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Nice Planet X: I knew it, I'm surrounded by a-holes!

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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Darwin Award candidates

I won't be doing any canyoneering when I'm out there in a few weeks.
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Seven fewer old privileged Californians. The world does not mourn.

At least none of the rescuers were injured or lost. Few things make me angrier than when one of these dopes wanders out into the desert without water and an emergency responder dies trying to save them to, presumably, walk directly into traffic the next day.
 
Kepler said:
Seven fewer old privileged Californians. The world does not mourn.

At least none of the rescuers were injured or lost. Few things make me angrier than when one of these dopes wanders out into the desert without water and an emergency responder dies trying to save them to, presumably, walk directly into traffic the next day.
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Spoken as someone who has clearly never had the sack to venture out into such environments. Did they make a bad decision? Certainly. However, flash floods in certain areas boast an almost incomprehensible power. And even worse, its threat is largely invisible and thus very easy to discount until it's too late. One of the most dangerous things out there for that very reason. This group isn't the the first and won't be the last to succumb to such forces, and in most instances the mistakes have little to do with people being supposed idiots. As someone who inexcusably got stuck in the Adirondacks for a night despite having experience flowing out of my ***, trust me on this one. You have no idea what you're talking about here.

But hey, no big deal I guess. Seven old privileged Californians are dead. Huzzah?
 
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XYZ said:
But hey, no big deal I guess. Seven old privileged Californians are dead. Huzzah?
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Remember, everything west of Ithaca is flyover country to Kepler.

People are going to make bad decisions. When a park official tells you they wouldn't venture into that section of the park due to impending weather events, I would think one would want to set his/her ego aside for the time being. Especially given how narrow that canyon is. It's analogous to ducking the rope at Jackson Hole. Sure, it's permitted and the backcountry terrain is legendary, but there are some days and snow conditions where your risk of getting swept away in an avalanche is considerably higher than others. Regardless, people do it, and almost every year people get maimed or killed back there.
 
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joecct said:
Only on matters of faith and morals and only when spoken "from the Chair". If His Holiness told me to only buy green toilets, I could or could not obey without loss of my eternal soul.

If he told me that abortion is wrong and I got one or helped procure one, then that would be a (big) problem.
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He's discussing climate change in the greater moral context of the greed and betrayal of environmental exhaustion of the planet.
 
Kepler said:
He's discussing climate change in the greater moral context of the greed and betrayal of environmental exhaustion of the planet.
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He could also talk about an election to keep the godless communists out of government

No obligation to listen to him
 
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Kepler said:
This was a new one on me. I knew the Mets being in first would screw up the universe. :mad:
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That's some rabbit hole of bloggery. There must be a consistent audience for this stuff. It makes me wonder ("and I'm not saying I believe this myself, I'm just reporting what millions of people already know about so you can be forewarned") if all the conspiracy nuts who seem to be so oddly influenced by randomly plucked numbers have some common mental illness that is definable and treatable. I wonder if it could be treated with lithium or something.
 
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geezer said:
That's some rabbit hole of bloggery. There must be a consistent audience for this stuff. It makes me wonder ("and I'm not saying I believe this myself, I'm just reporting what millions of people already know about so you can be forewarned") if all the conspiracy nuts who seem to be so oddly influenced by randomly plucked numbers have some common mental illness that is definable and treatable. I wonder if it could be treated with lithium or something.
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The Weekly World News is alive and well and it seems to be about a third of the internet.

There was a wonderful book in the 80s called "High Weirdness by Mail," written by one of the guys who created the Church of the SubGenius, which was a guide to all the insane print material you could get mostly just for the price of a postage stamp. It's all there: UFOlogy, Dominion theology, flat Earthers, hollow Earthers, Hermeticism, and every conspiracy theory you can imagine and millions you can't.

I desperately hope that more than half the audience for this stuff is purely in it for the entertainment, but P. T. Barnum may have been an optimist.
 
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