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Comment Re:LOL Ok (Score 1) 186

Especially given how many new coal firing plants they've recently built and are currently planning on building due to their push for EVs. The number of people they have who aren't yet driving and living in third world nation conditions means they have more people yet to buy a car than most industrialized nations have cars in total.

Comment Re:Why the lies in the submission? (Score 1) 304

China will what? A significant portion of their population isn't even out of the third world yet so how are you not including the massive amount of growth still ahead for their nation? And they're going to get better by cutting back on gasoline engines and massively expanding coal fueled plants?
When people talk about America needing to do more I think of this
https://waqi.info/#/c/23.369/-...
We've significantly reduced emissions and are still going strong while you seem to be getting your information directly from the Chinese government. We tried to tour China three years ago and 50% of our itinerary was cancelled due to pollution across the center of their nation that we were told was unhealthy to deadly. These weren't Americans they were Chinese people refunding our money and saying if you really want to go, fine, but we sure as hell aren't going to be the ones responsible for you getting there. That is fucking insane.

Comment Re:Question for lawyers (Score 3, Insightful) 53

Trump negotiated our leaving a shithole nation we had no legal right to be in and no reason to stay in. Biden had the responsibility to either overturn that order and keep us there or, if not, plan for an orderly exit which he failed to do. It doesn't matter which side you fall on, Biden fucked it up while having full discretion over how to proceed. The funny part here is that no matter how bad they claim Trump to be, Biden has been significantly worse.

Comment That was never the point outside of a few crazy mo (Score 1) 281

I know only one person out of thousands who honestly believes that humans have caused no increase to the global temperature. The other 100%-1 people don't give a shit specifically because of nonsensical arguments like those in this OP. Gore said the planet would be dead in a decade and these scientists you seem to think are trustworthy backed him up. AOC, more than a decade after Gore has made the same claim. Yet several years on the changes are still minute.

Until these 99.9% of scientists can tell me exactly what percentage is from the sun, exactly what percentage is from natural Earth processes, exactly what percentage is human caused AND exactly what the overall risks of each are I'm not onboard with radical, socialist bullshit being claimed to be the cure.

Maybe stop with this psychotic nonsense of political attachment to causes and we can talk because, at this point, the ends and the means are nowhere near congruent with what any rational person would expect.

As we scale back, shitholes like China have been scaling up. So much so that they currently output more pollution than all other industrialized nations combined. Telling me that we need to cripple our economy or radically change our lives when half the world is laughing and saying go ahead we don't care makes it a meaningless gesture at best.

Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 1) 443

I find Euro Bros and even USA city folk seem to misunderstand just how rural most of the USA actually is. Just the thought of living somewhere where a bear or mountain lion is a possibility made me think of wanting something that could put out more lethality than a shotgun or pistol.
I bought a rifle because I like the challenge of hitting a target. I bought an SKS first then an AR because of all the interesting shit you can mod it with.
As far as utility, where I live coyotes are out of control to the point that they are considered pests with no license required and no bag limit. I take a dozen or so a year and they're still always around.

Comment Re:clawing knowledge from the unforgiving sea (Score 1) 163

I grew up in an area between dense suburbs and the farms further out and it was like 97 or 98 when the last comic rack disappeared from local stores. Even before then they had order sheets you could buy specific books with but once I found the comic store 15 miles away I never bought anywhere else.

Comment Re:Creating scarcity (Score 1) 201

I see this argument often and it's one of the dumbest fucking things people say. The MSRP is priced appropriately based on the supply from the mfg. How is the mfg supposed to know how many units will be bought by scalpers and how much more wealthier people will spend based upon artificial scarcity that didn't exist at the time the product launched?

Take the PS5. Let's say they follow the advice of some fuckwit and MSRP $2,000 because that's what some people will spend. Woops, they missed the fact that the larger proportion of people who buy initially only did so because the price was $500 and they were able to get one without an artificial mark-up. Now they've filled the 'willing to spend more' crowd's demand and have unsellable product on the shelves. Do they lower the price and watch as scalpers still buy out supplies plus piss off the people who already bought one? In every possible case Sony would be making Xbox fans out of their customer base because markets aren't just a simple supply demand equation you learned in Econ 101...

Comment Re:Not frivilous (Score 1) 97

You seem to have no idea what's really going on but that's because this article is shit. First of all, Mastercard, Visa and Discover already stopped allowing their cards to be used at Pornhub in 2020. That happened after a group of women sued, not just Pornhub, but Mastercard as well. Since not one of those lawsuits had merit against MasterCard, not a single person specifically used their card in connection to the illegal videos, they are frivolous. Pornhub also already had done things like deleting videos from non-verified users and had a reporting system with immediate response to illegal content. TFA fails to mention that these payment processors don't give a shit and are demanding that every video be manually reviewed before publication if the content is labeled for adults only. Pornhubs response was how the fuck do we do that for streaming videos or for legitimate porn companies uploading thousands of hours of footage at a time?

Comment Re:Except the law was broken, where's your issue? (Score 1) 97

Where is the proof that the websites and say a specific end user are breaking the law? There isn't any.
This is a blanket statement of accusation against 100% of involved parties and has absolutely nothing to do with what is legal but with the Mastercard attempting to prevent frivolous lawsuits.

Comment Re:Heeeeeeeere comes the "But our freedom of speec (Score 1) 248

Are you fucking stupid? I make no claims and make no demands so what sort of low IQ fuckwit would think that the burden of proof lies with me?
I have used online search and through that have found nothing even remotely close to scientific answers. Just near on retarded supposition like "Almost all of it" with nothing more than maybe, possibly and could be to back it up.

Comment Re:Heeeeeeeere comes the "But our freedom of speec (Score 1) 248

Fine, what is the percentage of climate change due to human actions, what is the percentage that is natural, what is the percentage that is unknown and what is the exact science used to determine those three things?
Since this is settled science we're talking and not unproven opinion or theory I want demonstrably factual numbers without supposition. Thanks.

Comment Re:There are Environmentally Friendly Blowers (Score 1) 362

Laziness?
How the hell is doing an all day rake job in twenty minutes anything other than an intelligent use of your time?
Leaf blowers might have issues you don't like but they're about the most intelligent investment you can make if you have any sort of desire to not waste entire days worth of your life.

Comment Re:I don't like the term "mandate" (Score 1) 308

It's a shame you were modded up for being such a fuckwit. People who are currently employed under lawful contracts are being terminated. Whether you agree or disagree with vaccines that is absolutely outside of what people would consider freedom as my company can't just decide "fuck your contract" without significant legal ramifications.

Comment Re:Of course (Score 0) 232

You mean, of course, the logic of saying it's just like those vaccines only you need boosters every four to six months instead of once a decade or never?
Oh, and that's on top of the logic of the Delta variant is the problem but we're still mandating the shots designed for the variant that is apparently no longer an issue.
Wear a mask, wash your hands and you're good. If it worked for my wife, who's an RN, during a year of hospital exposure I don't want to hear some bullshit about a pseudo vaccine that merely deflates symptoms being necessary.

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