The skeevy news about Matt Gaetz just keeps on comin’, and here’s one of the skeeviest bits nicely summed up in this CNN video.
Federal investigators looking into Rep. Matt Gaetz’s relationships with young women have examined whether any federal campaign money was involved in paying for travel and expenses for the women, a person briefed on the matter said.
I love how everyone involved in passing this horrid law thinks we’ve somehow misunderstood them. That we lack the ability to put what they did into context. May this vote forever taint you and be mentioned in your obituary. https://t.co/u7y1oFsRgM
— Aliceinthewater (@aliceinthewater) April 3, 2021
John Boehner lied about Obama, the stimulus, Keystone pipeline, taxes, federal workers, abortion, and REPEATEDLY spread lies abt the Affordable Care Act
But he called Ted Cruz an asshole, so now otherwise sane people are helping him sell his damn book.https://t.co/XNEGT5adjK— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) April 3, 2021
It all started with the rabbit-eating kitten zombies…#AHareRaisingTail pic.twitter.com/k13Kns4oEU
— “Mad Cat” Cattis (@GeneralCattis) April 3, 2021
fresh chopped garlic is better, this is always true always https://t.co/f9iQUMuvth
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2021
President Joseph R. Biden has ordered the US Flag lowered to half-staff as a mark of respect for the victims of the attack at the United States Capitol today. It shall remain at half-staff until sunset, April 6.
Matt Gaetz’s head is a polygon.
I hope I don’t get suspended for this tweet.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2021
Technical difficulties! Power outage at the studio. Working to re-up now — will get back on as soon as we can. Thank you Richard Lui for holding down the fort!
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) April 3, 2021
Unwanted trolling calls seems to be a calling card for these guys.
Here’s the story Matt and his team were mad enough about ti call ny mother at her home. They would not want you to read it so definitely don’t click the link. https://t.co/ICdrw1MnkZ
— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) April 2, 2021
I’d like to remind everyone that when the subject of the Holocaust denier Matt Gaetz invited to Trump’s state of the union speech comes up, please refer to him as “Chuck C. Johnson.” Because he is NOT ME.
(Or “Rage Furby,” that works too.)— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2021
Oh, and by the way? Twitter has still not suspended Chuck C. Johnson’s latest ban-evading account, even though he’s supposedly banned for life. (Yes, that’s really him.) pic.twitter.com/4JnpLn1ZqC
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2021
re: #6 Charles Johnson
I want to give him the benefit of the doubt. I suspect sometime in middle school on an overnight field trip some of his classmates taped his nose to his forehead, but he didn’t awaken and there it froze. This explains his face and his fixation on girls at roughly the 9th grade level.
This is the ski area I work at. Still the same building, with a couple of additions. And the lift in the video was shortened when two other lifts were installed. The ski equipment is also very different today.
Film footage of @skisunlight 53 years ago. Not much has changed! https://t.co/Pjp0XrCiF4
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 3, 2021
good advice pic.twitter.com/OUFbm1gGqZ
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 3, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
“DON’T TREAD ON ME”
“Don’t worry, mate, I wouldn’t dream of it. Have a good one, yeah?”
Here’s a brief glimpse into the mindset of conservatives in America. Hint: They want to kill anyone who doesn’t think or look (i.e. white and Protestant) like them. They are fully fascist. The conservative movement is rejecting America https://t.co/u11gu2L1Sr via @voxdotcom
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 3, 2021
Mind-blowing facts about KFC. pic.twitter.com/HkjvHavF15
— Tomthunkit™ (@TomthunkitsMind) February 15, 2021
re: #12 Charles Johnson
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In 1972, I traveled with my 6 siblings, mother, and dog, from LA to Chicago, camping (usually) along the way. One night, we didn’t stop until after dark, and ended up at a nice, otherwise unoccupied, roadside rest stop with a picnic table. Some slept in the VW van, a few of us camped out in a flimsy tent. In the morning, we saw that sign.
He’s a psychopath.
I swear to God this isn’t a late April Fool’s joke.
This is an actual statement that came into my actual inbox. pic.twitter.com/Fb2nTNT8kV— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) April 3, 2021
re: #16 wrenchwench
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re: #12 Charles Johnson
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I liked the sign I saw in Japan, just off a small beach between Kure and Hiroshima, warning people of the terrifying snakes and wild boars in the area.
re: #21 Jay C
“Other than that, Happy Easter”
😱😱😱
“And for the rest, I hold that the religious rites must be observed.”
re: #18 teleskiguy
He’s a psychopath.
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Is it too much to hope that the 3rd Republican involved in the Gaetz scandal is Trump?
So who did Gaetz show the photos to on the floor of the House, and why aren’t they coming forward?
re: #25 jaunte
So who did Gaetz show the photos to on the floor of the House, and why aren’t they coming forward?
I’ve seen tweets along the lines of, “If he showed them to any Democrats, they should offer to resign NOW.” Uhh, you think he’s stupid enough to do that? I don’t know about you, but even Matt “Gas Pedal” Gaetz has enough brains not to show compromising photos to people who would literally torpedo his career in an instant if given a chance. Like, no, you can rest assured that all responsibility for this Hindenburg-sized political disaster rests with the GQP.
A brief criminal retrospective:
We ought to take a moment to appreciate, we ought to let our chests well a little bit in knowing that we, our generation, us, we just lived through an administration that was so thoroughly criminal it makes the Nixon Watergate scandals look adorable in retrospect. pic.twitter.com/XWPCJaLMsS
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) April 2, 2021
Just suddenly remembered this bit from a Matt Gaetz profile back in 2019 https://t.co/LKlmDiImsN pic.twitter.com/bQ7P8quSI7
— Robert Maguire (@RobertMaguire_) April 3, 2021
GOP: You must have an ID to vote — Law and order!
Also GOP: Let’s make fake IDs to sex traffic underage girls!— Lindy Li (@lindyli) April 2, 2021
Happy Friday, folks! I am just here to offer a shoutout to the several lawmakers who were apparently aware that Matt Gaetz keeps and readily shares potential revenge porn material on his sexual conquests who also didn’t make a single peep while this cretin was in Wyoming to shit on Liz Cheney for the crime of loving Trump less than he does.
Oh wait…did I say shoutout?
I meant a stiff middle finger.
re: #32 DodgerFan1988
Also GOP: You can’t force me to show proof of vaccination to do things with people during a pandemic!
Can Vaccinated People Spread the Virus? We Don’t Know, Scientists Say. (Yahoo!)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday walked back controversial comments made by its director, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, suggesting that people who are vaccinated against the coronavirus never become infected or transmit the virus to others.
The assertion called into question the precautions that the agency had urged vaccinated people to take just last month, like wearing masks and gathering only under limited circumstances with unvaccinated people.
“Dr. Walensky spoke broadly during this interview,” an agency spokesperson told The Times. “It’s possible that some people who are fully vaccinated could get COVID-19. The evidence isn’t clear whether they can spread the virus to others. We are continuing to evaluate the evidence.”
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re: #12 Charles Johnson
My family calls that a “Yo, Idiot” sign.
The B.1.1.7 Covid-19 variant is now the predominant variant in regions holding two-thirds of the entire U.S. population, with Fauci warning today that this version of the virus is both more easily transmitted and likely more dangerous once you catch it.https://t.co/uxzytrm12b
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) April 2, 2021
re: #29 jaunte
First protest sign I made after 2016 election - displayed at a protest when the GOP came to Philadelphia in January 2017.
Nailed it.
Huh. Steven Crowder (@scrowder) deleted all of his tweets.
My niece wrote a dystopian future trilogy while in college with all the art and lore to go with it. I’m trying to get her to create some NFT special editions of her works. She’s amenable to the idea.
re: #14 teleskiguy
The Claremont Institute: founded by four libertarian conservative students of now-dead wingnut Leo Strauss (Wikipedia)
Joke from Google home mini:
Why do ducks have tail feathers?
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To cover their butt quack.
I must remind everyone that the Claremont Institute has ZERO connection to the Claremont Colleges. It’s sorta kinda nearby, and trying to appropriate the Claremont Colleges’ reputation, but IT”S ENTIRELY UNRELATED.
Hello Matt, I’m Chris Hansen of Dateline NBC. — ‘take a seat’
— Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) April 2, 2021
One of the most poignant and heartbreaking @NewYorker covers of all time. By R. Kikuo. pic.twitter.com/Jmrs7W0I1l
— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) April 2, 2021
Happy Friday Lizards! Looks like the congressslither from FL is in big trouble. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving spoiled little frat boy. He was raised to believe he should never have to suffer consequences for being awful and a fucking criminal who enjoys hurting others. And he never has, til now. Daddy is probably still promising him it’ll all go away. I want to see him in an orange jumpsuit with that stupid haircut of his buzzed off. I will happy dance.
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On my way to work this morning, I saw this on the back of a pickup: “Quiero novia toxica que me mantenga.” The translation from an amiga Latina is “I want a toxic girlfriend who will support me.”
ha ha ha
Fox host: “Is it time for American conservatives to cancel sports and maybe then they’d start to respect us?” https://t.co/TrSuKDeEtb
— Media Matters (@mmfa) April 3, 2021
“People are mad at my party, ergo I am calling on my party to pass a laundry list of horrible policies that would actively hurt the people mad at us” really just is a perfect encapsulation of why Republicans should never be elected to any office, anywhere, ever. https://t.co/CIolrqFT7z
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 3, 2021
Also, quite notably, NC voters blamed the GOP governor for it. That’s why he lost re-election even as Trump won the state by 4 points.
A cautionary tale to Kemp and all the Rs who think they can leverage the boycotts into resentment against Ds. History shows they probably can’t. https://t.co/G74Xqsdn9j— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) April 3, 2021
re: #328 A hollow voice says NOW drain that swamp!
Still no sign of Decatur Deb. Does anyone know anything about this?
re: #330 Backwoods_Sleuth
BeachDem sent him an email. Don’t think she got a response yet.
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Damn. Arizona just knocked out UCONN. All Pac-12 women’s final.
That looked too easy for Arizona. Great defense, good ball control.
re: #54 BeachDem
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re: #56 retired cynic
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— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) April 3, 2021
Taylor Gage, Gov. Pete Ricketts’s spokesman, says the group is an advocacy organisation funded by liberal donors and nor a real media outfit.
North Omaha is the center of Omaha’s African-American population, as well as a significant population of European immigrants.
LINCOLN — The recent denial of press credentials for a North Omaha-based news website to cover press briefings by Gov. Pete Ricketts is raising questions about who, and who shouldn’t, be allowed to attend news events in the age of growing digital media.
NOISE Omaha, which stands for “North Omaha Information Support Everyone,” is a nonprofit news website founded two years ago to fill a void in coverage of Omaha’s minority communities.
Its stated goal, on its free site, is to “do community-based journalism that provides useful information and holds representatives and systems accountable …”
It has six full-time staff members, gets financial support from a handful of local foundations, and in recent weeks, posted stories about state COVID-19 policies, shootings involving Omaha police and the controversy over the state’s financially troubled contractor to handle child welfare in the Omaha area.
But when a reporter for NOISE showed up Wednesday for the governor’s press briefing in Lincoln, she was barred from attending.
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Denial of media credentials for North Omaha website raises questions (Omaha World-Herald)
re: #59 teleskiguy
Here’s where the population of the internet shows they don’t know what 95% means.
Preliminarily, all major midnight-to-midnight stations in the U.S. on April 2, 2021, recorded a combined 0.12” precipitation. In the last ~80 years, only Feb 9, 1991, was drier (0.02”). pic.twitter.com/Iuf9OFee7H
— Brian Brettschneider (@Climatologist49) April 3, 2021
The shit our parents did to us.
No wonder we’re all so screwed up. 😂😆🤣 pic.twitter.com/jYNvpjpVej— Just Elizabeth (@Eiggam5955) April 3, 2021
Feeling better today…
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Total U.S. population: ~330 million
Assuming ~25% J&J, ~580M to vaccinate 100% of population
Doses administered: ~158 million
At 4.0M/day going forward, it’d take 105 days to vaccinate 100% of the population, or July 17th.
(I know we won’t hit 100%, but it’s nice to dream…) https://t.co/laig6qmzh1— Charles #GetCovered-ba (@charles_gaba) April 3, 2021
Godzilla vs. King Kong: Whose Poops Would Be Bigger?
re: #64 A Mom Anon
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Whites Can No Longer Stand On The Side-
lines.We Must STAND In Solidarity With Our Blk
Brothers & Sisters In Every KU KLUX KLAN STATE.WE MUST🛑RACIST GOP
LAWMAKERS FROM TOTAL DOMINATION OF🇺🇸,&
DESTRUCTION OF DEMOCRATS.WE”MUST STOP”GOP BIGOTS FROM TAKING🇺🇸BACK 2 DAYS OF JIM CROW pic.twitter.com/lDc6BwKpFP— Cher (@cher) April 3, 2021
Via Seeing Red Nebraska:
This week has been hell for any pharmacists who are distributing vaccines in Nebraska. Why? Because Pete Ricketts is a fucking asshole. Pete decided that our vaccine rollout in Nebraska would focus on rural areas to the detriment of urban areas. He also decided to fuck over people with pre-existing conditions. So Pete had a plan, and that plan was the covid vaccine hunger games. Why? Because he is no different than President Snow, he enjoys watching people suffer and die, especially his more liberal constituents in larger cities.
Everyone is currently vaccine hunting this week in Nebraska. Why? Because we don’t want to die. We don’t want our family or friends to die. And so, the demand for vaccines in Nebraska is high. But Pete decided on a ludicrous rollout that has resulted in rural areas having way too much vaccine with lower demand, which means anyone can be vaccinated (yay for Kearney!). But it means my sister in Lincoln with MS and who survived a brain tumor and has other pre-existing conditions, has to wait.
Pete has been trying to control this to no avail. Last week he threatened to cite pharmacists who administer vaccines contrary to the Nebraska roll-out plans with misdemeanors (Goes to WOWT-TV, Omaha).
This week, Pete got big mad because pharmacy chains participating in the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, like Wal-Mart and Hyvee, follow federal guidelines, not state ones, so they are vaccinating everyone 18+. Pete thought the federal government shouldn’t do their job and should have consulted him.
The result of this high demand and uneven supply means people are flooding these pharmacies in urban areas. Many are driving hours away to get their vaccine, especially residents of the most populous counties where many are left waiting.
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big fan of the dodgers’ new outfielder. he has a lot of hustle. pic.twitter.com/kTV00PhRYE
— Lana Berry (@Lana) April 3, 2021
Your AOC tag has more than 1,200 entries. https://t.co/8KnXwhvtA3 https://t.co/hzxIaG5HQB
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) April 2, 2021
Extremely local food news: My wife just made poutine.
re: #72 Dread Pirate Ron
The number of conservatives who have AOCD is frightening. https://t.co/uD0Jtbx2qM
— They call me Coach Joe (@josephruscitti) November 12, 2020
“Rep. Matt Gaetz repeatedly boasted to people involved in Florida politics about women he met through a county tax collector who has since been charged by federal authorities with sex trafficking of a minor”https://t.co/pQ2yKiRWpc
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 3, 2021
re: #75 Dread Pirate Ron
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Matt was really hoping that whole bullshit about his being “extorted” would give him an “out” of those whole mess. But it’s just getting worse and worse by the hour.
Marjorie Taylor Greene wouldn’t stand up for the Capitol police.
But she stood up for Matt Gaetz.— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) April 3, 2021
If conservatives are correct that the Georgia law is no big deal, why are three separate Republican Party Committees spending money intervening in court to defend it—claiming that if the law is struck down it will disadvantage the GOP in elections?🤔https://t.co/9r2DVxZEVR
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) April 2, 2021
Hey things are great and we are not at all living in a pointless and irrelevant dystopian shitscape. All good.
eat Arby’s.— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) April 2, 2021
re: #14 teleskiguy
Unlike many Trump supporters, Glenn Ellmers did acknowledge that Biden received more votes than Trump and that his position is in the minority. It is clear that most Republicans in power realize this and are working overtime on their version of a “peaceful” resolution — namely disenfranchising enough people of color to guarantee a permanent Republican majority. Glenn’s view of this nation is terrifying and it is shared by most who are in the cult:
“Most people living in the United States today — certainly more than half — are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term,” Glenn Ellmers, the essay’s author, writes. “They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people. It is not obvious what we should call these citizen-aliens, these non-American Americans; but they are something else.”
These seditious citizens are opposed, according to Ellmers, by “the 75 million people who voted in the last election against the senile figurehead of a party that stands for mob violence, ruthless censorship, and racial grievances, not to mention bureaucratic despotism.”
If Trump voters and conservatives do not band together and fight “a sort of counter-revolution,” then “the victory of progressive tyranny will be assured. See you in the gulag.”
re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter
Just as they don’t get to tell other people what they should or shouldn’t find offensive, they also don’t get to decide what an American is.
re: #55 austin_blue
Damn. Arizona just knocked out UCONN. All Pac-12 women’s final.
That looked too easy for Arizona. Great defense, good ball control.
I’ll just let that on hang there…
re: #81 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Just as they don’t get to tell other people what they should or shouldn’t find offensive, they also don’t get to decide what an American is.
They do not believe in, live by, or even like the principles, traditions, and ideals that until recently defined America as a nation and as a people.
You mean like Separate but Equal?
You mean like women’s bodies belong to the state as soon as they get pregnant?
You mean like gays and trans people are mentally ill and in need of forced therapy?
re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter
“Most people living in the United States today — certainly more than half — are not Americans in any meaningful sense of the term,”
— Glenn Ellmers.
How long before Glenn proposes a final solution to this problem?
re: #84 John Hughes
— Glen Ellmers.
How long before Glen proposes a final solution to this problem?
It all started going downhill when we expanded the voting franchise beyond land-owning white males…
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One year ago, televangelist Kenneth Copeland and his hype men blew “the wind of God” on COVID-19 and destroyed it forever. pic.twitter.com/dWSIoUlsFy
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) April 2, 2021
It feels like it needs to be repeated daily: “The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel, not a blueprint!”
re: #85 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
It all started going downhill when we expanded the voting franchise beyond land-owning white males…
Well, I’m safe then. (Wait, I’m an atheist. They would delightfully kill me.)
re: #87 Targetpractice
It feels like it needs to be repeated daily: “The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel, not a blueprint!”
When Margaret Atwood wrote it during the Reagan Administration, she thought of it more as a prediction.
re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Or rather like in Candide, just cut off one buttock each…
re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Or rather like in Candide, just cut off one buttock each…
Probably too gamey.
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades (The Economist)
In a few years electric vehicles may cost the same as their combustion-engine counterparts
BATTERIES HAVE come a long way in 30 years. In the early 1990s the storage capacity needed to power a house for a day would have cost about $75,000. The cells themselves would have weighed 113kg (250lbs) and taken up as much space as a beer keg. Today the same amount of power can be delivered at a cost of less than $2,000, from a 40kg package roughly the size of a small backpack.
Such technological progress is crucial for decarbonising the global economy. One of the shortcomings of renewable energy sources is their inconsistency: the sun does not always shine and the wind does not always blow. Batteries can help solve this problem by storing up surplus power when supply is high, for use when it is low. A steadier supply of electricity could eliminate the need for “peakers”—generation plants powered by fossil fuels that utilities bring online only when demand rises sharply, for example on hot days when air-conditioners are cranked up. Such carbon-belching facilities, which run only for a few hours each year, are expensive to build and run, raising costs for consumers.
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Now if they can make a battery for a car that can get me to town and back (which is actually affordable), that might make me buying an electric car worthwhile.
re: #93 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Lithium battery costs have fallen by 98% in three decades (The Economist)
Whatever happened to the scheme to produce standardized batteries so you can just pull into a fuel station, swap batteries out and pay for the charge?
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever happened to the scheme to produce standardized batteries so you can just pull into a fuel station, swap batteries out and pay for the charge?
That has issues, like the connectors and their maintenance state, which is very important in high-current applications. The battery enclosure (what you plop into your car) takes space that could’ve been used for the cells. A third is safety, what if the vehicles crash?
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever happened to the scheme to produce standardized batteries so you can just pull into a fuel station, swap batteries out and pay for the charge?
I have not heard of such a scheme.
That article goes on to say that the price of lithium ion batteries is approaching the point where they can directly compete in price with internal combustion engines.
That said, it will take more than price to make such vehicles viable: Until such time as battery-operated cars have sufficient range for those of us living in rural areas, they will not sell here.
My state offers a reduced charge for EV car license plates, which is meaningless since most of the state is rural and has no charging stations (although Tesla has installed a string of charging stations along Interstate 80 throughout the state).
The Capitol Police have issued a statement on the murder of their police officer in yesterday’s attack.
“It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the passing of Officer William ‘Billy’ Evans this afternoon from injuries he sustained following an attack at the North Barricade by a lone assailant. Officer Evans had been a member of the United States Capitol Police for 18 years. He began his USCP service on March 7, 2003, and was a member of the Capitol Division’s First Responder’s Unit. Please keep Officer Evans and his family in your thoughts and prayers.”
-Acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman
Loss of USCP Officer William F. Evans (Goes to the US Capitol Police Website)
re: #96 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I have not heard of such a scheme.
That article goes on to say that the price of lithium ion batteries is approaching the point where they can directly compete in price with internal combustion engines.
That said, it will take more than price to make such vehicles viable: Until such time as battery-operated cars have sufficient range for those of us living in rural areas, they will not sell here.
Germany is densely populated enough that it is approaching the necessary concentration of charging stations to make electric vehicles attractive for most folks.
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Germany is dense enough that it is approaching the necessary concentration of charging stations to make electric vehicles attractive for most folks.
I would need to buy a different car than a Smart, as the range of a Smart EV is only sixty miles (so I can make a one-way trip to Scottsbluff).
re: #99 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I would need to buy a different car than a Smart, as the range of a Smart EV is only sixty miles (so I can make a one-way trip to Scottsbluff).
Gas burners are gonna be around for a while but there is no reason that most municipal vehicle fleets, for example, should not switch over to electric.
re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Gas burners are gonna be around for a while but there is no reason that most municipal vehicle fleets, for example, should not switch over to electric.
I made that suggestion to my village board when it was considering replacing our ancient pickup truck. (I’ve driven that thing a couple times; it’s a death trap.)
They were “nah.”
The longest distance anyone drives the village pickup is sixteen miles to the county seat. Usually it is only driven around the village (less than a mile).
re: #94 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Whatever happened to the scheme to produce standardized batteries so you can just pull into a fuel station, swap batteries out and pay for the charge?
When the first Tesla cars hit the road the company set up a battery-swap station in California. It was used something like seven times in 18 months, only one car owner came back twice apparently. The others tried it once and didn’t like it. The battery tech and other car engineering has improved since then with fast charging and the like, the range between charges has increased for higher-end models while the number of street-side and home chargers has also increased obviating the demand for battery swap.
There’s a whole series of engineering reasons why battery swap isn’t really practical, at least for cars. Trucks are another matter but there aren’t any real electric long-distance transport options on the road yet, just a number of shiny futuristic prototypes and lots of PowerPoint presentations.
re: #101 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I made that suggestion to my village board when it was considering replacing our ancient pickup truck. (I’ve driven that thing a couple times; it’s a death trap.)
They were “nah.”
The longest distance anyone drives the village pickup is sixteen miles to the county seat. Usually it is only driven around the village (less than a mile).
That is much more a matter of ideology than practicality.
The sad fact that Gaetz exists is compounded by his position in a Republican party that has become a haven for criminals. Being unwilling to remove Trump, looking at Gaetz’s disgusting cell phone pictures, not turning him in & not kicking him out are all part of the same sickness
— Tom Joseph (@TomJChicago) April 2, 2021
re: #103 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
That is much more a matter of ideology than practicality.
It was more a matter of cheap. The village decided not to replace our truck with any other vehicle.
They did spend money on rehabilitating our two tractors, and spent money on a box grader for the village streets to replace the blade grader. (The box grader is superior, as it digs deeper into the streets and prevents the street gravel from being shunted off the side of the streets.)
re: #61 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Here’s where the population of the internet shows they don’t know what 95% means.
or that it’s not exact, or a guarantee
re: #61 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
Here’s where the population of the internet shows they don’t know what 95% means.
Assessing probabilities is not a human strength.
Trying to convince the anti-vaxxers that everyone needs to be vaccinated to truly reduce the chance of catching a virus is a hard thing to do.
re: #59 teleskiguy
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oh godamnit. various things I will never say to anyone ever: “here, have a sip of this. I’m vaccinated.” “Here, let me put my tongue directly up your cat’s pooper because I’ve been vaccinated.” “Yes, I’d be happy to eat the food that just fell out of that baby’s mouth, because I’ve been vaccinated.” Being neurotic as hell has kept me alive to this point. No reason to change.
re: #102 Nojay UK
When the first Tesla cars hit the road the company set up a battery-swap station in California. It was used something like seven times in 18 months, only one car owner came back twice apparently. The others tried it once and didn’t like it. The battery tech and other car engineering has improved since then with fast charging and the like, the range between charges has increased for higher-end models while the number of street-side and home chargers has also increased obviating the demand for battery swap.
There’s a whole series of engineering reasons why battery swap isn’t really practical, at least for cars. Trucks are another matter but there aren’t any real electric long-distance transport options on the road yet, just a number of shiny futuristic prototypes and lots of PowerPoint presentations.
No reason why we can’t move though more aggressively to hybrids. Sure, we would still burn fuel in a gas engine, but we could really kick up the range. If I could afford it, I’d love a hybrid.
re: #76 Targetpractice
Matt was really hoping that whole bullshit about his being “extorted” would give him an “out” of those whole mess. But it’s just getting worse and worse by the hour.
matt’s already shown he’s got lousy judgement
re: #76 Targetpractice
Matt was really hoping that whole bullshit about his being “extorted” would give him an “out” of those whole mess. But it’s just getting worse and worse by the hour.
In the days of the Alternate Media Reality, that would have become the Alternate Reality. But we have seen that the ability to twist the narrative to fit the RW agenda is diminishing daily.
re: #115 steve_davis
We also have a technology, which would require some government investment to make the jump from labs and small scale to giant factories, that is carbon neutral, renewable, and a direct drop in replacement for gasoline. Algae derived biogasoline. It requires no changes to the distribution infrastructure or to gas stations, and no changes to existing automobiles to use it, except for the addition of an octane booster for high compression engines that would normally require premium.
This could turn the whole “fleet” of vehicles on the road already carbon neutral as far as fuel is concerned. It could be used in conjunction with hybrids to make clean, partially electric high fuel economy vehicles that are actually useful for everyone and not just those that live in a high population density area.
It won’t depend on the power grid being updated to ultra modern quality and tech in a decade, or clean electric power generation on the scale required to replace every car and truck with an EV within that same time and have it not raise my power bill to multiples of my rent or a mortgage, both of which seem to be bonkers pipe-dreams to everyone with a realistic view point.
Cancel Culture falsely implies the existence of culture.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) April 2, 2021
now that the former guy issued that brilliant statement about MLB, delta, coca cola etc, you think he’s gonna have his red ‘diet coke now’ button removed from his phone?
re: #119 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
It’s all energy. Fossil carbon (oil, gas, coal) is the residue of biological material which grew in sunlight hundreds of millions of years ago but we’re burning our way through that 100 million years of accumulated sunlight in a few centuries, starting with coal which fuelled, literally, the Industrial Revolution and moving on to oil, the 20th century energy source and now gas, the 21st century’s fuel of choice.
Manufactured biofuels need energy too, they don’t just grow on trees so to speak. Algae grown in tanks will need more energy input than they will provide when burned, same for all the PowerPoint wonder-fuels like hydrogen and ammonia and the like. The great thing about fossil carbon fuels is they’re already there in place, they will produce excess energy compared to the energy cost of producing them. They’re free money basically in terms of energy whereas anything we manufacture from CO2 and sunlight and wind will use up more electricity than the energy they return when we burn them.
Nuclear power is different but people are irrational on that subject so it’s mostly ignored or shunned when solutions to the world’s energy problem are considered. A few countries are developing real nuclear solutions to their energy needs, China and Russia mainly but the rest of the world is burning gas and pretending renewables will save us next year.
Oh, and before anyone says “Thorium!”, please don’t. It’s the Himalayan Salt of the nuclear business.
re: #122 Nojay UK
Manufactured biofuels need energy too, they don’t just grow on trees so to speak. Algae grown in tanks will need more energy input than they will provide when burned, same for all the PowerPoint wonder-fuels like hydrogen and ammonia and the like.
The energy comes from the sun.
re: #124 Jack Burton, Gunner on Death Star of David
The energy comes from the sun.
I had a horrible feeling you were going to say something like that…
The gallon of gas you put in your car’s tank is energy that came from the sun too. It’s just it was ten million years of sunshine a hundred million years and more ago.
If you wanted to create enough algae-based or other biofuel to replace that gallon of gas, it would take more than a hundred square metres of sunlight on land to grow enough biomaterial in a day to provide the same amount of energy after processing, and that’s for just one gallon of gas. The US burns its way through 337 million gallons of gas each day according to the EIA.
You’re going to need a lot more sunlight and/or land or do without energy if you depend on biofuels, and energy poverty is at the heart of real poverty — food, clean water, housing, they all need energy and the poorest countries and poorest people are energy-poor.
re: #122 Nojay UK
Oh, and before anyone says “Thorium!”, please don’t. It’s the Himalayan Salt of the nuclear business.
But can’t we use molten Himalayan Salt in a molten salt thorium breeder reactor?
/// < grinning, ducking and running. >
re: #122 Nojay UK
Nuclear power is different but people are irrational on that subject so it’s mostly ignored or shunned when solutions to the world’s energy problem are considered.
You can call it irrational, but… FUKASHIMA.
If you could see my text messages from some of his current and former colleagues, I actually can’t repeat what some of them say on morning television. It’s because he has not made himself popular with most of his colleagues.”— CNN correspondent Dana Bash, quoted by HuffPost, about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).
Quotes are quotes.
Not revealing them gives them all a pass
You’re a freaking reporter.
This is news
reporters report news.
Why open the genie’s bottle by reporting that these texts exist?
Since you did, if you don’t release the quotes you’re just a crappy reporter.
You either protect your confidential sources or you don’t.
This halfway tease is bullshit
Ps my tablet autocorrect now turns bullshit into bulkshit
Thanks lawhawk
re: #127 sagehen
You can call it irrational, but… FUKASHIMA.
And what caused the Fukushima Daiichi events? Was it something inherent to nuclear fission, or was it individuals and organizations cutting corners?
It was the latter. The reserve power infrastructure wasn’t secured against a tsunami, much less a century tsunami. Upgrades strongly recommended by the manufacturer of the reactors had not been performed.
And I strongly suspect that you also had issues with transparency wrt. incidents as well as safety culture, not only at the plant but in the corporation running them as well. And lacking safety culture and opacity wrt. incidents is how a reactor designed for 3,300 MW thermal goes beyond 33,000 MW thermal (the recording device cut off at that point).
Nuclear power is an option, but you have to be OCD on safety protocol and rotate staff regularly around tasks and facilities to avoid them getting too relaxed around the dragon, because in the instant you lose respect for the dragon… It bites. HARD.
re: #127 sagehen
You can call it irrational, but… FUKASHIMA.
A plant built in 1971, with 1960s technology, in an earthquake prone location.
Nuclear plants are ticking timebombs of bullshit like this precisely because no one will let new plants with new tech be built to replace the old ones.
re: #125 Nojay UK
I had a horrible feeling you were going to say something like that…
The gallon of gas you put in your car’s tank is energy that came from the sun too. It’s just it was ten million years of sunshine a hundred million years and more ago.
If you wanted to create enough algae-based or other biofuel to replace that gallon of gas, it would take more than a hundred square metres of sunlight on land to grow enough biomaterial in a day to provide the same amount of energy after processing, and that’s for just one gallon of gas. The US burns its way through 337 million gallons of gas each day according to the EIA.
You’re going to need a lot more sunlight and/or land or do without energy if you depend on biofuels, and energy poverty is at the heart of real poverty — food, clean water, housing, they all need energy and the poorest countries and poorest people are energy-poor.
Diamonds are just carbon under pressure
Oh yeah, plus the time factor
re: #80 Hecuba’s daughter
Glenn Elmer’s entire diatribe can be boiled down to “If we want to continue to be a shit-stain racist plurality that loves fascism and has an oversized quota of power in the US then we better thwart democracy at every opportunity.”
That’s about it.
re: #127 sagehen
Fukushima, not FUKASHIMA.
As of this year, ten years after the tsunami that killed at least 20,000 people the total number of deaths due to exposure to radiation and the radioactive materials released when the three reactors at Fukushima Daiichi blew up is… 2. That’s it, a super-disaster with a death toll that is less than the average American mass shooting incident.
In other news a giant super-disaster involving renewable energy happened a few weeks back, at least 150 dead. You may not have heard about it though or noticed it in passing in the news. Two hydroelectric dams being built in northern India collapsed when a glacier upstream broke up and the resulting tsunami of water swept away several villages and towns. Since it didn’t involve nuclear power ho hum, nothing to see here.
Before you say Chernobyl, the death toll over the past forty years from radiation release from that super-ultra-mega-disaster was… 34. In contrast the Piper Alpha disaster claimed 167 lives. Piper Alpha, never heard of it? Well, it wasn’t nuclear so obviously it wasn’t a real disaster.
Like I said there is an irrational fear of nuclear power that no amount of reality or facts will assuage, instead there are stories and myths and Chicken Littles in abundance.
Leave it to Republicans to boycott America’s pastime. ⚾️
— Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) April 2, 2021
re: #127 sagehen
You can call it irrational, but… FUKASHIMA.
I recall when the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan was dispatched to render disaster assistance.
Just imagine the Captain presenting his credentials: “We’re from the US Government and were here to help you!”
I see the captain if the Evergiven is back home. pic.twitter.com/gFNlw52xUO
— Jamie Gnuman197… (@Jamie24272184) April 2, 2021
re: #129 Teukka
Nuclear power is an option, but you have to be OCD on safety protocol and rotate staff regularly around tasks and facilities to avoid them getting too relaxed around the dragon, because in the instant you lose respect for the dragon… It bites. HARD.
And what are the odds that a future regulatory regime will be strong enough to keep management from cutting corners? You know how they are. Just look to PG&E getting slipshod on transmission line maintenance. More than 100 deaths, millions of acres and tens of thousands of buildings turned to ashes, but at least people can go back in and rebuild and replant. Somebody gets clumsy or lazy at a nuclear facility, that won’t be the case.
Another reason that nuclear power seems inexpensive is because of liability caps. They are artificially low, ranging from $500 million to $1.5 billion, especially considering that Fukushima cost around $200 billion.
Chernobyl, back in the 1980’s came in at “only” $20 billion
But even for a figure like that, no power company could afford the insurance even if they found someone to offer it in the first place.
re: #138 sagehen
And what are the odds that a future regulatory regime will be strong enough to keep management from cutting corners? You know how they are. Just look to PG&E getting slipshod on transmission line maintenance. More than 100 deaths, millions of acres and tens of thousands of buildings turned to ashes, but at least people can go back in and rebuild and replant. Somebody gets clumsy or lazy at a nuclear facility, that won’t be the case.
Legislate so that deviating from the safety regime is met by swift and harsh punishment. Like, if you skimp on critical safety, whatever harm you cause will be tried as premeditated.
re: #140 Teukka
Legislate so that deviating from the safety regime is met by swift and harsh punishment. Like, if you skimp on critical safety, whatever harm you cause will be tried as premeditated.
Texans just love them some government regulation…
re: #140 Teukka
Legislate so that deviating from the safety regime is met by swift and harsh punishment. Like, if you skimp on critical safety, whatever harm you cause will be tried as premeditated.
Also, even when harm doesn’t occur, harsh punishment for the danger you caused, like endangering the public or aggravated such, or attempt.
The whole problem with energy is that almost all of them have risks. Without nuclear, is there any way to meet growing energy demand without burning carbon? We KNOW that will raise temperatures and sea levels, and hence deaths for those populations living on thin margins (the poor). It is just diffuse.
I am going to step on the third rail here. The chief factor in growth of energy demand in first world countries is population growth. Every person wants the freedom to do things at a whim (which for most of the US is make a trip in a car to go somewhere), and travel. That is why the past year has been so hard and why people are so whiny.
re: #141 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Texans just love them some government regulation…
Like, hypothetical example of how the law would be written and work. You drive under the influence and inevitably crash and burn. First degree murder for every death. Aggravated assault for every injury. Aggravated vandalism or other applicable crime for any property damage. Someone lost their job because they came late because they were stuck in traffic because of your DUI, and you can prove it beyond reasonable doubt in court? Too bad…
— - – —• Kelley •— – - (@andreagail_k) April 3, 2021
re: #143 BlueSpotinAL
The whole problem with energy is that almost all of them have risks. Without nuclear, is there any way to meet growing energy demand without burning carbon? We KNOW that will raise temperatures and sea levels, and hence deaths for those populations living on thin margins (the poor). It is just diffuse.
I am going to step on the third rail here. The chief factor in growth of energy demand in first world countries is population growth. Every person wants the freedom to do things at a whim (which for most of the US is make a trip in a car to go somewhere), and travel. That is why the past year has been so hard and why people are so whiny.
My hunch is that long-term, we need a global power grid, either HVDC or low-frequency HVAC, as well as come up with energy storage solutions. Other measures include mandatory powersave design requirements in new stuff, going over manfacturing of goods and see if you can make designs efficient by reusing parts of them (like, the casings of big electrical motors are energy-intensive to make, so, design them to last as long as possible, just requiring armature refurbs and rewindings). And as stop-gap measure, nuclear with ridiculous safety margins.
re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Wrong, but that’s one of the other fairy stories that circulate about nuclear power. I blame Godzilla movies myself.
Nuclear power plant operators carry large amounts of insurance, same as airlines do. Because of their excellent safety record over the decades both industries get quite good rates. A super-disaster like Fukushima or Hurricane Katrina is covered by governments rather than insurance because it’s considered too big to be insured, same as the tsunami damage in Japan after the great Tohoku earthquake is being covered by the government (about 500 billion dollars IIRC). The Three Mile Island nuclear super-disaster (zero dead, two fewer than the incident at the Capitol yesterday) is being paid for by insurance carried by the reactor operators at the time.
Best use of an old truck I’ve ever seen..
Bravo! pic.twitter.com/rz3KYQWxzg— Marlowe says wear your mask! 🇺🇸get your vaxx! (@mbmarbon) April 2, 2021
re: #144 Teukka
Like, hypothetical example of how the law would be written and work. You drive under the influence and inevitably crash and burn. First degree murder for every death. Aggravated assault for every injury. Aggravated vandalism or other applicable crime for any property damage. Someone lost their job because they came late because they were stuck in traffic because of your DUI, and you can prove it beyond reasonable doubt in court? Too bad…
That’s my approach to gun accountability
Draconian enforcement for **demonstrated** irresponsibility.
After a few cases everyone else will take their personal responsibility seriously.
I’d also be willing for all gun owner juries and I’d dare them to not take it seriously
If you voted for this woman you also can’t define “Infrastructure”
Also make sure someone reminds you to breathe. @govkristinoem I have no words for the dumb this interview shows. pic.twitter.com/OxVZqrEuPz— Titus (@TitusNation) April 1, 2021
Tonight on cable news…
One of the left’s stars, @aoc, explained in detail how trillions of dollars could be deployed to shore up infrastructure and create union jobs.
One of the right’s stars, @KristiNoem, revealed she doesn’t understand what infrastructure is.#bothsides— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) April 1, 2021
re: #143 BlueSpotinAL
I am going to step on the third rail here. The chief factor in growth of energy demand in first world countries is population growth. Every person wants the freedom to do things at a whim (which for most of the US is make a trip in a car to go somewhere), and travel. That is why the past year has been so hard and why people are so whiny.
There is an attitude that prosperity is determined by the amount of resources we consume rather than the quality of life we create from them. One is easy to quantify, brag about (and earn money from). The other, less so.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Energy growth in first-world countries is pretty much flat, actually. There’s a shift occurring in terms of the sources of that energy, from coal and oil to gas with a leavening of renewables to fig-leaf continuing fossil-fuel consumption but the actual levels of consumption haven’t changed that much, even with increasing population as energy efficiency factors have cut individual demands (LED light bulbs, for example and more efficient car engines).
It’s the developing world that’s booming in terms of energy consumption. The US, for example has been burning about 2.3 tonnes of coal per capita per annum for the last decade or so whereas India burns less than half a tonne of coal per capita per annum. Individually each Indian is energy-poor compared to people in the modern world. China is still playing catchup with a vast hinterland of rural dwellers who want washing machines and refrigerators and the electricity to power them, offset by the big coastal cities and high-speed rail lines and all the other obvious markers of modernism.
The bad news for everyone is that those developing countries will dig up and pump and burn any and all fossil-carbon fuel they can get their hands on because it’s cheap and available. Telling them renewables will supply their energy needs in thirty years time will get you laughed at.
re: #152 Nojay UK
The bad news for everyone is that those developing countries will dig up and pump and burn any and all fossil-carbon fuel they can get their hands on because it’s cheap and available. Telling them renewables will supply their energy needs in thirty years time will get you laughed at.
That is what got us into this mess in the first place: digging up and burning whatever was cheap and at hand.
re: #129 Teukka
You still have to deal with the waste of nuclear power, which is exactly the same problem we have with fossil fuels.
re: #144 Teukka
And I love the idea, but Wendall’s point is that there are plenty of places that feel that regulations get in the way of innovation and will convince enough people that abortion is bad so that they can write laws allowing companies to cut corners.
re: #154 Belafon
You still have to deal with the waste of nuclear power, which is exactly the same problem we have with fossil fuels.
Just a lot farther down the line…
re: #156 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Just a lot farther down the line…
Yep, about 30 to 40 years from the moment we built all of those plants. And the human race as a whole is lousy about planning ahead.
Anti-voting and anti-baseball…
How much longer until they become anti-Apple pie?— Travis Akers (@travisakers) April 3, 2021
re: #157 Belafon
Yep, about 30 to 40 years from the moment we built all of those plants. And the human race as a whole is lousy about planning ahead.
and then for the next 10K years…
re: #158 DodgerFan1988
Anti-voting and anti-baseball…
How much longer until they become anti-Apple pie?
Anti-relief checks…
re: #154 Belafon
You still have to deal with the waste of nuclear power, which is exactly the same problem we have with fossil fuels.
The world produces about 400 tonnes of actual nuclear power station waste a year (spent fuel consists of about 98% reusable uranium and plutonium, the real problematic waste materials are isotopes like Cs-137 etc. present in small quantities). Spent fuel fresh out of the reactor sits in pools cooling down as radioactive decay occurs then it is dry-casked where it sits radiating reduced levels of heat into a desert or a pit. This waste doesn’t go stomping across the landscape like Godzilla, it doesn’t glow green like in the Simpsons or blue like in the drama-documentary Chernobyl, it just sits there in a ceramic oxide form that’s harder than granite, radiating heat. If we want to get rid of this waste we can bury it deep in hard rock like the Finns plan to do or in stable clay like the French are proposing but right now there’s so little nuclear waste on hand it’s not worth spending the money to sequester it deep right now.
The world has to deal with 35 billion tonnes of fossil-fuel CO2 waste each year. That’s about a hundred thousand million times more dangerous waste than spent nuclear fuel contains and it’s all dumped into the atmosphere where it drives increasing levels of global climate change, threatening the lives and wellbeing of billions of people for decades to come.
You may be worrying about the wrong kind of energy waste.
Most assuredly I say unto thee: The covid vaccine is not the mark of the beast. I can’t believe I even have to say this.
— Jesus Christ (@JesusOfNaz316) March 30, 2021
I am confused. I thought we had already hit over a hundred million vaccines in arms. News keeps saying we’re about to hit 100 million. Is there an accurate count from a reliable source?
re: #163 A Mom Anon
I am confused. I thought we had already hit over a hundred million vaccines in arms. News keeps saying we’re about to hit 100 million. Is there an accurate count from a reliable source?
It may be 100 million fully vaccinated; that sounds pretty close.
As long as the plea deal includes a few years in federal prison and the inability to own a firearm after he can confess all he wants.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 3, 2021
re: #163 A Mom Anon
I am confused. I thought we had already hit over a hundred million vaccines in arms. News keeps saying we’re about to hit 100 million. Is there an accurate count from a reliable source?
re: #164 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It may be 100 million fully vaccinated; that sounds pretty close.
I believe I heard Biden say yesterday that 100 million people have at least 1 shot. The graphic above supports that.
re: #167 darthstar
I believe I heard Biden say yesterday that 100 million people have at least 1 shot. The graphic above supports that.
Yeah, that looks correct.
Also - remember that as the J&J gets ramped up we don’t have to divide by 2 the number of shots to the number fully vaccinated.
re: #168 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
Yeah, that looks correct.
Also, we had >20million shots in the last 7 days. At that rate we’ll be over 200 million shots in arms before the end of April.
re: #164 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
The way it’s being reported, especially locally just says numbers of vaccines not individuals. The CDC says around 56 million Americans have been fully vaccinated as of the end of this week. Which makes sense if most of the vaccines are the double dose type. I’ll admit my focus and processing skills are a bit messed up by anxiety, maybe I missed it. But I just heard again how we are quickly approaching 100 million vaccines given when it’s obvious we’re past that number now. Unless I’m totally missing something.
Womp womp.
A strategist said “They are really f—-ed.”
— PoliticsVideoChannel (@politvidchannel) April 2, 2021
re: #161 Nojay UK
sits radiating reduced levels of heat into a desert or a pit
It’s this passing the problem down the road that I’m talking about.
re: #172 darthstar
former Trump white house staffers are still struggling to find work
How did they get their jobs in the first place?
Are those traits and qualifications sought after by anyone else who is not a megalomaniac, sociopathic grifting pussy-grabber?
re: #172 darthstar
Not impressed with their deserved misfortune until I hear about struggling to stay out of prison.
re: #173 Belafon
It’s this passing the problem down the road that I’m talking about.
The Kyoto Protocols were agreed in 1997, declaring we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. At that time the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 363 parts per million (ppm).
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, declaring we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. At that time the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 400 ppm.
There will be another COP meeting held soon to state yet again that we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. Today in spring 2021 the CO2 level in the atmosphere is about 416 ppm.
It’s this passing the problem down the road that I’m talking about. In contrast the overhyped ‘problem’ of nuclear waste is a methane-laden fart in the wind.
re: #176 Nojay UK
The Kyoto Protocols were agreed in 1997, declaring we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. At that time the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 363 parts per million (ppm).
The Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, declaring we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. At that time the CO2 level in the atmosphere was 400 ppm.
There will be another COP meeting held soon to state yet again that we must all stop burning fossil fuels or we will all die horrible deaths. Today in spring 2021 the CO2 level in the atmosphere is about 416 ppm.
It’s this passing the problem down the road that I’m talking about. In contrast the overhyped ‘problem’ of nuclear waste is a methane-laden fart in the wind.
Also, just so you get the gravity of the problem, the threshold where CO2 begins to affect cognitive function adversely is somewhere between 500 to 1,000 ppm… We’re just shy of the needle going into the yellow region…
re: #177 Teukka
Also, just so you get the gravity of the problem, the threshold where CO2 begins to affect cognitive function adversely is between 500 to 1,000 ppm… We’re just shy of the needle going into the yellow region…
We are seeing climate change before our eyes and soon the results will not be us all facing a horrible death but facing major upheavals that could result in horrible deaths.
re: #12 Charles Johnson
A similar sign hangs at one of the parks where my dog and I used to walk.
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
We are seeing climate change before our eyes and soon the results will not be us all facing a horrible death but facing major upheavals that could result in horrible deaths.
Ayup. We’re beyond stopping it. We’re well into what will become a white-knuckle bumpy ride…
re: #180 Teukka
Ayup. We’re beyond stopping it. We’re well into what will become a white-knuckle bumpy ride…
Video to illustrate:
re: #172 darthstar
Maybe they’ll have to get a real job now. May they all have to take a huge pay cut and have to struggle like most working people do. AKA actually working.
re: #129 Teukka
And what caused the Fukushima Daiichi events? Was it something inherent to nuclear fission, or was it individuals and organizations cutting corners?
It was the latter. The reserve power infrastructure wasn’t secured against a tsunami, much less a century tsunami. Upgrades strongly recommended by the manufacturer of the reactors had not been performed.
And I strongly suspect that you also had issues with transparency wrt. incidents as well as safety culture, not only at the plant but in the corporation running them as well. And lacking safety culture and opacity wrt. incidents is how a reactor designed for 3,300 MW thermal goes beyond 33,000 MW thermal (the recording device cut off at that point).
Nuclear power is an option, but you have to be OCD on safety protocol and rotate staff regularly around tasks and facilities to avoid them getting too relaxed around the dragon, because in the instant you lose respect for the dragon… It bites. HARD.
Also, we might want to avoid building nuclear power plants in megathrust earthquake zones, or the places tsunamis will subsequently hit.
re: #134 Nojay UK
Before you say Chernobyl, the death toll over the past forty years from radiation release from that super-ultra-mega-disaster was… 34. In contrast the Piper Alpha disaster claimed 167 lives. Piper Alpha, never heard of it? Well, it wasn’t nuclear so obviously it wasn’t a real disaster.
Like I said there is an irrational fear of nuclear power that no amount of reality or facts will assuage, instead there are stories and myths and Chicken Littles in abundance.
I do not object to nuclear power but there has to be a better way of eliminating nuclear waste. However, 34 deaths from Chernobyl is an official figure focused on those who were directly involved with the disaster; there is no reliable number of those who later died from cancer or other ailments acquired due to exposure to radiation circulating in the atmosphere. Certainly any figures from Russia itself are highly suspect.
re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
How did they get their jobs in the first place?
No one who was actually qualified wanted to work for Trump.
re: #87 Targetpractice
It feels like it needs to be repeated daily: “The Handmaid’s Tale is a novel, not a blueprint!”
I’m gonna be honest and I’m sorry, but whenever I see a bearded person, I think two things: 1) those asshats at the church near my house who want to execute women for getting abortions, 2) the thousands upon thousands of bearded white guys wearing jeans and plaid shirts, swarming into the YUM! Center in Louisville to listen to hours of more white guys preaching Calvinism and 3) Commander Waterford. Ah NOPE.
re: #164 O say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave..
It may be 100 million fully vaccinated; that sounds pretty close.
Possibly they’re talking about the second hundred million, to be completed by May.
re: #192 Eclectic Cyborg
That is a beautiful kitty.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
I do not object to nuclear power but there has to be a better way of eliminating nuclear waste.
Why? Long-term storage in dry casks until deep geological burial is required will work. Radioactive decay means the waste gets less radioactive as time passes and a few million years storage in stable strata (granite, salt, clay) will deal with most of it. The Russians (BN-800) and Chinese (CFR-600) are building and operating fast-spectrum reactors that should, note I said should be able to “eat” spent fuel and destroy nuclear waste. They’re not turning them out like gumdrops on a production line yet though so the amount of waste they can deal with is limited.
It may be we’ll want the spent fuel to stay available for reprocessing to recover the uranium and plutonium to burn in future reactors but right now fresh-mined yellowcake is ridiculously cheap and reprocessing hasn’t been a priority for most nations. The Finns will be burying spent fuel without reprocessing, the French will be containerising and geologically sequestering waste derived from reprocessing lines.
However, 34 deaths from Chernobyl is an official figure focused on those who were directly involved with the disaster; there is no reliable number of those who later died from cancer or other ailments acquired due to exposure to radiation circulating in the atmosphere. Certainly any figures from Russia itself are highly suspect.
No, that’s the number of deaths from exposure to radiation that escaped the plant as determined by the UN research teams. Most of those deaths can be attributed to crap health services that didn’t catch thyroid cancers quickly enough to save lives. There are other effects of radiation exposure from Chernobyl such as possible early cataract formation in peoples eyes but the numbers are so low it’s difficult to attribute the effects absolutely. The UNSCEAR people worked on this for over twenty years, I think their last report came out in 2005 and they admit their data is badly compromised by the political situation of the 1990s in Ukraine but the actual effects of the radiation on the general health of locals as well as the ‘liquidators’ is pretty clear. Sensational press reports during and after the disaster were just that, sensational.
It turns out radiation is one of those things people react hysterically to, irrational fears fed by bad fiction and quasi-religious enviromentalists.
re: #188 Hecuba’s daughter
And I’m not sure “evacuating an entire area” is a great example.
I’m not against nuclear power - I used to be a nuke electrician in the Navy - but I want a system better maintained than how Texas has managed its electrical system, and there will need to be more plants here in Texas and other places that are run the same way, and I want a better solution on the waste than “leave it for the next generation.”
Coming over the newswires that hip-hop star DMX is in grave condition following a drug overdose in his home.
The most important advice that I could ever give to young queer people is to pay attention to the people who have always been there for us and ignore the people who think we are a distraction. Queer rights matter. Queer lives matter. Queer happiness matters. https://t.co/Wvms68B7O6
— White Boy Bummer 🏳️🌈🙄 (@SJGrunewald) April 1, 2021
CDC: “You *can* travel if you’re vaccinated, and we’re okay with lifting that restriction, but we don’t *recommend* it just yet and kind of wish you’d give it a bit more time during this surge of cases.”
The Usual Suspects: “See, they have no idea what they’re talking about.”— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 2, 2021
Basically, the first version of every CDC revision is aimed at adults. The walkbacks and caveats come when they realize that the rest of the overgrown toddlers have no sense of prudence or judiciousness.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) April 2, 2021
re: #199 Belafon
Also, there’s STILL quite a bit we don’t know about this virus.
Excellent @ForeignPolicy breakdown on the global race to #COVID19 vaccinate: Which countries have access, to what, show me the money, and implementation.https://t.co/MD7wRui4Ls pic.twitter.com/1czP55Gscs
— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) April 2, 2021
AP PHOTOS: Few Roman Catholics in devout southern Spain would have ever imagined an April without the pomp and ceremony of Holy Week processions. With the coronavirus pandemic unremitting, they will miss them for a second year. https://t.co/oNUeBntH4K
— AP Europe (@AP_Europe) April 3, 2021
People who’ve recovered from #Covid19 may need just 1 dose of a 2-part mRNA vaccine. A single dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vax for those who previously had Covid generates an immunologic response similar to that of individuals receiving the 2-dose sequence https://t.co/lDpirdcPu9 pic.twitter.com/qSKx5VdfhX
— delthia ricks 🔬 (@DelthiaRicks) April 2, 2021
people love free shit! let companies bribe them! we need people getting vaccinated! this was a great idea and you’re just mad people are enjoying donuts!
— Claire Willett (@clairewillett) April 2, 2021
I FULLY SUPPORT IT! they’re smart and they know they benefit more financially from the country being able to fully reopen than they stand to lose from giving away free donuts to the tiny percentage of customers who will claim them
— Claire Willett (@clairewillett) April 2, 2021
Ha.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CNMBmn_Dqgd/?igshid=d2bv4s0c1bdb
(The gentleman in the SUV is Evander Holyfield).
One of my favorite birbs. Two, actually.
Great Blue Herons participate in a mating ritual that resembles a little tango. pic.twitter.com/HASVrH1Adn
Got my feet wet today…but the boys enjoyed it.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) April 3, 2021
re: #206 wrenchwench
One of my favorite birbs. Two, actually.
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Three trumpeter swans graced us with their presence on the backyard pond/swamp this morning. They’re just flying thru but it’s always so sweet to see. Six dropped by last week for a few hours too.
Also saw some pied-billed grebes this morning so it looks like they’re back for the season. Fun ones to watch especially when they do their submarining trick.
I just got one of my orders from amazon. I bought one of those extra thick mats for hard floors. It is wonderful to walk on it. I have not taken my sneakers off and walked in my socks over it yet.
re: #113 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Jon Perry covers, in a reasonable way, the hot-button topic of SARS-Cov-2 origins:
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Forwarded that video to friends; one who is a fan of Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying was grateful to receive a thoughtful exploration of the question on how the disease reached humans.
Worldwide, coronavirus cases and deaths are both on the rise; a new surge is here, and whether aggressive vaccination programs will actually stop it is something we will have to wait to see — but the more it circulates, the more likely even more aggressive forms will emerge.
We all should be grateful that there wasn’t a significant anti-vax community back in the 50’s and 60’s; if there had been, smallpox would still be out in the wild and a million+ people throughout the world could be dying from it each year. Or maybe the anti-vax movement could only arise in a world where highly lethal airborne diseases had been vanquished and too many had no memory of what it was like living in a time where there was widespread fear of highly contagious diseases.
re: #206 wrenchwench
One of my favorite birbs. Two, actually.
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‘round here, old country folk called ‘em “silver shitters”
And if you have ever seen them cut loose in the sun, you know why!
REMINDER: @ATT has donated $574,500 over the last three years to the Texas officials pushing voter suppression legislation and now CEO John Stankey says that election laws are too “complicated” for the company to take a clear positionhttps://t.co/rX5e4iByKb pic.twitter.com/uUAxqbFWoQ
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) April 3, 2021
Truth of the day:
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) April 3, 2021
Somebody’s 👇 in trouble, the look on the face of the one on the left is priceless😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/rgevYsYEW2
— Colorado Audrey🔥🦂😷 (@AudreyStJames1) April 2, 2021
re: #211 Hecuba’s daughter
There were anti-mask people during the 1918 pandemic; had there been vaccines, they would have opposed those as well.
It’s like a country song.
Even his tweet ran out on him. https://t.co/7bJr9JG15q— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) April 3, 2021
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