As a huge fan of Campbell’s work, I want to hate you with the hate of 10K suns! And yet, reality is reality. Science is what it is IMO, and if I’m wrong, then I’m wrong. (oof)

That said, however, I wonder if the alleged ‘takedowns’ of Campbell’s work aren’t a bit invested upon the desire to believe. And one thing that I know for sure, however wrong Joe could arguably be about this or that, he was also absolutely correct upon a bunch of other stuff. About our Naked Ape chronic desire to believe, and the way we all tend to invent shockingly similar mythos. In order to meet the needs of our chronic insecurity, that is, and we are absolutely LOADED with such insecurities.

So as I see it, you can tear down Campbell’s work upon this or that angle, and yet it would be a fool’s errand to try to erase his main point, and he has many of those, after all…

I have a terminal disease, with my focus & energy being pretty much the first things impacted. I did appreciate a couple folks above who seemed to be in the know doing their best to explain, which wound up opening the conversation for others.

So… just sayin’ that, too.

Thank you!
And IMO that would be an exceedingly strange takeaway as I see it in general, pigeons being some classic Pavlovian-exhibiting animals as it were. So then, perhaps what’s being suggested here is that they’re more exploratory and exhibit much more free will and unpredictability than previously imagined…?

Or something like that?

TL;DR…?

No idea.

Sounds groovy in theory, but in terms of actual micro-transactions’ load per second, I wouldn’t have the slightest clue.

“You come up with anything, Ted…?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9YlXFjQQuQ

(from “Police Squad” & “Naked Gun”)

@m_f@discuss.online

There’s a follow button on each account’s profile. So first find one of their posts/comments and then go to the author of it.

Okay, I’m trying to figure out how to specifically get that done. My first idea was to cruise Mastodon and find someone I wanted to follow, hover over their name, then click that “follow” button.

Then I get taken to an M sign-in box which wouldn’t accept my PF login.

So I figured I’d paste their M-user’s ID address in to PF search, but it couldn’t find it. And now I’m all out of idears…

Just for the record, the official text is:

To reduce server load and network traffic

@OpenStars@piefed.social

I’m still looking for an online tool that will auto-arrange text in to speech bubbles. That used to be a feature on the old “Red Meat” comic creator, but it seems strangely hard to find these days…

A word of advice: don’t unwrap it. 🙂

Sorry, but I’ve never understood the appeal of eating contests.

Oh dear.

“Healthy alternative.” oO

Add in that of you didn’t get insanely rich you could also become kind of rich.

All true, but from my sense, it was also common for such folks to lose their relative wealth in any number of ways, starting with gambling, whoring-boozing, and outright theft by various opportune colleagues.

people who saw an opportunity to sell a shovel for the equivalent of $2000 today

Yeah, if I was going to try to make money in those crazy situations, and I possessed the requisite moral compass, it would be by similar exploitation.

Even so the two rushes mentioned only lasted 3yrs each, so unpredictability was everywhere, which is again why I’d want to angle one of the more stable profit-making schemes. And then you’d be directly participating in situations which regularly produced some very sore losers…

Still, all notes from afar!

Carbon capture technology was always some kind of excuse that execs had to pollute today because we could theoretically fix it in the future.

You’re exaggerating. While that’s true, and fits a pattern of such executive / corporate behavior, there’s more to it from what I know. That is, various science researchers around the world really have been studying CC tech as a potential helper to mitigation, if not as a primary solution. That goes back to the late 70’s if I understand correctly.

And carbon isn’t our only problem. Methane is a way worse greenhouse gas, and we keep releasing it to the atmosphere because it’s cheaper than trying to control it.

Last I recall, methane is ~20x more potent than CO2 in the GH effect, and arguably represents one of the more potent tipping points.

Even if we stopped producing CO2 tomorrow, and suddenly enough carbon capture facilities to capture carbon at the same rate we were releasing it appeared, it would still take decades to make a meaningful change.

My original point was about if CC tech could make a dramatic difference in the CO2 we’ve already placed in the atmosphere. Not just do a ‘working offset.’ I think that still presents problems in mitigation, I’m just not sure why from a science standpoint.

That was S03E05 “Amy and Amiability.” I found another video source at the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/blackadder35amyandamiability

It’s not a problem to watch an episode from series 3 before watching the beginning?

Series 1 is kind of controversial with fans and much different than the others. They changed lots of things after that, most for the better. I started with the season 3 ep because it’s one of my favorites, that’s all. But the whole show isn’t really linear, so watching in order isn’t so important.

Btw, feel free to recommend me a French series episode. It would need to be in either simple French or there’s not much dialogue. Or it has English subtitles.

Haha, I’ve certainly made some silly mistakes through the years using the wrong glue.

Sometimes I’ve forgotten to first clean the surface, or sometimes I’ve used the wrong glue for a certain surface. Or when I was a kid, I sometimes built models, and a lot of those glues contain toxic solvents, which isn’t good. Lots of things still use toxic solvents, in fact. 😕

Oh, snap, that sound great.

Would have made a world of difference for me, and I guess loads of kids in the 90’s.

It’s hard for me to exactly undestand what these gold rushes were really like, not having participated in anything remotely like them, nor friends & family I know of. Certainly it’s easy-enough to grasp the excitement factor & occasional success stories, but the other stories of misery, heartbreak and tragedy are also rife.

I guess Deadwood and various GN’s will have to do for me.

Some helpful info on the Klondike Rush, with lots more pics:
https://historycollection.com/visual-history-klondike-gold-rush/

Make sure it includes his sausage fingers so I can tell it’s him!