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"So, in hindsight -- good place to build a house?"
"Yeah, I guess." "You'd rather it were underwater?" "I'd rather the water didn't rise." "If wishes were horses..." "Never understood that one." "No?" "I mean, sure, there'd be beggars surrounded by horses, but are they docile horses? Do the beggars get to own 'em? Control 'em? And do beggars necessarily wish for more things than people who don't beg for things? Does begging imply wishing?" "Sorta." "Well, if it were true we'd have a lot of drowned horses." "Which would be apt, given that they're Poseidon's." "I guess. I'm pretty sure it would piss him off to see 'em all drowned." "I'm not that sure they'd all drown. Besides the sudden storms, most people knew how to get out of the way. Some people even managed to move their houses before the ocean got 'em. I'm pretty sure the horses would just move inland too." "I'm not sure that would make the farmers happy." "Well, nothing really makes the farmers happy anymore." "Unless you're a kelp farmer." "Man that stuff is nasty." "It'll get better." "They've been saying that for years." "I liked the Nasikubi Fun Ocean meals - they tasted pretty good." "Ok, yeah, they were pretty good." "I haven't been able to find any recently, though." "They lost most of their factory ships when Han-Pac methane pockets erupted. Sucks to be us." "They'll be back." "I guess... I just miss fresh vegetables." "Look, everything changes. Ten years ago nobody was eating cactus, or seaweed. And, silver lining, no more wasted resources on beef." "Oh, you're saying you're for the $200 burger?" "I'm just saying... what little grain we produce is at least going directly to the consumer. And at least that's another source of methane we've cut out of the ecosystem." "It's just... I get so fed up. It's like cigarette smoking." "Cigarette smoking? Do tell." "Everyone knew cigarettes were bad for them decades before anyone was forced to do anything about it, and even then, everything was business as normal for more decades." "I'm pretty sure it was the decimation of tobacco crops that put an end to smoking." "Well, sure. But it's not like no one knew global warming was happening. It's like secondary smoke poisoning, but on a global scale. And the fuckers in charge didn't do anything." "Well, you can't really blame them, what with global dimming hiding all the damage." "Oh, screw you. I can and will blame them. I'll blame them repeatedly to the back of the head wielding a base ball bat with a nail in it. Global dimming was happy horseshit they got to cover their asses. The same pollution they were pumping into the atmosphere was artificially cooling the planet just as the C02 greenhouse gasses were doing the reverse." "You gotta be happy at least we finally cut back our pollution, though." "Oh shut up. And if you so much as start up on your Coppertone stock buying tips you're getting a punch in the nose." |