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Comment Re:2010 - 2016 (Score 0) 194

You don't think not leaving the house for months might have had something to do with it?

Which athletes weren't doing — sportsmen continue exercising every day — and yet, they also saw a dramatic increase of heart problems following the vaccination drive. The articles reporting on this rarely mention vaccinations (because the Faucis in government will will quickly pull their grants in retaliation), but we all remember, how athletes weren't allowed to compete without one...

And the Associated Press' "fact check" is just pathetic, confirming, rather than rebutting the claim.

Comment Re:And the coldest July of the rest of your life (Score 0) 132

She says when you sum up our hot July with other weather events, the reality of climate change becomes visible

Of course, she does. Because, it is only "weather", when it is unusually cold — and the "climate deniers" start "gloating".

It is "climate", when it is in the other direction — and things like "light retracted from Venus" and "polar vortex" have to be dragged-in — but the sarcasm flew right over you, didn't it?

Comment Re: What is CentOS stream's purpose? (Score 1) 73

> The second important clarification is that RHEL does not have "proprietary special sauce added". Yes it does, and Red Hat themselves have talked about it publicly, at least obliquely. While the source is open, the build environment, compile flag choices, etc. are entirely proprietary to Red Hat (I forget whether access to this information by customers is part of the subscription or not). When CentOS was acqui-hired, this was where a lot of the work involved in getting that done was spent -- putting a wall up between the RHEL build environment/etc. and that of CentOS so that there would not be even accidental leakage of RHEL build environment knowledge into CentOSâ(TM)s build process. Even before the acqui-hire, it was something Red Hat would point out to customers and prospects as evidence that CentOS was not "just like" RHEL.

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1) 128

The prosecutor was fired because

We do not know why. We do know, Biden insisted on his being fired as a condition for Ukraine getting American aid.

because he wasn't prosecuting

Ah, but he was! He was prosecuting the natural gas company, which was paying Hunter tens of thousands of dollars per month — despite the guy having no knowledge of Ukrainian (nor Russian) language, and neither legal nor gas-extraction background.

They also laid him off as soon as his daddy lost his position of influence.

Now, maybe the fired Shokin's pursuit of Burisma was in itself corruption-motivated, but there is a very profound appearance, Hunter was used as a conduit for funneling bribes to Joe Biden.

So profound, an investigation into the likely bribery was perfectly warranted...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 61

using an NYPost link

When did you start hating NYPost? Was it before or after their publishing the very accurate and later-confirmed expose about shocking materials from the Hunter Biden's laptop?

The failson would've ruined his senile father's election chances, so the FBI-ridden social-media companies, facing the threats by the top Democrats, suppressed the perfectly accurate reporting by the newspaper you continue to hate...

Or do you have something else to impeach my source?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 61

It's not

Whom are you trying to gaslight, boy? Are we supposed to forget the whole "Defund the police!" slogan advanced by the "anti-racist protesters"? Police and prison system too.

systemic injustice in society

There is systemic racism in college-admissions, yes, but that was just dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court, so it should diminish despite some rearguard opposition by the retreating hard-core racists of the Academia.

But the topic was crime, and there is no "systemic racism" in the Justice System — not since the early 1990-ies.

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1) 128

The found nothing that could be prosecuted.

Thank you for confirming, that — after lying for years, that "non-circumstantial" evidence exists — they found nothing.

They did find the former alleged president was Putin's bitch.

Bitch, please... The unimpeachable facts I listed earlier prove the exact opposite...

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1, Troll) 128

You missed "Tried to extort Ukraine to get political favors"

No such "extortion" took place. Criminal prosecution of an actual bribe-taker — who actually extorted Ukraine — is not extortion, it is doing the job. President, you surely remember, is the nation's top law-enforcer.

"Admires Putin"

He does consider Putin smarter than Biden, and I certainly agree with that. That's no admiration, though...

But good to see, you had nothing — zilch — on the items I did list.

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 3, Informative) 128

Trump follower here...

I too applaud Ukraine's resourcefulness, and wish to remind you, that while Trump was in office, Putin kept quiet. Because Trump:

Blocked Putin's alternative pipeline into Europe
Which meant, Ukraine was the primary route for Putin's carbohydrates to European markets.
Insisted, European nations build up their militaries
Which is, what they are hurrying to do now...
Insisted, European nations diversify their gas- and oil-supplies
Which is, what they started doing only after Putin's invasion
Provided Ukraine with real weapons
... such as the Javelins — after Obama/Biden limited themselves to supplying tents and sleeping bags. Indeed, today the collective Biden is still hang-wringing over providing F-16s to Ukraine, but under Trump American pilots have trained in the country, together with Ukrainian colleagues.

I can go on — but want to limit this post to stuff related to Ukraine directly.

Comment Re:Clean energy is not (Score 1) 145

This assumes there is zero environmental cost to petroleum extraction

No such assumptions made — nor implied. Indeed, my post makes no mention of "petroleum extraction" whatever.

In a comparison of lifetime emissions through the entire lifecycle EV's so far are still coming out ahead even with the "dirty" mining.

Your link compares the greenhouse gases emitted — not the actual poisons dumped into the environment. It also quietly skips the recycling part — counting only the mining of materials, manufacturing, and usage of the vehicle, whereas it is the disposition of a used-up lithium battery, that's possibly the dirtiest part...

"Greenhouse gases" are innocuous — even their link to "global warming" is tenuous — whereas the byproducts of building the modern EV's batteries are unquestionably poisonous.

Maybe, the next generation (torium or "sea salt" based ones?) will be better, and then we, the consumers, will switch to such cars, the way our ancestors switched from livestock-drawn carriages to automobile a 100+ years ago. Willingly, eagerly, and without governmental coercion.

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