The One Thing You Need to Know About Global Warming

[High Praise! to XKCD]

That “one thing” I referenced in the title is NOT in the picture.

The one thing is in the alt-text at XKCD that you normally only get to read if you hover your mouse over the picture there. It says:

“The good news is that according to the latest IPCC report, if we enact aggressive emissions limits now, we could hold the warming to 2°C. That’s only HALF an ice age unit, which is probably no big deal.”

In other words, even if global warming is human-caused, it can’t be human-stopped except with human-extinction.

Link of the Day: The Wonderful World of Hyper Cubes – Part 2

[High Praise! to 4of7 of Little Worlds]

The Wonderful World of Hyper Cubes – Part 2

Is it just me, or is it impossible to look at some of these without thinking of the Borg ship?

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Wisdom of the Day: Washington Characters Puppets Dumber Brat iTunes Comma Fails

Que?

New regulations passed by the Sacramento City Council will require taxi drivers in Sacramento to speak English.

The tough part: figuring out how tell the one’s who don’t qualify “you’re fired” so they’ll understand it.

Random Thoughts: Middle East, World Cup, and Guns

Tragic shooting. People yell at guns and NRA for a few days. Propose laws that wouldn’t have stopped said shooting. Everyone moves on.

So guy steals guns to get around background check and heads to a school with numerous 10rd magazines. What’s the next move?

The Tea Party is dead — the walking dead, killing everyone in its wake!

I’m guessing the anteater was named past 4 o’clock on a Friday.

Trying to ban guns could cause a civil war in America. One where only one side has guns.

According to an Everytown press release I received, everyone in America was killed with guns last year and now we’re all ghosts.

Universal background checks could potentially stop one or two of the dumbest, laziest criminals from obtaining a gun.

“No one is talking about banning guns.” -guy who wishes we could ban guns

Know what would make a less violent world? A hug gun – a gun that when you pull the trigger, hugs its target. Also has a “Crush” setting.

We don’t actually like guns in this country; we just pretend to so as not to anger them.

I want my kids to think I’m cool; how hard is it to learn to rap?

Looking at which countries in Middle East are actually successful and stable, I have one question for the people there: Have you tried Judaism?

Maybe if we actually put some effort into winning the World Cup, other countries would finally like us. Nah; doesn’t seem worth it.

Remember all the doors we had to manually open before there were automatic doors? We were worn out all the time.

I wish my home had automatic doors, but I guess that would make it easy to rob.

Okay, I’ll finally ask: What’s the big deal about the Mona Lisa? It’s just a painting of some woman.

My wife never gives me partial credit for listening.

Everybody calm down; Obama obviously knows what he’s doing. The man has a Nobel Peace Prize.

Did Hitler win the Nobel Peace Prize at one point, or does that just sound like something that’s true?