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Nah, it's avatar Toph. The plant thing is hypnotizing.

Incidentally, major spellcheck WTF. When I typed in Toph, it suggested TophxmoonchickxAppa. Even my iPad thinks that's the OT3, I guess.

Sigh... minor sad is minor, but the other house-people are back from weekend trip thing. This means the noisebox comes back on. Three precious days of no commercials, no constant fucking nattering and no nigh-endless sound based attempts at attention grabbing. Those days are gone, again...

First world problems, etc, etc, stfuplox, et al. I can literally feel my sanity fray when I'm exposed to television for too long. Is downer. Minor, but downer. Peace, adieu once more.

Sounds like the beginning of a happy ending, True. Congrats!

Today... today. Today is chamomile cherry coke tea. Properly boiled on a stove, instead of microwaved.

It is smooth, sweet, goddamn refreshing, and I have about two and a half cups (the liquid measurement, mind) left. Won't drink it all today, but I'm definitely going to be finding out what this ambrosia tastes like cold, when I drink some tomorrow morning.

... and I've got another two liter bottle in the outside fridge. As well as the makings for... well. Let's just say if it turns out good cold, I'm going to convert the contents of that bottle to something tastier.

so, truean, I have a new proposal.

BURN ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HATE TRANSGENDERS!

I think we'd run out of fire before we ran out of people

Though I'm not sure how much it's hatred, per se, as utter incomprehension and the standard human reaction of responding poorly to that. Followed by obstinacy when they're demonstrated to be a complete and utter ass for acting that way. But hell, fix with fire is as good a solution as any, really.

Not. Just. Food. Is the simplest way of putting it. Artificial ecosystems are still, to the best of my knowledge, incredibly fragile compared to natural ones -- and even natural ones aren't particularly capable of withstanding the massive systemic shocks we've been repeatedly hammering into them. It... can't really be repeated enough: We're right smack in the middle of a massive extinction event. Impact from species loss goes well above and beyond the loss of just that species -- it impacts other species, it impacts plant life, and in some cases it can screw with shit right down to the chemical composition of the soil and water. We have't actually figured out how to offset that with artificial systems -- we're damn sure trying, but we don't have it and I'm entirely unsure when or if we will at any point in the future. Natural systems are incredibly complicated (which is one of treason ands they're as robust as they are) and, so far as I'm aware, we still don't understand the full consequence of their functions and functioning.

Cities are flatly reliant on stuff that those changes (which they're a heavy contributing factor to) slam right in to. Maybe we'll have the technology to help mitigate that in the future, but please excuse while I express doubt we're going to be able to magic things out of the aether anytime soon -- and until we're able to do that, we're still going to be reliant on natural ecosystems for resources and the health of those ecosystems are going to be a huge frakking issue impacting our ability to do that. Last I checked, we're not quite at the point we can just strip-mine and pave over bloody everything and build from base particles.

Anyway, it's a bit of a personal worry. Urbanization represents an absolutely incredible assault on a geographic region's environmental health, and it occurs (and has occurred) in a period of time so short that we're still not entirely sure exactly what the consequences of that assault are going to be, other than definitely negative (thermal retention is just one example I can recall off the top of my head; s'either LA or Las Vegas, iirc, that's actually fucking with the weather patterns around it due to pavement trapping heat.). I'm not quite at the point I'd say we wouldn't be able to engineer a solution to what's going down, but I would say that the urban areas we have look absolutely goddamn nothing like what we've currently got. Building future cities and -- possibly even more important -- rebuilding and upgrading the ones we have... that's not a small thing, to massively understate the issue, and it's not an issue just of money. Call it a worry, and feel free to reassure me, but I'm not sure how capable we are of meeting that sort of challenge.

Guess what I'm saying is not to underestimate just how big of an issue we're dealing with. It... even as complicated and advanced as the solutions we're providing now and will provide in the near future are, I still see them as not nearly as cognizant of the scale and scope of the problem they're attempting to solve as they need to be. S'an issue of scale completely and utterly unencountered in human history -- exponentially so, and even that may be underestimating just how large the problem is.

Cherry coke green tea! Cherry coke green tea! Wheeheeheeheeheeeeeee!

It's taaasttyyy.