That’s a good point, although my next line of thinking isn’t so much that this one thing makes him an outsider, more along the lines of “decades of discourse dominated by republicans attacking anyone who dare mention the word ‘tax’ has made the word so toxic that an outsider like Yang struggles to use it consistently…

There’s some evidence that warmer winters/springs help tick-borne diseases spread, possibly because weaker deer which are infected are less likely to die off without harsh winters.

Nothing another Infrastructure Week can’t fix, right?

Oh ffs. Yes it does have to do with what I originally said, and I have no clue why you think what I’m saying is Randian in the slightest.

My problem with it is not necessarily the goal but whether it’s a policy that is worth including as part of a presidential platform. Other than being the guy behind the push for UBI, I couldn’t tell you what he’s for. Anti-automation, I guess? His policy proposals read like a grab bag of think tank white papers—good…

That’s fine, and not surprising, but don’t disparage the idea of a carbon tax and then admit to it as a tax later.

Yeah, my assumption was that it was framed to not be a tax specifically because that’s a scary word in our political theater. The problem is down the page he describes what the plan is (placing a price on carbon and then rerouting that money to UBI and climate action) and, to me, it is essentially a tax. I’m not sure…

Well Dr. Jones, it requires an act of Congress to create a new executive department since, you know, they need a mechanism to fund and oversee said department.

This whole discussion prompted me to look further at his policy pages, particularly on climate (although sidenote: suggesting that he would create an entirely new executive level department for restricting social media use by kids— the Dept of Attention Economy...what???)

For a show that had multiple timelines of multiple universes, Fringe did well containing its lore/mythology arcs over five seasons (and weaving in meaningful “monster of the week” episodes). More ambitious shows (*cough* Xfiles) weren’t as successful...

I mean, the existence of observed and predicted interactions doesn’t disprove the notion that the “balance of nature” is a completely untestable as a scientific hypothesis yet persists as a metaphor in pop-culture, environmentalism, and other circles.

The “climate change” people worry about today is only a problem for Humans (and many other species).

Right, I am familiar with predator-prey population dynamics. The problem is that disturbances happen all the time and it’s simplistic to think of any one ecosystem as just a collection of one-way trophic interactions which suddenly get thrown out of “balance.” It’s a vague term with no meaning (making it completely…

Mufasa: Yes, Simba, but let me explain. When we die, our bodies become the grass, and the antelope eat the grass. And so we are all connected in the great Circle of Life.

Yep, the Gulf is basically bath water for most of the summer—hot, shallow, and stagnant. It’s notorious for being a bacterial bioreactor. 

I couldn’t find any other reporting in English, but here is a press release (in Spanish) which has a crude map. Looks to be part of what they call Sistema Arrecifal Lobos Tuxpan (SALT), the reef system near the Isla Lobos down to Tuxpan, Veracruz.

I’m expecting he jumps in after someone on Fox News cites Rossello as the leader of the PNP being a “progressive” without any understanding of political parties in Puerto Rico. Or they say something in relation to Mayor Yulin Cruz, despite her frequent criticism of the governor and being targeted in the leaked chats...

Yeah, that’s always been a problem with discrete sampling within long-term data, which can still be temporally autocorrelated...I’m also not sure why they treat “decades” as independent units of time either. It seems rather arbitrary?

Missing the real crux of the paper here from a management/policy standpoint.

True, true. I forgot that part.