It's not ideal, but wouldn't dams and hydro plants be better than catastrophic floods?

Depends how you manage the dams and the floods, I think. Disrupt sediment flow enough and Bangladesh washes into the sea. Plus downstream erosion and fisheries and whatever else. Based on the Mekong experience I doubt anyone knows enough about the Brahmaputra system to dam at scale without rapidly making things worse.
(Also, any comment on the Plains stuff in the But thread appreciated.)

Bernie's finished. Fuck.

You know, Bernie was my number two, more or less (I still think highly of Castro), but getting people to vote for you is a desirable quality in a candidate and one that Sanders doesn't seem to have. Makes zero fucking sense to me, the same thing with the Warren results, but I stopped trying to make sense of the American public long ago.

3 I'm sure he'll dominate the Wyoming caucuses.

Margot Käßmann, leading German pacifist and former head bishop of the Protestant church in Germany, famously said in 2014 that even the war against Nazi-Germany was unjust -- only peace was just.

Let blame Poland for starting World War 2.

This tweet brings me unalloyed joy. I laughed for a long time when I saw it yesterday, then again a half hour later, then again this morning.

Perhaps this will say something about my mental state later, but whatever, it works for now.

8 She has such a great twitter account, but I hesitate to interact lest she bite my head off. But really really appreciate her sharp perspective.

I couldn't stop laughing at this.

Is that Riker?

Yes he hosts that series, normally not sounding like a drunk.

"Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of those colossal 'burns, boundless and bare
The lonely late careers stretch far away."