Microbrew from LA, Brouwerij West.

Sativa, Indica, Hybrid, or do not partake?

Defaced some banks around LA. Middle of the night plastering climate change posters calling out the banks for their role. Felt like my heart was going to beat out of my chest.

Do you believe in ‘good trouble’? (Doing actions that are technically illegal for a good cause)

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It's worth noting that this isn't a report. It's not an article. It's not a publication. It's a discussion paper (different level of credibility in the world of research) that hasn't even been peer reviewed (which again, if your findings aren't peer-reviewed, they're worthless and are not credible). Neither of the authors have PhDs. One of them is an engineer, and the other, while affiliated with the National Bureau of Statistics, the research director at said bureau has stated that the conclusions reached in this discussion paper do not reflect the bureau's views on climate change. This isn't even a scientific manuscript.

Now let's get into this discussion. The authors regurgitate several points from "The Cold Sun" written by Fritz Vahrenholt, a German ex-politician, in 2012. In said book, he posited that the solar cycle determines the climate of the planet. The book was debunked due to a biased presentation of the included literature, which was misquoted by Vahrenholt. He infamously predicted/concluded in his book that global temperatures would plummet in 2020 and continue to do so. Which we all know isn't the case. The authors in the discussion you've included above disingenuously excluded this while centering Vahrenholt's work in their discussion. Even their title question is "To what extent are temperature levels changing due to greenhouse gas emissions?" yet their statistical model doesn't even include any data related to greenhouse gases, lol.

More info found here. Before this information is dismissed as being just a blog post, keep in mind that because the original work posted is a non-peer-reviewed discussion paper, the blog post is actually more credible. Again, lol.

There are few things sexier than someone who reads the paper and checks the research.

Not without consulting my driver’s license.

Do you know your SS number by heart?

Yup, it was freaking terrifying. Happened when I was 11.

HYE been knocked unconscious not intentionally (like surgery)?

Depends on the wilderness and my starting supplies. I could probably survive most for just one week. That’s just really needing water and maybe shelter.

If you had a month to prepare and $20,000 to buy supplies, could you survive in a cabin alone for a year with no electricity or resupplies?

Neither? Worked too many years in retail to stomach them. Twist my arm I’ll go with traditional. At least I can avoid the 2,000th time hearing Mariah Carey.

Video games or TV?

Many times for work back when I was a cook. Never got how to politic your way to the top, so I would do a really big project, it would work great, and then I would get passed over every time for promotions and raises. One of the reasons I left the industry.

HYE completely changed careers as an adult?

An inviting moan begged me to continue.

This is true. We also frame public transportation like you are losing at life if you use it. It’s just one of the best investments we can make on fighting climate change but there been nearly a century of a propaganda campaign against it.

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Go to a mall or an amusement park in America then tell me if you think more bike lanes or a bicycle highway would work here.

Be serious.

Congrats, you’ve discovered where public transportation could massively improve your life! And why would a bike make getting to the mall hard? There are bike racks everywhere. Failing that just park it in one of the many empty locations in the failed capitalist monolith.

As I see this topic bounce back up every once in a while I have to say; 'Red State Murder Rate' is a fucking slamming band name.

As the court date gets closer expect the rats to jump ship in greater numbers.

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"Yes, we can't"

“For the Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house.” -Audre Lorde

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A perhaps less polarizing (because apparently in the US less dead school kids is a polarizing topic) would be an amendment to get big money out of politics. That way concerned citizens might be able to compete against the arms industry, in getting their representative's attention.

You couldn’t even get the bill introduced. 99.9% of American federal politicians are there because of corporate backing. Hell, I don’t even think most politicians actually know how to write a bill, they only introduce what the lobbyists wrote for them.

Still, nice fantasy.

All good, common sense policies. All doomed in legislation. The threshold for passing an amendment is absolutely inaccessible in today’s political climate. The Republicans can’t even elect a speaker when they have the majority. The districts across the US are gerrymandered all to hell to the point where no matter how popular one side is, they will never approach having the numbers needed for an amendment.

I expect the only way I’ll see a new amendment passed in my lifetime would be some sort of anti-revolution special powers thing if America start’s collapsing. You know, some sort of tremendously unpopular amendment that expands when and how the US can use violence against it’s own citizens.

Dumb supper on Halloween is always one of my favorite nights of the year.

Any special fall traditions outside of the norm?

No, honestly I don’t understand how people don’t get caught in those tiny bathrooms.

HYE been caught having public sex?

Nay.

Sex bent over the car; yay or nay?

Specific room in my house, there’s a few hours in the middle of the night where the bed is cast with a wonderful moonlight. Really think my partner’s naked body looks amazing!

What’s something you enjoy fantasizing about but don’t wish to do IRL?

Nipple, by the time I get to the clit arousal should be well underway.

Time for a quicky! Clothes on or off?

I do, but it’s been a few years since I could.

Do you prefer a ‘sexy’ Halloween costume or wearing something less sexualized?

17 was the last time. Me and a group of guys went around as the ring wraiths.

HYE hooked up at a Halloween party?

Outdoors, far away from other people. Just a blanket and some time.

Outdoor sex; lots of fun or lots of dirt in your ass cheeks?

I killed a man and ate his body. I also lie online.

Do you have a secret literally no one knows?

Shower. I love scrubbing someone down. Bath was fun in my mind but in practice it’s cramped and awkward.

Would you prefer a talkative lover or one who likes to communicate without words?

Yes, I found compulsory sex very boring. Examples include birthday or anniversary sex where it’s being offered simply out of obligation. My partner and I talked about this when we had a massive overhaul of our relationship a few years ago and I asked we do away with this. It made it feel boring at best, kinda gross at worse.

Would you enjoy obligatory sex from a partner when it’s obvious they aren’t into it?

Would be fun with someone new. I love seeing my partner naked but the prize isn’t as tantalizing to an established couple.

What’s your strip game? Poker, Guess who? Operation? Battle ship?

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I'd come in first AND third

This describes my normal experience having sex with my partner.

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We could change SS so it's not funded separately, but that's just kicking the can down the road. Given that we've already got a $33+ national debt, adding another big, underfunded program to the others won't help. I'd say the better approach would be to decide what mix of changes needs to be made to SS to keep it in the black and then implement them. Everybody will have to give something (age, cap amount, max income amount, means testing) to continue providing that part of the social safety net.

Looking at the SS problem in a vacuum is ignoring greater budget problems.

The big two is blank check military budgets that take up the latter part of our spending. Then there’s under taxing the rich and corporations.

Problem being in America is irks not a functional democracy. The rich give you a small pool of potential elected officials to choose from. Since you need the media and money to make a legitimate run at office it’s not realistic to send grassroots candidates em masse into the government. Of course you can’t change campaign financing laws without the existing crop of corporate owned politicians voting for it, which they’ll never do. So until there’s a major upheaval it will just keep getting worse.

So, SS is screwed. Kicked down the line for the next corporate shills to ignore.