THE MORNING RANT: A Little Bit of Good News

How about a few “good news” stories regarding the political battles we’re fighting?

Illinois Town Nixes Solar Boondoggle

Americans who want reliable and affordable energy are starting to realize that boutique electricity sources such as solar and wind are neither reliable nor affordable.

Illinois Town Nixes Solar Boondoggle [CFACT – 3/11/2023]

In a stunning setback for solar, the City of Pontiac, Illinois has scuttled plans to construct a solar energy project that would transform a vacant lot in town into a shiny solar desert.

At an emotional Feb. 13 hearing before the City of Pontiac Planning and Zoning Board, city officials denied the application of Bundleflower Solar LLC to rezone the property so that as many as 5,568 photovoltaic solar panels could be installed there.

The dramatic turnaround shows what can happen when citizens are well informed about how harmful solar (and wind) projects are, and then mobilize to stop deep-pocketed renewable-energy developers from ruining their communities.

Local politics is controlled by those who show up, be it at the polls or at the civic meetings where decisions are made.

Good job, Pontiac.

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Denying Municipalities the Authority to Deny Freedom

Being a refugee from a deep blue city in a deep red state, I have experienced the passion that progressives have for outlawing freedom with whatever levers of power they have. If municipal-level communists control just a city, or a county, or a school board, they’ll seek to ban a vast array of freedoms. Given the power, they will deny you gas stoves, plastic grocery bags, or even control of your own thermostat.

I’m glad to see conservatives punching back, and getting over their 20th century worship of “local rule” as being a sacred conservative principal.

Tennessee Law Prevents Local Bans On Natural Gas Stoves [The Tennessean – 3/22/2023]

Republican Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that says local governments can't ban gas stoves, even though no current city in Tennessee is currently pursuing such actions.

Under the legislation Lee approved last week, local governments cannot regulate the "type of source of energy" delivered to customers for utility service connection or appliances. The legislation went into effect immediately after receiving strong support inside the GOP-dominated Tennessee Statehouse.

It’s that easy.

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Protecting Citizens From Pro-Criminal District Attorneys

Along the same lines as the story directly above, Georgia lawmakers are fed up with pro-crime District Attorneys permitting a reign of terror against law abiding citizens.

Georgia Bill is Latest GOP Effort Targeting Prosecutors [AP – 3/27/2023]

A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren’t doing enough to fight crime.

The Georgia House voted 97-77 on Monday for Senate Bill 92 to create the commission. The Senate later sent the measure to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature or veto.

I have been very critical of Gov. Kemp on occasion, but the word in political circles is that he will sign this bill. Good for him. He deserves conservative praise if he takes action that leads to removal of District Attorneys who won’t incarcerate violate criminals.

“That’s the whole point of this bill, is to restore public safety in places where you have rogue district attorneys who simply are not doing their job,” said Georgia Republican Rep. Houston Gaines of Athens.

As much as many of us don’t care if major American cities collapse from their own poor voting habits, cities such as Atlanta and Austin are the seats of government for their states. Citizens from around the state oftentimes have to be in those cities for official business. The state has an obligation to protect all of its citizens from crime, even if the residents of certain counties have voted to become criminal sanctuaries.

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Molly Ivins’ Old Lefty Publication Is Shutting Down

How is an alternative left-wing periodical supposed to compete against big city daily newspapers when every big city paper is full of “news” stories that are just radical, left-wing propaganda. There is not a “further left” niche for an alternative paper to occupy.

Texas Observer, Legendary Crusading Liberal Magazine, is Closing and Laying Off Its Staff [Texas Tribune – 3/26/2023]

The 68-year-old progressive publication, which published Ronnie Dugger, Molly Ivins and Kaye Northcott, hit financial troubles and wasn’t able to broaden its audience, board members said.

The decision marks an end to 68 years of publication, starting with its founding in 1954 by Ronnie Dugger and including a six-year period under the helm of the legendary Molly Ivins from 1970 to 1976. The magazine, in its first few decades, represented the liberal wing of the once-conservative Democratic Party.

“Our reader base and our donor base is aging out,” Frump said. “There’s a nostalgia for Molly Ivins and Ann Richards and their era, and that’s a lot of what still drives the Observer. We weren’t able to build a bridge to the younger, progressive generation. I think the legacy is worth fighting for, but I do understand why the board feels the way it does.”

When I was growing up in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the parents of very good friends of mine were quite liberal, and they subscribed to the Texas Observer. To their delight (because my parents were Republican) I’d often read the Observer when hanging out at their house. Its hard-core, left-wing advocacy was fascinating to me, especially in contrast to our daily newspaper, which still had plenty of journalists who strived for objectivity and neutral reporting, despite the paper’s liberal bias.

I’ve occasionally pondered how modern newspapers are now as cartoonishly left-wing as the Observer was back then, so there really is no need for a publication like the Observer any longer.

In a way, the Texas Observer ultimately won the battle it was fighting, considering that the legacy media and the Democrat Party now fully embrace the agenda of Ronnie Dugger and Molly Ivins.

[UPDATED]

It’s not dead yet.

Texas Observer Will Continue Publishing After Staff Crowdfunds More Than $300,000

The Observer still faces significant obstacles to its survival, however. Board members have acknowledged that they allowed the budget, which reached $2.1 million last year, to grow beyond what was sustainable.

The Texas Observer’s readers are a fading group of old lefties with framed pictures of Ann Richards on their walls. It can’t afford to keep putting out a print publication, but its geriatric readership won’t switch to online. $300k won’t buy it much time.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 11:01 AM (yyQiq)

2 Solar works on a single family home in a sunny area with a battery bank for storage.

It does not scale up for commercial operations.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:02 AM (nW4TA)

3 Under the legislation Lee approved last week, local governments cannot regulate the "type of source of energy" delivered to customers for utility service connection or appliances. The legislation went into effect immediately after receiving strong support inside the GOP-dominated Tennessee Statehouse.

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Just like gas cans.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:03 AM (SXbM4)

4 Dutifully called as always, need some good news

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 11:03 AM (yyQiq)

5

A post dedicated to good news would be nice each day.

Things are ramping up with election campaigns kicking into gear resulting in evil pouring out all over us (versus the usual).

Posted by: artisanal ette at March 31, 2023 11:03 AM (uQPen)

6 Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec · 10h
The Unforgiving Minute - Rudyard Kipling

https://tinyurl.com/2p8pbdcv

Worth the 1:59 minutes viewing time.

[See you in 20 or so.]

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at March 31, 2023 11:06 AM (Vwz3I)

7 yeah, there's some good news. and it's nice. thanks for that.

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 11:07 AM (Mkvkw)

8 Republican Gov. Bill Lee has signed legislation that says local governments can't ban gas stoves, even though no current city in Tennessee is currently pursuing such actions.

This is a classic GOPe two step

1) There is no need to pass a law/amendment/whatever to stop the left's latest crazy idea, because its just some crazy people talking about it

2) Ooops, the left just implemented that crazy idea that we are all going to pretend is now completely mainstream. Too bad we didn't stop it when we could have. Oh well, this isn't the hill to die on, let's "move on"

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 11:08 AM (lc5cP)

9 How about a few “good news” stories regarding the political battles we’re fighting

Is that allowed here? Isn't it antithetical to the daily dirge from commentators? J/K. Thanks so much, Buck!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 11:08 AM (FUVRY)

10 Solar works on a single family home in a sunny area with a battery bank for storage.

It does not scale up for commercial operations.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:02 AM (nW4TA)

Assuming you have rational power buy-back rates, it can be useful even without a battery bank for managing overall energy costs. Obviously that doesn't help in power outage situations.

And it still doesn't scale to multi-family dwellings, commercial or, God forbid, industrial. You have to be a Democrat to think that's possible.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:11 AM (GYIa4)

11 Molly Ivins...blast from the past.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

12 The power resides in local and state politics. It's the last bastion we have against an irreparably broken and tyrannical DC junta. Nullification is our last peaceful resort.

Make the 10th Amendment great again!

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 11:11 AM (BdMk6)

13 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 11:08 AM (FUVRY)

How did your meeting go or did you post about that in the art thread?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:12 AM (GYIa4)

14 As much as many of us don’t care if major American cities collapse from their own poor voting habits, cities such as Atlanta and Austin are the seats of government for their states. Citizens from around the state oftentimes have to be in those cities for official business. The state has an obligation to protect all of its citizens from crime, even if the residents of certain counties have voted to become criminal sanctuaries.
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But if there's rampant crime in the capital city, then it will be too dangerous for plebes to risk going there and hassling their betters. Their betters get armed security, so they're pretty okay even in that environment.

Sounds like a win/win.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:12 AM (t0OGg)

15 Texas Observer Will Continue Publishing After Staff Crowdfunds More Than $300,000
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"Crowdfunding" that probably resembles those high-volume "small dollar" donations at ActBlue...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:13 AM (t0OGg)

16 Molly Ivins...blast from the past.
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:11 AM (AwYPR)

Something from the past anyway.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:13 AM (GYIa4)

17 Solar is OK as a supplemental source of power, as in, better than nothing. It's definitely not cheap. I have some panels and some battery back ups (not connected to the grid). They could keep my refrigerator running for a day or so. If I used them to cook, they would drain very quickly. I don't worry about lights at night because I go to bed when the sun goes down.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 11:13 AM (jTmQV)

18 One of the many areas the GOPe failed - they could have put massive tariffs on important solar cells.

Why?

Well making solar cells is a heavily polluting industry.

If you put tarriffs on them you force lefties to choose between

1) Abandoning solar
2) Paying more of their own money
3) Relaxing domestic pollution laws to allow solar cells to be made in the US more cost effectively.

And of those options will piss them off (though especially #2). And any one of them would be good for the country collectively.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 31, 2023 11:13 AM (lc5cP)

19 Solar for Pontiac MI is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's a northern city, with low solar flux, long nights, and lots of snow. Other than that, though, it's perfect.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (eOEVl)

20 Solar works on a single family home in a sunny area with a battery bank for storage.

It does not scale up for commercial operations.

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Nowhere near and not even close.

The international space station, with bleeding edge solar panels and tech and with the ability to constantly maximize efficiency, can't produce enough energy to power seven US homes.

One home with air conditioning, washing machines, TVs, etc is a pipe dream.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (SXbM4)

21 15 Texas Observer Will Continue Publishing After Staff Crowdfunds More Than $300,000
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"Crowdfunding" that probably resembles those high-volume "small dollar" donations at ActBlue...
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:13 AM (t0OGg)

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You sound like a conspiracy theorist. The new definition of a conspiracy theorist, that is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (LvTSG)

22 11 Molly Ivins...blast from the past.
Posted by: BignJames
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The Amy Schumer of political columnists.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (gf7Ez)

23 While the satanic Left was going after coal by telling everyone they could be using "clean" natural gas instead, they KNEW they would come for gas next.

The evidence is the fight against gas goes way back. They've been canceling pipelines for a couple of decades now.

And they are now playing the same game with cars. Once they get rid of petrol cars they will enjoy taking on Big Battery.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (u32OT)

24 And I didn't even count the two Teslas

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (SXbM4)

25 Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:12 AM (GYIa4)

I did post about that in the art thread, Thanks for asking,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (FUVRY)

26 19 Solar for Pontiac MI is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's a northern city, with low solar flux, long nights, and lots of snow. Other than that, though, it's perfect.
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Its a jobs program for squeegee guys.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:16 AM (AEvJo)

27 Frump said what?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:16 AM (63Dwl)

28 And they are now playing the same game with cars. Once they get rid of petrol cars they will enjoy taking on Big Battery.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (u32OT)
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And then once they get done with Big Battery, they'll go after Big Lumber because that's the only thing left to burn for energy...

They really do want us all dead, without even the rudimentary ability to survive the environment.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 31, 2023 11:16 AM (BpYfr)

29 the definition of a conspiracy theorist is a person who doesn't have to step in dogshit to know it's dogshit

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:17 AM (us2H3)

30 Lower Energy Costs Act -- H.R. 1
H.Amdt.151 — 118th Congress (2023-2024) 03/30/2023 On agreeing to the Westerman amendment (A020) Agreed to by recorded vote: 407 - 26 (Roll no. 174).

An amendment numbered 20 printed in Part B of House Report 118-30 to prohibit the Communist Party of China (or a person acting on behalf of the Communist Party of China) from acquiring any interest with respect to American farmland or any lands used for American renewable energy production.

NO Votes of note:
Bush Missouri
Jayapal Washington
Ocasio-Cortez New York
Omar Minnesota
Tlaib Michigan

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:17 AM (RHGPo)

31 One home with air conditioning, washing machines, TVs, etc is a pipe dream.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (SXbM4)

Might try a water heater, but you'd need a lot of storage.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:17 AM (AwYPR)

32 And they are now playing the same game with cars. Once they get rid of petrol cars they will enjoy taking on Big Battery.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:15 AM (u32OT)
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And then once they get done with Big Battery, they'll go after Big Lumber because that's the only thing left to burn for energy...

*begins sweating*

Posted by: Big Cow Patty at March 31, 2023 11:17 AM (eOEVl)

33 ... It does not scale up for commercial operations.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:02 AM (nW4TA)
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Let alone utility-scale operations. Solar has a place, and that place is part of the energy security equation for individuals. If you want to go off-grid and retain electricity, solar is a good way to do it. It isn't perfect. You will probably not be able to maintain your normal level of electrical consumption, and nighttime electrical consumption is going to have to be very low - perhaps even zero, if you don't have battery storage - but to retain energy without a utility hook-up, solar is a good choice. If you have no hook-up available (rural, etc.) or if your hook-up is unreliable (poor utility performance, civil unrest, etc. - see South Africa), solar is a great thing if you adjust your consumption to its production and can maintain flexibility.

You do have to defend it, though. When utility power is unreliable and mismanaged or the system starts cracking, solar panels *are* a target, as are the places that have them (the place with solar probably has other stuff worth looting, too).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:17 AM (t0OGg)

34 You know who ELSE arrived with good news?

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:18 AM (u32OT)

35 2 Solar works on a single family home in a sunny area with a battery bank for storage.

It does not scale up for commercial operations.
Posted by: rickb223
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Most people never actually put figures on paper to determine whether the tco (total cost of ownership) outweighs any gains from such a system. Most of the figures put out by the solar industry are bunk and durability/maintenance/quality/longevity of China made solar cells are yet to be determined. The whole question of batteries introduces a new variable. Everytime I have put the numbers to paper, it doesn't make much financial sense other than as a hedging mechanism to avoid total outage. If you have grid tie systems, then it could make sense depending on the unknowns such as maintenance, opportunity costs (forgone other expenditures that may have done better), longevity of system, and tax credits.

Insulation, more efficient a/c and heating such as ground loop heat pumps, and passive solar design such as preheating water and capturing warmth in the winter generally generates more bangs per buck.

Posted by: whig at March 31, 2023 11:18 AM (RFPEu)

36 Solar for Pontiac MI is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. It's a northern city, with low solar flux, long nights, and lots of snow. Other than that, though, it's perfect.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (eOEVl)
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So you're saying it's perfect.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:18 AM (t0OGg)

37 I like good news. Thanks!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 11:19 AM (EdLEa)

38 The evidence is the fight against gas goes way back. They've been canceling pipelines for a couple of decades now.
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This is a Yankee protection racket. Most of the NE/MW cities heat using Heating Fuel which is controlled and parsed out among certain families and territories. Gas would blow these donors out of the water fast if the pipelines were allowed to be installed. Salt mines are another Yankee racket as well. Salting roads is really not that good for the environment. Out west they sand their roads.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:19 AM (AEvJo)

39 Here's the upshot. There won't be much longer the regime can attack its own economy without endangering itself, so eventually, this green crap will go by the boards. To be replaced by zek labor in coal mines.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 31, 2023 11:19 AM (oINRc)

40 in our little village, large arrays are not allowed and if you have panels that are non operational, they have to be removed after a year

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:20 AM (us2H3)

41 This is why I laugh at people who say the Left "went crazy" after Trump. No, perhaps you awakened to their craziness after Trump. They've been like this in plain sight for far too long.

Trump was the response, not the catalyst.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:20 AM (u32OT)

42 Doubling down on doubling down:

https://tinyurl.com/yckn2heh

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (EdLEa)

43 Assuming you have rational power buy-back rates, it can be useful even without a battery bank for managing overall energy costs. Obviously that doesn't help in power outage situations.

And it still doesn't scale to multi-family dwellings, commercial or, God forbid, industrial. You have to be a Democrat to think that's possible.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:11 AM (GYIa4)

"Power buy-back" = subsidy, full stop.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (tkR6S)

44 > Solar works on a single family home in a sunny area with a battery bank for storage.
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Only if the solar panels are efficient enough. I'm looking at various "battery banks" to use as supplemental backup when the power's out. Mostly for recharging phones, tablets and the like. Several can be recharged via solar panels or via a traditional wall plug (presuming power is available.)

What strikes me is the time it can take to fully recharge one of these "banks." Up to 30+ hours via its solar panels if it's depleted. That's for a 80Wh (watt hour) bank. So... on the sunniest of days I could, in theory, get a third of this battery bank charged.

I guess in a pinch this is workable, but still.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (Q4IgG)

45 >>Trump was the response, not the catalyst.

He unmasked so many.
It's a gift.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (EdLEa)

46 Austin is the leader in indicting conservative politicians they don't like on frivolous charges.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (9A3LN)

47 I saw Solar Boondoggle open for Earth Wind And Fire revival band at Woodstock corn festival back in 2011.

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (9+YF+)

48 CBS execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: ‘This is not journalism’

CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (RHGPo)

49 Georgia bill is latest GOP effort targeting prosecutors "They" know Trump is guilty, they know that people in Georgia tried to sign up as un-elected electors to present false ballots to change the outcome of the 2020 Presidential elections which is illegal, and they don't give a shit about the rule of law. "They" don't want certain people to vote or have their votes counted.

This is a Christo-Fascist move by people who can't accept the legal outcome to elections. "The effort was born from frustrations involving a white Republican prosecutor in suburban Atlanta who was indicted for bribery related to sexual harassment claims. He lingered until he pleaded guilty to unprofessional conduct and resigned in 2022."

"aren't doing enough to fight crime." Rich, that from the party enabling every trigger-happy low life in America

It's like Netanyahu's tyranny of the majority.

Not doing enough to fight crime?? Then CONVICT Trump for election crimes.

Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (JCZqz)

50 First they came for the leftists, and I did not speak up because I am not a leftist.

Then they stopped coming. Because everything was fine.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (YPWOk)

51 CBS execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: ‘This is not journalism’

CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (RHGPo)
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Isn't that a denial of identity and therefore literal genocide?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:23 AM (t0OGg)

52 Drawbacks to my particular solar array:
Can't use it in the rain. At all.
Cloudy out? you'll get maybe 20-30% of input.
Solar panels become less efficient every year you own them. Eventually their output will slow to nothing. And then...
Disposal of solar panels is difficult. Legal disposal, I mean.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at March 31, 2023 11:23 AM (jTmQV)

53 Might try a water heater, but you'd need a lot of storage.
Posted by: BignJames

Propane. Just need a tiny amount of juice for the controller. Same with my propane stove. And I can manually light the burners if need be.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:23 AM (nW4TA)

54 More good news:

A bipartisan House majority overwhelmingly approved a measure Thursday to protect rural land critical for renewable energy production from Chinese investors.

The measure — an amendment sponsored by Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa — was approved in a 407-26 vote with 223 Republicans and 184 Democrats voting in favor. Just 26 Democrats voted against the bill while eight lawmakers didn't vote. The bill is an amendment to the Lower Energy Costs Act which the House passed later Thursday....
The Defend America’s Rural Energy Act, which Feenstra introduced earlier this month, proposed to modify the Defense Production Act of 1950 to prohibit foreign adversaries from purchasing any real estate suitable for renewable energy or renewable fuels production.

Any land could be suitable for renewable energy or fuel production. IOW, China can no longer buy American land.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9bkee7

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (eOEVl)

55 Isn't it Tranny Visibility Day today. Trannies certainly did disappear after the shooting.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (eGTCV)

56 in 20 years, there will be a shitload on vids on youtube

How to make a dining table from solar panels using only a circular saw and a belt sander

book it

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (us2H3)

57 I love my outdoor solar lights. I can have lights all around my yard and gardens without running wire or adding to the electrical bill.

They're under three feet of snow now. But this summer they will be awesome.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (Y9v4l)

58 ... This is a Christo-Fascist move by people who can't accept the legal outcome to elections. "The effort was born from frustrations involving a white Republican prosecutor in suburban Atlanta who was indicted for bribery related to sexual harassment claims. He lingered until he pleaded guilty to unprofessional conduct and resigned in 2022." ...
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (JCZqz)
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Yup, the open attacks - I don't mean rhetorical, I mean widespread, open violent attacks - on Christians are coming.

This has nothing to do with religion, yet the enemy is a "Christo-fascist." It's reflexive now. The default demon and enemy of the public good.

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

59 First they came for the leftists but I didn't speak up because I was too busy catching my breath and finding my ass from having laughed it completely off.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (u32OT)

60 Yud the Soviet Union went downhill from 1917 to the 80s, don't think it can't happen anywhere else

Posted by: Skip at March 31, 2023 11:25 AM (yyQiq)

61 39 Here's the upshot. There won't be much longer the regime can attack its own economy without endangering itself, so eventually, this green crap will go by the boards. To be replaced by zek labor in coal mines.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice
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YD,
I don't think the oligarchs and Dem leaders can turn off their destruction machine any longer. It is now running on autopilot trying to destroy anything in its path.

I fully expect a lot of the idiots trying to promote disorder to gain power will be unpleasantly surprised when the hard men take them out via violence--it is the way of most such power grabs in history where the change consumes those that promoted it.

Posted by: whig at March 31, 2023 11:25 AM (RFPEu)

62 Yup, the open attacks - I don't mean rhetorical, I mean widespread, open violent attacks - on Christians are coming.
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I know you qualified your statement to make it accurate but some might argue they have already arrived.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:25 AM (u32OT)

63 55 Isn't it Tranny Visibility Day today. Trannies certainly did disappear after the shooting.
Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (eGTCV)

yeah but there are less children than there were before

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:26 AM (us2H3)

64 Wierd, work has blocked the comments AoS comments section, but not the articles.

Oh well, i hope you’ll be able to live without my rapist wit.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at March 31, 2023 11:27 AM (1huWu)

65 I just remembered the story of Hamaan from the book of Esther. He planned genocide against the Jewish people but ended up dying on his own gallows.
Maybe something similar will happen in this day and age.

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 11:27 AM (eGTCV)

66 I love my outdoor solar lights. I can have lights all around my yard and gardens without running wire or adding to the electrical bill.

They're under three feet of snow now. But this summer they will be awesome.

Posted by: Just Lily at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (Y9v4l)

I've got some strings of solar Christmas lights...they last about 5-6 hours.

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:28 AM (AwYPR)

67 Other areas of Illinois are all in on solar
You can drive through Jasper county and see miles of flat solar panels. Good farm land goes to waste. But at least they are not chopping up birds

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 11:29 AM (mkOYp)

68 57 I love my outdoor solar lights. I can have lights all around my yard and gardens without running wire or adding to the electrical bill.

They're under three feet of snow now. But this summer they will be awesome.

Posted by: Just Lily
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Exterior supplementary lighting is where solar makes sense if your yard permits it and you change batteries/clean the panels (or polish them if polycarbonate type lenses). In a power outage, you can also bring them inside for light.

Posted by: whig at March 31, 2023 11:29 AM (RFPEu)

69 65 I just remembered the story of Hamaan from the book of Esther. He planned genocide against the Jewish people but ended up dying on his own gallows.
Maybe something similar will happen in this day and age.
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Sounds like John Brown, Charlie Manson and Berry Sotero.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:29 AM (AEvJo)

70 Wierd, work has blocked the comments AoS comments section, but not the articles.

Oh well, i hope you’ll be able to live without my rapist wit.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Biggest reason I use my cell phone. Not work property. They can't say shit about it. As long as my work gets done.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:29 AM (nW4TA)

71 Apropos of nothing, just using the term transistor radio means that you are old enough to remember tube radios.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:30 AM (yQpMk)

72 Other areas of Illinois are all in on solar
You can drive through Jasper county and see miles of flat solar panels. Good farm land goes to waste. But at least they are not chopping up birds
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill -- Behold the Manchurian Candidate at March 31, 2023 11:29 AM (mkOYp)

It's more humane to cook them mid-flight.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:30 AM (Q65mO)

73

Solar bankruptcies leaving customers in the dark.

https://tinyurl.com/3ju8ra6h

https://tinyurl.com/yc7es7bn

https://tinyurl.com/mw3yd445

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:30 AM (63Dwl)

74 Propane. Just need a tiny amount of juice for the controller. Same with my propane stove. And I can manually light the burners if need be.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:23 AM (nW4TA)

OMG! A gas stove?! Do you want to kill Gaia?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (BdMk6)

75 I know you qualified your statement to make it accurate but some might argue they have already arrived.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:25 AM (u32OT)
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Not yet, I don't think. It's small scale. The occasional church bombing or beating happens, but it's intermittent and small-scale (albeit targeted) crime of opportunity.

It'll ramp up and become systematized. We're in the transition point between state tolerance of ethnic violence and state sponsorship of ethnic violence, which then becomes state participation in ethnic violence.

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

76 Other areas of Illinois are all in on solar
You can drive through Jasper county and see miles of flat solar panels. Good farm land goes to waste.

But at least they are not chopping up birds
Posted by: JM in Fla

No. They just fry them when they fly over.

Seriously.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (nW4TA)

77 49 "aren't doing enough to fight crime." Rich, that from the party enabling every trigger-happy low life in America

It's like Netanyahu's tyranny of the majority.

Not doing enough to fight crime?? Then CONVICT Trump for election crimes.
Posted by: Intrepid Democratic Underground AoS Liaison at March 31, 2023 11:22 AM (JCZqz)

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Are they implying that Nashville tranny was a lowlife? What kind of monsters are they to call the true victim of Nashville something like that?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (LvTSG)

78 At my former office in Austin, the PW department had installed one of those little solar panels to power a light or sign of some kind.

It was directly under a very large live oak. Couldn't have gotten even 10% of direct sunlight. After about 4 years they took it out.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (z/ifB)

79 71 Apropos of nothing, just using the term transistor radio means that you are old enough to remember tube radios.
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The smell of ozone and the love of fat sound. Damn I miss my Grundig Radio.

Posted by: Puddinhead at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (DmtxH)

80 65 I just remembered the story of Hamaan from the book of Esther. He planned genocide against the Jewish people but ended up dying on his own gallows.
Maybe something similar will happen in this day and age.
Posted by: N. Lurker
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Prayer works and the ways of the Lord are mysterious.

Posted by: whig at March 31, 2023 11:31 AM (RFPEu)

81 OMG! A gas stove?! Do you want to kill Gaia?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Fucking A! Then rape the still warm body.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:32 AM (nW4TA)

82 I put solar Christmas lights in my front hedges for Christmas.

Posted by: polynikes at March 31, 2023 11:32 AM (9A3LN)

83 I friggin' HATED that fake Texan Molly Ivins.

And that drunken coke head Ann Richards, too.

"Poe-err Geo-rrge. He cain't hep it. He was born with a silver foot in his mow-eth."

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 31, 2023 11:32 AM (/Qz4j)

84 ace on his way to work

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6_l9zUQ4u8

Posted by: DaveA at March 31, 2023 11:32 AM (FhXTo)

85 Has Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife been indicted yet?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (DhOHl)

86 "A new Georgia commission to discipline and remove wayward prosecutors would be the latest move nationwide to ratchet up oversight on what Republicans see as “woke prosecutors” who aren’t doing enough to fight crime."

The Dems will take control of this commission and turn it against Republicans.

Posted by: davidt at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (SYTee)

87 Apropos of nothing, just using the term transistor radio means that you are old enough to remember tube radios.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:30 AM (yQpMk)

5 tube super hetrodyne radio

Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

88 Propane. Just need a tiny amount of juice for the controller. Same with my propane stove. And I can manually light the burners if need be.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:23 AM (nW4TA)

...

We will be on propane when our house gets built and I'm pretty stoked. I suspect though that propane would be an easy political target--cutting it off is going to hurt more right wingers than left. Way more.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (z/ifB)

89 First they came for the leftists but I didn't speak up because I was too busy catching my breath and finding my ass from having laughed it completely off.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:24 AM (u32OT)

Mirror image clown world is thinking the same about you, but they've only been winning for 5 decades.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (FCbAQ)

90 Apropos of nothing, just using the term transistor radio means that you are old enough to remember tube radios.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:30 AM (yQpMk)

Heck, I own a bunch of tube radios. Even some portables the size of transistor radios. They eat batteries, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (tkR6S)

91 Good farm land goes to waste.

But at least they are not chopping up birds
Posted by: JM in Fla

Good chance that good farmland is being made completely sterile by those things. The many levels of damage being done to the environment under the guise of "environmentally friendly" is sickening.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (nC+QA)

92 Today was the first time I've heard Peter Zeihan be explicitly political, and he really screwed the pooch on this one. He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary.

"The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power."

A real judiciary, yes. What we have now? Nope, they're the aspiring authoritarians.

https://tinyurl.com/yxb34fb6

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (eOEVl)

93 @44

>>I guess in a pinch this is workable, but still.

As has been noted, all forms of green energy, even with adequate battery backup, is inefficient, unreliable and non-scalable.

The paradox of so-called "Green Energy" is that as your reliance on it increases, so does your need for reliable, stable, dispatchable energy sources of energy.

Or alternatively...

There is no such thing as a free chicken in every pot that you can f**k.

YMMV

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (up/3i)

94 I wrote my state legislator and requested that all the insurrectionists that invaded the Tennessee capitol be rounded up and incarcerated with no possibility for bonding out for a period of three years until we have the opportunity to review the footage and hold hearings.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (YPWOk)

95 Your sad and pathetic, but oh so very human, impulse to seek out hope when there is none is simply adorable. Your ant farm antics bring me all manners of amusement.

Posted by: God at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (0avLl)

96 Ha. Yeah, that's solar in a nutshell.

Solar can kind of almost sort of work so long as you've got something else that can actually produce energy when it's needed.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (SXbM4)

97 One home with air conditioning, washing machines, TVs, etc is a pipe dream.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (SXbM4)

Your Hibernation Pod will have one LED and you'll be happy.

Posted by: WEF at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (h5TKJ)

98
CBS execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: ‘This is not journalism’

CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"

Posted by: SMOD

I'll bet they complained about "don't say gay" bills.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (63Dwl)

99 We will be on propane when our house gets built and I'm pretty stoked. I suspect though that propane would be an easy political target--cutting it off is going to hurt more right wingers than left. Way more.
Posted by: TexasDan

Cutting off propane will fuck up every warehouse that uses forklifts.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (nW4TA)

100 "Power buy-back" = subsidy, full stop.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:21 AM (tkR6S)

During the day I produce more power than I consume. It could be thrown away and the electric company could produce that power using traditional means but why would they not use it?

If they don't pay me for the power that I produce, why would I give it to them?

Tax incentives are subsidies. Power buy-backs are not.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (GYIa4)

101 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:

"Our hearts go out to the trans community, as they are under attack right now."

My heart goes out to Karine Jean-Pierre’s brainless caricature of a Presidential spokescritter.

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

102 98 I'll bet they complained about "don't say gay" bills.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (63Dwl)

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I'll bet they call Hitler Catholic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (LvTSG)

103 One home with air conditioning, washing machines, TVs, etc is a pipe dream.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:14 AM (SXbM4)

Your Hibernation Pod will have one LED and you'll be happy.
Posted by: WEF at March 31, 2023 11:35 AM (h5TKJ)

those in the center of the pod will be warm in winter.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (z/ifB)

104 They would not have indicted Trump if certain gop " leaders" and leader adjacents weren't all for it. Perhaps certain Senators can help us out , go on record denouncing shameless Trump persecution??

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (9+YF+)

105 5 tube super hetrodyne radio
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

Fun fact: transistor and IC radios are nearly all superheterodyne circuits, too. Not sure about "software defined" radio, though.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (tkR6S)

106 My brother in Hawaii has solar and a battery wall at his newly built house, so I guess I will receive first hand info on how it works out.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (yQpMk)

107 Good chance that good farmland is being made completely sterile by those things. The many levels of damage being done to the environment under the guise of "environmentally friendly" is sickening.
Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (nC+QA)

There is a school of thought that the midwest farming areas are being depopulated and small farmers moved off the land to allow the Federal government and the hdege funds to buy it to pledge it to cover US debts to foreign governments and foreign banks

I normally would have poo-pood this, but it is 2023 now.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (xhaym)

108 You can have your gas stoves... Just not the gas

Posted by: It's me donna at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (bs+z0)

109 execs bar the word ‘transgender’ from reports on Nashville shooter: ‘This is not journalism’

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And another example of real time 1984.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (SXbM4)

110 "Assuming you have rational power buy-back rates, it can be useful even without a battery bank for managing overall energy costs. Obviously that doesn't help in power outage situations."

I have a "hybrid" so could disconnect from grid and use the system ... but I decided not to connect to grid, because they wanted higher insurance and rights to inspection at any time. About $1000 of batteries would get me through the night for lights and computer, if power was out.

But power companies have to have a profit, so if people are almost zeroing out their utility bills, the power companies will have to start adding fees to cover regular maintenance and staff.

Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (Cus5s)

111 He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary.

"The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power."
Posted by: Archimedes

What a fuck head. I listen to him, but if he hasn't noticed, we now live in an authoritarian leftist dictatorship brought on by massive vote rigging. Who are the dictators again?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (/Qz4j)

112 Cutting off propane will fuck up every warehouse that uses forklifts.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (nW4TA)

...

When the semis are all required to be electric the forklifts are not going to matter though.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (z/ifB)

113 It makes sense why the feds and the news were so mad that Musk bought Twitter and allowed a slight bit of discussion, isn't it?

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (SXbM4)

114 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (9+YF+)

115 My heart goes out to Karine Jean-Pierre’s brainless caricature of a Presidential spokescritter.
Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (RHGPo)

Rumor is that she was stopped this week for a DUI and released without charge.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (xhaym)

116 Today was the first time I've heard Peter Zeihan be explicitly political, and he really screwed the pooch on this one. He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary. ...
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM (eOEVl)
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Zeihan has a problem, and this is not surprising. His grand vision of the future that he has laid out is largely correct, but his version of it depends on something akin to business-as-usual in various important countries like Brazil and the United States. He is also all-in on the climate nonsense. Revolutionary action - whatever it is, whether from within the government or by the people - in important countries will change a lot of his assumptions (though not his core assumption that globalism is dead and a multipolar regional future is more likely), so he has to resist it. Just my guess.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (t0OGg)

117 White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre:

Cue: Cuck walks into chat

Cuck: I think KJP is cute. I know she's a leftist and a lesbian, but she's cute.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (YPWOk)

118 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?

Pffffft.

Posted by: India at March 31, 2023 11:39 AM (eOEVl)

119 Tax incentives are subsidies. Power buy-backs are not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (GYIa4)

How much do they pay for the power? Is it significantly more or less than what they charge their customers.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:39 AM (yQpMk)

120 People are going to work around the gas stove ban with LPG tanks, and then we can get back into the good old days of exploding apartment blocks.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:39 AM (z/ifB)

121 Democrats should give as much as they possibly can to the Texas Observer. Preserving this important voice in Texas is worth every penny they have.

Posted by: Oglebay at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (wscPk)

122 I live in The United States of America where I know, if somebody goes out and blows away some number of people with a gun .. it will be the gun's fault

Poor Lee Harvey Oswald .. born 60 years too early

Posted by: SMOD at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (RHGPo)

123 As with the ICE, solar and wind will become viable when and if they eclipse all the advantages of the current systems.

To date nothing has come close.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (KATBx)

124 Cuck: I think KJP is cute. I know she's a leftist and a lesbian, but she's cute.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (YPWOk)

I will have to see dat azz before I can render judgement.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (yQpMk)

125 If they don't pay me for the power that I produce, why would I give it to them?

Tax incentives are subsidies. Power buy-backs are not.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:36 AM (GYIa4)

Because they are "paying" you much more than the wholesale value of the power. Get too much "distributed" generation into the grid, and the grid becomes unstable. It's a PITA for the utility companies, and the main reason they do it is to suck gummint or greentard dick.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (tkR6S)

126 Apropos of nothing, just using the term transistor radio means that you are old enough to remember tube radios.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023
*
5 tube super hetrodyne radio
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023

***
We had a small tabletop tube radio when I was very small. Took a few moments to warm up, as did the radio in my father's '58 Chevy Impala. The radio in his '66 Impala popped on immediately.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (J2vNu)

127 The Texas Observer’s readers are a fading group of old lefties with framed pictures of Ann Richards on their walls. It can’t afford to keep putting out a print publication, but its geriatric readership won’t switch to online. $300k won’t buy it much time.

There is a very Left-wing radio station in Portland that apparently only survives because Leftists provide money to the station in their wills when they die.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (2tUFv)

128 And another example of real time 1984.
Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (SXbM4)

Can't we go back to REAL TIME real 1984?
Please?

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (mR6Gs)

129 often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?

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We're not tropical. We have all the seasons. Our summers have high humidity that makes AC almost a necessity, though.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (SXbM4)

130 111 He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary.

"The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power."
Posted by: Archimedes

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So, the judiciary stopped Hitler from killing Jews, right? They weren't turned at all, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

131 114 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?
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We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it. The worst was testing in Yuma every summer. You'd push water/gator aid all day and never take a leak. Amazing, really.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (ssJXH)

132 "I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.They will come in and go out, and find pasture."

John 10:9

Posted by: Marcus T, Deus Vult at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (HDGM5)

133
5 tube super hetrodyne radio
Posted by: BignJames

The All American Five

wikipedia.org/wiki/All_American_Five

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (63Dwl)

134 When the semis are all required to be electric the forklifts are not going to matter though.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (z/ifB)

And the tow trucks we will need to drag those semis into town when they run out of electrical power?

Clydesdales for the win!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (XIJ/X)

135 Also, Zeihan is wrong about the judiciary. As Archimedes pointed out, it is *not* a "block" to authoritarianism. Nor is the judiciary engaging in aspirational authoritarianism. The judiciary provides cover for the authoritarians by giving them a patina of legitimacy. They're running interference for the authoritarians, and doing so almost all the time.

Some of the judges themselves are authoritarians who aspire to higher power, but most aren't. Most are just doing their real jobs of delivering more and more power to the authoritarians under cover of law.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (t0OGg)

136 These laws are good. Glad they did it. But they're playing defense. And why I am not a conservative. I want to go on the offensive and pass laws that change society for the better.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (1ais2)

137 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?

Nicest thing besides air conditioning? Not having to carry/wear a jacket every time you step outside of your house.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (nW4TA)

138 Cuck: I think KJP is cute. I know she's a leftist and a lesbian, but she's cute.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (YPWOk)

Not cute.
She's a POS, straight up

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (mR6Gs)

139 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?
Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (9+YF+)

No, and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (z/ifB)

140 The radio in his '66 Impala popped on immediately.
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Your dad was a low rider?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (ssJXH)

141 You won't see this reported in the mainstream media, but Saint Zelensky went to Vienna to address the Austrian parliament, and a bunch of legislators walked out on him.

Meanwhile, Xi still won't return Zelensky's phone calls...

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (2tUFv)

142 We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (ssJXH)

Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)

143 I normally would have poo-pood this, but it is 2023 now.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (xhaym)

Same. It was being noted in Australia that almost all the people they were rounding up for being un-vaxxed were Aborigines. More to the point, Aborigines from a certain area of Treaty Land that the government has had its eye on for a while. It took a while, but somehow the fascists and the maoists have taken over the western world. At the same time, no less, which I don't think anyone saw coming.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (nC+QA)

144 How much do they pay for the power? Is it significantly more or less than what they charge their customers.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)

From what I have seen, it is a fraction of what you pay per kw/hr. Or maybe that was one instance, don't know.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (Q65mO)

145 138 Cuck: I think KJP is cute. I know she's a leftist and a lesbian, but she's cute.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:38 AM (YPWOk)

Not cute.
She's a POS, straight up
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She looks exactly like a Pollywog Doll. I wonder if that's intentional.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (ssJXH)

146 I often wonder what it is like to live in constant heat, like they do in the South. Doesn't it get unbearable? Same weather al the time?
*
Pffffft.
Posted by: India at March 31, 2023

***
Yes, as a matter of fact it does get unbearable. Without widespread AC the area would be unliveable. Back in the Hoover days of the FBI, he considered exiling an agent who misbehaved to the Noo Awlins office to be a punishment; and before indoor cooling of offices and homes, it would have been.

I grew up in it. I know.

True, we get brief spells of fall. Locals call it winter, but it ain't. They seem to get shorter and farther between, every year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (J2vNu)

147 When the semis are all required to be electric the forklifts are not going to matter though.
Posted by: TexasDan

Won't need electric or propane forklifts then. We'll have enough illegals to tote and haul.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (nW4TA)

148 tube super hetrodyne radio
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023

Cis-hetrodyne radio?

Posted by: Different times for sure at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (0avLl)

149 *passes law that is clearly unconstitutional*
-Congress
*signs law that is clearly unconstitutional*
-President

*ignores law for years until narrow ruling saying part of unconstitutional law is icky but the rest is okay, even though it's still unconstitutional and outright authoritarian*
-SCOTUS

This, my friends, is the story of the ACA with SCOTUS saving us from authoritarianism.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

150 No, and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (z/ifB)

We don't either.

Posted by: Northerners on vacation at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (FCbAQ)

151 141 You won't see this reported in the mainstream media, but Saint Zelensky went to Vienna to address the Austrian parliament, and a bunch of legislators walked out on him.

Meanwhile, Xi still won't return Zelensky's phone calls...
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (2tUFv)

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Ukraine is the Palestine of Eastern Europe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

152 Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)
++++
And in the South, if you look at what they did before A/C, it makes some sense: the whole-house fan. Swamp coolers don't work in humid environments, but airflow is airflow. The whole-house fan (usually in the attic) pulls air out of the house through a hole in the ceiling and pumps it outdoors. The whole house is mildly negative pressure. It can keep things bearable. Not pleasant, but bearable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (t0OGg)

153 Mirror image clown world is thinking the same about you, but they've only been winning for 5 decades.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (FCbAQ)

Evil has been winning a lot longer than 5 decades - (and I'm not so certain they are a mirror image, more an ugly corrupted inversion) - but my side wins in the end.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (u32OT)

154
Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)

Oscillating fan. Whenever I slept with a fan blowing directly on my, I'd wake up with aches and pains.
In a pool of sweat.

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

155 The radio in his '66 Impala popped on immediately.
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Your dad was a low rider?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023

***
What an image! No, he bought the '66 Super Sport when it was new or almost new.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (J2vNu)

156 142 We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (ssJXH)

Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.
------------------
Yep. But the best was attic fans that pulled in cool air at night and then you'd close all windows to keep the cool dry air in the house in the morning. Lots of shade trees helps as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (ssJXH)

157 You'd push water/gator aid all day and never take a leak. Amazing, really.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (ssJXH)

You're still taking a leak. Just not that way.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (z/ifB)

158 Your dad was a low rider?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:42 AM (ssJXH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILN7hG4kUFg

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (AiZBA)

159 Not having to carry/wear a jacket every time you step outside of your house.

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Saving money on jacket toward air conditioning fund? 😃

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (9+YF+)

160 Morning all fuck this country i hate everyone

well upside is that its friday and Im making pizza for breakfast

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (VTu1l)

161 "and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either."

400 pound waffle house heifers are beautiful?

Posted by: okay now at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (89Sog)

162 Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)

Fans cause asthma.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (u32OT)

163 I doubt I was the influence for using the word "boutique" but seeing it made me smile since I've been pushing the term Boutique Green for a couple of years now.

Posted by: Synova at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (BD/yx)

164 Ukraine is the Palestine of Eastern Europe.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:44 AM (LvTSG)

But with WAY hotter women

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (mR6Gs)

165 Nicest thing besides air conditioning? Not having to carry/wear a jacket every time you step outside of your house.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:41 AM (nW4TA)

It is hard to carry a 1911 under a tee shirt and shorts.
I just about could carry a Desert Eagle under a parka and not look "lumpy"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:46 AM (xhaym)

166 It's one of the things that always amuses me about college team fans saying things about SEC teams going up north to play in cold weather.

Wait, you want guys who train and condition to play in 100 degree heat with 100% humidity to play where the starters can probably stay on the field 15-30% longer?

Yes please.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:46 AM (SXbM4)

167 Fans cause asthma.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (u32OT)

is this a fact

Posted by: JoeF. at March 31, 2023 11:46 AM (mR6Gs)

168 He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary.

Orban, too.

The Left thinks that the judiciary should be a self-perpetuating oligarchy, as in Israel, and that giving the democratic legislature any role in choosing the judges is "destroying the independent judiciary".

That's because that if the judiciary 's a self-perpetuating oligarchy, it will inevitably be captured by the Left.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (2tUFv)

169 But power companies have to have a profit, so if people are almost zeroing out their utility bills, the power companies will have to start adding fees to cover regular maintenance and staff.
Posted by: illiniwek at March 31, 2023 11:37 AM (Cus5s)

Commercial, industrial, and multi-family cannot do adequate roof-top solar. Power company's profits are in no danger any time soon.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (GYIa4)

170 I had an attic fan installed when I built this house but it has never worked to my satisfaction. Too much noise and vibration. I think it is just poorly installed.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (yQpMk)

171 168 The Left thinks that the judiciary should be a self-perpetuating oligarchy, as in Israel, and that giving the democratic legislature any role in choosing the judges is "destroying the independent judiciary".

That's because that if the judiciary 's a self-perpetuating oligarchy, it will inevitably be captured by the Left.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (2tUFv)

=======

A self-sustaining oligarchy is the definition of democracy.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (LvTSG)

172 155 The radio in his '66 Impala popped on immediately.
----------------
Your dad was a low rider?
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023

***
What an image! No, he bought the '66 Super Sport when it was new or almost new.
----------------
My dad's cars were a Nash, Covair, T-Bird and then Lincoln's for the golden years. The Nash's seats could collapse to form a bed if you needed to sleep one off on the side of the road.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:47 AM (ssJXH)

173 CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"

**********

Ok, mentally ill murderous fucknads works for me

Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (VTu1l)

174 That's because that if the judiciary 's a self-perpetuating oligarchy, it will inevitably be captured by the Left.

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Posted by: Peasant #3 at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (0avLl)

175 and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either."

400 pound waffle house heifers are beautiful?
Posted by: okay now at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (89Sog)

Beautiful women are everywhere. You just can't see them because the fatties and the uggos are in the way.

Posted by: Northerners on vacation at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (FCbAQ)

176 Fans cause asthma.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (u32OT)
++++
How?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

177 The idea that the north doesn't need AC is a laugh.

When we moved to Minneapolis everyone went on and on about how they didn't need AC and just used fans blah blah blah.

And then the paper would run articles about how in midsummer no one could sleep and they'd be out on roofs and all go down to the park to try to sleep by the lake and what not.

Sure you don't need it as much but they run out of room in the morgue when a heat wave hits Chicago.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (z/ifB)

178 People are going to work around the gas stove ban with LPG tanks, and then we can get back into the good old days of exploding apartment blocks.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:39 AM (z/ifB)

You can make perfectly good fuel gas by the pyrolysis of waste organic material in retorts. Straw, sawdust, cow shit, Democrats...

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (tkR6S)

179 174 I thought we were an autonomous collective.
Posted by: Peasant #3 at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (0avLl)

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Anarcho communist commune, to be precise.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (LvTSG)

180 We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead

We didn't have central ac until we moved to Texas in '79. We had two window units. Also had masonry walls and a snow load roof with an actual basement. Those window units kept the house pretty cool.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (nW4TA)

181 170 I had an attic fan installed when I built this house but it has never worked to my satisfaction. Too much noise and vibration. I think it is just poorly installed.
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The best ones are very large and heavy. Good sized motor driving the thing, as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (ssJXH)

182 I am not sure if I called it here, but some of the semi-official voices in Poland are now aware that Ukraine could lose and they are making noises that they want the Lviv region.

I suspect Hungary and Romania will also want parts of western Ukraine, too, as the cost of their acquiescence

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (xhaym)

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

The last few days shows that The Justification Infrastructure - in the form of the media, elected officials, and the well behaved conservative commentariat - is in place and ready to rock and roll.

My observation is that is the final required piece to the puzzle - one that rational normal adults never thought could come to this country. That is what makes it "widespread" to me.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (u32OT)

184 That's because that if the judiciary 's a self-perpetuating oligarchy, it will inevitably be captured by the Left.

I thought we were an autonomous collective.

Posted by: Peasant #3

Never gets old.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (eOEVl)

185 We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023

***
Our apartment didn't have anything but fans until May of '66, when Mom bought the first window unit. My brother and I immediately moved indoors for the summer instead of sitting outside in whatever shade we could find.

She bought another unit for upstairs a year or so later. By comparison with the thick velvety steambath air we used to swelter in? Heavenly.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (J2vNu)

186 Back in 1980 or so, 10% of the houses in Portland had air conditioning.

Now every new house constructed in Portland has air conditioning.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (2tUFv)

187 182 I am not sure if I called it here, but some of the semi-official voices in Poland are now aware that Ukraine could lose and they are making noises that they want the Lviv region.

I suspect Hungary and Romania will also want parts of western Ukraine, too, as the cost of their acquiescence
Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (xhaym)

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Hilarious. I still don't care about the war.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (LvTSG)

188 Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)

Fans or a breeze. Summer rooms will make a comeback. We'll have to fortify all the windows though to keep out the looters. That's IF we're allowed to own homes at all.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (BdMk6)

189 173 CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"

**********

Ok, mentally ill murderous fucknads works for me
Posted by: The Unvaxxed and Unmasked Ranger - Declaring Independence From The Former United States at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (VTu1l)

Wait, I thought transgenders wanted visibility? Isn't there a whole day dedicated to this?

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

190 How?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

By blowing negative ions into the lungs.

Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (u32OT)

191 Molly Ivins had an extremely punchable face, and the world is a better place now that she's mulch, She was a poor stylist with nothing to say and all the time and space in the world to say it.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (KFhLj)

192 You can make perfectly good fuel gas by the pyrolysis of waste organic material in retorts. Straw, sawdust, cow shit, Democrats...
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Its best to feed Democrats to the hogs. Much moar sustainable and eco friendly.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (ssJXH)

193 180 We didn't have central A/C until 1966. We were ahead of the curve. Living without it is doable, you just get acclimatized to it.
Posted by: Pudinhead

we had an a/c but no electricity until 1968

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (us2H3)

194 189 Wait, I thought transgenders wanted visibility? Isn't there a whole day dedicated to this?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

========

"Look at me!"
-Tranny

"Okay. Everyone, look at that person."
-LibsofTikTok

"You're trying to get me killed!"
-Tranny

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

195 How much do they pay for the power? Is it significantly more or less than what they charge their customers.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:39 AM (yQpMk)

In my case, it's the same.

If it were more, that would be a subsidy... which I would oppose even while benefiting from it. If it were less, I would either change to a different power company... which I did... or reconsider solar altogether.

Given that I live in Texas, where it's sunny a lot, and I've seen no degradation of electric generation over the 5+ years I've had solar and, in the face of energy inflation, I made the right choice.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (GYIa4)

196 and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either."
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400 pound waffle house heifers are beautiful?

-

Yes, this is true of all Southern women. It is also miserably hot with constant humidity all year round.

Please tell your friends and everyone you know up there.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (SXbM4)

197 Molly Ivins is no more?

Posted by: N. Lurker at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (eGTCV)

198 170 I had an attic fan installed when I built this house but it has never worked to my satisfaction. Too much noise and vibration. I think it is just poorly installed.
Posted by: G'rump928(c)
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Possibly but if you are moving a lot of air through relatively small outlets and intake, you get greater noise. If you know someone that does HVAC install work, they might be able to suggest ways to lessen the noise of operation without getting a new install.

Posted by: whig at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (RFPEu)

199 How?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (t0OGg)

By blowing negative ions into the lungs.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (u32OT)

A reverse tachyon burst through the deflector array will set that to rights.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (yQpMk)

200 Fans cause asthma.
Posted by: ... at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (u32OT)

Koreans don't like leaving fans running in an enclosed room all the time. They think it "kills the air"

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (xhaym)

201 Today was the first time I've heard Peter Zeihan be explicitly political, and he really screwed the pooch on this one. He equates Netanyahu, Bolsonaro, and Trump, as being would-be dictators trying to destroy the independent judiciary.

"The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power."

A real judiciary, yes. What we have now? Nope, they're the aspiring authoritarians.

https://tinyurl.com/yxb34fb6
Posted by: Archimedes at March 31, 2023 11:34 AM

This guy? He gets it.

Posted by: Zombie Roland Freisler at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (Wnv9h)

202 Hey, James, have you seen the movie Old Henry? Saw it last night and thought you'd enjoy it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (ssJXH)

203 Re: zeihan.

Completely ahistorical. The judiciary and the legalists at the very beginning were creatures of the Monarch and opposed to the decentralizing barons. Philip the Fair. HRE Henry II

They have everywhere and always been a force for centralization of power.

Kantorowicz argued they eventually abstracted power from the individual King into The Crown and then The State in his The Kings Two Bodies.

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (1ais2)

204 I suspect Hungary and Romania will also want parts of western Ukraine, too, as the cost of their acquiescence

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 11:49 AM (xhaym)

Orban has played it smart. He knew Hungary would wind up bordering Russia and it makes sense to get along with your neighbor and take a little extra revenue producing territory.

The Poles....not so much.

They yap and yap at the behest of the west.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (YPWOk)

205 Basements are great. Just have to run a dehumdifier in the summer.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (Q65mO)

206 202 Hey, James, have you seen the movie Old Henry? Saw it last night and thought you'd enjoy it.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:51 AM (ssJXH)

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Nope, but it sounds interesting.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (LvTSG)

207 I fired a guy once because every time I went to my restoration shop, he had NPR on

It's good to be the King

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (us2H3)

208 Sure you don't need it as much but they run out of room in the morgue when a heat wave hits Chicago.
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (z/ifB)

The urban heat sink is real. Concrete that has absorbed all the sun has keeps cities hotter at night. By day 3 of a heat wave it can get unbearable, even up nort.

Posted by: Northerners on vacation at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (FCbAQ)

209 am not sure if I called it here, but some of the semi-official voices in Poland are now aware that Ukraine could lose and they are making noises that they want the Lviv region.

-

Ha. Yep, we called this last year. Ukraine has been winning this entire time and then suddenly the war is over and everyone knew Ukraine was losing and what are you talking about? We always were reporting that. Also shut up.

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (SXbM4)

210 Because they are "paying" you much more than the wholesale value of the power. Get too much "distributed" generation into the grid, and the grid becomes unstable. It's a PITA for the utility companies, and the main reason they do it is to suck gummint or greentard dick.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 11:40 AM (tkR6S)

In that case, thanks for all the free money. Given that it's viable in my area, however, I would be foolish to not take advantage of it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (GYIa4)

211 194 189 Wait, I thought transgenders wanted visibility? Isn't there a whole day dedicated to this?
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (KbCG3)

========

"Look at me!"
-Tranny

"Okay. Everyone, look at that person."
-LibsofTikTok

"You're trying to get me killed!"
-Tranny
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:50 AM (LvTSG)

"We're coming for your kids!" - School Groomer

"They're coming for your kids." LoTT

"How dare you you amplify my words!" - School Groomer

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (KbCG3)

212 My dad's cars were a Nash, Covair, T-Bird and then Lincoln's for the golden years. The Nash's seats could collapse to form a bed if you needed to sleep one off on the side of the road.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023

***
Dad bought a nearly-new car every seven or eight years, usually as the new models were coming in and the dealers wanted to move the old ones. I tried to get him to go for a Thunderbird, the '66 model especially, but he was still driving the heck out of the Impala SS.

When he did get rid of it, it was not to sell or give it to me for college. Oh, noooo. He bought one of the second-generation Monte Carlo coupes, dark blue with a white or cream top and interior. A T-Bird would have been very much his style. But he was a GM man -- '47 Cadillac, '58 Impala, '66, and then the Monte Carlo.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (J2vNu)

213 I am not sure if I called it here, but some of the semi-official voices in Poland are now aware that Ukraine could lose and they are making noises that they want the Lviv region.

Lvov, as it was then known, was part of Poland as recently as just before WWII.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (KFhLj)

214 Toyota sez the future is in hydrogen.

https://youtu.be/P8sosEGk068

Posted by: Just Sayin' at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (DhOHl)

215 196 and we don't get tired of our beautiful women either."
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400 pound waffle house heifers are beautiful?
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FYI, fat ladies are very cooling to dance with on a hot night. Like wrestling cool jello.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (ssJXH)

216 It is hard to carry a 1911 under a tee shirt and shorts.
I just about could carry a Desert Eagle under a parka and not look "lumpy"
Posted by: Kindltot

Thankful for open carry. (Misnomer) It really should be called relaxed printing mode. Carry a full sized H&K USP 45 and just drop the tshirt over it. Before open carry option, it had to be 100% totally concealed. No printing. No accidental display when the wind blows your coat open. Etc.

FTS.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (nW4TA)

217 I suspect Hungary and Romania will also want parts of western Ukraine, too, as the cost of their acquiescence

The Hungarians are pissed off that the Hungarian-speaking areas in Ukraine adjacent to Hungary are being increasingly repressed (Ukrainian is now going to be the only language of instruction in schools), and seem to be subject to greater draft calls than the Ukrainian-speaking areas.

Also, applying for a Hungarian passport when living in Ukraine gets you put on the semi-official Ukrainian Death List.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (2tUFv)

218 The Judiciary is of course responsible for the secularization of The State and the creation of the Corporate form (a type of AI).

Posted by: Thesokorus at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (1ais2)

219 Re: A/C--I'm looking at various systems for the new house. I'm wanting to go with a highly insulated, very well sealed home to minimize the size of the system, and then go with mini-splits.

My wife can only picture the wall mount things we had in Asia so I have got to get her somewhere where she can see the new styles they have in real life.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (z/ifB)

220 Yep. But the best was attic fans that pulled in cool air at night and then you'd close all windows to keep the cool dry air in the house in the morning. Lots of shade trees helps as well.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (ssJXH)

We had an attic fan that worked great for that - until my mom turned it on one time and an unfortunate attic squirrel came down in pieces. She never turned it on again and we had to sweat out summer nights.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (qXxi9)

221 Toyota sez the future is in hydrogen.

https://youtu.be/P8sosEGk068
Posted by: Just Sayin'

Get it to where I fill up my truck with a garden hose.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (nW4TA)

222 I like Tim Blake Nelson.

*creepy Joe whisper* We thought you was ... a toad.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (yQpMk)

223 Beautiful women are everywhere. You just can't see them because the fatties and the uggos are in the way.
Posted by: Northerners on vacation at March 31, 2023 11:48 AM (FCbAQ)

You win the internets today. Well played!

Posted by: Proceed to colledt your winnings. at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (89Sog)

224 205 Basements are great. Just have to run a dehumdifier in the summer.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (Q65mO)

I have a 2500 sq ft basement, dry as a bone. With 10 inch concete walls

one of the reasons I bought my house

like a bomb shelter

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (us2H3)

225 CBS: "Don't Say 'Transgender'"

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"The woman who denied her birth gender" etc

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (+ZErW)

226 What an image! No, he bought the '66 Super Sport when it was new or almost new.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:45 AM (J2vNu)

My father had a '66 impala SS. It was nice. He sold it to our neighbor when he got back from vietnam who then drove the shit out if it for years.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (VwHCD)

227
"We're coming for your kids!" - School Groomer

"They're coming for your kids." LoTT

"How dare you you amplify my words!" - School Groomer

"We're murdering your kids!" - Tranny shooter

"They're murdering our kids!" - all honest coverage

"How dare you threaten our lives!" - Tranny Day of Vengeance organizers

Posted by: Fuck this evil clown world at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (0avLl)

228 The urban heat sink is real. Concrete that has absorbed all the sun has keeps cities hotter at night. By day 3 of a heat wave it can get unbearable, even up nort.

Resident Retard Paul/Kurt, clearly regurgitating desperate talking points from some other lying imbecile, told us it's a moderating influence.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (h5TKJ)

229 "We're coming for your kids!" - School Groomer

"They're coming for your kids." LoTT

"How dare you you amplify my words!" - School Groomer
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Touch my grandchildren and you will look like a catfish right before it's dropped into the deep fryer.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (nW4TA)

230 Lvov, as it was then known, was part of Poland as recently as just before WWII.

And thirty years before that, it was Lemburg.

Lots of territorial shifts in that part of the world.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (2tUFv)

231 The Hungarians are pissed off that the Hungarian-speaking areas in Ukraine adjacent to Hungary are being increasingly repressed (Ukrainian is now going to be the only language of instruction in schools), and seem to be subject to greater draft calls than the Ukrainian-speaking areas.

It will be enjoyable to watch the Azov Nazis swinging from the light poles.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (YPWOk)

232 Fans are a necessity if you expect to sleep without A/C.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at March 31, 2023 11:43 AM (yQpMk)

Oscillating fan. Whenever I slept with a fan blowing directly on my, I'd wake up with aches and pains.
In a pool of sweat.
Posted by: JoeF.

Ya shoulda oscillated whilst ya slept !

Do I hafta think of EVERYTHING around here ?

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 11:56 AM (T4tVD)

233 230 Lvov, as it was then known, was part of Poland as recently as just before WWII.

And thirty years before that, it was Lemburg.

Lots of territorial shifts in that part of the world.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (2tUFv)

========

When it was Freedonia, it was truly a great nation, especially under the presidency of Rufus T. Firefly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:56 AM (LvTSG)

234 The urban heat sink is real. Concrete that has absorbed all the sun has keeps cities hotter at night. By day 3 of a heat wave it can get unbearable, even up nort.
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Fine

Posted by: NISTdot gov: office chairs, not jet fuel or impact, caused perfect simultaneous collapse of WTC7 at March 31, 2023 11:56 AM (SXbM4)

235 The urban heat sink is real. Concrete that has absorbed all the sun has keeps cities hotter at night. By day 3 of a heat wave it can get unbearable, even up nort.

Which is why it is so hard to get a rain shower in summer.
Heat = high pressure.
Rain = low pressure.
Low pressure systems lose out to high pressure systems.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (nW4TA)

236 https://bit.ly/3M8pUAm

I do think there is something to the concept of linear generators. There could even be a way that this works in a hybrid vehicle situation?

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (z/ifB)

237 We had an attic fan that worked great for that - until my mom turned it on one time and an unfortunate attic squirrel came down in pieces. She never turned it on again and we had to sweat out summer nights.
Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 31, 2023 11:54 AM (qXxi9)

kinda thinking attic fans turn in the opposite direction

designed to bring in night air thru cracked windows

but what do I know

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (us2H3)

238

A trans rights group that had organised a ‘day of vengeance’ protest has canceled the event citing a “threat to life and safety” of trans people following the killing of three children and three Christian teachers in Nashville by a trans identifying individual.

Our Rights DC issued a statement asserting that “we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it.”

“The safety of our trans community is first priority,” the group added, claiming that trans people have been threatened since the shooting.

The group describes the alleged threats to the trans community as “the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community,” claiming that it is “one of the steps in genocide.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

239 238 The group describes the alleged threats to the trans community as “the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community,” claiming that it is “one of the steps in genocide.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

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Killing 9 year old children and making out the perpetrator to be the victim is just something that happens, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 11:58 AM (LvTSG)

240 Our house cools just fine with window AC units in the bed and living room.

My man cave downstairs stays cool all year, you have to heat it a little in winter for comfort.

The place was extraordinarily well insulated when built in the late 60's. Just an honest really great house.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2023 11:58 AM (KATBx)

241 I tried to get him to go for a Thunderbird, the '66 model especially, but he was still driving the heck out of the Impala SS.
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My dad's T-Bird he bought from a Air Force General used. It was a 1959 baby blue T-Bird. The AF General always drove a baby blue T-Bird. It held up well until we lived in Detroit and the salted roads ate it up pretty quickly. I drove it in HS after he picked up a Delta 88. I got to borrow the Delta on date night cuz the front seat was a make out couch. Snizz Shack hawt!

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 11:58 AM (ssJXH)

242 In the Berkshires we welcome global warming

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:58 AM (us2H3)

243 I'd like a Normie Day of Vengeance. Maybe even a week or two.

Posted by: Fuck this evil clown world at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (0avLl)

244 229 "We're coming for your kids!" - School Groomer

"They're coming for your kids." LoTT

"How dare you you amplify my words!" - School Groomer
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer

Touch my grandchildren and you will look like a catfish right before it's dropped into the deep fryer.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:55 AM (nW4TA)

The youngest generations are the increasingly the loudest. They're also most likely to believe that the internet is real life. They have no idea what it's like to be punched in the mouth.

And it's hard for those without kids to understand what parents will do to protect (and now avenge) their children.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

245 Turns out my maternal grandmother came from an area that on one side of the river (Zbruch?) was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, and on the other side was Ukraine. Whereas my grandfather was from Sweden. My genes are from all over Europe.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (J2vNu)

246 Darned backlash getting in the way of a day of vengeance. Golly, life's unfair.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls - an election is simply a festival for the majority at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (KFhLj)

247 The next Great Republic to emerge needs some more petition-drive referendum options.

First one? To be able to bounce any official out of any government office, whether elected, appointed, or hired. If the an official covering the affected area (city/state/nation) pisses off enough people, you should be able to remove them. This is democratic.

Second one: A zero-confidence referendum that would dismiss the entire elected government, with additional riders that could be added.

Riders:
1. Also dismiss executive appointees.
2. Lifetime ban for all involved.
3. Corruption charges for all involved.
4. Also dismiss Supreme Court.
5. Dismiss entire permanent bureaucracy, start from zero.
6. Constitutional Convention.

As Chesterton had it, the true measure of democracy is not whether people vote, but whether people rule.

The people need to have the tools to rule, otherwise we will again find ourselves in a "representative" government that somehow only manages to represent the interests of a narrow political class.

Putting the Sword of Damocles over the heads of politicians is probably the only thing that can keep them in line.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (MIb2C)

248 In the desert southwest of the early 20th century, there was electrification and fans, but no AC. Not uncommon for bedsheets, soaking wet, to be hung with a fan blowing through them giving cooler moist air. The first swamp coolers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (lz5hY)

249 I wonder if psychiatrically treating teenage girls with eating disorders, rather than affirming that they are terribly, terribly fat, is genocide as well.

Probably.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (2tUFv)

250 Hate to do it but giving up Bell's beer after they posted some pro-trans bullshit on instagram.

My small beer budget (ok, maybe not that small) can go other places, like yeungling.

I'm just one person, but we need to stop paying these clowns.

I hope they all go down in flames.

Posted by: Eli Cash at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (GU0b7)

251 How?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Hiya ! (I never knew mannix was a injun !)

Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (T4tVD)

252 nood

Posted by: SturmToddler at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (Mkvkw)

253 251 How?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Hiya ! (I never knew mannix was a injun !)
Posted by: JT at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (T4tVD)

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I'm pretty sure he's a cop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, being witty and sophisticated with Ernst Lubitsch at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (LvTSG)

254 the left's governing principle is based on the amount of crap normal people can put up with before they revolt

take to the limit

Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 12:00 PM (us2H3)

255 kinda thinking attic fans turn in the opposite direction

designed to bring in night air thru cracked windows

but what do I know
Posted by: REDACTED at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (us2H3)

It does. But when a critter positions itself just right under the blades, bits and pieces come down when it's turned on.

Posted by: J. Frank Parnell at March 31, 2023 12:01 PM (qXxi9)

256 The Poles....not so much.
They yap and yap at the behest of the west.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 11:52 AM (YPWOk)

Poles are interested in the Poles.

General Pilsudski took that region after WWI, and even captured Kiev at one point.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 12:01 PM (xhaym)

257 Has Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's wife been indicted yet?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (DhOHl)

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What did Jake Tapper's wife do this time?

/

Posted by: ShainS -- The Abolition of The West is from Men Without Chests at March 31, 2023 12:01 PM (+lwg5)

258 And it's hard for those without kids to understand what parents will do to protect (and now avenge) their children.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 31, 2023 11:59 AM (KbCG3)

Which is why the PTB acted so swiftly to indict Trump and get the reprobate murder out of the headlines.

A day before the news was "Grand Jury taking a month off for spring break", but the tranny butchering of children and the elderly forced them to adjust the propaganda timeline.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 31, 2023 12:02 PM (YPWOk)

259 My father had a '66 impala SS. It was nice. He sold it to our neighbor when he got back from vietnam who then drove the shit out if it for years.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at March 31, 2023

***
I had one or two driving lessons in it, in a big empty grocery store parking lot (those stores were closed on Sundays back then). The lesson consisted of turning the car in a big square while learning nothing.

Well, I did learn that it was one smooth vehicle. Probably that's why I like big coupes and sedans now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 31, 2023 12:03 PM (J2vNu)

260
"The judicial branch is always the block that prevents authoritarians from rising to power."
Posted by: Archimedes

Heh.

Posted by: Zombie Roland Freisler at March 31, 2023 12:03 PM (n+4am)

261 We had an attic fan that worked great for that - until my mom turned it on one time and an unfortunate attic squirrel came down in pieces. She never turned it on again and we had to sweat out summer nights.
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Snort. You gotta check the Hardware Cloth every now and again. Fucking squirrels will chew through anything.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 31, 2023 12:03 PM (ssJXH)

262
t-t-trying uh, uh-uh,,

yeah

Posted by: John Fetterman at March 31, 2023 12:04 PM (vwCZJ)

263 https://bit.ly/3M8pUAm

I do think there is something to the concept of linear generators. There could even be a way that this works in a hybrid vehicle situation?
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (z/ifB)

A 20 ton device to produce ... 230 kW (300 hp). I don't think that will slip under the hood of a Prius.

Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 12:05 PM (h5TKJ)

264 When it was Freedonia, it was truly a great nation, especially under the presidency of Rufus T. Firefly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,

Great artisans, Freedonians.

Posted by: runner at March 31, 2023 12:06 PM (9+YF+)

265 https://bit.ly/3M8pUAm

I do think there is something to the concept of linear generators. There could even be a way that this works in a hybrid vehicle situation?
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (z/ifB)

A 20 ton device to produce ... 230 kW (300 hp). I don't think that will slip under the hood of a Prius.
Posted by: spindrift at March 31, 2023 12:05 PM (h5TKJ)

Toyota is working on scaling them down, and scaling the power up. Like actual combustion I'm pretty sure.

Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 12:06 PM (z/ifB)

266 . . . Hello, I must be going!

Posted by: Kindltot at March 31, 2023 12:07 PM (xhaym)

267 Thankful for open carry. (Misnomer) It really should be called relaxed printing mode. Carry a full sized H&K USP 45 and just drop the tshirt over it. Before open carry option, it had to be 100% totally concealed. No printing. No accidental display when the wind blows your coat open. Etc.

FTS.
Posted by: rickb223 at March 31, 2023 11:53 AM (nW4TA)

S&W MP. Perfect for CCR. And affordable.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at March 31, 2023 12:07 PM (BdMk6)

268 5 tube super hetrodyne radio
Posted by: BignJames at March 31, 2023 11:33 AM (AwYPR)

The AA5....the All American five...12BE6 (mixer oscillator), 12BA6 (I.F), 12AV6 (detector, 1st audio amp), 50C5 (audio output) and a 35W4, rectifier. Repaired many, many of those years ago.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy no with twice the crazy at March 31, 2023 12:07 PM (Zvtjl)

269 It isn't just appliances and home heating and cooling that are at risk. Medical devices. My kidneys are toast. Every night, I do dialysis at night, which requires electricity. For three years, I did hemodialysis three times a week, which also requires constant, reliable electricity. Without dialysis, I would be dead in less than two weeks. How many other people are totally dependent on electric powered medical devices?

Posted by: Captain Josepha Sabin -- I wasn't particularly fond of the '70s the first time around at March 31, 2023 12:09 PM (k5jR3)

270 Our Rights DC issued a statement asserting that “we lack the resources to ensure the safety of the protest and cannot in good conscience move forward with it.”

“The safety of our trans community is first priority,” the group added, claiming that trans people have been threatened since the shooting.

The group describes the alleged threats to the trans community as “the direct result of the flood of raw hatred directed toward the trans community,” claiming that it is “one of the steps in genocide.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

WTF are these folks lying about now? The group that has guns and threats of violence as part of their schtick is worried about safety? Gimme a break.
That whole protest is designed to be a threat, and anyone showing up a combatant.
It's like calling off a beach landing because someone could get hurt.

Naw. I'm thinking they got (un)marching orders from above.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 12:09 PM (FCbAQ)

271 @214

>>Toyota sez the future is in hydrogen.

Uhmm nope...

- Elemental hydrogen is scarce so it must be extracted.
- The cheapest way to make hydrogen also makes lots
of carbon dioxide.
- Carbon dioxide emissions are not yet priced.
- Hydrogen fuel cells and gas turbines still need work.
- Hydrogen handling is hard.

Again, there is no such thing as a free duck or a blow job.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 31, 2023 12:12 PM (up/3i)

272 https://bit.ly/3M8pUAm

I do think there is something to the concept of linear generators. There could even be a way that this works in a hybrid vehicle situation?
Posted by: TexasDan at March 31, 2023 11:57 AM (z/ifB)

It appears to be some sort of free-piston engine. One of their investors is Bill Gates. And their biggest selling point is "green", which suggests it very inefficient.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 31, 2023 12:14 PM (tkR6S)

273 No such thing as "free energy", all things cost something to produce/provide. If the cost isn't covered, it won't be produced/provided.

That is not an earthshaking concept, merely common sense and should not be difficult to understand.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 31, 2023 12:18 PM (KATBx)

274 Naw. I'm thinking they got (un)marching orders from above.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at March 31, 2023 12:09 PM (FCbAQ

Yep. Precisely.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at March 31, 2023 12:22 PM (9NXAS)

275 I'm super late to the thread, but I'll post my thanks to Buck for this good news thread anyway.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at March 31, 2023 01:01 PM (DTX3h)

276 There is no good news we’re losing

Posted by: Gonzotx at March 31, 2023 01:36 PM (MwHgU)

277 I'm baffled by the opposition to solar power. If someone wants to put solar panels on a vacant lot, I don't see why that should be a town controversy.

If a vacant lot full of solar panels doesn't make enough money to be worth doing, the town shouldn't bail the guy out. If it does make enough money, then good for whoever put it in. Either way, I don't see it as needing town approval.

There have been a few "concentrating solar" projects, and those do have issues. In "concentrating solar" you have a bunch of mirrors reflecting sunlight onto a single target, which gets very hot and then you use that extreme heat to run turbines (same as a coal plant or nuke plant uses heat to run turbines). In a "concentrating solar" plant, unwary birds flying too close to the target can be instantly cooked, and people looking at the target can get dazzled by how bright it is. I think in some cases airplane pilots looking at the thing from a distance had a problem with the brightness.

https://bit.ly/3KlKHPG

But a bunch of solar panels just sitting there? Who cares?

Posted by: mr_jack at March 31, 2023 02:40 PM (LNPSJ)

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