When real life isn't like the movies -

https://twitter.com/dodo/status/1040268365678313479

Waffle House disaster index. If they're still serving, it ain't that bad.

https://www.marketplace.org/2015/03/04/business/when-disaster-strikes-fema-turns-waffle-house

Dammit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a marine biologist!

https://nypost.com/2018/09/12/the-great-barrier-reef-was-never-dead/

Not one damn word about my carbon footprint. Not. One.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/307469/

Numerical weather models, sometimes good, sometimes out to lunch.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/307414/

Feel the burn

https://twitter.com/Frexecution/status/1040407409099849728

Oh gurl that's nasty

https://mobile.twitter.com/PlantJammer/status/1040593668631977987

https://twitter.com/lujlp/status/1040636265199099904

Either that's a guy doing textbook negging or that's one bitter feminist.

https://mobile.twitter.com/BakerSevenZero/status/1040604215922642945

Dude.

“Not convinced about the connection between climate change and extreme weather? Well warmer water means more intense storms,” Avlon said.

“The amount of precipitation in our worst storms increased nearly 20 percent between 1958 and 2007, according to one scientific study,” Avlon continued. “And the relative number of these extreme storms is also up about 40 percent in that same period.”

It’s not clear where Avlon got this data, but reams of evidence undermines his contention that hurricanes are becoming more intense and carrying more rain.

https://dailycaller.com/2018/09/13/cnn-hurricane-florence-trump/

Has anxiety become an epidemic, or are we kind of overdoing it?

Anxiety is part of being a teenager. It's been that way for thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years. We even have a term for the phenomenon, puberty.

Anxiety is part of being a teenager.

Yeah, but I wonder if we celebrate it more now. Listening to my middle daughter talking about her college, it seemed like some of her schoolmates flaunted their neuroses (and associated medications) like badges of honor. One even insisted her anxiety prevented her from being employable, though it didn't stop her from spending her daddy's money on weed.

That is true IRA. But it is an institutional (government) effect and not a general social thing. A lot of the feminist stuff that comes out of the department of education is based on a stupid study done at Harvard many years ago. It noted that teen girls have a lot of anxiety and other social issues. It said nothing about boys. But it fit the narrative and was used as an excuse to oppress young men. Later on people noted these issues are hardly gender based and are just puberty, but that doesn't support the desired narrative so it is ignored.

Following along with that philosophy people implemented a lot of changes 'intended' to help various other minority groups. But if there is a benefit then people will fake their way into the group. I bet Patrick can confirm that while it is better being GAY in the US today than it was years ago, it still aint that great. But along with that you also have people who fake being gay as well. A pretend gay can put things on or off as is convenient. Real gays cannot. I know of at least one guy who faked (poorly) being gay all through high school. It was a great way to pickup women. You have people pretending to be trans now as the fashion has moved that way.

On specifically the anxiety/mental illness issues, you can get longer test times and other benefits by having a diagnosis. Finding a doctor willing to write one up is actually pretty easy. So want to get an edge on your peers academically (or at least appear to) buy a diagnosis and now you get more time, maybe note, and other benefits on tests. Since you don't actually have the disease you don't have any real downside. After all people get punished for discriminating against you and you don't actually have the mental problems you claim.

In the same vein we are seeing asians self identify as white on college applications.

Where there are benefits people will go after them.