The vice president, who is was Catholic, discovers excommunication.

You can’t solve scalping when its a core function of LiveNation’s ecosystem. Scalping is the business model.

Two moving toilets stalls/cars. We agree, you just didn’t know it at first. ;)

That’s why its such a good joke! ;)

Even the stupidest novelties sometimes have the seeds of brilliance.

What starts with in-vehicle toilet may very well lead to the hottest high profit margin and must have accessory: Take a fresh in-car shit, then launch it at the driver who just wronged you.

"Keep your road rage off the streets and in the seats! "

The engineers dubbed it “Project Battleshits” but most of us doubt that will pass through marketing.

Hello?

Just call me maybe?

You can call me Shirley. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

True. True. But to be fair, the old one wasn’t fit for purpose either. Lovely science, but still couldn’t do anything about it.

I sympathise, but the cliché is not strictly true. Nature is all about diversity. Just like humans have a certain ratio of “bad apples” born where someone is hard wired wrong, so do dogs, and likely all animals.

Psychopathology is real. It would be a mistake to deny Nature it’s agency. There are people who belong in an institution. Dogs perhaps moreso.

To your point, yes most problems are attributable to bad trainers, but even here there is something missing. Bad breeders - natural reproduction would select for fitness, and truly bad dogs would be limited to a small fraction of background instances. We have lots of people actively breeding killers with outsized agression and fear and ferocity, with hair triggers, on purpose. I’m not talking about guard dogs where fierce protective instincts are balanced with loyalty and bonding and intelligence. I mean literal psychokillers.

I’m circling around Pit-Bulls and the like, but I need to be clear. The breed is fine. Some of my best friends are pit bulls. Diversity naturally makes most of them good dogs, just more context dependant and trainer demanding. I’m not talking about those. I’m only referring to a small subset that were overbred and the natural background level of freakshow.

If you’ve only known pets from reputable breeders, accidental litters or the shelter rescues, understand that these select for the good dogs. If that’s all you know, you would have reason to doubt that bad dogs are possible.

Fine. Winning lottery numbers then. I can ponder the depths of the other ineffable questions from a beach with a tasty beverage somewhere nice.

To whom?

How does one get grants for this type of research? Asking for a friend.

Not all. There are some bad boys out there.

Winning lottery numbers for next draw. When will humanity go extinct? Where are the nearest 1 billion species with near human level intelligence or greater. How do we safely and conveniently travel faster than light.

So many to choose.

You sure you want that?

They look super cool and I could see individuals or decks selling at gift stores, michaels, mindgames, eg bradley etc… depends on how you do them. Deck, collectables, postcards , souvenires of places where the art is a match for a local botanical rarity.

I also think there is a market for art that looks more like a realistic sketch. Something more realistic and less iconic. Still art, not a photo. But like a black and white artistic sketch with some artistic water colour splashed around.

Very cool.

I’d rather see a full curve on a chart from 0-100, preferably with multiple curves for outdoor temp variance. -20, -10, 0 10, 20, 30. I don’t want cherry picked data. Give me the full picture, in one picture.

When the drugs wear off.

Well, there’s your problem. Don’t get high for the job you have. Get high for the job you want.

it’d be nice to have some idea of where might be a good place to move to, if this is as inevitable as it sounds.

Not as nice as you think. You could dodge harsher winters, an energy crunch and crop failures, just to move to somewhere with heatstress, drought and cropfailures.

We must not view climate as the thing to watch. It’s one part of a larger complex system of systems. Changes in the AMOC can trigger changes elsewhere, and more importantly, elsewhere is changing on its own too. Not just because of emissions.

It’s a lot to digest, especially if you don’t have a background in ecology, biology, environmental sciences or systems theory. But a solid easy framework is planetary boundaries.

It’s all 9 boundaries together (plus any new ones discovered) that’s going to pickle us. We are exceeding 7 of the 9 identified so far and there are and will be severe consequences for having exceeded our planet’s limits.

I worry about climate change A LOT. I worry about Ecological Overshoot and Collapse due to Planetary Boundaries even more.