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The Georgia state legislature and Gov. Kemp have taken that lesson to heart.

I too hadn’t had any illness since before the pandemic began. My county opened up fully back in June, and with the utmost confidence in my fully vaccinated immune system I went directly to the local pub. For the first time in months I smelled someone else’s halitosis while I was there. I forgot how much that sucked. Three days later I came down with a nasty head cold so I was out of work for a few days. I tested negative for covid thankfully, but that was one of the worst colds I’ve had. I went back to masking after that and continued to do so anytime I was indoors. I’m at SFO right now, masked up of course, getting ready to go meet some of my family in Nashville. I have no idea how things will be when I get there but I generally feel indifferent as to whether I contribute to the spread while I’m in that town. My entire family has gotten their shots. When I return to San Mateo county and it’s 87% vaccinated population I plan to immediately get tested at the local site in my neighborhood. I sure do want to protect my community at least.

Kind of like maintaining your tire pressure to use less fuel. So easy, so cheap, so often ignored.

Probably about as long as it takes for the Christian jihadists to actually work up the stones to bring it.

How many skydives do you need? I realize you can't kill as many people with a skydive as with a gun, but guns are just what some people are in to in this country. Barring a felony conviction or other prohibitive circumstances you are allowed to buy as many as you like depending on some state laws. Are the amount of skydives you have now enough? Not trying to defend this guy but just trying to put it in perspective. Sure, there are people who stockpile guns and ammunition prepping for SHTF. and that is illogical to me as well. If it comes to that I think you've already lost no matter how many guns you have. Sure, there are people who purchase guns with malicious intent. For those people one is too many. But target shooting with all types can be fun as hobby. I used to do it often when I was younger. I'd do it again if I still owned one but I'm just not into it any more.

https://www.theventuremag.com/greening-deserts/ Is this where you got that quote? https://www.independent.com/2019/01/10/greening-sahara/ Here is another article which at least explains how a warming ocean is contributing. Also Hutch, old buddy, how you can look at that graph and see global temperatures trending downward overall is baffling.

Is there actually some way of doing this? I thought the salton sea was originally filled by the Colorado river.

Okay I get your point there and I agree that is a problem. In service industries where the workers make low wages the logic is obvious. So you might have to pay a little more to get steaked and lubed now. That doesn’t explain the rise in prices for consumer goods though. I think that’s more of a supply side issue in the face of pent up demand that was already there. Manufacturers are not able to ramp up production instantaneously. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/06/01/business/coronavirus-global-shortages.amp.html

So was the money party the CARES act or the American Rescue plan? And how exactly did the federal government constrain supply? Just trying to follow you here.

Sounds like supply & demand to me. IOW a free market.

So this is all his fault?

I suppose I could given my chosen profession & experience but I think Lake Wales bonfire testing proved that a krylon spray paint can is all you’d really need. I also learned that night that snorting mustard looks like a bad idea. I’m pretty sure in any case it would be mutually assured catalytic converter destruction. Still, if I could have tossed a balloon out in the street when they were working on my beautiful hybrid baby that night I would have enjoyed the effect.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some thief would try to look for a converter under an EV at some point. Some of the Prius forum guys were talking about ways to hook the hybrid battery up to the converter to deliver some voltage to anyone trying to grab theirs. But it turns out booby traps are illegal. So now tilt sensors hooked to really loud audible alarms are a thing. I just welded stainless steel bars down my exhaust system to protect mine.

Body fat percentage isn’t necessarily tied to cardio ability but I get your point. Skinny people do way better than I do hiking in the desert for similar reasons.

I don’t feel so smart now. I finally came across that info myself. One runner claimed their blanket was torn to bits in the winds. Conditions rapidly became quite extreme. Ironically the most capable runners, who were furthest into the race, were the ones who got hit the worst. I guess hypothermia doesn’t care about your cardio ability.

This also happened to a guy in Anaheim back in March. There was no sympathy from the guys on the Prius forums as that car is a particularly lucrative and common target. My cat got stolen in the Bay Area three weeks after I bought the the car. Yet another benefit of EVs will be not having to deal with converter theft.

I carry a Mylar survival blanket everywhere I hike, even in the summer. It weighs about 100 grams. But I’m not in a competition when I hike.

It would be really nice if there were actually a gravitational constant pulling temperatures down. If anything there is a solar constant raising them. I agree with billvon the analogy is sketchy at best.

Thanks.

While it’s true that Newsom is moving the process along, and most likely for the reason you state, the budget surplus is large enough this year that that they are required by law to refund some tax dollars. Of course, they aren’t refunding the money back to those who actually paid it in the first place. https://apnews.com/article/california-health-personal-taxes-immigration-business-555e6ec5ba03fa7a0eaade211df21c08 In 2018 CA voters passed a ballot measure to raise gas taxes to pay for road & highway improvements. I’m going to take a guess that every person who drives an EV on said roads & highways voted yes on that one.

Didn’t actually mean to quote & reply but accidentally did on my small work phone. Thanks for the link.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/05/04/noaa-new-climate-normals/%3foutputType=amp