There is plenty of water in the American west. We just waste it by giving it to farmers for pennies on the dollar or free.

Remember this next time someone says we can't build new housing in coastal California because "we don't have the water."

Definitely hit the point where it's clear that they won't give an inch on being wrong about anything, and will instead litigate every single thing to the point of absurdity in order to not concede a drop of error.

And they will never see how insane they are being.

Really throwing stones at Glass Houses today, eh?

Yeah. Like I said: he never used that word.

Someone really needs to study the Will Stancil haters. It is just a fascinating example of how an online group can collectively foster/instill an irrational negative inference worldview on a subject (here, anything a specific person says).

People just imaging tone/meaning/intent from the aether.

They now have the correct information. That's a better place that they were before. How they elect to employ (or not) that correct information is a completely separate matter.

That's a statement of objective fact from his analysis.

Are they spending LESS money and time? Are things cheaper or more expensive at the airport? If you are at the airport longer than required, is that MORE time there?

Many such cases!

<-There’s not all that big of a gap between->

And yet there is a gap. YOU are the one trying to bridge the two; it's not in what Stancil said.

Yeah, this guy is elevating the ego defense reaction to being pointed out as being in error as being more important/true than the bare statement of their error.

It is very human to respond emotionally-not-rationally, but that doesn't make it always the good reaction.

<-You don't help people become correctly informed by telling them they're misinformed about a thing they aren't misinformed about.->

Uh... you might want to check the logic on that one, buddy.

"Wasting" is a negatively charged word you are using, that he didn't.

"Crazy to me" was the extent of his personal judgment. Everything before that is just laying out the situation and making an analysis.

Man, after watching HBO's White House Plumbers series, I think it might really be a toss-up.

I'm fine with a city on Mars.

I just have no desire to live in it.

I feel like contemporary culture has really gone all-in on a utilitarian 'form follows function' approach to the industrial design of the items that populate our environment nowadays. The art and whimsy of earlier eras (where there was also just a lot more bespoke craft all around) has receded.

Does anyone else have this behavior where with certain specific instances of things - a book, a movie, a food item, etc. - that you love it SO MUCH, that you almost never revisit them because you do not want to dull your enjoyment from over-exposure?

Today is no bueno.

And [complimentary]

Dumbest day of the year [complementary]

Capitalism decided that it wanted women in its workforce AND to price having children at extortionate cost levels.

Combine the two, and you hammer the birthrate eventually.

...and there is behavioral overlap, but not the same.

Someone can stop being any kind of asshole at any time. Narcissists are that way FOREVER.

The axis of celebrity/fame/wealth has a huge entitlement-inducing effect on people.

I think, though, we should note that that ends up making a lot of people into assholes. It doesn't make them narcissists; narcissism is a preexisting, separate trait.

'Entitled asshole' and narcissist look alike...

"Four?"

"FOUR."

#Earthquakes

The Bay Bridge's media moment was in the 89 Quake when a segment of it collapsed.

Otherwise, you just see it in movies (eg The Graduate) but it's never named, and I suspect people just assume it's the GGB when it is clearly NOT. Heh.

The Warriors rebranded their team symbol just over a decade, adopting the bridge image.

BUT I'm petty sure it's the Bay Bridge, not the GGB.

On the 50th anniversary of the GGB opening, they closed it to just foot traffic for the day. So many people were out on the bridge, the normal slight arcing curve got flattened out from the weight.

They're like 6 or 7 bridges crossing various parts of the Bay*. 😂

*and one underground train tunnel

The funny thing is that street driving is the HARD thing to solve. Freeway driving is easy, comparatively.

THRICE!

#Earthquakes

So nice, they did it twice.

#Earthquakes