As long as a plant stores carbon in the form of cellulose and lignin, and it continues to grow, it is a net CO2 sink. That's all that matters; anything else is a matter of efficiency; maybe one species is better than another. Kudzus strike me as an option. We could literally take that cellulose and turn it into neutral charcoal (burn it) and dump it in a subduction zone in deep part of the ocean, or make giant algae farms and pump the resulting biomass underground. I'm certain either would be more efficient (energy and economically) than this operation.

Is this the same guy that proved time travel was possible by generating a negative energy density gravitational lens using any common coffee maker?

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Personally, I took that change as a feature upgrade. So little of the suggested videos on that page were of interest to me that I long ago set my youtube shortcut to my subscriptions page--i.e. stuff I'm actually interested in seeing.

There's at least a couple of tiers of demonetization, and most of them just mean the creator doesn't receive any money from ads, but they often still play.

If this becomes a thing here, I'll make it a habit to prop open the door with some handy box of frozen food, until it goes away. One anti-social turn deserves another.

On the contrary, design wise it makes perfect sense. Millennials grew up watching reading and playing games about those 80's near future dystopias. Millennials now make up the bulk of the work force designing, manufacturing and buying vehicles. We're actively on the slide into a near future-dystopia, why not have a vehicle that's fitting for the setting?

One need only look to Marx's personal life to see that his philosophy applied to a macro scale is doomed to fail, as it doesn't much matter what people say so much as what they do. Marx lived his philosophy honestly during his lifetime: he waxed forever about the needs of the worker, but was far removed from any understanding of work. He was a professional moocher born to minor nobility / merchant class family. The only reason he kept fed during adulthood was he mooched off of Engles, after his own family tired of his mooching. Then he mooched off his students and his other cult members after Engles tired of him, and then he mooched off his wife's family, as he bid his time to implement his economic philosophy on a grand scale where ultimately he planned to mooch off of everyone. Fortunately he died too soon to see that phase of his plan.

More to the point, China themselves do not allow TikTok, because they know exactly what kind of a cancer upon the people it is. The version they have in China is much, much less toxic--staggeringly so--and much more... Cultivated. Perhaps even a bit in the Taoist meaning of the word.

Secondly, if China has enough power over TikTok to block a sale, they have enough power to exfiltrate any data from the company to the party, or have the party control the company. This would be obvious to people who understand how companies in China are made to operate, no matter what the CEO says in front of Congress; as once a company reaches a large enough size they're basically forced to take on Party bureaucrats in as employees / observers / spies for the party, to have board positions occupied by state agents, and to literally have the state be stake owners in the company.

It could work if it was set in the office of the think tank / focus group division of Warner Bros. Studios. go full on Animaniacs / mockumentary with it, except with elves, dwarves, men, ents, wraiths, orcs, wizards and all of the rest running the show--you know, instead of poly-amorous two-spirit / trans-queeroids whose personalities identify as neglected ficus trees.

For the last 15 years or so the M61 combat loadout has been 100% semi armor piercing high explosive incendiary. A balloon skin is not going to create near enough resistance to cause the zirconium component to ignite the explosive / incendiary compound, so you're just punching (kinda big) holes.

The main problem with using that kind of ammo over the continental US is it does not have a self destruct function, as do some 20mm rounds, and so you're going to spray potentially dozens of bullets which if fired from 60k feet will ultimately fall to the ground and explode after traveling a VERY long distance, potentially injuring people / property and starting wild fires. The risk of most of that is next to zero over the ocean, naturally.
An AIM 9 makes better sense over terrain, as not much is going to make it to the ground, and what does is going to be quite inert / spread over a very wide area by the time it reaches earth.

It would be possible to swap in some of the self-destructing ammo like is used in the Phalanx, but it's not going to be ballistically matched to the targeting computer, possibly making the predicted lead and drop be quite a ways off. All that being said, you are overstating the size of the bullet hole in a balloon. 20mm is roughly 3/4 inch. Dozens of holes of that size in a balloon the size of several school buses just doesn't amount to much. As compared to a high explosive missile warhead projecting a radial fragmentation pattern that's designed to cut through airframes at hypersonic velocity? The bullets holes are tiny in comparison.

There will however be much more balloon material left over after whacking it with an autocannon, creating a drogue / streamer effect, greatly reducing the terminal velocity of the unit, increasing the odds of recovering it in one piece dramatically.

Pelosi didn't kowtow because your newly elected radical leftists didn't push their position. They had the opportunity to effect whatever changes they had in mind by hamstringing the speaker nomination and they just sat there with their thumbs up their collective asses.

At any rate, it's the silent moderate majority of both parties that are being suppressed, the louder minority drowns them out.

Well, it's not like every major government in the world forked over a ton of money to help in the development and production of the vaccines. I'm sure these poor altruists really lost a ton of money, as they invested all of their money into the development of this safe and effective therapy. We should be grateful as these these paupers practically took the shirts off their backs and put them on humanity collectively, giving us a big hug and a pat on the head, telling us it was going to be OK.

That all sounds rather implausible, as even with zero interest, at $25/month a $30,000 debt would take exactly 100 years to pay off. And among the numerous flaws with your story, this is the least embarrassing.

Because of how the medical system works in the US, it's a practical impossibility to get one bill from "the hospital". Just about every individual doctor you might see, especially if they're specialists like surgeons, the radiologist, the anesthetist, the lab that checked out your blood and other lab work, often even the pharmacy which lives in the hospital all work as subcontractors to the hospital. Meaning, each one gives you a bill. A two day hospital stay easily could net you a half dozen or more bills, which of course, all come due at once. It's enough of a spaghetti chase that it's often impossible to determine if a particular doctor bill is legitimate--it's not uncommon for some offices to bill you for a visit or a service that was never rendered.

Furthermore, no creditor is going to lend you $30k rent free for long periods of time while you make payments well below the rate of inflation. Just not going to happen; not sustainable. Thirdly, even if you are making payments, debts like those (especially the main hospital bill) are counted on your credit, just as any other debt. It is factored into your credit rating, and will influence creditors when applying for credit.

Argentina is not banning emoji, Italy is not requiring all babies to be dressed in pink or blue, and Morocco is not going to require GPS to tax bicycles by the mile.

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If he was in a position to make sketchy business deals, it was on the sole basis that he is the Big Guy's...Little Guy. Why else would these companies / countries have any relation to a cracked out, dropped on his head attorney who would have rightly been dishonorably (had his name been anything other than Biden) discharged from the Navy (guess who commissioned him nine months prior) from Delaware, with absolutely no history or experience in the field of these businesses, or regions in which those companies operated? They wouldn't. The only reasonable answer is, at a minimum, these companies and countries wanted back door access to The Big Guy's office and influence, and they wanted to use Biden Jr to facilitate that end. The most probable explanation is he was tantamount to be installed on those boards by Big Guy himself, just like how papa got son his Navy job.