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     Aesquire |
I condemn the alleged homicidal guy in Panama. That's the wrong way to deal with eco-brainwashed. Personally, and apropos of nothing, I want the flame throwing guitar speaker truck from Mad Max, Fury Road. I assure you that there is no intent to drive it near protests!  | ||
| Akbuell |
Interesting. So T-hak now agrees that Israel is taking the appropriate steps with Hamas in Gaza . . . . Whooda thunk | ||
| Ducbsa |
All the best people used to tell us that highly processed food was bad for you. This must be okay, though: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/11/lefti sts_have_made_a_scientific_breakthrough_when_it_co mes_to_co2_and_food.html | ||
| Aesquire |
I'd prefer Soylent ( the chemical plant real stuff ) to vat grown germ food product. I might prefer the fictional Soylent Green from the movie. Not from any ideological reasons. Common sense food safety. Mammals and the descendants of Dinos are millions of years of evolution turning sunlight into food using plants. Natural, slow evolution, long lifecycles with stability in the genetics. Ditto fish and other sea critters. Yes, we've bred big breasted birds and low fat pigs, and real world foods require a constant battle of cleaning and repair of barriers between feces and food. It's not a pleasant subject, but almost every food safety issue is either... poor maintenance of walls between live, feces producing critters and the clean areas we disassemble them into food a modern person can cook. ( most apartments lack the facilities for processing animals... ) Or feces on plants not properly cleaned. ( Chipotle and prewashed salads are repeated examples of killer food processing ) But a vat of bacteria doesn't have solid waste on a macro scale easy to hose down with chlorinated water. Generations of mutations happen overnight. "Delicious" patented strains require a strict "racial purity" program to keep production running of the desired product, and not really Bad Stuff. You have to filter and process sludge to get the nutritious part and exclude the poisonous part, and sterilize vast quantities of pipes and vats, to prevent harmful bacteria from turning your food product into weaponized... Homicide. Yes, we have done that for thousands of years, with yeasts, in beer production, but that's a self sterilization process since alcohol is an antibacterial. ( it's WHY beer has been the technology to store and ship grain longer than written languages ) I'm not "against" industrial vat grown goo food, per se. I'll eat a bacon cheeseburger. ( American processed cheese food. It's what cheese eats? ) But ecologically, with proper animal husbandry and land use, safe protein from sunlight is proven technology. And we had urban skyscraper chicken farms in Chicago over a century ago. ( ok, not skyscraper, but block sized multi-story buildings... ) And with energy costs in transportation, those might come back. https://instapundit.com/616401/ Greenie Energy fails to create enough power or jobs, to match the promises of the Liars. Duh. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://news.yahoo.com/az-health-officials-announc e-marijuana-132223959.html I'm calling this a great example of how well run regulatory agencies can benefit the public. Basic health safety of agricultural products. Good job. Seriously, I expected them to ban wheat because it uses sunshine and emits CO2 if hit by the space lasers Oprah is rumored to use on Hawaii. ( aka, I expected insanely stupid ) Sure, pundits will make fun of this, pretending they don't hit the dispensary weekly and have a vape charger station just out of webcam view, ( like the Family Values politicians caught in men's rooms asking for... Actually I don't care... ) But this is actually what a government is supposed to do for our taxes. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense /us-air-forces-new-b-21-raider-flying-wing-bomber- takes-first-flight-reuters-2023-11-10/ I'm waiting for actual performance figures, but the hype is cheaper operational costs. Looks like a B-2 next gen, which is a good thing. Should have less thirsty engines? But it's maintenance costs that really add up, so many hours in the hanger for each flying hour. I'm concerned that the electronic battlefield ideas may be excessively vulnerable to sabotage by Chinese chip makers, with backdoors built into our systems, plus GPS is a bit fragile a thing to rely on. It's a pity the consolidation of aviation companies means fewer smart groups of engineers trying to improve stuff. For example, Boeing, Douglas, McDonnell, all merged, and that narrowed the thinking. ******** A "what if?" that occurred to me was Douglas had a ground breaking airplane in the F4D Skyray, albeit short lived in a period of rapidly changing needs and tech. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F4D_Skyray The follow on F5D Skylancer lost out to the F8U Crusader, for political reasons, but served NASA well, if quietly. On occasion, being a chase plane with better performance than the latest fighter being tested, and weird/hard things like refining flight controls ergonomics for the Space Shuttle, being capable of going upstairs at a similar angle for nearly as long a time. Breaking records, very unofficial, not technically authorized, time to climb to space. Hey, the pilot's in a space suit, why not get an extra minute's data and go ballistic over the field? The Crusader, otoh, ended up a classic Great Plane, and served well with excellent performance. But... The Skyray was a pre-stealth machine with several built in stealthy features. IF there had been continuity of corporate team philosophy, instead of being absorbed, I could see a Douglas engineer dust off the Skylancer plans and update it with the lessons from the B-2 & F22. The blended wing aerodynamics were a real expertise at Douglas, with a proposed blended wing airliner in model testing and CFD, when Boeing cut spending. So a hypothetical Douglas stealth fighter would be very... Interesting. Suborbital skip flying to minimize IR signature? ( not much friction @280k ) vectored thrust maneuverability, and.... Maybe... Finally a real version of... https://fantastic-plastic.com/lockheed-f-19-stealt h-fighter-concept-by-testors.html | ||
| Aesquire |
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/a-look-at-th e-real-greenhouse-gas-emissions-impact-of-volcanic -eruptions/ I'm mostly interested in the volcanoes and their potential for severe Climate Change. And human tragedy if a Big one cuts loose. I'd love to visit Iceland, but I'm too slow a walker today to go get close to an eruption, so I'll watch from afar. As far as CO2 goes, I'm more interested in how much critters make breathing. Termites are famous big emitters. Purely intellectual curiosity, I think we now have ample disproof of the CO2 runaway AGW theory, but I'm waiting to see if we've reached the IR reflection saturation levels, and when in the last century we reached it. BUT Volcanoes? That's really real. And while Iceland is quite experienced with living with them, the Mediterranean hasn't had a major eruption in a while, so they don't have practice in evacuation of coastal areas where volcanic tsunamis would wreck. Nobody is predicting another Thera explosion, and if you had evidence one like it was coming, you'd be very wary of making a public prediction! Geologists in the earthquake and volcano fields have a Catch 22 problem. If you predict a disaster, you're a fear monger, and if you warn that you think one is coming, and don't get the timing nigh perfect, you get accused of incompetence or worse. The idiots in the Italian government actually arrested and tried earthquake scientists because they failed to accurately predict an earthquake... They DID predict one, honestly said that they didn't know exactly when it would happen, and then it happened before they were sure Enough to risk panic button announcement. Because if you say it goes boom this week, and it doesn't until next week, you can have towns evacuated, nothing happens, the people go home, and won't believe another guess as to timing, and get killed. Catch... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-uneart h-a-secret-lost-language-from-3000-years-ago It's the missing page from the D&D preview edition! | ||
| Aesquire |
https://vpostrel.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-promet heus-is-not-a-cautionary Remember Space, 1999? A cautionary tale. Don't do stupid things out of fear and accept a "solution" that results in disaster. ( Earth would get mega wrecked by the tidal change if the Moon blasted itself out of orbit ) In the TV show it was nuclear waste, and the genius ( sarcasm ) idea of putting it on the Moon. The risk of flying it there is much higher than the risk of the show's explosion. To be fair to an old tv show, while any competent physics major could calculate the safe spacing of waste cans, I CAN see bureaucrats changing the spacing because they thought they knew better and/or the lobbyists bribed them to choose a cheaper layout. Re: nuclear stuff spacing. One of my favorite Dr. Richard Feynman stories is from The Manhattan Project. He'd been sent to Tennessee from Los Alamos to make sure they had the Plutonium storage and piping in the processing plant, arranged so it wouldn't have a dangerous density, by neutron cross section. ( which is different and more complex than pounds per shelf ) Worse, he had to do it without really explaining the science, which was hyper classified, one of the big secrets of A bombs. Do it wrong and people die. So Oppenheimer sends him, and tells the Oak Ridge guys Richard is a genius and just do what he says. ( not a smooth relationship move with high IQ guys ) Richard arrived and is immediately taken to a big conference room where a huge table is covered in blueprints for a chemical plant. Covered in special chemical plant symbols, something Dr. Feynman, a Physicist, had never seen. After several minutes of staring at this mass of incomprehensible details, he realized he'd waited too long to admit ignorance and ask questions, and now he'd look stupid. He'd ruin the already tense relationship and have no credibility. Figuring the most common symbol was probably a valve, he pointed at random at one and asked "what happens if this valve sticks ?" Figuring they'll correct him " oh, that's a something else" and he can try to backpedal & salvage the situation. The Oak Ridge boys look, start to explain, "if that sticks, then over here.... Um. Uh oh." Then thank him, roll up the prints and rush away to fix the critical problem they all missed and this Pro from Los Alamos just walked in & saw in 5 minutes. He had No problems getting them to follow the safety measures he set up. | ||
| Ducbsa |
Its essential to recognize that volcanoes underscore the unpredictable and erratic nature of the climate system, where at any given moment, they have the capacity to disrupt and override all of our collective efforts aimed at controlling GHG concentrations. https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/11/a-look-at-th e-real-greenhouse-gas-emissions-impact-of-volcanic -eruptions/ | ||
| Ducbsa |
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/11/w ho_are_the_real_climate_change_deniers.html | ||
| Aesquire |
Yep to the above! https://redstate.com/bonchie/2023/11/18/watch-germ an-police-use-pain-grip-on-climate-protesters-bloc king-roads-n2166508 Ha ha ha ha ha... I got taught that come along grip twice. Once in high school gym class self defense, and again in Water Safety Instructor course to teach new Lifeguards. ( half of Lifeguard training HAS TO BE how to not get killed by a panicked person in the water ) My father learned it in the Navy in both Lifeguard and Medic training. the "pain grip" is indeed uncomfortable, or it wouldn't work. Drama Queens. Sums up the "movement" in the most polite way. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/are -evs-a-doomed-technology.php A few disagreements... $10,000 EXTRA is a barrier to most people buying a $40k car. That's a quarter Again as much, only reasonable if you drive enough miles over your expected ownership to pay for the cost to run difference. ( juice vs. Gasoline plus maintenance vs. Battery replacement ) But a Lincoln Navigator can easily cost in extras well over $10k on a $100+k truck. ( I looked last night online with a buddy who was shopping for a Lincoln ) That's stuff like 30 way power seats with butt AC, AND a big SUV is going to burn more gas, so emotionally and percentage wise, you get the REAL ISSUE. Electrics are easier to sell as luxury cars. Easier for richer folk to afford and rationalize. Ironically, the cheapskate market, ( like me ) that will do the math to determine if it's a bargain, quickly realize that you have to drive a lot of miles, but in under a certain distance and with the right time spacing, to get quick payback. And us cheapskates tend to keep cars longer, ( good for the math ) but then have to figure battery replacement. ( bad for the math ) So it's Not that EVs are bad, it's that they only make sense If you have the correct habit/need. Another disagreement, or quibble, is the hypothetical human cost to build the necessary infrastructure to power an electric world. Because they aren't. The Biden* regime and the Holy State tyrants like my replacement Governor, are mandating poverty and reliance on a grid they are Not expanding. I can't say for certain if they are consciously running a Cloward-Piven crash society plan to murder millions from cold and starvation and rule the pitiful survivors with an iron fist like a Mad Max villain, or.... They're ignorant fools who are useful idiots for the WEF gazillionaires who are planning a ruined world they rule. Functionally there's no difference. | ||
| Aesquire |
Btw, I see Fisker is back and taking orders with a new lineup. For those who forgot, Fisker is probably most famous for getting a massive U.S. Government grant & then building their factory in Ireland. And a huge lot full of new cars that got storm surge flooded with sea water during the Hurricane that nailed NYC. Most burned, spectacularly. Oh, and they went bankrupt. A bit less known, perhaps, is the original Fisker car was a hyper-luxury-car with a great chassis and someone got a flood car and stuffed a Corvette drive train under one. Not sure how that turned out, but a 600 hp supercar? If you know who did it, post a link. And the most premium Fisker was a Blatant Virtue Signal ego trip car with plant based? Faux leather and a fossil leaf embedded in the interior trim. Brilliant marketing. I'll certainly make fun of that, but they knew the target customer. Any Supercar is an ego machine, like, say, a Buell. But Fisker was smart enough to aim at the rich guy or gal that would Never buy a Koenigsegg! Drive a Range Rover to the salon, sure. And perfect aim at the husband ( or wife ) of the greenie loon type that would justify the car in Virtue Signal terms, ( "oh, honey, just think of your friend's reactions when I drop you off at the Club for the Save the Harp Seal fundraiser!" ) while actually getting a car they can show their friends , and maybe some track time... Is it faster up the hill at Goodwood, than ( funny British rich guy name cliche here )'s? Like I said, brilliant. Anyhoo... The first available should be a medium SUV with sportier cars and a truck to follow. https://www.fiskerinc.com/ocean | ||
| Ducbsa |
That EV article mentions higher insurance premiums. Maybe the BadWebber who is getting good service from his EV will post about his premiums and how they compare to a similar price gasoline car. A friend has an EV Mustang and Ill ask him. | ||
| Tpehak |
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| Hootowl |
Six fingers. Sloppy photoshop. | ||
| Tpehak |
She does have 6 fingers. | ||
| Ducbsa |
I think that it is cool that the photoshopper found a 6 finger hand to paste in. | ||
| Tpehak |
That is not a Photoshop edited picture. Gretta has 6 fingers, smokes cigarettes and sleeps with gorillas, just like any teenager these days. (Message edited by TPEHAK on November 21, 2023) | ||
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| Aesquire |
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2023/11/23/this-th anksgiving-pass-the-microwaved-steak-n4924166 I only use a microwave for... Popcorn, reheating coffee ( mild blasphemy ) and bachelor chow frozen dinners. Maybe some vegetables, corn on the cob in the leaves, etc. Microwave meat, and you heat the hydrogen atoms, mostly the water, and can dry out the meat to leather texture quick. Microwave specific frozen dinners use sauces to change the way heat moves. Boiling the meat a bit to reduce zap time. The best way to reheat food is long time and low power, so the heat can even out between zaps. ( power = time of full power zaps as a percentage. "5" is power on half the time ) Some cooks actually favor cooking steak from frozen, if they want a good sear/char and rare inside. I do have an old microwave oven that was dedicated to melting metal for casting, that's due to be properly recycled, Next free electronics recycling day. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-corruption-environme ntal-efficiency-economy-countries.html This study makes perfect sense. In developing countries with very little industry and wealth, A corrupt government produces less CO2 and less reported pollution. Also more poverty, shorter lives, more starvation, more premature death. And some of that last is murder by the government. Ask Vezeuelans. What you don't get is honest reporting of a cesspool river system, plagues, human rights violations, and any other statistic. Continuing the analysis, beyond this UAE university study of existing data, I point out that metrics to judge progress based on lies, produce lies of progress. Not just the HDI which I can only assume is a U.N. scam to get bribes to rate a country. ( I could be wrong. But I bet a dollar, or a quart of gasoline ) But an environment rating based on denying people energy ( as a Good thing ) and CO2 production, ( kill the termites! ) has zero relationship to pollution, disease, death, and tons of plastics dumped into the oceans. You remember, the OLD ways of telling how lousy an environment rating you deserve. Even in the U.S. you don't want to drink stream water without filtering ( virus size camping filter ) or processing with chlorine to kill the human waste parasites and diseases. Someone crapped upstream sometime in the last century. Your typical third world country with a communist thugocracy? It's easier to desalinate sea water than make distilled water from streams you can't see the water for the garbage and feces floating sluggishly on top. It also makes sense a corrupt government produces a high score for buying wind farms from Billionaires ( like Saint Gretta's sponsor ) with connections. Especially when the President of Crapistania can order a zillion? megawatts of wind turbines for 8 billion euros, ( loans passed through corrupt U.N. & E.U. Bureaucracy ) gets 2 billion euros kicked back into the President's private bank accounts. ( see Panama papers ) And the Billionaire wind farm guy only needs to build a half billion euros of turbines on the really obvious road to the capital on free land taken from the President's former rivals. Great deal all around. Except for us, who's taxes paid for it all in a continuing resolution to keep you from knowing where your money went. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://dailycaller.com/2023/11/22/goreham-green-t ransition-e-bike-fire-nuclear/ A few not minor quibbles with the above. E bike battery fires are probably mostly caused by cheap Chinese chargers. Like I have. Poor understanding of the risks of leaving a battery on charge hours after it's full and a charger dumb or poorly made that doesn't stop cramming energy in, damaging the battery. Mostly. Some just burn, poor QC at the factory. School bus makers have done a remarkable job making buses safer than the ones you and I rode. But if even a Tesla can combust, anything can. I point out aviation is safer in the beginning of the 21st century than the mid 20th. Miles per passenger, better. But hundreds die at once, not dozens, today. Bigger planes. You might be able to count the total number of people burned to death in electric vehicles without taking your shoes off, they're pretty safe, but One School Bus full and that small number changes in magnitude. I don't know the current count, a Google search shows nothing but badly written claims stating, probably truthfully, that gasoline cars catch fire far more often, but obviously propaganda since the actual stats are not presented honestly. Sniffing out faked statistics was my day job once. ( I also liked the greyscale 3D puzzles ) It's almost like they don't want you to know the truth. https://www.hotcars.com/20-cars-with-the-highest-c hances-of-catching-on-fire/#fisker-karma | ||
| Aesquire |
The latter link Above seems to fit the idiot revving his exotic car for the camera until it catches fire videos circulating. Not that the rich idiots intended to burn up a car that costs more than my house. And the NTSB seems to have buried their stats pages where my browser can't see. But they're Really Proud of This. https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR2 0231114.aspx Speed limiters on cars may be mandatory. I admit, if I was a criminal, I'd invest in a remote hack device to shut down police cars so I could indulge in Fast and infuriating stunts, without the muscle shirts and Corona. Or just a jammer that triggers all cars in my vicinity to slow to a stop, so I can ride a mountain bike downtown without being run over. Fantasy, yes, today. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://babylonbee.com/news/musk-puts-cybertrucks- bulletproof-armor-to-the-test-with-trip-through-do wntown-chicago Gotta get one! My Caravan is rusting out and I need a tow vehicle for my canoe and transport for bikes. Needs an armored cap or Van/Camper model. | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/gre en-ideology-as-class-warfare.php I'm not worried about the top 10%. They can afford armed guards, and there's enough of the top 1% willing to spend money to destroy opposition. I'm far more worried that I'll have my access to basic energy and food needs cut off by my Imperial Governor or Bureaucratic tyranny. And my hobbies over my lifetime have been consistently WAY more environmentally friendly than the rich bureaucrats. Partly, certainly, because I'm cheap. Gliders are cheaper than Cessnas. My Buell gets far better mileage than a Range Rover. True, my bigger motivation has been to excel or at least survive high skill requirement hobbies, like motorcycling, mountain biking, unpowered soaring flight, and sailing. And protection of the environment has been very important to preserve those activities. I've even bought a Real Sierra cup. ( the stupidest camping product this side of lead tent poles ) Unfortunately actually protecting the environment has nothing to do with the Green Tyranny division of Regressive Authoritarianism. I Also point out that 10% sponsor competitions in their own hobbies. Bicycle & motorcycle racing, sailing, the Olympics... | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/the -daily-chart-german-net-zero-schadenfreude.php | ||
| Aesquire |
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/11/the yre-coming-for-your-beef.php | ||
| Hootowl |
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03777-x ?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placemen t=newsletter The potential for malicious use is high. |
