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Category Archives: Ecology
Now most of the US can play!
Welcome to the new Normal! So glad you selfish assholes, namely the Greatest Generation and Boomers, who continued to favor cheap gasoline, we are having the super-hot weather a month early! The added bonus is how you can’t escape it … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Ecology, Science & Technology
Tagged Climate Change, Current Events
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Cool eco pencil
When I first received one of these pencils, my initial response was, great, there’s no eraser, thanks…I guess. Then this really nice person handing out treats gave me a couple more and explained why these pencils were cool and special. … Continue reading
Sen. Mansion saying “no” wasn’t a shock
What’s really sad is how the Establishment Dems have called the Squad and Bernie supporters the naive ones. Meanwhile, the old farts who won’t have to live with the consequences have failed the human race once again. Thanks to their … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Science & Technology
Tagged Politics
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LEGO® recycling!
Great news! A while back LEGO made plans to start making their famous bricks from plants which is a mixed bag; its sugar cane and it only works with softer parts like tree branches, leaves, etc. No success in making … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Ecology, Legos, Science & Technology, Toys
Tagged Environment
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Texas gubmint decides to murder the poor for Kapitalism
The animation from The Simpsons is a pretty accurate representation of how fucking dumb and willfully ignorant the Texas government, namely the executive branch, is. It’s also spot-on impression of this douchenozzle we have named Sid Miller, he’s the Agricultural Commissioner. … Continue reading
Posted in Austintatious, Biology, Ecology, Science & Technology
Tagged Current Events, Politics
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An old piece of propaganda from the Seventies
The recent winter storm brought this to the forefront again as a friend asked why I was giving the temperature in Metric, then backpedalled on how he was joking. Another friend reminisced with me about the big push to learn … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, Physics, Science & Technology
Tagged Metric System, Politics
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Snow-ma-geddon 2021!
Power was restored at my house today, hence no post for yesterday! Lucky you while unlucky for Jennifer, her apartment remains offline and everything there is electric. Hard to believe 20 years ago, I wasn’t too thrilled about natural gas … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Climate Change
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1980: Mount St. Helen’s erupts!
I don’t remember too much about this the day when it happened. I think more of the news was I paid attention to was the aftermath, namely how all those people died because they chose not to evacuate. The eruption … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, History, Science & Technology
Tagged Disaster, Eighties, Environment
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1970: The First Earth Day
It was a nice try 50 years ago but then St. Reagan came along to demonize those of us who had the nerve to demand clean air and water. Even to this day, the FBI spies on is the Green … Continue reading
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Tagged Current Events, Environment, Politics
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1980: Mount St. Helens
I made a slight error in making the volcano my Header. On this day in history is when Helens began to have activity which experts feared would be an eruption. A week later, there were small ones but the big … Continue reading
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Tagged Disaster, Eighties
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Harley’s first set of mpg stats are in
With the iPhone app Road Trip always takes the second fill up to be of any use when you buy a new car because I can’t remember why it doesn’t calculate the dealer’s gratis tank, doesn’t matter, the car’s computer … Continue reading
Posted in Ecology, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Cars
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MAD makes a good point against straws!
I have been asking Starbucks to give me what’s called a nitro lid with my drinks so I can consume my iced latte like a can of soda (it’s soda, pop is what you do to a zit). Besides, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Satire
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Updated genetic stuff from 23 and Me
The updates just keep rolling in from 23andme.com and these were finally worth sharing. The past ones aren’t awful, they’ve been more along the lines of surveys to add to their collection of data. The four icons above represent three … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Ecology, Health, News, Science & Technology
Tagged Genetics
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It seems we live in the Anthropocene Period
Last week, co-host Brooke Gladstone of On the Media interviewed stratigrapher Jan Zalasiewicz. They discussed what aliens or future humans would find if they dug up our epoch for the Holocene Era (starts around 7000 BC) is definitely over. The period I think … Continue reading
Posted in Astronomy, Biology, Ecology, Science & Technology
Tagged Opinion
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Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes & Erik M Conway
Ignore the documentary and take the time to read this painful book which was well-researched. You may not be able to get through Merchants easily, I often found myself putting it down for a two-day intervals due to the rage I felt. … Continue reading
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Tagged Politics
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