@wtyppod I was doing stuff for school and looking up stuff related to zinc based chemistries. Had a few weeks where I was getting ads about zinc mining.
@Seamus_Malek Part of me hoped it was less cynical and more complete insanity. Get a quarter of the way into the empty quarter before having everything swallowed by sand.
@jesawyer As fun as his early looks were, I felt that more subdued bowie with the vests and such was a better look for him. Maybe it was the cheekbones.
@RobZacny I can't remember, does he touch on this with the Goths sacking Rome and Ravenna near the end? It was for nonpayment of wages cause they served as palantine guard. He remarks on the Carthaginians doing that to their own mercs.
@mikeduncan I think I might read your book if only because after listening to the American and French revolutions with you I still can't figure out what fascinates you about the guy.
@mikeduncan Why big oil greenwashing with direct air capture sucks, because atmospheric and oceanic carbon capture is absolutely necessary, to say nothing about things like various kinds of solar geoengineering to deal with the heat we already blasted into the oceans
@mikeduncan Irony of all these reports is that carbon neutrality presupposes eventually going negative. Only real way to preserve anything of the Holocene, if even, because we don't know the real range of tipping points to a hothouse earth.
@LanceStLaurent In the books he doesn't know Durin's Bane is a Balrogg. In the movie I think the idea was not to cause panic and hope they could sneak through. Glad this useful information is cemented in my brain.
@KateAronoff It's fun because fossil capture is entirely a bust, but atmospheric and oceanic carbon removal is absolutely necessary to avoid the whole collapse of civilization thing. Trying to explain that nuance sucks. Also capitalism is gonna kill us all, bit that goes without saying.