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Comment Re:Obvious distraction is obvious (Score 1) 89

By that you mean the one that's actually releasing documents?

Don't get me wrong: this took way too fucking long, the 'censoring' part was necessary to try to protect victims but took too long AND was done completely incompetently.

And ultimately, I'm pissed because nobody's IN FUCKING JAIL. (Ghislane or her body-double excepted.)

So yeah, lots and lots wrong with the process but let's not let our TDS prevent remembering that Biden *also* had all these documents but he was uninterested in releasing them at all.

Comment Re:Ah yes, the EPA (Score -1, Troll) 32

The mandate of the EPA and the 1970 clean air act have nothing to do with climate change and CO2 isn't a pollutant. They never did and it never was.

That the Left feels anyone is buying this little exercise in bureaucratic land-grabbing is funny; that they insist a 2007 Supreme Court ruling proves it so simultaneously claiming that the same Supreme Court ruling it otherwise today would just be a conservative court playing politics makes it hilarious.
Well, nobody ever accused the left of excessive self-awareness.

Since the 1970s, the left has relied heavily on courts to advance their agenda they couldn't pass democratically (you know, because everyone's dumber than they are). That this court is undoing that vast overreach isn't politics, it's housecleaning.

Comment Re:monkeys boutta die out (meaning you) (Score 1) 113

So pretend it's a genuine question instead of trying to be clever?

If 90% of the span of a system's resting state is MUCH warmer, but it has been slowly cooling over time, how theoretically will a small increase in that system's warmth suddenly "set off uncontrollable warming"?

Let's walk through an example:
I have a beaker of water at 140F. T=seconds.
If I let it cool/warm as follows:
T= 0 140
T= 50 40
T= 100 120
T= 150 0
T= 200 -40
T= 250 110
T= 300 60
T= 350 50
T= 400 80
T= 450 140
T= 494 40
T= 499 -20
T= 500 0
I'd love to understand how when T=500.001 if it goes to +10 that will somehow set off uncontrollable cascade of warming?

ELI5, professor.

Yes, this is essentially the path of earth's climate the last 500m years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Re:I have it on my car (Score 1) 299

I would rather not run into the back wall of my garage.

1) I drive in
2) I MUST step on brake to stop driving forward.
3) engine stops
4) I put in park
5) car stops
6) I press the ignition button to kill the engine
7) engine stops

I invite you to explain how I can enter my garage and kill my engine without touching the brake.

Comment Re:The profit isn't from their cars (Score 3, Interesting) 45

This is a lie.
Covered in their FAQ (https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-reliability-owner-satisfaction/consumer-reports-car-reliability-faq-a1099917197/)

"They use a weighted system that prioritizes issues based on severity, safety, and potential to cause a vehicle to be taken out of service."

I have a friend who is a big Rivian advocate and will talk your ear off about how awesome the brand is while admitting that his actual vehicle is an unreliable piece of shit.

Comment I have it on my car (Score 3, Insightful) 299

....so when I get home, I drive into the garage, come to a stop, car kills.
So I press the button to turn the car off 1 sec later, it restarts ... so it can then shut off.

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.

Here's an idea: let me, as a consumer, decide if that "energy savings" is worth my hard earned $0.000266 ?

I don't even think people would mind much if it was installed by default. It's the "automatically on whenever you start the car" that's bullshit.

But...ecomarxists know better than the rest of us.

Comment Re:monkeys boutta die out (meaning you) (Score -1, Troll) 113

Quick question:
I apologize for questioning a fundamental tenet of the eschatology, but if the majority (something around 90%) of earth's history has been SUBSTANTIALLY warmer than today, how will slight warming now "suddenly turn into a runaway process" ?

Routinely, over the last 5m years, about every 140k or so there have been rather sudden warming increases, with a general decline thereafter. Where did that mechanism go?

Comment Re:Convince your Boomer parents and Gen x buddies (Score 1) 149

"it's not socially acceptable to point out that Republicans are bad"
In what universe?
Link me 3 posts you've made in the last year that don't, somehow, outright blame Republicans for any bad thing or suggest it.

"Obama never lied"
Jesus Christ.
- "We have excluded lobbyists from policymaking jobs"
- He promised, and then routinely claimed, he 'tried' to shut down Guantanamo Bay detention camp
- "You can keep your doctor"
- "Nobody is listening to your telephone calls"
- The Benghazi attack was the result of an internet video
- "Fast and Furious program was a field-initiated program begun under the previous administration."

So, ironically (but unsurprisingly) your post is...full of lies.

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