MN Grubert

Quite enough doom in reality..

But thanks anyway!

Why is this unacceptable?

What is the danger.

Feels like guilt by association.

Marshall Half-Stack Homes.

All legal.

On trivial social matters, NYT can occasionally be somewhat fair.

Reality constructed by consensus.

MAD being "mutual assured destruction?"

Anyway, I'm over 60 too. Seen most all that. I understand.

I'm just being pointlessly picky about what I think is the likely level of environmental damage.

Yeah, we're in deep doo-doo and it's our own damn fault..

More on mission, what I try to do.. getting better at it.

New rule: Be affirmative, meaning say *something* real, something I think or believe.. even if it's opposing. Or ask real question. Don't simply criticize or cast aspersions.

Also, praise is good. Criticism is not, unless requested.

Watch a few videos on poverty in Victorian England.. or the Hundreds Year War, or the Children's Crusade. Or the Mongol invasion.. it goes on and on.

Not saying it was *all* awful for everyone in the past.. just that people have generally always been awful to each other.

Seymore!

Oh brother. 🙄

It's this kind of stuff that makes me avoid the FAFO or "Trump voter gets screwed by Trump" coverage.

Not that it's false ( although some could be I suppose.. )

It's that it's meaningless.. doesn't matter except as a dot in a poll.

Watching poll numbers does mean something.

not quite that far.. ( "a few microbes" )

But point taken. And we've been reducing a lot of bio-diversity for a long time now.

Just a few hundred years ago we had not really figured out to not poop in our own drinking water.

That is correct.

And many many species could die ( and probably will ) but life in some form will continue and maybe in a million years ( blink of an eye in the lifetime of the planet ) a new age of life will begin.

Republican gives bullshit reason for something.

Dog bites man.

( but thanks for the news anyway.. )

Do you think Newsom would be be as bad for the nation as J.D.Vance?

I do not.. very much do not.

I don't know how good Newsom would be at *cleaning* up the Trump disaster. Maybe not the best, but I really don't know.

My current favorite is Pritzger. Who's yours?

I wouldn't toss aside any strong candidate for making a purely political mistake. Like saying something good about the opposition or maybe offending someone in the tent.

The primary is where voters decide. ( not a fan of super-delegates, but it's not a blocker for me voting. )

And my new rule saved me here..

Old me would have blasted you back, which would have gotten us both nowhere.

My new rule is to be affirmative, meaning say *something* real, something I think or believe.. even if it's opposing. Or ask real question. Don't simply criticize or cast aspersions.

My AI suspicion was because your response made no sense to me..

Again, thanks.

Wow.. thank you.

I was wondering if you were a disrupter bot or something like that.

And I'm no fan of people ( much less bots ) trying to split the Dem/left/liberal side of things.

Aside: I actually looked up how to detect AI before responding, so my question is weird compared to my usual.

Do you remember where you were when you first hated Gavin Newsom?

Not his to give

No.

But if want to look at it that way go right ahead.

Can't stop you/

It looked that way for a long time.

I myself didn't hear those podcasts.. and just talking to the enemy isnt a sin in my book.

Do you feel Newsom's media outreach to the other side was unfairly or inaccurately characterized?

Asking cause a lot of people are pissed and sometimes mistakes are made that seem worse than they are.. depending on your point of view.

Most definitely.. me either.

Lately though I've found that long history view helps me appreciate what we have had recently.

YouTube video by 2 Chainz - Topic Dope Peddler

And here it is!

( Loved the Grey Album. Hate to admit it; that I'm crufty enough to need a good mashup to get exposed to modern poetry )

youtube.com/watch?v=afXU...

I thought Newsom gave up that "reach across the aisle" crap.

Unless the alternative is Vance or some variation thereof..

Talking the general election here of course