I’m actually kind of impressed—marriage equality *and* total science nerd-dom. No idea the Sun was missing some colors.

Yep—hated the ending of BSG, but at least I cared about how it ended. I think, maybe, I made it through 1.5 episodes of the original BSG and pretty much cringed the whole way.

Oh, it’s got to be Battlestar Galactica. Star Trek and Doctor Who continued to matter to their fandoms while the shows were long-gone, but even during its run, the original Battlestar Galactica was seen as kind of cheesy and mediocre. It was kind of shocking that not only was Battlestar Galactica resurrected, but it…

Actually, you can force people to be vaccinated/quarantined/etc.—all sorts of things have been done in the name of public health—generally without a lot of protest because earlier generations knew what epidemics were like.

But, anyway, some people *can’t* be vaccinated for medical reasons or age—*those* are the people…

The beauty of that is that is the sort of things that makes the smarter ones start to question their actual indoctrination.

But that’s not what’s going on. The school looks like it’s in okay financial condition—looks like the president and the chunk of the board wanted to cash out by closing the school and selling the property.

$96 million isn’t nothing—it’s in line with the endowment for small historically women’s colleges. Sarah Lawrence’s is $75 million. Bennington’s is a ridiculously low $14 million. Sweet Briar’s problems sound like mismanagement—probably from the run-it-like-a-business mentality that’s become increasingly common.

Well, first of all, the Southeast has had severe droughts. Second of all, look at the map—your aquifer is stressed—more water is being pumped than taken back in. I’m sure better water-management policies would help—but if you guys had water to spare, you wouldn’t have that orange aquifer. And Florida’s a mess with…

Well, that and the fact it’s wayyyy down there.

I was thinking of my kitty cat. She’s not good for much, but she could manage a little sparrow management.

I’m aware of that—I live in Silicon Valley and, yes, robotics is one of the things getting funded. Just because it’s happening doesn’t make it a great idea for the planet.

Good point—another projection would help—though if you do it by the numbers, China’s aquifers are farther down the list than most of Russia’s and there are only three of them. India’s two are a bit bigger, but all of the aquifers in Eurasia are smaller than any of the aquifers in the Americas. When you think about…

Well, that’s actually how a bunch of California’s water supply works. It snows in the Sierras, ends up in some big reservoirs up there and then it’s piped across the state. Only problem this year is that there was almost no snow. So San Francisco, which relies on the Hetch-Hetchy reservoir next to Yosemite is hurting…

We don’t actually lack fresh water world wide—a bunch of it is frozen. It’s more a matter of where the water is and where the people are. Most people live in Asia and if you look at the map, the heavily populated parts of Asia a) don’t have that many large aquifers and b) have really stressed aquifers. However, they…

I don’t think it’s a question of new reservoirs, but with you on the rest. Despite the grumbling about agriculture, I think it’s mostly a good thing—*if* it’s the right kind of agriculture and water conservation is made economically desirable.

Yes, there is supposed to be a bunch of water beneath the crus.

California needs to get its water policy together. Yes, we’re going to be going at the aquifer during a severe drought, but our aquifer water policies as far as farming goes are insanely outdated and pretty nonexistent when it comes to using groundwater.

So this just shows the effect of global warming on growing days—but doesn’t take into account the problem with desertification (1,000 new square miles of Gobi Desert a year) and water supplies, right?

Some jobs won’t be worth the bother of robots—i.e. childcare is cheap and people are good at it. Repetitive jobs seem the natural venue for robots. Though, really, anything that decreases the need for human labor seems a bit ridiculous in a planet with a population heading toward 10 billion.

I have a Pinterest board on underground dwellings and when looking for pins, I stumbled on a lot of this. I think a lot of the doomsday prepping is a sort of wishful thinking—for a simpler, but more exciting life, where being able to take care of yourself and get food actually matters. It’s also, I think, a version of…