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Comment Re:Activists are a large part of the problem (Score 3, Insightful) 32

No, we can never solve problems.

This causes revenue streams to dry up. Sure, they could use controlled fires to routinely burn out the underbrush and keep the national and state forests clean, walkable charming places (just like they do in states that don't have massive wildfires every year)....but that would solve the problem that they have engineered to create revenue streams for...

Besides, do you really want to deny the industries that rely on burning down vast numbers of residences in these states. How can we justify raising property taxes to prohibitive levels so that the Realtor Associations, Appraisal District and financiers of real estate can convince the suckers to keep paying their extortion monies...for the children's "education".

Name one time a member of Congress has ever solved any problem? No, that is heresy! You maintain problems to fund-raise off them. Those Honorable men, women and otherkins will tell you just how hard they are working for "democracy" and they'll tell you just how Honorable they are and then require you to call them Honorable and put a placard in front of them that states just how Honorable they are.

Progress....always progress. What we should really be doing is killing all the Kulaks, there's your problem...surround them and work them to death at gun point. Then focus on the engineers, ask them to do impossible things and then execute them when your five- years plans fail. Next, get every 5 year old child, wine aunt and grandmother watching their family members and reporting them as Wreckers if they don't kiss the portrait of Dear Leader each morning and night.

Hope this helps.

Comment Re:"We still have a chance to save the forest." (Score 1) 70

I'm just going to live in a concrete paved city, surrounded by my tech and my 'intellectual' friends. I will naturally exclude my bizarre existence from 'The Environment'. I will eat the most processed foods available. I will drink the most processed beverages that exist. I will point out to those smelly flyover people in the Midwest what the 'best' farming methods are and what I think they should be doing. I will tell them how they are in various animal's 'territory'. I won't ever recognize that NYC, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, ad nauseum were all pristine wilderness before they were destroyed by man.

I WILL NEVER CONSIDER THAT MY DEAR CITY IS THE PROBLEM. My convenience is too important for that.

No I will rail against those hicks, rubes and rednecks living 'out there'. Yes, I've got all the answers my 'computer models' can give me.

I am literally the most impractical and helpless person outside my completely unnatural and absolutely environmentally destructive living space.

Still, I am confident in my superiority and I hate farmers and truck driver without whom I would literally starve to death within weeks. Screw those untouchables.

Comment Re: Darwinism At Work (Score 3) 417

It's like you're all in a parallel universe...
Out here in the rural areas almost no one is wearing masks. We should watch more TV and stay inside so we could pretend there's a "pandemic".
The town pool is full, the stores are full of people not wearing masks, same with the parks. People shake hands...just like all your politicians do when the cameras are off them.

Keep on keeping on guys...in your caves of steel and concrete.

It's so amazing the power the Media has when it focuses itself on a project...mockingbird.

Submission + - Ethereum Co-Founder Says Safety Concern Has Him Quitting Crypto (bloomberg.com)

tekram writes: Anthony Di Iorio, a co-founder of the Ethereum network, says he's done with the cryptocurrency world, partially because of personal safety concerns.

Back in 2013, Di Iorio co-founded Ethereum, which has become the home of many of the hottest crypto projects, particularly in decentralized finance — which lets people borrow, lend and trade with each other without intermediaries like banks. Ether, the native token of the network, has a market value of about $225 billion.

In recent years, Di Iorio jumped into venture-capital investing and startup advising. He was also for a time chief digital officer of the Toronto Stock Exchange. In February 2018, Forbesestimatedhis net worth was as high as $1 billion. Ether's price has more than doubled since then.

"I will incorporate crypto when needed, but a lot of times, it's not," he said. "It's really a small percentage of what the world needs."

Submission + - China Successfully Launches Reusable Suborbital Carrier Vehicle (spacenews.com)

AltMachine writes: China conducted a clandestine first test flight of a reusable suborbital vehicle Friday as a part of development of a reusable space transportation system. The vertical takeoff and horizontal landing (VTHL) vehicle launched from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center Friday and later landed at an airport just over 800 kilometers away at Alxa League in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) announced. The test follows a September 2020 test flight of a “reusable experimental spacecraft”. The spacecraft orbited for days, releasing a small transmitting payload and later deorbited and landed horizontally. So far, not a single real photo of either plane has been revealed. According to CASC’s China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the aim was full reusability, moving beyond partial reusability of Falcon 9-like launchers, though several Chinese companies are also developing reusable rockets. While the U.S. X-37B, a rocket-launched spaceplane, has flown several times, Boeing exited the Experimental Spaceplane (XSP) program, also known as the XS-1 program, another VTHL concept.

Submission + - SPAM: Netflix Plans to Offer Video Games in Push Beyond Films, TV

An anonymous reader writes: Netflix, marking its first big move beyond TV shows and films, is planning an expansion into video games and has hired a formerElectronic ArtsandFacebookexecutive to lead the effort. Mike Verdu will join Netflix as vice president of game development, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters, the company said on Wednesday. Verdu was previously Facebook’s vice president in charge of working with developers to bring games and other content to Oculus virtual-reality headsets. The idea is to offer video games on Netflix’s streaming platform within the next year, according to a person familiar with the situation. The games will appear alongside current fare as a new programming genre — similar to what Netflix did with documentaries or stand-up specials. The company doesn’t currently plan to charge extra for the content, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the deliberations are private.
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Submission + - SPAM: NASA: Moon 'Wobble' In Orbit May Lead To Record Flooding On Earth

An anonymous reader writes: Every coast in the U.S. is facing rapidly increasing high tide floods. NASA says this is due to a "wobble" in the moon's orbit working in tandem with climate change-fueled rising sea levels. The new study from NASA and the University of Hawaii, published recently in the journal Nature Climate Change, warns that upcoming changes in the moon's orbit could lead to record flooding on Earth in the next decade. Through mapping the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) sea-level rise scenarios, flooding thresholds and astronomical cycles, researchers found flooding in American coastal cities could be several multiples worse in the 2030s, when the next moon "wobble" is expected to begin. They expect the flooding to significantly damage infrastructure and displace communities.

While the study highlights the dire situation facing coastal cities, the lunar wobble is actually a natural occurrence, first reported in 1728. The moon's orbit is responsible for periods of both higher and lower tides about every 18.6 years, and they aren't dangerous in their own right. "In half of the Moon's 18.6-year cycle, Earth's regular daily tides are suppressed: High tides are lower than normal, and low tides are higher than normal," NASA explains. "In the other half of the cycle, tides are amplified: High tides get higher, and low tides get lower. Global sea-level rise pushes high tides in only one direction – higher. So half of the 18.6-year lunar cycle counteracts the effect of sea-level rise on high tides, and the other half increases the effect." But this time around, scientists are more concerned. With sea-level rise due to climate change, the next high tide floods are expected to be more intense and more frequent than ever before, exacerbating already grim predictions.

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Submission + - Fifteen Percent of US Air Force F-35s Don't Have Working Engines (thedrive.com)

Areyoukiddingme writes:

At a hearing before the U.S. House Committee on Armed Services’ Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces yesterday, Air Force Lieutenant General Eric T. Fick, director of the F-35 Joint Program Office, confirmed that 41 U.S. Air Force F-35s, as well as one Joint Strike Fighter belonging to the U.S. Marine Corps, another from the U.S. Navy, and three that had been delivered to foreign air forces were grounded without engines. Those figures were as of July 8.


Comment Suffering is the best teacher (Score 0) 144

Big C Communists do whatever they want.

Little c communists get knelt down in front of a ditch and shot in the back of the neck, by the order of Big C Communists.

Academia, scientists / engineers, financiers, techies always assume they are in the Big C Communist club.

Until they are kneeling in front of the ditch, about to be shot in the neck by someone who is themself also already marked for deletion.

Such is the glorious revolution and the 'heroes of the revolution'.

Your Great Reset is just a return to the old world order. The time before Liberty.

Comment The CIA has picked their side (Score 1) 100

and it's not with the We the People. They've done this election meddling in many other countries and our own now. You only have to understand the plan of the World Economic Forum & how it will shoe-horn the pathway for Agenda 21, 30 & 50. Lockstep is what they've chosen for us. Just read the Rockefeller plans https://principia-scientific.c...

Big tech, Big Pharma, Big Retail have been chosen to crush citizens and turn them into peasants who own nothing, rent everything and wil be 'happy'. Same thing the South said about their slaves. How lucky they were to be owned. How they couldn't take care of themselves.
https://humansarefree.com/2020...

Conspiracy Fact. Call me whatever your little minds want. War is coming.

Comment Re:Why should you hire me? (Score 0, Troll) 77

Bill Gates is the man for whom the acronym FUD...fear, uncertainty and doubt... was created. He destroyed better companies that had better products using those techniques.
He is a Eugenicist who wants to eliminate more than 2/3rds the world population...just look at his efforts in Africa, his polio vaccines that cause POLIO. Next it will be coming to a country near you. With Event 201, The World Economic Forum, The Ecohealth Alliance and other globalist interests he intends to keep sending you his updates...forever...only now you can't change over to Linux. Your healthcare will be mandated, your vaccines will be mandated. You Social Credit Score will be determined by some algorithm based on some evil Eugenicist ideal. Techno-slavery will be your watchword and you scrape and bow for meager privilege under their new more hateful rat-race.
I swear eternal hostility against these tyrants.
He is my enemy.

Comment Sweden is a success story (Score -1, Troll) 249

I read the article and I paid attention to the FACTS listed in it which mention things like 'covid-related' deaths, whatever that means...does that mean the flu, common cold, unrelated pneumonias, what exactly does that even mean.

I also noted that 50K some number of deaths was ALL PEOPLE WHO DIED FOR ANY REASON in Sweden in the first half of this year.

This article is a joke written by a clown trying paint Sweden as a cautionary tale when in fact it is a great success story. They didn't OBEY and wear masks for no good reason. They didn't social distance and OBEY for no good reason. They treated Covid-19 like what it was...a coronavirus...like a more severe case of the common cold and they isolated the most vulnerable from society while letting Swedes go about the business of Sweden.

Comment Re:Some yes (Score 1) 104

Some people who claim to believe in Science always assume...for some bizarre reason...that systems are static, that resources are static, that variables are constants. You see this a lot with "environmental science" supporters. They set these silly parameters in their computer models and then go into hysterics with their projected "outcomes". What can I say, politicians LOVE them and make sure they get paid.

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