So if we just *spread out* the tailpipe emissions, they go away?

I posted this as a reply to someone asking why scientists would publish a paper arguing for something that seems to be such a bad idea, but feel it deserves to be seen as a reply to the main article as well, as it contains important information about the authors of the “blot out the sun” research paper.

Someone who can’t tell the difference between the local effects of pollution (which have largely been mitigated in big U.S. cities by this point) and the global effects of everyone pumping slightly more carbon into the air. It’s always hard to tell if you guys are genuine idiots or just making an argument in bad faith…

“At some point in your life, probably several points, you’ve discussed how much money you would have to be paid in order to do something painful or humiliating.”

ironically the average city dweller has a much smaller carbon footprint. turns out one seat on a train twice a day is a hell of a lot cheaper than driving from point a to point b

[trying to explain to past self how “don’t blot out the sun” became a take necessary to write]

That’s fine, but in this metaphor, we’ve seen the car coming towards us from miles away pretty slowly, we kept telling ourselves it probably won’t still be on the road by the time it gets to us and we’ve got plenty of time to do something, and *now* the car is maybe, I dunno, 500 yards away and still slowly coming. At…

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(Apropos of nothing, go here to vote for the Ass Team of the Year.)

He’s been eating a lot of Vegemite!

Six foot four and full of gristle 

“That’s not a good song, period.”

No joke, I was in the middle of writing that if they had a button inside that let you out, i would just hit it with my elbow because people are disgusting, but then I just got too mad about Hallelujah and couldn’t finish my original thought 

I assert that all men’s room doors be equipped with swinging saloon doors or the restaurant style swinging doors so I burst in like the fucking Kool-Aid man when i need to take a leak.

‘Hallelujah’ is “cloying garbage?” NO!!!

I push the automatic door buttons when there’s someone walking just far enough behind me that they fall into that weird range where you don’t know whether or not you need to hold the door for them. It’s a good way to be polite without having to look at the person.

I’ll throw down with the version of “Hallelujah” from “Cohen Live” as the best version of a very good song. But keep it the fuck away from my Christmas playlists. (AND retroactively scrape it from every copy of that god-awful “Watchmen” movie in existence.)

Just one more thing I share in common with Aaron Rodgers.

I would be a lot more convinced that LeBron is still top flight if Cleveland wasn’t doing so damn well in his absence. 

I support Matt Whitaker for Acting US Attorney General.