The Flames Rise With Every Fall (reprise):

[tonyphuckinhawk]

If you live in the United States, it's hard to get away from people complaining about "rising gas prices". It's ridiculous, they say, the amount of money they have to spend to fuel their oversized and unnecessary automobiles with a depleting resource that pollutes the earth. Either i'm crazy, or the rest of the world is, but i don't at all see this

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[secretpudding]

The "Hummer" name, technically, was derived from the American military's HMMWV (High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle) acronym.

Survival, alas, is a myth; one way or another, death is wholly inexorable.

[tonyphuckinhawk]

I did not know that, although i like my theory better, so i'm sticking to it.

And while one's individual death is inevitable, that doesn't mean one's race should face an unavoidable end as well.

Entropy.

[secretpudding]

The extinction of life, also, is inevitable; the stars will not persist into perpetuity, it seems, and the universe will thus be consigned to the deleterious iniquities of ice.

Do vouchsafe to proffer forgiveness, though, if the implacable precipitousness of my existence fails to engender sympathy for the ostensible plight of the species (insofar as I am a skeptic, by the by, I am loath to accede to any apocryphal prognostication, or to any platitudinous proselytizing); though it is a wretchedly atrabilious statement, if I am to die, fuck 'em.

Re: Entropy.

[tonyphuckinhawk]

Heh, nicely put. You got me on all accounts, friend. Still, i sort of feel like we've got a little more living in us. We haven't contacted any extra terrestrial beings, had a city been invaded by flesh eating copses, embarked on a world wide war with artificial intelligence programmed to whipe out the human race, or really done anything at all that action movies have gotten me looking forward to.

[silent_colour]

I think the rise in gas prices is the best thing to happen in a long time

[tonyphuckinhawk]

My environmental rant was much huger than yours, so no apology needed. And i agree with you on everything, and share your frustration with Mr. Money.

[everydayhope]

I agree that the more gas prices rise the better in terms of giving the big three car companies a slap in the face about hybrid cars and more fuel efficient vehicles. I, however, complain because I am poor and the car I have, I didn't choose, I was assigned to it. Now, I only have two dollars in my pocket and 2 months ago that would've bought me more than a gallon, now it buys me less than a gallon. Everything inflates but I mean, didn't we invade our #1 gasoline providing country and install our own form of government? And now prices are rising?! That just seems like, (as Mr. Figi would say) "A first class scam

[tonyphuckinhawk]

Jesus... look at the average tempeture before the industrial revolution as opposed to what it is now. Fuck it, i'll do it myself.

So the earth raised in temperature over the course of millions of years before. Yet, from the Industrial Revolution to now, according to this graph, the temperature jumped eight celcius degrees. That is fucked up! You can not sit here and tell me that the planet is supposed to get that hot during the course of a single century. Nor can you even begin to claim that every other century in this planet's existence has seen such a ridiculous jump. If every century in the billions of years this planet has been around got that much hotter than the one before it, it wouldn't be a degree less than nine hunded trillion gazillion degrees outside right now!

Ugh! You are the enemy!

[everydayhope]

You are such an angry, pretentious person. I was presenting my current views on the subject and you, instead of simply commenting back, used an abundance of exclamation points and ended the comment with "You are the enemy!" and decided to completely ignore that it is still an opinion. Regardless of how badly you want everyone to know you're right, even if you are 100% right in everything you say, no one will ever care because the only people who will ever listen to anything you say are people who share your views because as soon as someone has an opposing view you become a jerk and make the other person feel like shit. You surround yourself with people who agree with you so that you will always feel smart and superior to those you harshly reject from your little circle. Why can't you be reasonable? Wasn't there a time when you believed things that you don't now? Does that mean you were a bad person then? No, and just because I don't go researching global warming on the websites of your choosing doesn't make me a bad person

[tonyphuckinhawk]

Alright, you touchy bastard. You can call me closed minded all you want, i assure you it will never bother me. Because i have done the research, i'm aware of how it's affecting the world, i do know what i'm talking about and when someone tells me something i believe very strongly in is wrong, yeah, i'll be fairly persistent about it.

[holdonicant]

I was reading someting one time and it said that people spend more money a year on bottled water than they do on gas.

[tonyphuckinhawk]

Exactly. And water is free! It falls from the sky on a regular basis!

[secretpudding]

Further, if bereft of stratospheric ozone, we would scarcely be at risk of having our flesh slough off in so many aqueous rivulets. Melanoma is a mite more subtle (and, I would aver, is somewhat more facilely obviated) than that.

[tonyphuckinhawk]

Well... yeah, creative liberties were taken, but still, dying is dying however you look at it.