hanimmal
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It's the same reason why so many of our kids are still drinking out of lead pipes and stuck in asbestos filled buildings.
The Junk Drawer
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DIY-HP-LED
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It's what happens when citizens become taxpayers and civil servants become beaurocrats and are villainized by the same assholes who are holding you back now. Cutting costs creates surpluses to finance the tax cuts and loopholes paid for by the rich. Besides, better to waste it on an over expanded military than brown people get some too. Bussing and integration led to a breakdown and steady deterioration of the education system, it made school quality neighborhood by neighborhood, instead of statewide. The problem is other issues and culture wars are more important to voters than policy, patriotism or common sense, much less the common good. The cult of the individual and libertarianism are symptoms of an antisocial attitude to forming a caring sharing human community with the "other" and for some greed driven that can be anybody but themselves.
hanimmal
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Some of that sure, but really I think at the end of the day it comes down to how much rich white guys HATE being told they need to clean up the messes they make. Who knows, maybe it is kind of the same thing.
DIY-HP-LED
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Well for some strange reason they vote for the likes of Gaetz and MTG! So, something is jerking their chain while someone shits in their ear!
DIY-HP-LED
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cannabineer
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Herb & Suds
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DIY-HP-LED
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Time for a little laughter ... You need to think around "old people".
A tale from the wild, wild West ...
"An old woman walked up and tied her old mule to the hitching post.
As she stood there, brushing some of the dust from her face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
He looked at the woman and laughed,
"Hey old woman, have you ever danced?"
The woman looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No ... I never did dance ... Never really wanted to"
A crowd has gathered as the young gunslinger grinned and said, "Well you old bag, you're gonna dance now!", and started shooting at the old woman's feet.
The old woman prospector - not wanting to have her toes blown off- started hopping around. Many were laughing.
When his last bullet was fired, the gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old woman turned to her pack mule, pulled out a double-barrelled shotgun and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air, and the crowd immediately stopped laughing.
The gunslinger heard the sounds too, and turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening. The crowd watched tensely as he stared at the woman and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.
The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in her hands as she quietly said, "Son, have you ever kissed a mule's ass?"
The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No m'am, but I've always wanted too"
THERE ARE FIVE LESSONS HERE FOR ALL OF US:
1 - Never be arrogant.
2 - Don't waste ammunition.
3 - Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
4 - Always make sure you know who has the power.
5 - Don't mess with old people; they didn't get old by being stupid."
~John Mitchell~
"An old woman walked up and tied her old mule to the hitching post.
As she stood there, brushing some of the dust from her face and clothes, a young gunslinger stepped out of the saloon with a gun in one hand and a bottle of whiskey in the other.
He looked at the woman and laughed,
"Hey old woman, have you ever danced?"
The woman looked up at the gunslinger and said, "No ... I never did dance ... Never really wanted to"
A crowd has gathered as the young gunslinger grinned and said, "Well you old bag, you're gonna dance now!", and started shooting at the old woman's feet.
The old woman prospector - not wanting to have her toes blown off- started hopping around. Many were laughing.
When his last bullet was fired, the gunslinger, still laughing, holstered his gun and turned around to go back into the saloon.
The old woman turned to her pack mule, pulled out a double-barrelled shotgun and cocked both hammers. The loud clicks carried clearly through the desert air, and the crowd immediately stopped laughing.
The gunslinger heard the sounds too, and turned around very slowly. The silence was almost deafening. The crowd watched tensely as he stared at the woman and the large gaping holes of those twin barrels.
The barrels of the shotgun never wavered in her hands as she quietly said, "Son, have you ever kissed a mule's ass?"
The gunslinger swallowed hard and said, "No m'am, but I've always wanted too"
THERE ARE FIVE LESSONS HERE FOR ALL OF US:
1 - Never be arrogant.
2 - Don't waste ammunition.
3 - Whiskey makes you think you're smarter than you are.
4 - Always make sure you know who has the power.
5 - Don't mess with old people; they didn't get old by being stupid."
DIY-HP-LED
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
Look to the heavens to see how the Geico lizard REALLY feels about the customer
Herb & Suds
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cannabineer
Ursus marijanus
a great nativity scene
Roger A. Shrubber
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more teasing...why is it always the last few lines that say essentially the same thing?
"At the moment we’re spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do,” said Chittenden. “We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor.”
Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years – and possibly decades – before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change.
“This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years,” Friedmann said. “This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/us/common-questions-nuclear-fusion-climate/index.html
if it's decades in the future, call me in decades, no interest at the moment...
"At the moment we’re spending a huge amount of time and money for every experiment we do,” said Chittenden. “We need to bring the cost down by a huge factor.”
Scientists will also need harvest the energy produced by fusion and transfer it to the power grid as electricity. It will take years – and possibly decades – before fusion can be able to produce unlimited amounts of clean energy, and scientists are on a race against the clock to fight climate change.
“This will not contribute meaningfully to climate abatement in the next 20-30 years,” Friedmann said. “This the difference between lighting a match and building a gas turbine.”
https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/12/us/common-questions-nuclear-fusion-climate/index.html
if it's decades in the future, call me in decades, no interest at the moment...
DIY-HP-LED
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That's why I figure deep geothermal has better odds of success quicker and can be deployed by multiple companies and countries at once if it works out over the next 2 to five years. If it works, governments and companies will jump on it fast, the only real new tech is using gyrotrons to bore the deep holes into bedrock. Everything else on the surface is tried and true and can even be converted to deep geothermal. If you are looking for something that can significantly disrupt the energy market over the next 20 to 30 years, this could be it, pending experimental results. If say they prove it to viable in 5 years, what would the news do to the oil and gas markets as demand started to diminish and more importantly economic projections put the witting on the wall? Sell it now or leave it the ground or sell it later for near nothing.
Roger A. Shrubber
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at the moment it all looks like to be at about the same level of feasibility...it's all up in the air, and which ever one comes down first will be the one they run with...hope it's a good one.
DIY-HP-LED
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An eventful day, had a snow storm and now rain, the power went out for a couple of hours and I was just involved in a hit and run accident. A fender bender and my car is still drivable, he went through a stop sign hit me and took off, with a cop right across from me in the intersection! The lights came on and off they went while I got out and assessed the damage, then after waiting for a spell I went home and called the cops. The cop just left after making the report and giving me an incident number for the insurance company, seems they caught him after he damaged the cop car too! I got cops coming by to take pictures later and I'll go down to the station tomorrow for a statement. It seems he didn't have insurance either, but the cop told me with the incident number they will pay anyway, dunno about rate increases though. The statement will be short, I didn't see him until he hit me and the cop stopped right there to avoid hitting him saw more!
Oh well a police statement tomorrow and a call to the insurance company, it's an older Toyota echo, so it might even be written off. It's still drivable and the lights are ok etc, but it might cost more to fix than it is listed for, body work isn't cheap these days.
Oh well a police statement tomorrow and a call to the insurance company, it's an older Toyota echo, so it might even be written off. It's still drivable and the lights are ok etc, but it might cost more to fix than it is listed for, body work isn't cheap these days.
Herb & Suds
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Glad you’re uninjured
Roger A. Shrubber
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a brief timeline of walmart...they didn't exist...they existed...they ran thousands of small businesses out of business...they have no competition, so they can sell what they want, when they want, and suck a dick if you don't like it, where ya gonna go? to all the small hardware and home goods stores we destroyed? MUAHAHAHAHA fuck consumers...
they cut staff so that they can make larger profits, but they say rampant theft may make them have to shut down some stores...so....hiring some more staff and reactivating those staffed checkouts is so fucking expensive that it would be better to just close those stores...¿
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-and-customers-blame-self-checkout-shoplifting-rising-theft-2022-12
they cut staff so that they can make larger profits, but they say rampant theft may make them have to shut down some stores...so....hiring some more staff and reactivating those staffed checkouts is so fucking expensive that it would be better to just close those stores...¿
https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-employees-and-customers-blame-self-checkout-shoplifting-rising-theft-2022-12
DIY-HP-LED
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I noticed barriers are installed in the grocery store since a few weeks ago to control traffic and to reduce theft. Grocery prices have gone through the roof, I don't care what the official numbers say, the price of somethings has tripled and doubled or gone up by 1/3 at least. I figure some folks are becoming desperate, those on fixed incomes and the poor. Unemployment is low and it is driving up wages, but as far as I know inflation is mostly caused by unchecked and unregulated corporations, just look at their profits for an answer. The supply chain issues for a host of things from one or two suppliers prove their monopoly or near positions, the antitrust laws are a joke along with the IRS, another thing republicans killed. Wages and fuel have not increased that much and as far as I know we are not short of food in North America.
