If we are realistic enough to put the fight against further global warming on a wartime basis, then we can operate things on a wartime basis. Which means planning things so that everything is focussed on winning the war. For example gasoline rationing would encourage people to plan their use of gasoline for maximum efficiency. It means people can get only as much as they can justify.

Rationing was used in the US during WW2. To see what that meant, read this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States

I’d like to encourage the author of of this to leave the line- and paragraph- breaks in the source text. This is impossible to read as is.

Great film… and nobody but Robin could have done that scene so well. Phew.

The how part.

KInda stupid question, innit? If I still have it, I don’t think it’s a misconception. You’d have to tell me.

But then, anyone can make a mistake. Doesn’t make you a bad person. I make mistakes every day. I shouldn’t have said stupid, I should said… whatever they call it now. Meathead?

Don’t respond in any way to whatever they say about each other.

Not until there hasn’t been any for a century. P.S. Best of luck.

Close, I liked Marvin. It IS all so depressing.

The better the film is, the less likely it gets a sequel. (Or an Oscar.)

Blade Runner, for example. Released in 1982. Oh sure, it got one in 2015 … because the slo-mo’s had 33 years to catch up. And half the original audience was no longer around to mock it.

Try this: first, give me (mere offers are refused). the cold hard cash. This experiment will cost you, oh, $1000. Cash in advance. Per hour. Second: see what you get.

One word solution: tolerance. If you expect others to live and believe as you do … or else … there’s no solution. Just centuries of feuding.

Historically, tribes, city-states, they all had problems just as or more severe than ours.

We have living examples - today - of countries in the world which are faring very well. (Oh of course, some would say, they’re all doing something wrong. Uhm, no.)

This guy is visiting many places all over the US, month after month, spending his time (often for days) talking to the natives and really digs into that diversity.

https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello/videos

Desperate strategy they’re hoping will fool some of the people some of the time.

Trusting complete strangers with highly personal information is never a good idea. Even if they promise to take good care of it, before or after they’ve already got your money.

I’d guess, with all the veterans living here, that the ‘near future’ isn’t so dangerous.

With all those noises moving parts inside, playing an OLD machine felt like tickling a hippo.

Ur so right! Diffy-Q has its uses, but analog was too advanced for us to grok so we had to settle for it. Newton ‘discovered’ gravity, and calculus, then found out how useful calc was!

Non-linear? Hella faster! Nature went with analog long ago. No analog, no music!

Me too. Especially more at home weatherwise that my old one. (Stayed too long … just becuz my ancestors made a mistake.)

Glad to hear that! Yep he’s got a sense of humor -and- knows his stuff.

Get a very warm jacket, and far enough north that there are still fish to catch and critters to snare.

I won’t call wearing suits, talking on the phone, and lying work.

What would happen if politicians hat to work?