Pope Blesses Same Sex Marriage. Says Climate Change is Caused by People Driving Cars, Trucks, Vans and Flying in Jet Airplanes. and Mexico decriminalizes abortion...

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Why NOT Try to Wake Up "The Jet Set" - The Last Holiday Weekend Had the Largest Number of People Flying on Jets in History... and NONE of them Realized that Their Behavior was Causing Air Pollution and Climate Change... Remember: It's all that Driving That Burns Gasoline... It's not the Oil Companies Fault... they are Just Giving the People What they want... Decades ago I ALSO Drove all over the Place Just for Fun... I didn't have a Clue... Imagine Driving from Washington DC to Key West To Niagara Falls... Just for fun! I Did That! Of Course, I Woke Up but... It's almost Impossible to Contact Members of The Jet Set and Get Their Attention...

In America It's Almost Impossible to Survive Without Driving to the Grocery Store... and The Vast Majority of People Drive to Work... SO... Climate Change is Coming and there Is VERY Little Hope for the Future... On the Rare Occasions that I Ride in a LYFT Car, the Streets of Sacramento are PACKED with Cars... 

I ALSO have Flown in a Jet Airplane. It's been Over 20 Years but... WE HAD FUN! My Father, New Wife and I Flew to Delaware for a Meet the Inlaws Visit...

and One subject that is almost Totally Ignored about the Causes of Climate Change... Eating Meat... Cows and Pigs Fart Methane, a Greenhouse Gas... and NO ONE is reducing the amount of Meat We Eat... I won't do that either... I love Hamburgers and Bacon and IF I Destroy the Environment for Young People... Huh... Pass the Ketchup... 

The really wonderful thing about Mexico decriminalizing Abortion is... Hopefully it will cause FEWER MEXICANS... They Have been Breeding Like Crazy and Cannot feed their children... That is the Main reason they want to Immigrate to the USA... because we Have been Behaving Sane about Birth Control... and the Quality of Life is Much Better Here... 

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Pope Francis signals openness to blessings for same-sex couples... 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/pope-francis-signals-open-blessing-same-sex-unions-catholic-priests-rcna118525

Pope Francis lambasts climate change skeptics and ‘irresponsible’ Western lifestyles...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/04/world/pope-francis-climate-change-encyclical-intl/index.html

Mexico decriminalizes abortion, extending Latin American trend of widening access...

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/06/1198039758/mexico-abortion-decriminalization-supreme-court

Climate Change Statement: 
“Despite all attempts to deny, conceal, gloss over or relativize the issue, the signs of climate change are here and increasingly evident. No one can ignore the fact that in recent years we have witnessed extreme weather phenomena, frequent periods of unusual heat, drought and other cries of protest,” he wrote.
Climate change will likely only get worse and ignoring it will heighten “the probability of extreme phenomena that are increasingly frequent and intense,” he wrote.

The pope paid particular attention to the disproportionate responsibility of rich countries for climate change.

“If we consider that emissions per individual in the United States are about two times greater than those of individuals living in China, and about seven times greater than the average of the poorest countries, we can state that a broad change in the irresponsible lifestyle connected with the Western model would have a significant long-term impact,” he wrote.

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and now for something Completely Different... Memories of a Burning Man Participant!

I've been thinking about the fact that this year marks 20 years since the first time I went to Burning Man. 20 years. I can't believe it's been that long. It makes me feel so old. I went to Burning Man 7 times starting in 2001. My last time was 2009. 2001 was magical because it was all so new. 2002 and 2003 were even more magical because I was more prepared. By 2004, I was an experienced desert camper who knew exactly what I needed to do to be comfortable out there in the desert for a week. I would spend all year accumulating supplies for the playa, and participating in different events in the local burner community in L.A., where I lived at the time, including camping trips on lakebeds in the Mojave desert, which have a similar climate to Black Rock Desert.

I do miss it sometimes, especially when I see posts from my friends who still go to Burning Man every year. I'm so glad I got to go at the time I did, when there was no cell reception out there and you really did have to take a break from technology while you were there. There was something really special about that. I remember the gigantic bulletin board where you could post a note for your friends. It was huge, and it was covered with thousands of notes...but that was what made it special. I always managed to locate the people I was looking for out there, despite the lack of technology, I always found people's camps through word-of-mouth. That was part of the fun, wandering the playa and trying to find people, and meeting other people in the process. Now I hear that people are walking around texting on their phones, and to me that seems like it would take away from the experience a little bit. Part of what made it special was the fact that you were out there in the middle of the desert, far away from civilization, and you had to adapt to this world without phones or technology, and you had to be prepared to survive out there for a week, with all the water and food you would need to get through, and it was so much fun meeting that challenge. I always prided myself on having water leftover at the end, and I also showered every day on the playa.

20 years. I just can't believe it.

and then...

Some Guy Wondering If it's OK to 

Use AI to Write His Book...

I write a Blog using my own words... I use that time honored technique of drinking massive amounts of coffee and typing like a madman... I generate a LOT of text that way... 

Of Course... the REAL pros use Much more powerful drugs but I'm Old and worried about a heart attack... Philip K Dick - speed, Jack Keroac - benzedrine, Hemmingway - alcohol, Edgar Allen Poe and Louis Carrol - Opium...

and then someone else commented:

It never writes in my voice. Occasionally I use ai as a prompt when I can feel an emotion in my head, see the emotion I want but can't find the right words. But I never use their actual words.

and then someone else said:

Nope.

Here’s the tough love… Either you’re the writer, or the computer is.

If it’s the latter, you’re not a writer at all.Just someone leveraging technology as a crutch. Tech that is combining data pieced together from other, real writers.

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https://www.amazon.com/Population-Bomb-Paul-R-Ehrlich/dp/1568495870