<div dir="ltr">You know, once you get outside of California, it no longer actually feels like the earth is desperately trying to purge itself of the metaphorical cancer that is humanity.<div><br></div><div>The whole planet isn't like this. It's really just California, and parts of Oregon. And large US cities with a certain style of leadership.</div><div><br></div><div>But other than that, things are really quite nice, for the vast majority of people, the vast majority of the time.</div><div><br></div><div>It's too easy to forget this.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 4:24 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:34 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt">I took this sun photo at about 10am, but it has gotten much darker. Now just as the sun reaches zenith, the street lights are coming on.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I see skies of yellow,<br>Small flecks of white.<br>Dim orange sun,<br>A noon that's like night.<br>And I think to myself,<br>What a flammable world.<br><br>I see trees ablaze,<br>Whole forests gone,<br>On every horizon,<br>Nowhere to run.<br>And I think to myself,<br>What a flammable world.<br><br>I hear babies cry,<br>Where it's too hot to go,<br>The pains of life,<br>They'll barely know.<br>And I think to myself,<br>What a flammable world.<br><br>Yes, I think to myself,<br><div>What a flammable world.</div></div></div>
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