7:37 AM
And I just had breakfast. Very cold morning in STL. Ironically, I just read that Greenland ice is melting at 5x's the rate it was in 1990. This opens up a lot of situations where there is more seasonal flooding, unfortunately. I know that Missouri (which is affected by proxy, if not directly by the ocean) reached “Flood Of 93” levels this past Summer (no mention of it on the news, of course. Global warming gets next to zero attention in the American media).
Speaking of media concerns – I basically never watch the news anymore. I don't have cable (or own a television set) and I don't look up news on the Internet. The news (which is all bad) doesn't penetrate the “happiness bubble” of Instagram, either. I just don't care for any news because all news is bad news (especially in the United States). They do so for a reaction. So you “talk” about their dumb clips and then people look them up on the Internet, see their (the news publication's) ads, they increase their “views”, and profit. That the bare bones “jist” of how it works. Pretty god damn awful if you ask me.
Anyway, be back in a bit