| Author | Message | ||
     Ebutch |
Yea what would ale gore Think    | ||
| Hootowl |
Bill has lost his mind. https://www.foxnews.com/science/bill-nye-explains- global-warming-the-planet-is-on-f-ing-fire | ||
| Ebutch |
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| Aesquire |
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2019/06/crimes -in-concrete Architecture. The soul of a city. Since The Soviet Revolution & the Rise of the Fascist State, basically the late 19th-20th centuries, the Modernist Movement has altered the sky lines, beauty, attitudes, and demographic of cities. In America it shows best in towers of unsurpassed ugliness. Filing cabinets for the poor. "The Projects", English Council Housing, Everything Soviet. Entire multi block neighborhoods of family houses and empty factories, transformed into high rise apartments with government landlords. ( In Rochester ) Concrete bunkers with little insulation poured in illogical zig zags by local contractors unable to build higher by lack of skills to exceed a few stories altitude, ( which any medieval builder could best in education, skill, and esthetic sense ) Cold damp caves heated by electric baseboard heat. ( Because the Mayor's relatives that won the contracts were incompetent, and too over budget, for anything more efficient. ( the most expensive heat locally ) ) But few see the low leaky prison like barracks. The skyline is dominated by Towers! But not lofty aspirations to reach the heavens. Dour, identical, concrete pillars. ( that look like filing cabinets for people ) or occasional piles of blocks inspired by a three year old's asymmetric pile abandoned when cartoons came on, and the Architect was excited by a not-a-rectangle anything. And of course, elevators smelling of urine, crumbling concrete, unsafe stairs, a concentration of crime, and drifting garbage in the icy winds. ( or humid heat for the brief summers of rot & mildew ) And ugly. Seriously Ugly. Politics in concrete. The speed of crumbling is in proportion to the level of corruption. Russian housing famously is decaying as it's built. The more socialist, the uglier, the fastest decay. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.dwr.com/designer-le-corbusier The designer disliked by the author, above. The Chair is the great example of a designers genius, IMHO. Simple? Silly? Nay! How comfortable you are and how obtrusive it is, it's the basic item in how you feel at the end of the day. Remember Archie Bunker? His Chair ( like my Father's ) was both haven, and statement of rank. It's a TV Trope, as well. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ThisIs MyChair A few of the Le Corbusier chairs are fairly comfortable. The sling chair in particular, but it is really upscale camping equipment in unfolding, cold, pretentious leather & chrome. Fake luxury concealing lack of utility. And all his designs have steel, toe hating, frame works that are hazards to live with, and often are just a classic club chair in a chrome plated cage. In contrast! https://www.dwr.com/designer-eero-saarinen?lang=en _US Aside from the Tulip Table & chairs for dining, which is pretty but a pain, ( heavy hard to scoot swivel chairs and an obstacle under the table ) his stuff is elegant, comfortable, and sometimes impractical, but darn it, not a bit oppressive. Yeah, I have some of his chairs & a table. I'm biased. | ||
| Hootowl |
“Fake luxury concealing lack of utility.” This is profound. Sums up my thoughts on most of the “modern” architectural movement, and describes a great many things. | ||
| Aesquire |
I was going to do a rant on furniture comfort and Marxism, but it would be so obvious & obscure at the same time. Anecdote. When I moved into my current house, ( first house that was solo adult mine, aka The Bank's ) I had the typical hand me down sofa & kitchen table, solid, but not chosen, and asked friends for more old chairs. An eclectic mix of old wood kitchen chairs almost all with the word Grandma in their history. Weird, but useable, and I was resisting the college rental cable spool & beanbag solution. My friends and I struggle with that level of flexibility to escape them. Then a buddy gave me 2 armless Thonet bentwood 1950's "Danish modern" chairs he'd bought at auction when they closed a local Nunery. Old Nun's Home? Anyhoo. Now I had a theme. Jetsons! Aka scandahoovian Modern, aka 1950's futuristic. Since I believe enthusiasm should be overdone, I set out to become expert in this stuff, and discovered 2 really obvious truths. 1. Furniture is expensive. 2. You HAVE to sit on something to tell if it's comfortable, and if you can nap on it. Further research determined that IKEA makes one comfortable chair. I sat on all the different ones. Seriously. And the Poang is it. Almost all the Future chairs, suck. Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen being apparently among the few that actually got the idea that humans were involved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Ea mes Charles & Ray also did short films. Please watch... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powers_of_Ten_(film) I had to stop being a chair freak once I'd overloaded the house.  but I have a selection from Roman camp chairs to modern office. My "that's mine" chair is a Saarinen office chair, bought used from an office liquidation house in Chicago, and re-upholstered locally with fresh foam & NOS Ray Eames "jacks" fabric a household member who sells antique fabric found for me. I bought 2 other Eero office chairs for the Man Cave which were rebuild in a different comet pattern '50s material. ( same sources ) Everyone who visits looks at these bucket seats from Star Trek and is dubious. Then after trying, they all want one. Then I show them the current model. https://www.dwr.com/workspace-chairs/saarinen-exec utive-armchair-with-casters/7211.html?lang=en_US#l ang=en_US&start=10 I've got about $500 go to in all three rebuilt chairs. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/calif ornia_descending_to_third_world_status_with_emplan nedem_electricity_blackouts_for_up_to_a_week.html | ||
| Aesquire |
For the war gamers out there. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fVet82IUAqQ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://cei.org/blog/can-trump-save-your-air-condi tioner-deep-state | ||
| Gregtonn |
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/5g-networ ks-could-wreak-havoc-on-weather-forecasting-offici als-warn/ar-AABvHyA?li=BBnb7Kz Are they seriously worried about their forecast accuracy record? G  | ||
| H0gwash |
Le Corbusier was sort of a fabulist full of fascinating, expensive and showy ideas, so he would have agreed those concrete filing cabinet are towers ugly. But sadly, ugly skyscrapers are a fairly honest expression of modern corporate capitalism. It is who we are. At least you can put a nice inexpensive comfortable chair from IKEA in those ugly skyscrapers. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Architectural_ Work_of_Le_Corbusier The rant against Le Corbusier, in the link above, accused him of the filing cabinet stuff. I think it's a mix. Judge for yourself. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/05/17/guardi an-re-names-climate-change-global-heating-to-sound -scarier/ No science, just emotion. There's a reason it's the Climate Con. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/05/batteri es-cannot-make-renewables-reliable/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/05/glo bal-warming-it-can-do-anything.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147814-the-nuc lear-power-vendetta-or-the-greatest-environmentali st-hypocrisy-of-all-time I do not agree with all statements made in this article, but want to point out the actual insanity of pumping CO2 into rock strata and ocean floor dumping! First, if fraking is Satanic, with a little water causing earthquakes, then high pressure toxic gas that can dissolve rock is indescribable. Even ignoring the certainty that the CO2 will find A way to leak through rock fissures, A well blowout like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill would release a ground hugging cloud of death. Not with unlimited reach, if course, a giant has spill in New Jersey won't hurt me a mountain range and 600 miles away. Suck to be in Newark, though. And spraying CO2 into the Ocean in the hopes it will just desecrate a few hundred square miles of ocean floor, ( not a sterile environment, and what effect on the ecosystem? ) and not be disturbed by quakes, currents, or man made triggers, to just if lucky dissolve into the water quietly, to be released right back into the air.. Seems more likely than a methane clathrate Apocalypse. I could be wrong, but "time bomb" and local extinction event come to mind. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/clima te_and_the_fate_of_corn.html Global Cooling is a potential REAL crisis. If we are returning to 19th century cold days, expect, simply, a lot of dead people. Warm times give bumper crop yield, a well fed planet and a population growth, see the 1100's 1930's & late 1990's through this past year. Contrast with the early 1400's etc. Pretty much the opposite of the Climate Con warnings, warm = good, cold = bad. Just look at historical time lines & temperatures. Cold leads to low crop yield leads to starvation & poor nutrition, more disease, and, for thousands of years, war, over resources & take advantage of crippled armies. It's skipping the middle to state cold=war, but it's truth. Even the reduction in human food surplus caused by the U.S. corn to fuel program has caused war & mass refugee movements in N. Africa to Europe. Sure, the politics of Greenie ( shiploads of food rotting because of GMO hysteria ) Socialist dictators,, ( theft of aid & genocidal withholding of food to enemy regions ) and Islam, ( pre medieval 'tude. ) & of course, Obama, ( all three ) is a major cause of human suffering. The corn to fuel caused reduction in global food surplus just was a trigger, a pin in the over inflated balloon of misery. This year's potential crop losses/yields might be an even bigger trigger. ( caused, yep, by Cooling ) | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2019/05/colorad o-xcel-energys-green-dreams-farce/ Theft. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/05/freez ing_in_july.html | ||
| Aesquire |
The advertising on Microsoft's solitare game today has a video that goes on about how humans do wonderful stuff and then says we face our greatest challenge with Climate Change...... & trails off as clickbait. I can complete that sentence truthfully. ...Climate Change con men. While the Climate Con hasn't completely stolen all the money and attention from Real pollution problems, they have sucked the pop culture wind out of the goal of helping to clean up the rest of the planet now that Western Civilization has made great progress at home. So with a highly publicized raft of plastic garbage in the Pacific full of mostly Chinese crap, the response is self righteous banning of plastic straws in rich California, and never, ever, one word about even politely asking the Chinese dictatorship to clean up their act. Why? Apparently because Red China's dictator has embraced the Soviet model of ruining Western Industry to advance his own. Thus the eagerness to push Climate Change bullcrap on us while having zero interest in reducing their own pollution. After all, THEY know it's a con, and are thrilled to expand at our expense, as our neo-marxists like Sandy the taco waitress push for total destruction of our freedoms and wealth. Has Sandy, or Chuck you Schumer ever proposed asking China not to pollute? Suggested we can help China or India burn coal in a less polluting way? Or stop burning coal and burning clean natural gas we can sell them thanks to fracking? ( despite the best criminal efforts of the Obama administration ) Not that I know of. So, again, obviously, pollution isn't a problem for the Greenies. Only Power, and stealing your money & freedom. And that's the bottom line. Thus the greatest challenge to face mankind in the 21st century is Climate Change Dictator wannabes. They are the biggest threat to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. | ||
| Hootowl |
Hard science sure differs from the opinion that passes for science these days. https://youtu.be/gUdtcx-6OBE | ||
| Aesquire |
That was very nice until the final minute when they added human Warming. And IMHO the woolly rhinos, like mammoths, went extinct because they were delicious. Or from a history tech buff view, when stone tipped spears and growing human population made large amounts of protein on the hoof a viable food source for cooperative hunters with the latest in weapon technology. I'm certain there were complaints that fire hardened wood spears were what the founding tribesmen were talking about, not these new fangled atlatls with stone assault points! | ||
| Wiscokid |
so when there were 10s to 100s of thousands of people we were able to change the environment through our eating habits but now that there are thousands of millions of us we do not have the ability to change the environment through our impacts, sounds great buddy. | ||
| Aesquire |
Why would you think that? Of course mankind affects the planet. Consider the probability that the increase in Chinese & Indian coal plants without modern technology to clean the output, would put so much soot & fly ash into the air to cool a large area, even the entire planet. Or is it more likely that giving up your money to a politician will change the climate? | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://thefederalist.com/2019/05/30/sorry-alarmis ts-climate-chaos-not/ "It’s true that 2019 has seen a spike in tornadoes, but mostly because 2018 was the first year recorded without a single violent tornado in the United States. Tornadoes killed 10 Americans in 2018, the fewest since we started keeping track of these things in 1875, only four years after the nefarious combustion engine was invented." (I don't understand no violent tornadoes in 2018, but yet they killed 10 Americans.) | ||
| Aesquire |
Define violent? An insignificant amount of lava will kill you. Define that as under an acre covered in glowing liquid rock. If you were in that acre........... Iirc storm chasers are in that tornado fatality number in 2018. I'd guess the "not violent" tornado doesn't tear through a town, but just tears up some crops and sheds in flyover country. The weather system that has flooded the plains states, especially my childhood region, has spawned a lot of thunderstorms. Location location location! Restaurants and storm deaths. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/06/01/deling pole-how-president-trump-can-out-green-the-prince- of-wales/ Great ideas! Wiscokid, where did you go? You got anything besides drive by sarcasm? Let's hear your side. Convince me. Use facts and logic, I dare you. I've long joked mammoth are extinct because we ate them. It's mostly true. There is some evidence that Climate change limited their food options, and big herbivores need mass amounts. On the CO2 side, the fact that the oceans warmer THEN CO2 increased, should inform you on the real role of human CO2 output in the equation. We do need to replace fossil fuels, and sooner the better. Unfortunately, as we see with the corn to fuel program, politicians will follow the bribes, not the science. We need to turn our waste into fuel, not use precious farm land and burn as much energy to make fuel ( alcohol ) as we get out of it. Your tax dollars make up the difference. Ironically, if we burned the diesel and natural gas used to grow the corn and make it into alcohol in our cars instead, there'd be a net gain to the environment, our wallets, and reducing world hunger. | ||
| Aesquire |
I admit some farmers would have lower profit margins if we didn't burn corn booze. You could sell the program as a support your farmers tax. |
