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The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition
Inclusivity of citizens is becoming the most important element of success or failure in the journey towards sustainability. Community-led initiatives can make a significant contribution towards sustainability, increase resilience and social cohesion. There have been numerous examples of personal carbon allowance programs in discussions for the last two decades, however they had limited success due to a lack of social acceptance, political resistance, and a lack of awareness and fair mechanism for tracking “My Carbon” emissions. There have been significant developments in last five to seven years on social, environment and technology fronts that could help realise “My Carbon” initiatives for shaping the future towards smart and sustainable cities. Specifically, to mention three developments in this context:
The first one is a doozy!
1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility -- A huge number of unimaginable restrictions for public health were adopted by billions of citizens across the world. There were numerous examples globally of maintaining social distancing, wearing masks, mass vaccinations and acceptance of contact-tracing applications for public health, which demonstrated the core of individual social responsibility.Wow! This sociopath is actually pleased with the horrid economy and soul-crushing government power grabs that damaged the entire world, all in the name of protecting us from a ubiquitous virus with a 99.4% survival rate. But it's the control and the desensitization to government orders that gets him hard.
2. Fourth Industrial Revolution technology breakthroughs -- Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, raise awareness and also provide individual advisories on lower carbon and ethical choices for consumption of product and services. The World Economic Forum's Scale 360 initiative demonstrates the use of fourth industrial revolution technologies across the whole life cycle of products and services.That's fascist gobbledygook for intrusive technology that will track your every move, and allow government to make you a non-person if you don't play along with their game.
3. Raised awareness and ownership for nature and environment – In the last few years, there is an increased awareness and public concern on climate change and specially among youth. The UNDP’s “Peoples’ Climate Vote” reflects that over 64% of people believe climate change is a global emergency. A new Pew Research Center survey in 17 advanced economies found widespread concern about the personal impact of global climate change: 80% of citizens say they are willing to change how they live and work to combat the effects of climate change. Young adults, who have been at the forefront of some of the most prominent climate change protests in recent years, are more concerned than their older counterparts about the personal impact of a warming planet in many public surveys.More Newspeak...but what it means is that their lies about Global WarmingTM are working, and the fear of natural cycles that they have stoked for decades will allow them to use the excuse of some mythical planet-killing catastrophe to drive people into overcrowded cities, decrease their standard of living by decreasing their energy use, and make them more compliant by being able to control them more easily. Here are the facts: energy use is linked to increased standards of living: starting with the processing of the raw materials that drive our modern world, such as ore into steel, crude oil into fertilizers, and 1,000s of other products. The ability to transmit huge amounts of energy cheaply and safely has revolutionized our societies...illumination and cooking, air conditioning, public and private transport...the list goes on and on. All of it dependent on a rational mix of energy sources, but utterly dependent on petroleum as the core energy. Sure, nuclear and hydroelectric (as long as they don't dam my favorite rivers!) are wonderful, and shifting toward nuclear for electricity in many places is a rational, market-driven change. But until there is a technological revolution in energy storage, electricity is not the answer for transport and many other energy uses. Buried in all of the buzz-word nonsense and catchphrases is the dirty little secret of the globalists; they want us to be their slaves, and the best way to achieve that is to make us profoundly dependent on them for everything. They will dole out monetary credits and energy tokens and housing vouchers to those who adhere to their principles of zero-emissions, carbon-neutral, limited consumption. Well, at least for us...they will be living as always: jetting around, eating well, living extravagantly, and ruling us with the tools we provided them.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 10:51 AM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Naturalfake at September 20, 2022 10:53 AM (jfyV0)
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Kill it with fire.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Wrecker, Hoarder, Saboteur at September 20, 2022 10:54 AM (yHsuS)
Posted by: Yes at September 20, 2022 10:54 AM (LsEU/)
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Rare lurker top ten!
Posted by: CA Token at September 20, 2022 10:55 AM (2+yws)
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San Diego officials to pay $600,000 to a woman who was attacked by a police dog in her yard.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 20, 2022 10:56 AM (yikp0)
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Buy ammo.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at September 20, 2022 10:56 AM (yQpMk)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 10:57 AM (5r4XQ)
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1. COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
We all knew it was a trial run for global tyranny, but it's nice of them to admit it.
We all knew it was a trial run for global tyranny, but it's nice of them to admit it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 10:57 AM (ZGrMX)
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Don Lemon takes the lead in the CNN's dumbest man contest
https://tinyurl.com/n5u96sxn
He says that England should pay reparations for slavery, and the lady he is interviewing him points out:
1) Slaves were captured and sold to Europeans by Africans
2) England was the first nation on earth to ban slavery
3) over 2000 young British men died in ships trying to save slaves and stop the slave trade
She suggests perhaps reparations ought be paid by the ancestors of the African kings to the ancestors of British anti-slavery fighters, if any are paid.
https://tinyurl.com/n5u96sxn
He says that England should pay reparations for slavery, and the lady he is interviewing him points out:
1) Slaves were captured and sold to Europeans by Africans
2) England was the first nation on earth to ban slavery
3) over 2000 young British men died in ships trying to save slaves and stop the slave trade
She suggests perhaps reparations ought be paid by the ancestors of the African kings to the ancestors of British anti-slavery fighters, if any are paid.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 10:58 AM (Ivdso)
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at September 20, 2022 10:58 AM (DTX3h)
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It's a brilliant plan until it isn't.
Posted by: Kjell Nilsson at September 20, 2022 10:58 AM (A7urr)
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That's fascist gobbledygook for intrusive technology that will track your every move, and allow government to make you a non-person if you don't play along with their game.
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And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
- Revelation 13:15-17
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And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
- Revelation 13:15-17
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 10:58 AM (MVxcn)
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Monkey for da Masses.
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (MkuC5)
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I would say Klaus Schwab should eat a bag of dicks, except he probably does that all the time.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (llON8)
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But until there is a technological revolution in energy storage, electricity is not the answer for transport and many other energy uses.
Storage isn't the answer. Generation is. Nuclear is the intermediate step, but space-based solar and fusion are the long term solutions.
Storage isn't the answer. Generation is. Nuclear is the intermediate step, but space-based solar and fusion are the long term solutions.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ayzS/)
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"I personally think it's genius."
— Charlamagne tha God on Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) sending migrants to blue cities, saying the move can expose that Democratic mayors and governors "don't want immigrants here either."
— Charlamagne tha God on Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) sending migrants to blue cities, saying the move can expose that Democratic mayors and governors "don't want immigrants here either."
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (RHGPo)
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More and more I think we need a constitutional amendment that all non-criminal records are expunged after a certain amount of time with severe financial penalties for violating it.
The government and corps that it works with have too much data. Way too much. EngSoc looks on in envy...
The government and corps that it works with have too much data. Way too much. EngSoc looks on in envy...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ESjRY)
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (906pl)
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FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (Zz0t1)
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Don Lemon takes the lead in the CNN's dumbest man contest
https://tinyurl.com/n5u96sxn
He says that England should pay reparations for slavery,
Egypt owes the Jews. Pharaoh was first. Back in line Lemon and stay in your lane.
https://tinyurl.com/n5u96sxn
He says that England should pay reparations for slavery,
Egypt owes the Jews. Pharaoh was first. Back in line Lemon and stay in your lane.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (rMe4X)
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She suggests perhaps reparations ought be paid by the ancestors of the African kings to the ancestors of British anti-slavery fighters, if any are paid.
*cough* descendants*cough*
*cough* descendants*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (ayzS/)
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More and more I think we need a constitutional amendment that all non-criminal records are expunged after a certain amount of time with severe financial penalties for violating it.
I agree. Even for law enforcement. If you have not broken any laws then there's no reason for cops to keep fingerprints, DNA, etc gathered "to eliminate you as a suspect".
I agree. Even for law enforcement. If you have not broken any laws then there's no reason for cops to keep fingerprints, DNA, etc gathered "to eliminate you as a suspect".
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (Ivdso)
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COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
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I failed that test and was an embarrassment to those around me as I disobeyed edicts and skirted orders to obey. They now know that I was right
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I failed that test and was an embarrassment to those around me as I disobeyed edicts and skirted orders to obey. They now know that I was right
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (flINI)
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Also, we need Fauci and friends on trial. We made the same sort of mistake after the cold war - just letting it end.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (ESjRY)
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Twilio is laying off people based on 'anti-racism' criteria?
What the actual fuck? I keep getting the feeling that this is those situations when we were teens and in college where we kept asking the prof: 'Why didn't someone do something? Didn't they know what was coming? It was obvious!'
But I was never one who asked. I knew people too well even then and even understand now why people hesitate- and we have not just come through losing WWI and the Weimar republic.
What the actual fuck? I keep getting the feeling that this is those situations when we were teens and in college where we kept asking the prof: 'Why didn't someone do something? Didn't they know what was coming? It was obvious!'
But I was never one who asked. I knew people too well even then and even understand now why people hesitate- and we have not just come through losing WWI and the Weimar republic.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (5r4XQ)
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Don Lemon takes the lead in the CNN's dumbest man contest
Hasn't that title been his to lose since Tater and Toobin were yeeted?
Hasn't that title been his to lose since Tater and Toobin were yeeted?
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (ZGrMX)
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Morning.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (2qTDs)
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17 "I personally think it's genius."
— Charlamagne tha God on Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) sending migrants to blue cities, saying the move can expose that Democratic mayors and governors "don't want immigrants here either."
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (RHGPo)
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He admires it like Patton admired Rommel.
— Charlamagne tha God on Govs. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) sending migrants to blue cities, saying the move can expose that Democratic mayors and governors "don't want immigrants here either."
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (RHGPo)
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He admires it like Patton admired Rommel.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (LvTSG)
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Raised awareness
Absolutely. It's almost like Operation Warp Speed made them turn up the heat too fast on the frogs in the pot. Even the black-pilled are starting to feel something.
Absolutely. It's almost like Operation Warp Speed made them turn up the heat too fast on the frogs in the pot. Even the black-pilled are starting to feel something.
Posted by: t-bird at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (Jg92y)
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Did you take a drink every time they used the word "stakeholder"?
That's the new word everyone in that crowd has to use now, in every interview, essay, abstract, paper, and study. It shows you're one of them. Like the one-eye photo, only with a word.
That's the new word everyone in that crowd has to use now, in every interview, essay, abstract, paper, and study. It shows you're one of them. Like the one-eye photo, only with a word.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (M9XmQ)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 11:01 AM (Ivdso)
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You will own nothing and like it, peasant.
Posted by: Joe XiDen at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (3vQN0)
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Can't wait until the WEF elites realize the only people that care about their global warming/sustainability scams are white liberals/leftists and a some westernized Asians. It's as if they never talk to the people they want to rule.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (MxEKc)
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Egypt owes the Jews. Pharaoh was first. Back in line Lemon and stay in your lane.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (rMe4X)
How could you find them. The first Egyptians were a Caucasian race. Mostly wiped out/displaced by everyone else who came through the area (Greeks, Romans, Muslims.)
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (rMe4X)
How could you find them. The first Egyptians were a Caucasian race. Mostly wiped out/displaced by everyone else who came through the area (Greeks, Romans, Muslims.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (ZGrMX)
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Twilio is laying off people based on 'anti-racism' criteria?
What the actual f***? I keep getting the feeling that this is those situations when we were teens and in college where we kept asking the prof: 'Why didn't someone do something? Didn't they know what was coming? It was obvious!'
This is guaran-damn-teed to be a lawsuit, which I predict the plaintiffs will win handily. Trial lawyers are licking their lips.
What the actual f***? I keep getting the feeling that this is those situations when we were teens and in college where we kept asking the prof: 'Why didn't someone do something? Didn't they know what was coming? It was obvious!'
This is guaran-damn-teed to be a lawsuit, which I predict the plaintiffs will win handily. Trial lawyers are licking their lips.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (ayzS/)
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And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak...
Posted by: SMH
A.I.?
Posted by: SMH
A.I.?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (M9XmQ)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (BFigT)
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I'm starting to buy in to this de-populationism of theirs, but they might be surprised a bit by who goes first.
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (4780s)
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To participate, do we get a chip or a bar code tat?
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (AwYPR)
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22 She suggests perhaps reparations ought be paid by the ancestors of the African kings to the ancestors of British anti-slavery fighters, if any are paid.
*cough* descendants*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (ayzS/)
Just as long as I get my 10%
*cough* descendants*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (ayzS/)
Just as long as I get my 10%
Posted by: pResident Biden at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (BgMrQ)
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Two men. Two global organizations. One common theme. Barely 24-hours after former U.S. President Bill Clinton called on “governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions” to back the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) because “the world’s on fire,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres dutifully echoed the declaration of impending doom.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (ESjRY)
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38 And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak...
Posted by: SMH
A.I.?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (M9XmQ)
Communism.
Posted by: SMH
A.I.?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist, Rickrolled by Jesus at September 20, 2022 11:02 AM (M9XmQ)
Communism.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (5r4XQ)
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Leftism marches on
Posted by: Skip's phone at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (zXkFq)
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The irony is this; the very high density populations that provide the most fertile intellectual breeding grounds for the WEFs philosophy will dry up if they get what they want. Because carbon fuels make those densities possible. Without those high population densities, also known as affluent cities, this crap all withers on the vine.
A serious nation with the ability to be energy independent would treat the World Economic Forum as an enemy of the state.
A serious nation with the ability to be energy independent would treat the World Economic Forum as an enemy of the state.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (n8S9h)
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44 WEF = SPECTRE
Only SPECTRE was less ludicrous.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (ESjRY)
Also a better HR dept.
Only SPECTRE was less ludicrous.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (ESjRY)
Also a better HR dept.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (60GtU)
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GET WOKE, LOSE WARS: Unexpectedly, the USAF Finds Itself With a Critical Shortage of Pilots While It Says It Has Too Many White Officers.
https://instapundit.com/543469/
https://instapundit.com/543469/
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (2qTDs)
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All of it dependent on a rational mix of energy sources, but utterly dependent on petroleum as the core energy. Sure, nuclear and hydroelectric (as long as they don't dam my favorite rivers!) are wonderful, and shifting toward nuclear for electricity in many places is a rational, market-driven change. But until there is a technological revolution in energy storage, electricity is not the answer for transport and many other energy uses.
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All of this is readily apparent to anyone who has played "Civilization" series of video games...Or any of the countless variants where you start out with nothing and build up a society and civilization over time within the game.
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All of this is readily apparent to anyone who has played "Civilization" series of video games...Or any of the countless variants where you start out with nothing and build up a society and civilization over time within the game.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
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WEF is a bunch of fools that think they can run the world with half baked white papers.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (UuD2k)
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I'd often thought the real "Gain of Function" research going on was that on societies, and seeing how far totalitarians could push a population before they started to resist.
Now they know. And it's not a good sign for freedom-loving folk.
Now they know. And it's not a good sign for freedom-loving folk.
Posted by: red speck at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (gS3OW)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (ZGrMX)
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You will be enslaved. And, you will be happy.
And as we have seen, over half of the world's people want to be enslaved.
And as we have seen, over half of the world's people want to be enslaved.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (AW0uW)
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Only SPECTRE was less ludicrous.
Does the WEF show up in a public place to discuss secret plans over conspicuous special lapel pins?
Does the WEF show up in a public place to discuss secret plans over conspicuous special lapel pins?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (Ivdso)
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A.I.?
Posted by: Taqiyyologist
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Possibility.
Fact is, the tech is here, and battlespace prep is ongoing.
Posted by: Taqiyyologist
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Possibility.
Fact is, the tech is here, and battlespace prep is ongoing.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:05 AM (MVxcn)
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All of this is readily apparent to anyone who has played "Civilization" series of video games...Or any of the countless variants where you start out with nothing and build up a society and civilization over time within the game.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
Always liked Paradox games (Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Crusader Kings) until they went full ham on the DLC nickel and dime.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (YIVH2)
Always liked Paradox games (Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Crusader Kings) until they went full ham on the DLC nickel and dime.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:06 AM (5r4XQ)
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It MIGHT be rhetorical bologna and the "anti-racist lens" is nothing more than the severance package. Which they're trying to portray as simply *amazing*.
Posted by: Synova at September 20, 2022 11:06 AM (BD/yx)
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Wow! This sociopath is actually pleased with the horrid economy and soul-crushing government power grabs that damaged the entire world, all in the name of protecting us from a ubiquitous virus with a 99.4% survival rate. But it's the control and the desensitization to government orders that gets him hard.
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The controls were, largely, tolerated. That's the real victory. The knock-on effects are either manageable or desirable, so all is well.
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The controls were, largely, tolerated. That's the real victory. The knock-on effects are either manageable or desirable, so all is well.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:07 AM (t0OGg)
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I hope we at least get to have a good corporate hymn.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 20, 2022 11:07 AM (3KqFY)
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A serious nation with the ability to be energy independent would treat the World Economic Forum as an enemy of the state.
Posted by: SuperChamp
A serious nation, using Ace's time machine, would go back and make all the fathers or the current WEF leaders pull out on time.
Posted by: SuperChamp
A serious nation, using Ace's time machine, would go back and make all the fathers or the current WEF leaders pull out on time.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:07 AM (rMe4X)
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The WEF needs to be nuked from space. Bill Gates needs to be tried, convicted and hanged for crimes against humanity right along side Dr. Fauci in a double-billing.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (Zz0t1)
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The controls were, largely, tolerated. That's the real victory. The knock-on effects are either manageable or desirable, so all is well.
Imagine telling people in the 60s what the government did in regards to COVID. Their first question would be, "Did the Soviets win the cold war or something like that?"
Imagine telling people in the 60s what the government did in regards to COVID. Their first question would be, "Did the Soviets win the cold war or something like that?"
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (ESjRY)
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I think the impact of the MV illegals will extend far beyond immigration. It was the starkest possible demonstration that the WEF crowd doesn't have good motives designed to achieve the common good. Rather, they want neofeudalism. People noticed.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (ayzS/)
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You can do whatever you want during fat times. But as the suddenly-lean times get even leaner, a lot of this garbage goes away.
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (FJYfm)
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Always liked Paradox games (Hearts of Iron, Stellaris, Crusader Kings) until they went full ham on the DLC nickel and dime.
I like the fine-grained customization that gives you. With regular expansions there's always stuff nobody wants, and on the Paradox model you don't have to pay for it.
I like the fine-grained customization that gives you. With regular expansions there's always stuff nobody wants, and on the Paradox model you don't have to pay for it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:09 AM (ZGrMX)
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... Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, raise awareness and also provide individual advisories on lower carbon and ethical choices for consumption of product and services.
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- Tracking with who's consent?
- Raise awareness of what, to whom, based on what input assumptions, and with the goal of what outcome for what purpose?
- Ethical choices according to what ethical framework, as informed by what and by whom, for what purpose and in pursuit of which goals?
TL;DR: blow me
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- Tracking with who's consent?
- Raise awareness of what, to whom, based on what input assumptions, and with the goal of what outcome for what purpose?
- Ethical choices according to what ethical framework, as informed by what and by whom, for what purpose and in pursuit of which goals?
TL;DR: blow me
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:09 AM (t0OGg)
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While I love what Desantis and Abbott are doing, at the end of the day, the government that apprehended known illegals still did nothing more than settle them within this country.
And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 20, 2022 11:09 AM (KbCG3)
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Not only did I respond in the wrong thread, I responded on the wrong blog.
Today is going to be one of those days.
Clearly.
Today is going to be one of those days.
Clearly.
Posted by: Synova at September 20, 2022 11:09 AM (BD/yx)
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The ancient Egyptians come from either Greeks or Jews. No one saw whether they came by sea or desert.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:09 AM (44ww/)
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Good post, CBD.
80% will change their lives for climate change?
Sounds good until they find out what it means.
In Germany for instance, it means no heat in the winter. Let's take that poll in February and see if it holds up.
Idiots.
Gullible, stupid fools.
80% will change their lives for climate change?
Sounds good until they find out what it means.
In Germany for instance, it means no heat in the winter. Let's take that poll in February and see if it holds up.
Idiots.
Gullible, stupid fools.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (Z0UZu)
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The only socially responsible thing to do is cut electricity to Manhattan and San Fran and let them preen in their pious greeness. We deplorables will be warm and fed.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (C7jzY)
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The ancient Egyptians come from either Greeks or Jews. No one saw whether they came by sea or desert.
Everyone knows they wuz kangs. And they could fly before tha white debil clipped they wings.
Everyone knows they wuz kangs. And they could fly before tha white debil clipped they wings.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (ZGrMX)
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A serious nation, using Ace's time machine, would go back and make all the fathers or the current WEF leaders pull out on time.
Posted by: rickb223
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Human nature being what it is, all this was inevitable, and those of the WEF are just as interchangeable as they think the mass of humanity are.
They're the same evil as their father, and he has plenty of backup.
Posted by: rickb223
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Human nature being what it is, all this was inevitable, and those of the WEF are just as interchangeable as they think the mass of humanity are.
They're the same evil as their father, and he has plenty of backup.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (MVxcn)
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And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
Disagree. I have strung successive sentences together several times this morning.
Disagree. I have strung successive sentences together several times this morning.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (ayzS/)
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The glitteratti ain't gonna like their 0.5 billion world population outcome.
Takes a certain critical mass of humanity to do all of the production that ends up as a Gulfstream VII, a mansion with all of the HDTV giant screens, and all of the etc.s.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Takes a certain critical mass of humanity to do all of the production that ends up as a Gulfstream VII, a mansion with all of the HDTV giant screens, and all of the etc.s.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (e6UQI)
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Insty linked a three year old story highlighting what a giant fuck up that San Antonio sherif is.
https://tinyurl.com/3butpb6b
https://tinyurl.com/3butpb6b
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (2qTDs)
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And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
Libs won't. Everyone else will.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer
Libs won't. Everyone else will.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (rMe4X)
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... right-leaning politicians and pundits found it could be politically advantageous to blast teachers. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) swept into office by campaigning to eradicate certain ways of talking about race and American history from the state’s schools. One of his earliest acts as governor was to set up a tip line allowing parents to report teachers for inappropriate behavior.
... because their school boards would report them as terrorists to the FBI
... because their school boards would report them as terrorists to the FBI
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (RHGPo)
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GET WOKE, LOSE WARS: Unexpectedly, the USAF Finds Itself With a Critical Shortage of Pilots While It Says It Has Too Many White Officers.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (2qTDs)
If the USAF was smart, they would begin a training program of their own using enlisted men. If you don't have many college grads signing up to fly, get a different source. Same with the airlines. I would guess there's tons of 18-20 year old's that would love to fly and not have to go to college.
But they're not smart.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (2qTDs)
If the USAF was smart, they would begin a training program of their own using enlisted men. If you don't have many college grads signing up to fly, get a different source. Same with the airlines. I would guess there's tons of 18-20 year old's that would love to fly and not have to go to college.
But they're not smart.
Posted by: lowandslow at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (qH6FZ)
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>>> 66 You can do whatever you want during fat times. But as the suddenly-lean times get even leaner, a lot of this garbage goes away.
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (FJYfm)
Lucifer's Hammer had some dark humor around who they would or would not accept into the Senator's 'compound' based on valuable skills. I can only imagine how an updated version would play, with some yahoo showing up and demanding correct use of pronouns...
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:08 AM (FJYfm)
Lucifer's Hammer had some dark humor around who they would or would not accept into the Senator's 'compound' based on valuable skills. I can only imagine how an updated version would play, with some yahoo showing up and demanding correct use of pronouns...
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (llON8)
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DJIA when Biden took office- 31,186.20
DJIA today, over 1.5 years lated- 30,727
Heck of a job there, buddy, bringing prosperity back to the US.
DJIA today, over 1.5 years lated- 30,727
Heck of a job there, buddy, bringing prosperity back to the US.
Posted by: Financial Moron at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (JCZqz)
84
The ancient Egyptians come from either Greeks or Jews.
It was Shem, Ham, or Japheth, cannot recall which one who headed south to Africa. One of Noah's sons.
It was Shem, Ham, or Japheth, cannot recall which one who headed south to Africa. One of Noah's sons.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (Ivdso)
85
44. SPECTRE. Was that Man from Uncle?
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (4780s)
86
Sacre blue!
"Plate" oysters are the best!
They receive the coveted-
naturalfake Medillion of Oyster Supremacy and World Class Yumminess!
"Plate" oysters are the best!
They receive the coveted-
naturalfake Medillion of Oyster Supremacy and World Class Yumminess!
Posted by: Naturalfake at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (jfyV0)
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The only socially responsible thing to do is cut electricity to Manhattan and San Fran and let them preen in their pious greeness. We deplorables will be warm and fed.
100%. The carbon reduction would be enough to let the rest of us do whatever we wanted.
100%. The carbon reduction would be enough to let the rest of us do whatever we wanted.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (ZGrMX)
88
Buried in all of the buzz-word nonsense and catchphrases is the dirty little secret of the globalists; they want us to be their slaves, and the best way to achieve that is to make us profoundly dependent on them for everything. They will dole out monetary credits and energy tokens and housing vouchers to those who adhere to their principles of zero-emissions, carbon-neutral, limited consumption.
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And - more important than even the grinding poverty, absence of choice, destruction of rights and the conversion of a once-free man into a mere chattel - comes the social enforcement. You can comply in every way with the climate nonsense they'll use as the official motivator, yet still be punished and deprived based on your opinions. And you will have no choice to keep your opinions private. That whole "Fourth Industrial Revolution" claptrap always includes things like the Metaverse.
Stay in your pod, eat your food pellet, live an ersatz life in the Metaverse to escape your squalid 250 sq. ft. living unit. If you so much as blink wrong in the Metaverse, goodbye to your increased rations over base allocation or a transit pass or an entertainment stipend...
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And - more important than even the grinding poverty, absence of choice, destruction of rights and the conversion of a once-free man into a mere chattel - comes the social enforcement. You can comply in every way with the climate nonsense they'll use as the official motivator, yet still be punished and deprived based on your opinions. And you will have no choice to keep your opinions private. That whole "Fourth Industrial Revolution" claptrap always includes things like the Metaverse.
Stay in your pod, eat your food pellet, live an ersatz life in the Metaverse to escape your squalid 250 sq. ft. living unit. If you so much as blink wrong in the Metaverse, goodbye to your increased rations over base allocation or a transit pass or an entertainment stipend...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (t0OGg)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (Cus5s)
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Community-led initiatives can make a significant contribution towards sustainability, increase resilience and social cohesion.
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Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?
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Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (t0OGg)
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85 44. SPECTRE. Was that Man from Uncle?
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (4780s)
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Bond villain organization.
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (4780s)
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Bond villain organization.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (LvTSG)
92
And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
To be clear, they won't change because they suddenly saw the light, they'll change because illegal immigration is so unpopular it will cost them power.
https://tinyurl.com/r28nx5ce
To be clear, they won't change because they suddenly saw the light, they'll change because illegal immigration is so unpopular it will cost them power.
https://tinyurl.com/r28nx5ce
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (ayzS/)
93
It's as if they never talk to the people they want to rule.
___________________
Rule? I thought they were bent on "de-populating".
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Rule? I thought they were bent on "de-populating".
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (fs1hN)
94
80% will change their lives for climate change?
Sounds good until they find out what it means.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (Z0UZu)
I call BS on the 80%. A couple years ago, there was a survey of PGA Tour players, where 90+% identified slow play as a problem, but in a follow-up question, exactly zero of them identified themselves as a slow player. Climate change is the same way - "We should do something about THOSE people...but not us."
That will never fly as a solution.
Sounds good until they find out what it means.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at September 20, 2022 11:10 AM (Z0UZu)
I call BS on the 80%. A couple years ago, there was a survey of PGA Tour players, where 90+% identified slow play as a problem, but in a follow-up question, exactly zero of them identified themselves as a slow player. Climate change is the same way - "We should do something about THOSE people...but not us."
That will never fly as a solution.
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (FJYfm)
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And as we have seen, over half of the world's people want to be enslaved.
That's been one of our blind spots on a national level. It was my personal blind spot during the first part of the "W" years. This idea that everyone, of course, would want to be free. Who wouldn't like all that comes with freedom ?
You are right. It took me until my early thirties to figure it out, but I finally got there. Most people really don't want to be free, because freedom is hard. Freedom could mean you go hungry or cold or die young. Freedom could mean you have less than your neighbor, and the poorest guy on the richest city block in the world still feels poor.
Most people want to be serfs in a wealthy nation under a benevolent monarch. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The yearning to be free is stronger in rural areas than urban, and strongest in rural America most of all, but rural America is the exception.
That's been one of our blind spots on a national level. It was my personal blind spot during the first part of the "W" years. This idea that everyone, of course, would want to be free. Who wouldn't like all that comes with freedom ?
You are right. It took me until my early thirties to figure it out, but I finally got there. Most people really don't want to be free, because freedom is hard. Freedom could mean you go hungry or cold or die young. Freedom could mean you have less than your neighbor, and the poorest guy on the richest city block in the world still feels poor.
Most people want to be serfs in a wealthy nation under a benevolent monarch. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The yearning to be free is stronger in rural areas than urban, and strongest in rural America most of all, but rural America is the exception.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (n8S9h)
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Takes a certain critical mass of humanity to do all of the production that ends up as a Gulfstream VII, a mansion with all of the HDTV giant screens, and all of the etc.s.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (e6UQI)
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"I, Pencil" is a great little essay documenting just how difficult it is to make something so small and ubiquitous. You could do "I, Paperclip" for the same effect.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (e6UQI)
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"I, Pencil" is a great little essay documenting just how difficult it is to make something so small and ubiquitous. You could do "I, Paperclip" for the same effect.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:14 AM (YIVH2)
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Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (t0OGg)
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"You may have no interest in politics, but politics is interested in you."
-- Pericles
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (t0OGg)
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"You may have no interest in politics, but politics is interested in you."
-- Pericles
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at September 20, 2022 11:15 AM (Qzn2/)
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I call BS on the 80%. A couple years ago, there was a survey of PGA Tour players, where 90+% identified slow play as a problem, but in a follow-up question, exactly zero of them identified themselves as a slow player. Climate change is the same way - "We should do something about THOSE people...but not us."
That will never fly as a solution.
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (FJYfm)
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It's a form of NIMBYism and enslaving a bunch of Orientals is the solution so far. Pollution, slavery, egregious human rights abuses, tyranny, etc. are all just fine so long as they happen somewhere else. More than fine, if it happens somewhere else then it doesn't exist at all.
"My EV is emissions-free because emissions happen somewhere else not my tailpipe and therefore not in my garage or neighborhood."
That will never fly as a solution.
Posted by: Wally at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (FJYfm)
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It's a form of NIMBYism and enslaving a bunch of Orientals is the solution so far. Pollution, slavery, egregious human rights abuses, tyranny, etc. are all just fine so long as they happen somewhere else. More than fine, if it happens somewhere else then it doesn't exist at all.
"My EV is emissions-free because emissions happen somewhere else not my tailpipe and therefore not in my garage or neighborhood."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:15 AM (t0OGg)
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81 I flew on a C117 piloted by one of the last enlisted aviators in the Marine Corps. Lack of bars did not hinder him. Circa early 70s.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:15 AM (lz5hY)
100
My wife pleads with me not to respond to "global warming" religionists at social occasions. All of her friends consider themselves "activists" and belong to some religious order called "C-Change" and go around making speeches to each other, like good little cultists. It's spooky as hell.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:15 AM (mOAwy)
101
So Commie Pope makes an edict that "we" must do something about globull warming because man is in control of God's earth......
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:15 AM (bs+z0)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (ZLI7S)
103
The galaxy will be destroyed by an AI with an insatiable need for paperclips.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (44ww/)
104
Takes a certain critical mass of humanity to do all of the production that ends up as a Gulfstream VII, a mansion with all of the HDTV giant screens, and all of the etc.s.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
And it all requires oil.
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
And it all requires oil.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (rMe4X)
105
Joe, get out of her coffin! We'll tell you when it's your time.
Posted by: "Doctor" Jill at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (ugV9/)
106
He says that England should pay reparations for slavery,
Egypt owes the Jews. Pharaoh was first. Back in line Lemon and stay in your lane.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (rMe4X)
There's a Brit biographer saying Charles must "atone" for slavery or face the consequences. Fuck that shit.
As for Egypt owing the Jews of the OT, fuck that shit too. Enough of hereditary guilt
Egypt owes the Jews. Pharaoh was first. Back in line Lemon and stay in your lane.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:00 AM (rMe4X)
There's a Brit biographer saying Charles must "atone" for slavery or face the consequences. Fuck that shit.
As for Egypt owing the Jews of the OT, fuck that shit too. Enough of hereditary guilt
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (Zzbjj)
107
That Taylor Hawkins' kid in the sidebar has a head of hair that would even make 1970s Barry Gibb jealous.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (sVtYq)
108
To be clear, they won't change because they suddenly saw the light, they'll change because illegal immigration is so unpopular it will cost them power.
https://tinyurl.com/r28nx5ce
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (ayzS/)
Thing is, has illegal immigration ever been popular? Libs ran against it for how long? Now they're openly supporting and subsidizing it and it hasn't cost them a thing.
https://tinyurl.com/r28nx5ce
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (ayzS/)
Thing is, has illegal immigration ever been popular? Libs ran against it for how long? Now they're openly supporting and subsidizing it and it hasn't cost them a thing.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (KbCG3)
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>>> 93 It's as if they never talk to the people they want to rule.
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Rule? I thought they were bent on "de-populating".
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (fs1hN)
These psycho retards think they will rule those they deign to keep around. They also think they can maintain the same standard of living, *for themselves*.
___________________
Rule? I thought they were bent on "de-populating".
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (fs1hN)
These psycho retards think they will rule those they deign to keep around. They also think they can maintain the same standard of living, *for themselves*.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (llON8)
110
The galaxy will be destroyed by an AI with an insatiable need for paperclips.
Big Clip sees nothing wrong with this.
Big Clip sees nothing wrong with this.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (ayzS/)
111
18 More and more I think we need a constitutional amendment that all non-criminal records are expunged after a certain amount of time with severe financial penalties for violating it.
The government and corps that it works with have too much data. Way too much. EngSoc looks on in envy...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ESjRY)
I've wondered about a HIPAA style law for all your data, including hefty fines ($100k per person, per breach) for lax security and hacks that put the individual at risk.
If we could reverse the financial incentives so the risk outweighs the gain in accumulating and storing the data it could be stopped.
The government and corps that it works with have too much data. Way too much. EngSoc looks on in envy...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ESjRY)
I've wondered about a HIPAA style law for all your data, including hefty fines ($100k per person, per breach) for lax security and hacks that put the individual at risk.
If we could reverse the financial incentives so the risk outweighs the gain in accumulating and storing the data it could be stopped.
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (cupoy)
112
Schwab has been channeling Kodos for quite some time.
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (Zzbjj)
113
So very much of those take place so very far DOWN in the production chain, that the PTB won't even be aware that they're critical to the final products. Oh, and the skilled labor required to make so much as a hydraulic seal for a landing gear strut? That's not a spontaneously sprouted scope of knowledge, either.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (e6UQI)
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"Be fruitful and multiply" wasn't said just in jest.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Everyone ought to read or re-read Tom Clancy's "Rainbow Six". Their plans laid bare, some twenty-five years ago.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:11 AM (e6UQI)
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"Be fruitful and multiply" wasn't said just in jest.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (SF4EO)
114
Most people want to be serfs in a wealthy nation under a benevolent monarch. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The yearning to be free is stronger in rural areas than urban, and strongest in rural America most of all, but rural America is the exception.
Posted by: SuperChamp
At one time, rural America was the norm.
Posted by: SuperChamp
At one time, rural America was the norm.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (rMe4X)
115
All of these Gaia-worshippers are going to experience some warming in the future, all right.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (3KqFY)
116
These psycho retards think they will rule those they deign to keep around. They also think they can maintain the same standard of living, *for themselves*.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (llON
No one ever expects the French Revolution
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (llON
No one ever expects the French Revolution
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (Zzbjj)
117
If the overall IFR of C19 (alpha) was .025 (and I think it was a bit lower), then survival rate was a lot higher than 99.4%.
And that was not the first issue encountered. The "interventions" for C19 were almost all *already* known not to be effective, based on a century of observation and research. The "vaccines" might have been effective, as they were novel, but it doesn't look like they made a material difference either. And any impact they had was as therapeutics - again, transmission and spread were inexorable, as with all such pathogens ever observed.
The ignorant fearful submission of most of the populace, the almost ho-hum instant transmission of government everywhere into soft totalitarian mode, are certainly alarming. But the key is that there was literally no basis for any of it. Just as with "climate" insanity.
And that was not the first issue encountered. The "interventions" for C19 were almost all *already* known not to be effective, based on a century of observation and research. The "vaccines" might have been effective, as they were novel, but it doesn't look like they made a material difference either. And any impact they had was as therapeutics - again, transmission and spread were inexorable, as with all such pathogens ever observed.
The ignorant fearful submission of most of the populace, the almost ho-hum instant transmission of government everywhere into soft totalitarian mode, are certainly alarming. But the key is that there was literally no basis for any of it. Just as with "climate" insanity.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (OTzUX)
118
Most people want to be serfs in a wealthy nation under a benevolent monarch. I'm absolutely convinced of that.
To live as a child and enjoy freedom from responsibility.
To live as a child and enjoy freedom from responsibility.
Posted by: r-bird at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (Jg92y)
119
My wife pleads with me not to respond to "global warming" religionists at social occasions. All of her friends consider themselves "activists" and belong to some religious order called "C-Change" and go around making speeches to each other, like good little cultists. It's spooky as hell.
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Start suggesting things to them regarding their own hypocrisy. Clothes, home, travel and vehicles, A/C, heat, cell phones... Their lives of luxury must come to an end and the hypocrisy they live (and I'm sure they do) must be shoved in their faces.
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Start suggesting things to them regarding their own hypocrisy. Clothes, home, travel and vehicles, A/C, heat, cell phones... Their lives of luxury must come to an end and the hypocrisy they live (and I'm sure they do) must be shoved in their faces.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (sVtYq)
120
And if you think liberals will take note of their hypocrisy and change their tune on illegal immigration, well, your brain is functioning at Biden levels.
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On all of the lefty sites they are congratulating themselves for being so tolerant, accepting, and hospitable for less than two days.
They are convinced republicans are kidnappers, human traffickers, rapists, and should be in jail. The fascists need to be in prison over political differences because they are authoritarians.
I'm not kidding.
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On all of the lefty sites they are congratulating themselves for being so tolerant, accepting, and hospitable for less than two days.
They are convinced republicans are kidnappers, human traffickers, rapists, and should be in jail. The fascists need to be in prison over political differences because they are authoritarians.
I'm not kidding.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (zwDuR)
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Thing is, has illegal immigration ever been popular? Libs ran against it for how long? Now they're openly supporting and subsidizing it and it hasn't cost them a thing.
Yes, it was, as long as people weren't forced to confront its effects. Everyone wanted to be seen to be tolerant and diverse. But MV showed how empty their ethics really are.
Have you noticed that virtually nobody in the GOP is calling for amnesty anymore? Have you noticed that Hispanics are moving into the GOP? Have you noticed that we're going to demolish the Dems in the next two elections?
I think II is playing a key role in all of those.
Yes, it was, as long as people weren't forced to confront its effects. Everyone wanted to be seen to be tolerant and diverse. But MV showed how empty their ethics really are.
Have you noticed that virtually nobody in the GOP is calling for amnesty anymore? Have you noticed that Hispanics are moving into the GOP? Have you noticed that we're going to demolish the Dems in the next two elections?
I think II is playing a key role in all of those.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (ayzS/)
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Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (t0OGg)
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Sounds like a great setup for a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Only one small tweak needed to make it palatable to the producers - make the baddies "right-wing" instead of the WEF.
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Sounds like a great setup for a blockbuster Hollywood movie. Only one small tweak needed to make it palatable to the producers - make the baddies "right-wing" instead of the WEF.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (fs1hN)
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115 All of these Gaia-worshippers are going to experience some warming in the future, all right.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (3KqFY)
"Why, Johnny Ringo... Whatever do you mean?"
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (3KqFY)
"Why, Johnny Ringo... Whatever do you mean?"
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (MkuC5)
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If the USAF was smart, they would begin a training program of their own using enlisted men. If you don't have many college grads signing up to fly, get a different source. Same with the airlines. I would guess there's tons of 18-20 year old's that would love to fly and not have to go to college.
But they're not smart.
Posted by: lowandslow
I never understood the utility in our modern forces limiting pilots to the officer ranks (or for that matter only allowing commissions to people with degrees). If the goal of officers is leadership, check aptitude among the entire force and train based on that with perhaps a longer commitment period for commissions but no degree required. i'm guessing the degree is a modern-day proxy for wealth and standing... then train for whatever leadership is needed in pilots and open up the candidate pool to motivated enlistees. (obviously on larger flight crews for bombers, tankers, etc. there is a need for the pilot to be in command of the rest of the crew, but maybe *less* for single seat jets). feel free to correct me if there are legitimate reasons for the current requirements or if my understanding is flawed.
But they're not smart.
Posted by: lowandslow
I never understood the utility in our modern forces limiting pilots to the officer ranks (or for that matter only allowing commissions to people with degrees). If the goal of officers is leadership, check aptitude among the entire force and train based on that with perhaps a longer commitment period for commissions but no degree required. i'm guessing the degree is a modern-day proxy for wealth and standing... then train for whatever leadership is needed in pilots and open up the candidate pool to motivated enlistees. (obviously on larger flight crews for bombers, tankers, etc. there is a need for the pilot to be in command of the rest of the crew, but maybe *less* for single seat jets). feel free to correct me if there are legitimate reasons for the current requirements or if my understanding is flawed.
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (ftFVW)
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (4780s)
126
"Thrush -- stands for the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity, --
THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other – such as the United States and the Soviet Union – had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization."
hmmm, so that is why the globalists wanted to alienate us from Russia, and destroy them (first, then destroy US?)
THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other – such as the United States and the Soviet Union – had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization."
hmmm, so that is why the globalists wanted to alienate us from Russia, and destroy them (first, then destroy US?)
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (Cus5s)
127
119 Start suggesting things to them regarding their own hypocrisy. Clothes, home, travel and vehicles, A/C, heat, cell phones... Their lives of luxury must come to an end and the hypocrisy they live (and I'm sure they do) must be shoved in their faces.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (sVtYq)
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"You have a coal powered car? What kind of monster are you? You should get rid of it, but I'm not sure how to ethically. The lithium is poison. You should just bike everywhere, but the bike needs to be made purely from recycled materials."
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (sVtYq)
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"You have a coal powered car? What kind of monster are you? You should get rid of it, but I'm not sure how to ethically. The lithium is poison. You should just bike everywhere, but the bike needs to be made purely from recycled materials."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM (LvTSG)
128
I strongly advise reading “ The Fourth Industrial Revolution” by Klaus Schwab. It describes the tools and the methodology of the coming global Reich that they envision.
Posted by: kraken at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM (Vr12I)
129
The galaxy will be destroyed by an AI with an insatiable need for paperclips.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (44ww/)
My vengeance is at hand!
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (44ww/)
My vengeance is at hand!
Posted by: Clippy at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM (2qTDs)
130
I've wondered about a HIPAA style law for all your data, including hefty fines ($100k per person, per breach) for lax security and hacks that put the individual at risk. ...
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (cupoy)
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The EU's GDPR rules are comprehensive but have lots of weird consequences and implementation (and compliance) are expensive nightmares. It could be simplified. Something like:
1. All data collection must be opt-in. You can ask the customer to opt in, but without affirmative consent, you collect nothing and share nothing
2. All data collection or sharing opt-ins are subject to change at any time by the user. If he decides to opt out, you must make that process simple and it must take effect promptly
3. All data collection must be subject to deletion. If the user demands deletion, you must delete any and all data that are not directly related to the continued rendering of service. If services are canceled, all data must be immediately deleted, including from backups
Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (cupoy)
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The EU's GDPR rules are comprehensive but have lots of weird consequences and implementation (and compliance) are expensive nightmares. It could be simplified. Something like:
1. All data collection must be opt-in. You can ask the customer to opt in, but without affirmative consent, you collect nothing and share nothing
2. All data collection or sharing opt-ins are subject to change at any time by the user. If he decides to opt out, you must make that process simple and it must take effect promptly
3. All data collection must be subject to deletion. If the user demands deletion, you must delete any and all data that are not directly related to the continued rendering of service. If services are canceled, all data must be immediately deleted, including from backups
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM (t0OGg)
131
The elite don't have to worry.. They'll just pay their "carbon credits" and jet off to wherever they want...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM (bs+z0)
132
Thing is, has illegal immigration ever been popular? Libs ran against it for how long? Now they're openly supporting and subsidizing it and it hasn't cost them a thing.
There are a lot of people in this country that vote for politicians that will do the exact opposite of what those voters want. It is probably the biggest problem we have right now - politicians are supposed to be afraid of pissing off their voters and they aren't because whatever they do they get re-elected.
There are a lot of people in this country that vote for politicians that will do the exact opposite of what those voters want. It is probably the biggest problem we have right now - politicians are supposed to be afraid of pissing off their voters and they aren't because whatever they do they get re-elected.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (ESjRY)
133
44. SPECTRE. Was that Man from Uncle?
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022
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No, that was the organization created by Fleming for Thunderball the novel, and used as a bad-guy setup in a number of the films from the start of the Connery era.
Thrush was the consortium of scientists, power brokers, and millionaires, and the low-level thugs they employed that was the antagonist in U.N.C.L.E.. At its best, a much creepier and more insidious setup. In one of his original novels, David McDaniel had a Thrush official quote 1984: "The object of power is power."
"Good men or evil men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022
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No, that was the organization created by Fleming for Thunderball the novel, and used as a bad-guy setup in a number of the films from the start of the Connery era.
Thrush was the consortium of scientists, power brokers, and millionaires, and the low-level thugs they employed that was the antagonist in U.N.C.L.E.. At its best, a much creepier and more insidious setup. In one of his original novels, David McDaniel had a Thrush official quote 1984: "The object of power is power."
"Good men or evil men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (J2vNu)
134
And it all requires oil.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (rMe4X)
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these people are so fucking stupid they think of oil strictly as fuel, and replaceable. It isn't replaceable as an energy source, but that is hardly the point.
Without oil, there are no modern fabrics, no plastics, no paints, far fewer pharmaceuticals...the list is almost endless. Even jet engine manufacture would not be possible without waxes (derived from oil) to make engine turbines. Even gold jewelry, like all those bangles so popular with AWFL's are cast in wax (from oil).
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (rMe4X)
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these people are so fucking stupid they think of oil strictly as fuel, and replaceable. It isn't replaceable as an energy source, but that is hardly the point.
Without oil, there are no modern fabrics, no plastics, no paints, far fewer pharmaceuticals...the list is almost endless. Even jet engine manufacture would not be possible without waxes (derived from oil) to make engine turbines. Even gold jewelry, like all those bangles so popular with AWFL's are cast in wax (from oil).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (mOAwy)
135
The yearning to be free is stronger in rural areas than urban, and strongest in rural America most of all, but rural America is the exception.
Posted by: SuperChamp
At one time, rural America was the norm.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (rMe4X)
And I really do think that's the trick. Simple population density. The footprint of the continental United States hasn't changed. But the population has more than doubled since 1950.
America is much more urban, and much less rural, than it used to be. Attitudes and priorities shifted accordingly.
Posted by: SuperChamp
At one time, rural America was the norm.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:18 AM (rMe4X)
And I really do think that's the trick. Simple population density. The footprint of the continental United States hasn't changed. But the population has more than doubled since 1950.
America is much more urban, and much less rural, than it used to be. Attitudes and priorities shifted accordingly.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (n8S9h)
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The elite don't have to worry.. They'll just pay their "carbon credits" and jet off to wherever they want...
Posted by: It's me donna
How? Once they destroy the oil industry, there won't be av gas.
Posted by: It's me donna
How? Once they destroy the oil industry, there won't be av gas.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (rMe4X)
137
84 The ancient Egyptians come from either Greeks or Jews.
It was Shem, Ham, or Japheth, cannot recall which one who headed south to Africa. One of Noah's sons.
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There were no 'els' named Pharoes. Most likely a Caucasian/Mediterrean Man mix. Much like the Numidians.
It was Shem, Ham, or Japheth, cannot recall which one who headed south to Africa. One of Noah's sons.
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There were no 'els' named Pharoes. Most likely a Caucasian/Mediterrean Man mix. Much like the Numidians.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (C7jzY)
138
How? Once they destroy the oil industry, there won't be av gas.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (rMe4X)
True, be they think they are exempt
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (rMe4X)
True, be they think they are exempt
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (bs+z0)
139
"Good men or evil men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (J2vNu)
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At least they are honest about their intentions.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (J2vNu)
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At least they are honest about their intentions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (YIVH2)
140
I'm not kidding.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (zwDuR)
And nazis, never forget that. That is the key to the hatred.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:19 AM (zwDuR)
And nazis, never forget that. That is the key to the hatred.
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (Zzbjj)
141
"Be fruitful and multiply" wasn't said just in jest.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (SF4EO)
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It is also the basic premise of economic growth, though none of the anti-human types like to acknowledge it. China is going to fail as a country and an economy within 30 years (maybe 50) as a result of this problem.
The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (SF4EO)
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It is also the basic premise of economic growth, though none of the anti-human types like to acknowledge it. China is going to fail as a country and an economy within 30 years (maybe 50) as a result of this problem.
The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
142
That Taylor Hawkins' kid in the sidebar has a head of hair that would even make 1970s Barry Gibb jealous.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (sVtYq)
Seen Barry lately?
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 20, 2022 11:16 AM (sVtYq)
Seen Barry lately?
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (AwYPR)
143
141 The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
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To be completely fair, misery is a product if you look at it right.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
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To be completely fair, misery is a product if you look at it right.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:24 AM (LvTSG)
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these people are so fucking stupid they think of oil strictly as fuel, and replaceable. It isn't replaceable as an energy source, but that is hardly the point.
Without oil, there are no modern fabrics, no plastics, no paints, far fewer pharmaceuticals...the list is almost endless. Even jet engine manufacture would not be possible without waxes (derived from oil) to make engine turbines. Even gold jewelry, like all those bangles so popular with AWFL's are cast in wax (from oil).
Posted by: Huck Follywood
What's in a Barrel of Oil? The 42-Gallon Breakdown
The remaining fifteen percent is classified as other. These — "bottom of the barrel" petrochemical products include thousands of different items, ranging from makeup to medicine.
https://bit.ly/3eKYbXX
Without oil, there are no modern fabrics, no plastics, no paints, far fewer pharmaceuticals...the list is almost endless. Even jet engine manufacture would not be possible without waxes (derived from oil) to make engine turbines. Even gold jewelry, like all those bangles so popular with AWFL's are cast in wax (from oil).
Posted by: Huck Follywood
What's in a Barrel of Oil? The 42-Gallon Breakdown
The remaining fifteen percent is classified as other. These — "bottom of the barrel" petrochemical products include thousands of different items, ranging from makeup to medicine.
https://bit.ly/3eKYbXX
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:24 AM (rMe4X)
145
How? Once they destroy the oil industry, there won't be av gas.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (rMe4X)
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"Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits. They just imagine things for them will remain the same. They don't know or understand that it's only the economy of scale that makes their entire elite lifestyle possible. Take that away, and they are no better than feudal dukes in a medieval society, which is what we'll end up with.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (rMe4X)
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"Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits. They just imagine things for them will remain the same. They don't know or understand that it's only the economy of scale that makes their entire elite lifestyle possible. Take that away, and they are no better than feudal dukes in a medieval society, which is what we'll end up with.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (YIVH2)
146
Most people want to be serfs in a wealthy nation under a benevolent monarch. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The yearning to be free is stronger in rural areas than urban, and strongest in rural America most of all, but rural America is the exception.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (n8S9h)
Thank you. That is exactly what I meant.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:13 AM (n8S9h)
Thank you. That is exactly what I meant.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (AW0uW)
147
Mass illegal migration and associated lawlessness and social damage have never been popular, they've always been quite unpopular, and the issue more than any other led to the extraordinary ascent to the presidency of a total and legit outsider in 2017.
He was neutered, not to mention relentlessly attacked in banzai charge after banzai charge, by the entire permanent government and the opposition, and 95% of "his own" party in power.
But this remains the sole electoral event of any import driven by the issue. Even by 2020, it and all other real issues were sidelined for enough of the electorate, by brainwashing and hysteria, that it was a non-factor.
Any Dem losing power this cycle isn't losing it because of the border and mass illegal migration.
He was neutered, not to mention relentlessly attacked in banzai charge after banzai charge, by the entire permanent government and the opposition, and 95% of "his own" party in power.
But this remains the sole electoral event of any import driven by the issue. Even by 2020, it and all other real issues were sidelined for enough of the electorate, by brainwashing and hysteria, that it was a non-factor.
Any Dem losing power this cycle isn't losing it because of the border and mass illegal migration.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (OTzUX)
148
I've seen any number of liberals say that if we ban fossil fuels we'll be "forced to find a way to make green energy work" and they really seem to believe this.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (ESjRY)
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>>> 141 "Be fruitful and multiply" wasn't said just in jest.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (SF4EO)
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It is also the basic premise of economic growth, though none of the anti-human types like to acknowledge it. China is going to fail as a country and an economy within 30 years (maybe 50) as a result of this problem.
The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
Emphasis added.
Stan knows this too, and the less humans, the better.
Just enough to serve him.
Posted by: SMH at September 20, 2022 11:17 AM (SF4EO)
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It is also the basic premise of economic growth, though none of the anti-human types like to acknowledge it. China is going to fail as a country and an economy within 30 years (maybe 50) as a result of this problem.
The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at September 20, 2022 11:23 AM (t0OGg)
Emphasis added.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (llON8)
150
UK Daily Mail has a story about a plane owned by the company that flew the 48 to MV now headed to Deleware and is to land at 1:30 or so
Standby
UK Daily Mail has a story about a plane owned by the company that flew the 48 to MV now headed to Deleware and is to land at 1:30 or so
Standby
Posted by: Yo! Ultra MAGA at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (8sN4S)
151
"Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (YIVH2)
*Flexes*
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (YIVH2)
*Flexes*
Posted by: Ben Shapiro, destroyer of lefties, drinker of tears at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (2qTDs)
152
The fundamental input - to everything, inclusive of capital *and* labor, because it is the source of both - is human beings. If you're not producing people, you're not producing anything else.
Eh. I expect growth would slow, but if we really are at the AI inflection point, then automation will take over to produce what we want.
The downside will be societal stasis as people get terminally bored and start checking out of reality. You know, Democrats.
Eh. I expect growth would slow, but if we really are at the AI inflection point, then automation will take over to produce what we want.
The downside will be societal stasis as people get terminally bored and start checking out of reality. You know, Democrats.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (ayzS/)
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124 In the late 60s, the Army had the Warrant Officer Flight Candidate Program, and entrance into it even included those with just a HS diploma. I was considering it, and waiting in the basement of the post office where the recruiting offices were, the Marine recruiter stops and chats. Fucker lied, saying I wore glasses and would be disqualified. Joined the Corps, and that lie may have saved my life. The Army was going through an awful lot of Huey pilots.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:27 AM (lz5hY)
154
California built a huge battery storage site and apparently it went online in June. Today it burned down, and not cleanly
Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 20, 2022 11:27 AM (3db+q)
155
"Thrush -- stands for the Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity, --
THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other – such as the United States and the Soviet Union – had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization." . . .
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022
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Exactly right -- except the meaning of the acronym was never given on the show. Fan and later pro writer David McDaniel invented it for his first original tie-in novel, saying it dated to the 1890s and had been formed by survivors of Prof. Moriarty's criminal organization. It sounds overwrought and Victorian, doesn't it? Later Norman Felton, the show's exec producer, agreed that it could be canon, though the show was off the air by then.
Like McDaniel's Thrush officers, I usually call it just "The Hierarchy."
THRUSH's aim was to conquer the world. THRUSH was considered so dangerous an organization that even governments who were ideologically opposed to each other – such as the United States and the Soviet Union – had cooperated in forming and operating the U.N.C.L.E. organization." . . .
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022
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Exactly right -- except the meaning of the acronym was never given on the show. Fan and later pro writer David McDaniel invented it for his first original tie-in novel, saying it dated to the 1890s and had been formed by survivors of Prof. Moriarty's criminal organization. It sounds overwrought and Victorian, doesn't it? Later Norman Felton, the show's exec producer, agreed that it could be canon, though the show was off the air by then.
Like McDaniel's Thrush officers, I usually call it just "The Hierarchy."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:27 AM (J2vNu)
156
Ask Robespierre how it all worked out for him
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 20, 2022 11:27 AM (iFTx/)
157
I've seen any number of liberals say that if we ban fossil fuels we'll be "forced to find a way to make green energy work" and they really seem to believe this.
Posted by: 18-1
Make plastic out of solar.
Posted by: 18-1
Make plastic out of solar.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:27 AM (rMe4X)
158
91 85 44. SPECTRE. Was that Man from Uncle?
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (4780s)
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Bond villain organization.
cheap knock-off of KAOS
Posted by: From about that time at September 20, 2022 11:12 AM (4780s)
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Bond villain organization.
cheap knock-off of KAOS
Posted by: kulak anachronda at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (v3pYe)
159
White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci attempted to walk back a statement made by President Joe Biden during a recent interview that the COVID-19 pandemic “is over.” “What [Biden] really meant is that the very severe stage of the pandemic of having … 3,000 deaths a day—that stage is no longer present,” Fauci told Politico. “People should not be cavalier that we’re out of the woods,” he added. In a “60 Minutes” interview that aired on Sunday night, Biden was asked about the trajectory of COVID-19 in the United States. “The pandemic is over."
What Gus meant to say is that 'We arre the monkey'
What Gus meant to say is that 'We arre the monkey'
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (RHGPo)
160
Per that survival rate, how much of that percentage was juiced up by the Gov. of Death, Cuomo? Keeping high-risk patients in close proximity to other infected people was akin to the story of smallpox blankets.
I wonder what other missteps were done, either unintentionally or even maliciously. And given TDS, whether it was done intentionally as a stain on the Trump presidency and as an attempt at euthanasia.
Also, the numbers were being jacked up at the time because they were tracked as "with" COVID instead of "because of" COVID. Has that been fixed, or are we still getting mixed data? Especially, are there COVID deaths nowadays from those with the "vaccine", and are they over or under-counted for reasons?
Thanks to Science and Medicine being politicized, we have to look at their purveyors with a political lens.
I wonder what other missteps were done, either unintentionally or even maliciously. And given TDS, whether it was done intentionally as a stain on the Trump presidency and as an attempt at euthanasia.
Also, the numbers were being jacked up at the time because they were tracked as "with" COVID instead of "because of" COVID. Has that been fixed, or are we still getting mixed data? Especially, are there COVID deaths nowadays from those with the "vaccine", and are they over or under-counted for reasons?
Thanks to Science and Medicine being politicized, we have to look at their purveyors with a political lens.
Posted by: Another Anon at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (djdPE)
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Read an article at WUWT that brought up something I hadn't though of but should have. Mining uses large quantities of sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is produced primarily from the sulfur removed from crude oil.
So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (UuD2k)
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151 "Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (YIVH2)
Exactly... They see themselves in Panem while the rest of us rabble will be living in the Districts
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:25 AM (YIVH2)
Exactly... They see themselves in Panem while the rest of us rabble will be living in the Districts
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (bs+z0)
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I will submit to a personal carbon budget calculated as followed:
1) Tabulate the annual carbon emissions attributed to each Davos/WEF attendee for the past 5 years.
2) Compute the maximum of 1).
So, Davos cvnts: give up all your houses, give up all your planes, give up your meat. Then we can talk.
Even better: give up breathing. Then I won't have to hear the putrid platitudes that spew forth from your rancid pieholes.
1) Tabulate the annual carbon emissions attributed to each Davos/WEF attendee for the past 5 years.
2) Compute the maximum of 1).
So, Davos cvnts: give up all your houses, give up all your planes, give up your meat. Then we can talk.
Even better: give up breathing. Then I won't have to hear the putrid platitudes that spew forth from your rancid pieholes.
Posted by: quantum mechanic at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (g1EEm)
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Everybody knows "Climate Change" is nothing but a scam to get into your wallet and your bedrooms.
Algore is the prime example of what a fraud it is...anything that idiot is involved with is an extortion racket.
Algore is the prime example of what a fraud it is...anything that idiot is involved with is an extortion racket.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (YScEb)
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COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
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My favorite part of COVID-19 as it relates to the environment is that pollution increased, even though driving decreased by 90% or whatever. And pollution didn't just increase, but it increased bigly. As did trash taken to dumps, yard waste, etc. Enormous increase in all of that bad stuff because people had time on their hands and were going to clean up, run small engines, ride dirt bikes and four wheelers, go out on boats, etc.
That was hilarious.
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My favorite part of COVID-19 as it relates to the environment is that pollution increased, even though driving decreased by 90% or whatever. And pollution didn't just increase, but it increased bigly. As did trash taken to dumps, yard waste, etc. Enormous increase in all of that bad stuff because people had time on their hands and were going to clean up, run small engines, ride dirt bikes and four wheelers, go out on boats, etc.
That was hilarious.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (wU68O)
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Klaus Schwab is evil incarnate. Justin Trudeau is his retarded pool boy.
Posted by: That NLurker guy at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (eGTCV)
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The problem with a takeover by the elites is that there are fewer of them than there are of us. Way fewer.
It's not like this hasn't been tried repeatedly throughout history and it always ends badly for them.
It's not like this hasn't been tried repeatedly throughout history and it always ends badly for them.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (ZLI7S)
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Agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:29 AM (lf83v)
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"Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits. They just imagine things for them will remain the same. They don't know or understand that it's only the economy of scale that makes their entire elite lifestyle possible. Take that away, and they are no better than feudal dukes in a medieval society, which is what we'll end up with.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Current civilization is hanging on by a very fine thread. Cut/break that thread, and it all unravels toot sweet.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel
Current civilization is hanging on by a very fine thread. Cut/break that thread, and it all unravels toot sweet.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (rMe4X)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (bs+z0)
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"Facts" and "logic" are not their strong suits. They just imagine things for them will remain the same. They don't know or understand that it's only the economy of scale that makes their entire elite lifestyle possible. Take that away, and they are no better than feudal dukes in a medieval society, which is what we'll end up with.
And if it crashes quickly enough where today's elites get even a taste of, say, the lifestyle of a wealthy 1700s plantation owner ? They'll be miserable. Many of them will hang themselves.
Roll technology back a simple 100 years ? Not unprecedented in history. They'll be jumping out of windows.
And if it crashes quickly enough where today's elites get even a taste of, say, the lifestyle of a wealthy 1700s plantation owner ? They'll be miserable. Many of them will hang themselves.
Roll technology back a simple 100 years ? Not unprecedented in history. They'll be jumping out of windows.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (n8S9h)
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They are going after Maine Lobster, some Group is putting it on a "RED LIST" or endangered and wants to ban the fishing of Lobster in Maine and Maryland.
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (pEibk)
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (ZLI7S)
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Mass illegal migration has never been popular anywhere it was seen as an issue. Jeebus. Prop 187 in CA showed this long ago in one of the first places partly transformed by it.
Up until and including most of the Obama debacle, even Dem rhetoric was indistinguishable from the more milquetoast GOP rhetoric on the issue.
The last national issue where legit grassroots outrage actually blocked disastrous action at the federal level was Dubya's incredible amnesty push in 2006.
Up until and including most of the Obama debacle, even Dem rhetoric was indistinguishable from the more milquetoast GOP rhetoric on the issue.
The last national issue where legit grassroots outrage actually blocked disastrous action at the federal level was Dubya's incredible amnesty push in 2006.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (OTzUX)
Posted by: kathy bates at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (v3pYe)
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I would say Klaus Schwab should eat a bag of dicks, except he probably does that all the time.
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Recall that democratic donor that got tried for murder because he picked up mail prostitutes, tied them up the overdosed them and then narcan'ed them back at the brink of death? The sexual pathology is reflective of the mindset. They need control. They need the feedback that control gives them. Deep down they are paralyzed with the fear of death and are trying to control it. Everything these Globalists are doing is pathologic. I would not disagree if you didn't want to psychologize it and called it demonic. They are compelled to do these crazy things because they are terrified, and convinced if they don't have control over EVERYTHING, there will be chaos. The ego self gratification they receive is the point (not climate change or whatever the excuse it). The more control they attain, the less gratification as that sense of control loses novelty (like most fetishes). Thus they can't stop trying to increase control. Its the anatomy of evil. Schwab probably had a terrible relationship with his father.
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Recall that democratic donor that got tried for murder because he picked up mail prostitutes, tied them up the overdosed them and then narcan'ed them back at the brink of death? The sexual pathology is reflective of the mindset. They need control. They need the feedback that control gives them. Deep down they are paralyzed with the fear of death and are trying to control it. Everything these Globalists are doing is pathologic. I would not disagree if you didn't want to psychologize it and called it demonic. They are compelled to do these crazy things because they are terrified, and convinced if they don't have control over EVERYTHING, there will be chaos. The ego self gratification they receive is the point (not climate change or whatever the excuse it). The more control they attain, the less gratification as that sense of control loses novelty (like most fetishes). Thus they can't stop trying to increase control. Its the anatomy of evil. Schwab probably had a terrible relationship with his father.
Posted by: Its not funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (QcoBa)
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Delaware?
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (C1rbv)
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It's not like this hasn't been tried repeatedly throughout history and it always ends badly for them.
Worked out okay for me. I'm sure that it continued on in the same vein for my descendants.
Worked out okay for me. I'm sure that it continued on in the same vein for my descendants.
Posted by: Louis XIV at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ayzS/)
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13:And it was allowed to give breath to the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast might even speak and might cause those who would not worship the image of the beast to be slain. Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead, so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
- Revelation 13:15-17
Posted by: SMH
To be fair, this happens during the Tribulation period. What's going on now is just a window. It gets worse.
- Revelation 13:15-17
Posted by: SMH
To be fair, this happens during the Tribulation period. What's going on now is just a window. It gets worse.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (sAmhv)
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.. feel free to correct me if there are legitimate reasons for the current requirements or if my understanding is flawed. Posted by: She Hobbit at September 20, 2022 11:20 AM (ftFVW)
Mostly, it's because of the (legit) Higher Mathematics that have to be fully internalized in order for one to become a truly adept pilot in the moving, three-dimensional world of aviation. Nope, no degree or higher math really needed at the General Aviation levels, even up to operating a fully IFR twin, that math should be obtainable by an H.S. grad with a bit of algebra and geometry in the mix.
But get into a C-117, with weight and balance factors at that scale, and the maths get exponentially more complex. Fighter pilot mastering Energy Management and effectively staying inside the opponents OODA loop? Gotta know those numbers, and that at an mastery that's become "instinctive", cause it's all happening that fast.
Yeah, plenty of Flight Sgts. flew DC-3s & single engine fighters in WWII. It can be done, it's not impossible. But back then, our schools produced competence.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Mostly, it's because of the (legit) Higher Mathematics that have to be fully internalized in order for one to become a truly adept pilot in the moving, three-dimensional world of aviation. Nope, no degree or higher math really needed at the General Aviation levels, even up to operating a fully IFR twin, that math should be obtainable by an H.S. grad with a bit of algebra and geometry in the mix.
But get into a C-117, with weight and balance factors at that scale, and the maths get exponentially more complex. Fighter pilot mastering Energy Management and effectively staying inside the opponents OODA loop? Gotta know those numbers, and that at an mastery that's become "instinctive", cause it's all happening that fast.
Yeah, plenty of Flight Sgts. flew DC-3s & single engine fighters in WWII. It can be done, it's not impossible. But back then, our schools produced competence.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at September 20, 2022 11:32 AM (e6UQI)
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179 It's not like this hasn't been tried repeatedly throughout history and it always ends badly for them.
Worked out okay for me. I'm sure that it continued on in the same vein for my descendants.
Posted by: Louis XIV at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ayzS/)
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Imagine if French peasants had owned roughly 1.2 guns per person.
Worked out okay for me. I'm sure that it continued on in the same vein for my descendants.
Posted by: Louis XIV at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (ayzS/)
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Imagine if French peasants had owned roughly 1.2 guns per person.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:32 AM (LvTSG)
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Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?
Answer: We'll have your politicians and media 'work' on you until you become interested.
Answer: We'll have your politicians and media 'work' on you until you become interested.
Posted by: WEF drone at September 20, 2022 11:32 AM (yvHe0)
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LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
________
Because people from Delaware say "See-say pwaday."
________
Because people from Delaware say "See-say pwaday."
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:32 AM (lf83v)
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173 They are going after Maine Lobster, some Group is putting it on a "RED LIST" or endangered and wants to ban the fishing of Lobster in Maine and Maryland.
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (pEibk)
'Let them eat crabs.'
-M. Antoinette
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (pEibk)
'Let them eat crabs.'
-M. Antoinette
Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2022 11:32 AM (0OP+5)
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"Good men or evil men, if you are not a member of Thrush, you are marked to be ruled or destroyed."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (J2vNu)
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At least they are honest about their intentions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022
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The other creepy thing about Thrush in the show's setup was that their satraps, semi-independent functional parts of Thrush, would be concealed within our society. A department store or a theatre or a manufacturing plant could be the front for a satrap. They would operate like their front, selling things or putting on shows or making plastics . . . but their allegiance was to the vision and goals of Thrush.
A nice economics touch: In the days before personal computers, the satraps did not have to buy time on a computer or maintain one. They had access to Thrush's own Ultimate Computer. So the satraps had an economic advantage right there. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (J2vNu)
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At least they are honest about their intentions.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022
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The other creepy thing about Thrush in the show's setup was that their satraps, semi-independent functional parts of Thrush, would be concealed within our society. A department store or a theatre or a manufacturing plant could be the front for a satrap. They would operate like their front, selling things or putting on shows or making plastics . . . but their allegiance was to the vision and goals of Thrush.
A nice economics touch: In the days before personal computers, the satraps did not have to buy time on a computer or maintain one. They had access to Thrush's own Ultimate Computer. So the satraps had an economic advantage right there. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (J2vNu)
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"Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?"
After bailing out billionaires so many times, as they leveraged up their gambling, it may be the oligarchs feel they have critical mass (almost total ownership, or majority power) to advance with their WEF anti-liberty agenda.
Election Fraud is a big as Climate Change and Vaxxer Madness, as part of their PsyOp major operations. They stole an election and countered the Trump rally with their own J6 Insurrection PsyOp. Now they raided Trump after four years of the FBI pushing their false Trump/Russia narrative. They are also "investigating" many other political enemies, probably killing some as well.
After bailing out billionaires so many times, as they leveraged up their gambling, it may be the oligarchs feel they have critical mass (almost total ownership, or majority power) to advance with their WEF anti-liberty agenda.
Election Fraud is a big as Climate Change and Vaxxer Madness, as part of their PsyOp major operations. They stole an election and countered the Trump rally with their own J6 Insurrection PsyOp. Now they raided Trump after four years of the FBI pushing their false Trump/Russia narrative. They are also "investigating" many other political enemies, probably killing some as well.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (Cus5s)
188
Delaware?
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (C1rbv)
The only thing in Delaware is the interstate. You'd have to leave them on the side of the road.
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse at September 20, 2022 11:31 AM (C1rbv)
The only thing in Delaware is the interstate. You'd have to leave them on the side of the road.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (2qTDs)
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Oh, and if you hadn't heard, polio is making a comeback in the United States. You know, that deadly disease we'd eradicated.
Don't make any association with illegals, though.
Don't make any association with illegals, though.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (wU68O)
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So, Fauci is basically telling us Biden is full of shit.
Why not? His own staff is saying the same thing vis a vis Taiwan.
Why not? His own staff is saying the same thing vis a vis Taiwan.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (ayzS/)
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Roll technology back a simple 100 years ? Not unprecedented in history. They'll be jumping out of windows.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (n8S9h)
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It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (n8S9h)
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It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (YIVH2)
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Delaware?
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse
Delaware is an idea. Not an actual place.
LOL. A friend was asking me yesterday "Why aren't they (DeSantis and Abbott) sending them to Delaware?"
Posted by: Chatterbox Mouse
Delaware is an idea. Not an actual place.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (rMe4X)
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I will not comply.
Posted by: DB at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (geLO8)
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It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (ayzS/)
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173 They are going after Maine Lobster, some Group is putting it on a "RED LIST" or endangered and wants to ban the fishing of Lobster in Maine and Maryland.
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
I like The Cult.
https://youtu.be/ZCOSPtyZAPA
Live by the Cult Die by the Cult
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio
I like The Cult.
https://youtu.be/ZCOSPtyZAPA
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (sAmhv)
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So, Fauci is basically telling us Biden is full of shit.
__________
Here's the frustrating paradox:
Fauci, who is full of shit, is telling us that Biden is full of shit.
__________
Here's the frustrating paradox:
Fauci, who is full of shit, is telling us that Biden is full of shit.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (lf83v)
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Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations
Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.
Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (RHGPo)
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Lupus Patients Go Into Remission in ‘Spectacular’ Immunotherapy Trial.
https://instapundit.com/543325/
Dr. House hardest hit.
https://instapundit.com/543325/
Dr. House hardest hit.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (2qTDs)
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Washington State Jails Are Refusing to Take in Felons Due to Staffing Issues
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And so civilization ends.
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And so civilization ends.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (FVME7)
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194 It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (ayzS/)
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"My study of gravitational forces has changed in form greatly."
-Isaac Newton discovering granny porn
Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:35 AM (ayzS/)
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"My study of gravitational forces has changed in form greatly."
-Isaac Newton discovering granny porn
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (LvTSG)
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131 The elite don't have to worry.. They'll just pay their "carbon credits" and jet off to wherever they want...
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM
We ran the original term of "indulgences" by some focus groups, but it didn't poll well. Our miseducation has been too effective, and they thought it had something to do with "privilege", which they reflexively think is bad.
"Carbon offset tax" is in the works. Makes it sound like a punishment for the rich, which they like, instead of a barrier to the poor and working class, which it actually is.
Posted by: It's me donna at September 20, 2022 11:21 AM
We ran the original term of "indulgences" by some focus groups, but it didn't poll well. Our miseducation has been too effective, and they thought it had something to do with "privilege", which they reflexively think is bad.
"Carbon offset tax" is in the works. Makes it sound like a punishment for the rich, which they like, instead of a barrier to the poor and working class, which it actually is.
Posted by: Government Protection Of The Elite at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (JCZqz)
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Welp, I have my first ad for a QEII bobblehead.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (ayzS/)
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Roll technology back a simple 100 years ? Not unprecedented in history. They'll be jumping out of windows.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (n8S9h)
It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (YIVH2)
Roll shit back before the Information Age, and all this nonsense stops. Because prior to the Information Age, Western Governments simply didn't have the ability to lord over every single person's day to day activities. I won't mind, honestly, if we go back to a pre-Information Age level of technology. Won't mind it a bit.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (n8S9h)
It's one thing to roll back technology from 1700 to 1600...Some technological innovations, sure, but not nearly as dramatic as rolling back from 2022 to 1922...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (YIVH2)
Roll shit back before the Information Age, and all this nonsense stops. Because prior to the Information Age, Western Governments simply didn't have the ability to lord over every single person's day to day activities. I won't mind, honestly, if we go back to a pre-Information Age level of technology. Won't mind it a bit.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (n8S9h)
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Just as focusing, during the height of the disaster, on whether the virus was man-made and originated in Wuhan instead of the known lack of efficacy of all the policies and interventions to "fight" it, focusing on how "green" energy involves so much "dirty" and polluting activity completely misses the point.
*There is no reason or basis for "green" energy"*
Just as there was no basis for lockdowns, masks, "social distancing", or my comical favorite, contact tracing (for a prevalent virus! Absurd!).
Not an academic point, at all. The central, key point.
*There is no reason or basis for "green" energy"*
Just as there was no basis for lockdowns, masks, "social distancing", or my comical favorite, contact tracing (for a prevalent virus! Absurd!).
Not an academic point, at all. The central, key point.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:37 AM (OTzUX)
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A nice economics touch: In the days before personal computers, the satraps did not have to buy time on a computer or maintain one. They had access to Thrush's own Ultimate Computer. So the satraps had an economic advantage right there. . . .
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (J2vNu)
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The modern satraps still have that economic advantage through their access to social media and cloud-based systems, I'd say...
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (J2vNu)
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The modern satraps still have that economic advantage through their access to social media and cloud-based systems, I'd say...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:37 AM (YIVH2)
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Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium.
https://instapundit.com/543456/
https://instapundit.com/543456/
Posted by: Robert, skimming Instapundit at the moment at September 20, 2022 11:37 AM (2qTDs)
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Yeah, plenty of Flight Sgts. flew DC-3s & single engine fighters in WWII. It can be done, it's not impossible. But back then, our schools produced competence.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
Thanks for the insight!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim
Thanks for the insight!
Posted by: She Hobbit at September 20, 2022 11:37 AM (ftFVW)
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Pentagon opens sweeping review of clandestine psychological operations Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.
Federal government should pull all of its accounts with Facebook after it was revealed how Facebook is nothing but an arm of the Democrat Party.
All of the accounts should be closed based on the Hatch Act.
Federal government should pull all of its accounts with Facebook after it was revealed how Facebook is nothing but an arm of the Democrat Party.
All of the accounts should be closed based on the Hatch Act.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:37 AM (lf83v)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (C7jzY)
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>Roll shit back before the Information Age, and all this nonsense stops.
I agree. Pre-internet, pre-smartphone. Things were much less contentious.
I agree. Pre-internet, pre-smartphone. Things were much less contentious.
Posted by: DB at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (geLO8)
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Roll shit back before the Information Age, and all this nonsense stops. Because prior to the Information Age, Western Governments simply didn't have the ability to lord over every single person's day to day activities. I won't mind, honestly, if we go back to a pre-Information Age level of technology. Won't mind it a bit.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (n8S9h)
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The Russian and Chinese Revolutions happened before the Information Age, leading to countless death and suffering.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:36 AM (n8S9h)
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The Russian and Chinese Revolutions happened before the Information Age, leading to countless death and suffering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH2)
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The only thing in Delaware is the interstate.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (2qTDs)
A whole 50 miles worth.
Posted by: Robert at September 20, 2022 11:33 AM (2qTDs)
A whole 50 miles worth.
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (AwYPR)
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indeed
Posted by: kathy bates at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (v3pYe)
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She was outstanding in that movie.
Posted by: kathy bates at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (v3pYe)
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She was outstanding in that movie.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (mOAwy)
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Carrie Sheffield: Americans Should Be Asking Themselves One Key Question Ahead Of November
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I assume it's WTF?
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I assume it's WTF?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (FVME7)
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Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium.
https://instapundit.com/543456/
I guess he's not beyond long pig.
https://instapundit.com/543456/
I guess he's not beyond long pig.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ZGrMX)
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148 I've seen any number of liberals say that if we ban fossil fuels we'll be "forced to find a way to make green energy work" and they really seem to believe this.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (ESjRY)
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Well, they're incels who can't get laid and are "forced" to make it work by jerking off. They think of energy in the same way.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:26 AM (ESjRY)
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Well, they're incels who can't get laid and are "forced" to make it work by jerking off. They think of energy in the same way.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (iFTx/)
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213 Posted by: kathy bates at September 20, 2022 11:30 AM (v3pYe)
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She was outstanding in that movie.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (mOAwy)
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She played an eskimo in the movie North.
The movie North is bad.
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She was outstanding in that movie.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (mOAwy)
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She played an eskimo in the movie North.
The movie North is bad.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (LvTSG)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ufFY8)
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (C7jzY)
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Legendary “Cheers” actor Woody Harrelson told Bill Maher the “last people” he would trust with his own health is “Big Pharma and Big Government” — and he explained why.
“Back to my original point, the last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and Big Government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities,” the “Zombieland” star added. “They’re all about profit, they’re all about profit. It’s obscene the profit they’ve made.”
“Back to my original point, the last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and Big Government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities,” the “Zombieland” star added. “They’re all about profit, they’re all about profit. It’s obscene the profit they’ve made.”
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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Because prior to the Information Age, Western Governments simply didn't have the ability to lord over every single person's day to day activities. I won't mind, honestly, if we go back to a pre-Information Age level of technology. Won't mind it a bit.
Lenin and Mao figured it out. Totalitarianism will always find a way.
Lenin and Mao figured it out. Totalitarianism will always find a way.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (ZGrMX)
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So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
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batteries, detergents, fungicide, manufacture of fertilizer,
the gypsum used in portland cement, sulfa drugs.
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batteries, detergents, fungicide, manufacture of fertilizer,
the gypsum used in portland cement, sulfa drugs.
Posted by: Its not funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (JGi71)
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"My wife pleads with me not to respond to "global warming" religionists at social occasions. All of her friends consider themselves "activists" and belong to some religious order called "C-Change" and go around making speeches to each other, like good little cultists.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"
I have to think a lot of these type of people don't truly believe the BS they spew but are trying to make sure they get a seat when the music stops.
Posted by: Huck Follywood"
I have to think a lot of these type of people don't truly believe the BS they spew but are trying to make sure they get a seat when the music stops.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (MxEKc)
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Washington State Jails Are Refusing to Take in Felons Due to Staffing Issues
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All part of the Democrats plan to have a corps of criminals ready to do their political violence and bidding in 2024.
See Antifa and BLM.
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All part of the Democrats plan to have a corps of criminals ready to do their political violence and bidding in 2024.
See Antifa and BLM.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (lf83v)
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I guess he's not beyond long pig.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ZGrMX)
He didn't get beyond cartilage
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:39 AM (ZGrMX)
He didn't get beyond cartilage
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (OgrpQ)
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The Russian and Chinese Revolutions happened before the Information Age, leading to countless death and suffering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH2)
As I'm neither Russian nor Chinese - so what ?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH2)
As I'm neither Russian nor Chinese - so what ?
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (n8S9h)
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220 “Back to my original point, the last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and Big Government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities,” the “Zombieland” star added. “They’re all about profit, they’re all about profit. It’s obscene the profit they’ve made.”
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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Profit made through the marketplace is fine. Profit made through rent seeking and governmental force is not.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (RHGPo)
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Profit made through the marketplace is fine. Profit made through rent seeking and governmental force is not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (LvTSG)
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Agents of the United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (U.N.C.L.E.) fight the enemies of peace, particularly the forces of T.H.R.U.S.H.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022
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Right. Not every adventure featured Thrush. There was a rogue ship captain who was kidnapping people with valuable skills as he prepared for the nuclear end of the world; a group of rogues trying to sabotage U.S. missile efforts; the hunt for a chemical agent that hastened the aging process (it got loose by accident, which was a nice touch); and a Mission: Impossible-type scam to bring down a dangerous warmongering premier.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022
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Right. Not every adventure featured Thrush. There was a rogue ship captain who was kidnapping people with valuable skills as he prepared for the nuclear end of the world; a group of rogues trying to sabotage U.S. missile efforts; the hunt for a chemical agent that hastened the aging process (it got loose by accident, which was a nice touch); and a Mission: Impossible-type scam to bring down a dangerous warmongering premier.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (J2vNu)
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Man from U.N.C.L.E. was... Kaos? Khaos?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (5r4XQ)
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"C-Change"
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I thought that was the code word for transgender surgery?
It's hard to keep up nowadays.
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I thought that was the code word for transgender surgery?
It's hard to keep up nowadays.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (lf83v)
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“Back to my original point, the last people I would trust with my health is Big Pharma and Big Government because neither one of those strike me as caring entities,” the “Zombieland” star added. “They’re all about profit, they’re all about profit. It’s obscene the profit they’ve made.”
Putting that in terms the left can understand is smart.
Putting that in terms the left can understand is smart.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (ZGrMX)
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The Russian and Chinese Revolutions happened before the Information Age, leading to countless death and suffering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH
Not to mention everyone's favorite, nazis. Laurence Tribe is foaming about this and the "chilling" hitlerian salute in Youngstown. The information age might end for the masses, but the Schwab gang will never relinquish power. I'd like all the octogenarian power elite to succumb
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH
Not to mention everyone's favorite, nazis. Laurence Tribe is foaming about this and the "chilling" hitlerian salute in Youngstown. The information age might end for the masses, but the Schwab gang will never relinquish power. I'd like all the octogenarian power elite to succumb
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:41 AM (Zzbjj)
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215 Beyond meat COO arrested for biting man's nose near Razorback Stadium, with a bottle of Frank's Hot Sauce, because he puts that S--t on everything.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (lz5hY)
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If you plot CO2 vs time on the woodfortrees.org site, you'll find that you cannot detect any sign that the Covid shutdown affected atmospheric CO2 concentration. That's despite a ~20% drop in emissions. I suspect that we could all be wiped off ot the face of the Earth and the atmosphere would barely notice. Researchers have looked for a Covid signal and concluded that the effect is too small and it's lost in the noise. Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (G4zz5)
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Dammit. Thrush.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (5r4XQ)
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Russian dumbasses on Tuesday gave support to plans by separatists which it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory, a direct challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the conflict.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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206 Beyond Meat COO arrested for biting man’s nose near Razorback Stadium.
https://instapundit.com/543456/
Posted by: Robert
Beyond Meat = Soylent Green? Might explain him chowing down on some dudes nose.
https://instapundit.com/543456/
Posted by: Robert
Beyond Meat = Soylent Green? Might explain him chowing down on some dudes nose.
Posted by: Puddleglum at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (sAmhv)
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How did I miss an O'Keefe Thread?
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (JChSj)
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Exhibit 1, Calif banning Internal Combustion cars, and now Deisel trucks, in 20 years... with no viable replacements, nor with any plan to be able to generate the DOUBLEING of Electricity, AT NIGHT, needed to support making our transportation electric.
Its the Dues Ex Machina idea of legislation... we'll make an impossible law, THEN expect people to come up with solutions to the problem we create.
Right now, EVERY gun sold in California is illegal. A law was passed and UPHELD IN COURT, that there has to be micro stamping on the firing pin of every fun sold in Calif. Its an ACTIVE LAW... just everyone is ignoring because the technology does not exist... yet... a court said just because its impossible, does not make the legislation unconstitutional.
Its the Dues Ex Machina idea of legislation... we'll make an impossible law, THEN expect people to come up with solutions to the problem we create.
Right now, EVERY gun sold in California is illegal. A law was passed and UPHELD IN COURT, that there has to be micro stamping on the firing pin of every fun sold in Calif. Its an ACTIVE LAW... just everyone is ignoring because the technology does not exist... yet... a court said just because its impossible, does not make the legislation unconstitutional.
Posted by: Sir Francis Drake at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (oHd/0)
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OMG, Moss Landing burned down? I can't find the news anywhere. Link?
Posted by: pawn at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (wsHtO)
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Was Kaos Get Smart?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (5r4XQ)
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229 KAOS was Get Smart.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (lz5hY)
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The "WEF" has zero input into how your state or federal elected reps behave. Your neighbors, friends, colleagues, and family are the ones who elect and re-elect these people, as in many cases they relentlessly vandalize the country and economy on behalf of their idiotic "green" fantasy. And as they dishonestly pretend to oppose, or even openly support, mass migration lawlessness.
Does WY or FL have the idiotic destructive state "green" policies CA has? No of course not. Because legislatures and governors there haven't pursued them, likely because they wouldn't survive politically.
Problem isn't (even partially) in Switzerland. It's right next door.
Does WY or FL have the idiotic destructive state "green" policies CA has? No of course not. Because legislatures and governors there haven't pursued them, likely because they wouldn't survive politically.
Problem isn't (even partially) in Switzerland. It's right next door.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (OTzUX)
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"My wife pleads with me not to respond to "global warming" religionists at social occasions. All of her friends consider themselves "activists" and belong to some religious order called "C-Change" and go around making speeches to each other, like good little cultists.
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Here's how I stop it.
I ask if they can explain it to me. I really want to understand but can't make sense of it.
After the fifth talking point, when I ask again how it actually works, they tend to be quiet.
You can do this with almost anything. They 'believe' because they're not brainwashed cultists, like you.
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Here's how I stop it.
I ask if they can explain it to me. I really want to understand but can't make sense of it.
After the fifth talking point, when I ask again how it actually works, they tend to be quiet.
You can do this with almost anything. They 'believe' because they're not brainwashed cultists, like you.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (zwDuR)
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"liberals say that if we ban fossil fuels we'll be "forced to find a way to make green energy work (or die trying)"
they left off the quiet part.
they left off the quiet part.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (Cus5s)
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Posted by: Sir Francis Drake at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (oHd/0)
Wow, don't even remember why that sock was there....
Wow, don't even remember why that sock was there....
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (oHd/0)
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Russian dumbasses on Tuesday gave support to plans by separatists which it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory, a direct challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the conflict.
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So, no mail-in ballots for refugees. I'm guessing?
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So, no mail-in ballots for refugees. I'm guessing?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (lf83v)
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202 Welp, I have my first ad for a QEII bobblehead.
as i was catching up on new this morning while wiping the sleepies from eyes, i heard an ad that wanted to entice me to invest in blackrock.
as i was catching up on new this morning while wiping the sleepies from eyes, i heard an ad that wanted to entice me to invest in blackrock.
Posted by: kulak anachronda at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (v3pYe)
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Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
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I hereby promise to keep my carbon footprint smaller than Jon Fucking Kerry's.
Also, Kerry can suck my Rebel dick.
Also, Kerry can suck my Rebel dick.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (JOtiF)
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238 How did I miss an O'Keefe Thread?
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (JChSj)
*thumbs through options*
Braiding ace's fur?
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (JChSj)
*thumbs through options*
Braiding ace's fur?
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (5r4XQ)
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Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (ZGrMX)
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Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Monday extending its “sincere appreciation” to President Joe Biden for stating in a CBS News interview this weekend he would send U.S. troops to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion – a promise the White House minders immediately walked back in a statement to the broadcaster following the interview.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (RHGPo)
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Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (G4zz5)
shaddup, you
Posted by: MichiCanuck at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (G4zz5)
shaddup, you
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (AwYPR)
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COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
I will say that I am grateful to Kung Flu for streamlining a lot of things in my life:
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
- acquaintances who are scientifically illiterate, totalitarian or willing slaves to propaganda;
- people who I now know are frightened sheep;
- people who have outed themselves as my political enemies.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
I will say that I am grateful to Kung Flu for streamlining a lot of things in my life:
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
- acquaintances who are scientifically illiterate, totalitarian or willing slaves to propaganda;
- people who I now know are frightened sheep;
- people who have outed themselves as my political enemies.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (AW0uW)
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Washington State Jails Are Refusing to Take in Felons Due to Staffing Issues
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All part of the Democrats plan to have a corps of criminals ready to do their political violence and bidding in 2024.
See Antifa and BLM.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
When they won't be arrested, they'll simply be ended.
Vigilance Committees.
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All part of the Democrats plan to have a corps of criminals ready to do their political violence and bidding in 2024.
See Antifa and BLM.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot
When they won't be arrested, they'll simply be ended.
Vigilance Committees.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (rMe4X)
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232 The Russian and Chinese Revolutions happened before the Information Age, leading to countless death and suffering.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH
Not to mention everyone's favorite, nazis.
what am i? chopped liver?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (YIVH
Not to mention everyone's favorite, nazis.
what am i? chopped liver?
Posted by: konrad zuse at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (v3pYe)
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The irony is this; the very high density populations that provide the most fertile intellectual breeding grounds for the WEFs philosophy will dry up if they get what they want. Because carbon fuels make those densities possible. Without those high population densities, also known as affluent cities, this crap all withers on the vine.
A serious nation with the ability to be energy independent would treat the World Economic Forum as an enemy of the state.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (n8S9h)
See, that's what the AI is for. It'll invent all the new stuff. They believe this because they're good at manipulating money but, otherwise, they're not very bright.
A serious nation with the ability to be energy independent would treat the World Economic Forum as an enemy of the state.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:04 AM (n8S9h)
See, that's what the AI is for. It'll invent all the new stuff. They believe this because they're good at manipulating money but, otherwise, they're not very bright.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (zhLdt)
Posted by: Robert, skimming Instapundit at the moment at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (2qTDs)
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>>COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
And almost EVERYONE in positions of responsibility failed.
And almost EVERYONE in positions of responsibility failed.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (JChSj)
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Cars are dangerous and should only be operated by trained experts.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (MxEKc)
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I will say that I am grateful to Kung Flu for streamlining a lot of things in my life:
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
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Right with you on this one, Mary.
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
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Right with you on this one, Mary.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (lf83v)
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as i was catching up on new this morning while wiping the sleepies from eyes, i heard an ad that wanted to entice me to invest in blackrock.
To be fair, if you invest in the leaders of the Great Reset, you're guaranteed to make money. At least until they confiscate it.
To be fair, if you invest in the leaders of the Great Reset, you're guaranteed to make money. At least until they confiscate it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)
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After the fifth talking point, when I ask again how it actually works, they tend to be quiet.
You can do this with almost anything. They 'believe' because they're not brainwashed cultists, like you.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (zwDuR)
Yup... I do the same, because I CAN explain how a greenhouse gas works, and can SHOW why CO2 reaches its peak effect at lower levels than we already have.
And then explain the difference between KNOWING something and believing something... is the difference between Science, and religion.
You can do this with almost anything. They 'believe' because they're not brainwashed cultists, like you.
Posted by: MJ at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (zwDuR)
Yup... I do the same, because I CAN explain how a greenhouse gas works, and can SHOW why CO2 reaches its peak effect at lower levels than we already have.
And then explain the difference between KNOWING something and believing something... is the difference between Science, and religion.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (oHd/0)
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House Judiciary GOP
@JudiciaryGOP
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Follow
#BREAKING: New whistleblower information reveals that the FBI is moving agents off of child sexual abuse investigations to instead pursue political investigations.
The whistleblower recounted being told that “child sexual abuse investigations were no longer an FBI priority.”
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We can either investigate minor attracted people or people who use the wrong pronouns but not both.
@JudiciaryGOP
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#BREAKING: New whistleblower information reveals that the FBI is moving agents off of child sexual abuse investigations to instead pursue political investigations.
The whistleblower recounted being told that “child sexual abuse investigations were no longer an FBI priority.”
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We can either investigate minor attracted people or people who use the wrong pronouns but not both.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (FVME7)
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Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (rMe4X)
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236 Russian dumbasses on Tuesday gave support to plans by separatists which it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory, a direct challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the conflict.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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Ukraine was The Thing for 15 minutes. It's no longer The Thing. Russia knows this. They can pretty much do whatever they want now, and the West won't say shit. Russia knows this. It's not a coincidence Russia waited until after the summer and just when election season kicks in in the USA.
Posted by: SMOD at September 20, 2022 11:42 AM (RHGPo)
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Ukraine was The Thing for 15 minutes. It's no longer The Thing. Russia knows this. They can pretty much do whatever they want now, and the West won't say shit. Russia knows this. It's not a coincidence Russia waited until after the summer and just when election season kicks in in the USA.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
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Not to mention everyone's favorite, nazis. Laurence Tribe is foaming about this and the "chilling" hitlerian salute in Youngstown. The information age might end for the masses, but the Schwab gang will never relinquish power.
Which is why I really won't mind if their newest, and apparently most effective, Information Age tools simply fade away as we lose the ability to produce or maintain them.
Its too much collectivism. It really does foster entirely too much of this "feeling of community" that so many people, of all generations, seem to enjoy to an unhealthy level. Its turned the entire damn globe into one great big virtual HOA.
Human have an intrinsic need, that I don't understand personally, to congregate and commune. So be it. But I'm damned sure humans also need to get away from that communal area, back to their own privacy, on a routine regular basis. The Information Age has all but eliminated privacy.
Which is why I really won't mind if their newest, and apparently most effective, Information Age tools simply fade away as we lose the ability to produce or maintain them.
Its too much collectivism. It really does foster entirely too much of this "feeling of community" that so many people, of all generations, seem to enjoy to an unhealthy level. Its turned the entire damn globe into one great big virtual HOA.
Human have an intrinsic need, that I don't understand personally, to congregate and commune. So be it. But I'm damned sure humans also need to get away from that communal area, back to their own privacy, on a routine regular basis. The Information Age has all but eliminated privacy.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (n8S9h)
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (yvHe0)
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Russia some time ago agreed to incorporation of D & L into the Russian Federation. It's been obvious to all for years that these areas would never again be under normal Ukrainian control or administration. There's no escalation involved here, at all.
The moves towards referenda on "political future" in parts of Kharkov, Zaporozhe, and Kherson oblasts have been nixed by events (at least in the first and last places), and were most likely just leverage-building pressure on the Ukes back when the military momentum was against them.
The moves towards referenda on "political future" in parts of Kharkov, Zaporozhe, and Kherson oblasts have been nixed by events (at least in the first and last places), and were most likely just leverage-building pressure on the Ukes back when the military momentum was against them.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (OTzUX)
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265 House Judiciary GOP
#BREAKING: New whistleblower information reveals that the FBI is moving agents off of child sexual abuse investigations to instead pursue political investigations.
The whistleblower recounted being told that “child sexual abuse investigations were no longer an FBI priority.”
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We can either investigate minor attracted people or people who use the wrong pronouns but not both.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (FVME7)
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The House GOP won't cut the FBI's budget by a penny, though.
#BREAKING: New whistleblower information reveals that the FBI is moving agents off of child sexual abuse investigations to instead pursue political investigations.
The whistleblower recounted being told that “child sexual abuse investigations were no longer an FBI priority.”
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We can either investigate minor attracted people or people who use the wrong pronouns but not both.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (FVME7)
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The House GOP won't cut the FBI's budget by a penny, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (LvTSG)
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"Community-led initiatives can make a significant contribution towards ... social cohesion"
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Leave aside the specific (stupid) policy in question, here.
That statement is unadulterated horseshit.
Whether you're talking about the Holocaust or Facebook, "community-led initiatives" are always fucking terrible.
Individual initiative creates. Communities destroy.
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Leave aside the specific (stupid) policy in question, here.
That statement is unadulterated horseshit.
Whether you're talking about the Holocaust or Facebook, "community-led initiatives" are always fucking terrible.
Individual initiative creates. Communities destroy.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (oINRc)
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To be fair, if you invest in the leaders of the Great Reset, you're guaranteed to make money. At least until they confiscate it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)
Blackrock lost more of their clients money in the 1st 6 months of this year than any other investment firm in history.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (ZGrMX)
Blackrock lost more of their clients money in the 1st 6 months of this year than any other investment firm in history.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (UuD2k)
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Um, where does food come from?
Whole Foods, same as it does now.
Less snarkily, the plan is for there to be farms, but they'll be manual labor for kulaks.
Whole Foods, same as it does now.
Less snarkily, the plan is for there to be farms, but they'll be manual labor for kulaks.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (ZGrMX)
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See, that's what the AI is for. It'll invent all the new stuff. They believe this because they're good at manipulating money but, otherwise, they're not very bright.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (zhLdt)
They are also ok with everything grinding and society as a whole coming crashing down- as long as they maintain control. Which they think they will. Because they are smart. And the Elect.
Yeah, you are right, they are stupid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic, Ashli Babbitt/Rosanne Boyland at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (zhLdt)
They are also ok with everything grinding and society as a whole coming crashing down- as long as they maintain control. Which they think they will. Because they are smart. And the Elect.
Yeah, you are right, they are stupid.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (5r4XQ)
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Dammit. Thrush.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022
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When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks were writing the pilot for Get Smart, the story goes, they often visited the U.N.C.L.E. set. The opening sequence of GS with Max striding through all sorts of gates and barriers was a direct parody of a small bit the early U.N.C.L.E. episodes included, showing Solo and Illya entering their HQ and striding along steel corridors.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022
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When Buck Henry and Mel Brooks were writing the pilot for Get Smart, the story goes, they often visited the U.N.C.L.E. set. The opening sequence of GS with Max striding through all sorts of gates and barriers was a direct parody of a small bit the early U.N.C.L.E. episodes included, showing Solo and Illya entering their HQ and striding along steel corridors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (J2vNu)
Posted by: Clippy at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (ufFY8)
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I think for Man from U.N.C.L.E. it was C.H.A.O.S.
Posted by: micky at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (3byMq)
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Well, time for me to sound like a broken record here, but,
"Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, "
... We are not voting our way out of this. There is no peaceful coexistence with these people. But I don't think that's what they're aiming for anyways - if they were, they'd focus on sneaking in the serfdom shit and omit and child abusing, dick-chopping, and language-mutilating humiliation rituals.
The plan here is to speed things along by goading us into open conflict and then eliminating a large chunk of their opposition outright. You NEED to be prepared to maintain and feed your household without grid power because they're going to try something really stupid.
"Advances in emerging technologies like AI, blockchain and digitization can enable tracking personal carbon emissions, "
... We are not voting our way out of this. There is no peaceful coexistence with these people. But I don't think that's what they're aiming for anyways - if they were, they'd focus on sneaking in the serfdom shit and omit and child abusing, dick-chopping, and language-mutilating humiliation rituals.
The plan here is to speed things along by goading us into open conflict and then eliminating a large chunk of their opposition outright. You NEED to be prepared to maintain and feed your household without grid power because they're going to try something really stupid.
Posted by: somedood at September 20, 2022 11:47 AM (JfQmR)
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If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (C7jzY)
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>>> 266 Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (rMe4X)
Duh, from hydroponic plant farms on rooftops!
EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (rMe4X)
Duh, from hydroponic plant farms on rooftops!
Posted by: leftists at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (llON8)
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>>> 280 If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (C7jzY)
You're hallucinating. They can't get on the internet, either.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (C7jzY)
You're hallucinating. They can't get on the internet, either.
Posted by: leftists at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (llON8)
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>>If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
This is why Driving While Black is a crime.
This is why Driving While Black is a crime.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (JChSj)
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255. I agree, so I can keep my guard up, and make sure they don't show up for holidays.
My husband, however, is a brainwashed sheep. He got the untested bivalent vax. Apparently it's being sold, despite it's lack of human testing, as needed as "time is of the essence". I guess at 81, you don't have to worry about side effects as tissue regeneration is so slow
My husband, however, is a brainwashed sheep. He got the untested bivalent vax. Apparently it's being sold, despite it's lack of human testing, as needed as "time is of the essence". I guess at 81, you don't have to worry about side effects as tissue regeneration is so slow
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (Zzbjj)
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I think for Man from U.N.C.L.E. it was C.H.A.O.S.
Posted by: micky at September 20, 2022
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No, that was what Picard said to Q: "You are next of kin to chaos."
Posted by: micky at September 20, 2022
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No, that was what Picard said to Q: "You are next of kin to chaos."
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (J2vNu)
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Seriously, though, I've actually seen leftists on the Twats say "If you're not up to no good, why would you want to just randomly go some place?". That's really what they think of cars.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)
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If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
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You don't need a license to drive a stolen car.
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You don't need a license to drive a stolen car.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (lf83v)
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If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (C7jzY)
They're all driving illegally, dude. That's your fault, because you're white.
#BeBetter.
If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (C7jzY)
They're all driving illegally, dude. That's your fault, because you're white.
#BeBetter.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (oINRc)
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>>They can't get on the internet, either.
And. Also. If they want a book, they have to trade several guns to get one.
And. Also. If they want a book, they have to trade several guns to get one.
Posted by: barack Hussein Obama at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (JChSj)
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>> Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
I dunno know about Newton's views on astrology, but he did believe in alchemy and thought he could decipher Judgement Day from Bible passages.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (J2vNu)
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
I dunno know about Newton's views on astrology, but he did believe in alchemy and thought he could decipher Judgement Day from Bible passages.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (JOtiF)
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The amount of CO2 is logarithmic, EI it takes twice as much to raise another 1.5C than the previous 1.5C.
"China and India isn't going to obey, and the earth won't get angry as a result."
"China and India isn't going to obey, and the earth won't get angry as a result."
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (44ww/)
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>Seriously, though, I've actually seen leftists on the Twats say "If you're not up to no good, why would you want to just randomly go some place?". That's really what they think of cars.
Posted by: Ian S.
I don't understand that quote at all
Posted by: Ian S.
I don't understand that quote at all
Posted by: DB at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (geLO8)
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287 If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
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You don't need a license to drive a stolen car.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (lf83v)
And you can't hug a child with nuclear arms.
But you can keep him warm.
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You don't need a license to drive a stolen car.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:49 AM (lf83v)
And you can't hug a child with nuclear arms.
But you can keep him warm.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (5r4XQ)
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Cars are dangerous and should only be operated by trained experts.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022
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I kind of agree with you. This morning on the expressway somebody in a 12-foot pickup truck tried to fit it between me and the car ahead -- a space of 10 feet.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022
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I kind of agree with you. This morning on the expressway somebody in a 12-foot pickup truck tried to fit it between me and the car ahead -- a space of 10 feet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (J2vNu)
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Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:40 AM (MxEKc)
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Oh, they believe it alright. Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college. I live in a college town with 6,000 undergrads, half women. That means 600 rapes per year, every year. Can you imagine a sane person actually believing this? We'd have the National Guard here if the rape total were 1% of that number (BTW, we've actually had one reported rape in the last three years).
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
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Oh, they believe it alright. Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college. I live in a college town with 6,000 undergrads, half women. That means 600 rapes per year, every year. Can you imagine a sane person actually believing this? We'd have the National Guard here if the rape total were 1% of that number (BTW, we've actually had one reported rape in the last three years).
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
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Are DeSantis and Abbott announcing where they are sending illegals( ?), because that doesn't seem like a good idea.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (vH/6k)
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If blacks can't get a Drivers Licenses to vote how come I see so many on the highway?
Based on YouTube's hottest new genre, Arkansas State Patrol PIT videos, about 75% of them are unlicensed, uninsured, and driving a stolen car. Many are underage as well.
Based on YouTube's hottest new genre, Arkansas State Patrol PIT videos, about 75% of them are unlicensed, uninsured, and driving a stolen car. Many are underage as well.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (ZGrMX)
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"China and India isn't going to obey, and the earth won't get angry as a result."
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (44ww/)
Their pollution of anything is ignored and championed as they were "downtrodden" for so long.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (44ww/)
Their pollution of anything is ignored and championed as they were "downtrodden" for so long.
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (Zzbjj)
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>>Human have an intrinsic need, that I don't understand personally, to congregate and commune.
And yet you keep coming back here.
And yet you keep coming back here.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (ZLI7S)
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I dunno know about Newton's views on astrology, but he did believe in alchemy and thought he could decipher Judgement Day from Bible passages.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 20, 2022 1
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Maybe "alchemy" was what I was thinking of.
Posted by: GnuBreed at September 20, 2022 1
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Maybe "alchemy" was what I was thinking of.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (J2vNu)
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276 Don Adams served as a Marine on Guadalcanal, and was wounded. During hospitalization he contracted malaria and the resulting blackwater from the treatment. Sent back to the States, he was assigned Drill Instructor duty at MCRD San Diego.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (lz5hY)
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>>I dunno know about Newton's views on astrology, but he did believe in alchemy
Didn't they call Mercury Philosophers Silver or some shit. They were obsessed with the stuff.
Didn't they call Mercury Philosophers Silver or some shit. They were obsessed with the stuff.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (JChSj)
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I suspect that we could all be wiped off ot the face of the Earth and the atmosphere would barely notice. Researchers have looked for a Covid signal and concluded that the effect is too small and it's lost in the noise. Now explain to me again why we must all buy EVs.
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Um, because Hunter is on the board of a Lithium mining company.
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Um, because Hunter is on the board of a Lithium mining company.
Posted by: Its not funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:51 AM (5q1WY)
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EVs are a head fake. The actual goal is to move everyone to cities and make them ride bikes and scooters after all of the racist roads are torn down.
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (rMe4X)
Duh, from hydroponic plant farms on rooftops!
Posted by: leftists at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (llON
You mean, the Soylent Green?
Posted by: Ian S.
Um, where does food come from?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (rMe4X)
Duh, from hydroponic plant farms on rooftops!
Posted by: leftists at September 20, 2022 11:48 AM (llON
You mean, the Soylent Green?
Posted by: Detective Robert Thorn at September 20, 2022 11:52 AM (oHd/0)
Posted by: Hollywood, NY and DC at September 20, 2022 11:52 AM (oINRc)
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Here in New York, I notice A LOT of people driving around with visible damage to their cars from collisions. The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
Cops need to go after these people. Sometimes they are missing the who read bumper assembly and the entire taillight frame. Same with the front.
Unfortunately, the cops don't want a confrontation, so the roads are full of shitboxes.
Cops need to go after these people. Sometimes they are missing the who read bumper assembly and the entire taillight frame. Same with the front.
Unfortunately, the cops don't want a confrontation, so the roads are full of shitboxes.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:52 AM (lf83v)
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whole rear bumper.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (lf83v)
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The amount of CO2 is logarithmic, EI it takes twice as much to raise another 1.5C than the previous 1.5C.
Its never occurred to any of them that a minimum amount of CO2 is necessary, to keep the temperatures at levels that can sustain us.
It, apparently, has also never occurred to them that an increase from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is an increase from an unbelievably small number to an unbelievably small number.
Its never occurred to any of them that a minimum amount of CO2 is necessary, to keep the temperatures at levels that can sustain us.
It, apparently, has also never occurred to them that an increase from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is an increase from an unbelievably small number to an unbelievably small number.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (n8S9h)
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The Pontiac Shitbox was a great car.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (JChSj)
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249 Imagine what Isaac Newton would have thought of a modern cell phone.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
once read a short story in which someone brought a pocket calculator back in time to isaac newton. in showing it off, he did a big calculation that came out as 666, causing isaac newton to toss him out of his house and double down on religion and superstition.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022
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Despite his brilliance, he was strangely superstitious and believed, I think, in astrology. He might conclude the cell phone was witchcraft.
once read a short story in which someone brought a pocket calculator back in time to isaac newton. in showing it off, he did a big calculation that came out as 666, causing isaac newton to toss him out of his house and double down on religion and superstition.
Posted by: kulak anachronda at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (v3pYe)
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Black people can't figure out how to get a government ID, but they'll be able to buy and charge an $65,000 electric car just fine.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (wU68O)
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Russian dumbasses on Tuesday gave support to plans by separatists which it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory, a direct challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the conflict.
Posted by: SMOD
Following the news that Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions are set to hold “referenda to join Russia” between September 23-27, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to address the nation on Tuesday, September 20.
Russian news outlet RBC reported that three sources close to the presidential administration told them that a speech is expected by the end of the day.
Russian dumbasses on Tuesday gave support to plans by separatists which it backs in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory, a direct challenge to the West that could sharply escalate the conflict.
Posted by: SMOD
Following the news that Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions are set to hold “referenda to join Russia” between September 23-27, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to address the nation on Tuesday, September 20.
Russian news outlet RBC reported that three sources close to the presidential administration told them that a speech is expected by the end of the day.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (63Dwl)
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I kind of agree with you. This morning on the expressway somebody in a 12-foot pickup truck tried to fit it between me and the car ahead -- a space of 10 feet.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Pffffft. Houston. IH-45. Semi with 52' trailer in the space of a Toyota at 70 mph.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
Pffffft. Houston. IH-45. Semi with 52' trailer in the space of a Toyota at 70 mph.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (rMe4X)
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Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
Back home I saw a billboard that claimed one in five females were sexually molested as children.
That sounds...high.
Back home I saw a billboard that claimed one in five females were sexually molested as children.
That sounds...high.
Posted by: Robert, skimming Instapundit at the moment at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (2qTDs)
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The Aztec? That was an ugly bastard.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (5r4XQ)
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I think for Man from U.N.C.L.E. it was C.H.A.O.S.
In Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, the organizations were A.P.E. -- the Agency for the Prevention of Evil -- and C.H.I.M.P. but I don't remember what the latter expanded to. I have absolutely no doubt that someone here does though.
In Lancelot Link Secret Chimp, the organizations were A.P.E. -- the Agency for the Prevention of Evil -- and C.H.I.M.P. but I don't remember what the latter expanded to. I have absolutely no doubt that someone here does though.
Posted by: Oddbob at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (nfrXX)
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306 Here in New York, I notice A LOT of people driving around with visible damage to their cars from collisions. The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
Cops need to go after these people. Sometimes they are missing the who read bumper assembly and the entire taillight frame. Same with the front.
Unfortunately, the cops don't want a confrontation, so the roads are full of shitboxes.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:52 AM (lf83v)
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The back of my Highlander has been damaged for over a month. The repair shop simply can't get the right part. The dealership they deal with for parts has dozens of these things on backorder.
It's not just insurance.
Cops need to go after these people. Sometimes they are missing the who read bumper assembly and the entire taillight frame. Same with the front.
Unfortunately, the cops don't want a confrontation, so the roads are full of shitboxes.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:52 AM (lf83v)
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The back of my Highlander has been damaged for over a month. The repair shop simply can't get the right part. The dealership they deal with for parts has dozens of these things on backorder.
It's not just insurance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (LvTSG)
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>>It, apparently, has also never occurred to them that an increase from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is an increase from an unbelievably small number to an unbelievably small number.
When Freon burnt a hole in the Ozone Layer, we lost ALL of our common sense to the Vacuum of Space.
When Freon burnt a hole in the Ozone Layer, we lost ALL of our common sense to the Vacuum of Space.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (JChSj)
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Sent back to the States, he was assigned Drill Instructor duty at MCRD San Diego.
_______________
(In Maxwell Smart voice)
Would you believe 20 pushups?
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(In Maxwell Smart voice)
Would you believe 20 pushups?
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (lf83v)
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Black people can't figure out how to get a government ID, but they'll be able to buy and charge an $65,000 electric car just fine.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Gonna need it for the loan.
Posted by: Moron Robbie
Gonna need it for the loan.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (rMe4X)
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>>Um, because Hunter is on the board of a Lithium mining company.
I think you have that backwards. Hunter is on the board of a lithium mining company because we have to buy EVs.
They want us to buy EVs because they know it will change our behavior. EVs will never fully replace IC vehicles.
I think you have that backwards. Hunter is on the board of a lithium mining company because we have to buy EVs.
They want us to buy EVs because they know it will change our behavior. EVs will never fully replace IC vehicles.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (ZLI7S)
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309 The Pontiac Shitbox was a great car.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (JChSj)
It was just a chevette with a neat pinstripe and different tail lights...
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (JChSj)
It was just a chevette with a neat pinstripe and different tail lights...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (6loqT)
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I make it a point to be on WEF's mailing list. I want to know what my enemy is thinking.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (9miN6)
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I have a new co-worker that used to work for a garbage/recycling corporation. We are to recycle most everything at where I work or else the recycling bitach will crawl up into your face. when I told the new guy " hey, you need to separate your garbage because it is a big thing here." His reply was " it's all BS. I would drive my truck with trash into the landfill and watch recycling trucks dump the recycling on top of the household trash. So, what's the point." I said, your ass, not mine.
Posted by: sidney at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (itAo5)
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I don't know much about Arkansas. Except that I saw the biggest spider I ever saw spouting thousands of spiders out of herself in a parking lot there a couple weeks ago, and that something similar happened there once, but with Clintons.
I'll just avoid the place.
I don't know much about Arkansas. Except that I saw the biggest spider I ever saw spouting thousands of spiders out of herself in a parking lot there a couple weeks ago, and that something similar happened there once, but with Clintons.
I'll just avoid the place.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (oINRc)
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I recall when the first person got Covid in this county, big deal to do the contact tracing, hypervigilance don't ya know, all on the news, how many contacts they found, bla blah blah.
It did help build the Fear Factor, which was apparently the real point.
It did help build the Fear Factor, which was apparently the real point.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (Cus5s)
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Here in New York, I notice A LOT of people driving around with visible damage to their cars from collisions. The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
There's a YouTube channel called "Just Rolled In" where mechanics document stupid shit people do to cars (last night: a 2014 Honda with 75,000 miles that had never had an oil change). An alarmingly frequent thing is completely bald smooth tires followed by "customer declined all repairs".
There's a YouTube channel called "Just Rolled In" where mechanics document stupid shit people do to cars (last night: a 2014 Honda with 75,000 miles that had never had an oil change). An alarmingly frequent thing is completely bald smooth tires followed by "customer declined all repairs".
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (ZGrMX)
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Don Adams served as a Marine on Guadalcanal, and was wounded. During hospitalization he contracted malaria and the resulting blackwater from the treatment. Sent back to the States, he was assigned Drill Instructor duty at MCRD San Diego.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022
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I always wanted to see him play something more serious. Without the "Glick voice," the nasal effect he developed on Bill Dana's show and used as Smart, his was a good voice, and if he'd relaxed he could have done some dramatic roles.
By the way: The guy credited with writing the GS TV theme, Irving Szathmary, was Bill Dana's brother!
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022
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I always wanted to see him play something more serious. Without the "Glick voice," the nasal effect he developed on Bill Dana's show and used as Smart, his was a good voice, and if he'd relaxed he could have done some dramatic roles.
By the way: The guy credited with writing the GS TV theme, Irving Szathmary, was Bill Dana's brother!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (J2vNu)
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No joke, Isaac Newton did world-changing math essentially for fun and to feed himself. His true passion was numerology and trying to break the code of the Bible. I can't remember the details but IIRC he spent the majority of his waking hours on the latter.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (wU68O)
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Oh, they believe it alright. Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college. I live in a college town with 6,000 undergrads, half women. That means 600 rapes per year, every year. Can you imagine a sane person actually believing this? We'd have the National Guard here if the rape total were 1% of that number (BTW, we've actually had one reported rape in the last three years).
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
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I live in a college town very much like this, though only about 1500 women (maybe 2000) on campus. We don't have 400 rapes per year. And I know this because I served on a grand jury panel where this would have been immediately apparent (we processed about 450 cases over 6 months).
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
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I live in a college town very much like this, though only about 1500 women (maybe 2000) on campus. We don't have 400 rapes per year. And I know this because I served on a grand jury panel where this would have been immediately apparent (we processed about 450 cases over 6 months).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (YIVH2)
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Cops need to go after these people.
LOL. A lot of cars in Portland don't have license plates, since there aren't enough cops to enforce any traffic laws.
LOL. A lot of cars in Portland don't have license plates, since there aren't enough cops to enforce any traffic laws.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (I2/tG)
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>>>The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
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for years I didn't have enough money to pay the deductible portion of any damage, so I would have been one of those people driving an unrepaired vehicle (even though insured).
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for years I didn't have enough money to pay the deductible portion of any damage, so I would have been one of those people driving an unrepaired vehicle (even though insured).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (mOAwy)
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"Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college."
It's true to them because they expanded the definition of rape to any attention from a male they weren't interested in.
It's true to them because they expanded the definition of rape to any attention from a male they weren't interested in.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (MxEKc)
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Here in New York, I notice A LOT of people driving around with visible damage to their cars from collisions.
The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
Liability only in a no fault state with a $1k to $2k deductible. Yeah. If it doesn't affect actual movement, it ain't getting repaired any time soon.
The car is unrepaired, which to me is a clear sign the person has no insurance.
Liability only in a no fault state with a $1k to $2k deductible. Yeah. If it doesn't affect actual movement, it ain't getting repaired any time soon.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (rMe4X)
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The back of my Highlander has been damaged for over a month. The repair shop simply can't get the right part. The dealership they deal with for parts has dozens of these things on backorder.
It's not just insurance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (LvTSG)
My spouse dented the side of my car with a parking garage pole...all superficial damage, but I'm not paying 1K to fix it. Especially in VA, where it can reduce my car sale value, and thus my every year tax hit...
It's not just insurance.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:54 AM (LvTSG)
My spouse dented the side of my car with a parking garage pole...all superficial damage, but I'm not paying 1K to fix it. Especially in VA, where it can reduce my car sale value, and thus my every year tax hit...
Posted by: Nova local at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (exHjb)
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It did help build the Fear Factor, which was apparently the real point.
"We should seamlessly pivot from Covid restrictions to global warming restrictions."
"We should seamlessly pivot from Covid restrictions to global warming restrictions."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (I2/tG)
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It, apparently, has also never occurred to them that an increase from 200 PPM to 400 PPM is an increase from an unbelievably small number to an unbelievably small number.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (n8S9h)
Uh... the IR energy in CO2's absorption bands is already absorbed by existing CO2 and Water Vapor (humidity). To add more heat, you would need to add more ENERGY. Adding CO2 will do... nothing.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 11:53 AM (n8S9h)
Uh... the IR energy in CO2's absorption bands is already absorbed by existing CO2 and Water Vapor (humidity). To add more heat, you would need to add more ENERGY. Adding CO2 will do... nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (oHd/0)
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I did not hate the look of the Fiero.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (5r4XQ)
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The House GOP won't cut the FBI's budget by a penny, though.
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You can't put a price on a stern letter, buddy.
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You can't put a price on a stern letter, buddy.
Posted by: House GOP at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (sVtYq)
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>> "Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college."
The other 80% really appreciate their sacrifice, though.
The other 80% really appreciate their sacrifice, though.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (JChSj)
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209 Delaware is an idea. Not an actual place.
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It rains oil there and no fart smells.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (C7jzY)
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
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It rains oil there and no fart smells.
Posted by: Pudinhead at September 20, 2022 11:38 AM (C7jzY)
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free Republic of Florida at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (MkuC5)
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333 "Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college."
It's true to them because they expanded the definition of rape to any attention from a male they weren't interested in.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (MxEKc)
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And it must all be treated like actual, full rape that has a legal definition and processes that police must follow in order to arrest and the state needs to prosecute.
"But he looked at my bare legs! Arrest him!"
It's true to them because they expanded the definition of rape to any attention from a male they weren't interested in.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (MxEKc)
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And it must all be treated like actual, full rape that has a legal definition and processes that police must follow in order to arrest and the state needs to prosecute.
"But he looked at my bare legs! Arrest him!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (LvTSG)
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309 Heh. I know I'm on a Marine Corps kick this morning. I bought a VW Thing, the one that looks like a Kubelwagen, and we were out in the detachment parking lot looking at it. The Sgt Major ambles up, coffee cup in hand, shakes his head and says "What a Shitmobile. Do you round up enemies of the state in that thing?"
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (lz5hY)
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Perfessor, serving on a grand jury is my nightmare scenario. Six months! Sheesh. You have really done your bit for the community after that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (mOAwy)
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His reply was " it's all BS. I would drive my truck with trash into the landfill and watch recycling trucks dump the recycling on top of the household trash. So, what's the point." I said, your ass, not mine.
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He's right, too. All of the non-metal recycling that people meticulously sorted and rinsed and carefully put into the trucks was shipped to China and piled up into mountains and burned.
China said no more about four years ago and the all-items charade collapsed.
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He's right, too. All of the non-metal recycling that people meticulously sorted and rinsed and carefully put into the trucks was shipped to China and piled up into mountains and burned.
China said no more about four years ago and the all-items charade collapsed.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (wU68O)
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Storage isn't the answer. Generation is. Nuclear is the intermediate step, but space-based solar and fusion are the long term solutions.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ayzS/)
Storage is an answer. Cheap and efficient mass storage (batteries are neither) of electrical energy would make wind and solar competitive with coal and nuclear for utility generation. The biggest problem with both wind and solar is dispatchability, meaning the ability to deliver the energy when called for. Cheap and efficient mass storage would render that problem moot.
Understand that I am not holding my breath waiting for cheap and efficient mass storage to be invented. I doubt it will ever happen. But some miraculous breakthrough in energy storage would be a huge game-changer.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 10:59 AM (ayzS/)
Storage is an answer. Cheap and efficient mass storage (batteries are neither) of electrical energy would make wind and solar competitive with coal and nuclear for utility generation. The biggest problem with both wind and solar is dispatchability, meaning the ability to deliver the energy when called for. Cheap and efficient mass storage would render that problem moot.
Understand that I am not holding my breath waiting for cheap and efficient mass storage to be invented. I doubt it will ever happen. But some miraculous breakthrough in energy storage would be a huge game-changer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (v80G9)
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OT-Somebody (A RC in a conservative political group I am in) sent me link about St. Lucia of Fatima saying that "The decisive battle between the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Satan will be over marriage and the family". I'm not as up on Saints as my RC friends are, but I'm guessing St Lucia is one of the children who saw a vision of Mary at Fatima? Here is a related article:
https://tinyurl.com/4wb8vnv7
https://tinyurl.com/4wb8vnv7
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (vH/6k)
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I did not hate the look of the Fiero.
Fiero was one of the best looking American cars of the 80s. And in typical GM fashion they first worked out all of the problems and then discontinued it.
Fiero was one of the best looking American cars of the 80s. And in typical GM fashion they first worked out all of the problems and then discontinued it.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (ZGrMX)
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We can either investigate minor attracted people or people who use the wrong pronouns but not both.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (FVME7)
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The House GOP won't cut the FBI's budget by a penny, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (LvTSG)
If you consider that the GOP regards the FBI as their plausible deniability force - they'll harass, bankrupt, jail and murder the MAGA hobbits while super patriots like Ted Cruz chin wag and write stern letters in public, but cheer the feebs on in private for ridding him of pestilential patriotic scum - the GOPs support for the FBI makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at September 20, 2022 11:45 AM (FVME7)
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The House GOP won't cut the FBI's budget by a penny, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (LvTSG)
If you consider that the GOP regards the FBI as their plausible deniability force - they'll harass, bankrupt, jail and murder the MAGA hobbits while super patriots like Ted Cruz chin wag and write stern letters in public, but cheer the feebs on in private for ridding him of pestilential patriotic scum - the GOPs support for the FBI makes perfect sense.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (AW0uW)
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Roll shit back before the Information Age, and all this nonsense stops.
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According to my 100 year old part indian grandma in law we didn't have ANY of these problems until they put a man on the moon.
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According to my 100 year old part indian grandma in law we didn't have ANY of these problems until they put a man on the moon.
Posted by: Jimco Industries at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (buTO7)
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The back of my Highlander has been damaged for over a month. The repair shop simply can't get the right part. The dealership they deal with for parts has dozens of these things on backorder.
It's not just insurance.
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You're right. I've heard stories like this also, especially with foreign parts.
It's not just insurance.
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You're right. I've heard stories like this also, especially with foreign parts.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (lf83v)
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (JGi71)
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255 COVID-19 was the test of social responsibility
I will say that I am grateful to Kung Flu for streamlining a lot of things in my life:
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
- acquaintances who are scientifically illiterate, totalitarian or willing slaves to propaganda;
- people who I now know are frightened sheep;
- people who have outed themselves as my political enemies.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (AW0uW)
I agree with MP4 Johnson.
I will say that I am grateful to Kung Flu for streamlining a lot of things in my life:
- "friends" who aren't that at all;
- acquaintances who are scientifically illiterate, totalitarian or willing slaves to propaganda;
- people who I now know are frightened sheep;
- people who have outed themselves as my political enemies.
I could go on, but you get the idea.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at September 20, 2022 11:44 AM (AW0uW)
I agree with MP4 Johnson.
Posted by: Eromero at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (0OP+5)
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The UNDP’s “Peoples’ Climate Vote” reflects that over 64% of people believe climate change is a global emergency.
64% of the people in mostly white countries, in other words.
It's like sanctions on Russia, which are almost entirely limited to mostly white countries.
64% of the people in mostly white countries, in other words.
It's like sanctions on Russia, which are almost entirely limited to mostly white countries.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (I2/tG)
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I love those VW Things!. Totally useless vehicle, but look fun as hell to have.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (mOAwy)
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You should see some of the rolling wrecks around my area of Kentucky. I'm amazed they're still drivable.
And, yea, probably uninsured as well.
And, yea, probably uninsured as well.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (BFigT)
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I wonder what would have happened if WWI did not occur. It is a big question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (JChSj)
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Every Thing is a Beautiful Thing
Posted by: 70s Bumperstickers at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (JChSj)
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Perfessor, serving on a grand jury is my nightmare scenario. Six months! Sheesh. You have really done your bit for the community after that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (mOAwy)
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It was actually pretty cool. We met every other Wednesday or so for a few hours to review about 50 cases. Then we'd vote on indictments for each case. Only had to meet about a dozen times over those six months. The pay is also quite a bit better than the regular petit jury gets.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (mOAwy)
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It was actually pretty cool. We met every other Wednesday or so for a few hours to review about 50 cases. Then we'd vote on indictments for each case. Only had to meet about a dozen times over those six months. The pay is also quite a bit better than the regular petit jury gets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (YIVH2)
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This is KAOS, Shtarker! We don't WEF here!!
Posted by: Wolfgang Dietrich at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (yikp0)
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Oh, they believe it alright. Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college. I live in a college town with 6,000 undergrads, half women. That means 600 rapes per year, every year. Can you imagine a sane person actually believing this? We'd have the National Guard here if the rape total were 1% of that number (BTW, we've actually had one reported rape in the last three years).
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
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I live in a college town very much like this, though only about 1500 women (maybe 2000) on campus. We don't have 400 rapes per year. And I know this because I served on a grand jury panel where this would have been immediately apparent (we processed about 450 cases over 6 months).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (YIVH2)
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If people -- even Lefty Loons -- believed this, very few parents would send their daughters to college ... which is how Everybody Knows it's a Big Lie.
But for the longest time people I know would cite this "statistic" as accepted fact. These people are not even minimally intelligent.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:50 AM (mOAwy)
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I live in a college town very much like this, though only about 1500 women (maybe 2000) on campus. We don't have 400 rapes per year. And I know this because I served on a grand jury panel where this would have been immediately apparent (we processed about 450 cases over 6 months).
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 11:55 AM (YIVH2)
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If people -- even Lefty Loons -- believed this, very few parents would send their daughters to college ... which is how Everybody Knows it's a Big Lie.
Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (ylLOx)
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352 It's not just insurance.
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It's also people who try to drive through garage doors.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (JGi71)
Shots fired.
also
*golfclap*
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It's also people who try to drive through garage doors.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (JGi71)
Shots fired.
also
*golfclap*
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (5r4XQ)
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Cheap and efficient mass storage (batteries are neither) of electrical energy would make wind and solar competitive with coal and nuclear for utility generation.
Regardless of storage, you have to produce more than you consume to even consider storage. Solar and wind don't.
Regardless of storage, you have to produce more than you consume to even consider storage. Solar and wind don't.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (rMe4X)
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"Ukraine was The Thing for 15 minutes. It's no longer The Thing. Russia knows this. They can pretty much do whatever they want now, and the West won't say shit. Russia knows this. It's not a coincidence Russia waited until after the summer and just when election season kicks in in the USA.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (iFTx/)"
Bit of an out of date take on this.
Russia has basically lost at this point; it's over save for Ukraine grinding this out unless Russia wants to start flinging nukes. They've lost the majority of the armor and aircraft they had in running condition when they started and aren't really capable of building new; all they can do is draw on dwindling cold war stocks and fill them with barely trained crews. They're not going to defeat millions of pissed off, highly motivated Ukrainians like that. A lot of people not familiar with both cultures don't really understand that the Russians are just giant fuckups on account of their fucked up culture.
Posted by: Elric Blade at September 20, 2022 11:46 AM (iFTx/)"
Bit of an out of date take on this.
Russia has basically lost at this point; it's over save for Ukraine grinding this out unless Russia wants to start flinging nukes. They've lost the majority of the armor and aircraft they had in running condition when they started and aren't really capable of building new; all they can do is draw on dwindling cold war stocks and fill them with barely trained crews. They're not going to defeat millions of pissed off, highly motivated Ukrainians like that. A lot of people not familiar with both cultures don't really understand that the Russians are just giant fuckups on account of their fucked up culture.
Posted by: somedood at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (JfQmR)
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Perfessor, serving on a grand jury is my nightmare scenario. Six months! Sheesh. You have really done your bit for the community after that.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (mOAwy)
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It was actually pretty cool. We met every other Wednesday or so for a few hours to review about 50 cases. Then we'd vote on indictments for each case. Only had to meet about a dozen times over those six months. The pay is also quite a bit better than the regular petit jury gets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (YIVH2)
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Oh, I'm also excluded from regular jury duty for 10 years, so that's a nice bonus.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:57 AM (mOAwy)
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It was actually pretty cool. We met every other Wednesday or so for a few hours to review about 50 cases. Then we'd vote on indictments for each case. Only had to meet about a dozen times over those six months. The pay is also quite a bit better than the regular petit jury gets.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (YIVH2)
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Oh, I'm also excluded from regular jury duty for 10 years, so that's a nice bonus.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 20, 2022 12:00 PM (YIVH2)
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351 You're right. I've heard stories like this also, especially with foreign parts.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (lf83v)
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It's a Toyota, so it fits.
We went to a couple of car dealerships yesterday after work to look for a new car (Dolley REALLY hates driving the Highlander as it is), and one of them was Toyota. I had the part number, and I just asked him straight up, "Can you id this part and see what you could possibly do?"
He looked it up and came back to me. "Yeah, we don't have any. If we put in an order, we'd just be behind the queue you're already in."
Also, Dolley just bought a new Mazda CX-5 from a car dealership two states away. They're driving it up to our house on Saturday.
Posted by: Adirondack Patriot at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (lf83v)
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It's a Toyota, so it fits.
We went to a couple of car dealerships yesterday after work to look for a new car (Dolley REALLY hates driving the Highlander as it is), and one of them was Toyota. I had the part number, and I just asked him straight up, "Can you id this part and see what you could possibly do?"
He looked it up and came back to me. "Yeah, we don't have any. If we put in an order, we'd just be behind the queue you're already in."
Also, Dolley just bought a new Mazda CX-5 from a car dealership two states away. They're driving it up to our house on Saturday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)
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I just noticed ( cause I'm a little slow) that almost all the EV charging stations here are at Gov. buildings/ parking garages...a few at hotels.
Posted by: BignJames at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (AwYPR)
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Only SPECTRE was less ludicrous.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (ESjRY)
And more honest. They were frank about it being for the money.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 20, 2022 11:03 AM (ESjRY)
And more honest. They were frank about it being for the money.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (v80G9)
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"Individual social responsibility," is an interesting term, the opposite of individual responsibility.
Posted by: Harry at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (yh2L+)
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I know I'm on a Marine Corps kick this morning. I bought a VW Thing, the one that looks like a Kubelwagen, and we were out in the detachment parking lot looking at it. The Sgt Major ambles up, coffee cup in hand, shakes his head and says "What a Shitmobile. Do you round up enemies of the state in that thing?"
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That's hilars. He's right you know. Hitler mobile.
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That's hilars. He's right you know. Hitler mobile.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (v3kO6)
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Uh... the IR energy in CO2's absorption bands is already absorbed by existing CO2 and Water Vapor (humidity). To add more heat, you would need to add more ENERGY. Adding CO2 will do... nothing.
No, roughly half of the solar energy that reaches the earth's surface is IR. The infrared spectrum has absorption bands due to CO2, water, etc., but it also has windows.
No, roughly half of the solar energy that reaches the earth's surface is IR. The infrared spectrum has absorption bands due to CO2, water, etc., but it also has windows.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (ayzS/)
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355 Yes they are. Double dating at a drive in (with no possibilities) was like being in a self propelled four place lawn chair, just fold down the windshield.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (lz5hY)
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352 It's also people who try to drive through garage doors.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (JGi71)
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*weeps bitterly yet manfully*
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 11:58 AM (JGi71)
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*weeps bitterly yet manfully*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)
375
Oh, and if you hadn't heard, polio is making a comeback in the United States. You know, that deadly disease we'd eradicated.
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Truly, Slow Joe is the new FDR.
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Truly, Slow Joe is the new FDR.
Posted by: andycanuck (yikp0) at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (yikp0)
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357 I wonder what would have happened if WWI did not occur. It is a big question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
I guess you could write an alternate history book, but in reality, it doesn't matter. It can't be changed except in sci-fi
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
I guess you could write an alternate history book, but in reality, it doesn't matter. It can't be changed except in sci-fi
Posted by: CN at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (Zzbjj)
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>>I love those VW Things!. Totally useless vehicle, but look fun as hell to have.
I rented one of those for a week down in the islands. Perfect location for that shitbox. The roads were tiny and twisty so you couldn't drive fast even if you wanted to and it was such a cheap POS that you didn't even bother to be careful with it.
I rented one of those for a week down in the islands. Perfect location for that shitbox. The roads were tiny and twisty so you couldn't drive fast even if you wanted to and it was such a cheap POS that you didn't even bother to be careful with it.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (ZLI7S)
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Uh... the IR energy in CO2's absorption bands is already absorbed by existing CO2 and Water Vapor (humidity). To add more heat, you would need to add more ENERGY. Adding CO2 will do... nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (oHd/0)
Believe it or not the UN has quietly acknowledged this. To get the doom and gloom out of their models, they assume that there is a positive feedback between water vapor and CO2. (i.e CO2 goes up causes water vapor to go up). All over the world. Deserts. The poles. Everywhere.
There is no evidence for this relationship at all. Logically, this relationship would have let to the Earth becoming a hot mess millions of years ago.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (oHd/0)
Believe it or not the UN has quietly acknowledged this. To get the doom and gloom out of their models, they assume that there is a positive feedback between water vapor and CO2. (i.e CO2 goes up causes water vapor to go up). All over the world. Deserts. The poles. Everywhere.
There is no evidence for this relationship at all. Logically, this relationship would have let to the Earth becoming a hot mess millions of years ago.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (UuD2k)
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Air Corgis!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (p/nbH)
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I am already being tracked for medical purposes. My pacemaker is connected to my smart phone, and my smart phone regularly transmits that data to the mother ship. Frankly, I like knowing my pacemaker can contact the mother ship in an emergency. No one at the mother ship has ever commented on my admittedly very, very low level of activity although the phone app tracks that.
The big question is: if it isn't already, does the Fed siphon off my information? Are there functions inside my app I am unaware of? In the future, will pacemakers become routine government spies?
How about the people with insulin pumps? And I think there are other pendant health devices that monitor and adjust other bodily functions.
The big question is: if it isn't already, does the Fed siphon off my information? Are there functions inside my app I am unaware of? In the future, will pacemakers become routine government spies?
How about the people with insulin pumps? And I think there are other pendant health devices that monitor and adjust other bodily functions.
Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (9SjWf)
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It looked like 2/3 of a 74 DeTomasso Pantera.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (JChSj)
And? I liked the look of the Pantera too. Except... there is one of the Italian jobs that I hated the exhaust. it stuck out like a sore thumb.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (JChSj)
And? I liked the look of the Pantera too. Except... there is one of the Italian jobs that I hated the exhaust. it stuck out like a sore thumb.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (5r4XQ)
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Alchemy was just early chemistry, they just didn't know exactly how anything worked. Some made absurd claims, but for many it was just science.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (Ivdso)
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I mean NOOD AIR!
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (p/nbH)
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>>Oh, and if you hadn't heard, polio is making a comeback in the United States.
Another gift from the Blessings of Liberty
Another gift from the Blessings of Liberty
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (JChSj)
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hahaha, I was looking for the date for when China stopped taking our recycling to burn, and this came up from Wired:
"All that neatly sorted plastic, paper, and glass used to go to China. Now a lot of it is just getting burned instead."
https://tinyurl.com/2osw375b
"Instead" = here
"All that neatly sorted plastic, paper, and glass used to go to China. Now a lot of it is just getting burned instead."
https://tinyurl.com/2osw375b
"Instead" = here
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (wU68O)
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I wonder what would have happened if WWI did not occur. It is a big question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
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Posted by: ShainS -- Go Galt or Go Rome at September 20, 2022 12:02 PM (ylLOx)
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"Of course, these same people also believed the incredible statement that 20% of women are raped in college."
That "study" came out of the Gender Studies Department at the University of Oregon, and defined things like "unwanted kissing" as sexual assault.
There was a problem though - most of the people that the U of O thought had been raped didn't think that they had been raped. The U of O's conclusion was that more education was needed.
That "study" came out of the Gender Studies Department at the University of Oregon, and defined things like "unwanted kissing" as sexual assault.
There was a problem though - most of the people that the U of O thought had been raped didn't think that they had been raped. The U of O's conclusion was that more education was needed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (I2/tG)
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Also, Dolley just bought a new Mazda CX-5 from a car dealership two states away. They're driving it up to our house on Saturday.
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yeah I went with that, when they told me the wait for the Rav 4 was 9 months. I'm happy with the CX 5 after about 6 mos.
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yeah I went with that, when they told me the wait for the Rav 4 was 9 months. I'm happy with the CX 5 after about 6 mos.
Posted by: so far so good at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (ejeXI)
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>> I liked the look of the Pantera too. Except... there is one of the Italian jobs that I hated the exhaust. it stuck out like a sore thumb.
They were awesome cars. 50 / 50 weight distribution. 351 Cleveland. You could build them up to eat Supercars that came out for the next 20 years.
They were awesome cars. 50 / 50 weight distribution. 351 Cleveland. You could build them up to eat Supercars that came out for the next 20 years.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (JChSj)
390
"If people -- even Lefty Loons -- believed this, very few parents would send their daughters to college ... which is how Everybody Knows it's a Big Lie.
Posted by: ShainS"
You would have to believe sending your daughter to college was far more dangerous than sending them to a biker bar but is still just fine.
Posted by: ShainS"
You would have to believe sending your daughter to college was far more dangerous than sending them to a biker bar but is still just fine.
Posted by: Ripley at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (MxEKc)
391
Uh... the IR energy in CO2's absorption bands is already absorbed by existing CO2 and Water Vapor (humidity). To add more heat, you would need to add more ENERGY. Adding CO2 will do... nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (oHd/0)
I think they think they believe that the Earth has to radiate energy. That it gets too much solar energy already. That is, if they thought at all.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 11:56 AM (oHd/0)
I think they think they believe that the Earth has to radiate energy. That it gets too much solar energy already. That is, if they thought at all.
Posted by: SuperChamp at September 20, 2022 12:04 PM (n8S9h)
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I thought the whole "problem" with the Fiero was that it had a mid-engine layout. That's not really a problem. You know when you buy a mid-engine car that it's a deathtrap. Everyone knows that. The fun of driving it outweighs the safety issues. The fact that people were complaining about that Pontiac killing mofos was a feature of the litigiousness of Americans.
I thought the whole "problem" with the Fiero was that it had a mid-engine layout. That's not really a problem. You know when you buy a mid-engine car that it's a deathtrap. Everyone knows that. The fun of driving it outweighs the safety issues. The fact that people were complaining about that Pontiac killing mofos was a feature of the litigiousness of Americans.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2022 12:04 PM (oINRc)
393
I'm a big Pantera fan. A local wealthy guy has an immaculate one he's restored. Chrome everything in appropriate places and utterly gorgeous. And I love the ostentatious exhaust. It makes the car part of what it is in my eyes.
I'd love to have one some day.
I'd love to have one some day.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 12:05 PM (wU68O)
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388 Also, Dolley just bought a new Mazda CX-5 from a car dealership two states away. They're driving it up to our house on Saturday.
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yeah I went with that, when they told me the wait for the Rav 4 was 9 months. I'm happy with the CX 5 after about 6 mos.
Posted by: so far so good at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (ejeXI)
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The wait for the RAV-4 they gave us, minimum, was 3-4 months, and that wasn't the color and stuff that Dolley wanted. It probably would have taken 9 to get what she wanted.
We almost bought the CX-5 from the local dealership, but they threw several thousand dollars on top of MSRP because there's a big inventory problem that they're marking up for.
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yeah I went with that, when they told me the wait for the Rav 4 was 9 months. I'm happy with the CX 5 after about 6 mos.
Posted by: so far so good at September 20, 2022 12:03 PM (ejeXI)
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The wait for the RAV-4 they gave us, minimum, was 3-4 months, and that wasn't the color and stuff that Dolley wanted. It probably would have taken 9 to get what she wanted.
We almost bought the CX-5 from the local dealership, but they threw several thousand dollars on top of MSRP because there's a big inventory problem that they're marking up for.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 12:05 PM (LvTSG)
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I wonder what would have happened if WWI did not occur. It is a big question.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
The idea that history "went wrong" at a particular point has always struck me as wrong, but has an appeal for dudes with an agenda. (Not that your question isn't a great one, I'm just going meta instead of answering.)
The truth is every day is an opportunity for a new disaster. We are like Marv in Home Alone, trying to sneak past the Christmas tree in bare feet but stepping on a dozen glass ornaments.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at September 20, 2022 11:59 AM (5r4XQ)
The idea that history "went wrong" at a particular point has always struck me as wrong, but has an appeal for dudes with an agenda. (Not that your question isn't a great one, I'm just going meta instead of answering.)
The truth is every day is an opportunity for a new disaster. We are like Marv in Home Alone, trying to sneak past the Christmas tree in bare feet but stepping on a dozen glass ornaments.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at September 20, 2022 12:05 PM (44ww/)
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Also, Dolley just bought a new Mazda CX-5 from a car dealership two states away. They're driving it up to our house on Saturday.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)
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I rented one of those recently! Great vehicle. Drove beautifully. Lots of tech, but useful tech (in contrast to my wife's Audi which has stuff I just hope leaves me alone). Anyway, congrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, navigating the destiny machine with Fritz Lang at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (LvTSG)
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I rented one of those recently! Great vehicle. Drove beautifully. Lots of tech, but useful tech (in contrast to my wife's Audi which has stuff I just hope leaves me alone). Anyway, congrats.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 12:06 PM (mOAwy)
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In their defense, there was really no other way to do the exhaust on those Panteras.
Biggest problem they had was keeping them cool. Ran hot as fuck.
Biggest problem they had was keeping them cool. Ran hot as fuck.
Posted by: garrett at September 20, 2022 12:06 PM (JChSj)
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No, roughly half of the solar energy that reaches the earth's surface is IR. The infrared spectrum has absorption bands due to CO2, water, etc., but it also has windows.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (ayzS/)
Read again what I wrote. I didn't say all IR energy.... I said the IR energy in those specific bands. Ergo, if all the energy that CO2 can absorb, is already being absorbed, then adding CO2 means nothing.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (ayzS/)
Read again what I wrote. I didn't say all IR energy.... I said the IR energy in those specific bands. Ergo, if all the energy that CO2 can absorb, is already being absorbed, then adding CO2 means nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 12:07 PM (oHd/0)
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Read again what I wrote. I didn't say all IR energy.... I said the IR energy in those specific bands. Ergo, if all the energy that CO2 can absorb, is already being absorbed, then adding CO2 means nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 12:07 PM (oHd/0)
So you're talking about saturation, essentially?
Read again what I wrote. I didn't say all IR energy.... I said the IR energy in those specific bands. Ergo, if all the energy that CO2 can absorb, is already being absorbed, then adding CO2 means nothing.
Posted by: Romeo13 at September 20, 2022 12:07 PM (oHd/0)
So you're talking about saturation, essentially?
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at September 20, 2022 12:08 PM (oINRc)
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In their defense, there was really no other way to do the exhaust on those Panteras.
Biggest problem they had was keeping them cool. Ran hot as fuck.
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this, buddy had one, drove it back and forth from Cincy to Cleveland for a while. Said it was a sweat box.
Biggest problem they had was keeping them cool. Ran hot as fuck.
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this, buddy had one, drove it back and forth from Cincy to Cleveland for a while. Said it was a sweat box.
Posted by: it was a sauna on wheels at September 20, 2022 12:10 PM (DQBqu)
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Even gold jewelry, like all those bangles so popular with AWFL's are cast in wax (from oil).
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (mOAwy)
Well, you could use bee's wax for lost wax casting, as was done by jewelers for centuries. But paraffin wax from petroleum is certainly more abundant.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at September 20, 2022 11:22 AM (mOAwy)
Well, you could use bee's wax for lost wax casting, as was done by jewelers for centuries. But paraffin wax from petroleum is certainly more abundant.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2022 12:12 PM (El1rX)
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"Question for the WEF drone: what if the community isn't interested in your initiative?
Unfortunately, the COVID mania demonstrated how easily the community can be herded into interest and rigid compliance.
Unfortunately, the COVID mania demonstrated how easily the community can be herded into interest and rigid compliance.
Posted by: DaisyB at September 20, 2022 12:15 PM (AbL8c)
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Read an article at WUWT that brought up something I hadn't though of but should have. Mining uses large quantities of sulfuric acid. Sulfuric acid is produced primarily from the sulfur removed from crude oil.
So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (UuD2k)
There is a huge amount of sulfur removed from "sour" natural gas, too. Big business in Alberta.
So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (UuD2k)
There is a huge amount of sulfur removed from "sour" natural gas, too. Big business in Alberta.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2022 12:16 PM (El1rX)
404
David McCallum from "The Man From Uncle" is still going - a regular on NCIS.
Posted by: free tibet at September 20, 2022 12:31 PM (4E7Sa)
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I know I'm on a Marine Corps kick this morning. I bought a VW Thing, the one that looks like a Kubelwagen, and we were out in the detachment parking lot looking at it. The Sgt Major ambles up, coffee cup in hand, shakes his head and says "What a Shitmobile. Do you round up enemies of the state in that thing?"
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That's hilars. He's right you know. Hitler mobile.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (v3kO6)
The response to that crack? "I'm able to drive it because we beat the assholes who built the original ones. I own a Luger, too."
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That's hilars. He's right you know. Hitler mobile.
Posted by: Its funny because its true at September 20, 2022 12:01 PM (v3kO6)
The response to that crack? "I'm able to drive it because we beat the assholes who built the original ones. I own a Luger, too."
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 20, 2022 12:37 PM (b4+Jg)
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So eliminating fossil fuels will remove the main source sulfuric acid and sulfur will need to be mined. It's a big mess and they haven't thought it through.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (UuD2k)
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I'm not saying this jokingly: They'll continue processing fossil fuels like they currently are in order to produce what they need for "green" follies and burn the gas like waste gas from landfills.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at September 20, 2022 11:28 AM (UuD2k)
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I'm not saying this jokingly: They'll continue processing fossil fuels like they currently are in order to produce what they need for "green" follies and burn the gas like waste gas from landfills.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Don't insist that I accept what you are when you can't accept what you are at September 20, 2022 12:38 PM (wU68O)
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OMG, Moss Landing burned down? I can't find the news anywhere. Link?
Posted by: pawn at September 20, 2022 11:43 AM (wsHtO)
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Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy. at September 20, 2022 12:44 PM (Zvtjl)
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Arguing in favor of strict, Chinese-style social credit with maximally-intrusive, individual surveillance, they make sure to throw in some Manufactured Consent (TM) by throwing out stats from various UN polls like "80% of young people believe that doing something-something-blah-blah" to Save the Planet is a good idea.
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