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It filled me with great joy, as did your post!
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Seth 
Wally
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I remember the first time I showed a film (8 mm; old school film projector) at a library program, and worst nightmare came true; I hadnât properly secured the film onto the take up roll, and it all reeled out onto the ground. So I feel for Wally.
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I just posted an article from CleanTechnica in the climate thread about heat pumps outselling gas furnaces in the U.S.
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Everywhere you see the intricate workmanship and the care taken to control and retain not only soil but water. Some stone cisterns are barely bigger than a bathtub, others are Olympic swimming pool-size with complex systems of access via steps and ledges.In spring on one mountain, Jabal Sabir near the southern city of Taâizz, I walked through shady groves of coffee, almond and khat trees, listening to the farmers hold conversations with friends who might be just 100 metres away on a terrace across the valley, but several hours walk apart. Those terrace walls act as graveyard too. When folk die the entire village turns out to carry them at dawn and insert the shrouded body behind a stone. Everyoneâs last act is to push up the daisies, and the coffee beans.
Many terraces were already ancient when the 10th-century Arab scholar Abu Hasan al-Hamdani described them as a marvel of the world. The fact is the terraces are the product of generations of human dedication, right up to the present day. Some have fallen into disrepair, itâs true, but others continue, and with their management of soil and water, they remain a potent symbol of sustainability, environmental care, and good sense.
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Thatâs wonderful.
I hope Tromp doesnât find out. He might order an exhumation and relocation.
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He has no authority to do that, so he may as well make himself look like more of an ass. As if that were possible.
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And?
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Thatâs what I was thinking. Their fears of âvandalizationâ might become true.
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Right, but emperor wannabe Tromp could express a desire to make it so, others could try to apply pressure toward that end, and voila, it is made so, despite rules, laws, boundaries, etc., which in so many instances already,Tromp LLC doesnât give a fuck about.
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He can always just order some troops to make anything happen. Any roadblock is better than nothing.
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Just ban sam altman. Were he human, he wouldnât have the name alt-man.
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