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Who would make a great POTUS tungsten?

Posted by: syncro

I'm not worried so much about a flaming landscape, but the loss of agrarian lands and changes to our water supply.

Yes, that is what worries me as well.  I think we are situated well in this regard, but what will this do to the world order.  At the end of the day, we might be more worried about war than the rising oceans.

Posted by: aShogunNamedMarcus

Posted by: syncro

The arctic is melting so maybe water world is next?

Do you remember where dry land was on the kids birthmark?

Just kidding man, no one watched it.

I watched it ya smoker!

I will try and be the optimist here I guess.  I think we need to realize that what we will get is going to be somewhere in between this climate today and a flaming hellscape, but life will go on.  These articles we all read are terrifying, but there are a lot of unknowns.  Cloud cover for example is poorly understood and will change a lot as the heat puts more moisture into the air.  From what I understand, low clouds are good (today is looking good) and high clouds are bad.  Which we will get more of is still a guess.  

Adaptation needs to be as much as part of the plan as reducing CO2.  We might not know exactly what will happen or when, but we can look at the various scenarios and understand what we will need in place to cover our asses as best as we can.  Consider yourselves all lucky to live here.  We have a decent location and we have wealth.

Posted by: FLATCH

As for Joe being mentally fit, were you around for the Reagan years? And does mentally fit include personality disorders?

I would like to know the answer to that one. Trump could be disqualified twice as a senile sociopath.

Biden is old and appears to be slipping at times. It is perfectly reasonable to want people in office to be screened for dementia, etc. I think both of them would pass though. There is a big difference between losing it with age vs dementia. Dementia is unrelenting and you can't hide it once it takes hold. Forgetting things is common and not really a huge cause for concern.

Posted by: RAHrider

I cannot fathom anyone wanting the Donald as their president. He bragged about passing the MOCA - this is the test I give my patients with mild to moderate dementia to assess their cognitive capacity. This is for people who aren't allowed to drive because of their compromised cognition.

This is the test he is so proud of passing. Interestingly, he was told both the name of the test and asked to memorize 5 words - neither of which he still remembers.....the words are always the same, he forgets all of them. The 5 words he came up with were all probably things in the room - using cues like this is a worrying sign to me. People with dementia often use cues like this in their environment to help them when trying to come up with answers. I'd love to see his clock - I bet the hands were wonky. He was also probably so proud of his cube he copied and figuring out the tricky pattern of number - letter -number in ascending order... tough stuff. I also bet he failed the subtracting sevens but lies about getting a perfect score.

I saw him on the news listing off the 5 things from the test and my first thought was that he was wrong. You really see his decline when he fumbles words and can't collect himself to get them right. We all fumble words but we don't lose them altogether as he did with "origins/oranges".  The funny thing is how his supporters love to talk about Biden being senile.

Video?

:)  2020 needs more happy endings (insert Gooch comment here).

$65 for a paperback?  I think I will pass.  

Why should we read this book Tungsten?

Posted by: syncro

Posted by: chupacabra

I have an 8-year old that I would love to get the eff out of my house

I'm sure there's a factory in China somewhere that needs labour

She would need a few years of re-education first to meet the high Chinese standard of child productivity.  I can't even get her to clean her room.