I'd tell you but I don't trust you.
There are many issues these days that I – as a middle aged white guy – am not allowed to express an opinion.
I have two though upon which I am confident that many people will agree.
1. The world will be a better place when Donald J Trump is no longer POTUS.
2. The world will be a better place when Mark Zuckerberg is no longer alive.
(1) relies in the US voting populace
(2) relies on someone with excellent sniper skills
Is there a GoFundMe? I’d contribute.
“This website is intended to serve as a resource to white people and parents to deepen our anti-racism work.”
https://varunagrawal.github.io/anti-racism-resources/
All racism is bad.
This is the Torino Impact Hazard Scale for “Assessing Asteroid And Comet Impact Hazard Predictions In The 21st Century”
I find it amusing to see how the person committee that wrote this saw events unfold.
In Yellow Astronomers might want to look up but in Orange we want them to look up and do sums and most of Yellow is saying “It’s probably going to be White, just got a decimal point wrong in here somewhere..”
In Yellow if it’s 10+ years away we don’t care. In Orange we go from the Govt doing some planning (haha, yeah, like that’ll happen) to International Contingency Planning (“Will it hit us? Who will it hit? Do we like them?”). And even in the last section of Orange they are furiously double-checking their sums.
And why are there 3 sections in Red? Not like anyone is drawing on experience here is it and computer models? Who would trust them?
I hope Bruce is around. He’ll make it all okay.
But someone somewhere is scanning the skies in the hope of being the first to say “It’ll be a 10!”
(maybe there is someone who has never seen Armageddon. If it’s you, fix this. Watch it).
Recognise it? It’s from 1989. Try to work it out before clicking this (deliberately tinyurl’d) link.
Question: How do you convince the world that – even though you’re armed to the teeth and have a bad track record of invading countries – you really have “no choice” but make a “pre-emptive military strike” against another country you don’t like? Russia Today
“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: weaning society off fossil fuel.”
This weaning will require a large deployment of efficiency measures, nuclear power, and renewable energy sources. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..
“Economists and politicians continually debate policies that will lead to a return to economic growth,” the authors note. “But because they have failed to recognize that the high price of energy is a central problem, they haven’t identified the necessary solution: controlling the fossil fuel.”
This weaning will require a large deployment of troops and other weapons of war. All of this will take time, which is why efforts need to be started now..
FTFY.