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I’m not convinced that we stop finding new music, we just become less zealous or outward about it as we get older. When I was young, I was all about talking music, having the right DJ list for roadtrips, etc, etc and now? I just hit play and don’t think too much about it. Probably because it’s harder to attend shows, less relevant to my social life, etc. I’ve also found as I’ve gotten older that I just care less about the specifics of what the song or artist is. I’ll anchor to a song I really like and then let Apple’s infinite play loop take it from there.

That is such an excellent interpretation, I’m sort of convinced that’s the author’s intent now.

I’d always gone for a more magical realism approach because of how often his supernatural demeanor is focused on, and because it dovetails neatly with Anton Chigurh being a similar thing in No Country for Old Men.

If any other state’s power grid got even remotely the level of scrutiny TX did, it would feel like it’s broken also.

As a former Washingtonian who moved to TX let me tell you all the ways WA was bad:

- most power lines and grid infrastructure in major cities like Seattle is 50+ years old and fails - constant power outages in storms - we had a massive dam on the Columbia develop a crack, and most of the other dams could do with reinvestment - Hanford and everything with it is a disaster - our “green grid” of dams is likely responsible for collapsing the native salmon population and with it, the resident orca populations and a bunch of other critically endangered species - power generation in WA is a crazy mishmash of public utility agencies all of which have more in common with the Adeptus Mechanicum from 40k than a normal government agency

I think if you went into most any states bureaucracies with a fine toothed comb it could feel apocalyptic. Truth is, WA’s system is pretty fine (dam’s aside) and the same seems to hold up for TX. It’s very rare for any system to survive contact with a generational event unscathed.

I can go on, but I mention this because the article is short on anything concrete, confuses (as another commenter pointed out) how power generation and regulation works, and it feels particularly bitter when TX is pretty ahead on renewables compared to say, NYC or Chicago, where most of these writers hail from.

Yeah, but rural PNW is mountainous valleys. Lots of geographic separation from population centers in terms of tree farming areas. If it’s some sort of “runoff” from logging, unless it hits the water table (water tends to come from wells, not lakes/rivers) it’s unlikely to be easily exposed in the populace.

This. It is absolutely my favorite piece of gear when hunting, hiking or fishing because it just works. I have the Solar Version and while it can’t fully recharge from solar with GPS in full power tracking, it’s amazing how long it’ll run in expedition mode.

More importantly it looks like a G Shock and is similarly tough.

Anecdotally, I can only speak from my experience getting severe pneumonia (I barely managed to avoid being hospitalized), but I think it's worth considering that since COVID is similar, and it's also similar to HACE/other high-altitude diseases (because of its huge impacts on blood oxygen levels) that much of 'long covid' is likely the long-healing process that follows those sort of diseases.

Speaking for myself, it took me about 6 months to be able to walk up steep hills or stairs without needing to pause or becoming incredibly winded. I had malingering symptoms of the disease for months afterwards. They eventually went away, but I presumed they were likely just the result of getting wrecked by pneumonia.

What i'd be really curious about...what does the recovery for folks who develop severe altitude sickness, edemas, etc look like? As I understand it's pretty brutal at the moment, but no idea of the long-term.