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Eh, it’s beyond our control. .

Bingo. Dry autumn and now a dry winter. I STG, it’s going to be torrential rain all April to ruin the start of baseball season. .

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I’ve heard that. I just read this and it’s along the same vein of not taking care of what you can take care of. https://firesafemarin.org/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-eucalyptus-trees/ It’s like around here. You can’t stop windy days; you can prune the trees on your property for dead wood or broken branches to lower the odds of damage when natural phenomena occurs. .

That’s really interesting. Thanks for sharing. It always seemed to snow easily in Boston up until fairly recently. .

That looks otherworldly. Great photo. .

Sorry for the delay, I was busy pushing along the corporate industrial complex. I think you’re right in that there are some things you just cannot control; an issue is the bureaucratic mismanagement of what you can. I read this from a nonprofit interview earlier this week: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/fierce-winds-unrelenting-flames-and-rushed-evacuations-the-night-wildfires-engulfed-los-angeles-3dba318c? ‘“City and county officials weren’t immediately available to comment on their brush-management program. Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO of After the Fire USA, a California nonprofit that helps towns rebuild after disasters, said she could see the lack of brush management by L.A. County in a visit with the fire chief of Beverly Hills last year. “You could clearly see where L.A. County property began, full of chaparral,” Thompson said via email. “BH? Mitigated.”’ .

Prescribed burns. New Jersey does a lot poorly, but manages forestry very well. .

That’s akin (on a far smaller scale) to not clearing your gutters or storm drains before a heavy rain or building on a storm-prone coast or taking care of your body and diet even if you can’t change genetic predisposition; you can’t control the rate or lack of precipitation, but you can mitigate what’s within your grasp. .

That’s too simplistic. What do you invest in? I’m pro-making money. Broad brushstrokes can hurt a lot of the rank and file in corporate America. Organizations aren’t inherently good or evil; they’re doing what the public demands. We know snack foods and too salty and not good for you, b it we can demanding them. Alcohol causes a lot of problems, but people can’t stop. Organizations go where the demand is. .

California manages forestry like the Giants manage offensive lines… poorly. .

Griffey was terrific but Bonds was better. Griffey was just far more likeable. .

Know what’s amazing? The best sports ever is when you and alone were twelve years old! And the best music just happened to be when you were sixteen! (It works for my age as well!) .

I disagree with you. His batting eye was on par with Ted Williams - he didn’t swing at pitches outside at the zone - and he squared up the ball better than anyone. He was incredible before steroids. The steroids were the extra heft that took 400’ fly balls to center and made them 425’ home runs. Hence the climate change analogy. .

Great point. I’ve always likened climate change to steroids in baseball; obvious impact, more home runs, but not every home run is attributed to it. .

One thing I have to disagree with is the reflexive reach to climate change for every thing that doesn’t go the way someone prefers. Understand that I’m not denying it or playing it down or don’t think it’s impacting preferred outcomes. It’s like businesses blaming Covid for every issue they faced in the past five years; sure, it’s been an issue, but sometimes it’s just how it goes. .

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Time flies when you’re typing into the void. .

$1,000?!? Are you keeping at 80°? .

Underreported fact… it’s not only not snowing because God hates us, it’s just been dry. First dry and warm, now dry and cold. .

Right. I’m not a meteorologist or scientist or engineer, but even in the most logic-driven occupations, people - who may not want to admit it - are driven by emotion and responses that they hope to find. Just take a look at Covid five years on… many, many aspects of it were ideas driven by emotion or solutions that were hoped to work, and reasonings made verboten because they did not conform. People don’t like to admit they’re wrong, or don’t like to concede a previous viewpoint could be wrong, or someone they disagree with or dislike had a valid point. It’s a good point you make about just saying, what could go wrong? You want Solution A to occur, but what could make it become B or C? It’s not a character issue, just a valid question. .

But they’re then read by humans with biases, searching for what they want to find. .

I have to think it’s because it’s showing you what you want to see, just like other solutions show other people what they want to see, so it reinforces their own biases. Just like a slanted news source or radio station for other topics, people love having preconceived notions reinforced. It’s marketing 101. .

So it goes [emoji2371] .

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