THE MORNING RANT: CFL Bulbs That Were Once Promoted By Environmental Activists Are Now Being Banned By the Same People

Barely 15 years after the government started banning incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescent bulbs – to save the planet - CFL bulbs are now being banned because they are toxic and damaging to the environment.

Huh. Who knew.

Also, who could have ever predicted that the environmental activists promoting those little mercury bombs might someday reverse course?

Maybe in 15 years the greens will realize just how environmentally destructive electric vehicles are and start banning those too.

I have often made the comment (including on a recent Cut Jib Newsletter podcast) that the various state and federal bans on gas-powered vehicles in favor of electric vehicles are similar to the government ban on incandescent light bulbs in favor of CFL bulbs. The government chose a product to kill off, and the government also chose its successor. Consumers and the marketplace chose differently.

As it turned out, incandescent bulbs have been largely replaced, but not by CFLs. LED bulbs won consumers over instead.

There were so many reasons that consumers hated CFL bulbs, from the awful color light they produce, to the illumination time it takes before they produce light, to their ineffectiveness in cold weather. They are also potentially toxic if they break due to the mercury they contain.

Along those same lines, it’s possible that within 20 years cars will be propelled differently than they are now. Maybe all cars will be plug-in hybrids that still allow gas propulsion for long distance travel, or perhaps they’ll run on hydrogen. I don’t know. But what I do know is that the government-mandated EV will never be anything but a niche product, and few if any people will be driving them…if they’re even still allowed on the road. Between their combustibility and the massive strip mining required to produce the materials needed for EVs, there is nothing green about them.

Back to CFL bulbs, the same green government types that were mandating them not even 20 years ago are now banning them. In fact, they’re not just banning them, they’re now treating CFL bulbs like toxic hazmat.

Vermont to become first state to ban CFL lightbulb sales [The Hill – 02/08/2023]

Old or used CFL bulbs…cannot be discarded in the trash, but must be brought to a collection site or recycling center, Vermont’s Department of Environmental Conservation reiterated.
All mercury-containing bulbs also require special handling during disposal, as they can release harmful mercury vapor if broken or crushed.
If a CFL bulb breaks, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation suggests clearing the room immediately, opening windows or doors, closing all interior vents, and letting the room air out for at least 15 minutes before attempting to clean up any broken pieces. Do not use a vacuum, “as this may spread any mercury vapor,” the agency writes.

Vermont may have been first, but California’s ban on CFL bulbs is less than a year away. Where California goes, the rest of the nation’s leftists will soon follow.

California Bans CFL Light Bulbs [tcpi.com – 11/21/2022]

CFL light bulb bans started making their way through state legislatures last year, and California has become the second state to sign one into law. Vermont’s light bulb ban passed in May, forbidding sales of CFLs as of February 2023. California’s phase-out begins in January 2024.

Similar to how it played out with the light bulb wars, it will be funny to see today’s passionate EV advocates become tomorrow’s EV prohibitionists, and today’s EV fanboys realizing that they are now the target of the politicians who they thought were on their side.

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Speaking of compact fluorescent bulbs, one of the endearing things about my wife is her passionate hatred of those squiggly abominations.

Early in our marriage, I might have possibly tried to sneak some of those bulbs into our house one time to save a dollar or two on our utility bill, and to try to minimize the heat being generated inside our house during Texas’ brutal summer. She would not have it, and it was a non-negotiable, no-compromise position of hers.

Frankly, that kind of warmed my heart, as she was pretty apolitical at the time, so I saw this as an opportunity to rant about the left’s goals of banning incandescent light bulbs. (In retrospect, I realize that George W. Bush was President at the time, and he was allowing the left-wing permanent bureaucracy to get away with it.)

Best of all, when we would go on a weekend getaway to a B&B or a cabin in the woods, we’d have to take a four-pack of 60-watt incandescent bulbs with us just in case there were CFL bulbs in the place we were staying. She wasn’t going to let those awful bulbs ruin the atmosphere!

I wish each and every one of you a great weekend, and if you’re looking to, ahem, “set the mood” for a romantic weekend, you might try bringing your true a love a package of incandescent light bulbs.

*****

(I am in Orlando at the Heartland Institute's climate conference. If you have any interest in tuning in to see real scientists debunking the climate cult, the sessions are being live streamed today and Saturday, and can be accessed at this link.)

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 The science is settled.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:00 AM (LvTSG)

2 Morgen!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:00 AM (ZSK0i)

3 Good morning!

Posted by: Slash buzz at February 24, 2023 11:01 AM (AgNFm)

4 Early lunch

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2023 11:01 AM (ruYm5)

5 What were the 'experts' saying 15 years ago?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2023 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

6 5 What were the 'experts' saying 15 years ago?
Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2023 11:01 AM (AwYPR)

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"Give me more power to make utopia."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:02 AM (LvTSG)

7 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:02 AM (T4tVD)

8 Morgen!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

The Pirate ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (T4tVD)

9 Another negative for fluorescent bulbs -- they trigger migraines for some people.

Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (Emce2)

10 Barely 15 years after the government started banning incandescent light bulbs in favor of compact fluorescent bulbs – to save the planet - CFL bulbs are now being banned because they are toxic and damaging to the environment.

Huh. Who knew.

Back when I was in the Navy, we were required - officially - to dispose of fluorescent bulbs as hazardous waste due to them containing mercury. Apparently, this was yet another piece of knowledge which humanity possessed at one time but lost... I assume Anthony Fauci was involved.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (zhLdt)

11 For God's sake, don't tell them that oxygen is an oxidizer.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)

12 Ultimately, it doesn't matter what source of light bulbs our betters allow us to use - we'll be fighting over the dwindling supplies of sticks to burn.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (qoGsy)

13 So I can buy incandescent bulbs again?

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (NsE9F)

14 11 For God's sake, don't tell them that oxygen is an oxidizer.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (lTGtQ)

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Dihydrogen monoxide kills thousands of people a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (LvTSG)

15 CFL bulbs are now being banned because they are toxic and damaging to the environment.

These people are fools.
And, the last light bulb factory in America was in Winchester WV. It closed about a dozen years ago, thanxs to CFLs.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (anj39)

16 "Scientists" are approaching the level of "Educators" on my list of people I laugh and point fingers at.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (D25PY)

17 Note their supposed reason is because they are damaging to "the environment". Not humans.

You wouldn't even gaslight someone with this nonsense. It would be too cruel and unusual for even the most prolific and psychotic gaslighter.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (AiAVG)

18 Hydrogen, the fuel of the future. And always will be. Kinda like Free Drinks Tomorrow.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (4AAHv)

19 I have hundreds of incandescent light bulbs in storage, enough to last my lifetime.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (lTGtQ)

20 9 Another negative for fluorescent bulbs -- they trigger migraines for some people.
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Yep. They also can dazzle you. Very annoying.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (NsE9F)

21 those squiggly abominations

Mark Steyn used to call them “curly-fry light bulbs” when he would fill in for Rush.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (sjxgf)

22 Dihydrogen monoxide kills thousands of people a year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (LvTSG)

Only if it's inhaled.

Posted by: Fee Waybill at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (gryET)

23 Morning.

I only ever bought one CFL bulb and it was a piece of shit.

Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:06 AM (1Yy3c)

24 Off tube sock...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:06 AM (gryET)

25 I bought 2 real big boxes of real light bulbs off Amazon during those Obama years. Lasted me up until a couple years ago.
Even led bulbs are crazy. 2 or 3 dollars per light bulb.

Posted by: FIB agent Brandon at February 24, 2023 11:06 AM (+VDkR)

26 somewhere there's a warehouse filled with those old-school bulbs. Whoever finds it will make a killing

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:06 AM (dCxaZ)

27 The government chose a product to kill off, and the government also chose its successor.

Money changed hands.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:06 AM (yQpMk)

28 Neer liked CFL bulbs, the sink spot light has one now, and hate to toss it but takes 5 minutes to get up to full light.
Maybe will toss it soon anyway

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (ruYm5)

29 >>13 So I can buy incandescent bulbs again?
Posted by: Puddinhead

Yes, the big box stores still sell them.

What you can't buy however is a 5 gallon flush toilet.

When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (D25PY)

30 Eggheads at MIT recently invented an incandescent bulb that is potentially more efficient than LEDs.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7zs3je

Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (Y5qcH)

31 Only if it's inhaled.
Posted by: Fee Waybill at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (gryET)

Also if you consume too much. "The dose makes the poison."

Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (Emce2)

32 Some LED lights have a rapid stroboscopic effect. Annoying.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (4AAHv)

33 31 Only if it's inhaled.
Posted by: Fee Waybill at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (gryET)

Also if you consume too much. "The dose makes the poison."
Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (Emce2)

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People inject botulism into their faces these days.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (LvTSG)

34 Only if it's inhaled.
Posted by: Fee Waybill at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (gryET)

I lol‘d.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (YwyqV)

35 I saw Squiggly Abominations open for The Kinks in '72 at Wrigley Field.

Me and my friends were dancing the Twist.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (ykeLU)

36 Sorry.

My friends and I...

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (ykeLU)

37 >28 Neer liked CFL bulbs, the sink spot light has one now, and hate to toss it but takes 5 minutes to get up to full light.
Maybe will toss it soon anyway

Posted by: Skip at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (ruYm5)

I have a few in the high-hats in my kitchen. I can't stand them but choking on the cost of LED spotlights.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (gryET)

38 Morgen!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

The Pirate ?
Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (T4tVD)

Morning! in German.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (ZSK0i)

39 My wife has always hated CFLs. Even when used outside. They always make your place look like a run down 7-11 no matter how nice you think it is.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)

40 Scientists" are approaching the level of "Educators" on my list of people I laugh and point fingers at.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:04 AM (D25PY)

I observed long ago, back around 2007, that one of the goals of the Left was to permanently damage science in the eyes of as many people as possible.

What could be more useful to those who see truth as sunlight to a vampire than to make scientific inquiry into a farce?

Yes yes they talk up things like Science as if they unequivocally worship it. But be not fooled... they do the same with "fairness". And as anyone with half a brain cell knows, they are among the most unfair people on the planet.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (khYXJ)

41 They never publish the Color Temperature on the bulb packages, only the wattage. And you're lucky if you find the packaging that'll give the equivalent wattage to the old 3200k Tungsten bulbs.

Problem with both CFLs and LEDs, is they'd transmit a blend of colors to try to simulate either the old Tungsten bulbs, or "Daylight", but (again) would not print the actual Color Temperature on the damn package.

Pro-Tip: You can have a "Tungsten Balanced" LED, but that won't exist in CFLville. You can have a pretty damn good "Daylight" LED, but the CFL will have a greenish cast that true 5200k "Daylight" lacks.

Wishcasting: Please PLEASE... A USA factory making quality LED parts and emitters, vs. Chy-nah?

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (e6UQI)

42 This felt like a way to close down the old bulb makers (which happened), and slide in politically greasy hands to make millions as part of the "eco-money-laundering" system. The traditional owners are probably not able to come back.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (9qHsE)

43 32 Some LED lights have a rapid stroboscopic effect. Annoying.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM

Headaches and seizures are a small price to pay to save the planet!!!

Posted by: Greenies at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (JCZqz)

44 I growed some wicked reefer using CFL's. Varieties that help with pain and nausea. I'm sure there are LEDs now that work fine, but the squigglies are what I'm familiar with. There is a wide variety of CFL "colors" from warm to cool if that's important to you.

Posted by: Farmer John at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (wrJpE)

45 It's 5PM in Germany.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (yQpMk)

46 What you can't buy however is a 5 gallon flush toilet.

When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

Restoration/junk places have antiques, sometimes one can find a good one for a reasonable price. Funny how 'antiques' are better than new. The same principle applies to furniture.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (lTGtQ)

47 >45 It's 5PM in Germany.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (yQpMk)

Drink!

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (gryET)

48 People inject botulism into their faces these days.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

It sounds crazy and I sure as hell don't understand the mechanics of it all but that is one of the few treatments that gives the lovely Mrs. relief from some of her sufferings. (Face, neck, scalp)

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (qoGsy)

49 32 Some LED lights have a rapid stroboscopic effect. Annoying.
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Look at the light. It will help you enjoy the progress. Don't look away from the light. Progress.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (buTO7)

50 When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (D25PY)

I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy. There was a plastic cylinder over the tank outlet that prevented the level in the tank from going all the way down. I just cut out the plastic cylinder.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (Y5qcH)

51 I do love my Daylight LED's, especially living in a dark climate.

Posted by: artisanal ette at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (9qHsE)

52 @PamelaGeller
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4m
Parts of West Virginia and Maryland Blanketed With a Mysterious Fine White Powder

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (XF9Gj)

53 Recently moved into a rental home in the wasteland of CA, and they have a pantry shelf stocked with at least 30 used CFLs they obviously had to replace. Saving these for The Stupidity Museum?

Posted by: Son of Dad at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (8JB5s)

54 The only people who are carbon neutral are dead.

Posted by: blaster at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (pwExq)

55 Eggheads at MIT recently invented an incandescent bulb that is potentially more efficient than LEDs.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7zs3je
Posted by: Hunter Biden at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (Y5qcH)

No doubt they will cost $50 each and, once the manufacturer bribes the correct people in government, they will become the only light bulb you can legally purchase.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (zhLdt)

56 Morgen!
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

The Pirate ?
Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:03 AM (T4tVD)

Morning! in German.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

I know; I just threw that out there. (like the three of clubs)

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (T4tVD)

57 47 >45 It's 5PM in Germany.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (yQpMk)

Drink!
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (gryET)

Ja, Prost!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (YwyqV)

58 CFL bulbs are now being banned because they are toxic and damaging to the environment.

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Environmental fascism has never worked because we never tried REAL Environmental fascism. We just need the right people in charge!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (ykeLU)

59 I have a few in the high-hats in my kitchen. I can't stand them but choking on the cost of LED spotlights.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:08 AM (gryET)

I pay less than $1/bulb at Costco. They seem to last a very long time.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (XIJ/X)

60 Remember when we changed from Paper Grocery Bags to Plastic? TO SAVE THE PLANET!!!!

And those plastic bags are now a huge component in trash floating on the water, out at sea.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (oHd/0)

61 I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy. There was a plastic cylinder over the tank outlet that prevented the level in the tank from going all the way down. I just cut out the plastic cylinder.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (Y5qcH)

Noted.

Posted by: Bob from NSA at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (pwExq)

62 I know; I just threw that out there. (like the three of clubs)
Posted by: JT

Damnit JT, you Trumped my trick!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (qoGsy)

63 People paying attention knew all along that CFLs were a stopgap until LEDs got cheap enough. Similar to how lithium-ion is a stopgap until solid-state batteries get out of the lab and into your phone.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (ZGrMX)

64 It's 5PM in Germany.

Posted by: G'rump928(c)

Drink!

Posted by: Heavy Meta

There's a saying in Russia - It's 10 am somewhere.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (lTGtQ)

65 it will be funny to see today's passionate EV advocates become tomorrow's EV prohibitionists

Been there. Done that.

"at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. ... The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot."

Posted by: George O. at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (xttsV)

66 60 Remember when we changed from Paper Grocery Bags to Plastic? TO SAVE THE PLANET!!!!

And those plastic bags are now a huge component in trash floating on the water, out at sea.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (oHd/0)

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Well, not our bags. Our plastic bags get buried in landfills then covered with dirt and grass.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

67 46 What you can't buy however is a 5 gallon flush toilet.
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They sell them in Canada and Mexico. If incandescent bulbs are your thing, you can buy them in Mexico.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:13 AM (NsE9F)

68 Remember, the banning of incandescent light bulbs was accomplished by CON-servatives.

Keep that little bit of information in your back pocket.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:13 AM (up/3i)

69 People paying attention knew all along that CFLs were a stopgap until LEDs got cheap enough. Similar to how lithium-ion is a stopgap until solid-state batteries get out of the lab and into your phone.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:12 AM (ZGrMX)
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Next you're gonna tell me that magnetic cassette tapes were a stopgap until CDs came around...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (YIVH2)

70 As I recall, Nanzi Pelosi banned three-way lightbulbs. Ironic, given she's from San Francisco.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (NsE9F)

71 ... As it turned out, incandescent bulbs have been largely replaced, but not by CFLs. LED bulbs won consumers over instead. ...
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This is one of the reasons - like the catalytic converter - that tyrants and other do-gooders remain convinced that everything will always work out. The reason for banning incandescent bulbs was run-of-the-mill corporatism (GE wanted to sell expensive CFLs). CFLs were a terrible solution to the problem that they themselves created. Almost everyone hated CFLs, which created a vast market that did not exist for a viable light bulb replacement. LED development went parabolic and they stormed into the vast market, killing both CFLs and incandescent bulbs - but that development probably wouldn't have happened, or would have happened much later if not for the ban in the first place.

"See? It worked out! The engineers saved us again, as they always do! We got rid of those environmentally-hostile incandescent bulbs and the engineers and the market found a viable alternative that people actually like. We're geniuses!"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (t0OGg)

72 If incandescent bulbs are your thing, you can buy them in Mexico.

They're all made of Chinesium now though.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (ZGrMX)

73 @PamelaGeller
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4m
Parts of West Virginia and Maryland Blanketed With a Mysterious Fine White Powder
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (XF9Gj)

Hunter's shipment got lost en route?

Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (1Yy3c)

74 Thinking outside the box here, why don't we all ship our excess curlicue CFL's to East Palestine, OH. Their environment is pretty well fooked already, what harm could a little mercury do?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (ykeLU)

75 In Mexico, incandescent lights are the 'new' style.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (buTO7)

76 I observed long ago, back around 2007, that one of the goals of the Left was to permanently damage science in the eyes of as many people as possible.
Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (khYXJ)

I suspect that this ties into the subject Naomi Wolfe discussed in the essay linked in the MR.

https://bit.ly/3ZhxxaX

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (zhLdt)

77 Damnit JT, you Trumped my trick!
Posted by: Tonypete

Does she have YUGE Hoobadabbas ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (T4tVD)

78 CEO of GE was working hard for the incandescent ban. Won't buy GE stuff because of that.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (nC+QA)

79 61 I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy. There was a plastic cylinder over the tank outlet that prevented the level in the tank from going all the way down. I just cut out the plastic cylinder.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (Y5qcH)

and why do you need all that pressure ??

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (us2H3)

80 They never publish the Color Temperature on the bulb packages, only the wattage.

Posted by: Jim at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (e6UQI)

The ones I buy have the temperature listed!

2,700K and 3,000K are my favorites. I bought some 5,000K by mistake and I cannot stand them! Maybe for a workbench or work area, but for living areas? Nope...too white.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2023 11:15 AM (XIJ/X)

81 Next you're gonna tell me that magnetic cassette tapes were a stopgap until CDs came around...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

I'm waiting for 8 tracks to make their comeback.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:15 AM (lTGtQ)

82 CFL is banned, so much for the Grey Cup.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 24, 2023 11:15 AM (CjHGv)

83 I heard a guy suggest giving up electric lights for Lent, use candles instead.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:15 AM (dCxaZ)

84
Those curlicue compact fluorescent bulbs are tools of the Devil.

And to think that they were okayed simply to toss a fat and timely payoff to General Electric.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:15 AM (pNxlR)

85 and why do you need all that pressure ??
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Mammoth horking turds.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (NsE9F)

86 4m
Parts of West Virginia and Maryland Blanketed With a Mysterious Fine White Powder
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:11 AM (XF9Gj)

Hunter's shipment got lost en route?
Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (1Yy3c)

Yep, definitely Hunter.

Posted by: Senator Lisa Murkowski at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (PiwSw)

87 Thinking outside the box here, why don't we all ship our excess curlicue CFL's to East Palestine, OH. Their environment is pretty well fooked already, what harm could a little mercury do?
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (ykeLU)

It might well decrease the rate of Syphilis there so, win win.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (yQpMk)

88 Remember when we changed from Paper Grocery Bags to Plastic? TO SAVE THE PLANET!!!!

And then to re-usable bags which, of course, you had to buy from the very same leftists that mandated their use.

Start the fire. Sell the water to put it out.

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (ptElO)

89 "See? It worked out! The engineers saved us again, as they always do! We got rid of those environmentally-hostile incandescent bulbs and the engineers and the market found a viable alternative that people actually like. We're geniuses!"

To some extent they hate that the engineers keep saving them though. You saw it with cars - they put standards in place in the 70s that would prevent drivable cars (hello, Mustang II) but engineers not only got around it, they made cars much faster and more powerful too. This *really* pissed off the "everyone must live in cities" Left.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (ZGrMX)

90 Their environment is pretty well fooked already, what harm could a little mercury do?

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (ykeLU)

Maybe start a hat making industry?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (XIJ/X)

91 They never publish the Color Temperature on the bulb packages, only the wattage.
Posted by: Jim at February 24, 2023 11:09 AM (e6UQI)
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Every LED I have bought in recent memory has the color temperature or the color quality (warm, cool, daylight, etc.).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (t0OGg)

92 I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy. There was a plastic cylinder over the tank outlet that prevented the level in the tank from going all the way down. I just cut out the plastic cylinder.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (Y5qcH)

and why do you need all that pressure ??
Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (us2H3)

Sometimes you just got to drop a big ole load.

Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (1Yy3c)

93 I'm waiting for 8 tracks to make their comeback.
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Ker Chink

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (NsE9F)

94 That Naomi Wolfe article was very interesting. It was like a lightbulb went off in her head. Once she realized what she saw, she could not unsee it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (lTGtQ)

95 Taking the restrictor out of my shower head with needle nose pliers probably put me on an FBI watch list

Posted by: brak at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (j5Tg0)

96 I disassemble the CFL's, salvage some of the electronic components from their little ballast circuits, and dispose of the tube in the trash. The amount of mercury in these things is practically negligible. Guess what? Regular old linear fluorescent tubes contain a trace of mercury, too. There has to be a little bit to get the gas discharge in the tube started.

If a fluorescent tube, either kind, is broken, a tiny amount of liquid mercury may escape as tiny droplets. Oxygen in the air reacts with liquid mercury to form mercurous oxide and/or mercuric oxide. Both are solids.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (tkR6S)

97 They never publish the Color Temperature on the bulb packages, only the wattage.

Amazon always lists it. I like 2700K - it's equivalent to incandescent.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (ZGrMX)

98 Why can't we just go back to vinyl albums and be done with it.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (NsE9F)

99 Never, ever forget it was a Michigan Republican, Fred Upton, that drove the ban on incandescent bulbs.

Posted by: aelfheld at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (Zy9Yy)

100 I lost power about an hour ago

top of a tree snapped and fell on the wires

I knew it was bad cuz the power shut off really quick

when It's down by the street, they blink a bit

but the crews are pretty good out here

and I got my generator

Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (us2H3)

101 80 They never publish the Color Temperature on the bulb packages, only the wattage.
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Most of mine are any color I tell them to be on my phone app. The neighbor had an old shitty yellow porch light so I made mine the same old dim shitty yellow. Didn't want to act all flashy with my billion-color porch light.

Posted by: Jimco Industries at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (buTO7)

102 Here's some Factical #Science for the Horde...

CBS News Medical expert claims the uptick in heart attacks among the young is due to lack of masking:

https://tinyurl.com/92xpe2xp

WEAR UR MOSQUE PEASANT OR DIE IN UR SLEEP

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (dCxaZ)

103 What I'm taking away from this rant is that we should use CFL bulbs and slings to throw them when protesting against tree hugging lefties.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (3CCua)

104 I'm waiting for 8 tracks to make their comeback.
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Ker Chink

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (NsE9F)

And a possible revival of the matchbook industry will follow.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (CjHGv)

105 95 Taking the restrictor out of my shower head with needle nose pliers probably put me on an FBI watch list
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I cut the tag on my mattress off. Imma fugitive.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (NsE9F)

106 2,700K and 3,000K are my favorites. I bought some 5,000K by mistake and I cannot stand them! Maybe for a workbench or work area, but for living areas? Nope...too white.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

My local super had a bunch on clearance for some reason, but I couldn't tell if they were dropped or just the shit versions. I need to find a LED explainer for this nonsense.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (XF9Gj)

107 104 I'm waiting for 8 tracks to make their comeback.
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Ker Chink

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (NsE9F)

And a possible revival of the matchbook industry will follow.
Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at February 24, 2023 11:18 AM (CjHGv)

=========

I'm on the ground floor of a new buggy whip enterprise.

I'm gonna be rich!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

108 To some extent they hate that the engineers keep saving them though. You saw it with cars - they put standards in place in the 70s that would prevent drivable cars (hello, Mustang II) but engineers not only got around it, they made cars much faster and more powerful too. This *really* pissed off the "everyone must live in cities" Left.
Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (ZGrMX)
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Some of them surely hate it, but most of the people agitating for this, that or the other variety of pie-in-the-sky bullshit are not masters of the universe types. They do something stupid, it blows up in their faces, and then a bunch of engineers find a way to bail them - and us - out of it. It still winds up being very expensive, but it doesn't cause the world to end. It happens almost every time, which is why these asshole idiots think that actions have no consequences and nothing is impossible.

But they're increasing their scale like never before. Eventually, the engineers they ignore or deride will be unable to bail them - and us - out.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (t0OGg)

109 food pyramid ... destructive

global warming lies ... destructive

CRT ... destructive

ivermectin good ... denied by BigGo
Vax bad, forced by BigGov

80% want controlled border, BigGov opens doors for cartels and fentanyl.

They are at war with The People (those that believe in Liberty). While "they" also serve the BigCorp or other cartels.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (Cus5s)

110 Unfortunately, all of my classmates and I died in the 4th grade when Miss Norton dropped that mercury thermometer on the floor and we all played with the little balls of mercury for an hour or so. She always said I had great potential.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (ykeLU)

111 The only part of Joe and the Volcano that I liked. The beginning of the movie where Joe was in his cramped office and the fluorescent bulb above him was buzzing and flickering. Reminded me of my cubicle prison at the time and made me laugh.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (8SCtT)

112 @98

>>Why can't we just go back to vinyl albums and be done with it.

Actually, they are making a come back, vinyl record sales are exploding in the, you will own nothing and like it, era.

Turns out, people enjoy owning physical assests.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (up/3i)

113 68 accomplished by CON-servatives

Yeah, like Kate Upton’s stupid uncle. The biggest boob in the Upton family.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (sjxgf)

114 I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy. There was a plastic cylinder over the tank outlet that prevented the level in the tank from going all the way down. I just cut out the plastic cylinder.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (Y5qcH)

and why do you need all that pressure ??
Posted by: REDACTED

Big turds ?

Posted by: JT at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (T4tVD)

115 > Sometimes you just got to drop a big ole load.
__________
"Pressure Assist" toilets by American Standard....

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)

116 110 Unfortunately, all of my classmates and I died in the 4th grade when Miss Norton dropped that mercury thermometer on the floor and we all played with the little balls of mercury for an hour or so. She always said I had great potential.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (ykeLU)

It must have been horrible for you to die so young. My condolences.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (YwyqV)

117
Parts of West Virginia and Maryland Blanketed With a Mysterious Fine White Powder

Snow?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (fs1hN)

118 I replaced the florescent lights in our laundry room with a couple of round LEDs. It is incredibly bright in there now and, if the packaging is to be believed, would cost me $8 a year to run 24/7.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (yQpMk)

119 and why do you need all that pressure ??
Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (us2H3)
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Because sometimes you drop a Biden and it's nice when the toilet can handle it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (t0OGg)

120 Maybe for a workbench or work area, but for living areas? Nope...too white.

SEE?!

Posted by: An Unrelated Grievance Industry at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (ptElO)

121 Taking the restrictor out of my shower head with needle nose pliers probably put me on an FBI watch list
Posted by: brak

When I redid my master bath, the plumber very carefully showed me what gasket/ring should never be removed as it would increase the flow rate. He was careful to show me three times so that I would be sure which part to not remove.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (qoGsy)

122 I remember when they said if you broke one of those bulbs, you needed to air out the house.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (VWp7G)

123 Turns out, people enjoy owning physical assests.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (up/3i)

LPs are really popular among the yutes

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (dCxaZ)

124
Nope...too white.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

You need ... bulbs of colour! Try our Kwanzaa version!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (pNxlR)

125 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

LMAO you @ the end of the last thread

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (U4tGE)

126 George W Bush was amd is a leftist.

Posted by: YaHump at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (UVJQE)

127 115 > Sometimes you just got to drop a big ole load.
__________
"Pressure Assist" toilets by American Standard....
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This is what wire hangers are for.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (NsE9F)

128 >>>Snow?
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Cocaine.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (VWp7G)

129 Watching the grocery bag spectacle was illuminating, to say the least. Ban paper bags to save the planet, and move to petroleum based plastic bags. Oh, wait, the plastic bags are not only petroleum based, they are piling up because they don't degrade fast enough.

Meanwhile, the paper bags were made from pine trees, which are grown as a row crop, and consume carbon dioxide and produce oxygen while they grow. Literally an environmentally responsible process.

And now, at end stage, we cannot go back and use pine trees to make paper grocery bags because we are burning the trees to keep warm after banning nuclear and natural gas for heating, at least in Europe.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:22 AM (lTGtQ)

130 Snow?
Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (fs1hN)

In this climate? At this time of year?

~ Superintendent Chalmers

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:22 AM (YwyqV)

131 Biden Think Tanks a "Sketchier Version of the Clinton Foundation"

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Sketchier than the Clitons! Saints preserve us!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:22 AM (FVME7)

132 If a fluorescent tube, either kind, is broken, a tiny amount of liquid mercury may escape as tiny droplets. Oxygen in the air reacts with liquid mercury to form mercurous oxide and/or mercuric oxide. Both are solids.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (tkR6S)

Fluorescent lights, aka, mercury vapor lights have been roughly the same since they were invented. You can use other things than mercury but you get weird colors.

It's actually kind of amazing that something so toxic and dangerous to the environment is in such widespread use and completely ignored by so called "environmentalists".

Actually, it's not amazing. Those people are usually ignorant and full of shit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:22 AM (Y5qcH)

133 Morse code is toxic and promotes climate chaos, so we will be returning to semaphore.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (ykeLU)

134 It's 5PM in Germany.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:10 AM (yQpMk)

Working on my first cup of coffee in New Mexico.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (ZSK0i)

135 Most of mine are any color I tell them to be on my phone app. The neighbor had an old shitty yellow porch light so I made mine the same old dim shitty yellow. Didn't want to act all flashy with my billion-color porch light.
Posted by: Jimco Industries

Not that I would have, or ever have done so...but this is why I have an air rifle...it's a real shame that the street light the city put in after I purchased my house keeps getting its bulb shot out by kids.

Posted by: BifBewalski at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (3CCua)

136 Nothing the left does is to save the environment. Why do they come up with these things? In no particular order

1) Graft - someone making some "environmentally friendly" product wants to get paid and bribes their D and GOPe congressmen

2) Sumptuary law - why the hell should the peasants get to live like the elite?

3) F*ck the normies - we need to kill off 90% of these people anyway, let's make their lives harder

And every single environmental measure pushed in the last 20 years can fall into one of these categories.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (lc5cP)

137 The movie survived. That's the main thing.

Alec Baldwin’s Film “Rust” to Relocate to Yellowstone After Charges Dropped

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (FVME7)

138 Turns out, people enjoy owning physical assests.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (up/3i)

I can think of a girl with great physical assets I would love to own.

Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (1Yy3c)

139
Bring all the bulbs to be banned to the state capitol. Build a little wall of them that encircles the state legislature. Run over the wall, crushing it, with a bulldozer.

Enjoy your time working in a hazmat area, asshats!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (pNxlR)

140 >133 Morse code is toxic and promotes climate chaos, so we will be returning to semaphore.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (ykeLU)

I suppose smoke signals are out then...

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (gryET)

141 For a while, we had a digital antenna. Used to watch Jeopardy every day, and sometimes we'd lose the signal.

Took a while to track down the cause, but it ended up being some light fixtures in the basement. We thought they had LED bulbs, but they were CFL (they were the kind where the fluorescent tube was inside a normal looking bulb). When the lights were on, the channel went out. Turn them off, and the channel came back.

Replaced them with LEDs, and the problem went away.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (uPgE/)

142 Freshman year sucked as did Junior year, but I really enjoyed my Semaphore year.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (ykeLU)

143 New "environmentally safe" 5 gallon gas cans. The ones you can't open or pour from easily. Discuss.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (D25PY)

144 I replaced the florescent lights in our laundry room with a couple of round LEDs. It is incredibly bright in there now and, if the packaging is to be believed, would cost me $8 a year to run 24/7.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:20 AM (yQpMk)
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The switch to LEDs makes some things feasible that didn't use to be - like leaving lights on all the time. One set of under-cabinet lights in my kitchen are just on continuously. I never have to stumble around in the dark, they aren't hot and they cost next to nothing to run,

My favorite thing about LED bulbs, though - bulbs that delivered everything CFLs promised but failed to deliver - is the longevity. When my parents bought a new house and retired a few years ago, I went through their house and replaced every bulb with an LED, no exceptions. I don't want them on ladders changing light bulbs. They've had only one bulb fail, and that was because of a severe and weird electrical problem (one hot leg coming from the pole failed, leaving them with erratic power in the house).

I don't like ladders, either, and so I did all of mine up-front, too. The years and years of lifespan on those bulbs kicks ass.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

145 That Naomi Wolfe article was very interesting. It was like a lightbulb went off in her head. Once she realized what she saw, she could not unsee it.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:17 AM (lTGtQ)

That the one about the return of the old, pagan gods? The last two years have caused an almost complete metamorphosis in Wolfe. Used to be embarrassed to have the same name. Pretty okay with it now.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (nC+QA)

146 You need ... bulbs of colour! Try our Kwanzaa version!

Nancy Pelosi-branded Kente Cloth bulbs?

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (ZGrMX)

147 I can think of a girl with great physical assets I would love to own.
Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (1Yy3c)

MASSIVE… tracts of land, I’m sure.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (YwyqV)

148 I remember when they said if you broke one of those bulbs, you needed to air out the house.

that's for true HAZMAT emergencies like owning a gas stove

Posted by: brak at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (j5Tg0)

149 Lot of politicians were hoodwinked by the CFL bulbs just like they were hoodwinked about COVID. We have American hating evil politicians for sure but most of them are just incompetent fools.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (8SCtT)

150 112 @98 >> Actually, they are making a come back, vinyl record sales are exploding in the, you will own nothing and like it, era.

Turns out, people enjoy owning physical assests.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (up/3i)

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I think I see something similar in home video stuff. 4K (a new, not old tech) has become something of a boon for smaller, boutique labels. They're selling the same old movies one more time, and it's not to the general mass market, it's to collectors.

Collectors are driving these sorts of things, I think. It's why a small label like Arrow can release The Last Starfighter on 4K, just a couple of years after they released their Blu-ray and a decade after Universal released a Blu-ray. The collector market will eat it up at high enough prices and high enough levels to justify the investment.

I remember when 4K was a huge gamble. The internal rep from Kino Lorber was extremely reticent about their first 4K (Hannibal), but once it went to market. He was talking about it possibly being the only 4K they ever released if it didn't sell well. Now, they're releasing stuff like Bad Lieutenant on 4K.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)

151 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb

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Yeah, the dumb bastards wouldn't pay exorbitant ticket prices for a bad movie.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)

152 Learn to Semaphore, Zoomers!

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (ykeLU)

153 125 LMAO you @ the end of the last thread
Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (U4tGE)

=======

I made a funny!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

154 I've seen led Christmas lights flicker, but thankfully our indoor led lights do not.

Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (Emce2)

155 I hate curly fry lightbulbs with the heat of a thousand suns.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (Wnv9h)

156 Took a while to track down the cause, but it ended up being some light fixtures in the basement. We thought they had LED bulbs, but they were CFL (they were the kind where the fluorescent tube was inside a normal looking bulb). When the lights were on, the channel went out. Turn them off, and the channel came back.

Replaced them with LEDs, and the problem went away.
Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (uPgE/)
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LEDs cause radio interference, too, but in a different part of the spectrum. LED bulbs will often screw up AM radio reception. If you have LEDs near your stereo and want to listen to the radio, you'll probably need an exterior antenna if you want the AM band.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (t0OGg)

157 > I modified my toilet to use more water in flushing. It was easy.

It's generally pretty easy to fix a "water saving" shower head, too. Some of them even have a removable flow restrictor disk, maybe with a "warning" akin to "do not remove the disk or the shower will use more water" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink). If not, a couple of minutes with a drill will generally solve the problem.

I personally think that modern, QUALITY LEDs are superior to incandescents in pretty much every way, other than maybe for special mood lighting. The $1 bargain bin LEDs, though, not so much.

The curly bulbs are, and always have been, utter trash -- actually worse than trash, since you're not even allowed to throw them in the trash.

Unrelated: apparently Warner Broz is busy working on a woke reboot of Lord of the Rings (the main series, not that made-up travesty that was recently on Amazon). At least this is apparently going to be a new trilogy, rather than them going back and "updating" the original.

I'm already making plans to avoid it, since I already know it's going to suck. But hey, gay orcs! Black lesbian hobbit warrior women! Nazgul in wheelchairs! Transgendered dragons!

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (bW8dp)

158 151 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb

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Yeah, the dumb bastards wouldn't pay exorbitant ticket prices for a bad movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)

This reminds me of the Seinfeld when Jerry and George were pitching their show to NBC. The head of NBC asks why people would watch and George simply says, "Because it's on TV."

Why will people go to see Lightyear? Because we made it. Duh.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (KbCG3)

159 Ha! I did a facility-wide LED fixture upgrade for a company not too long ago. Over 1700 fixtures, plus working lamps, plus the inventory of spare fixtures, ballasts, bulbs, etc.

Placed all of these discontinued devices into skids, on pallets and packaged them for transport to a recycling center. When management was notified that the old equipment was ready for disposal, they looked into it and then balked due to the added cost that nobody factored into the project for handling refuse.

So these items where strategically hidden at the far reaches of the property where they sat, exposed to the elements until a hail storm rolled in and demolished everything into the soil.

There's the model for a typical green project. It was like a "Chinese Chernobyl" without the rail line.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (Jg7EG)

160 137 The movie survived. That's the main thing.

Alec Baldwin’s Film “Rust” to Relocate to Yellowstone After Charges Dropped
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:23 AM (FVME7)

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Now starts the conspiracy theory that Baldwin killed the DP on purpose, knowing that he'd get off, and the controversy around it would make people suddenly want to see the indie western no one had previously cared about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

161 *crosses fingers*

hope, hope, hope, hope,

/guy with 100 surplus BetaMax players in his basement.

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (ykeLU)

162 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb

Pecker Checker?

Posted by: BignJames at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (AwYPR)

163 Let's look at plastic bags. They cost less to make then paper bags and don't require you to cut down trees - so at first the left loved them.

Then they decided the peasants were using too many of them...

So first...we must recycle them! Keep in mind, they work fine in a landfill, they don't even take up space!

But then too many plastic recycling facilities showed up near lefty towns...and they stink. And they pollute. Real pollution.

So the next solution? Pay China to recycle them. Somehow though all those bags seemed to wind up in the Pacific Ocean instead of China's recycling facilities. I'm sure its the people in Dallas and Chicago not putting those bags in the right bin though...not China throwing them in the ocean.

So now? NOW WE MUST BAN THEM!

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (lc5cP)

164 You need ... bulbs of colour! Try our Kwanzaa version!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:21 AM (pNxlR)

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"I like big bulbs and I cannot lie ..."

/We can end all these light bulb issues by simply banning electricity

Posted by: ShainS -- Transgenderism is the Tip of the Transhumanism Spear at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (7QclL)

165 I made a funny!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

I thought it was sound advice. You are never going to convince anyone unless you beat the dead horse constantly.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (yQpMk)

166 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)
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Well, it is true that the box office sucked because people didn't go see it.

As to *why* people didn't go see it, maybe Pixar and Disney ought to engage in some self-assessment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (t0OGg)

167 151 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb

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Yeah, the dumb bastards wouldn't pay exorbitant ticket prices for a bad movie.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)

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I had such high hopes for a Pete Doctor-run Pixar.

He's turned into such a huge disappointment.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (LvTSG)

168 Report: U.S. Military Spent $1.5M to Shoot Down 3 Harmless UFOs

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For a minute there I rhought they said homeless UFOs.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (FVME7)

169 New "environmentally safe" 5 gallon gas cans. The ones you can't open or pour from easily. Discuss.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

There are cap/spouts for water cans available on several sites. The proprietors are quick to tell you that even though the size and thread pattern are the same as those on a gas can, one should never use these easy to use spouts on a gas can.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (lTGtQ)

170 the street light the city put in

Lived where city replaced nice old street lights with shitty color LEDs that threw odd patterns, enough to make formerly pleasant evening walks irritating.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (4AAHv)

171 A lot of ceiling fixtures have none replaceable LED bulbs . I was hesitant but I put two in my my bath area. Supposedly 10,000 hour life . That's a long time.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (8SCtT)

172 I knew CFLs were environmentally bad when a lamp fell over, breaking one and the instructions for cleanup included airing out the house due to the toxicity of the dust. Then again, that's they way it is with so-called environmentalists; can't think beyond the first step, in this case, CFLs have a higher light output/W. As for longer life, I've not seen it, and disposal of dead bulbs in Kali can only legally be done to stores and sites that accept them.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (ynpvh)

173 That the one about the return of the old, pagan gods? The last two years have caused an almost complete metamorphosis in Wolfe. Used to be embarrassed to have the same name. Pretty okay with it now.

She found a Chad and he's been literally banging sense into her.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (lc5cP)

174 >>>it’s possible that within 20 years cars will be propelled differently than they are now.

Clean diesel.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (PyOKD)

175 ... So these items where strategically hidden at the far reaches of the property where they sat, exposed to the elements until a hail storm rolled in and demolished everything into the soil. ...
Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (Jg7EG)
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Ah, so something like a corporate asset version of "shoot, shovel and shut up."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (t0OGg)

176 I'm guessing that 99.9% of those CFL bulbs ended up in the trash can, warning labels notwithstanding. Who is going to drive 20 miles one way to take a frigging light bulb to an authorized disposal center?

Posted by: PabloD at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (IPuPO)

177 Now starts the conspiracy theory that Baldwin killed the DP on purpose, knowing that he'd get off, and the controversy around it would make people suddenly want to see the indie western no one had previously cared about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

And people still won't see it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

178 171 A lot of ceiling fixtures have none replaceable LED bulbs . I was hesitant but I put two in my my bath area. Supposedly 10,000 hour life . That's a long time.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (8SCtT)

Don't expect that the light output will NOT decline over those so-called 10,000 hours; LEDs degrade with usage.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (ynpvh)

179 >>>Now starts the conspiracy theory that Baldwin killed the DP on purpose, knowing that he'd get off, and the controversy around it would make people suddenly want to see the indie western no one had previously cared about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Kills a woman and gets off mostly scot-free. Must be nice to be an actor.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (VWp7G)

180 Wolfe gets a little loopy at times. I can't figure why the loopiest lefties seem to be the reddest pilled - it's either because they're alll loopy - or because their loopiness serves to give them the independent mind that their former comrades lack.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (U4tGE)

181 Does he or doesn't he? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.

Tom Brady Hints That He Might Not Stay Retired After All

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (FVME7)

182 Report: U.S. Military Spent $1.5M to Shoot Down 3 Harmless UFOs

Out: Using a million dollar missile to blow up a jihadi owned camel

In: Using a million dollar missile to blow up an American nerd's hobby

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (lc5cP)

183 I remember when 4K was a huge gamble. The internal rep from Kino Lorber was extremely reticent about their first 4K (Hannibal), but once it went to market. He was talking about it possibly being the only 4K they ever released if it didn't sell well. Now, they're releasing stuff like Bad Lieutenant on 4K.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (LvTSG)

Collectors and fans of niche genres. CDs are mostly done but I think they stick around driven by fans of particular styles like, I dunno...heavy metal for example.

Posted by: Robert at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (1Yy3c)

184 166 Well, it is true that the box office sucked because people didn't go see it.

As to *why* people didn't go see it, maybe Pixar and Disney ought to engage in some self-assessment.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (t0OGg)

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Never mind the actual quality, I think the new talent at Disney is effectively trying to make adult films for children.

There's an emotional complexity that they're trying to bring to these movies that largely goes over the heads of the actual target audience. Maybe they figure that their actual audience is the middle aged neckbeards who hang onto every piece of Disney news. Maybe they think that 5 year olds love explorations of self-discovery that touch onto genocide. Maybe they're just dumb and bad at their jobs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (LvTSG)

185 >166 Top Pixar Executive Pete Doctor Blames Moviegoers for “Lightyear’s” Box Office Bomb ...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:25 AM (FVME7)
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Well, it is true that the box office sucked because people didn't go see it.

As to *why* people didn't go see it, maybe Pixar and Disney ought to engage in some self-assessment.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (t0OGg)

Pixar's storytelling went to shit when John Lasseter was zipped.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (gryET)

186 LED's are great. Their own real drawback is that they require gallium and rare earth elements to make and manufacturing complicated. It is essentially semiconductor manufacturing.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (Y5qcH)

187 A lot of ceiling fixtures have none replaceable LED bulbs . I was hesitant but I put two in my my bath area. Supposedly 10,000 hour life . That's a long time.
Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM (8SCtT)
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My kitchen has two of those. I am not a fan. They work fine, but I will resent having to replace the fixture when they die or malfunction. A non-replaceable bulb is not a reasonable trade-off to bring costs down, in my opinion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (t0OGg)

188 Clean diesel.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (PyOKD)

Whale oil.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (yQpMk)

189 177 Now starts the conspiracy theory that Baldwin killed the DP on purpose, knowing that he'd get off, and the controversy around it would make people suddenly want to see the indie western no one had previously cared about.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

And people still won't see it.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (KbCG3)

Well, they'll cut out the scene where he shoots her.
Too soon?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

190 >>There are cap/spouts for water cans available on several sites. The proprietors are quick to tell you that even though the size and thread pattern are the same as those on a gas can, one should never use these easy to use spouts on a gas can.

I must look into these. Thank you.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (D25PY)

191 Out: Trump said he could shoot someone and broad daylight and get away with it. FOR SHAME

In: Baldwin shot someone in broad daylight and got away with it. Its good to be an elite

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (lc5cP)

192 188 Clean diesel.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:29 AM (PyOKD)

Whale oil.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (yQpMk)

The old-timers swore by Sperm oil...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

193 I'm on the ground floor of a new buggy whip enterprise.

I'm gonna be rich!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

Somebody had better be learning how to make and repair farming equipment by hand. Also, need people breeding the horses and oxen to pull the things. I do *not* want to fall so far back that the "lady of the house" is the motive force for a sharpened stick. Especially since wooden plows don't break the earth enough to get to the iron-rich soil so anemia will be a true killer again along with starvation.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (nC+QA)

194 Another Biden economic miracle!

Fourth Quarter GDP Results Revised Downward, Inflation Revised Up

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Not a Real Simulation at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (FVME7)

195 Unfortunately, all of my classmates and I died in the 4th grade when Miss Norton dropped that mercury thermometer on the floor and we all played with the little balls of mercury for an hour or so. She always said I had great potential.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (ykeLU)

You think you had it bad? I died in agony when a multi-liter carboy of mercury broke in a lab and completely coated the floor. And sitting in there as well was a Neutron Howitzer™.

To be honest, it did present something of a problem for the university on the hazmat front.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (ZSK0i)

196 193 I'm on the ground floor of a new buggy whip enterprise.

I'm gonna be rich!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (LvTSG)

Somebody had better be learning how to make and repair farming equipment by hand. Also, need people breeding the horses and oxen to pull the things. I do *not* want to fall so far back that the "lady of the house" is the motive force for a sharpened stick. Especially since wooden plows don't break the earth enough to get to the iron-rich soil so anemia will be a true killer again along with starvation.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (nC+QA)

Had an ancestor that was a wheelwright. Mostly a lost art.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (ynpvh)

197 Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (U4tGE)

Naomi married a guy who is uber-based. Do you remember what the primary subject of her written product was?

I rest my case.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

198 Laundry Room-Luxury! We had to carry loads of filthy cloth diapers 4 miles down to the polluted creek to beat them with rocks in the frigid water-after scraping out the solids to reuse as rudimentary fertilizer. We dreamed of having a laundry room!

Posted by: Life is Tough! at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (wrJpE)

199 Unrelated: apparently Warner Broz is busy working on a woke reboot of Lord of the Rings (the main series, not that made-up travesty that was recently on Amazon). At least this is apparently going to be a new trilogy, rather than them going back and "updating" the original.

Oh, ffs. Who wants this?

Oh, let me guess. It's the "orcs are blacks" crowd.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

200 Yo flounder my doc loosened my sodium restriction.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (U4tGE)

201 >>>Fourth Quarter GDP Results Revised Downward, Inflation Revised Up
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Just the other day, KJP said inflation is going down and the economy is rising.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (VWp7G)

202 LEDs cause radio interference, too, but in a different part of the spectrum. LED bulbs will often screw up AM radio reception. If you have LEDs near your stereo and want to listen to the radio, you'll probably need an exterior antenna if you want the AM band.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (t0OGg)

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Discovered this one too. Had to buy a special LED bulb for our garage door opener. Regular ones interfere with the signal.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (uPgE/)

203 New "environmentally safe" 5 gallon gas cans. The ones you can't open or pour from easily. Discuss.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (D25PY)

You can get replacement spouts that are better than the cheapo but functional ones that once came with the cans. Much better, especially when heaving a 5 gallon can of diesel up to a tractor.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (PyOKD)

204 "Maybe in 15 years the greens will realize just how environmentally destructive electric vehicles are and start banning those too."

Maybe? It's a guaranteed certainty. Leftism requires that there constantly be a Big Battle to fight and create hysteria over, to scare fools into giving them more money and power. Things must be banned. Once one battle has run its course, there is suddenly a New Battle than must be fought and the cycle repeats itself.

I'm sensing even now that the Big EV Battle is starting to falter.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

205 Never mind the actual quality, I think the new talent at Disney is effectively trying to make adult films for children.

There's an emotional complexity that they're trying to bring to these movies that largely goes over the heads of the actual target audience. ...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (LvTSG)
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And that, ironically, was always Pixar's bread and butter. One of the reason they were so successful is that the stories were extremely well-crafted and layered. Kids liked them and got lots out of them, and the kids' parents liked, them too. So much kid's content is truly unbearable for adults, but Pixar never was and the adults would also get something out of the story - often something that the kids would miss entirely.

It's a neat trick, and one that is very, vary difficult to pull off. Pixar made a business out of pulling it off, time and time again.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (t0OGg)

206 195 Unfortunately, all of my classmates and I died in the 4th grade when Miss Norton dropped that mercury thermometer on the floor and we all played with the little balls of mercury for an hour or so. She always said I had great potential.
Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:19 AM (ykeLU)

You think you had it bad? I died in agony when a multi-liter carboy of mercury broke in a lab and completely coated the floor. And sitting in there as well was a Neutron Howitzer™.

To be honest, it did present something of a problem for the university on the hazmat front.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (ZSK0i)

The worst part is when a tiny blob disappears in your hand...
Why yes, I AM mad as a hatter. How did you know?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

207 > My favorite thing about LED bulbs, though - bulbs that delivered everything CFLs promised but failed to deliver - is the longevity.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:24 AM (t0OGg)

Yeah, I put a good-quality Phillips LED in the entryway of my inlaws' place, where it stays on all the time (it's kind of dark there even in the daytime, much less in an Alaska winter, so the light is a good thing). It is (or was) a major pain in the ass to change that bulb.

That was 12 years ago. It's still burning.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (bW8dp)

208 Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

I had to look it up but heh

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (U4tGE)

209 Rust” to Relocate to Yellowstone

Congratulations New Mexico on loosing any revenue from a local production.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (4AAHv)

210 197 Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (U4tGE)

Naomi married a guy who is uber-based. Do you remember what the primary subject of her written product was?

I rest my case.

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (dCxaZ)

He drives/uses UBER?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

211 Laundry Room-Luxury! We had to carry loads of filthy cloth diapers 4 miles down to the polluted creek to beat them with rocks in the frigid water-after scraping out the solids to reuse as rudimentary fertilizer. We dreamed of having a laundry room!
Posted by: Life is Tough!

You had a creek 4 miles away?!

Luxury!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (qoGsy)

212 My first day off in a week. I’m doing what I did thirty years ago. To quote Garth Brooks:

Knowing pride won’t pay the bills,
Men take jobs below their skills.

Meh, it’s a living.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (u73oe)

213 179 >>>Now starts the conspiracy theory that Baldwin killed the DP on purpose, knowing that he'd get off, and the controversy around it would make people suddenly want to see the indie western no one had previously cared about.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Kills a woman and gets off mostly scot-free. Must be nice to be an actor.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (VWp7G)

All the excuses in the world can't excuse the fact that he aimed a gun at another human being.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (KbCG3)

214 They don't ship CFL's by rail, do they?
Because if the train crashes, we'll have to burn it.

Fred Upton, who campaigned to outlaw incandescents, is a close-as-you'll-get-to conservative from western Michigan, and still in office. Probably because of his cute niece, or KitchenAid.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (jYCXf)

215 The point of EV is to make it so normies can't drive.

I remember during the Mortgage Meltdown a bunch of my lefty cow-workers were really happy that overnight traffic mostly went away.

EVs will do the same thing....but permanently

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (lc5cP)

216 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:31 AM (t0OGg)

Kitchen has a lot more time used than my bathroom area. 10.000 hours will outlast me. Not so much for the next owner.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (8SCtT)

217 I remember years ago (decades, really) when I worked in a grocery store, and we had to convert from paper bags to plastic, because apparently our grocery bags were made exclusively from Brazilian rain forest trees, or some such environmental nonsense.
Anyway, the Commies were 100% convinced that our grocery bags were killing the environment, and we needed to immediately switch to plastic.
Well, fast forward just a few years, and plastic bags were now destroying the environment, and all I could think was "They were so sure of themselves just a couple years ago, but they really don't know shit, do they?"

Posted by: Wally at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (FJYfm)

218 199 Unrelated: apparently Warner Broz is busy working on a woke reboot of Lord of the Rings (the main series, not that made-up travesty that was recently on Amazon). At least this is apparently going to be a new trilogy, rather than them going back and "updating" the original.

Oh, ffs. Who wants this?

Oh, let me guess. It's the "orcs are blacks" crowd.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

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From what I've read, there isn't even any talent attached, just assurances that Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Phillipa Boyens will be involved in advisory capacities.

It seems like there's a conscious effort on the part of WB to differentiate consciously and deliberately from Amazon's effort, almost like they see an opening in the market for Lord of the Rings entertainment that Amazon, with a billion dollar investment already partially out, is not filling.

I have some minor hope.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (LvTSG)

219 211 Laundry Room-Luxury! We had to carry loads of filthy cloth diapers 4 miles down to the polluted creek to beat them with rocks in the frigid water-after scraping out the solids to reuse as rudimentary fertilizer. We dreamed of having a laundry room!
Posted by: Life is Tough!

You had a creek 4 miles away?!

Luxury!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (qoGsy)

What's a creek?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

220 CFL are harmful because they involve mercury. Windmills kill birds of prey and now possibly whales. Solar panels involve large amounts of toxic heavy metals. Electric cars involve toxic lithium , nickel and cobalt mining. But "Save the Planet"

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (3XQTX)

221 Out here in Wyoming they banned electric cars (or tried)

Posted by: 496 at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (DoXTt)

222 IIRC Wolfe's husband was her bodyguard at one point.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (lc5cP)

223 >>>All the excuses in the world can't excuse the fact that he aimed a gun at another human being.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Agreed, and his fan base will welcome back with open arms.

Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (VWp7G)

224 205 It's a neat trick, and one that is very, vary difficult to pull off. Pixar made a business out of pulling it off, time and time again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (t0OGg)

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There are differences between kid movies, adult movies, and family movies.

Old Pixar made family movies. New Pixar really seems to make adult movies with a family movie skin over it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (LvTSG)

225 I would think there are enough homosexuals and women in the country to make a film about homosexuals and or stronk wamenz successful, the fact that this does not occur would speak to the underlying quality of the films in question.

We're constantly being told that they don't need straight white men, ok then, bye.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (up/3i)

226 The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901, and almost never turned off. It is located at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (4AAHv)

227 The worst part is when a tiny blob disappears in your hand...
Why yes, I AM mad as a hatter. How did you know?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:33 AM (ynpvh)

Heh.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (ZSK0i)

228 Give me my incandescent bulbs any day of the week. Twice on Sunday. I loathe CFL and don't like LED. The LED are generally too "white" and "bright." Seems really artificial compared to the softer, more gently incandescent bulbs.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

229 > Whale oil.

You can really piss off a lefty by pointing out that whales would be long-extinct if it weren't for John D. Rockefeller, pretty much the most capitalist dude of all time.

I think he owned something like 1% of the TOTAL VALUE of the United States. Guys like Buffet and Gates are tiny fleas compared to him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (bW8dp)

230 29 When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:07 AM (D25PY)

And decent gasoline cans.

On a related note...whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news....it's been 30+ years now - has it shown improvement?

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (llefr)

231 Kitchen has a lot more time used than my bathroom area. 10.000 hours will outlast me. Not so much for the next owner.
Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (8SCtT)
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Yup. I understand the argument in favor of them, and understand why some people buy them. Personally, though, I chafe non-serviceable stuff in general, especially when it's built in to my house - so I just don't buy them.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (t0OGg)

232 IIRC Wolfe's husband was her bodyguard at one point.
Posted by: 18-1

Shades of Amy Carter.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (qoGsy)

233 Watch, now some skel will shoot it out.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenko Solutions at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (4AAHv)

234 I love how a broken CFL is enough to alert the EPA and cause a toxic waste site to be declared at your home, but kids used to have all-out battles with fluorescent bulbs -- a-la Star Wars -- for generations, and setting a toxic railway spill ablaze in a populated area was A-OK.

Posted by: red speck at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (gS3OW)

235 There are differences between kid movies, adult movies, and family movies.

Old Pixar made family movies. New Pixar really seems to make adult movies with a family movie skin over it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (LvTSG)
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That's a good way to put it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (t0OGg)

236 I would think there are enough homosexuals and women in the country to make a film about homosexuals and or stronk wamenz successful, the fact that this does not occur would speak to the underlying quality of the films in question.

Gay men don't want to see a romcom. They are, after all, men.

And lesbians do like romcoms but..why would they watch one about men?

Didn't the Alphabet Mafia force Hallmark to make a Lesbian one of their cookie cutter movies? Did THAT do well?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (lc5cP)

237 176 I'm guessing that 99.9% of those CFL bulbs ended up in the trash can, warning labels notwithstanding. Who is going to drive 20 miles one way to take a frigging light bulb to an authorized disposal center?
Posted by: PabloD

I never really went down the CFL road, they were just too fragile and they never fit in the fixtures I'd have wanted to put them in. Our house has a crapload of built-in MLV MR16 halogen cans, I've put LEDs in half of them...current tech is pop-in LED light fixtures but that's a lot of work...

Had lots of four-foot flourescent tubes, they're pretty much all LED tubes now. I'd collect a batch of them, then take them to the recycling place when I had 5gal of used motor oil to get rid of. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (8erNz)

238 On a related note...whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news....it's been 30+ years now - has it shown improvement?
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan

That dude in the rowboat patched with with Flex Seal.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (qoGsy)

239 @217 they called the plastic bags "single use" . I used those things for a hundred different things before I got rid of one . Stupid people

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (3XQTX)

240 Another thing about the Lord of the Rings stuff, Peter Jackson was supposed to be involved in the Amazon series, but the creative team ghosted him. He tried to reach out, but they never responded to his emails. He just gave up and went back to, apparently, buying NZ politicians to enhance his real estate empire.

Now, WB is making a big deal about Jackson's involvement a few months after it came out that Amazon refused to use him?

That's a deliberate decision and message.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

241 Yo flounder my doc loosened my sodium restriction.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM (U4tGE)

Rejoice!

I had a follow up last week. I got to go to half dose on beta blocker, she said "forget" about the sodium restrictions* and focus on LDL and triglycerides (Med diet, essentially). Game changers.

She also recommended taking the meds at night, so that the side effects coincide with natural sleep, which seems elementary, but it did not occur to me in the trenches.

Overall, I'd say about 50-75% mojo back.

* I can't go all McDs 24/7, but I don't have to be a miserable tasteless jerk all the time, whatever she meant by that.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (PyOKD)

242 A line on Futurama made me think of aos immediately.

Bender: He's just lying in a pool of his own blood and guts

Zoldberg: He's got a pool ?

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (8SCtT)

243 You were killed in the 4th grade? Oh, we DREAMED of being killed in the 4th grade. We shuffled off this mortal coil in kindergarten, and were glad of it!

Posted by: I was the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (PiwSw)

244 Old Pixar made family movies. New Pixar really seems to make adult movies with a family movie skin over it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:35 AM (LvTSG)

It puts the lotion on the skin or it gets the hose again!

~ Buffallo ‘Pixar’ Bill

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (YwyqV)

245 228 Give me my incandescent bulbs any day of the week. Twice on Sunday. I loathe CFL and don't like LED. The LED are generally too "white" and "bright." Seems really artificial compared to the softer, more gently incandescent bulbs.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (iFTx/)

LED bulbs do come in different "temperatures".

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

246 CFLs have a higher light output/W. As for longer life, I've not seen it,

I think they meant the half-life of the mercury spill.

Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (e2onP)

247 This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp:
https://is.gd/q3S0yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

248 * I can't go all McDs 24/7, but I don't have to be a miserable tasteless jerk all the time, whatever she meant by that.
Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (PyOKD)

Word.

Posted by: Morgan Spurlock at February 24, 2023 11:39 AM (PiwSw)

249 >Gay men don't want to see a romcom. They are, after all, men.

And lesbians do like romcoms but..why would they watch one about men?

Didn't the Alphabet Mafia force Hallmark to make a Lesbian one of their cookie cutter movies? Did THAT do well?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (lc5cP)

'Bros' did terrible at terrible at the box office. Not even gay dudes supported it.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:39 AM (gryET)

250 One problem with LEDs -- I feel very strongly that lights should be turned off when leaving a room unless there's a reason to leave them on, such as returning to the room soon. But the lights use so little electricity that you don't really save much by turning them off when not in use. That was my prior excuse for fussing about the lights.

Well, I guess there's still the fact that lights work as information for me -- if I see lights on in a room, it prompts me to remember to finish whatever I was doing in there or it helps me locate my husband. So if random lights are left on, I miss out on those cues.

Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (Emce2)

251 they called the plastic bags "single use" . I used those things for a hundred different things before I got rid of one . Stupid people

Yep...but now I have to buy them. So...we make more bags. Use them for fewer things....and still have to throw them away at the end.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (lc5cP)

252
He drives/uses UBER?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

AoS HQ: come for the CFL discussion, stay for the Dad jokes

Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (dCxaZ)

253 201 >>>Fourth Quarter GDP Results Revised Downward, Inflation Revised Up
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Just the other day, KJP said inflation is going down and the economy is rising.
Posted by: Wyatt Earp at February 24, 2023 11:32 AM

Shit! Next time, we need an orientation arrow saying "this side up" in her binder!

Posted by: KJP's handlers at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (JCZqz)

254 Give me my incandescent bulbs any day of the week. Twice on Sunday. I loathe CFL and don't like LED. The LED are generally too "white" and "bright." Seems really artificial compared to the softer, more gently incandescent bulbs.

They are getting better at making LEDs that mimic sunlight. Costco sells bright whites and also softer bulbs, so you can select the appropriate type for your application. The soft whites aren't quite there yet, but they are much improved.

On a related note...whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news....it's been 30+ years now - has it shown improvement?

Yes, it has. Don't make the mistake of assuming that because they lie about climate change, that that wasn't a good move.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)

255 I wonder how many people who agitate for the ban of "single-use plastics" like grocery bags shop online. Those air packs and bubble wrap are also single-use plastic film that has to be deflated and thrown away and is usually present in every shipped item that isn't clothing. Those Amazon mailing envelopes are also usually plastic.

How many of these people who drone on and on and on about the Dread Single-Use Plastics are demanding huge amounts of it for their eCommerce deliveries?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (t0OGg)

256 I can't figure why the loopiest lefties seem to be the reddest pilled - it's either because they're alll loopy - or because their loopiness serves to give them the independent mind that their former comrades lack.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:30 AM (U4tGE)

You see similar in the former addicts turned religious fanatics - no offense intended to religious people. It's like they substitute the religion (another political awakening) for the substance abuse (the first, leftist political "awakening").

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (PyOKD)

257 98 Why can't we just go back to vinyl albums and be done with it.
Posted by: Puddinhead
--------
Vinyl records varied quite a bit in production quality versus CD's and so the sound obtained varies quite a bit from LP's versus CD's. CD's though, at least mastering of the initial round of them in the 80's and the 90's, lacked the 'warmth' of the old LP's and when used on older material originally mastered for vinyl sounded way too 'bright'. Vinyl has a dead zone (cannot remember the specific range of hz) so producers punched that up in the master tapes to compensate. If the cd sampling came directly from those master tapes without adjusting eq, then they sound artificially bright and harsh.

Posted by: whig at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (4RjCO)

258 I made a funny!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:26 AM (LvTSG)

Several. And I *did* get it.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (U4tGE)

259 @236

>>Gay men don't want to see a romcom. They are, after all, men.

So the answer to that would be to make a gay version of Hard Bodies and a lesbian version of Ghost.

But the fact they are not even really catering to their own claimed target audiences and are trying to slipstream their perversions into family films and other popular cultural forms is giving their game away.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (up/3i)

260 Banning things is the whole point.

It is an end, not a means to an end.

It is intended to get Americans to view themselves as serfs, subject to the whims of the government, not free citizens.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (2tUFv)

261 238. That dude in the rowboat patched with with Flex Seal.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (qoGsy)

Thanks. Now excuse me while I go get a paper towel to wipe the coffee off my monitor...

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (llefr)

262 passionate hatred of those squiggly abominations

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Peyronie's disease at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (a3Q+t)

263 230 29 When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

And decent gasoline cans.

I don't miss 5 gallon toilets, 3.5 would be okay, but the real problem is the design. Remember the toilet tank that Michael Corleone hid the gun on? If you have that kind of pressure head even 1.6 gal works great.

Our MBR has a 1.6gal Duravit toilet with an in-wall Geberit tank that's nearly three feet above the bowl. In twenty years it's plugged maybe twice. Love that thing.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (8erNz)

264 > whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news

It turns out that acid rain fixes ozone holes. Or maybe it was nuclear winter that fixes ozone holes.

I forget.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (bW8dp)

265 This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp:
https://is.gd/q3S0yz

On a recent flight I had a stewardess that looked like that, wearing an outfit like that, sitting in the jump seat in front of me.

I had to try very very hard to keep looking at her face.

/Why yes I am a legman why do you ask?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)

266 249 >Gay men don't want to see a romcom. They are, after all, men.

And lesbians do like romcoms but..why would they watch one about men?

Didn't the Alphabet Mafia force Hallmark to make a Lesbian one of their cookie cutter movies? Did THAT do well?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (lc5cP)

'Bros' did terrible at terrible at the box office. Not even gay dudes supported it.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:39 AM (gryET)

Which speaks to a larger point. Not that gay dudes weren't by and large interested in seeing it but that there's (drum roll) not a lot of gay dudes in general.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

267
Fred Upton, who campaigned to outlaw incandescents, is a close-as-you'll-get-to conservative from western Michigan, and still in office. Probably because of his cute niece, or KitchenAid.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Upton retired at the end of the last Congress.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (pNxlR)

268 252
He drives/uses UBER?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:34 AM (ynpvh)

AoS HQ: come for the CFL discussion, stay for the Dad jokes
Posted by: kallisto at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM

I come for the boobehs.

Posted by: Porn Addict Moron at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (JCZqz)

269 LED bulbs do come in different "temperatures".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (ynpvh)

The "warm" LEDs need more work. They produce a nasty yellow light that's hard to see under.

Posted by: Emmie at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (Emce2)

270 266 Which speaks to a larger point. Not that gay dudes weren't by and large interested in seeing it but that there's (drum roll) not a lot of gay dudes in general.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

==========

Television has told me different!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (LvTSG)

271 You can really piss off a lefty by pointing out that whales would be long-extinct if it weren't for John D. Rockefeller, pretty much the most capitalist dude of all time.

I think he owned something like 1% of the TOTAL VALUE of the United States. Guys like Buffet and Gates are tiny fleas compared to him.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (bW8dp)

And the crony capitalists had to destroy him. At the time of the Anti trust break up he only had something like 35% of the industry. They didn't like that he paid his people higher than others and his efficiency to make a profit.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (8SCtT)

272 When we can buy a new 5 gallon flush toilet we will once again be a free republic.

*******

As I quipped to my wife when our toilet was about to overflow, "A flush is better than a full house!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)

273 This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp:

It's hard to argue with her conclusion.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:43 AM (eOEVl)

274 LED bulbs do come in different "temperatures".
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

There are some that are even 'switchable'.

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2023 11:43 AM (8erNz)

275
How many of these people who drone on and on and on about the Dread Single-Use Plastics are demanding huge amounts of it for their eCommerce deliveries?

My former woke town banned plastic bags and added extra room in trash pick up for cardboard products at about the same time

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (lc5cP)

276
I skipped CFL and went right to LED
still have some incandescents
my LavaLamp uses a small incandescent
it's an orange LavaLamp

Posted by: DB - Spanning the globe at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (geLO8)

277 Oh, ffs. Who wants this?

Oh, let me guess. It's the "orcs are blacks" crowd.

But the favorite pro-Ukrainian slur against the Russians is that they are "orcs".

It will be very confusing if we are supposed to view orcs as good now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (2tUFv)

278 >Which speaks to a larger point. Not that gay dudes weren't by and large interested in seeing it but that there's (drum roll) not a lot of gay dudes in general.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

According to the media everyone is gay or trans.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (gryET)

279 As I quipped to my wife when our toilet was about to overflow, "A flush is better than a full house!"
Posted by: Muldoon

As the last of my extrusions drifted over the rim of the bowl, she exclaimed "Look, four of a kind!"

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (8erNz)

280 @247

>>This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp: https://is.gd/q3S0yz

She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

281 278 According to the media everyone is gay or trans.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (gryET)

========

Except all the bad guys. Like Buzz Lightyear.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

282 277 Oh, ffs. Who wants this?

Oh, let me guess. It's the "orcs are blacks" crowd.

But the favorite pro-Ukrainian slur against the Russians is that they are "orcs".

It will be very confusing if we are supposed to view orcs as good now.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (2tUFv)

just misunderstood

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (ynpvh)

283 247 247 This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp:
https://is.gd/q3S0yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

OMG! She can incandes my lamp anytime she wants.....

Thank you for sharing!

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (llefr)

284 236 I would think there are enough homosexuals and women in the country to make a film about homosexuals and or stronk wamenz successful, the fact that this does not occur would speak to the underlying quality of the films in question.

Gay men don't want to see a romcom. They are, after all, men.

And lesbians do like romcoms but..why would they watch one about men?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:37 AM (lc5cP)
____________________

There are very many gay- and lesbian-themed movies out there, so they must be successful. But they are not released in theaters or promoted publicly. If you have a service like NetFlix, however, there are 100s of movies and shows made for gays and lesbians.

I think the reason these are successful but the mainstream attempts are not is the content. The mainstream attempts are blatant panders with terrible scripts and questionable casting (Bros). Even die-hard gays don't like that crap. The NetFlix movies have nothing to "prove," so to speak, and don't need to make any statement. They are just good entertainment for homosexuals.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

285 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)
++++
I have.

Air Bulgaria. I think they went to the local supermodel factory for their stewardesses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (t0OGg)

286 278 >Which speaks to a larger point. Not that gay dudes weren't by and large interested in seeing it but that there's (drum roll) not a lot of gay dudes in general.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (KbCG3)

According to the media everyone is gay or trans.
Posted by: Heavy Meta at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (gryET)

And they're all homophobes for not seeing Bros.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (KbCG3)

287 >>>Ah, so something like a corporate asset version of "shoot, shovel and shut up."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

>Yep. The best part of the project was that management wanted every fixture on a photoelectric light sensor to turn on and off at dusk and dawn. The project geniuses shipped over 1500 2-second delay sensors.

Everyday, twice a day was like Christmas because these sensors would interfere with each other and the whole fucking place would be flickering. We convinced them to order sensors with a longer delay so it wouldn't drive both day and night shift insane.

Cha-ching!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (Jg7EG)

288 Not a fan of LED bulbs either.

I'd prefer a high quality, long life incandescent.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (Zqeqr)

289 whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news

It turns out that acid rain fixes ozone holes. Or maybe it was nuclear winter that fixes ozone holes.

I forget.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (bW8dp)

***

I would opine but, Alar killed me in the late 80's

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (flINI)

290 If not, a couple of minutes with a drill will generally solve the problem.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:27 AM

Not everyone around here has mad power drill skillz, you know.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (a3Q+t)

291 Inhale the Musk:

Politics · Trending
#BidenIsALaughingstock
2,803 Tweets

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (XF9Gj)

292
But the favorite pro-Ukrainian slur against the Russians is that they are "orcs".

It will be very confusing if we are supposed to view orcs as good now.

IIRC Tolkein had men of the east which were a mix of Russians/Chinese/Mongols and men of the south that were a mix of Arabic/Persian/Indian.

The orcs weren't intended to represent any ethnic group - and he even told two stories about their creation - neither of which would relate them either to black Africans or Russians.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (lc5cP)

293 289 whatever happened to 'the hole in the ozone'? Once they got their way it dropped out of the news

It turns out that acid rain fixes ozone holes. Or maybe it was nuclear winter that fixes ozone holes.

I forget.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:41 AM (bW8dp)

***

I would opine but, Alar killed me in the late 80's

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 24, 2023 11:46 AM (flINI)

That was after DDT killed me.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 11:47 AM (ynpvh)

294 265 This leggy blonde thinks she looks good under the warm glow of an incandescent lamp:
https://is.gd/q3S0yz

That little pout...

Posted by: JEM at February 24, 2023 11:47 AM (8erNz)

295 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

***

Ever fly Emerates?

Posted by: Truck Monkey Report at February 24, 2023 11:47 AM (flINI)

296 A lot of ceiling fixtures have none replaceable LED bulbs . I was hesitant but I put two in my my bath area. Supposedly 10,000 hour life . That's a long time.
Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:28 AM

Due to the evolving disaster that was a water pipe break in the RMBS Mom's house during that last cold snap, we're replacing quite a few things. We decided to add recessed lights in the kitchen, and that's what the electrician put in. He said you replace the light itself, and that they were good for close to 20 years. Of course, now we're dealing with 80 year old cloth-wrapped wiring. Yeah...that shit's coming out.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (Wnv9h)

297 Changing our light was Round 1 of mass psy ops, making it easier for people in general to "accept" novel information. Look at when our country started accelerating toward our modern social unrest. It coincides nicely with the changing of our lights and therefore our mental and emotional environments.

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (U4tGE)

298 I have one of those American Standard toilets that can flush a bucket of golf balls. The secret is the opening to release the water from the tank is over 2x larger than normal toilet. Only drawback is you have to hold the handle down for that 2 seconds it takes to empty.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (8SCtT)

299 Not that gay dudes weren't by and large interested in seeing it but that there's (drum roll) not a lot of gay dudes in general.

When AIDS started up in New York City, the New York City Health Department had models showing how rapidly AIDS cases would grow in New York.

The number of actual AIDS cases was considerably less than the model's predictions - it turned out that the New York City Health Department had way overestimated the number of practicing male homosexuals in New York.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (2tUFv)

300 I glanced at that Naomi Wolf substack article. I will say this. Though her doctorate is not in hard science, she certainly is not shy about writing at length and researching what she writes. (She's also a nice Jewish girl from San Francisco.)

Posted by: SFGoth at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (KAi1n)

301 295 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

========

I saw one that hot walking through the Atlanta airport a couple of days ago.

She was definitely the exception, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

302 IIRC Wolfe's husband was her bodyguard at one point.
Posted by: 18-1

Shades of Amy Carter.
Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:36 AM (qoGsy)

Amy Carter had a bodyguard? I thought her industrial strength ugly protected her.

Posted by: Wally at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (FJYfm)

303 I blame patents.

Patents run 20 years, nowadays.

If you look at Air Conditioning, you will notice that the refrigirate gets changed about every 20 years.

First, CFCs were replaced with HCFCs (which many chemists said were worse).

As for CFLs. I never liked them from the beginning.
When I was informed that if you break one on the floor, it officially requires a $300 toxic chemical cleanup.

Posted by: Neo at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (RovqD)

304 Wait til they find out that catalytic converters emit CO2!

Posted by: DeVan at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (6inc5)

305 There are very many gay- and lesbian-themed movies out there, so they must be successful. But they are not released in theaters or promoted publicly. If you have a service like NetFlix, however, there are 100s of movies and shows made for gays and lesbians.

I think the reason these are successful but the mainstream attempts are not is the content. The mainstream attempts are blatant panders with terrible scripts and questionable casting (Bros). Even die-hard gays don't like that crap. The NetFlix movies have nothing to "prove," so to speak, and don't need to make any statement. They are just good entertainment for homosexuals.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

I submit these same movies would be more popular on Netflix if they had straight romances...the straight romance films made (which are few and far between) have done wildly good numbers for Netflix vs the gay themed ones. But the gay themes ones give Netflix woke cred...

That's not to say there isn't a market for some gay rom com...but that market is about as big as the theatrical rom com market now - practically dead and non-money making without a fun plot or huge stars...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 24, 2023 11:49 AM (exHjb)

306 The commies saved the Ozone Layer? Huh

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:49 AM (U4tGE)

307 As I quipped to my wife when our toilet was about to overflow, "A flush is better than a full house!"

Posted by: Muldoon at February 24, 2023 11:43 AM (ykeLU)

Quick, somebody call a punner.

Posted by: Comrade flounder, Disinformation Demon at February 24, 2023 11:49 AM (PyOKD)

308
Does this mean the demise of backyard wrestling competitions?

No, I mean we still have lawn chairs to beat down the wrestlers.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2023 11:50 AM (n+4am)

309 Not to worry about the white dust falling in WVA and MD, it's just DARPA testing out their new cyanide coated asbestos flakes. It will reflect the evil sunrays back into space.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 11:50 AM (D25PY)

310
Shades of Amy Carter.
Posted by: Tonypete

I think Susan Ford is to whom you ought to have been referring.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 24, 2023 11:50 AM (pNxlR)

311 "I might have possibly tried to sneak some of those bulbs into our house one time to save a dollar or two on our utility bill, and to try to minimize the heat being generated inside our house during Texas’ brutal summer. She would not have it, and it was a non-negotiable, no-compromise position of hers."

When it comes to lightbulbs your wife is me to a tee.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (NpAcC)

312 254 Yes, it has. Don't make the mistake of assuming that because they lie about climate change, that that wasn't a good move.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:40 AM (eOEVl)

Good to hear. I was thinking since they weren't touting the success every other minute it must not have improved. Now I can book my Antarctic cruise !

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (llefr)

313 The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901, and almost never turned off. It is located at 4550 East Avenue, Livermore, California, and maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department.

I've heard they freak out every time there's a power outage (which in California is increasingly often). Burning doesn't hurt incandescents as much as turning on from cold.

Posted by: Ian S. at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (ZGrMX)

314 Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)

She has a face?

Posted by: ... at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (U4tGE)

315 > Amy Carter had a bodyguard? I thought her industrial strength ugly protected her.

Never underestimate the appeal of a woman with a rich Daddy for those who want to be in what LBJ used to call "the son-in-law bidness".

This, too, is the story of Betx O'Rourke.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (bW8dp)

316 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

I had but it was decades ago. Last stewardess I saw lately was so old, she practically needed a walker to get up and down the aisle.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (ZSK0i)

317 I think the reason these are successful but the mainstream attempts are not is the content. The mainstream attempts are blatant panders with terrible scripts and questionable casting (Bros). Even die-hard gays don't like that crap. The NetFlix movies have nothing to "prove," so to speak, and don't need to make any statement. They are just good entertainment for homosexuals.
Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:45 AM (iFTx/)

A posit a simpler reason: Most people won't get off the couch and plop down good money to see a movie they're not sure they'll like. They may say they want to "support" movies like this but in reality, humans will do what's easiest.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (KbCG3)

318 301 295 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

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I saw one that hot walking through the Atlanta airport a couple of days ago.

She was definitely the exception, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:48 AM (LvTSG)
________________

You guys need to fly more Asian airlines. Unlike in the USA, the stewardesses there are specifically chosen for their physical attractiveness. Every one is at least above-average and some are true stunners.

Posted by: Elric Blade at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

319 @295

>>Ever fly Emerates?

Sadly no, but the emirates girls are a different kind of beauty than the girl at the link.

Both hot, but different.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (up/3i)

320 The best sort of gay RomCom and I think Matthew Perry's best movie is Three to Tango. Hilarious.

Okay it's a hetero romcom wrapped around a gay RomCom.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (8SCtT)

321 I'm surprised Amy Carter had time to marry, what with all her nuclear weapons policy responsibilities and all.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (eOEVl)

322 > You guys need to fly more Asian airlines.

Pretty much any non-US airline, really.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (bW8dp)

323 Everybody knows that CFLs and fluorescent bulbs are supposed to be recycled.

I had a collection of old defuncted fluorescent bulbs.
We searched around to find out how to recycle them.
After about 3 months, we found one site in a 4 county area.

Now, I know why most people just put them in a heavy plastic garbage bag, and whack the bag till the bulbs break into small pieces, placing the tied up bag in their normal garbage.

Posted by: Neo at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (RovqD)

324 You didn't think you needed a Medieval Rocket Cat, but you do:

twitter.com/culturaltutor/status/1629038987305271297

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (XF9Gj)

325 Ever fly Emerates?
Posted by: Truck Monkey Report

Oh my! And the thing of it is, their outfits don't even hint at the goodies beneath but wow!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (qoGsy)

326 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (9gDA7)

327 Last stewardess I saw lately was so old, she practically needed a walker to get up and down the aisle.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (ZSK0i)

And the airlines (and especially the Stewardess unions) will tell you their primary function is safety. If so, why do we have old people who can't quickly get out of the way, and likely can't help in a real emergency?

Posted by: Wally at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (FJYfm)

328 Looking at old video of people flying it amazing.

Not only is there no security theater - the men are in suits, the women are in dresses, and the stewardess are generally beautiful.

Modern flying seems to be hoping the morbidly obese pyrsyn next to you in the dirty sweats doesn't decide to start clip zer's toenails while flying...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (lc5cP)

329 FIRST!!!!!
Posted by: Sponge
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You're quick today.....////

Posted by: lin-duh (y'all/all y'all) at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (DPqLz)

330 My bud that works in the power/energy industry said he had a conversation with a woman not long ago that said the EV market is a good 15 years away from being something sustainable. The current crop of batts are not good and can't work for vehicles of that nature.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (9gDA7)

331 The current EPA focus on PFAS is baffling. Yes, they are persistent in the environment, which generally is a bad thing. But, they haven't even identified. They have a bunch of academic studies (funded by the EPA) that "suggest" a shotgun blast of bad things, but there is not anything specific.

It looks like the EPA just targeting something and decided to get rid of it and will worry about the data later.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (UuD2k)

332 I've never had a hot stewardess on any of my flights in my life. I was lied to. And I've never lucked out and had a hot lady or even half way attractive booked in a seat next to me.

Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (8SCtT)

333 ----
You're quick today.....////
Posted by: lin-duh (y'all/all y'all) at February 24, 2023 11:54 AM (DPqLz)

"That's what she said."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (9gDA7)

334 265. /Why yes I am a legman why do you ask?
Posted by: 18-1 at February 24, 2023 11:42 AM (lc5cP)

In the presence of someone like that - we are all 'legmen' - even the wimmen....

Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (llefr)

335 Back to candles, but only soy with wooden wicks!

Is it appropriate for me to say I told you so to all the people who laughed at me when I said this would happen?

Posted by: Piper at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (ZdaMQ)

336 92
and why do you need all that pressure ??
Posted by: REDACTED at February 24, 2023 11:14 AM (us2H3)

Sometimes you just got to drop a big ole load.

It's not the size of the turd. It's the density of the clay potato that fights the water surge.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (yvHe0)

337 Let's look at plastic bags. They cost less to make then paper bags and don't require you to cut down trees - so at first the left loved them.
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I'm old enough to recall, 'Save a tree! Use plastic!'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (gJagN)

338 The best sort of gay RomCom and I think Matthew Perry's best movie is Three to Tango. Hilarious.

Okay it's a hetero romcom wrapped around a gay RomCom.
Posted by: polynikes at February 24, 2023 11:52 AM (8SCtT)

The '60s Batman TV show is probably the apex of gay RomCom

Posted by: Wally at February 24, 2023 11:55 AM (FJYfm)

339 That's terrific. I've yet to ever buy one.

Posted by: leber at February 24, 2023 11:56 AM (E7KPo)

340 The current EPA focus on PFAS is baffling. Yes, they are persistent in the environment, which generally is a bad thing. But, they haven't even identified. They have a bunch of academic studies (funded by the EPA) that "suggest" a shotgun blast of bad things, but there is not anything specific.

It looks like the EPA just targeting something and decided to get rid of it and will worry about the data later.

That's exactly what they did. However, I read a paper yesterday that seemed a bit more solid. I'll see if I can find it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 11:56 AM (eOEVl)

341 The '60s Batman TV show is probably the apex of gay RomCom

Hey for the record I banged a metric shit ton of chicks!

Posted by: Burt Ward at February 24, 2023 11:56 AM (lc5cP)

342 332 I've never had a hot stewardess on any of my flights in my life. I was lied to. And I've never lucked out and had a hot lady or even half way attractive booked in a seat next to me.
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Fly a European airline. British Air is nice but Austrian Airlines is special. Good food, good drinks and hawt Aryan Chicks.

Posted by: Puddinhead at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (NsE9F)

343 The best airline flight I ever had was a SAS flight from Philadelphia to Stockholm in business class.
It starts with a 5 course meal, with various forms of alcohol with each course.
Then they turn out the lights until you are about to land.

The 2nd best was a British Airways business class that got upgraded to 1st class when I arrived at the gate.
On the way back, I had to stay in business class.
The big difference between 1st and business class ?
In 1st class, they never let your wine glass go empty.

Posted by: Neo at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (RovqD)

344
Pretty much any non-US airline, really.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (bW8dp)

Yeah, this.

I've flown most US carriers, but going to Europe, fly anything but. British Airways may not have the best looking staff on an airplane, but they're REALLY polite and FREE BOOZE. Overheard an attendant tell a guy that they "give free liquor so you'll go to sleep so we don't have to work as hard." They also have a WAY better entertainment selection on the screen.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (9gDA7)

345 Maybe in 15 years the greens will realize just how environmentally destructive electric vehicles are and start banning those too.

Maybe those windmills, too.
Then they'll need to find a junkyard big enough for the components that can't be reused or recycled.

Posted by: Flyover at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (Rbu5d)

346 Good to hear. I was thinking since they weren't touting the success every other minute it must not have improved. Now I can book my Antarctic cruise !
Posted by: Anonymous Guy in Kalifornistan at February 24, 2023 11:51 AM (llefr)

It improved far faster than they predicted and they still can't tell you what the situation will be 1 year in advance. There is still a lot we don't know about atmospheric chemistry.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (UuD2k)

347 Fly a European airline. British Air is nice but Austrian Airlines is special. Good food, good drinks and hawt Aryan Chicks.

Want to see hot Aryan Chicks? We've got you covered!

Posted by: Bollywood at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (lc5cP)

348 What secrets did this guy know?

Billionaire Thomas Lee, Friend of Clintons, Found Dead From Apparent Suicide Billionaire private equity financier Thomas H. Lee was found dead in his Fifth Avenue Manhattan office on Thursday, an apparent suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

...In one incredible move, Lee orchestrated the sale of Snapple for $1.7 billion in 1994 two years after he bought it, then made a return of 32 times equity. He was worth $2 billion at his death...

After Hillary flamed out in the 2008 primary against Barack Obama, she and Bill went to stay at Lee’s East Hampton estate. He was a political donor and bundler for Hillary Clinton including during her 2016 run.

I wrote earlier in the week about the unusual news from the police report on former special advisor to Bill Clinton Mark Middleton who was found to have committed suicide last year. The report showed that he was shot in the chest, but there was reportedly no gun found.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at February 24, 2023 11:57 AM (JCZqz)

349 She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

Fly in Eastern Europe or Asia.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:58 AM (lTGtQ)

350 I would posit the the linked stewardess is beyond hot, there's just another gear above mere hotness with her, that makes her next level.

A sort of, she's hot, but looks almost attainable in a down to earth kind of way.

It's somewhat indescribable.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (up/3i)

351 Upton retired at the end of the last Congress.

Great. Then we can go back to work at the light bulb plant, right?

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (jYCXf)

352 > Pretty much any non-US airline, really.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:53 AM (bW8dp)

I mean, even Aeroflot has hot stewardi. An Aeroflot plane may disintegrate in mid-air, but at least the flight attendants will be hot.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (bW8dp)

353 350 I would posit the the linked stewardess is beyond hot, there's just another gear above mere hotness with her, that makes her next level.

A sort of, she's hot, but looks almost attainable in a down to earth kind of way.

It's somewhat indescribable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (up/3i)

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There's at least one dude out there who's sick and tired of her shit, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

354 353 350 I would posit the the linked stewardess is beyond hot, there's just another gear above mere hotness with her, that makes her next level.

A sort of, she's hot, but looks almost attainable in a down to earth kind of way.

It's somewhat indescribable.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (up/3i)

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There's at least one dude out there who's sick and tired of her shit, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

Don Lemon works for an airline now?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at February 24, 2023 12:00 PM (KbCG3)

355 Billionaire private equity financier Thomas H. Lee was found dead in his Fifth Avenue Manhattan office on Thursday, an apparent suicide from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

I remember seeing some action movie where they covered the easy way to do this.

You surprise your target, usually a little while before they have family come to visit. You tell them you'll shoot them AND the family members and make it look like a murder suicide OR they can take the easy way out and shoot themselves and they'll leave before the family member gets there.

Posted by: Bollywood at February 24, 2023 12:00 PM (lc5cP)

356
She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

I had but it was decades ago. Last stewardess I saw lately was so old, she practically needed a walker to get up and down the aisle.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

The sky waitresses I've seen over the past 15 years have almost exclusively been:

Desiccated old Waffle House rejects, jonesing for a cigarette throughout the flight

Young, plump gay males with inappropriately cheerful dispositions

Butch dykes with angry faces and even angrier moods

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2023 12:00 PM (n+4am)

357
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There's at least one dude out there who's sick and tired of her shit, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 11:59 AM (LvTSG)

WINNING!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 12:01 PM (9gDA7)

358 the street light the city put in

Lived where city replaced nice old street lights with shitty color LEDs that threw odd patterns, enough to make formerly pleasant evening walks irritating.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty
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Same here. And there's more. The plants that I have placed around the utility pole *used* to flourish, now with LED's they just languish. I have planted Morning Glories at the base of the guy cable. They gloriously raced up all the way to the top of the pole. Now, no.

But the real tell is bugs, moths and etc. The bats used flit around the lamp, collecting their dinner. Not any more, there are no bugs attracted to the LED 'light'. In spite of all of the yammer about color temperature, the fact is that LED's do not produce anything resembling a natural spectrum.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2023 12:01 PM (vNC/Y)

359 356
She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 24, 2023 11:44 AM (up/3i)

I had but it was decades ago. Last stewardess I saw lately was so old, she practically needed a walker to get up and down the aisle.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy

The sky waitresses I've seen over the past 15 years have almost exclusively been:

Desiccated old Waffle House rejects, jonesing for a cigarette throughout the flight

Young, plump gay males with inappropriately cheerful dispositions

Butch dykes with angry faces and even angrier moods

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2023 12:00 PM (n+4am)

I saw Butch Dykes front for Dixie Chicks at the...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 24, 2023 12:01 PM (ynpvh)

360 I got bumped up to first on a flight to Japan once. Got the front row seat in a 747, with more space in front of me than some peoples' front yards. As a height advantaged person, I really enjoyed that flight. Space and free booze.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 12:01 PM (lTGtQ)

361 The sky waitresses I've seen over the past 15 years have almost exclusively been:

Desiccated old Waffle House rejects, jonesing for a cigarette throughout the flight

Young, plump gay males with inappropriately cheerful dispositions

Butch dykes with angry faces and even angrier moods
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 24, 2023 12:00 PM (n+4am)

I'd say that's a pretty accurate assessment overall.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (ZSK0i)

362 You are far more likely to have a gay man serving you snacks than an attractive woman on any American airline I've been on the past 30 years

Posted by: Ripley at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (cUYo/)

363 First, Mark Middleton, now, Thomas Lee.

Is this a cleanup operation to help the Clintons or to keep them out of the 2024 race.

Posted by: Neo at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (RovqD)

364 I'm having a renewed appreciation for my propane lanterns. Light, heat, and you can grill a steak if you're hungry. What's not to like?

Posted by: Dr. Bone at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (Jg7EG)

365 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (9gDA7)

366 363 First, Mark Middleton, now, Thomas Lee.

Is this a cleanup operation to help the Clintons or to keep them out of the 2024 race.
Posted by: Neo at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (RovqD)

=======

And the government keeps both of their social security investments!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, mired in filth and awfulness with Ralph Bakshi at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (LvTSG)

367 My last flight on Delta had a stewardess that looked like Large Marge. The only thing missing was a Marlboro hanging out the side of her mouth. She appeared not be customer focused.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 24, 2023 12:02 PM (D25PY)

368 Never bought one of those shitty lights. I had bought a huge stash of incandescent bulbs and used them into the LED period. I love LEDs, because they seem to last a long time, no heat, and can come in different hues.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 24, 2023 12:03 PM (VwHCD)

369 On a bidness trip to Salt Lake City years ago on NW Orient I ran into a girl I went to elementary school with. She was a gate agent for NW. Very hot. Very touchy-feely. Nothing like when she was 9 or 10 as I recalled.

Only wish I'd had more of a "layover."

*I crack myself up*

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 24, 2023 12:03 PM (Q4IgG)

370 That stewardess looks like she could make a male passenger feel good with just a smile.

I've some fairly attractive stewardesses on KLM and Swissair. Mind you I was returning from Africa so there was something pleasing about blondness.

Posted by: N.Lurker at February 24, 2023 12:03 PM (eGTCV)

371 But the real tell is bugs, moths and etc. The bats used flit around the lamp, collecting their dinner. Not any more, there are no bugs attracted to the LED 'light'. In spite of all of the yammer about color temperature, the fact is that LED's do not produce anything resembling a natural spectrum.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 24, 2023 12:01 PM (vNC/Y)
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Color temperature is the likely problem. When a lot of places switched to LED street lighting, they went with "daylight" bulbs because the light carries better and improves color clarity. The perceived brightness is greater, and that's good for street lighting.

But they have also noted that animal behavior is different, and sometimes plant behavior is different. It's likely that flooding daylight-balanced light out at night has some unintended consequences. It will not surprise me if, when they are replaced, they are replaced with lights in the tungsten or sodium color space.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at February 24, 2023 12:04 PM (t0OGg)

372 That's exactly what they did. However, I read a paper yesterday that seemed a bit more solid. I'll see if I can find it.

Sorry, can't find it.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 24, 2023 12:05 PM (eOEVl)

373 "She's got wings, but I've never seen a stewardess that hot.
Posted by: Thomas Bender"
*********
Singapore Air ftw.

Posted by: Cosda at February 24, 2023 12:24 PM (cLv2S)

374 88...Start the fire. Sell the water to put it out.
Posted by: t-bird at February 24, 2023 11:16 AM (ptElO)

C[cough]oo[cough]f

Posted by: Flyover at February 24, 2023 12:27 PM (Rbu5d)

375 I bought several dozen incandescent bulbs in 2013, and I still have over a dozen.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at February 24, 2023 12:28 PM (Mzdiz)

376 I know i'm late but one CFL comment. When they first came out, we received notice from our town that they absolutely could never, ever be thrown in the trash because of the mercury.

What do do with a bulb that didn't work, which we had? We called the town, and they didn't really know either. So they sent out a guy in a diesel pickup truck to take the single CFL bulb off of our hands. Watching the truck belch a little smoke while driving away, I couldn't help but wonder what the carbon balance was on that little transaction.

Posted by: Candidus at February 24, 2023 12:38 PM (CqK30)

377 Where California goes, the rest of the nation’s leftists will soon follow.

Its a 3-way race between California, Oregon, and Washington to see who comes up with the newest crazy leftist scheme.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at February 24, 2023 12:50 PM (0hOvj)

378 19 I have hundreds of incandescent light bulbs in storage, enough to last my lifetime.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 24, 2023 11:05 AM (lTGtQ)

After I replaced all of my incadescent bulbs with LEDs I took the lifetime supply of incandescent bulbs to St. Vincent's. Non-incadescent bulbs don't make economic sense for renters.

Posted by: Fox2! at February 24, 2023 12:58 PM (0kjWS)

379 The goal wasn't to make us change to CFLs it was to set the stage for control and rationing electrical light.

The goal isn't to make us switch to EVs. It's it's to ration transportation and control if, when and where we can travel. That's why Dems LOVE trains so much. Nothing scratches that tyrants control of travel better than trains.

Posted by: mikethemoose at February 24, 2023 01:01 PM (AmpGx)

380 The other important point about CFLs is to contrast them with LED lights. No mandate was needed for LEDs because they had so many advantages over both CFL and the old incandescent lights. The government CFL mandate was horrible, but then we all switched anyway a short time later because the market found something better. If we ever find a car engine than the ICE in both cost and capabilities, everyone will want to switch anyway. Until then, mandates will not make people switch to electric cars when those cars only work well in such limited conditions.

Posted by: Dave at February 24, 2023 02:20 PM (nLwaa)

381 Huh. Who knew.
Almost all of us? That was the main complaint - they had to be disposed of specially because they had these toxic materials in them.

Posted by: GWB at February 24, 2023 03:58 PM (NJ9MR)

382 I am making $90 an hour working from home. i was greatly surprised at the same time as my neighbour advised me she changed into averaging $100 however I see the way it works now. I experience mass freedom now that I'm my non-public boss.
Here's what I've been doing.. www.Payathome7.com

Posted by: www.Payathome7.com at February 24, 2023 04:51 PM (tEGkP)

383 No bright bulbs with the enviromentalists Dim-Bulbs just look at their stupid protests and you'll see what idiots they are

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 24, 2023 05:14 PM (wGqjj)

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