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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: sano 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Drought in the Colorado R. watershed
Date: 08/12/26 1:39 PM
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Umm, You're describing events and inventions that expedite the decimation of the environment that made evolution possible.

Low hanging fruit:
Right, man will never be able to fly, mother nature will crack her whip. Humans simply cannot fly.

Planes fly. Humans do not. Mother nature cracks that whip so often it's now accepted as just one more risk we happily take. Ho hum. I've been a day away from disaster twice in my life. I took a morning flight from Cabo to LA the day before that same flight crashed on approach. I imagined all the ice chests full of fish strewn all over Cerritos (back then they didn't charge us for the fish we bring home.
'Flight 8645 is now boarding at Gate 47'

en.wikipedia.org - List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents

Fascinating study out last month:
escardio.org - Patients who suffer heart attack have more micro and nanoplastic in their blood

Microplastics and Nanoplastics in Atheromas and Cardiovascular Events
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa230982...

Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir. *
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? *
Benjamin: Yes, I am. *
Mr. McGuire: Plastics. *
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean? *
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it.


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