Comments on: Gas Prices Head Back Up http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/13/gas-prices-head-back-up/ Reality-based political commentary Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:07:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/13/gas-prices-head-back-up/#comment-222845 dsws Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:07:51 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27833#comment-222845 (I hope that there continue to be otters alive, too. They seem to enjoy life, and they're cute besides. But the word in the previous comment was supposed to be "others".) (I hope that there continue to be otters alive, too. They seem to enjoy life, and they're cute besides. But the word in the previous comment was supposed to be "others".)

]]> By: dsws http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/13/gas-prices-head-back-up/#comment-222844 dsws Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:05:25 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27833#comment-222844 My concern is that, eventually, we will have a war that kills everyone. I'm reconciled to the fact that everyone eventually dies. What I have a problem with is how the quantifiers are arranged. For every person, there is a time when that person dies. Ok, I can live with that. For a while, anyway, and then I die. Then, after I'm gone, other people live. After them, still oters, and so on. That's how it's always been. There is a time when, for every person, that person dies. The same time for all of the people who will have been alive a moment before. Not ok. I'm not willing to make my peace with that possibility. It's what we barely avoided by sheer luck, at least a couple times during the Cold War, and it's where we're headed eventually, if we keep condoning the irresponsible use of nuclear threats, particularly by Russia. Not just Russia, though. We need to establish a set of global institutions that will make it reasonable for the US and China to forsake nuclear weapons too. But as the most immediate priority for reducing long-term nuclear risk, <b>Russia delenda est.</b> My concern is that, eventually, we will have a war that kills everyone. I'm reconciled to the fact that everyone eventually dies. What I have a problem with is how the quantifiers are arranged.

For every person, there is a time when that person dies. Ok, I can live with that. For a while, anyway, and then I die. Then, after I'm gone, other people live. After them, still oters, and so on. That's how it's always been.

There is a time when, for every person, that person dies. The same time for all of the people who will have been alive a moment before. Not ok. I'm not willing to make my peace with that possibility. It's what we barely avoided by sheer luck, at least a couple times during the Cold War, and it's where we're headed eventually, if we keep condoning the irresponsible use of nuclear threats, particularly by Russia.

Not just Russia, though. We need to establish a set of global institutions that will make it reasonable for the US and China to forsake nuclear weapons too. But as the most immediate priority for reducing long-term nuclear risk,

Russia delenda est.

]]> By: nypoet22 http://www.chrisweigant.com/2026/07/13/gas-prices-head-back-up/#comment-222843 nypoet22 Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:15:15 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=27833#comment-222843 my concern is that instead of course correcting on policy, they're doing everything possible to destabilize voting. my concern is that instead of course correcting on policy, they're doing everything possible to destabilize voting.

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