The old thread is broken, so I grabbed to opportunity to start a new one. Yay me.
The old thread is broken, so I grabbed to opportunity to start a new one. Yay me.
Meanwhile, over in Russia:
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[URL="https://twitter.com/IlvesToomas/status/1256814234727415809?s=20"]A third Russian doctor in a week "decided" to defenestrate in the middle of work after criticizing the government.[/URL]
This is fine.
I just posted to the old thread. Perhaps it was a temporary glitch.
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955388]I just posted to the old thread. Perhaps it was a temporary glitch.[/QUOTE]
While I had incorrectly guessed otherwise, it was apparently a message board code issue?
[URL="https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?138281-Posts-are-acting-up&p=4955358#post4955358"]https://community.cbr.com/showthread.php?138281-Posts-are-acting-up&p=4955358#post4955358[/URL]
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955388]I just posted to the old thread. Perhaps it was a temporary glitch.[/QUOTE]
The old thread is now about bees. Maybe a mod could change the word "news" for "bees"? It has the same length, it would be easy to paste over.
[QUOTE=PaulBullion;4955418]The old thread is now about bees. Maybe a mod could change the word "news" for "bees"? It has the same length, it would be easy to paste over.[/QUOTE]
I'm fine with bees, it's those goddamn giant hornets that scare the shit out of me.
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955419]I'm fine with bees, it's those goddamn giant hornets that scare the shit out of me.[/QUOTE]
You know how the Japanese Bees deal with them ?
[URL="https://youtu.be/awoV5Wj9Iys"]They boil them alive[/URL]
Ooooh, CNN right now reminding people that Trump has been an anti-vaxxer.
[QUOTE=jetengine;4955424]You know how the Japanese Bees deal with them ?
[URL="https://youtu.be/awoV5Wj9Iys"]They boil them alive[/URL][/QUOTE]
THAT, boys and girls, is hardcore!
[QUOTE=PaulBullion;4955433]Ooooh, CNN right now reminding people that Trump has been an anti-vaxxer.[/QUOTE]
Well, shit! Of course he is. Can’t say I’m at all surprised.
[QUOTE=PaulBullion;4955433]Ooooh, CNN right now reminding people that Trump has been an anti-vaxxer.[/QUOTE]
I said it to someone who was surprised when Trump said to inject yourself with disenfectant, "Who would think that a guy who claims windmills cause cancer and that we should be getting back to putting asbestos in buildings would be so ignorant about medicine?"
[QUOTE=worstblogever;4955451]I said it to someone who was surprised when Trump said to inject yourself with disenfectant, "Who would think that a guy who claims windmills cause cancer and that we should be getting back to putting asbestos in buildings would be so ignorant about medicine?"[/QUOTE]
Dubya was dumber than a box of hammers, but not even he would’ve suggested pumping disinfectant into your body. Astounding.
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955419]I'm fine with bees, it's those goddamn giant hornets that scare the shit out of me.[/QUOTE]
Indeed, bees are cute, friendly and hardworking. We need more bees.
Hornets, yellowjackets, wasps should all be eradicated. Who needs them?
The French national airline Air France is getting a government bailout... under the condition to become "greener" and cancel [B]all [/B]inland flights on connections that can be done by train in under 2.5 hours.
Am I crazy to think this would not have happened without the Friday for Futures school strikes? Go Greta!
I for one welcome our new Wasp Overlords.
[QUOTE]ANTIOCH, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California city official has been ousted after he suggested on social media that sick, old and homeless people should be left to meet their “natural course in nature” during the coronavirus pandemic.
City council members in Antioch, a city of about 110,000 people 35 miles east of Oakland, voted unanimously Friday night to remove Ken Turnage II from his post as chairman of the city's planning commission. [/QUOTE]
[url]https://tinyurl.com/ycg5vr6v[/url]
Life comes at you fast, I guess.
[QUOTE=A Small Talent For War;4955485]Indeed, bees are cute, friendly and hardworking. We need more bees.
Hornets, yellowjackets, wasps should all be eradicated. Who needs them?[/QUOTE]
Depends on the wasp.
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For example, that little guy is the primary predator of the black widow spider, and I'd much rather deal with the wasp than the spider.
Likewise, Tarantula Hawks may be yuuuuuge, but you need to work at it to piss them off enough to sting you, even if the result of doing so is the second or third most painful sting in the world (It used to be the second but I think they have discovered something between them and the bullet ant).
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I'm still giving that one a lot of space, though.
This is the only kind of wasp that I need.
[video=youtube;MwrysySDe-I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwrysySDe-I[/video]
Also, how many of you think I'm some kinda devious Trumpist sabateur?
Just trying to get my bearings here.
Thanks!
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955484]Dubya was dumber than a box of hammers, but not even he would’ve suggested pumping disinfectant into your body. Astounding.[/QUOTE]
From what I understand Dubya wasnt actually that Dumb he just was rather folksy. I also hear he wasnt too bad innhis former political position its just the White House was WAAAAAY beyond him.
[QUOTE=jetengine;4955522]From what I understand Dubya wasnt actually that Dumb he just was rather folksy. I also hear he wasnt too bad innhis former political position its just the White House was WAAAAAY beyond him.[/QUOTE]
W's persona was of the "everyman," but he really leant into the dumber side of that stereotype so much so that people think he didn't have any idea what his government was doing. While I buy that he wasn't as smart or manipulative as his VP, Cheney, who was Darth Vader incarnate, he was a master at making people think he was too dumb to be held to account for his administration's horrible decisions like Abu Garib, Katrina, "enhanced interrogation," and a laundry list of crimes both foreign and domestic. However, he had troubles with not knowing how to navigate interactions with heads of state, like when he nearly caused an international incident giving Andrea Merkel an unwanted back rub (on camera!) and every once a while did something stupid, like almost dying from eating food. He's proto Trump, everything Trump does W did it first except Trump makes W look like a Rhodes Scholar.
I remember when W's administration had difficulty getting W up to speed with briefings so they had to make dvd's to dumb it down for him. This only encouraged everyone to think he had less IQ points then a carrot. To think that Trump would beat that is incredible. I didn't think it was possible.
[QUOTE=CaptainEurope;4955494]The French national airline Air France is getting a government bailout... under the condition to become "greener" and cancel [B]all [/B]inland flights on connections that can be done by train in under 2.5 hours.
Am I crazy to think this would not have happened without the Friday for Futures school strikes? Go Greta![/QUOTE]
France is already pretty green in general, right? I seem to recall they are big in nuclear power generation which is the one power source that reduces greenhouse gases the most by energy output. Would these be electric train connections? How many flights would that actually eliminate, though?
Honestly, though, I'm not really sure why airlines - or any large company - would need a bailout. Are the bankruptcy and restructuring laws that different in Europe? In the US, corporations certainly don't need the bail-outs they've received. The big banks in the financial crisis didn't need the bailout they got back then and just funneled the money to the investors and executives. It would be better to give that money to the people who depend on paychecks to make a living and not big corporations where any assistance just helps the investor class.
[QUOTE=A Small Talent For War;4955536]France is already pretty green in general, right? I seem to recall they are big in nuclear power generation which is the one power source that reduces greenhouse gases the most by energy output. Would these be electric train connections? How many flights would that actually eliminate, though?
Honestly, though, I'm not really sure why airlines - or any large company - would need a bailout. Are the bankruptcy and restructuring laws that different in Europe? In the US, corporations certainly don't need the bail-outs they've received. The big banks in the financial crisis didn't need the bailout they got back then and just funneled the money to the investors and executives. It would be better to give that money to the people who depend on paychecks to make a living and not big corporations where any assistance just helps the investor class.[/QUOTE]
The entire point of a bailout is to pay off rich investors, giving money to people directly would just be socialism and we can't be having that...
both sidesism helps fascists. "everyone is the same" is empiricaly false, and that kind of cynicism empowers the worst people.
[QUOTE=A Small Talent For War;4955536]France is already pretty green in general, right? I seem to recall they are big in nuclear power generation which is the one power source that reduces greenhouse gases the most by energy output. Would these be electric train connections? How many flights would that actually eliminate, though?
[/QUOTE]
That's only if you forget about the fact that our children, their children, children's children and so on will somehow have to produce the energy to keep the nuclear waste safe from natural influences and terrorists for 80,000 years or so. If you factor that in, nuclear power is probably dirtier than coal, we just kicked the can down the road a bit. That's one of the reasons why my country got out of nukes and bet on wind and solar. Nuclear power is not a green energy at all, especially now that wind power plants can be built faster (and causing less CO2 during construction) than nuclear plants.
[QUOTE=Steel Inquisitor;4955533] He's proto Trump, everything Trump does W did it first except Trump makes W look like a Rhodes Scholar.[/QUOTE]
[b]Reagan[/b] was proto-Trump.
Coming in from way outside the mainstream. His own party thought he had no shot at winning the nomination. His eventual VP called his economic ideas voodoo. And documents that came out a couple of years ago from the British government show people there calling him unserious and a buffoon. (Or something quite similar.)
All this trickle-down, job-creators, prop up the banks first idiocy would have been considered idiotic before he came along and made America dumber.
[QUOTE=Tuck;4955632][b]Reagan[/b] was proto-Trump.
Coming in from way outside the mainstream. His own party thought he had no shot at winning the nomination. His eventual VP called his economic ideas voodoo. And documents that came out a couple of years ago from the British government show people there calling him unserious and a buffoon. (Or something quite similar.)
All this trickle-down, job-creators, prop up the banks first idiocy would have been considered idiotic before he came along and made America dumber.[/QUOTE]
Was Eisenhower still alive then ? Cause I suspect he'd of hated what his party became.
This new development is again something that nobody would buy in a movie script:
Katie Halper, the journalist who first introduced Tara Reade and her accusations to a wider audience made several very stalker-ish tweets about ... Joe Biden, years ago. When somebody dug those out today, she started deleting them.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/M0aXvJ7.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=PaulBullion;4955665]This new development is again something that nobody would buy in a movie script:
Katie Halper, the journalist who first introduced Tara Reade and her accusations to a wider audience made several very stalker-ish tweets about ... Joe Biden, years ago. When somebody dug those out today, she started deleting them.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/M0aXvJ7.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
If Trump is "Stupid Watergate" then Tara Reade is "Stupid Monica Lewinsky case"
[QUOTE=CaptainEurope;4955571]That's only if you forget about the fact that our children, their children, children's children and so on will somehow have to produce the energy to keep the nuclear waste safe from natural influences and terrorists for 80,000 years or so. If you factor that in, nuclear power is probably dirtier than coal, we just kicked the can down the road a bit. That's one of the reasons why my country got out of nukes and bet on wind and solar. Nuclear power is not a green energy at all, especially now that wind power plants can be built faster (and causing less CO2 during construction) than nuclear plants.[/QUOTE]
True, those have been concerns and should be concerns when addressing climate change.
Still, all those problems are less pressing and more solvable than the immediate and devastating problem of climate change. People have already worked on nuclear power problems for decades and have solutions available. If we believe that the rapid rise of greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change, and we believe that climate change is a problem that humanity has the capacity to solve, then I can't rule out nuclear energy as part of that solution. If we are able to solve the former, we can certainly solve the latter.
If I rule it out, then what would my goal actually be? It doesn't seem like I'd be serious about addressing greenhouse gas emissions. Certainly, just like our ancestors in the modern age have left us with a lot of problems to deal with today, whatever we do today and in the next few years will saddle generations decades, centuries and thousands of years from now with problems - most we cannot even predict.
However, I think climate change may be an existential threat within the next century or so, so I'd rather leave future distant generations with the problem of what to do with nuclear waste than avoid that problem by basically going extinct. It may be that natural gas plants. wind and solar can give better immediate reduction for the expenditures, though, and for all we know, within the next ten to twenty years we may have figured out fusion reactors or batteries capable of storing energy from wind and solar for use when the plants can't generate it (and reducing the amount of land needed for those sources) or lines capable of sending power over massive distances. We don't know what solutions may appear or what new problems may arise, but I don't want to focus all attention on just one kind of solution.
I'm reminded that city planners in 1900 had eliminating horse manure at the top of their lists of unsolvable problems they would have to deal with in the 20th century. However, the invention of the automobile, which no one predicted, made that concern irrelevant.
[QUOTE=WestPhillyPunisher;4955419]I'm fine with bees, it's those goddamn giant hornets that scare the shit out of me.[/QUOTE]
You and me both! Something that is big as they are and can sting through a beekeeper suit is something I don't want even in the same county let alone in my yard
I can't wait for this election to be over. I still have to figure out what my state of Indiana is doing with the primary we've not had yet. Not that it really matters much. We do early voting but right now the official site says pending for the status on that. The primary itself is June 4th.
[QUOTE=CaptainEurope;4955571]That's only if you forget about the fact that our children, their children, children's children and so on will somehow have to produce the energy to keep the nuclear waste safe from natural influences and terrorists for 80,000 years or so. If you factor that in, nuclear power is probably dirtier than coal, we just kicked the can down the road a bit. That's one of the reasons why my country got out of nukes and bet on wind and solar. Nuclear power is not a green energy at all, especially now that wind power plants can be built faster (and causing less CO2 during construction) than nuclear plants.[/QUOTE]
Agreed. Nuclear power is not "clean." The nuclear material in some reactors must be changed out each year and the tons of waste must be stored undisturbed for millenia.
To illustrate the length of time, one current problem with storage is that the stuff stays deadly for so long experts must figure out alternate methods of communicating that fact to future generations because any of the languages currently spoken and written on Earth are liable to be unintelligible by the time it is finally somewhat safe to handle.
[QUOTE=jetengine;4955668]If Trump is "Stupid Watergate" then Tara Reade is "Stupid Monica Lewinsky case"[/QUOTE]
Lewisnky and Clinton had a consensual affair (though one might argue if that was possible considering the power dynamics, but she was an adult with agency) that actually happened. Not sure how this applies here. This has more in common with Plan 9 from outer space than the Lewinsky affair.
[QUOTE=ChadH;4955712]Agreed. Nuclear power is not "clean." The nuclear material in some reactors must be changed out each year and the tons of waste must be stored undisturbed for millenia.
To illustrate the length of time, one current problem with storage is that the stuff stays deadly for so long experts must figure out alternate methods of communicating that fact to future generations because any of the languages currently spoken and written on Earth are liable to be unintelligible by the time it is finally somewhat safe to handle.[/QUOTE]
[url=https://vimeo.com/138843064]Ray Cats![/url]
:cool:
[QUOTE=ChadH;4955712]Agreed. Nuclear power is not "clean." The nuclear material in some reactors must be changed out each year and the tons of waste must be stored undisturbed for millenia.
To illustrate the length of time, one current problem with storage is that the stuff stays deadly for so long experts must figure out alternate methods of communicating that fact to future generations because any of the languages currently spoken and written on Earth are liable to be unintelligible by the time it is finally somewhat safe to handle.[/QUOTE]
It's also not a "quick solution" for climate change. Getting a new nuclear power plant on the grid in a non-totalitarian state takes well over a decade - and that is if there are no lawsuits from neighbors who don't want three-eyed fish. You can build enough renewable energy resources to replace existing coal and gas plants in that time easily. There is no good reason left to build new nuclear plants.
[QUOTE=A Small Talent For War;4955673]True, those have been concerns and should be concerns when addressing climate change.
Still, all those problems are less pressing and more solvable than the immediate and devastating problem of climate change. People have already worked on nuclear power problems for decades and have solutions available. If we believe that the rapid rise of greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change, and we believe that climate change is a problem that humanity has the capacity to solve, then I can't rule out nuclear energy as part of that solution. If we are able to solve the former, we can certainly solve the latter.
If I rule it out, then what would my goal actually be? It doesn't seem like I'd be serious about addressing greenhouse gas emissions. Certainly, just like our ancestors in the modern age have left us with a lot of problems to deal with today, whatever we do today and in the next few years will saddle generations decades, centuries and thousands of years from now with problems - most we cannot even predict.
However, I think climate change may be an existential threat within the next century or so, so I'd rather leave future distant generations with the problem of what to do with nuclear waste than avoid that problem by basically going extinct.[/QUOTE]
No. The solution is to re-evaluate our classification of clean power with an eye towards not leaving a mess for future generations to clean up. We have much cleaner options than nuclear available to us now and are in a position to make those options even cleaner. Geo-thermal, for instance can create power on an equal level without the nuclear waste problem.
It also bears pointing out that nuclear contamination doesn't just affect one population. The genetic damage can carry through for generations and be distributed worldwide through populations.
[QUOTE=ChadH;4955722]No. The solution is to re-evaluate our classification of clean power with an eye towards not leaving a mess for future generations to clean up. We have much cleaner options than nuclear available to us now and are in a position to make those options even cleaner. Geo-thermal, for instance can create power on an equal level without the nuclear waste problem.
It also bears pointing out that nuclear contamination doesn't just affect one population. The genetic damage can carry through for generations and be distributed worldwide through populations.[/QUOTE]
They're doing a small scale version of geo thermal here in Germany that I find absolutely genius: When they build a new house, they drill pipes about 15, 20 meters in the the ground and extend those pipes into the walls. A small pump that barely needs energy (and can be run by a solar panel) circulates water through those pipes. The temperature at that depth is a constant 15° Celsius. So in the winter, this pre-warms your walls and you need less heating, and in the summer, it cools your walls and you need less AC.
[QUOTE=PaulBullion;4955714]Lewisnky and Clinton had a consensual affair (though one might argue if that was possible considering the power dynamics, but she was an adult with agency) that actually happened. Not sure how this applies here. This has more in common with Plan 9 from outer space than the Lewinsky affair.[/QUOTE]
Before getting her job with his administration, Lewinsky had a small reputation among her peers as having a major crush on Clinton. I've often wondered if someone helped her get that job close to Clinton, who had a reputation of philandering. I also wonder if Linda Tripp wasn't encouraged to become Lewinsky's confidant. It's a known fact that it was Tripp who pressured Lewinsky to store the notorious blue dress without cleaning it and it was also Tripp who outed Lewinsky to the press.
My tinfoil hat is itchy.
[QUOTE=CaptainEurope;4955727]They're doing a small scale version of geo thermal here in Germany that I find absolutely genius: When they build a new house, they drill pipes about 15, 20 meters in the the ground and extend those pipes into the walls. A small pump that barely needs energy (and can be run by a solar panel) circulates water through those pipes. The temperature at that depth is a constant 15° Celsius. So in the winter, this pre-warms your walls and you need less heating, and in the summer, it cools your walls and you need less AC.[/QUOTE]
Iceland generates nearly 100% of it's power from geothermal.
[QUOTE=Tuck;4955718][url=https://vimeo.com/138843064]Ray Cats![/url]
:cool:[/QUOTE] And cats would finally be useful.
Watching the parallel universe of Carnation Twitter implode has a strange attraction to me.
[img]https://i.imgur.com/75LleLH.png[/img]
Graz works for a Justice Democrat campaign and is infamous for creating memes inferring all gay people were serial killers. His tears, as they say, are delicious.
I mean... how hysterical is "Bernie Won 2016 (Biden's Hairy Leg"? What are they, 14?