Minor things that bother you

[CtrlAltDel]

The fact that resealable bags of frozen vegetables aren't a thing.  When opening one you just have to hope and pray that it doesn't tear the wrong way and become impossible to wrap around so the remainder can be put back in the freezer.  I usually end up using scissors, especially since the bags my local grocery store uses are a harder plastic than most, making them difficult to open; they need more force, but that comes at the expense of control.  Seriously, how many people actually make an entire bag all at once?  A single bag can easily last me an entire week.

I open the bag with scissors, once I've taken out enough for one meal I roll the bag closed and then put a clothespin over the rolled top.

I'm so lazy, I just eat the whole thing.

[Rothman]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

That's not true.

You either didn't read what you quoted or you didn't read the link that you linked.

Bruce claimed that the weather would get more unpredictable thanks to global warming, my article says the opposite

No, it doesn't.  You're assuming linear temperature change = predictable weather.

[mgk920]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Thus, 'Climate Change Alarmists' are definitely one minor thing that bothers me.

Mike

[SEWIGuy]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Mike

You really are using the denier's playbook well. Your next line will be how climate researchers are getting rich off of government grants.

[mgk920]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Mike

You really are using the denier's playbook well. Your next line will be how climate researchers are getting rich off of government grants.

Yepper! (You also forget to include the rest of my post in your quote.)

Mike

[Scott5114]

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

It's almost as if people have done research and learned new things since you went to high school.

[roadman65]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Thus, 'Climate Change Alarmists' are definitely one minor thing that bothers me.

Mike

Are you by chance related to a George Chandler?

He was someone I once knew who claims that there was an ice age predicted that got changed to global warming by a certain party.

[SEWIGuy]

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

It's almost as if people have done research and learned new things since you went to high school.

"You're telling me that diseases are caused by 'viruses?' Well, I don't believe that because back when I was in high school, it was drilled into us that they were caused by 'vapors.'"

[Plutonic Panda]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Mike

You really are using the denier's playbook well. Your next line will be how climate researchers are getting rich off of government grants.

Maybe not climate researchers but there are definitely corporations that are making a lot of money off of this green energy thing. Just like electric cars. Every day we're finding out more and more they're not as great for the environment as they were touted to be. Same thing with windmills. We need to be building more nuclear power plants for clean energy. Luckily, there is talk about reopening shut down power plants, but that's a long process. We need to be building more. China has a long-term plan to build a shit ton of them. They're building a lot of plants, but that's temporary until they can build enough nuclear reactors to plant most of their energy needs. France gets the most amount of nuclear. Big green energy is definitely a thing.

But yes, climate changes is a problem. I'll tell you a movie that's supposed to be kind of funny but scared me was don't look up. It's on Netflix if you haven't seen it you should check it out.

[Scott5114]

Maybe not climate researchers but there are definitely corporations that are making a lot of money off of this green energy thing.

The defining characteristic of the United States is that it has a corporation ready to make a buck off of literally everything you do in your life.

[Rothman]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

[formulanone]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

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[vdeane]

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[dlsterner]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

Heck, I can think of at least 1 person on this forum that seems to do that a lot.

[SSOWorld]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

Heck, I can think of at least 1 person on this forum that seems to do that a lot.

Like hell I do.

Chronic Hero syndrome

[elsmere241]

When your plane can't fly due to a mechanical problem, and you have to wait another eleven hours for the airline to bring in another plane.

[1995hoo]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

Heck, I can think of at least 1 person on this forum that seems to do that a lot.

On the other hand, by definition a forum is for open discussion. That's why the PM function exists—if you want to ask another user something without someone else possibly jumping in, you can send a PM just to the person you want to ask.

Rothman's comment reminds me of the old joke about two men who are bemoaning their surgery and a nearby woman, who always wants to butt in, says that she had that too and the recovery was awful. The two men look at her strangely: "Really? When did you have a vasectomy?"

[kernals12]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Thus, 'Climate Change Alarmists' are definitely one minor thing that bothers me.

Mike

If it was so seriously promised, how come it's completely absent from 1970s science fiction? Soylent Green in fact portrays the opposite: a world made unbearably hot by the greenhouse effect.

[Max Rockatansky]

And then what have the 'climate alarmists' said about the summers of 1870 and 1871, the very *HOT* and *DRY* years that preceded the great firesorms (1871-10-07) that leveled Chicago and the area around Peshtigo, WI, along with many other nearby places?  The Peshtigo fire was the single worst loss of life fire in USA history.

Mike

Any year can be much hotter or much cooler than usual. But with man-made climate change, the anomalies get more extreme and unpredictable, while the overall baseline for normal temperatures creeps upward.

Well, I suppose that we do have to do whatever we can to head off the new Global Ice Age that we were so seriously promised and was drilled into us when I was in high school and the university.

Thus, 'Climate Change Alarmists' are definitely one minor thing that bothers me.

Mike

If it was so seriously promised, how come it's completely absent from 1970s science fiction? Soylent Green in fact portrays the opposite: a world made unbearably hot by the greenhouse effect.

The Soylent Corporation did eventually become a thing though. One of their first products was Soylent Green.

https://www.facebook.com/Soylent?mibextid=LQQJ4d

[Rothman]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

Heck, I can think of at least 1 person on this forum that seems to do that a lot.

On the other hand, by definition a forum is for open discussion. That's why the PM function exists—if you want to ask another user something without someone else possibly jumping in, you can send a PM just to the person you want to ask.

It's not only on forums, but also Facebook comment threads and the like.  There's an obvious discussion or question for a particular person and some bozo jumps in with "I think they mean X!" 

"Did I ask you?  No, you look like a fool.  Sit your butt down."

[Plutonic Panda]

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

[1995hoo]

When I ask someone a question and then some third party schmuck butts in and speaks for them and is inevitably incongruent with their own answer.

Heck, I can think of at least 1 person on this forum that seems to do that a lot.

On the other hand, by definition a forum is for open discussion. That's why the PM function exists—if you want to ask another user something without someone else possibly jumping in, you can send a PM just to the person you want to ask.

It's not only on forums, but also Facebook comment threads and the like.  There's an obvious discussion or question for a particular person and some bozo jumps in with "I think they mean X!" 

"Did I ask you?  No, you look like a fool.  Sit your butt down."

I don't use Facebook, so I'll take your word for it.

[vdeane]

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

Did you link to the wrong place?  I don't see any unused ramps in that interchange.

[1995hoo]

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

Did you link to the wrong place?  I don't see any unused ramps in that interchange.

I looked at the satellite view and found a ramp stub at that spot, similar to what you see a lot of in Baltimore (and maybe less so in other places), so I assumed that was the issue.

[Plutonic Panda]

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

Did you link to the wrong place?  I don't see any unused ramps in that interchange.

It's an outdated map. But that's the interchange that they're redoing.

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

Did you link to the wrong place?  I don't see any unused ramps in that interchange.

Ramps like this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/ZEhLMyrWfySNGSz86?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

What is that thing for? They used to connect to the old crosstown? Is it part of a future project? I can't get a word out of anybody from Odell about what it is. If it's not being used tear it out.

Same thing with unused toll plazas. Like when the George Bush Turnpike in Dallas went cashless, After all these years, they still have the tollgates up. Remove them. Tear them down. Plant some trees there.

Did you link to the wrong place?  I don't see any unused ramps in that interchange.

Interesting. It shows up on my map. I'm using Google maps on iOS.