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So, a timeframe isn't given here, and it's not even clear who's being interviewed (Alain Herzog is the photographer), but it doesn't sound too out there. That's a 200% increase, given Switzerland's current use, and it's specifically renewable capacity to overcome variability. If you provide some kind of V2G or grid storage, or something more responsive like nuclear, that's going to go down, because the figure is essentially what's needed to avoid disruption on a hot day that's also very cloudy.

Hmm, Texas and Oklahoma in the South also feels funny.

Well, those are descriptive of the geography, I'll give them that.

it’s happening NOW.

Oh, so it's over a moment from NOW?

Nah, it's slowly and continuously happening. It has been for decades, although with greater rate as we've ignored it.

buildout all the grid you can, it won’t be enough for everyone, and when it collapses, everyone’s fucked.

We'll need X amount of power. If the grid can supply that, we won't directly cook. It's more than now, but not massively more.

Did your parents have any children that lived? I bet they regret that.

No u.

Yeah, that's what I thought. Although I did know there's a great deal of controversy over how far east if goes, and people laugh at New Yorkers for thinking of Cleveland as basically the same as Kansas.

In Canada, the Prairies go from the Rockies to the Shield region where things get stony and boggy. And extend north until it's too forested for the descriptor to apply, maybe a quarter of the way to the Arctic coast on average (so it's mostly taiga nd tundra with just a little bit of farmable area).

Is West what the census calls it, too?

I can say for sure none of it's very Northwestern; even eastern Washington is more like Idaho than the coast.

Rockies is fair, for the part that they actually run through, which seems to be more like a third of the area and inevitably less populated. I guess that's the part they like to advertise, though, and clearly it has worked.

We think we'll turn ourselves into superhumans with gene editing, and worry about the societal implications and potential uses for evil.

But, the world is dumb. I suspect we'll actually turn ourselves into figurative pugs or Gros Michel bananas given the chance.

Edit: Which is also really bad.

Yes, and there's also bog or ice mummies that are preserved totally different ways. The Egyptian ones that are filled with preservatives and dehydrated probably do just need air that's super dry.

Who's we? Reminder that a good third of the population strongly prefers the Conservatives, and another third don't care.

This was before that - Avodah Zarah is the one I actually read through.

Like, you can't leave a barrel of mashed grapes too long, because it's then assumed a pagan broke in, danced on it and left, turning it into pagan wine which is the same as doing idolatry yourself, somehow. And it goes on.

There's other examples as well, of course. Puritans got worked up about Catholic-seeming practices within the Church of England, although I don't remember which ones, off the top of my head.

Really? I was assuming you'd need pretty significant climate control. Although it probably varies by type.

I have seen mummies stored like under a bench FWIW.

Was that correct, or was that one of those OMG moments?

That seems likely, zealots love a good dividing line. I'm reminded of all the weird obsessing in the Mishnah about wine because the non-Jews of the period used it in sacrifices.