Heat is the reason I keep moving. I was a hot weather casualty multiple times in my service and even before that. As it so happens, everytime you're a hotweather casualty the threshold decreases. It's as if our bodies recognize what's happened and take steps to prevent it in future. When I was a kid I sat in a burban while my kin planted royal palms. The first time I can remember my head going sideways and all of the rest I was 8. Puked my guts out. Couldn't hold down water. Ended up at St Judes on an IV drip, lanced and drained for boils. It was pretty bad. I feel like I used to be smarter.......like I used to easily get the answers to shit that I struggle with now. Like I've been cooked.

Our house in the bay was historic which meant it had a fireplace on account of how it used to get cold (in some mythical past). There were bookshelves on either side of the fireplace. Shut up. It's historic. Anyway.......we couldn't afford the electricity so I grew up hot and watching the purple sky sound off. Nowadays I could afford it if I wanted to, and I'm 900 miles to the north...but we never had ac installed here either. My kids complain, I complain, but fuck what it would cost to drop the temp even a few degrees. I came up in a swamp, so my idea of hot is nighttime lows of 80f..99% humidity, in january. The closer it gets to that, here, the more motivated I am to pick up stakes again and move even further. We'll be in washington state in the next thirty days. Climate migrants aren't all foreign.

(September 1, 2023 at 12:56 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:

This aircraft doesn't even exist and never will

(September 1, 2023 at 1:12 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: This aircraft doesn't even exist and never will

And you'll never actually see a beam in your brother's eye also.

(September 1, 2023 at 1:21 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 1:12 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: This aircraft doesn't even exist and never will

And you'll never actually see a beam in your brother's eye also.

I  just pointing out the plane is both nonexistent and in terms of engineering pure fantasy. You have a better chance of making this thing work

(September 1, 2023 at 1:12 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 12:56 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:

This aircraft doesn't even exist and never will

It's a political meme, not a treatise on air travel. Whether the vehicle is possible is irrelevant. It makes the point and does so quite well.

(September 1, 2023 at 6:37 pm)Ravenshire Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 1:12 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: This aircraft doesn't even exist and never will

It's a political meme, not a treatise on air travel. Whether the vehicle is possible is irrelevant. It makes the point and does so quite well.

Actually, it is relevant that you could make the same point by using a real private jet without needing to exaggerate matters. It'd be further ironic as that jet is supposedly conceptualized as atomic-powered.

(September 1, 2023 at 10:58 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 6:37 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: It's a political meme, not a treatise on air travel. Whether the vehicle is possible is irrelevant. It makes the point and does so quite well.

Actually, it is relevant that you could make the same point by using a real private jet without needing to exaggerate matters. It'd be further ironic as that jet is supposedly conceptualized as atomic-powered.

Political memes and cartoons use exaggeration and hyperbole all the time to make their points. Nit-picking them to death, on the other hand...

(September 1, 2023 at 10:58 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 6:37 pm)Ravenshire Wrote: It's a political meme, not a treatise on air travel. Whether the vehicle is possible is irrelevant. It makes the point and does so quite well.

Actually, it is relevant that you could make the same point by using a real private jet without needing to exaggerate matters. It'd be further ironic as that jet is supposedly conceptualized as atomic-powered.

a point can be made with prose or poetry.

(September 2, 2023 at 3:01 am)Ravenshire Wrote:

(September 1, 2023 at 10:58 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: Actually, it is relevant that you could make the same point by using a real private jet without needing to exaggerate matters. It'd be further ironic as that jet is supposedly conceptualized as atomic-powered.

Political memes and cartoons use exaggeration and hyperbole all the time to make their points. Nit-picking them to death, on the other hand...

Yes but once again a regular plane would have made the same point and it's also hardly nit-picking to point out the meme kind of undermines itself by the nature of the plane.