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     Aesquire |
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t7bCOqDZpJA | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-supreme-court- reinstates-all-employees-fired-being-unvaccinated- orders-backpay All in all, it's just another crack in the wall. | ||
| Tpehak |
https://www.liberation.fr/sciences/2015/08/29/selo n-une-etude-scientifique-les-etudes-scientifiques- ne-sont-pas-fiables_1371394/ | ||
| Blake |
Guys: If you are taking TP's posts literally rather than sarcastically, you are missing the fun. Come on man! | ||
| Ducbsa |
Maskaholics! https://www.city-journal.org/article/return-of-the -masks | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/10/new som-elon-and-gascon.php Newsom appointee blocks Space Force launches because she's mad at Elon for promoting Trump over her Party. And is stupid enough to put that in writing. | ||
| Aesquire |
I don't know any Floridians who object to rocket launch noise, but I'm sure there are some. As a kid I lived for months at the apartments at the end of the runway at Offut. I assume rent was cheap, and the kids there watched the jets take off overhead. Low. Big jets. That's before the B-52 got upgraded to quieter turbofans. No uncracked plaster there, to be fair. Im not so ho you should look at a map before you buy a house and consider if the Sound of Freedom ( that's what the billboard called it down the street ) bothers you. Or maybe wonder why it's so cheap across the street from an artillery range. But some don't, and Demand they shut down LAX so their sleep isn't disturbed, after they move into that nice cul de sac on the ridge under the approach path. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ey2LtpwtHmk Staying Alive is good too. But don't use Another One Bites The Dust if relatives are there. | ||
| Hootowl |
I am surprised Kickstart My Heart did not make the cut. | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Tpehak |
https://www.oxfamfrance.org/communiques-de-presse/ oxfam-revele-que-jusqua-41-milliards-de-dollars-de -financements-climat-ne-figurent-pas-dans-les-bila ns-de-la-banque-mondiale/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=77RobHGXR5I | ||
| Aesquire |
The nasty not secret is if your climate model doesn't show what the Establishment demands, you don't get funding for anything else. Ever. And they won't admit dissenting data or models exist. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://scitechdaily.com/unlocking-earths-deepest- secrets-how-ancient-volcanoes-disrupted-our-climat e-and-reveal-paths-to-recovery/ Misleading headline. Yes, volcanoes released CO2. Paths to recovery? Wait millions of years isn't what I call a path. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/680899/ I don't recommend eating spoonfuls to prove it's harmless, but some contact is not high risk. Not recommending spraying swamps again, though. Hard on raptors. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/41-billion -world-bank-climate-finance-unaccounted-oxfam-find s My Climate Debt tolerance is zero. I didn't cause the asteroid strikes and volcanoes that cause major climate change, so you'd better be prepared to ask Vesuvius to pay before you get to me. Sue a comet. | ||
| Hootowl |
Hard on raptors? If you mean thin shells, that has been thoroughly debunked. Just another lie from silent spring. One of the most deadly books ever written. Higher body count than Mein Kampf. | ||
| Aesquire |
Thanks for the correction. It's a sad story. A writer dying of cancer and a book to defame the people she blamed. Then millions die from the regulation and hype pushed by the Watermelon cult. Ever noticed every action by the fake environmentalists hurts poor and the majority the racists call POC? Child labor in mines. Insect borne diseases. Trillion$ stolen from actually cleaning up hazardous waste. And then, there's the land where people are expendable resources. Red China. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20150402-the-wo rst-place-on-earth As the lake of toxic waste dries, the skin of solid on top powders and blows everywhere on the faintest breeze. The locals warn their children not to play there, after some died, falling through the crust. There are environmental regulations in China, but enforcement is dependent upon the bribes paid to government officials. ( And when they annoy Xi, for example, by not sending him his cut, saying something he doesn't like, or getting unwanted attention, he'll order them executed with a big ( internal, not international ) publicity stunt "trial" to show how awesome the Glorious Leader is. ) | ||
| Aesquire |
Science Fiction seldom predicts the future, it's Speculation about it, usually. It's funny when the speculation and reality match by coincidence or logic. A great example is first trip to the moon. Giant Cannon, from Verne, located in Florida! Anti-gravity handwavium from Wells. Multi-stage rocket by Heinlein. ( Pikes Peak ) The Florida location was chosen for orbital physics, accessibility, safety, and economic reasons. Incredibly well thought out. Same reasons that NASA launches there. Multi-stage rocket was chosen based on later ( than Verne ) Russian scientist theory, and later work by Goddard & Von Braun, by a retired U.S. Navy officer. Fast forward to this last year's nuclear bellicosity threats from Putin's agitprop minions and military leaders. https://www.newsweek.com/putin-russia-poseidon-nuc lear-torpedo-tsunami-1774946 This apocalypse weapon is apparently lifted from sci-fi Author Martin Caidin's novel The Last Fathom. Details differ, the critical location in the novel is the Puerto Rican Trench, ( not off Scotland as Russian propaganda animation showed ) and a robot super torpedo, instead of a submarine force planting a huge bomb. But same major mass murder effects and selective apocalypse. As pointed out in the novel, a nuclear tsunami strike in the Atlantic, would wreck the East Coast of America, and coastal Europe, while the least affected would be the Soviet Union. ( And China, which wasn't the player it is now, when book published ) That brings me to the observation that science fiction is also USED as inspiration for technology and war. The 9/11/2001 terror attacks idea were stolen from a Tom Clancy novel. The modern cell phone/pocket computer/electronic wallet idea was "lifted" from Mack Reynolds' books. And while I'm not sure who came up with the idea first, the invisibility panels on the SHIELD Helicarrier as seen in the Avengers movie series, was well described in Dean Ing's novel, Ransom Of Black Stealth One. Reality is weirder than fiction. Fiction is supposed to make sense. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://legalinsurrection.com/2024/11/lithium-ion- battery-explodes-at-missouri-recycling-plant/ Happy no one hurt. Best wishes on repairs and resumption of business. I've only owned one car that rusted out the gas tank, a 1984 Dodge van. @230,000 miles, Replaced it after draining, drove another 45,000 miles, sold it to a buddy, another 123,000 miles, then he sold it to a neighbor with fair warning it was at end of life. Engine and transmission died 2 weeks later. ( I won't buy cars from my buddy I sold the van to, he doesn't maintain them well. The 2003 Ford I sold him, his kid drove into a ditch with the guard rail opening the passenger side like a can opener held by a drunk, angry troll. So that doesn't count.  ) Imagine a world where you recycle gas tanks without draining them of fuel. That 28 gallon rusty tank had less than 5 gallons left, after I cruised it down, dripping fuel down the highway for 2 days.  It would have been a hazard all the way from his garage floor to the recycling center, without the ability to drain it and let it dry out. ( I judged the gas fumes in the breeze less ecologically damaging than gas contaminated water disposal ) New technology gives new problems along with new benefits. TANSTAAFL. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-c eo-complains-this-is-taking-too-long-after-investi ng-usd30b-but-receiving-zero-chips-act-funding I'm just gonna assume the money went to Obama-Biden* donors and friends. It's a pretty safe assumption. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm headed out to do yard work at my elderly and View Watching Mom's house. Weirdly, I have not abandoned all my friends who are horribly wrong, politically. Nor called for them to be viciously murdered. So you can tell I'm not a Leftist. But I do hope to test the range on my E-bike battery and maybe pick up a fire resistant BBQ pad for porches, to charge my batteries on. And never leave them charge overnight, or leave the house while charging, just like I don't go into the gas station to buy hot dogs while leaving my car or motorcycle unattended while filling up at the pump. Stuff happens. As the A.I. running the space ship in the video game Borderlands 3 keeps saying, "It's space, people. Don't be stupid." ... I carry more energy in one hand and lock it into the mount on my bicycle than any minibike gas tank I know of. Historical Trivia of the day! Cobalt, the Element used in some batteries, electric motors, and high strength alloys, is named after mythical creatures that ruined the iron ore in certain mines. The iron from those mines was brittle and very hard to work on the anvil. Must be nasty little Kobalds who hate Smiths! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://instapundit.com/683594/ https://www.newser.com/story/359125/japan-has-a-tr ucker-shortage-its-solution-is-novel.html Elon Musk & D.D. Harriman. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/ene rgy-policy-where-the-sun-dont-shine.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2024/11/12/how-dumb -can-government-get-n3796928 Butter is a Milk Product!!!!????!!!! A slightly less stupid example of Bureaucracy Runs Wild! is a common, required, by the E.U., piece of plastic on the rear wheel of bicycles. It goes between the gear cluster and the spokes, to reduce damage and the possibility that a mis adjusted transmission will jam the chain there. Everyone calls it a Dork Disc. It's actually a good thing for bicycles assembled by unskilled labor in many department stores. Without experience or RTFM, the screw that adjusts the travel on the derailleur can be ignored or set wrong, and the plastic disc reduces the trauma and dirty fingers to the consumer. ( It's recommended you take any department store bike to a professional or learn the skills to properly set up a new bike. Brakes, gearing, seat & handle bars can cause injury if not properly assembled ) So... A minor, well intentioned thing. The Dork Disc doesn't cost the consumer much, a mass produced molded plastic part. Doesn't weigh much, doesn't slow you down, ( might even have an aerodynamic efficiency increase of a fraction of a Watt! ) & is a reasonable tiny part of a massive regulatory beast. And almost every enthusiast rider breaks it off and throws it away. If the drive train is adjusted and maintained, it's unnecessary, the fashion conscious consider it ugly, and it's one of those "insider" tells that any sport has. Anecdote... True... There's a company, Zipp, that makes carbon fiber aerodynamic wheels. High end. Nice stuff. ( part of a conglomerate of related companies ) A Dork Disc is Mandatory! Everyone who buys a Zipp wheel is going to take it off, sure, but it has to be stuck on to sell it in many places, especially the E.U. And the company President has a sense of humor. The carbon fiber aerodynamic wheels needed a special custom Dork Disc, so he designed the mold to have an embossed dotted line and scissors marking, to show where it was safe to remove it. A Joke! ( And, like the wheels, high quality, well engineered ) Oh, boy. The E.U. Bureaucrats Were Not Amused! They didn't scream in their cars, they banned the joke. So the President of Zipp had to go explain to the Board how his little joke cost the company $50k in tooling and the Fury of the European Union Bureaucracy. That's the world we live in. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2024/11/14/dr-leana-we n-rfk-jrs-take-on-water-fluoridation-isnt-crazy-n3 797000 I'm not going to argue that RFKJR isn't crazy, or on the politics involved. Anecdotal... A friend's full commie UCLA professor Father refused to drink or allow his kids to drink fluoridated water. ( the garden hose unsupervised intake of suburban kids he forbid & was ignored ) Both kids were smart. This is, ironically, good science. Dr. Wen had personal/emotional/political Motivations. But she reported the results of her studies honestly even when they disagreed with her prejudices. ( pre judged so proper usage ) Good job! Thanks for not being a lying scum, Dr. Leana Wen! Real Scientist! Full respect! It's amazing how much real science and engineering is motivated by spite, personal disagreement, and prior patents. Physics is full of men convinced their competition or teachers were wrong. Oh, the official biographies always claim pure motives and genius, but the Mad Scientist ... "I'll show them all!" is a cliche for a reason. Contemporary letters and interviews tell the truth. A huge amount of effort, and some very interesting discoveries, were motivated by "proving Newton or Einstein Wrong! Dang it!". In modern Deliberately Censored Academia, the "leaked" correspondence is far too often spite filled fury at disagreement and a smear campaign to protect the funding for political lies. The Soviet model. Which predates Marx and arguably goes back to the first tenured professor. Or monastery? But despite the Anti-Enlightenment forces of evil, and hysterical witch hunts, but I repeat myself, there are honest scientists even today. Terribly repressed by The Establishment and hard to find, sure. The really smart ones are not in colleges, they're building space craft and making that synthetic glass for phones. Re: patents. The Q&Arsenal crew of firearm historians often describe how getting around a patent drives technology. Lots of inventors best selling work is motivated by that, almost as much as solving the other problems of previous designs. And you know some privately ( and sometimes publicly ) cursed Peter Paul Mauser and especially John Moses Browning. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.kimdutoit.com/2024/11/15/burning-down- the-climate-change-thicket/ | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.newsweek.com/honey-sex-trend-tiktok-he alth-experts-1993317 | ||
| Hootowl |
From the onion, no less https://youtu.be/bkrcxLgHn-w?si=M2X71H6AemQCUlN5 Someone in the comments correctly noted that, since her birth, no humans have died on any planet other than the one Greta lives on. Causation! |
