john eden
male pale and stale
Nah. Got mates who do that in Brighton though. You can only do a few minutes this time of year apparently? Seems a bit pointless, but they swear by it.Are you gonna go for a swim in the morning?
Nah. Got mates who do that in Brighton though. You can only do a few minutes this time of year apparently? Seems a bit pointless, but they swear by it.Are you gonna go for a swim in the morning?
You can never have the same walk twice. When you’re cooped up in the house plugged into Microsoft Teams, any walk is a rupturous freedom.Do you ever get sick of going for walks?
Yeah they are weird about the no wetsuits thing tbf.Er yeah, unless you got wetsuits and all the clobber. Which I do actually have, but unlikely to be going swimming this week, can't see it happening. Even though I now live really near a good spot.
All the proper wild swimmers are quite anti suit.Yeah they are weird about the no wetsuits thing tbf.
It’s a bit too Protestant really. Which is not something you hear me say much.All the proper wild swimmers are quite anti suit.
It’s in that neck of the woods yeah. Very beautiful, but rains all the fucking time.Is Criccieth on the Lynn peninsula? There's some well nice beaches around there.
Yeah you can shut down quick if you're not used to it. I'd not felt that hand numbness before and it felt so odd, not painful exactly but then you keep remembering how cold it is. Makes you go a big dizzy as well.Yeah my mates have said that when it starts to feel amazing you can either get out quick or die basically?
Lots of spars. There's a real showcase spar in pwellei it's the best spar I've ever been in. But yeah some of the little houses you pass look a bit grim. Like Cornwall really.It’s in that neck of the woods yeah. Very beautiful, but rains all the fucking time.
The partner’s family are all here - she got out.
99% of America is undeveloped and that's not an exaggeration that's an actual number
This is less than 1% of the States by acreage
Sad to see how deeply in denial the Brits are about American pastoral beauty and ecological diversity
From the deserts and Joshua trees of SoCal, to the sequoia and redwood sanctuaries of NorCal to the foggy forests and salmon rapids of the Pacific Northwest, the rolling prairie heartland, the orange Southwest with its pueblo dwellings and sunset-striped cliffs, the swampy Spanish moss covered American South, the Florida keys, the beauty of New England
Before I go, I wanna add a bit more provocation so people can yell at me and keep the thread going/board energy up.
I basically don't think species extinction is a big deal like everybody claims. I care quite a bit about the suffering of sentient creatures. But I don't think there's any reason to care whether some particular species is around or not, unless they're so ecologically critical that their loss causes a big domino effect. Like really, why does us not having a sabertooth tiger or woolly mammoth or dinosaur around matter at all other than the fact they're "sick"? Yeah, platypuses are pretty cool, but that's not a moral argument.
The earth has had a lot of extinction effects, and life, in all its complexity and subtlety, always bounces back. I don't see any reason to believe the current batch of biology is "sacred" in any meaningful sense, when we've had so many batches. Humans are special for obvious reasons, nothing we know of has ever been able to do what we can do. But some pretty tropical bird? Really, who gives a shit. The whole anti-extinction fetish, particularly from people who are fine locking up billions of mammals and birds in horrific Holocaust-level conditions for the meat industry, strikes me as a bad & boring take.
Happy launching of the James Webb Space Telescope everybody!