don't have dry clothes and it starts to rain and blow, you are fucked.

These are pretty common in northern California and Oregon as well. Just had 4 adults and 2 kids rescued from one yesterday at Cannon Beach, for example.

Unless you are badly injured or a small child, coyotes are not a threat. Credible reports of healthy coyotes willingly attacking healthy adult humans are basically non-existent. There's always something else going on that precipitates the attack.

You are far more likely to be killed by the heat and lack of water in the Mojave than by any animal.

Edit; unless by "coyote" you mean cartel-affiliated human traffickers, in which case, yeah, they definitely are bad news.

When everyone you meet is an asshole, you are probably the real asshole.

Funny how this works with social media as well.