One thing that seems to be missing from most Zen promotion is that Firefox has a huge collection of add-on options/extentions. Hard to beat of you’re reliant on several of them. Keeps me from even trying it.

That’s good to hear.

Here in the US, I haven’t seen a sign or heard a word from or about Stein this year. None. Also true in previous years. How’s a GP going to get grown if it doesn’t get a voice in and on the news? If the crazy right wasn’t enough, I also notice that the Dems spent some time and money trying to put her down.

Looking at the GP platform, it seems solid. But, in the US, my position has NO representation in the US. If there is a GP in the US, it’s been very muted. Stein is just a stale placeholder with no voice. That’s not leadership. Every election for DECADES I’ve heard, “oh, not this time. We have to win it back” or “we have to hold on to it”. OK, so when should we vote GP then? Screw that argument. We need another party, and there’s only one way to get there. And that’s quality, visable, vocal, energetic, leadership.

I looked at Canada’s GP yesterday. They at least have -some- kind of org. in most provinces. IIUC, the GP has two seats in their congress. They got a million votes in 2019. That’s better than nothing.

What’s ‘miles short’ converted to Gigatons?

I’ll give Chap1 a shot. PKD can be a headscratcher.

Derange the home stove, the Ford, or the range?

Similar to my path, sounds like. Started when I noticed how much the acceptance of physics theories depended on POV. Already questioning Western religion/philosophy wholesale, Watts got me started looking at multiple Asian POVs, that brought me back to Jung, Gurdjieff, Polanyi and Bohm. There was no cure for any of that, so back to restart with slightly less naive realism. I am, whether or not I think, therefore.

"Any given man sees only a tiny portion of the total truth, and very often, in fact almost perpetually, he deliberately deceives himself about that precious little fragment as well. " — Philip K. Dick

True, of course. But housing FOR ALL has to include housing that’s affordable TO ALL. Market rate has been manipulated so that not all can afford housing. New housing has to be created so that ALL have a shot at it to solve our biggest problems, right?

Totally agreed … IF you plant a tree, and let it grow, then pellitize and transport it in a green way, then burning it won’t release more hydrocarbons than it accumlated.

Take the thorn out of the lion’s paw, and don’t charge him $10,000.

Fire that consumes hydrocarbon fuels and oxygen liberates CO2. So yeah. Gasoline, diesel, natural gas, wood chips, all hydrocarbon fuels. NO SUCH THING as ‘green’ wood burning.

To see how well this works, we need to see how much each ‘new’ unit would cost to convert. Sometimes the cost per unit is insane … numbers like $30 million for 100 units mean $300,000 per unit. How long is the payback for $1000 per month? 300 months = 25 years. Before deducting for maintenance and supervision.

I think NYT is correct in this sense: I haven’t heard Harris herself say much about ‘climate change’ let alone ‘global warming’.

We all get that. Candidates tend to stay away from talking about stuff that makes people feel bad because it sticks to them. But I’ve not heard her even address expanding renewables as rapidly as possible, or even heat pumps. No doubt that’s the advice she’s getting. One reason is that the cars we’re driving are a major source of CO2. Nobody’s touching that elephant.

This is the ongoing story of Microsoft since it started.

I questioned the methodology as soon as I learned that Seattle was even in the running.

Fine people here. But, smartest? mmmffff

How many times did people vote YES on a monorail? How many times did their votes get ignored?

The city doesn’t care what people think. As with everything, the public argues about the options for 10 years. Then, after noone cares any more, it does whatever (someone we never see) wanted anyway.

I was in the tunnel, not the steam pipes running through the tunnel.

I have a browser extension for that. When I open a page and a ‘subscribe’ popup hides the text, I click on that button, and it shows me the URL it’s going to block, and I click OK. The next time I get tricked into going to that page, it tells me it’s blocked.

The steam tunnel system under that big midwestern university. Once in, it led underneath most every building on the campus. There are many other mysteries hidden in the underground -everywhere-.

Wow. I can’t believe it took me so long to learn about that. And no tour needed. Interesting, thanks!

That’s a lot cheaper than the laughable $1 + 45 cents per minute Lime is charging for their bikes where I live… $28 for the first hour. HA HA