Nick Williams

Proof of stake is just a pyramid scheme with extra steps. Convince me otherwise. . .

@IdiotOnTwatter @brianhuggard @WillNotBill2 @SHEEPSLIVE I said the opposite. It often looks like there could be a lot more water from a mountaintop due to low clouds and inversions. Say they climbed near Cuyamaca. They'd see the Salton Sea and San Jacinto but distant low desert might look like more water. discovermagazine.com/why-mirages-ar…

LOOK AT THIS OLD MAP TELL ME WHAT YOU SEE! WHAT DID THEY CALL THE COLORADO RIVER?

you're not deep enough in the woods if you have access to Internet

i don’t like this painting in my hotel

“This isn’t what I voted for.” My brother in Christ it was an open book test!!!

@getpseudoed The whole dark carnival in general does suck more than usual right now, so that's a factor

Utterly disinterested in basically everything, and unsure if that’s a symptom, a side effect, or some kinda self-induced placebo effect.

“You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees.” Kaiser Wilhelm August 1914

The world is changing right in front of us and no one knows it. Texas is running its world-class economy on 70% renewables, right now. Gas is there if we need it, but for today, we can save the fuel for another day.

@Chlebede @RealUnsweetDee I have no internal monologue and yes I hear music in my head sometimes. When I read I see/feel like topologies/landscapes/scenes in my mind. I also have colorful synesthesia with letters themselves. I can force myself to hear a voice reading but it takes more effort that way.

@RealUnsweetDee Also, how does they read? If they can't say it out loud in their mind, did they just look at each words?

Do people with no internal monologue still get songs stuck in their head?

@PeterDClack I blame cyanobacteria, they started all this dangerous geo-engineering

To blame humans for 100% of the carbon dioxide rise is simplistic and misleading. It suggests the natural world - with its tectonic shifts, mid-ocean ridge volcanism, feedback mechanisms and massive water vapor flux - all suddenly vanished in 1850. The greening of the planet (confirmed by NASA) proves the biosphere is actively utilising this CO2, yet the crisis narrative treats the Earth as a passive victim rather than a self-regulating, dynamic system. It conveniently tries to frame humans as careless or even as evil. It is more like a case of self loathing. You are completely ignoring the natural world and the real heavy lifters of Earth’s climate: the oceans and the hydrological cycle. The focus on a 150-ppm rise in CO2 bypasses the reality that the oceans contain 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Oceans hold 1,000 times the heat capacity. They contain 91-92% of all the entire world's retained heat energy. Water is 1,000 times denser and heavier than the air, a fine inert vapour by comparison We are currently observing the tail end of a multi-century adjustment, as the deep ocean responds to solar and orbital cycles that began long before the industrial revolution. This is how the natural world turns, very slowly. The CO2 rise isn't a human footprint crushing the natural world out of existence, it’s an echo from a complex feedback loop involving the entire planetary engine.

@KhusrauParviz @tomxhart @SandyofCthulhu Yeah, that's a different person. He's talking about this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man

@tomxhart @SandyofCthulhu I get what you mean but yeah the Islamic version of the Green Man is nothing like him.

Tom Bombadil stops the story cold. We are in an exciting cross-country trip as the hobbits pick their way through a creepy haunted forest to avoid the sinister Black Riders. A terrifying black huorn ensnares them. Poof! Here comes Tom deus-ex-machina Bombadil to save the hobbits from a threat which Tolkien seems to have created to give him an excuse to insert Bombadil. Then, just as the story starts to move again, Tom shows up a SECOND time as a deus-ex-machina to rescue the hobbits from the barrow wight. Ugh. Again stopping the story cold. What is Bombadil's function? He doesn't represent the Old Good Ways which the fellowship must save. Bombadil isn't threatened - he's a cheesy distraction. I'm not saying it's impossible to convince me that Bombadil is a Good Thing, but such a convincing would be an uphill battle, and I view Tom as one of Tolkien's missteps. I am happy Jackson left him out of the film, because it would have stopped the movie's flow too.

I'm old enough to remember the outcry when gas went over $1

@celiacorreia @ChrisMartzWX I remember pointing out contrails specifically in 1988, called them bridges to heaven

@ChrisMartzWX It's strange. These things didn't exist 20+ yrs ago.

That’s because you posted pictures of harmless condensation trails. Everything is a conspiracy to people who don’t understand how things work.

@HealthVirgin @Matt_Bracken48 Reminds me of the British invasion of Gallipoli... Fingers crossed we see the rise of a secular modernizing leader out of it, an Iranian Ataturk might improve things

@Matt_Bracken48 A Battalion Landing Team gaining a beach head and attacking the Persian empire into defeat shall be one for the history books.🤣🤣

I make these maps because I'm convinced most Americans have no concept of scale when it comes to warfare. 🧵 I point to all the folks high-fiving over a single Marine battalion landing team on its way to the conflict zone. An Amphibious Ready Group's BLT means about 1,200 combat Marines going ashore. By comparison, and please look at the chart and the islands, Okinawa took 4 Army and 3 Marine divisions 82 days to conquer, at the cost of 12,500 American KIA and 36,000 WIA. Okinawa is smaller than Qeshm. Iwo Jima, smaller than Larak Island, took a month and 6,800 Marine KIA and 19,000 WIA to subdue. On both islands, US Navy battleships and cruisers spent weeks blasting every suspected Japanese position with 8" to 16" cannons. All the experts were sure no Japs could be left alive. The experts were wrong. The Iranians have spent decades digging in for this "Big Event." The Iranian IRGC Shia Islam code of martyrdom is as strong as the Japanese code of Bushido during WW2. They will not surrender, IMHO. It doesn't matter if we turn Teheran (700 miles north) into a parking lot.