Levi has a levy to build levees.

I’m not normally this pedantic (I tell myself) but in an article focused heavily on flood protection it might be nice to use the right word to describe the protection structures being used. Levy is a fine or fee, levee is an embankment built to protect overflow.

The story behind Tabasco is also pretty crazy. The original owner of Avery Island realized that he was sitting on a HUGE salt deposit, and thought of ways to monetize it. The swampland wasn’t great for heavy machinery or rail to just export it, so he came up with a product that used a lot of salt but would be easier…

The point being is development of energy, petroleum refining, exporting, petrochemicals manufacturing etc. etc. etc. is ramping up under Trump - where institutional stops or slowdowns to development are being brushed aside. This would be environmental impact study (EIS). Now that climate change and sea level rise as a…

Formosa looks to be the opposite of Tabasco in every way:

To everything there is an end. Step by step, we trudge towards our eventual destination. Bound by chains that drag along those who agree with this path, they move unerringly to their final end. That choice, that destination, was chosen by hubris and by force - by greed and power and lust. And sold in a neat package to…

I think they are codependent. It's like how the internal combustion engine made airplanes, cars, submarines, airships, and private boating possible.

and yet you already provided me a student loan on even less of a promise.

counterpoints: If I don't have an expiration date, someone would be willing to foot me the loan to get off world. I'd be millions in debt, but would have centuries to pay it off. Also, you could make longevity treatment available to only the ones willing to go off world, or to give up on personal wealth for a spell…

First, I expect that life-changing technologies will not arrive all at once, but will creep up on us. Today bad knees get replaced. 2030, bad hearts get replaced, 2050, bad livers get replaced. Sure, men like Peter Thiel and Bill Gates have the first pick of the nearest-term treatments, but by the time the next treatme…

Caveat. If extreme longevity occurs without space exploration and exploitation, you are absolutely correct and it would be a very grim dark future.

Easy there, you're so caught up in deathist thinking that you need to inspect your assumptions. We retire originally because our bodies were too old and broken to continue to work. We now retire to try squeeze a decade or two of vacation before we can't anymore. If you're life limit was 10,000, I'd easily see people…

Personally, I would like decent people to live longer. If that means assholes live longer too, it is an acceptable trade.

My closest non-gas station coffee shop is 23 miles away. #WestVirginiaProbs

With the k-cups you can keep telling yourself that you are going to cut back to just one cup.

We can’t do much as individuals to prevent genocides in countries where we most likely don’t live. We can do a lot to not be so wasteful... so I think I’ll be over here trying to live my own life more responsibly while you wring your hands about things far beyond your control.

Because not everyone lives in New York.

It’s no more work than making a pot. You put a scoop in the filter, place the filter in the machine. It’s about the same effort. The advantage is it brews quickly, you don’t waste any coffee that goes cold, and you don’t water down your coffee accidentally when trying to make less than a full pot.