Re: Various, Non-Covid

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It's not ideal, but wouldn't dams and hydro plants be better than catastrophic floods?


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 03-16-20 10:53 AM
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Depends how you manage the dams and the floods, I think. Disrupt sediment flow enough and Bangladesh washes into the sea. Plus downstream erosion and fisheries and whatever else. Based on the Mekong experience I doubt anyone knows enough about the Brahmaputra system to dam at scale without rapidly making things worse.
(Also, any comment on the Plains stuff in the But thread appreciated.)


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-16-20 3:23 PM
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Bernie's finished. Fuck.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03-17-20 10:05 PM
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You know, Bernie was my number two, more or less (I still think highly of Castro), but getting people to vote for you is a desirable quality in a candidate and one that Sanders doesn't seem to have. Makes zero fucking sense to me, the same thing with the Warren results, but I stopped trying to make sense of the American public long ago.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 03-17-20 10:41 PM
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3 I'm sure he'll dominate the Wyoming caucuses.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 03-17-20 11:18 PM
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Margot Käßmann, leading German pacifist and former head bishop of the Protestant church in Germany, famously said in 2014 that even the war against Nazi-Germany was unjust -- only peace was just.
These assholes for real?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 7:20 AM
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Let blame Poland for starting World War 2.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 7:29 AM
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This tweet brings me unalloyed joy. I laughed for a long time when I saw it yesterday, then again a half hour later, then again this morning.

Perhaps this will say something about my mental state later, but whatever, it works for now.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 8:46 AM
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8 She has such a great twitter account, but I hesitate to interact lest she bite my head off. But really really appreciate her sharp perspective.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 8:52 AM
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I couldn't stop laughing at this.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 8:56 AM
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Is that Riker?


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 9:02 AM
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Yes he hosts that series, normally not sounding like a drunk.


Posted by: SP | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 9:05 AM
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"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of those colossal 'burns, boundless and bare
The lonely late careers stretch far away."


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 03-18-20 9:22 AM
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