Climate "ambitions", huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an "ambition" now...
It's still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I'm sure that will be remedied before long.
Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store's pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city's sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.
The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.
I am sad for the disappearance of the subjunctive mood in English
Almost 4pm now and there's a good strong breeze along the Embarcadero. Yet it's still warm enough for shorts and T-shirts. Perfect!
Edit: in classic form, only minutes later it's already gusting to over 20mph (my estimate) and only occasionally falling to a light breeze. Kind of halfway expecting to see the fog peek over before long 😖 but that's just how it goes.
Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!
Imagine congestion pricing hurting the city's economy more than allowing public transit to fall apart will...
Along the same lines, let's not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers' convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.
Tim Watkins, energy-based economics writer from the UK, had some interesting observations about this in his blog today. Scroll down to the third/final subheading, "Advertising doesn't work that way".
https://consciousnessofsheep.co.uk/2024/06/07/d-day-dummies/
It has been very noticeable -- like should-be-embarrassingly noticeable -- the change from the first week after the debate (where any pundit who mentioned swapping out Biden, regardless of them being in support of that or not, basically always mentioned that Harris would not be a viable/successful alternative) to just the past 2-3 days where suddenly that perspective is forgotten or forbidden. (for-Biden?)