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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: Today at 02:53:03 PM »

Solar and wind are far from developed. Their popularity is due to heavy subsidies and government tax breaks. They are impossible of REPLACING coal and natural gas.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems.  Apparently still can't read for meaning.  If clean energy is now 96% of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.

Wrong.  The World demand for energy needs 10 million barrels of oil PER DAY over the next five years PLUS  tens of more millions due to normal depletion.
The USA is the largest producer so it can be the biggest benefactor to world demand while keeping prices stable.Too bad we have a President who is clueless.

How does any of that make my post (which you removed part of and did not answer) wrong?  Nowhere did I say we can eliminate fossil fuel immediately. NO ONE IS ASSERTING THAT.  This is a Straw Man you keep making up.  I said the time frame for replacement depends on continued policies that aid the transition to renewables and provide storage of peak outputs.  I pointed out the current proportion of new utility construction that is renewables.  It is extremely dishonest to ignore these points and keep attacking something I never said.

Here is the entirety of my post which you selectively edited relevant comments from.

You are shown evidence that is exactly what renewables are doing, when paired with storage systems.  Apparently still cant read for meaning.  If clean energy is now 96 percent of new projects, then fossil fuel is on its way out.  The only question is time frame, and that depends on public policy.  Could take fifty years, could take twenty.  Depends on the level of carbon taxes, subsidies (yes, governments do subsidize things that are a public benefit) towards startup investment, and how well base load sources like geothermal and batteries are brought into the mix.   

So, and this time I think it will be permanent, I am done trying for reasoned discussion when such dishonest tactics are the only answer you provide. 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 17, 2024, 04:25:10 PM »

The First Amendment covers speaking against the Government.  It does not protect people threatening violence in a Commencement speech regardless of whether the school is public or private.
And Death To America is now to be equated with Pro Palenstinian?

Who threatened violence in a commencement address, aside from your would-be fascist orange-hued hero? 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 17, 2024, 04:20:28 PM »

We are hell bent ( well you are) in solving climate change instead of proceeding cautiously while developing new technology.

developing ?

News flash for you - wind and solar are developed. So robustly so that utilities are investing massively in them, as my previous stats made clear.  You can hide from those facts and suck your oily thumb all you want.  The ONLY cause of any windmill project being pulled back is local NIMBY groups and/or obstruction from conservative political groups heavily supported by oil industry money.  Neither of which is going to longterm halt the progress of the clean energy a majority of Americans want. 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 16, 2024, 08:56:42 PM »

(standard Reddus Dickus Straw Man argument)

You obviously never heard of storage batteries.

He's heard.  And probably heard of large-scale grid distribution, gravitic storage, and geothermal base power.  But his smug and invincible partisan posture is to pretend none of that can happen before we drink every last drop of the petroleum milkshake. 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 14, 2024, 12:26:42 PM »

If the issue is gun control remember that in a country of hundreds of millions of adults and even a larger number of guns the number of people killed  by guns is minuscule.

People care about deaths that are preventable.  It is why we have meat inspection, order the removal of lead water pipes, require belts and airbags and other auto safety features, etc.  Any of those causes of death would be tiny in proportion to US population, but unlike natural causes from aging they are preventable.  Because Australia restricted gun ownership to legitimate uses by people with no history of mental illness or violence, the crazy man at the mall could be driven back by a man with a bollard, and deaths were a fraction of what they would be with an AR15.

  I have no problem with gun ownership by sane people without criminal history, who wish to hunt venison or responsibly keep a home protection gun in a properly secured location.  I see no second amendment threat in required background checks or required formal training in gun handling and storage.  These are certainly required for any well-regulated militia.

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Biden Administration / Re: Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

« on: April 14, 2024, 11:54:05 AM »

PW-free link, present situation in Ukraine and the drone stalemate around the front line "death zone."

https://wapo.st/49Dj5yW

Details how drones are presently the main thing keeping Russia from overrunning Ukraine.  (well, and Ukrainian heart and pluck and ability to cleverly improvise)(but they could really use that 60 billion Biden admin pledged that Rethugs have been sitting on for months)

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: April 13, 2024, 06:48:17 PM »

 Idiotic revenge cycle #5626 commences. 

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Movies / Re: Movies

« on: April 13, 2024, 06:46:30 PM »

Wouldn't surprise me at all. 

I can see the casting of Nick Offerman as a dick president.  The map showing the four alliances the USA breaks up into has plausibility problems tho. 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 13, 2024, 06:35:53 PM »

The gunfacts website contains biased statements throughout, articles lack specific authors, and information presented from sources that have been described by fact checking websites as biased.  The editor is well known as a political provocateur, not a researcher passionate about facts or unbiased gathering of info.

Also, statistics that purport to precisely quantify prevented actions are notorious for being culled from junk science sources.  400 K life threatening crimes are prevented by firearms?  Gee, how many are prevented by deadbolts? pepper spray?  peaceful arbitration between pissed people?  taking a different walking route?  See, there's no basis for real comparatives with hypotheticals.  Anecdotes from felons who decided NOT to make a certain choice are not reliable for statistical analysis. 

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Movies / Re: Movies

« on: April 13, 2024, 11:38:51 AM »

Civil War.

The sort of topical plotline that I might be tempted into a theater to watch but....Texas and California form an alliance and secede together??  Well  I guess that's a narrative hook. 

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Movies / Re: Movies

« on: April 13, 2024, 11:22:53 AM »

Yes, I've noticed that more frequent posts seems to slightly deter the robo spam.

Reading The Boy who Harnessed the Wind, I see there is a movie based on it, directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, on NF.  Anyone seen this? 

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 13, 2024, 11:15:47 AM »

The spirit of 9/11, the brave "let's roll" guys on the downed plane, lived on today in Bondi (bon dye)...as a guy shopper grabbed a portable bollard and confronted the killer near the top of an escalator, a standoff, preventing him from exiting the escalator and killing more people. Saved lives for sure.
 A very brave thing to do, the killer being taller than him.

Humans, at their finest, can be amazing.  Without its strict gun laws, Australia could have lost many more lives to a maniac with an assault rifle. 

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Biden Administration / Re: Biden Administration

« on: April 11, 2024, 09:49:12 PM »

Good grief.  You know you can reset your visible forum name anytime from the profile menu, right?  Karl Barx, Caliban, Manager all the same person.  (hint:  notice the post counter, which can't be altered)

Tomorrow I will change my name for a few hours, to demonstrate.  Let's just say it will be a brief.... metamorphosis.

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Poetry / Re: Poetry

« on: April 11, 2024, 03:55:20 PM »

Noisy burro operators rot, are poor Ruby's ion.

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Biden Administration / Re: News in General

« on: April 11, 2024, 09:29:51 AM »

Not going to bother with pointlessly argumentative trolls here.  Out of sardines.


Meanwhile, in the federal register today we see the gun show loophole has been closed up.  Good work, Biden administration! 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/11/gun-show-internet-sale-mandatory-background-check