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Florida: We're fucked.

It's a freaking swamp. There is no real reason to be down here except maybe the beaches (i.e. aquatic resources). Best case scenario everyone packs up and goes north. Poor academic base, poor industrial base, poor non-organic resources (We've got limestone! And apparently phosphate. Huh.), middling farmland and too many people for it to support on its own. Heavy criminal element throughout the state, which may or may not be a good thing depending on how things went.

We probably have oil! But wouldn't really have the infrastructure et al to do anything about it if everyone else went kapoof. Also getting to the oil would probably go even further toward wrecking the gulf's biosphere, so good luck with that~

No, no. This would have been being a dick

Yeah... awareness of the changes going on is probably the biggest difference between now and the past. Lots of crazy shit has been going on constantly for forever, more or less, but fifty or sixty years ago the chances of you actually being aware of what was going down outside of your local area or, at the most, nation, was pretty small. Now... now we're having regular conversations, sometimes in parallel, with people all over the world and getting news from bloody everywhere, every day. That is a pretty big change for us little people.

Personally, I've thought for long while it's not so much that so much is happening now as it is that so much has always been happening and we just didn't have the technology and methodology to be consistently aware of all or most of it.

To be honest, I've had this vague gut-level notion my entire life that something huge was going to happen in my lifetime.  I mean this is something I've noticed since before I was even capable of appreciating the concept of apocalypse.

As for this... personally, I've seen huge things occur, especially in the field of technology but also in many other areas, dozens upon dozens of times so far in my life time, and I'm younger than you SG. From a historical perspective, compared to a lot of the things that happened in the past and shaped the world, we've already had game-changing events flop around like a bucketfull of live fish dropped on the concrete. I'd wager we don't see them as such because we're in the middle of it, but I'd also posit that the people going through world-changing events in the past didn't really stop and think, "My god(s), this is going to be huge," very often.

What are you supposed to do when your friend wants to get engaged and you know they're happy now but you're confident this isn't the best relationship for them permanently?

(Re)state that long term relationships don't need a legal binding to remain stable? And that marriage isn't actually going to do anything meaningful besides announce their relationship even more publicly (which they can do without binding legal documents!) and set them up for any number of nasty legal complications down the road?

Barring that, recommend some sort of prenup or whatever that is that says that if a divorce comes around in the future they both walk away clean.

I'm all for long term monogamous relationships if that's what floats people's boats but marriage is a helluva' lot more than just a fancy ceremony and all of that more that actually does anything to their relationship that just staying together wouldn't involves a judge.

If they want a robed person in a powdered wig involved in their house and bedroom, well, more power to them, but I'd probably suggest they keep that kink outside of courtrooms.

It's not so much "so delicious" as it's "better than macdonalds". For a fastfood joint, it's better than most I've had the... pleasure... of encountering. Before I paid enough attention to notice CFA was owned by bigots, it was one of the few fastfood places I would willingly subject myself to, and a few of the others were strictly because they were open at four in the morning in a small town. I liked the waffle fries, and the chicken was alright. This is a higher quality of assessment than I could assign to about 95% of fastfood places I have encountered, especially in the area I'm in.

Working on a new 3D model.  I'm making this one good this time.  Going to make it count

... how high?

Real trick with that would be getting enough monitors to display it all at the same time. We'd need a lot of screens or somethin'.

I'm now wondering if anyone's crunched the numbers of how much of the earth's surface would be obscured by the simultaneous playback of every recorded piece of pornography our species has made. Give it, say... nine, ten inch screens? Or something appropriate for the subject matter.

Mm... you'd probably have better luck for a favorable response if you were trying to arrange for an out-of-class test so you'd have some more time to do it. In my experience, teachers kinda' dig it when you're willing to go the extra mile, so to speak, for their class.

Better than that. Offering something like that has a surprising habit of getting you that later date anyway~

"Ah, sorry Professor. I've fractured my arm... I'd still like to make sure I attend your test on time, but it's likely that I'd be incapable of finishing the test in the time normally allotted it. Would it be possible for me to keep working after class if I can't manage to complete it on time?" Better than fifty fifty odds the response'd be take it a few days later, or take an alternative take-home exam or something. I've had it happen to me and others several times~

And if not? Well, you go in, do your best, and if it runs over and you get permission, keep working. Score some points with the teach! Might help out in the future.