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I tried to read the article but it became an uncommon bore. Their parents were spies. Awful experience but that is life. Nobody gets to choose their parents and they got got up it unfortunately. The US does the same stuff. It is a sinister game that pulls people in that wanted nothing to do with it. The world does not work like the masses think. All one can do is hope they never get ensnarled in the barbed wire of it.

What we see with our eyes is not the present. It is the past taking into account the speed of light light and time the mind needs to process it.

Most people do not have computers or running water so next to no impact.

Yes. Exactly. What if they could retract into the ground? Now that would be awesome and a real advancement. Protect that bag of eggs!

I know they do not because I have lived through several CAT 4/5 storms and have seen them fail. Also a brutal freeze in Houston recently where EVERYTHING failed to include wind turbines that froze solid.

I'm for solar and wind but fossil fuels are still needed as a backup plan (another basket of eggs). Gotta have it. I survived the hard freeze in Houston with no electrical power with stored gasoline and a couple of generators for 5 days no problem. I just fueled up the other day. With additives the fuels last several years. Good to go for a freeze or a major storm for a couple weeks.

Have you ever experienced a CAT 4 or 5? There won't be much left standing. It looks like a nuclear blast. This is just wind damage. I've seen water move entire homes a mile with the height of water being as high as 30ft. It can take weeks to months to restore electrical power. To clean the mess up takes heavy machinery run by fossil fuels. And what if you want to start doing repairs to your property that may not be damaged that bad? You will need a gas generator. Solar will not cut it doing heavy power tool work hours on end...meh.

I've experienced a few major hurricanes in my life. Wind and solar will not beat anything in a major storm. It's ok to put all your eggs in one basket but you better defend that one basket as the saying goes. Who's taking down all the solar farms and wind farms before a hurricane? Might want to figure this out first before putting all the eggs in one basket.

I feel this could be misleading. Are the demands more transparent and being tracked better than before? During the "olden times" under Dorsey it seems the demands were less transparent. Some of this was brought to light in the hearing like banning people for no specific reason and spying on their personal conversations.

True. I don't have a dog in this fight but if Mike sues the person who gave him the bogus data and wins there is a scenario where the detective, Mike and citizens all win. If anyone wants to pull this stunt again they will likely be caught getting cute with election data.

He debunked the data. He didn't debunk election fraud claims. If someone frauded Mike with bogus data the detective and Mike both win.

'Tony Stark invented and put together all his inventions therefore Elon is a failure and a fraud going by Marvel standards' should be the title...meh.

There is a saying about the difference between a wise and a smart man. Something to the effect the smart man works for the wise man. Elon is both to varying degrees with varying degrees of success but mostly success.

In TX you can shoot them. If someone is kicking my door thought they are getting shot in every city in every nation.

Way more than 80K illegal aliens entering every quarter. Rest of it though...meh.

They sell many outdated models. I've experienced it enough times I rarely use Amazon anymore. The difference in the latest model and the outdated one can often be drastic like a major improvement. It's a sneaky system of dumping inferior products on consumers.

On some things however you can burn Amazon. I bought a commercial leg press last year that weighted over 500 lbs. Everyone else wanted to charge shipping of almost $200. Not Amazon. Free shipping and for the same price as everyone else. SOLD!

No voting software should be proprietary. If anyone does not see the danger in being unable to look at their software when it comes to voting I am willing to bet a large bag of coin one day they will absolutely see the value in it. What's so special about software that counts anyway? Counting is not a trade secret.

I would love to see a show with him and Maddow. They sit right next to each other and tell the same exact news story. No arguing, just telling the same exact story from their angle. Like 2 ft apart from each other. If they have to make any retractions for lying the retractions must be repeated 10 times throughout the show. End of the week the retractions are tallied up and a winner is declared.

As a kid I loved this show:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(TV_series)

Fun show. Reality however set in quick for a kid. My parents could barely afford a commodore 64. A rich kid did however give me a modem but even he didn't know what to do with it. I settled on copying all his games by cutting the tab in the floppy disk. I must have had hundreds of games on the cheap.

FBI liaison at the paper approval still the same process.

Proprietary practices, trade secrets and transparent data don't gel so well with recycling. Beautiful charts and bold claims of future state however do. But don't take my word on it. Rachel Maddow use to work in the recycling industry. Hard to find the article these days but she lays out some truth about the recycling industry she worked in. Bottom line; It takes an enormous amount of resources and energy to recycle most things. At least this video tries to honor that truth a little.

Englewood IL has outstanding real estate prices.

The Sinclair parroting clip is not right wing. If it said "danger to our constitutional republic" then yes, that would be right wing. A democracy is what happens when a republic breaks down according to Plato's Republic. A democracy isn't a truly bad thing but what comes after it is. Worst of the worst. From there it returns to a republic and the cycle starts over.

Scott Adams made a good point about running a business. You try things. If it doesn't work you scrap it. Elon tried something. It failed. He also launched a rocket that failed. So what. It happens. Running a real business (not a sham startup) will have many real ups and downs. Overall he's had way more ups. Get over it.

The dollar will be around for a while, at least another decade and change but it will eventually fade away as the reserve. Way too many people on the other side who want stuff. It's really not any harder than that. Hard for people that have only known running water and toilets their entire life to comprehend it. These people on the other side are tired of it. They want these things and the US is keeping them from having it. EV's for all...meh. Yeah no. Things are about to go in an entirely different direction. Can't just go around raping countries anymore.

I worked the BP oil spill building hesco barriers in the Guard. I highly doubt their issues are from the oil. Not saying it wasn't but this was a very short event. Weeks to a couple of months at best. I know there were PPE protocols. Were they wearing it at all times? Probably not. It is Louisiana. Hot as hell. From the pics I don't see anybody wearing basic PPE but I do recall many workers were wearing it. This is also one of the most unhealthy places on the planet. Poor diet, little to no exercise. Are those factors? Of course they are. Add aging of 13 years ago and many of them are not healthy oil spill or no oil spill.

I salute your effort. On target valid points. What I am noticing however is both sides of the spectrum do agree on many things but the media buries this reality. The US must have immigrants. No way around that one.

One side however is saying yes, let them all in regardless. The other is saying concur but wait one. How about some fundamental rules of law like no hardcore criminals maybe? Can we at least have that checkpoint? And maybe honor during a major pandemic we have to shut it down for a few if we ourselves are locked down no? It's very disturbing without basic rules. End of the day this is a republic. A democracy is what happens when a republic breaks down according to Plato. After that...well I don't even want to think about it. It gets real bad.

What's all this we? How about Mr. Noah Smith since it's his idea. He could take one into his own home. Maybe a few of them. If he really wanted to help refugees though a better idea would be to go down to the local children state ward. Lots and lots of his own citizens who had to flee their homes. The state even pays you monthly for taking them off their hands! Won't get that for an adult Chinese person.

A minor dirty trick in the scheme of political dirty tricks. There are far worst ones and committed by both sides. No doubt about it.

Impractical. Highly likely the ship has motion detectors and some bad dudes aboard who can pick them off easily. Best to hail the vessel and tell them the game is up. I honestly can't think of any application for this other than high high dollar recreation. Maybe extraction or medical aid.

Edward Dutton did a piece on this topic. After WWII jobs were very plentiful. If one wanted to work in a particular field highly likely they would get the job without much effort. My father was an accountant for a large corporation with a flimsy jr college degree. He had that job for 44 years. Impossible pulling off that feat today.

Things IMO changed in the 80's with corporate raiding and then articles in mass publications like Parade magazine on how much more you make with a degree. It wasn't false information at the time but there was this real pressure that if you didn't go to college you put shame on the family. You had to rise higher that your parents.

Eventually those jobs that didn't take much effort dried up. Unfortunately the articles on the college degree coin didn't so here we are. A bunch of paper on the wall and everyone fighting for the same small square footage on top the hill so to speak. No way to fix it other than raising college standards which everyone knows ain't happening.

I'm more interested in who is funding the remaining 31%. If it's anything like PBS, that non government coin is heavily liberal leaning foundations and think tanks, many of which receive government funding on some level.

An ideal solution would be to let citizens choose on their taxes where they would like their non essential tax dollars to go. For example, if someone doesn't want their non essential tax dollars going to the Foundation For Wayward Girls which also gives money to a particular TV station to sell the sizzle on their business, they could choose to give it to the Foundation For Youth Gun Hunting or just keep their money for a rainy day.