The Washington Post reports that the "lower 48" states of the USA are enjoying spring-like weather. It quotes a meteorologist as saying 1495 record high temperatures have been reached during the month of February (as against 10 record lows); among them:
[Ed Note: it is actually Mangum, OK, not Magnum. The original WaPo article is incorrect.]
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday February 20 2017, @08:20PM
Once a comment has been moderated, you can use the -1 Overrated mod (you used to be able to mod a comment Over/underrated immediately). That mod doesn't lower the user's karma, but it is so easy to get to 50 karma that it doesn't much matter.
Just don't use the spam mod to target comments you disagree with.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 20 2017, @09:32PM
What I like about his sort of trolling is the response is always in defense of the inevitable proposal that the only solution is "workers of the world unite" and rarely "muh numbers". Because the environmental record of the Soviets was so legendarily good, because they executed anyone who complained. Which I'm sure the God Emperor will implement soon...
A nice side dish is a hefty serving of "there's nothing to do and no solution but anyone who complains about our complaining, is a big poopy face"
We seem to have a dish of the latter rather than the former.
There is a very practical non-trolly engineering type response of none of this matters which is both almost certainly true AND it winds people of the crusader persuasion up quite a bit, so I like that 3rd dish too.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 21 2017, @03:32AM
Shut the fuck up, Donnie, you're outta yer element.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...