THE MORNING RANT: Woke vs Woke Showdown Involving Chevron CEO; Other Green Follies

The Sustainable Organic Church of the Carbon Apocalypse is hugely annoying, especially since it is essentially now the official state church of America and the West. But when its most vocal congregants start fighting amongst themselves and accusing each other of heresy, it is rather entertaining.

Like the CEOs of most major corporations, Chevron’s CEO Mike Wirth has embraced left-wing activism and imposed a divisive, sexist, and racist diversity agenda on the company. Whether he is a left-wing true believer, or simply a cultural greenwasher who believes that hating on his straight, white employees makes his carbon-based $26 million compensation package seem less offensive, I don’t know for sure. But I do know that Wirth loves to go out and promote the left-wing talking points.

Unfortunately for Wirth, while he was attending a forum about ”Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces” some of his co-leftists stormed the stage and verbally assaulted Wirth for not putting Chevron out of business as fast their net-zero religion demands.

Chevron harnessing the power of women.JPG

Wirth’s left-wing allies chased him off the stage and accused him of being ”…not a man, he’s a sick leech, and if he’s engaged in anything it’s killing women of color.”

These left-wing radicals are on CEO Wirth’s political team. He has chosen to embrace the radical left and push their cultural-communist agenda on his employees. It is not my position to dispute the claims made against him by his political allies. If his own political friends claim he is a leech and a women-of-color killer, it’s not my place to dispute that.

BREAKING: We stormed Chevron CEO Mike Wirth's interview at a corporate diversity event. His speech was on "the role of engaged men in gender inclusivity." We chased him out because he's not a man, he's a sick leech, and if he's engaged in anything, it's "killing women of color." pic.twitter.com/4ju2c4WtIF
— Climate Defiance (@ClimateDefiance) March 12, 2024

My natural allegiance should obviously be with an oil company executive when he is faced with communist civil disobedience. But so long as Mike Wirth and other left-wing CEOs advocate for an agenda that vilifies me and sacrifices my liberty to the communists’ anti-civilizational agenda, I can only laugh when the crocodile he has embraced decides to attack him.

*****

Others who’ve had careers in the military have done a much better job than I can of covering the subject of how wokeness is undermining our military and its ability to fight and win a war. But I do understand how woefully limited and incapable almost any “green” product is compared to what it replaces. All the talk of electric fighting machines is coming from people whose only objective is eliminating petroleum products, not winning military battles.

And then there is this…

“Rodents incapacitate millions in eco-friendly military equipment in Ukraine: the unforeseen problem” [MSN – ESSA News]

Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling.

When munition designs are based on their compostability rather than their durability and lethality, then military defeat is inevitable.

*****

I’m not sure what is scarier right now in New York, the crime or the lithium battery fires…

“NYC journalist's death is city's latest lithium-ion battery fire fatality, officials say” [USA Today – 02/26/2024]

Friends and colleagues are mourning a New York journalist who died in what authorities say is the city's latest deadly fire sparked by a micromobility device's lithium-ion battery.

“Deadly Harlem fire that killed 1, injured 18 caused by lithium-ion battery: FDNY” [Pix – 02/20/2024]

A deadly fire that killed one person and injured 18 others in Harlem on Friday afternoon was caused by a lithium-ion battery, according to a tweet by the FDNY. “FDNY Fire Marshals have determined that Friday’s devastating fire at 2 St. Nicholas Place in Manhattan was caused by a lithium-ion battery,” the tweet read. “The fire claimed the life of one person and injured 17 others.”

“Lithium-ion battery fire displaces dozens of Marble Hill residents” [ CBS News – 3/12/2024]

Lithium-ion batteries were to blame for another fast-moving fire in New York City that injured several people in the Marble Hill neighborhood, FDNY officials confirmed Tuesday. At least 10 people, including six firefighters, were injured when the flames broke out Monday afternoon on Marble Hill Avenue and West 225th Street. The damages left more than two dozen displaced.

Of course, the problem isn’t restricted to New York City, the problem is lithium batteries. These dangerous fires are occurring all over the place.

Two killed in New South Wales house blaze believed to be state's first recorded lithium-ion battery-related deaths, Fire and Rescue NSW says” [ABC Australia – 3/04/2024]

“Warehouse storing lithium batteries goes up in flames in France amid growing fears over their dangers” [Daily Mail 02/18/2024]

“Porsche EV battery blamed for ship fire in Mitsui O.S.K. lawsuit” [Nikkei Asia – 3/07/2024]

“Growing safety concerns over lithium-ion batteries after four fires in one day in New South Wales” [The Guardian – 3/15/2024]

“Woodbury Fire Dept.: Lithium-ion batteries to blame for 5 house fires in past 4 months” [CBS – 02/16/2024]

“Lithium-ion batteries caused more than 1,000 fires during the past year in Australia” [ABC Australia – 3/13/2024]

If lithium batteries weren’t propelling the sacred transportation devices of the left, there would be recalls and product safety investigations.

*****

Wind energy produces zero kw of reliable electricity. Despite all the cost and environmental degradation caused by wind turbines, they produce no electricity when they wind doesn’t blow, so there must always be a reliable backup source of nuclear or carbon-based electricity.

This video below just breaks my heart, but it needs to be watched. A large, majestic bird soaring through the sky is clipped by a wind turbine blade and falls to the ground, where it flops until it dies.

A large majestic bird is struck and killed by an "environmentally friendly" wind turbine.

If this bird had died as the result of an oil spill, you can be absolutely certain it would have been broadcast all over the MSM.

Hundreds of thousands of bats and birds are killed by wind… pic.twitter.com/Kg6fTcMKbA
— Wide Awake Media (@wideawake_media) April 7, 2024

If one sage grouse were killed at an oil drilling site, there would fines, investigations, and possibly criminal penalties against the drilling company. But millions of birds - including magnificent raptors with limited populations - are killed each year by wind turbines, all to produce not a single kw of reliable electricity.

*****

In my latest piece at The Pipeline (’Climate’ Propaganda Masquerading as ‘Journalism’) I take a deep dive into an eco-communist organization named “Covering Climate Now” which has teamed with hundreds of media organizations to promote climate catastrophism and to “train” journalists on how to suppress and censor voices which dissent from climate orthodoxy.

My latest at The Pipeline: “‘Climate’ Propaganda Masquerading as ‘Journalism’” takes a dive into an outfit named “Covering Climate Now” which has affiliated with major news outlets to provide apocalyptic climate stories and to censor contrary voices. https://t.co/YEUES0W0bA
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) April 12, 2024

I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

(h/t to K.T. for the header photo.)

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

Comments

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1 Bwahahahahahahaha! For the photo slone.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:01 AM (0hu/3)

2 1st?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:01 AM (9yWhg)

3 *alone

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:01 AM (0hu/3)

4 Morning.

Posted by: Robert at April 15, 2024 11:01 AM (r+m2N)

5 Remember, you are the carbon they wish to eliminate.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 15, 2024 11:02 AM (u73oe)

6 he's a sick leech, and if he's engaged in anything, it's "killing women of color."

Group of whiter than white privileged idiots says what?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (CsUN+)

7 A pro-Hamas mob has blocked the road to O'Hare Airport, forcing people to walk a considerable distance to the terminal.

The Chicago police are cooperating with the mob in keeping the road closed.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (YAtuc)

8 I like stories with happy endings

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 11:04 AM (J7bBq)

9 Having worked for a couple companies in the oil and gas business, it was pretty amazing how many people were lefties. The women mostly, and in corporate obviously, not out in the field. But still, it's like "do you understand how this company makes money?"

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:04 AM (25k9m)

10 These left-wing radicals are on CEO Wirth’s political team. He has chosen to embrace the radical left and push their cultural-communist agenda on his employees. It is not my position to dispute the claims made against him by his political allies. If his own political friends claim he is a leech and a women-of-color killer, it’s not my place to dispute that.

Used to be a fella could bang a bunch of stupid chicks if he claimed to be a 'feminist', particularly if he was actually a producer/director in Whorreywood. Now it's getting harder and harder to be a self-serving piece of shit.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:05 AM (U7wke)

11 Weaponry systems in Ukraine, many of which were supplied by European countries, have been rendered unworkable, not due to Russian interference, but because of damage caused by mice and other rodents. Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling.

The same thing was happening to cars in DC awhile back. The rats loved that stuff.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:05 AM (9yWhg)

12 "Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces"

I seriously thought that was a sarcastic phony headline. No, it's real. Can't make this shit up.

Query: percentage of these "engaged" men who are sexual harassers, abusers, or perverted weirdos?

My advice to all women upon meeting an "engaged man" or "male feminist" is . . . RUN

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:06 AM (iFTx/)

13 Is it just me, or does that look like AlexStein99 at 1:21 of the "Climate Defiance" tweet video?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:06 AM (gYE9X)

14 If one sage grouse were killed at an oil drilling site, there would fines, investigations, and possibly criminal penalties against the drilling company. But millions of birds - including magnificent raptors with limited populations - are killed each year by wind turbines, all to produce not a single kw of reliable electricity.

That SHOULD BE criminal.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:06 AM (0hu/3)

15 Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling
Well shucks.

Posted by: Eromero at April 15, 2024 11:06 AM (NxC5+)

16 Wind energy produces zero kw of reliable electricity. Despite all the cost and environmental degradation caused by wind turbines, they produce no electricity when they wind doesn’t blow, so there must always be a reliable backup source of nuclear or carbon-based electricity.

It gets better than that - the wind tends to not be blowing under two conditions:

1) It is really, really hot.
2) It is really, really cold.

So at the moment when the electrical system is under maximum stress, due to either very hot or very cold temperatures, you get even less wind generation than you do normally.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:06 AM (YAtuc)

17 You will know woke is good and truly dead when folks start openly mocking Obama as our 1st DEI, didn't earn it, President.

And he really was.

Other than the color of his skin, he was in no way qualified to be president.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 11:07 AM (yikga)

18 "Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces"

Engaged men, or ENGORGED men, amirite?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:07 AM (CsUN+)

19 So, "engaged" in this case does not mean "engaged to be married," I guess.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:08 AM (9yWhg)

20 If lithium batteries weren’t propelling the sacred transportation devices of the left, there would be ~~recalls and product safety~~ bans and criminal investigations.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:08 AM (U7wke)

21 I hope those who try to get eaten last get eaten first.

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:08 AM (UnA8+)

22 Climatism: the new pagan religion.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:09 AM (QDCVH)

23 Well. They certainly didn't show him any
"Chevron deference."b

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 15, 2024 11:09 AM (zdLoL)

24 Friends and colleagues are mourning a New York journalist who died in what authorities say is the city's latest deadly fire sparked by a micromobility device's lithium-ion battery.
__________

I snickered. It's just so, on the nose not to.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2024 11:09 AM (Q4IgG)

25 Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling
Well shucks.

Knock it off with the lame puns or I'm going to tell the COBs.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

26 Gee, those Climate Defiance shitmongers screeching about "women of color" are awfully awfully white themselves. Casper the Ghost is like "deez bitches be white as fuck" . . .

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:09 AM (iFTx/)

27 Seen the Mercedes EV commercials?..."...leading the charge..." get it!? How clever!

Posted by: BignJames at April 15, 2024 11:10 AM (AwYPR)

28 Oh, and the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse.

Nothing to see here.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)

29 Knock it off with the lame puns or I'm going to tell the COBs.
Posted by: Archimedes

Nobody likes a tasseltale.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:11 AM (9yWhg)

30 I snickered. It's just so, on the nose not to.

I have a daughter in an apartment building in NYC. I don't care if these fools want to immolate themselves but lots of innocents will also be hurt.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:11 AM (CsUN+)

31 Gee, those Climate Defiance shitmongers screeching about "women of color" are awfully awfully white themselves.

White women have always been the main beneficiaries of DEI and affirmative action.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:11 AM (YAtuc)

32 AWMLs are just as bad as AWFLs.

Not all White Men are good.

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:11 AM (UnA8+)

33 How do you sleep at night knowing you are a mass murderer of thousands of indigenous women of color?

IF true, of course, that would be terrible. My bet is that it isn't true.

Meanwhile, the policies these lunatics want to be put in place will no doubt result in real deaths. Just ask the bones of the beneficiaries of all the previous commie policies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:12 AM (gYE9X)

34 It’s 10:12 CST. Have you killed a woman of color today?

Posted by: Xipe Totec at April 15, 2024 11:12 AM (6LG2q)

35
Remember, you are the carbon they wish to eliminate.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

V'ger hates the carbon eunuchs.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 11:13 AM (63Dwl)

36 "Friends and colleagues are mourning a New York journalist who died in what authorities say is the city's latest deadly fire sparked by a micromobility device's lithium-ion battery."

You'd have to have a heart of gold not to laugh. I don't have a heart of gold.

Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

37 he's a sick leech, and if he's engaged in anything, it's "killing women of color."

Group of whiter than white privileged idiots says what?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (CsUN+)

That way the protesters are fighting for the most noble goals of all; giving voice to the voiceless and marginalized communities. It is gauche to fight for oneself you know, and yet the struggle to struggle is real, so they elevate their already pompous self-worth with meaningless gestures for others.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (FCbAQ)

38 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Vespas?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)

39 Texas has $60 billion in windmills and solar farms, over $20 billion of that was subsidies.

There have been two serious cold weather events after all of this construction, one in 2021 and one in 2023. In both cases, wind and solar produced virtually zero power, documented.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (QDCVH)

40 "do you understand how this company makes money?"

At least admit the possibility that we are the ones who don't.

IF fuel such as coal and gas were truly in limited supply, and no one objected to having fuel-fueled plants on standby, AND wind power weren't so destructive, THEN having them generate when they could would make a certain kind of sense. But this is like saying "If I lived in a dense city and never went anywhere, an electric car wouldn't be so bad." You hear it all the time.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (zdLoL)

41 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024

***
An electric scooter of some kind?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (J2vNu)

42 AWMLs are just as bad as AWFLs.

Not all White Men are good.

Whatever do you mean?

Posted by: A. Schickelgruber, Iosif Dzhugashvili at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (CsUN+)

43 How do you sleep at night knowing you are a mass murderer of thousands of indigenous women of color?

IF true, of course, that would be terrible. My bet is that it isn't true.

Meanwhile, the policies these lunatics want to be put in place will no doubt result in real deaths. Just ask the bones of the beneficiaries of all the previous commie policies.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:12 AM (gYE9X)
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Yep. I was thinking about this topic on the way into work. If they were able to implement their policies, we'd see mass deaths on an unheard of scale. And they all they think that THEY would be exempt from the consequences of their own policies.

Idiots.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2024 11:15 AM (7fElN)

44 28 Oh, and the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse.

Nothing to see here.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
______

The FBI will 'investigate' for an eternity in order to keep whatever happened from ever seeing the light of day. And no one in 'news' media will call out the FBI to ask how they knew within a couple hours that it wasn't a terrorist attack.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:15 AM (gYE9X)

45 “NYC journalist's death is city's latest lithium-ion battery fire fatality, officials say” [USA Today – 02/26/2024]"

as Oscar Wilde said, you'd need to have a heart of stone not to laugh at that story!

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 11:15 AM (i9ffA)

46 How do you sleep at night knowing you are a mass murderer of thousands of indigenous women of color?

yes but what about the Indonesian trans sex workers of color? let's not lose sight of what really matters here

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (25k9m)

47 All the cool kids have electric bikes now. Maybe the cool kids are catching on fire.

Posted by: nckate at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (4bYb7)

48 That large bird that was killed could easily be a Condor, very endangered.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (i9ffA)

49 Group of whiter than white privileged idiots says what?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (CsUN+)

That way the protesters are fighting for the most noble goals of all; giving voice to the voiceless and marginalized communities. It is gauche to fight for oneself you know, and yet the struggle to struggle is real, so they elevate their already pompous self-worth with meaningless gestures for others.

Ah, the White Savior Complex raises its smug head.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (CsUN+)

50 These people ought to be the first to starve from their stupidity and it is a massive injustice that it is the third world that will suffer first.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (zjgNU)

51 ...it's like "do you understand how this company makes money?"
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:04 AM (25k9m)

At the end of the day, we leverage synergies within our ecosystem with disruptive consensus on our core competency. We enable next generation, results-driven, mission critical paradigm shifts for thought leaders to rightsize enterprises by diversification and inclusion.

What's that? Oil? Oh, we should ban that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (U7wke)

52 A pro-Hamas mob has blocked the road to O'Hare Airport, forcing people to walk a considerable distance to the terminal.

The Chicago police are cooperating with the mob in keeping the road closed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (YAtuc)

Back the Blue!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (R4t5M)

53 Windmills have killed more Bald Eagles than DDT.

The whole "fragile egg" thing was a lie.
You know how I know?

Because DDT was used everywhere. Everywhere.
Heavily in populated areas. And farms.
Including around chickens.
Which lay eggs.
And never was there ever reports of mass egg breakage, at private or commercial coops.
Odd, eh?
Trust the science, don't believe your lying eyes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (yikga)

54
Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

Probably a boosted board or a bike.

Folks, if you are 29 and like to ride bikes but dread certain hills so don't ride anymore, an e-bike with adjustable assist can keep you out in the breeze for a few more years.

Thinking your house and garage might be at risk isn't a great selling point, I gotta admit.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (FCbAQ)

55 38 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Vespas?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)
____

Is that "micro" though? I think more likely they are talking about those e-bikes that are the fucking scourge of Manhattan streets even putting aside their propensity to explode.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (iFTx/)

56
Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Electric roller skates?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 11:18 AM (63Dwl)

57
If one sage grouse were killed at an oil drilling site, there would fines, investigations, and possibly criminal penalties against the drilling company. But millions of birds - including magnificent raptors with limited populations - are killed each year by wind turbines, all to produce not a single kw of reliable electricity.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton

We have Obama to thank for the slaughter of raptors (and other bats and birds).
"wind farms would be granted permits to kill up to 4,200 bald eagles per year"

If you kill an eagle you go to jail but, *each* windfarm gets a yearly quota of 4200.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 11:18 AM (ZAe34)

58 You'd have to have a heart of gold not to laugh. I don't have a heart of gold.

Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
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Probably one of those portable scooters. We see a lot of students riding them around campus here. There was discussion a few months ago about a policy prohibiting them from being charged in the dorms precisely because of the risk of fire. Students were unhappy but the director of campus facilities and the police chief were both firm that it's a fire hazard and would not budge on the policy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2024 11:18 AM (7fElN)

59 I’ve twice had my car cables eaten by rats so the car wouldn’t start. Two towing bills and labor.

I’m now careful not to park near restaurants

Posted by: Ignoramus at April 15, 2024 11:18 AM (TwDeN)

60 As for me, I'm going to order a nice 6-quart box of Havoline motor oil online for the Buick's next change. No guilt whatsoever.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 11:19 AM (J2vNu)

61 Because DDT was used everywhere. Everywhere.
Heavily in populated areas. And farms.
Including around chickens.
Which lay eggs.
And never was there ever reports of mass egg breakage, at private or commercial coops.
Odd, eh?
Trust the science, don't believe your lying eyes.

I wouldn't be so sure. Chickens were fed a controlled diet which was probably low in DDT. Wild birds eat what they can get.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:19 AM (CsUN+)

62 Is that "micro" though? I think more likely they are talking about those e-bikes that are the fucking scourge of Manhattan streets even putting aside their propensity to explode.

Yeppers - you have "e-bikes" with sizable lithium batteries, many of them shoddily manufactured by Chinese companies, being stored in apartments.

After all, what could happen?

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:19 AM (YAtuc)

63 Tesco? They had some good vittles when I was stationed there.

Any morons flying into or out of O'Hara (ht Mare Daley) please be advised the Hamas Mob is blocking 190 into the airport.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (YIxO9)

64 Oh, and the FBI has launched a criminal investigation into the Baltimore bridge collapse.

Nothing to see here.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:10 AM (YAtuc)

I assume the DoJ will be announcing another Trump indictment any day now.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (U7wke)

65 My people call it maize and not corn.

Posted by: sen elizabeth warren at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (vtyCZ)

66 Greetings! I dunno if someone prior to me has brought this up already, but wind turbine blades and solar panels, very little or nothing can be recycled. The wind blades are carbon fiber, the solar panels have all kinds of toxic materials in them as well. Nothing to be done but bury them in a deep deep pit.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (MeG8a)

67 65 My people call it maize and not corn.

amaizing!

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (v3pYe)

68 65 My people call it maize and not corn.

so what do they call a corn maze?

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 11:21 AM (v3pYe)

69 IF fuel such as coal and gas were truly in limited supply, and no one objected to having fuel-fueled plants on standby, AND wind power weren't so destructive, THEN having them generate when they could would make a certain kind of sense. But this is like saying "If I lived in a dense city and never went anywhere, an electric car wouldn't be so bad." You hear it all the time.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

It is even more complicated than that. You have to balance supply with demand, so the reliable power sources have to be rampable. It makes more sense to run the natural gas power plants constantly than to turn them up and down to match the variable output of solar and wind. Cheaper, too.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:21 AM (QDCVH)

70 Texas has $60 billion in windmills and solar farms, over $20 billion of that was subsidies.

There have been two serious cold weather events after all of this construction, one in 2021 and one in 2023. In both cases, wind and solar produced virtually zero power, documented.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (QDCVH)

They're building a pretty significant solar farm in NE Texas off Highway 82.

It's hideous and the first significant hail storm that comes through will end it. And being that close to the Red River, hail is eminent.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 11:22 AM (Zz0t1)

71 Romans 1:18-32

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at April 15, 2024 11:22 AM (as3uC)

72 Having worked for a couple companies in the oil and gas business, it was pretty amazing how many people were lefties. The women mostly, and in corporate obviously, not out in the field. But still, it's like "do you understand how this company makes money?"
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:04 AM (25k9m)

I think that's true of people in corporate offices in any business. They think that shuffling papers around on a desk is the sum total of their job.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 11:22 AM (tkR6S)

73 10
‘ it's getting harder and harder to be a self-serving piece of shit.’
That’s the real tragedy here.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 11:22 AM (jbnUc)

74 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 15, 2024 11:13 AM (iFTx/)

My guess would be either an e-bike or an e-scooter.

"Micromobility" device sounds cooler and the thousands of people with e-bikes/e-scooters don't shit themselves in fear when they read it.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:22 AM (U7wke)

75 @72, basically, women's work.

Repeal the 19th Amendment.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at April 15, 2024 11:23 AM (YIxO9)

76 Texas has $60 billion in windmills and solar farms, over $20 billion of that was subsidies.

There have been two serious cold weather events after all of this construction, one in 2021 and one in 2023. In both cases, wind and solar produced virtually zero power, documented.
Posted by: Thomas Paine

We had an entire solar farm destroyed by a hail storm. Seems solar panels aren't weather proof.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:23 AM (0hu/3)

77 > a micromobility device is something like an electric scooter, bike or perhaps a wheelchair.

In this case, I'm going with scooter.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 15, 2024 11:24 AM (Q4IgG)

78 On a trip out west I RON'd in Shamrock TX. Checked into the motel and went to the store where I was stuck for over an hour. They were moving all the fixings for a windmill through town, shutting down everything. Even when broken down those things are huge, requiring articulated trailers.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:24 AM (0EOe9)

79 Greetings! I dunno if someone prior to me has brought this up already, but wind turbine blades and solar panels, very little or nothing can be recycled. The wind blades are carbon fiber, the solar panels have all kinds of toxic materials in them as well. Nothing to be done but bury them in a deep deep pit.
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I understand the ground/soil beneath them is permanently destroyed as well; and windmills have huge concrete bases with a huge CO2 'footprint' not even taking into account their manufacture and shipping from Red China footprints.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:24 AM (vtyCZ)

80 You will know woke is good and truly dead when folks start openly mocking Obama as our 1st DEI, didn't earn it, President.

And he really was.

Other than the color of his skin, he was in no way qualified to be president.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 15, 2024 11:07 AM (yikga)

Eh. People were in love with the sound of his voice (none more so than him) and thought every utterance was deep thoughts.
Having 4 years of "accomplishments" to observe, I have no clue how he got re-elected.
But his first election was no surprise, especially since McLame threw the race.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:25 AM (FCbAQ)

81 It can be lunch time

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 11:25 AM (J7bBq)

82 My guess would be either an e-bike or an e-scooter.

"Micromobility" device sounds cooler and the thousands of people with e-bikes/e-scooters don't shit themselves in fear when they read it.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Bikes, skateboards, monocycles, and the little EV scooters all are micro (for some values of micro) mobility devices.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 11:26 AM (ZAe34)

83 It can be lunch time
Posted by: Skip

What are we having?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:26 AM (9yWhg)

84 Carbon fiber is amazing stuff, I own an upright bass made from it. It weighs almost nothing, yet the bass has a big sound.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 15, 2024 11:26 AM (MeG8a)

85 79 Isn't there a town in TX where they are dumping all the damaged blades with no clue what to do with them?

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:26 AM (0EOe9)

86 We had an entire solar farm destroyed by a hail storm. Seems solar panels aren't weather proof.
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You also have to keep them spotless that involves using a crapload of potable water to wash them, usually in desert settings.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:26 AM (vtyCZ)

87 Somebody on X noted that Iran blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992, killing 29 and wounding 242.

But do go on about the sanctity of Iranian diplomatic properties.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:27 AM (YAtuc)

88 The wind blades are carbon fiber, the solar panels have all kinds of toxic materials in them as well. Nothing to be done but bury them in a deep deep pit.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

I know of two sites, one in west Texas and one in Wyoming where huge open pits have been constructed to bury the toxic components.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:28 AM (QDCVH)

89 I seem very callous but decisions for sacrifices - who wins and who looses - are made at the elitists levels of government.

Forbes, March 4, 2024, Business Energy, 'The Hidden Qatar-Backed ‘Influencer’ Pushing The American LNG Pause'

US Department of Labor finds electric vehicle battery maker again exposes workers to serious health hazards after investigation of Commerce fire.

ATLANTA – For the second time in less than a year, federal workplace safety inspectors have found a global electric vehicle battery manufacturer exposing employees to serious safety and health hazards at its Commerce plant, after workers suffered potentially permanent respiratory damage in an October 2023 lithium battery fire.

"In December 2023, OSHA cited SK Battery for exposing employees working with cobalt, nickel, and total dust to levels above the Permissible Exposure Limit and failing to institute feasible administrative or engineering controls, among other hazards..."

Canary Media, 6/'23: US wind manufacturing makes a comeback thanks to Inflation Reduction Act Buoyed by tax credits and better market conditions, wind turbine manufacturers are reopening and expanding factories nationwide.

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 15, 2024 11:28 AM (NFX2v)

90 We had an entire solar farm destroyed by a hail storm. Seems solar panels aren't weather proof.
____

Even if spared by hail storms, I hear they have to be cleaned regularly. I suppose the newly imported wage will have something to do.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (gYE9X)

91 Isn't there a town in TX where they are dumping all the damaged blades with no clue what to do with them?
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Ship them to Bladensburg??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (vtyCZ)

92 Good Morning Rant, Buck

Thank you!

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (NFX2v)

93 I have a daughter in an apartment building in NYC. I don't care if these fools want to immolate themselves but lots of innocents will also be hurt.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:11 AM (CsUN+)

No snark. Buy her an escape ladder that she can deploy from a window. Those e-bike fires often start in hallways and landings, rendering escape by the usual routes impossible. Ought to get her a gun, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (tkR6S)

94
I know of two sites, one in west Texas and one in Wyoming where huge open pits have been constructed to bury the toxic components.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:28 AM (QDCVH)

Because everyone knows burying toxic chemicals to rot does NOTHING to the water table that we extract our drinkable water from. Only FRACKING pollutes the water table.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (Zz0t1)

95 Somebody on X noted that Iran blew up the Israeli embassy in Argentina in 1992, killing 29 and wounding 242.

But do go on about the sanctity of Iranian diplomatic properties.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

Yeah, when I heard about the Israeli attack on the embassy I thought of the hostages of '79-'81 and found my field of f**ks barren.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:30 AM (9yWhg)

96 We have to kill birds in order to save birds.

Posted by: Montec at April 15, 2024 11:30 AM (Y6Wgg)

97 On MLB right now the Boston Red Sox are playing the team from Cleveland now named after some butt ugly statues on a bridge. Chief Wahoo sheds a tear.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:30 AM (0EOe9)

98 Isn't there a town in TX where they are dumping all the damaged blades with no clue what to do with them?
------
Ship them to Bladensburg??
Posted by: andycanuck

Use the old windfarm blades to build a wall around the UN buildings. Also, keep adding blades until the building can no longer be seen.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 11:31 AM (ZAe34)

99 63
‘ Hamas Mob ’

I’m so happy these human lice are a protected group. The inversion of right and wrong just wasn’t bad enough.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 11:31 AM (jbnUc)

100 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Probably an electric bicycle. They are actually pretty neat, in a way. But what typically happens, especially in "New York City" apartments, is that with insufficient electrical outlets, people daisy chain their batteries to charge, and that creates a real fire hazard.
Burn, baby, burn.

Posted by: A face in the crowd..... at April 15, 2024 11:31 AM (vcOmj)

101 Well, it sounds like in 100 years, we'll have ecological disasters all over the country.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 11:31 AM (R4t5M)

102
I wo der why the Chevron stockholder and BoD don'rt eject the CEO for his obvious conflict of interest in his spoken words and his action leading the company.

Oh. Wait. That's right.

Blackrock owns a shit ton of Chevron.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 15, 2024 11:31 AM (MsrgL)

103 Whales are the enemy of sea-mounted wind turbines.

For that sin against Gaia, all whales must die.

Posted by: stuff Bill McKibben would say at April 15, 2024 11:32 AM (xLio4)

104 Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld
This video is making its rounds in the Muslim world. Can’t make this stuff up! 😂 🙏 💪

https://tinyurl.com/sej4ab78
13 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:33 AM (vtyCZ)

105 Carbon fiber is amazing stuff, I own an upright bass made from it. It weighs almost nothing, yet the bass has a big sound.

One of my favorite groups, Brooklyn Duo, features a piano and a cello. The cello player sometimes plays a carbon fiber cello and to my untrained ear, it is indistinguishable from the wood kind, and it looks really cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiLCJwF1J9A

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:34 AM (CsUN+)

106 Folks, if you are 29 and like to ride bikes but dread certain hills so don't ride anymore, an e-bike with adjustable assist can keep you out in the breeze for a few more years.

Thinking your house and garage might be at risk isn't a great selling point, I gotta admit.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (FCbAQ)

Haz sad.

Posted by: Whizzer at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (tkR6S)

107 49 Ah, the White Savior Complex raises its smug head.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:16 AM (CsUN+)

White Saviors know that when the Average Man finally gets fed up, most won't take it out on them. They'll take it out on the people the Saviors claimed to speak for.

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

108 Midgets are funny.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (R4t5M)

109 On MLB right now the Boston Red Sox are playing the team from Cleveland now named after some butt ugly statues on a bridge. Chief Wahoo sheds a tear.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:30 AM (0EOe9)
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My brother calls them the Cleveland Trendians, since we are now keeping up with all trendy value signals.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (UjVYr)

110 54 Folks, if you are 29 and like to ride bikes but dread certain hills so don't ride anymore, an e-bike with adjustable assist can keep you out in the breeze for a few more years.

Thinking your house and garage might be at risk isn't a great selling point, I gotta admit.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:17 AM (FCbAQ)

But that doesn't fit the "GET STRONGER, WEAKLING!" ethos.

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:36 AM (UnA8+)

111 Lots of happy endings stories except couldn't bear hto watch the windmill killing a bird

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 11:36 AM (J7bBq)

112
The Chicago police are cooperating with the mob in keeping the road closed.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at April 15, 2024 11:03 AM (YAtuc)

Back the Blue!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

This is why, excepting Morons such as Wyatt, cops are on the list.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 15, 2024 11:36 AM (MsrgL)

113 Even if spared by hail storms, I hear they have to be cleaned regularly. I suppose the newly imported wage will have something to do.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:29 AM (gYE9X)

I have had rooftop solar for eight years now (cue the bitching). My panels have survived several hailstorms (including two with pretty significant hail), have never been washed, and are still producing > 90% of the power that they did when new.

My guess is that "industrial" solar installations use the cheapest panels they can get, hence the hail damage.

I got solar back when Obama announced that he was going to put coal plants out of business. My only regret is that I didn't spring for the battery backup system... but that's for a single house, and I have "the grid" for a backup.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (U7wke)

114 I know of two sites, one in west Texas and one in Wyoming where huge open pits have been constructed to bury the toxic components.

and yet the multi-billion dollar Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was never allowed to be used because burying some toxic materials is bad

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (25k9m)

115 The #1 goal of every city cop is not catching criminals or keeping citizens safe, it’s getting their pension,

Posted by: Montec at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (Y6Wgg)

116 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Vespas?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 11:14 AM (9yWhg)

Nah. One of those tiny bicycles circus clowns ride. How appropriate.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (iODuv)

117 @69 You did see the IF and AND statements in my proposition, right? Right?

Carbon fiber material can be recycled, but you have to grind it fine between big hard expensive tungsten chopper teeth. For a laugh, look up where all that tungsten comes from.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (zdLoL)

118 ...the body count would be multiples higher if fossil fuels had actually been completely eliminated.

yielding to the mob is really working for these idiots. isn't it?

Posted by: ed gibbon at April 15, 2024 11:38 AM (pEgNB)

119 This is a great post - thank you!

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2024 11:38 AM (7fVdQ)

120 White Saviors know that when the Average Man finally gets fed up, most won't take it out on them. They'll take it out on the people the Saviors claimed to speak for.
Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (UnA8+)

I dunno. It would be trouble to laugh out loud during the old movie scenes where the fairer sex gets slapped into "calming down", but you can't stop the internal chuckle.

Look for that to make a comeback when sanity returns.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 15, 2024 11:39 AM (FCbAQ)

121 I'm exhausted with all this killing.

Watched "The Zone of Interest" last night set mostly in the house and yard of Rudolf Hoess' house adjacent the walls of the Auschwitz prison camp. His wife and kids almost oblivious to the screaming and gunfire and crematory stacks. That was exhausting. Estimates say between 2.5 and 3 million killed.

But not as much killing as we are now hearing about.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at April 15, 2024 11:39 AM (KiBMU)

122 Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld
This video is making its rounds in the Muslim world. Can’t make this stuff up! 😂 🙏 💪

https://tinyurl.com/sej4ab78
13 seconds
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:33 AM (vtyCZ)

That's funny, right there. I don't care who you are.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:39 AM (U7wke)

123 Do *all* the CEOs of the major oil companies subscribe to this carbon apocalypse insanity?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 15, 2024 11:39 AM (J2vNu)

124 Isn't there a town in TX where they are dumping all the damaged blades with no clue what to do with them?
------
Ship them to Bladensburg??
Posted by: andycanuck

Casper, Wyoming, Lake Mills, Iowa & Souix Falls, SD.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:40 AM (0hu/3)

125 There are some interesting potential uses for recycled windmill blades. Here, it's used as a component in cement.

This is in no way an endorsement by me for windmill power.

ttps://tinyurl.com/y7j6vr5j

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:40 AM (CsUN+)

126 "Others who’ve had careers in the military have done a much better job than I can of covering the subject of how wokeness is undermining our military and its ability to fight and win a war"

The goal isn't just undermining the military. Yeah, they want to gimp it vs foreign threats to a certain level. But mostly, the idea is to transform it into something that can be turned against the citizens and preventing non-progs from accumulating martial experience.

Posted by: somedood at April 15, 2024 11:41 AM (PHukT)

127 Cops will only protect cute mammals.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2024 11:41 AM (J8LnB)

128 Watched a duck hit a transmission line. THWACK. Not even a flutter in it's wings. Just dropped.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 11:41 AM (R4t5M)

129 Saw a video claiming some bill in FL is making its way through the legislature that will make filming a cop in public illegal if within 25 feet. Seems like DeSantis is approving this nonsense.

This is not a good thing.

Hope the bill gets slammed down.

My understanding is that filming distance requirements have already been struck down in AZ or NM, I forget which.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at April 15, 2024 11:41 AM (ufFY8)

130 Greetings! I dunno if someone prior to me has brought this up already, but wind turbine blades and solar panels, very little or nothing can be recycled. The wind blades are carbon fiber, the solar panels have all kinds of toxic materials in them as well. Nothing to be done but bury them in a deep deep pit.
Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 15, 2024 11:20 AM (MeG8a)

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic burns real well. Use prison labor to cut old windmill blades in to small chunks that can be blended into the feed coal at electrical generating plants.

Posted by: Whizzer at April 15, 2024 11:42 AM (tkR6S)

131 Midgets are funny.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at April 15, 2024 11:35 AM (R4t5M)
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The Red Sox have a Japanese midget playing for them today. Thy claim he's 5-8, but, really, he looks much shorter.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 15, 2024 11:42 AM (UjVYr)

132 The war against batteries is futile. Batteries are a convenience of a privileged society which we are. Batteries are getting better and devices are constantly being up graded to use less electricity for the same function.

The war isn't against batteries it's against watermelons.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 11:42 AM (HLBYA)

133 108 Midgets are funny. For a real chuckle look at an old Sprite.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:42 AM (0EOe9)

134 You won't find one job posting online for a corporate position at an oil company that doesn't include the words "energy transition" and "green" in there at least once.

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:43 AM (25k9m)

135 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4h
BREAKING: Chaos outside the church in Wakeley, Sydney where a bishop was stabbed multiple times

BREAKING: Thousands of angry protesters have surrounded the Wakeley church and chanting 'bring him out' after mass stabbing attack in Sydney

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 49m
BREAKING: Australian police say officers injured, vehicles damaged in unrest after church stabbing

BREAKING: Police say 15-year-old arrested over Australian church stabbing

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:43 AM (vtyCZ)

136 Speaking of li-ion batteries, and especially li-polymer batteries for those who do RC cars or whatever - get some legit safe battery storage. One cheap method is to take a .50 cal ammo can and drill some vent holes in the top.

Posted by: somedood at April 15, 2024 11:43 AM (PHukT)

137 Use the old windfarm blades to build a wall around the UN buildings.

They're pretty stout, and rustproof.
Would make a hell of a border wall. Woven, like wattle.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 15, 2024 11:43 AM (zdLoL)

138 @69 You did see the IF and AND statements in my proposition, right? Right?

Carbon fiber material can be recycled, but you have to grind it fine between big hard expensive tungsten chopper teeth. For a laugh, look up where all that tungsten comes from.
Posted by: Way, Way Downriver

Oh, yes, I was just pointing out that it is worse than your scenario suggests, because ramping costs more, and the infrastructure is much more expensive.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at April 15, 2024 11:43 AM (QDCVH)

139 Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade
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Did you miss the ONT vid of the racing electric unicycles?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 15, 2024 11:44 AM (XeU6L)

140 56
Wtf is a "micromobility" device? Why aren't they telling us exactly what it was?
Posted by: Elric Blade

Electric roller skates?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 11:18 AM (63Dwl)

They don't want to make it explicit because there are a lot of urban (and suburban) families who have kids that own these 'micromobility' devices. It would create a holy panic if they found out that young Johnny's motorized scooter could burn down their houses.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2024 11:44 AM (IyPyZ)

141 Will the ship owner collect repair costs from Porsche? Or will Porsche say it’s the shipper’s fault because any reasonable person knows their EVs are rolling molotov cocktails?

Posted by: Oglebay at April 15, 2024 11:44 AM (7fVdQ)

142 The Red Sox have a Japanese midget playing for them today. Thy claim he's 5-8, but, really, he looks much shorter.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 15, 2024 11:42 AM (UjVYr)

Been there, done that.

But the Nip twist is something new.

Posted by: Bill Veeck at April 15, 2024 11:45 AM (ufFY8)

143
the team from Cleveland now named after some butt ugly statues on a bridge.

The Cleveland Gargoyles?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 15, 2024 11:46 AM (63Dwl)

144 135 Church stabbings are few and far between in these parts. Most Southern Baptist congregations are great believers in the Holy Ruger LCP in the Boot Holster. And that's just for the ladies teaching Sunday School.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:46 AM (0EOe9)

145 Do *all* the CEOs of the major oil companies subscribe to this carbon apocalypse insanity?

Only the ones who want big contracts from government and other megacorps, and access to funding from the big groups. So, yes.

We are basement people. Engineers, draftsmen, mechanics. We're pretty dumb about how big business is really done.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at April 15, 2024 11:46 AM (zdLoL)

146 Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper 4m
JUST IN - Elon Musk says Trump hush money trial is "obviously a corruption of the law."

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (vtyCZ)

147 Whoops.

The solar industry is losing $2.5 billion annually from equipment underperformance,
likely caused by equipment malfunctions and weather conditions,
according to an article in kWh Analytics’ 2023 Solar Risk Assessment.

The report, Hail No! Defending Solar from Nature’s Cold Assault, was based on data collected by GCube over five years. It shows that hail claims now average around $58.4 million per claim and account for 54.21% of incurred costs of total solar loss claims attributable to hail. This creates a gap between the insurance requirements for solar projects and what is available in the market, leading to project delays and cancellations.

https://tinyurl.com/2t7beb4p

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (0hu/3)

148 Good article Buck, was surprised I could get it, at home seems I have wore out my welcome at The Pipeline and Taki Magazine. Maybe mobile hash is the trick.

Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (J7bBq)

149 I just saw where 52% of 2020 Biden voters still think he's good for the country.
That is some serious mental illness.

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (lAjBs)

150 They don't want to make it explicit because there are a lot of urban (and suburban) families who have kids that own these 'micromobility' devices. It would create a holy panic if they found out that young Johnny's motorized scooter could burn down their houses.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 15, 2024 11:44 AM (IyPyZ)

I'm waiting for insurance companies to add something to policies saying that these devices are inherently unsafe and any damage caused by a fire started by them will not be covered.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:48 AM (U7wke)

151 135
‘ BREAKING: Police say 15-year-old arrested over Australian church stabbing’

This is different than the NSW mall stabbed, right?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 11:48 AM (jbnUc)

152 I almost feel sorry for John Kirby. Almost. (Insty)

MAYBE THE PRESIDENT DOESN’T KNOW THAT IT HAS:

Kristen:"Has this now escalated into a wider war?"

Kirby: "I don't think there's any reason that it needs to."

Kristen: "But has it? We are in the midst of a wider war."

Kirby: "The president doesn't believe that it needs to."

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:48 AM (CsUN+)

153 143 Named after the two statues on the former Lorain Ave Bridge, now the Bob Hope. Also known as the longest bridge in the world, going east to west from Africa to Puerto Rico.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:49 AM (0EOe9)

154 Put the batteries in a truck and call it a Trojan.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2024 11:49 AM (J8LnB)

155 I just saw where 52% of 2020 Biden voters still think he's good for the country.
That is some serious mental illness.
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (lAjBs)

People who get a check from the government.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at April 15, 2024 11:49 AM (U7wke)

156 Is there good reasons to not kill women’s of color? It looks to be at the very least a case of self defense. Asking for friend

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 15, 2024 11:50 AM (17s+e)

157 Last week a knowledgeable ONT commenter elaborated on how they could be deconstructed and the body and blades usefully recycled.
If nothing else they could be burned in coal fired energy plants.

Coal fired energy plants are in our the future. We have over a hundred years of burnable coal. Clean coal plants can be quickly built. They are much easier to harden against EMP and other external threats to the grid and faster to build than nuclear. The time is now.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 11:50 AM (HLBYA)

158 The good thing about buried windmill blades is that you can always dig them up later when there is some recycling process that can turn them into something useful. It isn't like they're hard to find.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

159 Is there good reasons to not kill women’s of color? It looks to be at the very least a case of self defense. Asking for friend

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable

WTH?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:52 AM (CsUN+)

160 Off, motorized sock.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 11:52 AM (tkR6S)

161 148 Good article Buck, was surprised I could get it, at home seems I have wore out my welcome at The Pipeline and Taki Magazine. Maybe mobile hash is the trick.
Posted by: Skip at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (J7bBq)

Too Cruel for their sensitive ears?

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 11:52 AM (UnA8+)

162 158 A border wall would be a good use.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at April 15, 2024 11:53 AM (0EOe9)

163 150 They don't want to make it explicit because there are a lot of urban (and suburban) families who have kids that own these 'micromobility' devices. It would create a holy panic if they found out that young Johnny's motorized scooter could burn down their houses.
Posted by: Darrell Harris
-------------------------

Electric scooters that they ride on sidewalks? One would have hit me if I hadn't moved out of the way. Users are as arrogant a bicyclists.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 11:53 AM (HLBYA)

164 "Our wiring is made with 100% rodent consumables!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at April 15, 2024 11:53 AM (snyZJ)

165 Seemingly, these creatures have developed a preference for cable insulation made of corn fiber over synthetic materials. This predilection leads to malfunctioning electrical installations, rendering the expensive equipment essentially worthless, and requiring rapid overhauling
====================

About a hundred years ago conductors had cotton insulation and a rat problem. Easy to fix - everything in metal conduit.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 15, 2024 11:53 AM (cOq4q)

166 ‘ BREAKING: Police say 15-year-old arrested over Australian church stabbing’

This is different than the NSW mall stabbed, right?
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Yes. A Moslem attacking a Maronite bishop during Mass.

Oli London @OliLondonTV
Terrorist stabs priest in a Sydney Church.

Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed during a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney.

As the assailant is wrestled to the floor he can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

RadioGenoa @RadioGenoa
"If he had not criticized my prophet Mohammed and my religion, I would not have come to attack him”, says the Islamic attacker. Islam is a huge problem.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5ynrab

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 11:54 AM (vtyCZ)

167 I just saw where 52% of 2020 Biden voters still think he's good for the country.
That is some serious mental illness.
Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM (lAjBs)
=================
I have a neighbor with three Biden campaign signs in her yard already.

She's all about abortion.

Posted by: The Frumious Follywood at April 15, 2024 11:54 AM (Eetbo)

168 I should've said "100% rodent-safe" consumables.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, Bird Law Expert at April 15, 2024 11:54 AM (snyZJ)

169 The good thing about buried windmill blades is that you can always dig them up later when there is some recycling process that can turn them into something useful. It isn't like they're hard to find.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 11:51 AM (CsUN+)

Burning them turns them into energy. Energy is useful. Don't get hung up on the Lefty term "recycling". That's ceding the battlefield.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 11:55 AM (tkR6S)

170 Clean coal plants can be quickly built.

LOL.

Posted by: The EPA! at April 15, 2024 11:55 AM (YAtuc)

171 Warhammer has gone woke, when I had predicted that it would hold the line.

I won't be buying any of their models. There are plenty of good alternatives as far as that goes.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 15, 2024 11:55 AM (cf/0E)

172 EV batteries > AR-15

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 11:56 AM (qQsNc)

173 The bishop was making his point that islam is spread by the sword, and the attacker said "IS NOT!" before stabbing the bishop.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at April 15, 2024 11:56 AM (MeG8a)

174
The solar industry is losing $2.5 billion annually from equipment underperformance,
likely caused by equipment malfunctions and weather conditions,
according to an article in kWh Analytics’ 2023 Solar Risk Assessment.

The report, Hail No! Defending Solar from Nature’s Cold Assault, was based on data collected by GCube over five years. It shows that hail claims now average around $58.4 million per claim and account for 54.21% of incurred costs of total solar loss claims attributable to hail. This creates a gap between the insurance requirements for solar projects and what is available in the market, leading to project delays and cancellations.

https://tinyurl.com/2t7beb4p

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:47 AM

The solar industry in the US only exists because of cheap Chinese solar panels and huge amount of State and Federal
$$$$$ flowing from subsidies, kickbacks and bribes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 15, 2024 11:56 AM (QNSds)

175 I just saw where 52% of 2020 Biden voters still think he's good for the country.
That is some serious mental illness.

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It's similar to the Clinton era.

That was "the worst economy in decades" that he had to fix, except no one was doing all that bad and the whole thing was based on the psy-op that "I'm doing okay, but I know other people are struggling."

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 11:58 AM (qQsNc)

176 Bishop Mar Mari was stabbed during a sermon at Christ the Good Shepherd Church in Wakeley, Sydney.

As the assailant is wrestled to the floor he can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

I would have yelled "BOMB!" and snapped his neck.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:58 AM (0hu/3)

177 176
As the assailant is wrestled to the floor he can be heard shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

I would have yelled "BOMB!" and snapped his neck.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 11:58 AM (0hu/3)

The day is coming when we'll see this more and more here in the USA.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 15, 2024 12:01 PM (N39Ws)

178 Burning them turns them into energy. Energy is useful. Don't get hung up on the Lefty term "recycling". That's ceding the battlefield.

I'm not hung up on it at all, I'm just analyzing the options and tradeoffs. The reason they aren't currently burned is because that produces "greenhouse" gases. The greenies get very exercised about that. If, instead, they were used as a part of structural components, and that reduced the need for cement production, that would be hard for them to bitch about. They'd give it the old college try, though.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (CsUN+)

179 I know of two sites, one in west Texas and one in Wyoming where huge open pits have been constructed to bury the toxic components.

and yet the multi-billion dollar Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository was never allowed to be used because burying some toxic materials is bad
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 11:37 AM (25k9m)
* * * *
Yucca Mountain was never built and hopefully never will be. The site was unsuitable according to multiple numbers of Dept of Energy requirements, but DOE tried to move it forward anyway and Congress continued to fund it. In spite of the fact that DOE has failed at every major project undertaken.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (U3L4U)

180 How do those woke protesters even get to the stage without being wrestled to the ground, handcuffed and dragged outside? Maybe they were invited, there was applause after one of their rants. .

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (JojsZ)

181 The bishop was making his point that islam is spread by the sword, and the attacker said "IS NOT!" before stabbing the bishop.
Posted by: gourmand du jour

That's a wrap: they stab/kill you for telling the truth.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (ZAe34)

182 Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 21h
I’m enjoying women’s sports for the first time because it’s the only place a white man can win.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 12:03 PM (vtyCZ)

183 Yucca Mountain was never built and hopefully never will be.

it was built just not finished; something like $24 billion dollars of tax money were sunk into it

Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 12:03 PM (25k9m)

184 I'm not hung up on it at all, I'm just analyzing the options and tradeoffs. The reason they aren't currently burned is because that produces "greenhouse" gases. The greenies get very exercised about that. If, instead, they were used as a part of structural components, and that reduced the need for cement production, that would be hard for them to bitch about. They'd give it the old college try, though.

*throws flag*
Overuse of the word "that". 5 yard penalty.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:03 PM (CsUN+)

185 90 Even if spared by hail storms, I hear they have to be cleaned regularly.

dunno 'bout that, but i do know that about the time that governor awesome terminated subsidies for solar, the solar panel hawkers from the next valley over switched their ads from hawking solar panels to hawking a monthly subscription to a service that scrapes bird shit from them.

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 12:03 PM (v3pYe)

186 The solar industry in the US only exists because of cheap Chinese solar panels and huge amount of State and Federal
$$$$$ flowing from subsidies, kickbacks and bribes.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS)
===============
Junta should cut out middle man and just buy the panels directly from China, and save time by sending them straight to the landfill.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (cOq4q)

187 @149

>>That is some serious mental illness.

The defacto governing political party of the US is the democrat party, has been since the 30's.

If they were to just dial back the crazy, say 10pct, they would probably have supermajorities in most states, congress, the senate and the Presidency.

The GOP is a goofball, illegitimate political party, the only reason they get elected anywhere is because of the lunacy of the democrat party.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (JIdXK)

188 All my energy investing is going into unicorn fart development because once that comes on line our imagined problems are solved.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (17s+e)

189 dunno 'bout that, but i do know that about the time that governor awesome terminated subsidies for solar, the solar panel hawkers from the next valley over switched their ads from hawking solar panels to hawking a monthly subscription to a service that scrapes bird shit from them.

This makes windmills even more attractive.
Automatic Bird Poop Elimination Device

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:05 PM (CsUN+)

190 Dust and snow degrade solar panels energy production.
The have to be washed or somehow cleared of dust, leaves, snow, whatever.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 12:05 PM (ZAe34)

191 166 I should've said "100% rodent-safe" consumables.

do you keep many rodents in your safe?

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (v3pYe)

192 Yucca Mountain was never built and hopefully never will be. The site was unsuitable according to multiple numbers of Dept of Energy requirements, but DOE tried to move it forward anyway and Congress continued to fund it. In spite of the fact that DOE has failed at every major project undertaken.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient

1. Load spent nuclear fuel on a rocket.
2. Tow rocket to spot in Pacific that is technically dead because it is so far from everywhere.
3. Remote launch rocket.
4. Trajectory - the sun.
5. Profit.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (0hu/3)

193 Oh yeah, shade on a solar panel is very bad, it really degrades power generation.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (ZAe34)

194 Dust and snow degrade solar panels energy production.
The have to be washed or somehow cleared of dust, leaves, snow, whatever.

If there was ever an area ripe for automation, this is it.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (CsUN+)

195 Dust and snow degrade solar panels energy production.
The have to be washed or somehow cleared of dust, leaves, snow, whatever.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron

Que?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (0hu/3)

196 163
‘ Electric scooters that they ride on sidewalks? ’

One good kick at the side as they speed by would fix their wagon.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (jbnUc)

197
1. Load spent nuclear fuel on a rocket.
2. Tow rocket to spot in Pacific that is technically dead because it is so far from everywhere.
3. Remote launch rocket.
4. Trajectory - the sun.
5. Profit.
Posted by: rickb223

Elon Musk would like to hear more about your proposal for an alternate use of his big rocket.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (ZAe34)

198 The GOP is a goofball, illegitimate political party, the only reason they get elected anywhere is because of the lunacy of the democrat party.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (JIdXK)

Let Beowulf tell you how you need to stop clinging to your crappy little mead hall, and consider how rebuilding it will just make Grendel upset.

We need comity and bipartisanship in These Troubling Times.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (VoAdT)

199 Dust and snow degrade solar panels energy production.
The have to be washed or somehow cleared of dust, leaves, snow, whatever.

If there was ever an area ripe for automation, this is it.
Posted by: Archimedes

Manuel!
Posted by: Basil Fawlty

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (0hu/3)

200 I'm not hung up on it at all, I'm just analyzing the options and tradeoffs. The reason they aren't currently burned is because that produces "greenhouse" gases. The greenies get very exercised about that. If, instead, they were used as a part of structural components, and that reduced the need for cement production, that would be hard for them to bitch about. They'd give it the old college try, though.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (CsUN+)

It would take a metric fuckton of evidence to convince me that cement will adhere well to the slick surfaces of windmill blade fragments better than it sticks to say, rocks. Nothing says "fail" like introducing thousands of randomly-oriented planes of weakness into a concrete pour. Just burn the shit, and tell the greentards to suck it up.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:08 PM (tkR6S)

201
Que?
Posted by: rickb223

Heh, yeah, Manuel labor.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at April 15, 2024 12:08 PM (ZAe34)

202 During peak production time, solar panels exude a tremendous amount of heat.

This makes it a PRIME location for NOAA to install some temp monitors to exacerbate the global warmening climate change hysteria.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 12:08 PM (Zz0t1)

203 187 The defacto governing political party of the US is the democrat party, has been since the 30's.

If they were to just dial back the crazy, say 10pct, they would probably have supermajorities in most states, congress, the senate and the Presidency.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (JIdXK)

They're about to get all that next year _WITH_ the crazy dialed up.

Posted by: XTC at April 15, 2024 12:08 PM (UnA8+)

204 ... forum about ”Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces” ...
++++
Sounds like hell on earth.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (HnUIn)

205 I expect these battery fires to become more and more frequent as these new e bikes age. There are a lot of kids using them and they will probably not be cautious about charging them.

Also, emergency room visits will be skyrocketing. I see young kids hauling ass everywhere on these. Riding on the wrong side of the road blissfully unaware of the dangers.

Expect more legislation

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (NtVYv)

206 198 Let Beowulf tell you how you need to stop clinging to your crappy little mead hall, and consider how rebuilding it will just make Grendel upset.

We need comity and bipartisanship in These Troubling Times.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 15, 2024 12:07 PM (VoAdT)

=========

"Let's imagine for a minute that Beowulf's mom looks like Angelina Jolie, how would you react?"
-Hrothgar

"Are you asking for a particular reason?"
-Beowulf

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

207 It would take a metric fuckton of evidence to convince me that cement will adhere well to the slick surfaces of windmill blade fragments better than it sticks to say, rocks. Nothing says "fail" like introducing thousands of randomly-oriented planes of weakness into a concrete pour. Just burn the shit, and tell the greentards to suck it up.

I hear you, and have no disagreement about doing the needed research. It seems that some companies are looking into it now on their own.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (CsUN+)

208 TESLA just announced mass layoffs. Yes yes yes yes!!!!!!

The bloom is off the rose of this forced EV nonsense!

Posted by: Defenestratus at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (5yag5)

209 Trillions of Tons of Carbon Left Out of Environmental Models, Scientists Warn
We all know about the carbon in Earth's atmosphere, and probably about the carbon contained in plants and the bodies of animals. But a substantial fraction of the carbon in the planet's land-based ecosystems is held in something so obvious we might overlook it: soil.

Even if we do think about carbon in soil, we are usually thinking of carbon in organic matter in the soil, such as plant litter, bacteria or animal waste. However, the inorganic, mineral component of soil also contains carbon.

In a new study just published in Science, we show there is much more soil inorganic carbon than anybody realised – and that it may be a surprisingly big player in Earth's carbon cycle.

We analysed more than 200,000 soil measurements from around the world to calculate that the top two metres of soil globally holds about 2.3 trillion tonnes of inorganic carbon. This is about five times more carbon than found in all the world's terrestrial vegetation.

We estimate some 23 billion tonnes (1%) of this carbon may be released over the next 30 years, with poorly understood effects on Earth's lands, waters and atmosphere.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (vtyCZ)

210 164 "Our wiring is made with 100% rodent consumables!"

Posted by: Chairman LMAO
-------------------------

Had an excellent gas range that went into storage for a good while.
It had electric controls; timers, piezo lighters etc. When it was time to install it, it was worthless, all the wiring insulation had been eaten. Bare and mangled wires mingled with rats nests. A grand here and grand there, not like it's real money.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (HLBYA)

211 The defacto governing political party of the US is the democrat party, has been since the 30's.

If they were to just dial back the crazy, say 10pct, they would probably have supermajorities in most states, congress, the senate and the Presidency.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:04 PM (JIdXK)

They're about to get all that next year _WITH_ the crazy dialed up.
Posted by: XTC

The biggest difference between the '30's & now?
They don't have the manufacturing tax base now that they did then.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (0hu/3)

212 Using corn-based polymers for the insulation on wiring is bad enough, but they compounded the problem by adding Doritos Ranch flavoring.

Mice love that sh!t.

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (991eG)

213 191 166 I should've said "100% rodent-safe" consumables.

do you keep many rodents in your safe?

Posted by: anachronda at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (v3pYe)

That's where I squirrel away all my valuables!!!

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (wtvvX)

214 177
‘ The day is coming when we'll see this more and more here in the USA.’
Yeah, I know. That’s why it makes me blind with rage when the democrat justice system punishes someone for self defense.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

215 I would love to see cradle-to-grave energy numbers on solar panels built, transported, installed, and maintained that also have to have robots built, transported, installed, and maintained in order for the solar panels to slightly increase their output.

I doubt there's ever a break even point already, and then we're building more stuff to make them even worse.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 12:11 PM (qQsNc)

216 212 Using corn-based polymers for the insulation on wiring is bad enough, but they compounded the problem by adding Doritos Ranch flavoring.

Mice love that sh!t.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (991eG)

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The Cool Ranch line didn't last very long at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

217 >>>>We estimate some 23 billion tonnes (1%) of this carbon may be released over the next 30 years, with poorly understood effects on Earth's lands, waters and atmosphere.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) a
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That's the ticket, no more plowing. Turning up the soil releases too much carbon into the atmosphere.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (HLBYA)

218 A friend at work just had rats eat the wires on his new Lexus. $16,500 to fix. Oof

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (NtVYv)

219 I see young kids hauling ass everywhere on these. Riding on the wrong side of the road blissfully unaware of the dangers.

Expect more legislation
Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway

At least you will be able to see the rolling flare.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (0hu/3)

220 We estimate some 23 billion tonnes (1%) of this carbon may be released over the next 30 years, with poorly understood effects on Earth's lands, waters and atmosphere.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at April 15, 2024 12:09 PM (vtyCZ)

Oh great.

Now we're gonna get some developmentally disabled scandinavian child haranguing the species about the importance of strip mining the entire planet to save it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (VoAdT)

221 =======

The Cool Ranch line didn't last very long at all.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:11 PM (GBKbO)

They still sell it round these parts.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

222 We are having to cut back on that promise of 47 virgins after a bombing. We need a lower amount to add this enticement to Marxist.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (J8LnB)

223 Using corn-based polymers for the insulation on wiring is bad enough, but they compounded the problem by adding Doritos Ranch flavoring.

Mice love that sh!t.
Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (991eG)
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At least someone does. I can't stand it myself....

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (7fElN)

224 Chris Plante pointed out that Chicago was more dangerous then Israel last weekend.

Posted by: fd at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (vFG9F)

225 We love to fly all across the globe, hop in our Teslas and go to the latest protest and celebration of Mother Earth's war of defense against the big oil nazis.

Afterwards we go to a nice rave, get high, eat a lot of sushi then sleep in the cool A/C of a nice swanky hotel.

Stop Big Oil Now!

Posted by: Green haired environmental wacko and Ivy League graduate at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (K1/cs)

226 Throw another shrimp on the EV mate.

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (v0R5T)

227 221 They still sell it round these parts.......
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 12:12 PM (Zz0t1)

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Does it outsell the bag of Fritos with chili in it?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

228 We estimate some 23 billion tonnes (1%) of this carbon may be released over the next 30 years, with poorly understood effects on Earth's lands, waters and atmosphere.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) a
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That's the ticket, no more plowing. Turning up the soil releases too much carbon into the atmosphere.
Posted by: Braenyard

How much soil will be turned over when trillions of cicadas emerge?

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (0hu/3)

229 In a new study just published in Science, we show there is much more soil inorganic carbon than anybody realised – and that it may be a surprisingly big player in Earth's carbon cycle.

-

Wait.

Y'all are SURPRISED by this, or is the Science settled. Because it can't be both.

Also I like the part where y'all keep proving that God knew what he was doing when he designed the place.

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 12:14 PM (qQsNc)

230 I have a neighbor with three Biden campaign signs in her yard already.

She's all about abortion.
Posted by: The Frumious Follywood

So if a criminal broke into her home and whacked her, would that merely be a late term abortion?

Posted by: Erebus-ex-killer whale at April 15, 2024 12:14 PM (lAjBs)

231 During peak production time, solar panels exude a tremendous amount of heat.
This makes it a PRIME location for NOAA to install some temp monitors to exacerbate the global warmening climate change hysteria.
=====

A few 'solar farm' installations on newly-purchased federal land will be a prime experiment on desertification of potentially arable land. That is actually my real concern over anything else: creating deserts in marginal lands.

Posted by: mustbequantum at April 15, 2024 12:14 PM (MIKMs)

232 229 Wait.

Y'all are SURPRISED by this, or is the Science settled. Because it can't be both.

Also I like the part where y'all keep proving that God knew what he was doing when he designed the place.
Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 12:14 PM (qQsNc)

========

"All of our models are wrong. They underplay the danger. We have to kill 90% of the population right now."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:15 PM (GBKbO)

233 "This van is electric and better for the planet"
......

Which planet, Uranus?

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2024 12:15 PM (v0R5T)

234 >>>
The biggest difference between the '30's & now?
They don't have the manufacturing tax base now that they did then.

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:10 PM (0hu/3)
==========

We had zero farmed out. The only imports we had were exotics or exclusives such a zeiss lenses.

Posted by: Braenyard at April 15, 2024 12:15 PM (HLBYA)

235 We don't even understand how a flower pot of soil works, but we're going to fix Global Warming!!!

Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 12:15 PM (qQsNc)

236 . forum about ”Harnessing the Power of Engaged Men in the Pursuit of Gender-Inclusive Workspaces” ...
++++
Sounds like hell on earth.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

********

Row well and live, Number 44!

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (991eG)

237
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Does it outsell the bag of Fritos with chili in it?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:13 PM (GBKbO)

Is that a thing? I've never seen it......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (Zz0t1)

238 "This van is electric and better for the planet"
......

Which planet, Uranus?
Posted by: wth

Pulled straight outta...

Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (0hu/3)

239 @229

>>Y'all are SURPRISED by this, or is the Science settled. Because it can't be both.

Remember, when scientists can't figure out what's going on, they just make shit up.

That's how we got Dark Matter and Dark Energy.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (JIdXK)

240 I'm inspired by this plucky lithium-ion battery's story. How can I support its good work of removing NYT journalists?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

241 235 We don't even understand how a flower pot of soil works, but we're going to fix Global Warming!!!
Posted by: Moron Robbie has 2020 hindsight at April 15, 2024 12:15 PM (qQsNc)

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Fixing global warming through taxation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (GBKbO)

242 A few 'solar farm' installations on newly-purchased federal land will be a prime experiment on desertification of potentially arable land. That is actually my real concern over anything else: creating deserts in marginal lands.
Posted by: mustbequantum at April 15, 2024 12:14 PM (MIKMs)

Install solar panels over stands of kudzu. win, win!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (tkR6S)

243 To be fair, nothing would make me happier that to see those climate proprietors live in fossil fuel free society. They deserve it, give them what they want. On some island, maybe.

Posted by: Ripley at April 15, 2024 12:17 PM (JojsZ)

244 240 I'm inspired by this plucky lithium-ion battery's story. How can I support its good work of removing NYT journalists?
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 15, 2024 12:16 PM (xcxpd)

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"BANZAI!!!!"
-The battery's final word

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

245 Number 41

Posted by: Muldoon at April 15, 2024 12:17 PM (991eG)

246 "BANZAI!!!!"
-The battery's final word
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:17 PM (GBKbO)

KONNICHIWA BITCHES!!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at April 15, 2024 12:18 PM (Zz0t1)

247 Yucca Mountain was never built and hopefully never will be.

it was built just not finished; something like $24 billion dollars of tax money were sunk into it
Posted by: brak at April 15, 2024 12:03 PM (25k9m)
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One exploratory tunnel was dug, with a small side offshoot for experiments. Yucca Mountain was never built and most of the exterior construction was dismantled over a decade ago. DOE didn't even have suitable containers designed for the spent nuclear fuel, and insisted on the fabrication and installation of titanium drip shields (also not fully designed) to protect the waste from all the water that moves through the mountain.

Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (U3L4U)

248 @244

>>"BANZAI!!!!"
-The battery's final word

Ersatz Pulp Fiction Waitress: Banzai is Japanese for Triumph.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (JIdXK)

249 239
‘ That's how we got Dark Matter and Dark Energy’
Lol. Dark Matter isn’t physical entity. Don’t try to find it. It’s just some scientists’ fudge factor.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (jbnUc)

250 248 @244

>>"BANZAI!!!!"
-The battery's final word

Ersatz Pulp Fiction Waitress: Banzai is Japanese for Triumph.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (JIdXK)

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I thought it literally translated as: "We have vastly underestimated our industrial base in this conflict."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

251 .
NOOD
Ace is up: Of Course: Biden Now Pressuring Israel Not to Retaliate Against Iran

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 15, 2024 12:20 PM (qPw5n)

252 matter of color; energy of color

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at April 15, 2024 12:20 PM (9yWhg)

253 @246

>>KONNICHIWA BITCHES!!!!!!

Ersatz Sheldon Cooper: It's funny that a Chinese Made Lithium Battery would be speaking Japanese.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:21 PM (JIdXK)

254 >>"BANZAI!!!!"
-The battery's final word

Ersatz Pulp Fiction Waitress: Banzai is Japanese for Triumph.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (JIdXK)

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I thought it literally translated as: "We have vastly underestimated our industrial base in this conflict."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at April 15, 2024 12:20 PM (GBKbO)

Oh, it's worse than that. The Japs knew their industrial base was insufficient but they decided to expand their war rather than deliver embarrassing truths to the Emperor.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Anti-Marxist, buy ammo at April 15, 2024 12:21 PM (xcxpd)

255
“Rodents incapacitate millions in eco-friendly military equipment in Ukraine"
.......

When those Ukes figure out how to kill my gophers I might care.

Posted by: wth at April 15, 2024 12:22 PM (v0R5T)

256 One exploratory tunnel was dug, with a small side offshoot for experiments. Yucca Mountain was never built and most of the exterior construction was dismantled over a decade ago. DOE didn't even have suitable containers designed for the spent nuclear fuel, and insisted on the fabrication and installation of titanium drip shields (also not fully designed) to protect the waste from all the water that moves through the mountain.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 15, 2024 12:19 PM (U3L4U)

Canada buries nuclear waste abut a thousand meters deep in mines dug into tight, dry rock of the pre-Cambrian Shield, far below the active water table. Deep burial in a stable part of the craton is about as good as it gets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:25 PM (tkR6S)

257 Regarding lithium-ion fires and FWIW, I once had a AAA battery explode within my desk lamp. The lamp wasn't on at the time, so it took me a while to even find out what that "Pop" was. So yeah - even the low-end stuff is not 100% reliably safe.

The difference between a battery and a bomb is in the rate of discharge.

Posted by: LCMS Rulz! at April 15, 2024 12:29 PM (TOe+Q)

258 1. Load spent nuclear fuel on a rocket.
2. Tow rocket to spot in Pacific that is technically dead because it is so far from everywhere.
3. Remote launch rocket.
4. Trajectory - the sun.
5. Profit.
Posted by: rickb223 at April 15, 2024 12:06 PM (0hu/3)
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won't that blow up the sun?

Posted by: Hank Johnson at April 15, 2024 12:37 PM (rNGRC)

259 I’m beyond sick about the birds, eagles, whales murdered by the eco monsters

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 15, 2024 12:37 PM (MwHgU)

260 When you buy a cheap electric bike, it’s battery is made in China, these are the ones burning up

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 15, 2024 12:43 PM (MwHgU)

261 Of course, Tesla batteries are k own to burn, where are they made?

Posted by: Gonzotx at April 15, 2024 12:43 PM (MwHgU)

262 I didn't know chevron was full wokescum but I do now. My tiny protest will be choosing other brands unless I have no other choice.

Posted by: SamIam at April 15, 2024 12:45 PM (oasF3)

263 Wind turbines are very effective in our war against sparrows.

Posted by: Mao at April 15, 2024 01:07 PM (KN2gu)

264 The FBI will 'investigate' for an eternity in order to keep whatever happened from ever seeing the light of day. And no one in 'news' media will call out the FBI to ask how they knew within a couple hours that it wasn't a terrorist attack.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 15, 2024 11:15 AM (gYE9X)

What if it wasn’t a terrorist attack?

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 01:11 PM (KN2gu)

265 Yucca Mountain was never built and hopefully never will be. The site was unsuitable according to multiple numbers of Dept of Energy requirements, but DOE tried to move it forward anyway and Congress continued to fund it. In spite of the fact that DOE has failed at every major project undertaken.
Posted by: Legally Sufficient at April 15, 2024 12:02 PM (U3L4U)

It was built, and was never used.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 01:24 PM (KN2gu)

266 Ship all the nuclear waste up here; we can store it on the moon.

What is the worst that could happen?

Posted by: Moon Base Alpha at April 15, 2024 01:28 PM (KN2gu)

267 Canada buries nuclear waste abut a thousand meters deep in mines dug into tight, dry rock of the pre-Cambrian Shield, far below the active water table. Deep burial in a stable part of the craton is about as good as it gets.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 15, 2024 12:25 PM (tkR6S)

France reprocesses the hell out of theirs. Considering that they get 70-80% of their power from nukes and have little waste they cannot do anything with, this is one hell of a track record.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at April 15, 2024 02:37 PM (KN2gu)

268 I would like to take all those Climate Change idiots and strand them in the Yukon Wilderness for a month in the dead of Winter lets see the morons get a real look at the Nature that dose not come on Hollywood junk like A Arctic Tale/Arctic Dogs or fake films from Gore and DiCaprio

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo at April 15, 2024 04:26 PM (wGqjj)

269 Population control, one lithium ion battery user at a time.

Posted by: El Conquistador at April 15, 2024 05:00 PM (Y2NGV)

270 We are a gaggle of volunteers and opening a brand new scheme in our community.
Your site provided us with useful information to work on. You've performed an impressive job and our whole community shall be
grateful to you.

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