Willow ,'End of Days'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Is anyone else being driven nuts by news shows and people in general talking about the Amazon being the 'lungs of the Earth'? The oceans are the lungs of the Earth. This 20% of the oxygen thing is pure myth. I mean, there are plenty of reasons the fires in the Amazon are bad, but the lungs thing just isn't true.
I'm not a hardcore environmentalist, but I'm definitely more on that side of the politics, and it really bothers me when my side uses false information.
OMG Becky, look at her lack of original sin
Never been to a HS reunion. I was never popular there and I'm pretty sure the people I knew in HS wouldn't be going either so there doesn't seem much point. Not that HS was a hellscape or anything, overall it was fine. I was a nerd, but I was a tough nerd so I didn't get bullied. I mean, you don't want to bully a nerd who could make you look bad.
I wouldn't mind seeing the people I went to high school with - it was a small school so I had at least a nodding acquaintance with everyone in my class. I really just want to spend about half an hour or so hearing how everyone's doing and be done with it for the next ten years, and it would be along trip for that. If I even heard about a reunion to go, which I have not. Seeing those of my classmates I see on Facebook (and haven't blocked) will have to satisfy that particular yen.
Non-electric heating pads: you really can't top a hot water 'bottle', the rubber kind, for nice heating, as well that it cools off as you do, which makes it great for my cold cold feet. OTOH, they're not so great for forehead type use.
The pedantic part of me is bothered by the "lungs of the earth" thing, but then the practical side thinks it's probably best to let people get panicked by hyperbole on this issue. It's not as if slash-and-burning half the Amazon rain forest is good for the planet's atmosphere.
I'm not so distressed about "the lungs of the earth," so much as the Ultra Right Wing President of Brazil purposefully burning down the Amazon for oil and agriculture.
Putin's done a fantastic job of installing right wing demagogues all around the globe.
Lately I've been thinking about how well capitalism pairs with Fascism.
I have some of these:
chemical reaction heating pads. I like them, and they come in several different sizes (and they're starting to do some aromatherapy - or at least lavender scented heating pads).
And apparently the president of Brazil refused financial aid to help fight the fires, which seems stupidly petty.
And apparently the president of Brazil refused financial aid to help fight the fires, which seems stupidly petty.
From what I saw, he's going to keep burning the Amazon until Macron apologizes to him for something mean he said. Because apparently the president of Brazil is in FUCKING MIDDLE SCHOOL.