Tujio @ Tujio @lemmy.world

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Screw all that. Come to Ballard and get drunk.

Can you go a workday without punching anyone or taking off your pants?

Bottom trawling is one of the most hideously destructive things we do to this planet. Imagine if you wanted to catch rabbits, so you hooked a giant nylon net to the back of two humvees. Put them 100 yards apart and drive through a forest, knocking down trees, shredding the underbrush, catching anything and everything in its path. At the other end of the forest you carefully step over all of the dying deer, moose, mice etc and pick out the 30-40 rabbits that you want. Then you leave the net and everything else you just happily killed lying at the edge of the forest so nothing can grow under it. That's what bottom trawling is. People would be horrified by it, except that it literally happens under the surface.

This is a huge part of the reason that we're missing a billion crab. This is a huge part of why the king salmon are dying, which is a huge part of why the orcas are starving.

Commercial fishing in general has massive, glaring environmental problems, from bycatch to emissions to illegal overfishing to everything else under the sun. But if I had to pick one issue to focus on it would be bottom trawling.

Kinda? That is the logic that the cold war superpowers employed, but it isn't necessarily true. Having one nuclear-armed ICBM or cruise missile within range of a US city would be one hell of a deterrent.

China at least partly holds to this. Their logic is that nuclear security does not necessitate nuclear parity. So while the US and USSR made thousands of warheads and delivery systems, China maintained an arsenal of roughly 80-100 warheads with viable delivery systems.

Hey, a pyrrhic victory is still a victory, right?

The system is fucked, yes. But the solution isn't to stop donating. Doing that reduces supply and exacerbates the exact problems you're describing.

https://powerhousebooks.com/newsletters/140203/

At least around me that has improved. Ten years ago it was just a dick-measuring contest about who could make the bitterest beer. Once you hit 90+ IBUs you're not even pretending to make something good.

Since then, craft breweries here have course corrected. Most of them here are focusing on making a well- balanced IPA as their flagship, then experimenting with sours, stouts and saisons.

Last time I had my car broken into they told me to file a report online. It took them over a year to send a form letter reply saying they got it.

Ordinary people do fucked up shit when fucked up shit becomes ordinary.

Yeah, this is seriously double-plus ungood.

Had a Crown and Coke for my Cambodian friends. Thinking about having Banh Bao for dinner.

He was in charge of American foreign policy during and immediately after the Vietnam War. TLDR he made policy decisions that led to the deaths of probably over 4 million people.

Bust out the Crown and Coke, bitches, we got a new Cambodian holiday!

Ha. Thanks.

Name is Equilibrium. That description is for their first three albums. Their later albums are more power metal.

I love metal, but maaaaan fans take subgenres too seriously. I once saw a bar fight in my very peaceful city where one guy was shouting "That's not sludge metal! That's stoner metal! You don't even know what sludge metal is!"

And I find myself doing that shit, too. I was talking to a buddy a little bit ago and realized that I had just said "I'm currently listening to a German symphonic folk metal band, but the vocals are pure black metal."

It's like Joel Dongsteen

There are huge swaths where you can't even tell where the border is. I've accidentally crossed into Canada multiple times while out hiking or canoeing.

You know the difference between chickpeas and garbanzo beans?

I've never paid to have a garbanzo bean on my face.

I'll agree on 99. But I don't really consider that one of their albums. They explicitly produced it as a bullshit cop-out to fulfill their contract with Victory Records.