[Tanada]

Detroit Tigers all the way, this is going to be there year!

The squirrels in my trees are looking very bedraggled, three steady days of rain and wind on the poor fellows.

Reminds me of the Tarzan movie that came out last year, leaping through the air and hoping to catch a branch in the next tree instead of plummeting to the ground.

[MD]

That post was squirly in two directions. So typical of the critters. Which way did they go, George of the jungle? I don't know. They went that-away. -> <-.

Bill O'Reilly got fired. He was used up anyway

[Tanada]

I lost interest in O'Reilly several years ago when he started writing 'History' books that were thinly disguised opinion instead of sticking to the facts.

Squirrel

I think the current dip in oil price is the calm before the storm. The USA at least is about to hit summer driving season, and at that point demand almost always zooms upward taking prices with it. In support of this because of the weird spring the county/state got a jump start on orange barrel season aka road work.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'I') lost interest in O'Reilly several years ago when he started writing 'History' books that were thinly disguised opinion instead of sticking to the facts.

Squirrel

I think the current dip in oil price is the calm before the storm. The USA at least is about to hit summer driving season, and at that point demand almost always zooms upward taking prices with it. In support of this because of the weird spring the county/state got a jump start on orange barrel season aka road work.

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Squilliam', 'I')t's quite shocking in a way how male movie stars have really buffed up in general in recent times. In addition to this the number of people going to the gym religiously, and the statistic that 3% of men are taking steroids. What are the consequences of this kind of movement? Squirrels don't do steroids, and there are always biological trade-offs for putting so much stress on your body. How many of these men are going to live fast and die young? Tarzan movie is a prime example.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Outcast_Searcher', '
')All I know is squirrels are pretty much the complete opposite of first world humans in terms of fitness. Watching tree squirrels work in the fall, gathering nuts and running straight up 30 to 50 feet in trees to store them, and running back down the tree, and running to find another nut and doing it over and over again, for hours on end, is simply amazing.

So in the first world you have the typical human getting so fat and lazy they find it hard to get in and out of chairs, walk around the block, etc. And you have middle aged squirrels, RUNNING up and down trees that are over 500 feet tall (in the scale of the length of the squirrel (without the tail)) compared to people, again and again, without resting much.

It leaves me awe struck and feeling physically inadequate at the same time. It makes even the best human mountain climbers look out of shape by at least an order of magnitude. (At least I'm ahead in brainpower until the AI's take over).

[Subjectivist]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', 'W')ill automated cars dodge squirrels, armadillos, and baby ducks? Or will they just run them over? I'm a very long way from accepting automated controls in my car. I'm already hearing tales from friends about inappropriate sudden braking and steering wheel corrections from their semi-automated driving controls. The other looming issue that I see coming down the highway, is a new sense of complacency allowing road hypnotized drivers to think to themselves "My cruise is auto adjust, my steering controls keeps me in lane, I feel safe enough... to... just... close... my... eyes... for... one... zzzzzzzzzz...."

[Outcast_Searcher]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '
')Will automated cars dodge squirrels, armadillos, and baby ducks? Or will they just run them over? I'm a very long way from accepting automated controls in my car. I'm already hearing tales from friends about inappropriate sudden braking and steering wheel corrections from their semi-automated driving controls. The other looming issue that I see coming down the highway, is a new sense of complacency allowing road hypnotized drivers to think to themselves "My cruise is auto adjust, my steering controls keeps me in lane, I feel safe enough... to... just... close... my... eyes... for... one... zzzzzzzzzz...."

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Squilliam', '
')How come there have been so many doomer predictions over the years, none of them have really come true, but people keep making them? What part of human psychology makes people want to predict that the world is going to end? Is it a messiah complex? Is it the natural tendency to be pessimistic about other people, but optimistic about oneself? So many times doom has been predicted for so many different reasons and yet here we are still trucking. Although part of the problem with this simplification is that many doomers actually work to change/adjust systems so they don't break and therefore avert their own predicted doom. I wonder for instance had attention not been drawn to say bioaccumulation of toxins that we would have already 86'ed the environment years ago.

[MD]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Squilliam', '
')
Why is everyone here so old...

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MD', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Squilliam', '
')
Why is everyone here so old...

[vtsnowedin]

Not fast enough to catch a squirrel but it can shake their trees.

[vtsnowedin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Squilliam', 'W')hat business does any man have with equipment large enough to terrify even a legion of squirrels? Something something deforestation something something?

It seems everything has been quiet for a while, not much to talk about? All is quiet on the depletion/doom/despair front? I've been watching a bunch of pootube videos on various topics, and it has been interesting seeing a wide range of perspectives. Funnily enough it is pootube rather than the boobtube that is really living up to the potential of video for the dispensing of intellectually stimulating content.