I take my cats to the vet in a carrier in an Uber or Lyft all the time with no problem. Never had a driver object. I know you said she smells bad, but how bad?

We had 4 power outages in Manchester on Saturday. Longest was 20 minutes.

Marlborough Ave.

Come on, join the dark side! It's awesome! No need to pay for gas and pumps you full of feel good hormones!

Was that a pun? Sounds exactly like a pun my dad would make, but he's not Internet savvy enough to be on here.

I mean this with 100% sincerity: when the weather gets nicer, rent a bike and ride on a safe road with traffic and traffic lights. You'll understand the instinct.

So? Individual choices don't make a difference, right?

You don't say?

My brother and SIL (married) both work for UPMC. After their first child was born at Magee, my brother said something about how he couldn't believe how he had no problem being named as the father on the birth certificate. It sounded so weird to me - why would he think that would be difficult or complicated? I guess he had inside info that it doesn't always go smoothly there!

If someone told me, "Don't drink that! I've tested it and found that it's poisonous!" and then proceeded to drink it themselves, I wouldn't find their warning credible.

Then if people are free to use all the plastic and emissions they want because it's not significantly harmful, what was the point of all this? How are people selfish if their choices aren't even impacting others anyway? I'm sorry, but logically, an action like flying in a plane can't be both harmful when you do it but worthless when you don't do it.

I'm anti-subsidies, but end them because it's unfair. Actually, if people really want them gone, they could argue they should go because they're unfair simce fearmongering hasn't worked and get more people on their side. But it's apparently not urgent enough to try to find a different tactic.

If I believed eating vegan and never using plastic or air conditioning was necessary to help future generations, I would do it. But none of the people saying we should act like we should, so I don't get why anyone takes the claims of danger seriously. I truly can't conclude I'm hurting anyone when the people saying I am do the same things. It's not unreasonable to assume people who genuinely believe that actions are evil or dangerous won't do them.

(If it was better, people wouldn't need laws to force them to use solar panels, eat vegan, or forgo plastic.)

If the people pushing for policy changes really believed they were necessary for future generations, they would live their lives the way they want everyone else to. They don't, so they obviously don't believe we're screwing future generations. If the people who have studied it and people who advocate for laws based on it don't live like emissions generated by civilization are actually dooming future generations, I truly have no idea why anyone thinks changing how they live is necessary for future generations. There's no indication people who study it or advocate for laws based on it actually treat it as a serious threat and adjust how they live accordingly (if they do, they better share it and have it verified). They repeatedly say it's a serious threat to future generations, but unless such knowledge has motivated them to change their ways, I honestly don't get why people think they sincerely believe it or that there's a genuine threat.

Policies for you and me to follow, not for them to follow. Unless the politician you vote for already eats vegan, never drives or flies, never uses plastic or air conditioning or too much heat or any of the other things climate policies are designed to restrict, they have no real desire to fix anything, just to be popular. Unless they walk the walk, you're not voting for someone who sincerely cares about fixing a problem they see as urgent.

I'm pretty sure any wealthy politician you vote for on either side uses more fossil fuels than I do, and electing them to office and ensuring their salary to keep spending on limos, flights, and steak dinners just contributes to climate change. If they believe in such policy changes, why wouldn't they currently live their life the way said policies say everyone should? They're free to eat vegan, bike everywhere, and not go to Starbucks under current policy.

I'm a legal secretary. You don't want to know how many trees every single legal case kills, no matter how small.

Rephrase: I'll live my life exactly as the scientists who discovered this do and pay the same amount of attention to my use of modern technology and inventions as they do.

Are said scientists all living their lives as if it's a genuine threat (eating vegan, no driving or flying, no heat or electricty from fossil fuels, no single use products...)? Because if you have personally done the experiments that prove to you that it's true, the only logical response is to want to stop contributing to the problem in any way. As soon as I know their discovery has made all scientists who have made said discovery change their lifestyle to limit emissions as much as possible, I will believe they believe it's an urgent problem and thus believe it's an urgent problem myself.

No ostrich ever did that. Insert analogy about mistakenly assuming ostriches bury their heads in the sand...

Because we're supposed to fear all changes in weather patterns and interpret them as signs of impending doom resulting from using electricity and plastic straws.

Fine by me.

Estimated. Indeed's algorithm probably misunderstood what a salad bar team member is.

Elizabeth Slaymaker, Community Primary Care.

Thank you. Their reasoning makes no sense, but good to know it.

They need a mascot that represents them and phrases that are self-evident.

I know that's the mascot for the Post Gazette Union, but I don't understand:

A) Why? The name Scabby suggests the rat is a scab, so the bad guy, so do the boxing gloves mean he's the one the union is fighting? He's an effigy of the enemy like Guy Fawkes?

B) What "This rat's not for you" means or who it's addressed to.

They're not, but if underpaid, overworked, undertrained civil servants don't bother to go out and enforce it, call Budget Blinds or Automated Shade (you need shades and side... shield things to fully block out light - curtains always leave gaps above and to the sides).

My cement finisher dad and his kindred spirits don't do that at bars. They go to Starbucks.