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Now We Have A Silicon Shortage – Another Economic Debacle Brought To Us By Principled Free Traders™
Here we go again, with yet another global supply chain crisis, blindsiding those brilliant Principled Free Traders™ who never once considered that outsourcing every possible manufacturing job and mining operation could ever lead to empty shelves or lost economic activity.
This time it’s silicon, that amazingly abundant element that is at the heart of modern technology. There’s a shortage of it. And you’ll never believe this, China is overwhelmingly the world’s largest producer, at around 67% of global silicon production. The 5.4 million metric tons it produced in 2020 was more than 18 times as much silicon as the United States produced, which – shocker – has been dramatically reducing the amount of silicon it produces. But of course. Why produce critical materials in the USA if you can outsource them to communist China? Russia is the second largest silicon producer. So, under the leadership of our best and brightest people, the western world is now relying on China and Russia for about 75% of global silicon production. Great job, smart people! So just what is going on? Silicon’s 300% Surge Throws Another Price Shock at the WorldThe shortage in silicon metal, sparked by a production cut in China, has sent prices up 300% in less than two months. It’s the latest in a litany of disruptions, from snarled supply chains to a power crunch, that are creating a destructive mix for companies and consumers. The slashing of output in China, far and away the world’s biggest silicon producer, is the result of efforts to reduce power consumption.And just what is silicon needed for? Just about everything.
It’s used in everything from computer chips and concrete, to glass and car parts. It can be purified into the ultra-conductive material that helps convert sunlight into electricity in solar panels. And it’s the raw material for silicone -- a water- and heat-resistant compound used widely in medical implants, caulk, deodorants, oven mitts and more.With silicon being such a critical material, what has US production looked like? It declined 28% in 2019 compared to 2018, and further declined in 2020.
“Hoshine Silicon recruits and employs Uyghurs and other minorities via state labor programs that aim to place them in factories. Researchers say these programs are a form of forced labor for residents who, faced with the threat of detention or other punishment, cannot refuse.”Now to be fair, Principled Free Traders™ are quite open about their passion for the cheapest possible foreign labor, and there is nothing cheaper than slave labor. They just never considered that energy disruptions, or shipping bottlenecks, or pandemics, or political instability, etc might ever come in to play. So here we are. Is there any good news in all this? Here’s a silver lining: Solar Power May Be The Next Victim Of China’s Coal Shortage
Prices of silicon metal, used to make the material that comprises solar panels, have surged about 300% since the start of August after a top-producing province ordered production be slashed amid a power crunch. China dominates global solar production, with its coal generators powering many of the factories that make clean energy equipment.Wait. What? There’s a silicon shortage, because of a coal shortage, which is resulting in a solar panel shortage, because it all relies on the burning of coal to make “clean energy” equipment. A whole bunch of destructive economic fads embraced by our elites are falling apart because they rely on coal-fired energy from a communist country that uses slave labor. The only future role that is appropriate for the ruling class that got us into this mess is for them to be the subject of constant mockery and ridicule. In the meantime, let’s bring home manufacturing and mining operations, and let’s never let our national security be compromised again by Principled Free Traders™ and their political bedmates [buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (f9vdt)
I would suggest Taxing their Gains during and following their 'Service' at a rate of 105%.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:34 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:35 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Flyover at October 12, 2021 02:35 PM (Rbu5d)
Posted by: Catherine--who generally doesn't curse. at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (c8cE2)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
We're all feeling like the biggest boobs right now.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (0m4vj)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (sJX14)
I would suggest Taxing their Gains during and following their 'Service' at a rate of 105%.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:34 PM (SVo5m)
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"Sure thing. Now, I have to get Hunter to a meeting with a Chinese plutocrat. Be back later."
-Joe, boarding Air Force One
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (iQO/s)
Hello, fellow insurrectionists!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (97I0d)
Tits.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:37 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:37 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Keith's Son at October 12, 2021 02:37 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 12, 2021 02:37 PM (Derty)
Leave it to statists to fuck up a supply chain based on one of the main elements in sand.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2021 02:37 PM (97I0d)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (u82oZ)
^^this. Silicon is the second most abundant element in the Earth's crust, at 28%. There is no silicon shortage. ALL shortages are shortages at a given price. If price rises, silicon will become available. It's how markets work.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (BMmaB)
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What the hell do we produce now, other than lunatics, retards, communists, and queers?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at October 12, 2021 02:36 PM (0m4vj)
I laughed. thanks.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Joey choo-choo Biden at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (nt/he)
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (KnJdm)
I can think of other things but it's a start.
Posted by: Guzalot says FJB at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (prSvo)
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (iQO/s)
You have to sets of elites deliberately destroying things; China's CPC, and the western globalists.
Nothing is "falling apart", they're murdering it on purpose. Some of the carbon they want to eliminate is you.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (7QclL)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (dfRN6)
It's right there in the word semi-conductor.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: Ted Cruz at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: NaCly Dog (u82oZ) at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (97I0d)
Posted by: spindrift at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (h5TKJ)
Posted by: James at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (otFiP)
Posted by: Uncle from Mrs. Robinson at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (RoIW/)
Whoopsie!
*Laughs in Anglo Saxon-Scandi*
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (tRBkJ)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
........
Next up: boob recycling.
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (v0R5T)
Producing elemental silicon of the requisite purity for, e.g., semiconductor manufacture, not so easy.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
That is NOT a waste.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
We give China a run for their money in propaganda and tech surveillance.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (jDHSU)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (c8R0G)
Posted by: Fool Otto at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
We give China a run for their money in propaganda and tech surveillance.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (KnJdm)
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I have an app for that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (LvTSG)
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What the hell do we produce now, other than lunatics, retards, communists, and queers?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
For export, capital equipment and food. The US is actually overall one of the less trade reliant countries in the world on account of being such a large and diverse economic union. Small countries have to trade to get the things they can't practically produce themselves, while the US has the resources and technical capacity to produce virtually everything.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Capital Eff at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (2xGy+)
Used to be old Quartz mines all over where I grew up.
Mica, too. Huge sheets of the stuff all over the place in those old mines.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (SVo5m)
Can we laugh as we say "PULL!"
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (RoIW/)
Whether there is anything there or not.
Moonscape it.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (iQO/s)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
We're all feeling like the biggest boobs right now."
No wonder we went tits up!
Posted by: Russtovich at October 12, 2021 02:41 PM (KIZmn)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (97I0d)
It's right there in the word semi-conductor.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (Y5qcH)
Forget it. He's on a roll.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: 496 at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (VJsqe)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
........
Next up: boob recycling.
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (v0R5T)
Last evening I met three women who had silicone implants and had them removed because they felt the implants were seriously damaging their health.
No opinion but intriguing.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (c8R0G)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo) "
information, both mis and dis !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (jDHSU)
Wait, wut?
Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (fshLz)
Does that mean Trump made the best deals? #winning?
Populists suck. Give me an ideologue Constitutionalist every time.
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (U+4BW)
There is no shortage of silicon. The US is an enormous size. About 4m sq. mi. There's a shortage of domestically mined silicon, everywhere except for China, which mines most of the world's.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (yRved)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (XvPQV)
Yeah, we are living in a time of no more pencils, with no one person understanding how we got here, as so many intricate, complex systems have been disrupted by greedy globalists, as well as control-freak idiot politicians and bureaucrats.
Spoiler alert: You can't just shutdown the state/country/world for months and months and then expect it to switch back on, picking up right where it left off.
Posted by: Lizzy at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (bDqIh)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo) "
information, both mis and dis !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (jDHSU)
we also produce 49 genders, apparently
Posted by: IC at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (hV9ir)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy
Yep. But you have to actually do it. Kinda like me looking at the lawn. I have the capacity to mow it, but it ain't getting done.
Posted by: Fool Otto at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (DB16e)
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Collusion!
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (o2MD2)
It's right there in the word semi-conductor.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (Y5qcH)
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Yep. In fact, if it were ultra-conductive, it'd be useless for producing chips. The idea is to take something that doesn't conduct all that well, and dope it with electron donors or acceptors to generate free electrons or holes, whose behavior can be controlled by suitably biasing the doped silicon to make it conductive or not, i.e., to act as a switch.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)"
Note they deliberately limit the number in circulation - those groups either don't have kids or, in the case of the surgically-modified, a majority of them off themselves.
Sorta the same way they suppress certain politically useful demographics with abortion. They want them around, they just don't want too many of them.
Posted by: somedood - skull mountain sherpa at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (7QclL)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (iQO/s)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (MH0eD)
I'm thinking we're effed.
Posted by: Central Scrutinzer at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (vI+F1)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:33 PM (SVo5m)
You're wearing crocs right now, aren't you.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (KnJdm)
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Fist Bump.
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (yRved)
It helps to pronounce it like Dressage.
Classes the shared poverty up a bit.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:44 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (OCTRt)
Not a metal, dopes.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 12, 2021 02:39 PM (97I0d)
I wondered about that myself, but then I thought "well that sure explains some of those enhancement jobs!"
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: dananjcon at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (u6xw0)
China did not win, we were betrayed.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (8yGdD)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:41
Keep digging, we'll find something useful.
Posted by: Fool Otto at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (DB16e)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (OCTRt)
Is she coming to the TXMOME?
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
Politicians... oh wait, you covered that.
Posted by: California at October 12, 2021 02:45 PM (v0R5T)
I guess I should say "silica."
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (Zz0t1)
Under a sweater, fake tits are great.
But, when unleashed they are an eyesore.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (MH0eD)
That article made too many dumbass mistakes in just the few parts ace copied. Then I clicked the link. Bloomberg. Not surprised. Their reporting is terrible.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (Y5qcH)
There is no shortage of silicon. The US is an enormous size. About 4m sq. mi. There's a shortage of domestically mined silicon, everywhere except for China, which mines most of the world's
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There it is. Same for crude oil and gasoline prices. Shortages are a government-induced choice.
Supply chain problem? Really? Or is it hundreds of cargo ships with no permission to dock?
Oh, it's those greedy Capitalists, saus Throckmorton. Couldn't possibly be the government boot on the necks of dirty Capitalist dogs, could it? No...only the private sector could be so cruel.
This place smells like HuffPo about 40% of the time.
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (U+4BW)
Posted by: Anna Puma at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (iQO/s)
Marijuana.
Posted by: Clark Bent at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (2xGy+)
No opinion but intriguing.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (c8R0G)
Send your unwanted implants to:
CANNIBAL BOB Implant Recycling LLT.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (2JoB8)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (sJX14)
Wife already said we're getting goats. End of season we'll give them to step-son's crews for cabrito.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:43 PM (cTqLg)
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We don't have silicon dioxide, i.e., sand? I don't believe anyone mines elemental silicon.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Totally Unserious at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (iDcra)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (sWM8x)
-MBAs
Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (yRved)
But, when unleashed they are an eyesore.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (SVo5m)
I'm with you. Just busting chops.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (KnJdm)
Under a sweater, fake tits are great.
But, when unleashed they are an eyesore.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (SV
well you know, as eyesores go, they're one of the best!
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (RoIW/)
Psssttt...hey kid. Wanna score to preemo silicone? Got the best stuff right here. Dime bag specials.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (8yGdD)
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (yRved)
Posted by: Hands at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (786Ro)
China is asshoe!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
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We're crushing it in the production of mental illness and obesity -- very profitable for Big Pharma, comrade!
Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (fshLz)
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (trdmm)
Some of them aren't eyesores. There are some surgical artistes out there. Um. Or so I've heard.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (sjdRT)
But, when unleashed they are an eyesore.
Posted by: garrett
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Ummm, no. At least not with an appropriate owner.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (9vQJW)
Psssttt...hey kid. Wanna score to preemo silicone? Got the best stuff right here. Dime bag specials.
Posted by: Diogenes
But daddy said sister needs double dime bags.
--Hunter
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (OCTRt)
CBD Oil and Dick Pills as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (8yGdD)
Call me.
Posted by: Lena at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (MH0eD)
.......
So. Who got her old ones?
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (v0R5T)
I'm sure the Hot Air button on your computer is fully functional.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (2JVJo)
China is asshoe!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
you mean China is HOLDING OUR BALLS???
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (trdmm)
Posted by: Puddin Head at October 12, 2021 02:47 PM (yRved)
Nope. Not even world leaders in consumption of it - despite the "Principled Free Traders" shoving it up our arse.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - FJB at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (Y5qcH)
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You astonish me.
I make a point of not reading science reporting. Reading that crap makes my BP spike.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (sJX14)
So we can all either die from Covid or the jab, so it's a win win, right?
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
There it is. Same for crude oil and gasoline prices. Shortages are a government-induced choice.
Supply chain problem? Really? Or is it hundreds of cargo ships with no permission to dock?
Oh, it's those greedy Capitalists, saus Throckmorton. Couldn't possibly be the government boot on the necks of dirty Capitalist dogs, could it? No...only the private sector could be so cruel.
This place smells like HuffPo about 40% of the time.
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (U+4BW)
Nobody is going to produce unprofitably for decades for the time when China decides to cut off supply. Nor will speculators stockpile sufficiently for such an occasion.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (z5Vrg)
Pretty sure elemental silicon isn't found in nature.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Al Pacino as Arthur Kirkland as FJ Chinabiden at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (AaQJH)
you mean China is HOLDING OUR BALLS???
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (trdmm)
In a round about way, yes.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)
Distillers can't get enough glass for their bottles. Breweries can't get enough metal to make beer cans. The supply of everything is stop-and-go, lurching from one lack to another. I was struck by a passage from Victor Klemperer's 1930s Germany diaries. He said the Nazi government had announced a nation-wide 'Asparagus Festival', to provide cheap asparagus for the German people, out of the goodness of their hearts, naturally. Klemperer wrote that everyone knew it was because metal shortages made it impossible for get enough cans to process the fresh asparagus from that year's harvest, so it was being sold off at a loss in this way.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (jq2vu)
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (sWM8x)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (sJX14)
Did you try chapstick? Asking for garrett.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (MH0eD)
.......
So. Who got her old ones?
Posted by: wth
Some old goat down in The Villages.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Hands at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (sJX14)
Yeah, you can always tell the rat. They bitch about everything, but just won't leave.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: ShainS -- State-Stamped Sluggish Schizophrenic at October 12, 2021 02:49 PM (fshLz)
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And our crime industry is second to none.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: REDACTED at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (us2H3)
I used to be one. All-in all the global trade theory and most of the financial theories that went with them. Then something happened - well, two somethings, and they happened at the same time.
First, I lived in the post-industrial wasteland of Central New York. Some factories open, but many more closed. An angry place in indifferent repair for the most part. Some of this is NY's own doing, of course, but it followed the wider theme. Second, I saw an article in the Wall St. Journal in, I think, 2007 that commented on the notable condition of Washington Mutual paying a dividend that exceeded its net cash flow because the recapitalized interest on ARM loans added massively to profits but not to cash on hand. They financed the dividend payment.
Those two things began a long and fairly unpleasant journey for me that ended with me changing my positions.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
.......
Covid vaccines
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (v0R5T)
"The deep state asset we got elected as mayor in Southbend who decided to come out as gay?"
"Perfect."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (LvTSG)
The root problem is that the core thesis of free trade at all costs is flawed. The premise is twofold: first, that capital flows are optimized in a free trade environment and will seek maximal efficiency, and second that reciprocity is not needed because increased efficiency is still a net benefit even if the benefit is smaller than is hypothetically possible if free trade were symmetrical. The other major premise is that increasing wealth drives increasing liberalism. In short, that they become free before we become destitute.
The premises are wrong. They ignore two very important things. First, that governments exist and second that asymmetrical free trade is a temporary condition that is obviated by increasing wealth and popular demand for continued liberalization. The latter in particular does not manifest.
Ultimately, unrestricted free trade is a hypothetically nice idea that results in universal optimization. It suffers from essentially the same problem that communism does: it isn't realistic in a human environment. I am still not a protectionist, but I am now a symmetrical trader. Free trade is fine, but it has to happen in both directions.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (o2MD2)
And the core problem faced here of outsourcing our industrial base is emphasized by the failure of the system to acknowledge that governments exist and are not necessarily free and may not become free. The capital sought optimization and it found it - but at tremendous final cost. Our enemies now control vital industries. We have structural unemployment. We are vulnerable to supply shocks and shortages to a greater degree. Those asymmetrical and even cheating trade partners didn't liberalize, they often became even more draconian. The politics keep getting worse due to increasingly perverted incentives. Other subordinate assumptions - like welfare is as good as a paycheck because money is fungible - have also failed to materialize.
They were wrong. Their premises were wrong. And they failed to realize that capital efficiency is not the most important thing. It is important, but so is the general health of your national polity.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (DU+/6)
China is asshoe!!!
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:48 PM (Zz0t1)
Luckily my husband has like 300. Plus he fishes some out of the water hazards while he's waiting his turn. And has been known to stop and pick some up off the freeway next to the golf course.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
We don't have silicon dioxide, i.e., sand? I don't believe anyone mines elemental silicon.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (YqDXo)
Yeah, yeah, lol. See 87.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (sJX14)
Anyone else run across a comment where you are not sure if it is real or fake, straight or parody?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (yQpMk)
"what difference, at this point, does it make?" Hillary
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Cus5s)
And China has a lock on rare earth element production, something like 95% of the world's output.
We're a superpower in name only.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (F0YaR)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (z5Vrg)
Seems like it's not too hard to produce. Reduction of sand with coke. In the presence of scrap iron, it becomes ferrosilicon, which is a stable compound. Give me a furnace and I could do it in the back yard. It's just a matter of cost. I bet in an industry-friendly state somebody's working on it right now.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (BMmaB)
I heard that the slogan they used to popularize it was "I cuss, you cuss, we all cuss, for Asparagus!!!"
* apologies to the Far Side
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (trdmm)
Luckily my husband has like 300. Plus he fishes some out of the water hazards while he's waiting his turn. And has been known to stop and pick some up off the freeway next to the golf course.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
I do try to pick up what I can find, sure, but that's not always a viable option. I love it when I find free $5 golf balls.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (8yGdD)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (yQpMk)
No. It is so reactive it "burns" in water.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (DU+/6)
This is one of the stupid theories that pop up when you believe history is over (i.e. have not faced an existential threat in a good long while.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:50 PM (sJX14)
Go on...
Posted by: Mishdog at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (/VWLE)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Nancy Pelosi blames the media for not "selling" the Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending spree.
"I think you all could do a better job of selling it"
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (d9FiS)
Luckily my husband has like 300. Plus he fishes some out of the water hazards while he's waiting his turn. And has been known to stop and pick some up off the freeway next to the golf course.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
Could have offered you the ones the neighbor's kid hit at my house. Almost took out a new sliding glass door.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - FJB at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: E.M. Forster at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (bDqIh)
@RNCResearch
Nancy Pelosi blames the media for not "selling" the Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending spree.
"I think you all could do a better job of selling it"
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (d9FiS)
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Glad to see she's admitting that the media is a leftist mouthpiece.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (sjdRT)
I remember that we had a fist sized chuck of it on a shelf in the HS Chem Lab. Oddly, it was kept submerged in kerosene, IIRC.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (yQpMk)
Just a matter of cost, again. Rare earths aren't actually rare. Between us and Canada, we're more than sufficient. The cheapest rare earth source, however, is laterite clay in China and Vietnam, so that's where most of the production is.
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (ZGrMX)
Full production first rate movies like "Fauci?"
Posted by: Clark Bent at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (2xGy+)
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (cTqLg)
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Fair enough. Sorry, I hadn't seen that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (yQpMk)
Not much does occur in elemental form. Except for some of the diatomic and noble gasses, I can't think of many.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (sJX14)
RNC Research
@RNCResearch
Nancy Pelosi blames the media for not "selling" the Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending spree.
"I think you all could do a better job of selling it"
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (d9FiS)
The media are whores - who have sold themselves to the Left already. What else do they want?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - FJB at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (N39Ws)
er, stopped
Posted by: E.M. Forster at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (bDqIh)
++++
Worth reading and doesn't take too long.
https://is.gd/uicpRc
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (o2MD2)
The behind the muscle implant greatly enhances the natural boob, keeping the feel and sensitivity of it while pushing it out and making it seem bigger. Those, I'm told, are painful and have a longer recovery, but are the best and last longer.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo)
Fortunately, we still produce some of our own food.
Principled Free Traders need prison time for profiting on the dead bodies of their countrymen, as we seem to allow fentanyl to trade freely, while preventing ivermectin
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (ONvIw)
I've been robbed! I want my free stuff!
Posted by: Curly Shuffle at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (TNyrE)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (yQpMk)
Nope. Reactive with water. You could get a bit out of a fresh volcanic eruption, but it wouldn't last long.
Posted by: GnuBreed at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (F0YaR)
Katelyn Runck https://www.instagram.com/p/CU7jClXLx2Z/
and
Brennah Black https://www.instagram.com/p/CUEa2MDlSCB/
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (Y5qcH)
Gold comes to mind.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:53 PM (sjdRT)
I remember that we had a fist sized chuck of it on a shelf in the HS Chem Lab. Oddly, it was kept submerged in kerosene, IIRC.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (yQpMk)
That is sodium. And potassium.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sJX14)
@RNCResearch
Nancy Pelosi blames the media for not "selling" the Democrats' $3.5 trillion tax-and-spending spree.
"I think you all could do a better job of selling it"
Posted by: Dionne Warwick at October 12, 2021 02:54 PM (d9FiS)
The media are whores - who have sold themselves to the Left already. What else do they want?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - FJB at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (N39Ws)
They're not even trying to hide it anymore......
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Probably why implants made those women sick.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (SnkBD)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (DU+/6)
Rather than a single question it's more like a series of questions. Think from the perspective of a country like Saudi Arabia, how do you build a healthy society when comparative advantage means you produce primarily oil and rely on imports for every other good? So there is profit, societal impact, and foreign policy to consider but how each decision will affects things is relatively straightforward.
Markets generally will favor efficiency over robustness(which is why stockpiling for famines was traditionally a government responsibility).
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Weasel at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (sJX14)
Every problem we have now has been coordinated with the Davos crowd
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (ONvIw)
Back in the before times of Just in Time.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (yQpMk)
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Why is that odd? Kerosene, as a hydrocarbon, is already reduced, so using it to protect a powerful reducing agent from oxygen - and incidentally, moisture in the air - makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sJX14
He asked about sodium. I answered.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (sJX14)
My AP Chem Project in HS was to figure out how much Cesium it would take to destroy a piling on the GWB.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: The Man on The Street at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (cRbES)
Fair enough. Sorry, I hadn't seen that.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (YqDXo)
As soon as I clicked "post," I could hear my old man lecturing me about silica vs. silicon in my head, hahaha.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (cTqLg)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report
I called it bullshit 30 years ago in business classes.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (OCTRt)
Also, the method used for making high purity, single crystal silicon is called the Czochralski method. It involves drawing a boule of silicon from a big crucible containing molten silicon, which, of course, requires lots of power. As has been pointed out, the real trick is to control the impurities.
You have to know what you're doing, so I very much doubt that disgruntled Uyghurs are involved.
Posted by: pep at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sjdRT)
Yep. And I guess carbon does in diamonds. Sulfur can near volcanos.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (Y5qcH)
There's some fluorine compound they were investigating as a rocket fuel in the 50s that reacted with pretty near everything. If you spilled it on the ground it'd eat through everything (concrete, most metals, soil, unlucky worms, whatever) until it had all reacted.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
I am almost literally swimming in them. They are like litter around here.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (KnJdm)
The flamableness. I would have figured that something less combustible would have been better.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Weasel
__________
The boob jokes make me titter.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (z5Vrg)
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Yes, and I think there is no universal answer - that whole "general health" problem. Among first-world countries? Sure. Symmetrical free trade with Canada or the UK - places with similar standards of living, labor conventions, etc. - is fine so long as it is symmetrical. With a slave state like China? No way, not even if it were symmetrical. Even without China-side import controls, they're using slave labor.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (CcOog)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: Weasel
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The boob jokes make me titter.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (9vQJW)
I'd like to be kept a breast on the situation.....
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (4MQtf)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (Y5qcH)
Gold comes to mind.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (sjdRT)
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Gold, silver, and copper can be found in the elemental form in the earth, as can sulfur. That's about all I can think of.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (yQpMk)
"I think you all could do a better job of selling it"
The problem the Dems have with the MFM is that the MFM is completely on side (WaPo published a list yesterday of Columbus statues that Antifa hadn't yet destroyed, basically a shopping list for the brownshirts) but they're also incompetent ninnies.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Ostral B Heretic at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (THkA0)
Posted by: Weasel
__________
The boob jokes make me titter.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (9vQJW)
I'd like to be kept a breast on the situation.....
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
If mammary serves, boob jokes are never done.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (KnJdm)
Depending on the relative humidity.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (SVo5m)
Don't worry, Dog the Bounty Hunter is hot on his trail. FBI also.
Posted by: Clark Bent at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (2xGy+)
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (OCTRt)
***
Me too. Being on the supply side is difficult at times because poor planning on their part always created a "hair on fire" emergency for me. I only had the opportunity to look bad
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (flINI)
Something our betters have decided is an old way to view things. But not other, better led, competing powers...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (ESjRY)
Ahem.
Posted by: Coal mine at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (BMmaB)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (KnJdm)
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They create levity. They lift and separate us from our dreary lives!
Posted by: 496 at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (VJsqe)
The old "conservative" saw was about Comparative Advantage. But this link gives multiple (academic) reasons why it fails across borders, as even originator Ricardo recognized. There are multiple other problems ... currencies, immobility, externalities, ...
For years I floundered around making the argument, then found this guy spelling it out clearly.
https://tinyurl.com/s5rypmdx
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Weasel
__________
The boob jokes make me titter.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (9vQJW)
I'd like to be kept a breast on the situation.....
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt
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Well, I think they're a bust.
Posted by: Dr. Mabusette, just to clarify things at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (jq2vu)
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt
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I've forgotten a lot of boob jokes because my mammary isn't what it was when I was younger.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)
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ClF3.
Tres nasty stuff. It attacks concrete - and sand - by forming fluoride compounds (e.g, SiF4).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Weasel
That's about the size of it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (d9FiS)
There's some fluorine compound they were investigating as a rocket fuel in the 50s that reacted with pretty near everything. If you spilled it on the ground it'd eat through everything (concrete, most metals, soil, unlucky worms, whatever) until it had all reacted.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)
I remember what you are talking about, I remember reading about it somewhere...
*looks up* Chlorine Triflouride?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
Does he ever play in Florida?
Posted by: Florida golfcourse alligator at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
Couldn't nip it if you tried.
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (SVo5m)
I really couldn't give one areola.
*submits it, knowing fully it's a stretch*
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Coal mine at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (BMmaB)
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Yeah, OK. Good point.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Iblis at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (g6c4t)
Many can say screw off I'm not doing it.
Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (2JoB8)
The chemist washes his hands *before* using the bathroom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (y7KuV)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (BMmaB)
No, that's just where the assholes that work with computers live.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (Y5qcH)
Posted by: Furious George
I'd like to be kept a breast on the situation.....
Posted by: Sponge
If mammary serves, boob jokes are never done.
Posted by: flounder
These boob jokes are udderly senseless.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (OCTRt)
A "work" force that would rather play video games and get a check from the other taxpayers.
Posted by: pep at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (y7KuV)
he could never have outfought Santino.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Weasel
We tried to nip it in the bud.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Weasel
.......
I'm glad someone pointed that out.
Posted by: wth at October 12, 2021 03:03 PM (v0R5T)
*submits it, knowing fully it's a stretch*
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
***
I'll allow it.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Weasel
__________
The boob jokes make me titter.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 02:58 PM (9vQJW)
I'd like to be kept a breast on the situation.....
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
If mammary serves, boob jokes are never done.
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (KnJdm)
I'm seeing a sag in the comments.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: rickb223
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Yeah, to the point that they make me melon choly.
Posted by: Furious George at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (9vQJW)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (yQpMk)
https://is.gd/EFkodp
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: garrett at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (SVo5m)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (m+jkK)
Posted by: pep
Stop the checks. No workee, no eatee.
Problem solved.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: Weasel
If we declare victory, they will come.
Posted by: Hands at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (786Ro)
https://youtu.be/j2AvU2cfXRk
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
So does the guy who roasts Hatch green chilies and then peels them for freezing.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Some kid with a scientific calculator at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Iblis at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (g6c4t)
I laughed. Good one.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (CQcWG)
https://is.gd/EFkodp
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:04 PM (DU+/6)
Yeah, nice mellons
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (XvPQV)
Tres nasty stuff. It attacks concrete - and sand - by forming fluoride compounds (e.g, SiF4).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (YqDXo)
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ClF3 is basically a form of "fixed" (i.e., non-gaseous) F2, with all that that implies. F2 attacks almost everything. It can only be handled in monel metal vacuum lines that have been (carefully!) passivated by treatment with low pressure F2.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (BMmaB)
No, that's just where the assholes that work with computers live.
They used to make silicon chips there. But you spill just a few carcinogenic chemicals that find their way into the water supply and everyone loses their frickin' minds.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (SchxB)
Tres nasty stuff. It attacks concrete - and sand - by forming fluoride compounds (e.g, SiF4).
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (YqDXo)
That was it! I remember reading on a chemist's blog somewhere that a Chinese chemical company offered on their website to make you like 50 gallons of it, and they were tempted to place that order just to see which city exploded.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (ZGrMX)
*submits it, knowing fully it's a stretch*
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)
I gotta bounce. I have construction materials to unload. I gotta motor, boat I want to hang around for more
Posted by: flounder at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (KnJdm)
Posted by: Coal mine
Elemental? Nope. Coke is coal that's been heated to drive off the hydrogen.
Posted by: pep at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: OPEC at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (FJYfm)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:59 PM (yQpMk)
A most excellent Molotov cocktail.
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: Hands at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (786Ro)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (oWBc3)
8008135
Posted by: Some kid with a scientific calculator at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (ESjRY)
Meh.....
55378008, viewed upside down.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
Ya know today i realized one thing chicks got going. they never have to grab their dick to pee with freezing cold hands. So there's that.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 02:56 PM (Zz0t1)
Which is why, if there is ever another GOP preezy, he needs to treat the MFM with nothing but scorn. If Tapper asks about foreign policy, reply with "that's what your mother said, Tapper!" Throw kneepads at all of them, saying how sorry you are they wore them out during Stinkfinger's reign of error. Mock them, laugh at them, have them thrown out because they smell funny.
Slap them around like they were Tina and you're Ike.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
++++
Who wants to go through life boobless?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (DU+/6)
Carcinogens? There what's for dinner!
Posted by: Some CHinese factory owner at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Some CHinese factory owner at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (ESjRY)
++++
I thought it was melamine that was for dinner...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (sJX14)
But...but...but...then Chuck Todd wouldn't talk to us!
Posted by: VA GOP at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (ZsR3z)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (Zz0t1)
==========
I showed the hello trick (07734) on the calculator to one of my class of Italian students years ago. I was tempted to show them the boob stuff too, but I feared for my job. It would have probably been alright.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (DU+/6)
Ellen Page, apparently
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (sjdRT)
They bounced.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: VA GOP at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (ZsR3z)
++++
Sounds like a win/win.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (DU+/6)
Notice she said "sell." Not "explain."
There's no "selling" if it's"explained." It should be self- evident
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (qD5ZX)
Posted by: Some Chinese factory owner at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (ESjRY)
The old "conservative" saw was about Comparative Advantage. But this link gives multiple (academic) reasons why it fails across borders, as even originator Ricardo recognized. There are multiple other problems ... currencies, immobility, externalities, ...
For years I floundered around making the argument, then found this guy spelling it out clearly.
https://tinyurl.com/s5rypmdx
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:01 PM (Cus5s)
Comparative advantage explains and predicts things fairly accurately. It does not propose many of the things that people complain about and associate with it. It was created to answer entirely different questions.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report
...............
I called it bullshit 30 years ago in business classes.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (OCTRt)
-------------
You can thank the govt for taxing inventory.
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (SnkBD)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 03:00 PM (flINI)
Production supervisor: GGE, why can't you fix this machine???
GGE: Cause I gots no parts.
Production supervisor: How could you have allowed this to happen???
GGE: Oh, I had parts. Then your new supply department got rid of them because they don't grok the concept that I don't need them often, but immediately.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (CcOog)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (DU+/6)
Ellen Page, apparently
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (XvPQV)
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Then why is she trying to date women, huh?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
So does the guy who roasts Hatch green chilies and then peels them for freezing.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:05 PM (sjdRT)
And the guy clearing out poison ivy.
Posted by: Diogenes at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (axyOa)
Who wants to go through life boobless?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:07 PM (DU+/6)
Reserved for the truly unfortunate.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (RmqH1)
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (c8R0G)
Posted by: Muad'dib
Boob jokes. They're sitting back watching the boobs tell jokes.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (OCTRt)
-
Well, that makes sense . . . in Bizarro World.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (d9FiS)
Posted by: Weasel
Truly our cup runneth over.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (LvTSG)
She's in denial of her desire for cock?
CLEARLY she's a gay man.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Failure happens, giving up is a choice at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (XvPQV)
Posted by: VA GOP at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (ZsR3z)
I saw that sob on TV this morning. You will never convince me that that mouth is unfamiliar with the taste of penis.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (Ez6QX)
https://bit.ly/2YGxKLq
Posted by: bonhomme at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (YYlyE)
Posted by: Weasel
Truly our cup runneth over.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (2JVJo)
++++
And MP4 comes in with a blinding left hook to finish the fight when least expected.
Very nicely done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (sJX14)
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Also nasty, but if you want to see the very cleanest glass you'll ever see in your life, dunk some glassware into DILUTE HF. Even the fiducial marks on lab glassware (e. g., the markings of how many mL that level corresponds to) float off of the glass. Amazing to watch.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (YqDXo)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Max Power at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (QCc6B)
Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (2JoB8)
If the government is just a scheme to take from the productive class and give to the government class let them steal their money elsewhere.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (ESjRY)
That also happened near Philadelphia, at the former MOS Technology/Commodore Semiconductor Group factory. I believe it still hasn't been cleaned up.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (sJX14)
As does literally everything else on earth.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (SnkBD)
***
Everything to gubmint touches turns to shit.
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (sJX14)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:10 PM (RmqH1)
I have nearly a full box-o-stuff to to send you for next weekend. I've been trying to find one more thing, but I may have to give that up.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: sven at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (Lzpvj)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
=======
Also, they bounce.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing
And MP4 comes in with a blinding left hook to finish the fight when least expected.
Very nicely done.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
There was a commercial on tv about some knew no underwire bra. They flashed the models' name and size on screen. 32 DDD. Wife looked at me and couldn't believe her size.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Braenyard at October 12, 2021 03:09 PM (SnkBD)
I worked for a DAT dealer once. The parts inventory was always LIFO for inventory tax purposes. We had parts on the shelves from the 1940s.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at October 12, 2021 03:12 PM (flINI)
You don't want to know what government turns shit into.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (sJX14)
++++
HAHAHA. I love those. My favorite example was at the cafeteria in the Silicon Valley headquarters at my old company.
There was a pillar near the middle of the room and on the pillar was a large sign that said, "This area contains or serves chemicals known to the State of California ..."
I laughed my ass off. Talk about a useless measure.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (DU+/6)
But not to worry. Just 38 more months - minimum - of this. And worse.
Posted by: rhomboid (OTzUX) at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (OTzUX)
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Max Power at October 12, 2021 03:11 PM (QCc6B)
Well, duh....
Their country charter calls for taking over the world. Can't do that without bloodshed.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: CA Token at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (6ahCA)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
++++
Seconded. Wonderful for essentially limitless number of reasons.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (DU+/6)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
We are in agreement.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (1XhSk)
Free markets are like Marxism: they're great on paper, but less so in practice. Unlike Marxism though, you can fix practice with careful regulation. It's just that we have Congress instead of careful regulation.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (RmqH1)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (buTO7)
You don't want to know what government turns shit into.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (sJX14)
Congress.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:14 PM (sJX14)
***
FOOD!
Posted by: Californias Central Valley at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (flINI)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (RmqH1)
I just wish I could be there. The wedding will be fun - but not in the same league. And I can't take Benny to that.
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (sjdRT)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
...and snuggly soft.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (o2MD2)
Posted by: madrocketsci at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (hRoyQ)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
While this is acknowledged, I find them beautiful for a whole host of OTHER reasons.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM (Zz0t1)
Thread on boobs and where is alexthechick?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (0PYT3)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (RmqH1)
Thread on boobs and where is alexthechick?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (0PYT3)
Weighing her, um, options?
Posted by: Muad'dib at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (sjdRT)
Once upon a time I tried to convince an enviro-nut that we would never run out of glass but...he argued that 20% of the earth is not enough to be careless with our resources.
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (0PYT3)
Gloating?
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (RoIW/)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (o2MD2)
I guess we're calling them ultra-conductors now. Semi-conductors was correct but boring.
Posted by: t-bird at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (vOGqy)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (RmqH1)
My Goddaughter had reduction surgery earlier this year. She's 18 and MUCH happier now.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
I am not gay, but boobs really are beautiful. And they are capable of feeding a baby and protecting them from sickness and infection.
Quite wonderful they are.
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:13 PM (0PYT3)
While this is acknowledged, I find them beautiful for a whole host of OTHER reasons.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:16 PM
Kind of like electric train sets...intended for the kids, but dad usually winds up playing with them more.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (m+jkK)
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: SkylerKat at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (SXIn9)
https://tinyurl.com/ym95rebf
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #maskless (Mzdiz) at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (RoIW/)
Well, Biden does occasional recover from his head wound, and we do have the mark of Fauci...
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (ESjRY)
We are truly fucked as a nation if we have no clue how to gather up the second most common thing on earth besides oxygen...
Posted by: Boswell at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (5iUNf)
The House Democrat End Times
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:08 PM (Cus5s)
***********
No. We just need to find the desire to do lanthanide chemistry on an industrial scale. Those f-electrons make it a bit tricky but this is doable.
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (MH0eD)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 12, 2021 03:21 PM (d9FiS)
Though it sucks to piss with a cold hand
We'd still rather be us
'Cause it's still a big plus
To be able to write names in the sand
Posted by: Guy Smiley at October 12, 2021 03:21 PM (Bmy3R)
Posted by: Jimco Industries at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (buTO7)
It's going to be fun watching her try to differentiate her ass from a hole in the ground.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 03:21 PM (2JVJo)
https://tinyurl.com/ym95rebf
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #maskless (Mzdiz) at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (Mzdiz)
Yeah, take that jab and shove it up your ass.....
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:21 PM (Zz0t1)
Posted by: Davros and his crows at October 12, 2021 03:22 PM (sGtp+)
Free markets are like Marxism: they're great on paper, but less so in practice. Unlike Marxism though, you can fix practice with careful regulation. It's just that we have Congress instead of careful regulation.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:15 PM (ZGrMX)
Most of the consequences of particular choices are reasonably well understood. There are trade-offs involved. Anyone selling unilateral free trade as a free lunch was mistaken or lying. It's not wrong to say that it is generally the most profitable though(for whom it is profitable is another question entirely). Managed trade has a lot of difficulties outside of the theoretical answer to questions though, primarily because of special interests.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy (z5Vrg) - The Republic is Already Dead at October 12, 2021 03:22 PM (z5Vrg)
Posted by: Notsothoreau - look forward at October 12, 2021 03:22 PM (5HBd1)
The House Democrat End Times
Posted by: SMOD at October 12, 2021 03:20 PM (RHGPo)
==========
Chairman of one of the most powerful committees just announcing his resignation? Before the budget bill even gets a vote?
Cook rates his district as D+8, too.
This is...fascinating...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:22 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Insomniac - Outlaw at October 12, 2021 03:22 PM (WHrsn)
Thread on boobs and where is alexthechick?
Posted by: nurse ratched at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (0PYT3)
Weighing her, um, options?
Posted by: Muad'dib
Scamp & Lefty?
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (OCTRt)
The chemist washes his hands *before* using the bathroom.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:02 PM (DU+/6)
When that burning sensation was not due to the date you had over the weekend.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (kBuGL)
Just need to buy a car with right hand drive and use it half the time.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (SchxB)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (RmqH1)
My Goddaughter had reduction surgery earlier this year. She's 18 and MUCH happier now.
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)
I can vouch for this. I was a 38HH when I finally had my surgery.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (Ez6QX)
Same with silicon. Though it doesn't have anything to do with lanthanide chem. We just have to have the willingness to do it.
Posted by: The Galactic Alien Council at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (MH0eD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (sJX14)
Posted by: batter at October 12, 2021 03:24 PM (6Ms9C)
Posted by: Notsothoreau
God Bless tube tops.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:24 PM (OCTRt)
I mean...this is the sort of thing an officeholder does when they know they have no chance at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in the West with Leone at October 12, 2021 03:24 PM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:24 PM (sJX14)
our representatives not j6 protesters defile the sacred us capitol
https://tinyurl.com/3xk89buf
Julie Kelly
Posted by: Skip at October 12, 2021 03:25 PM (2JoB8)
It wouldn't be AoS without that.
Posted by: Tonypete at October 12, 2021 03:25 PM (mD/uy)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:25 PM (o2MD2)
Just need to buy a car with right hand drive and use it half the time.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (SchxB)
Now I have place to put my hand!
Posted by: Long Duc Dong at October 12, 2021 03:25 PM (xPJvm)
'Sand won't save you this time.'
https://tinyurl.com/pmm6tv8a
The author had a whole series of blog entries on nasty chemicals titled 'Things I won't work with.' Always liked the writing.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 03:26 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:26 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Blanco Basura - moronhorde.com. Not insurgents, counterrevolutionaries. at October 12, 2021 03:23 PM (SchxB)
This is a solid solution to the issue. Or let her drive...
Posted by: BunkerintheBurbs at October 12, 2021 03:26 PM (ehQO4)
Posted by: Jordan61
Because you are an 'ette of great standing - I'll just keep the comments to myself.
(But I'm thinking them Jordan!)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 12, 2021 03:27 PM (mD/uy)
THOSE ARE NO MOONS!
Posted by: Han/Hope Solo at October 12, 2021 03:27 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Orson at October 12, 2021 03:27 PM (cLnsR)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #maskless (Mzdiz) at October 12, 2021 03:27 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:26 PM (Ez6QX)
++++
Who is Lizzo?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:18 PM (RmqH1)
Little Sis had a reduction surgery a few years ago. Her hubby would lift one up and make her stumble backwards, plus it was giving her back issues. When he complained about it she pointed out that it was his own damn fault.
Posted by: GGE of the Moron Horde, NC Chapter at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (CcOog)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (o2MD2)
K I S S I N G
First comes love, then comes marriage
Then comes anti-life with a tyrannical carriage!
Posted by: Some Poet at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Ben Had at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (RmqH1)
That's where I found out about ClF3. I think Glenn Reynolds linked the "Sand Won't Save You This Time" post once.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (ZGrMX)
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (ONvIw)
Diabetes for everyone!
Posted by: 18-1 at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (ESjRY)
Yeah, you can always tell the rat. They bitch about everything, but just won't leave.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at October 12, 2021 02:51 PM (yQpMk)
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Incestuous. When your favorite blogger's skin is so thin that his readers feel the pin prick of every criticism.
A lot of my links on Gab are to AoSHQ articles. This has been my first and last stop for years, but I've never been a fan of the comments section. This is why. The regs can't handle any challenges to their "thinking". Cool man, continue doing 60 in the passing lane. You paid for that road, AmIRight?
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (U+4BW)
Posted by: Tonypete at October 12, 2021 03:27 PM (mD/uy)
You're a gentleman and a scholar.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (sJX14)
cool. But we also have the ability to produce more oil, there seems to be mostly some geopolitical reason that we help other nations produce more, and help raise prices.
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (Cus5s)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:26 PM (Ez6QX)
On a page from The Mirror:
Lizzo looks Good As Hell as she embraces summer with crochet bikini and jeans
This is NEVER the case......
Posted by: Sponge - Michael Byrd MURDERED Ashli Babbitt at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)
And you will tell those d-orbital electrons that they are fat!
Bwah-hah-hah!
Posted by: The F-orbital Electrons at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (MH0eD)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 02:46 PM (sJX14)
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And turn in the Glowies to the FBI.
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (U+4BW)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:28 PM (DU+/6)
A singer, and one of those body-pride obese women.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Jewells45 at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (nxdel)
https://bit.ly/3oX7qYa
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks aka Hangdog Barkston at October 12, 2021 03:21 PM (d9FiS)
Was that supposed to be English? Or are these some of our latest imports?
That was embarrassing - and shit like that needs to be played over and over when they keep telling us women are as capable as men. Yeah, I sure hope I never need help out of a burning building and have somebody like that trying to throw me over their shoulder. That guy weighed maybe 120 soaking wet. 2 guys would have had him in the back of that cruiser sobbing, and not lost their fucking cuffs in the process.
Posted by: clutch cargo - processed in a facility that may contain lead at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (wAnMi)
Posted by: Xipe Totec at October 12, 2021 03:25 PM (o2MD2)
That reminds me of this National Lampoon cover:
https://tinyurl.com/3udehkma
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (2JVJo)
Posted by: Guy Smiley at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (Bmy3R)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Ben Had
My wife is mostly happy with her boob size. Sometimes she wishes I'd lose some weight.
Posted by: rickb223 at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (OCTRt)
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 03:33 PM (ONvIw)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 12, 2021 03:33 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at October 12, 2021 03:29 PM (sJX14)
From what I can tell while it has a use, it is so nasty that it is not used.
Plus, youtubers are looking at stuff like phosphorous or sodium and going ooooo, ahhhhhh. Safe enough, as long as you are not an idiot. Better to play around with fun nerve gases than this shit.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 03:33 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:30 PM (Ez6QX)
You're stretching the definition of "singer" a bit.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (UuD2k)
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For something as important as everything you'd think there'd be a push to increase US production.
Seriously, that's been the most flabbergasting part of this entire thing. We're watching in real time what happens when we don't manufacture goods in the U.S., and we're still sending jobs overseas.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Listen to this SC doctor tell you about ivermectin, spoilers, only two deaths at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (RDD2k)
A whole bunch of destructive economic fads embraced by our elites are falling apart because they rely on coal-fired energy from a communist country that uses slave labor.
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"It's OK, we got our fees." - Business gurus
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (/U27+)
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 03:33 PM (ONvIw)
Yes. He looks like a homeless dude she dragged out of the gutter.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 12, 2021 03:35 PM (oWBc3)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at October 12, 2021 03:35 PM (CIP/L)
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:37 PM (DU+/6)
Posted by: Too Bad Costa Rica Sucks at October 12, 2021 03:38 PM (oWBc3)
https://is.gd/twXjJ1
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (DU+/6)
Whelp, I guess I was warned.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 12, 2021 03:39 PM (dfRN6)
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 02:52 PM (Ez6QX)
One guy I play golf with is a noted ball hawk. He recently sold 5700 golf balls to a fishing resort owner so his clients could pound golf balls into a field when off the river. I think he got $700 for them.
Posted by: free tibet at October 12, 2021 03:40 PM (f0UyA)
Seriously, that's been the most flabbergasting part of this entire thing. We're watching in real time what happens when we don't manufacture goods in the U.S., and we're still sending jobs overseas.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Listen to this SC doctor tell you about ivermectin, spoilers, only two deaths at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (RDD2k)
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Till 1913, the federal government was kept lean by subsisting mostly on tariffs. The 16th amendment changed that and opened the spigot for wealth confiscation.
1792 - 1913 , that's 121 years they got by on tariffs, and I'm not talking about the "picking winners and losers" kind like Trump enacted. I'm talking across-the-board on all imported goods.
Repealing the 16th amendment would kill a lot of birds with one stone (oops, those are rhetorical birds, Sefton so don't ban me). It'd starve the beast and force the shutdown of Welfare programs like Socialist Insecurity, as well as culling the thousands of jobs for money shufflers.
And going back to tariffs would be a tremendous boon to US producers.
Posted by: Andy at October 12, 2021 03:41 PM (U+4BW)
Uh, her insta is full of pics of herself in bikinis and whatnot.
A see-through dress is not terribly noteworthy. Yikes
Posted by: Lizzy at October 12, 2021 03:41 PM (bDqIh)
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/INDPRO
employees in manufacturing was (call it) flat post WW2 to 2000 (higher 70s to 90s), then declines maybe 25%.
Efficiencies allowed us to produce with fewer workers ... plus we exported production (even as we consumed even more, I'd guess)
fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MANEMP
Posted by: illiniwek at October 12, 2021 03:41 PM (Cus5s)
There's some fluorine compound they were investigating as a rocket fuel in the 50s that reacted with pretty near everything. If you spilled it on the ground it'd eat through everything (concrete, most metals, soil, unlucky worms, whatever) until it had all reacted.
Posted by: Ian S. at October 12, 2021 02:57 PM (ZGrMX)
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Dioxygen Diflouride, or "FOOF" both as a play on its chemical structure, as well as the onomatopoeic representation of how unstable and explosive it is.
Posted by: ballistic at October 12, 2021 03:42 PM (oXNqT)
https://is.gd/twXjJ1
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at October 12, 2021 03:31 PM (DU+/6)
Whelp, I guess I was warned.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at October 12, 2021 03:39 PM (dfRN6)
Never have I been more glad to be at work, while the temptation to click might have won out at home.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at October 12, 2021 03:42 PM (kBuGL)
Posted by: CN at October 12, 2021 03:33 PM (ONvIw)
Yes. He looks like a homeless dude she dragged out of the gutter.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 12, 2021 03:34 PM (Ez6QX)
I hate that I had to go looking for that, and now I can't unsee it.
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess, #SuperStraight #maskless (Mzdiz) at October 12, 2021 03:45 PM (Mzdiz)
Posted by: Germanicus at October 12, 2021 04:18 PM (kB491)
And there is absolutely no scarcity of the raw materials to make it. It comes from common sand, which is mostly quartz, silicon dioxide, SiO2.
What probably is limited is the refining capacity needed to recover pure elemental silicon from the quartz sand that comprises the ore. And it has to be very, very pure to begin with, then it is doped with precise amounts of selected impurities to get the desired properties of the resulting crystals.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2021 04:18 PM (I2exF)
Posted by: sock_rat_eez (jDHSU) at October 12, 2021 02:40 PM (jDHSU)
You expect reporters to have brains?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2021 04:21 PM (I2exF)
No opinion but intriguing.
Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at October 12, 2021 02:42 PM (c8R0G)
You should have claimed vision impairment, and asked to verify in Braille.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2021 04:23 PM (I2exF)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 12, 2021 02:55 PM (Y5qcH)
Off the top of my head: Helium, Oxygen, Nitrogen, Carbon, Copper, Gold, Silver, Iron, possibly Lead, Sulfur, Platinum, Palladium, and the noble gases. Oh, Arsenic and Antimony, maybe Bismuth?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at October 12, 2021 04:34 PM (7+m5I)
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What the hell do we produce now, other than lunatics, retards, communists, and queers?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 12, 2021 02:38 PM (YqDXo
Why the hell aren't the globalists exporting some of THAT surplus? I'd trade half the faculty of an Ivy League school for a cargo container of silicon any day.
Posted by: Oldcat at October 12, 2021 04:38 PM (eoQWY)
Posted by: pep at October 12, 2021 03:06 PM (ZsR3z)
diamonds are elemental carbon.
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