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Showing posts with label stupid. Show all posts
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Friday, July 29, 2016
Friday, July 1, 2011
As Drought Intensifies, Towns and Schools Worry About Maintaining Athletic Fields - NYTimes.com
As Drought Intensifies, Towns and Schools Worry About Maintaining Athletic Fields - NYTimes.com
From the often brilliant underpaidgenius:
So they have the worst drought ever in Texas, and folks are worried about the football fields.
Kate Galbraith via Texas Tribune
Across Texas, as one of the worst droughts in history intensifies, numerous cities and towns have instituted water restrictions. Earlier this week, the federal Department of Agriculture designated most of the state a natural-disaster area, allowing farmers and ranchers statewide to apply for emergency low-interest loans.
A notable if lesser worry is the condition of athletic fields. Too much dirt creates safety concerns, and some fields are getting patchy. Worse, a summer of 90- to 100-degree temperatures and tightening restrictions on sprinklers lies ahead — not to mention that players will begin trampling the fields in August, when practices start.
“The extreme heat and no rain is burning up our fields,” James W. Riggen, a maintenance official with the Midland Independent School District, said in an e-mail.
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In Llano, if the football practice fields cannot get the estimated 54,000 gallons of water that they need each week, the community may feel the effect. That’s because practice would move to the game field, which is watered by a working well. But heavy use could make that field unsuitable for games, so Llano might have to play its entire schedule at opponents’ homes, hurting morale — and the local economy.
“A lot of folks come to the ball game,” Mr. Hill said, “and they buy some gas and eat dinner.”
I can’t even begin: so many layers of what’s wrong here.
Just remember that this drought — stretching across the entire southwest and northern Mexico is permanent. There will be no return to normal. So maybe it doesn’t matter if Texas pours out the last remaining gallons of water trying to maintain their ball fields. They are only hastening a return to subsistence, where the people that don’t emigrate out of this desert region will have to exist based on the water that comes every year from the sky, because the aquifers are all played out.
We are so rock stupid.
It’s going to be a good 666cast this Sunday…
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
On Thin Ice
On Thin Ice
The world’s two great ice sheets are melting faster than anyone believed possible
I’m so glad I live on a hill. Of course, I also live on an island, so maybe I should start saving up for a kayak that I can take down Broadway and save money on subway fare, which will undoubtedly go up since they’ll have to pay to make the subway system water-tight. Aw, hell—I’ll just buy a houseboat.
But seriously, this kind of thing is exactly what scares me. Over the past decade, the human race (or those in charge of it) have shown a high level of incompetence. Even the people who are supposed to be smart (ie scientists) are not just cutting to the chase and telling us that things may very well be MUCH worse than we can tell right away. The trend is obviously leaning toward “worse” despite the lack of observable evidence beforehand. Unlike the smoking gun/mushroom cloud metaphor the Bush 43 Administration used to con many Americans into believing Iraq had WMD, there is MUCH more science behind being alarmist now.
On top of that, most of our scientists’ estimates have been conservative—and shown to ultimately be wrong (as the above article shows). So, do we wait until they’re wrong about something with huge and immediate consequences?
Better safe than sorry, I say. Plus, since we’ll all benefit from reacting to this threat even if it’s not a real threat, this is a much better thing to overreact to.
It’s just a shame we’re all too timid.
Sometimes I feel like the smartest frog in the pot of slowly warming water…
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
How Twitter does its part in the intricate process of evolution...
“Dr. Frank Ryan, plastic surgeon to Heidi Montag and other celebrities, was sending a Twitter message about his border collie just before his fatal car accident…”—
People.com, 18 August 2010
Darwin was wrong: it’s survival of the least stupid.
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