Nevertheless, here sits drinkypootin pretending that I have anything to do with Trump when for decades I've been advocating against exactly what Trump is doing. Meanwhile, if this were Bernie in office doing the exact same shit, drinkypootin would be offering to suck his dick. This is exactly the kind of contrarian conspiracy theorist fascist asshole that he is.
Wait until they start screaming "Where's the beef?" Prices are going up again, and with the trade tariffs, likely to go up even more. Brazil, Mex, and Canada all supply decent amounts.
You know what's crazy about all of that? I've consistently maintained the position that tariffs are a terrible idea, meanwhile people sitting in the same camp as that moron you're replying to, especially Bernie Sanders, have been demanding tariffs that entire time. I kept saying, for years, that putting up tariffs in the US wouldn't do anything to stop Australia from buying cheaper cars from China. And whatdya know? That's exactly what's happening right now.
What's even crazier about all of this is Bernie Sanders and drinkypoo go around calling other people fascist, yet look where their ideology comes from:
Maggots like AD think things ARE going real fucking great right now.
Unlike you, I don't deal in conspiracy theories or crack heroine. I only deal in what is observable and measurable. Hard data wins every single time.
https://www.ted.com/talks/hans...
Videos like that piss you off because you've got a narrative to sell, and the last thing a flimflammer like you needs is somebody going around proving that your product is nothing more than snake oil. You're not happy until you've convinced at least one other person that we're living in the worst period in all history. And then you want to prove that you're a rebel by pissing into the wind.
This is all the same shit the Republicans have been telling us for decades that they wanted to do, all of it.
People like Trump don't get into power by telling you that everything is ok. He's nothing more than a typical crisis politician. The only difference between you and him is which crisis you're trying to sell, and how successful he has been at it. Other than that, you are identical to him. You both severely overestimate your own ability, both of you are dumber than a rock. But he's in the Whitehouse, and you're spending your entire life underemployed.
honestly rsilvergun stocks up bigly right now thanks to you lot.
Which "lot" would that be?
Washington also has lots of ticks, including a soft-bodied tick species that carries relapsing fever.
One of them got me a couple years ago. Weird looking tick. I did not get relapsing fever, but I did get a quarter-sized welt at the bite and a four inch diameter red itchy zone around it. No other tick bite gave that kind of reaction. Impressive venom.
There used to be a plague vaccine, but apparently not anymore.
I'm not sure if it worked on the pneumonic version. That hits so fast your immune system doesn't really have time to ramp up.
Siemens reactors run for three days to a week continuously, any power glitch can cause the rods to cool enough to crack the bridges then that's it for that run.
The fluidbeds are a little more tolerant, but when the hydrogen compressors stop the bed settles and if the injectors plug then it's time for turn around and that is several days.
I don't know how the downstream processes would respond to a power bump. Does a CZ pull tolerate a short power outage? How about the wafer cutting, doping stages, and annealing?
The point is intermittent power does not work well with heavy industry, so it's either fossil fuel or hydroelectric.
Fortunately he only wants to.
I don't give anyone a "pass" but my options last November were to throw* in with the side that rioted all summer in 2020 over one thing or the side that rioted in the fall of 2020 and a little into 2021 over another thing.
To be clear, I took absolutely no pleasure in voting for a candidate who egged on any of the rioting, but we live in a two party state where you have to vote for the extremists who scare you less.
And by "scare less" I don't mean abstractions or philosophical disagreement, I mean simply who in my assessment is more likely to prevent me from going about my day-to-day life. Who's going to do more to stop me from going to get groceries? Who's going to do make it harder to fill up the gas tank? Keep the power on? Let me walk down the street without fear of being targetted for looking to white or too property-owning to be down with the revolution?
Trump's escapades might jack up the costs of some imports. Harris was egging on the anarchists and wheb in office was pushing Cali-style energy policies that *would* make the grid unreliable, that *would* wreak havoc with transportation of things like food.
Massachusetts chickened out of the California Truck EV mandate before Congress killed it recently:
https://commonwealthbeacon.org...
But not before commercial truck sales ground to a halt earlier this year before the mandate was "paused."
https://www.masslive.com/weste...
A little of that is a nuisance. A sustained end to commercial truck sales means the food doesn't get delivered and the trash piles up.
Just like the good old days of the Soviet Union where central planning in service of ideology took precedence over boring things like keeping the lights on.
If the choice is between that and the capitol rioters....well that's not a choice, it's a hostage negotiation, and I didn't like the lockdowns and the mail ballot shenanigans all that much at the time.
*symbolically, since I live in an uncompetative one-party state and my vote is irrelevant
You and Donald, always stuck on campaign mode, and always stuck on stupid.
Good point. Society finally finds a use for all those psychology majors the universities produce and then fails to use them. I'm not saying they would do better, but using a bunch of misanthropes for crisis counseling isn't likely to work well.
That's the great question. Locally in Washington the 24 hour capacity factor in winter is usually under 10% between the short days and the heavy overcast that comes with the inversions. 7% is a pretty good number. So take nameplate and divide by 14.
Those same inversions bring in calm winds too, so you don't get much from wind. The good news is those conditions limit night-time lows to 15 F, and the daytime highs are around 25 F.
False. Even the AI knows better.
"In 2012, the Obama administration imposed tariffs on Chinese solar panels and cells. These tariffs were a response to complaints from a U.S. manufacturer, SolarWorld, alleging that Chinese companies were selling solar products in the U.S. at unfairly low prices (dumping) and benefiting from unfair subsidies. The tariffs, initially ranging from 30% to 250% depending on the manufacturer and product, aimed to "level the playing field" for American businesses and workers. "
The Solyndra affair was part of this. One result was the Chinese put a 57% tariff on US polysilicon. I was working in that industry at the time.
Now we humans have yet to figure it out and we've got as close a look as you're gonna get and millenia of time to ponder upon it.
This thing is a chatbot.
Maybe the guy who decided to try using chatbots for therapy is an npc chatbot himself. Sure would explain quite a bit.
Also...why in fuck's sake is there an ACM conference about "fairness"?
That's a pretty disingenuous argument. A universal ban on all plastic is politically (and economically) impossible at this point. Pushing for individual initiatives to eliminate certain kinds of plastic waste are achievable goals that can help us move away from plastics.
If someone has a minor political position or runs a nonprofit with limited funds and they manage to get plastic drinking straws banned in their municipality, they've done a small good. Changing the world for the better, even if it's in such a tiny way that it doesn't change the grand scheme of things, is both laudable and more than most people do. Regardless, the goal isn't to just ban plastic straws in one small town. The goal is to ban plastic straws and then move on to the next thing. The goal is to motivate other towns to also ban plastic straws.
One of the most important things about legislating plastic alternatives to common items is that it creates a market for those sustainable alternatives. And the more those sustainable alternatives are produced, the cheaper they get and the more viable they become even in places where there isn't a plastic ban. It also works the other way—the more consumers become used to using plastic alternatives (and form a negative view of plastics), the more demand there will be for those alternatives. Strategically, drinking straws are a great place to start because they are commonplace, easy to legislate/enforce, and alternatives already exist.
The idea that "Green people" only care about their goals if they try to achieve them with a hopeless moonshot is not a serious argument.
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