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Total Members Voted: 11

Voting closed: February 15, 2022, 10:51:36 AM

[barton]

"Children, some as young as 8, who identify as transgender".........then the word "transition" is used.

So, what happens at age 13 when a boy who was turned into a girl at age 10 decides "that was a mistake, now I feel like a boy and want to be a man like uncle Max"?

Penis thermos.   Store it for several years in case there's a request for reattachment.

[bankshot1]

Back in the early 1970's, when there was the "oil crisis", and there were very high gasoline prices, and gas rationing, and people were buying kerosene heaters and wood stoves to try to save on energy costs, the Texans drove around with bumper stickers that said, "Let 'em freeze, in the dark!". In Houston, they had another one that said, "“Drive 80 mph and freeze a Yankee”.


Texas has always practiced its own version of exceptionalism within the United States. 

I think we should help them remember that.

Fuck Texas.

"Let 'em freeze, in the dark!"

I was thinking about that yesterday and thinking karma's got a funny way of working itself out.

I was also reading that Texas opted out of the grid network to escape Federal regulations.

as posted yesterday, I can't enumerate the pros and cons of Federal regs re this matter, or what regs makes sense, or cost too much, but I have seen more fuck-ups and disasters by morons who insist the regulations apply to others and they know better, so fuck the regulations.

An ounce of prevention costs something, but its generally cheaper than the pound of cure. And you may not find that pound of cure at an affordable price, as everyone's buying cure at the same time.

Maybe Mexico can slip some heat and power over the wall.

[barton]

My former state had a public power district - will just say this:  you can't have a good grid without interstate contracts.  One of the principal features of functional grids is the ability to sell excess output to other regions,  and to buy from them when your loads peak.   Regional compact also forces you to build and maintain infrastructure at a level that assures goatfucks like this week isn't as likely. 

[LarryBnDC]

If you don't think there is a rise in white supremacy, you might be a white supremacist.


https://twitter.com/BillOReilly/status/1361868846353809409?s=20

[REDSTATEWARD]

And there should be plenty of green energy jobs, such as manufacturing solar panels and turbines, installation, computer programming, maintenance, etc.

Wind and solar are obviously the energy and energy industries of the future.
They are already as cheap as natural gas/coal.
While the reduced pollution and reduction in climate change is a huge benefit.
Also there will be a lot less money flowing to corrupt oil dictatorships.

It's like the phase-out of gasoline powered vehicles.
It can either happen quickly or slowly, but it's going to happen.
The sooner the better (as practicable) for the health of humans and the planet.
There'll be a lot of misinformation as a dying industry tries to squeeze out as much profit as they can before the transition.

Biden Admin should target removing the subsidies that the oil and gas industry enjoys.  I'd like to find a list of those to see what can be done.

The transition has to be gradual.
Every person in America now who has a job needs to keep that job or be able to switch to another job of equal value in a seamless way...or have their life ruined.
For example...everyone in America who is making a good living as a diesel engine specialist.

All major transitions take some time.   There was a period of two decades (or more in some parts of the US) where horses and carriages were sharing streets with automobiles.  Farriers and liverymen had some time to transition.
 

Except, of course, automobiles were more efficient than horses and buggies . If heavy increases of nuclear power are not factored in then we have no chance of ever replacing gas and coal.  Even if every new car sold from tomorrow on was an EV we would still need to increases in energy produced by fossil fuels. There is no alternative to power airplanes, trucks, etc.  The components of the EV battery rely on the mining of precious metals using very heavy and gas-powered machinery. Further, gas powered passenger cars are idle over 90 per cent of the day. An EV sitting idle is sucking electricity when it is not on the road.
We eventually will find the right mix but as Texas just illustrated it ain’t going to be without including fossil fuels.

[LarryBnDC]

And there should be plenty of green energy jobs, such as manufacturing solar panels and turbines, installation, computer programming, maintenance, etc.

Wind and solar are obviously the energy and energy industries of the future.
They are already as cheap as natural gas/coal.
While the reduced pollution and reduction in climate change is a huge benefit.
Also there will be a lot less money flowing to corrupt oil dictatorships.

It's like the phase-out of gasoline powered vehicles.
It can either happen quickly or slowly, but it's going to happen.
The sooner the better (as practicable) for the health of humans and the planet.
There'll be a lot of misinformation as a dying industry tries to squeeze out as much profit as they can before the transition.

Biden Admin should target removing the subsidies that the oil and gas industry enjoys.  I'd like to find a list of those to see what can be done.

The transition has to be gradual.
Every person in America now who has a job needs to keep that job or be able to switch to another job of equal value in a seamless way...or have their life ruined.
For example...everyone in America who is making a good living as a diesel engine specialist.

All major transitions take some time.   There was a period of two decades (or more in some parts of the US) where horses and carriages were sharing streets with automobiles.  Farriers and liverymen had some time to transition.
 

Except, of course, automobiles were more efficient than horses and buggies . If heavy increases of nuclear power are not factored in then we have no chance of ever replacing gas and coal.  Even if every new car sold from tomorrow on was an EV we would still need to increases in energy produced by fossil fuels. There is no alternative to power airplanes, trucks, etc.  The components of the EV battery rely on the mining of precious metals using very heavy and gas-powered machinery. Further, gas powered passenger cars are idle over 90 per cent of the day. An EV sitting idle is sucking electricity when it is not on the road.
We eventually will find the right mix but as Texas just illustrated it ain’t going to be without including fossil fuels.

LOL

[LarryBnDC]

"But the world around you is a rat race where only the strong survive
It's a dog-eat-dog world and that ain't no lie."

The Republican myth of American "Rugged individualism"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/02/17/texas-mayor-power-outages-colorado/

[Hamilton Samuels]

If you don't think there is a rise in white supremacy, you might be a white supremacist.


https://twitter.com/BillOReilly/status/1361868846353809409?s=20

O'Reilly: Mr. Biden says there is a “rise” in white supremacy.  Where?
 
14h
Replying to
@BillOReilly
Usually in your comment section

Brilliant!

[bambu.]

Back in the early 1970's, when there was the "oil crisis", and there were very high gasoline prices, and gas rationing, and people were buying kerosene heaters and wood stoves to try to save on energy costs, the Texans drove around with bumper stickers that said, "Let 'em freeze, in the dark!". In Houston, they had another one that said, "“Drive 80 mph and freeze a Yankee”.


Texas has always practiced its own version of exceptionalism within the United States. 

I think we should help them remember that.

Fuck Texas.

"Let 'em freeze, in the dark!"

I was thinking about that yesterday and thinking karma's got a funny way of working itself out.

I was also reading that Texas opted out of the grid network to escape Federal regulations.

as posted yesterday, I can't enumerate the pros and cons of Federal regs re this matter, or what regs makes sense, or cost too much, but I have seen more fuck-ups and disasters by morons who insist the regulations apply to others and they know better, so fuck the regulations.

An ounce of prevention costs something, but its generally cheaper than the pound of cure. And you may not find that pound of cure at an affordable price, as everyone's buying cure at the same time.

Maybe Mexico can slip some heat and power over the wall.

It's 21 years into the 21st century, in the middle of a horrible and deadly pandemic.
Texas...24 people have died, a granny and her 3 grandchildren died in a house fire, huddled around a fire trying to keep warm.
Others have perished trying to heat their homes with backyard barbecues, and died either using their cars to try to heat their homes or died in their cars trying to keep warm.
The people of Texas and everywhere else in America deserve an available, reliable, and affordable supply of energy to heat and cool their homes.

[bankshot1]

2021 took another turn for the better.

From USA Today

Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News died Wednesday, after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal. He was 70.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's Thursday radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-host-has-died-lung-cancer-70/5998621002/

[bambu.]

"Children, some as young as 8, who identify as transgender".........then the word "transition" is used.

So, what happens at age 13 when a boy who was turned into a girl at age 10 decides "that was a mistake, now I feel like a boy and want to be a man like uncle Max"?

Penis thermos.   Store it for several years in case there's a request for reattachment.

Or the govt man could just say "NO" to it all, let children be children, and make them, and those caring for them, wait until the children are 18.

[Hairy Lime]

2021 took another turn for the better.

From USA Today

Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News died Wednesday, after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal. He was 70.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's Thursday radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-host-has-died-lung-cancer-70/5998621002/

Hell's maw had to open just a little bit wider this morning.

[bambu.]

And there should be plenty of green energy jobs, such as manufacturing solar panels and turbines, installation, computer programming, maintenance, etc.

Wind and solar are obviously the energy and energy industries of the future.
They are already as cheap as natural gas/coal.
While the reduced pollution and reduction in climate change is a huge benefit.
Also there will be a lot less money flowing to corrupt oil dictatorships.

It's like the phase-out of gasoline powered vehicles.
It can either happen quickly or slowly, but it's going to happen.
The sooner the better (as practicable) for the health of humans and the planet.
There'll be a lot of misinformation as a dying industry tries to squeeze out as much profit as they can before the transition.

Biden Admin should target removing the subsidies that the oil and gas industry enjoys.  I'd like to find a list of those to see what can be done.

The transition has to be gradual.
Every person in America now who has a job needs to keep that job or be able to switch to another job of equal value in a seamless way...or have their life ruined.
For example...everyone in America who is making a good living as a diesel engine specialist.

All major transitions take some time.   There was a period of two decades (or more in some parts of the US) where horses and carriages were sharing streets with automobiles.  Farriers and liverymen had some time to transition.
 

Except, of course, automobiles were more efficient than horses and buggies . If heavy increases of nuclear power are not factored in then we have no chance of ever replacing gas and coal.  Even if every new car sold from tomorrow on was an EV we would still need to increases in energy produced by fossil fuels. There is no alternative to power airplanes, trucks, etc.  The components of the EV battery rely on the mining of precious metals using very heavy and gas-powered machinery. Further, gas powered passenger cars are idle over 90 per cent of the day. An EV sitting idle is sucking electricity when it is not on the road.
We eventually will find the right mix but as Texas just illustrated it ain’t going to be without including fossil fuels.

Exactly.
100% exactly.

[josh]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/02/17/after-trump-republicans-no-credibility-spare-us-lectures-column/4479730001

7 lectures the GOP can never deliver again and expect more than derisive laughter and finger-pointing about hypocrisy.

[Hamilton Samuels]

2021 took another turn for the better.

From USA Today

Rush Limbaugh, the talk titan who made right-wing radio financially viable in American media and himself a Republican kingmaker years before Fox News died Wednesday, after he revealed in 2020 that his lung cancer was terminal. He was 70.

His death was confirmed by his wife, Kathryn, at the beginning of Limbaugh's Thursday radio show, from which he's been absent for almost two weeks.


https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/02/17/rush-limbaugh-conservative-radio-host-has-died-lung-cancer-70/5998621002/

A bigoted drug addict dies. So what?

RIH, Rush.