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The movie
It smashed the box offices!
It made $1.99 during the first
day only!
Out of 12560 seats 2 were
occupied.
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Approximately 300,000 to 350,000 U.S. service members (often referred to as GIs, though this term was popularized in WWII) died in the European Theater of Operations during the two World Wars combined, with the overwhelming majority occurring in World War II.
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Or do you think like the Clown and think they were suckers?
Things are a bit different now and a person like Hitler could not gain the control of so much as was done back in more primitive times.
Europe has some fucked up ways or people woulda never left if it was a utopia. I think religious freedom is what brought some over here in the beginning. My german ancestors came over to start a new and better life, something must not have suited them in germany then.
That's nice to hear from you, honestly. Thanks for saying that.
No surprises here.
Your answer confirms precisely what the whole world this about you and your likes.
"People from Somalia are a
disaster, right?
Filthy, dirty, disgusting,
ridden with crime."
The consequence is:
Maga guy attacks with
a chemical the Somalia-born
representative Ilhan Omar
during town hall meeting
in Minneapolis.
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Blaming Trump for a man doing something stupid like attacking a government person is a big stretch.
Why can't you let people accept responsibility for their own actions instead of finding someone to blame it on? Dumbass did something stupid,now let him go to jail.
Besides, there is issues with that omar anyhow. Who marrys their brother to fix any kind of issue?
How many times did Biden verbally attack Charlie Kirk? Even once?
How many times did ANY Democrat verbally attack Charlie Kirk?
You still blamed Democrats for Kirk's murder, so don't be daft.
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I can't blame the man for being upset,he just handled it wrong.
She wants to do away with our border protection and immigration office. that takes a nut job to support those ideals. That idea just throws the idea of national borders out the window,
"Record high levels of migration have led to serious consequences distorting the labor market, increasing pressure on the housing market and public services, and undermining cohesion and confidence, and those consequences are still as serious as ever today."
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If this is enough to get killed over, everyone who carries a gun now has
a target on their head.
Trump is giving the next Democrat president SO MUCH to crack down on you.
Complete immunity, to beat you to submission and kill you if you protest,
by putting a bloodthirsty revenge force in your red areas. 100% justified!
Have you ever heard the poem "The Hangman" by Maurice Ogden?
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It's a bit long, but damn, does it tell a story.
No, I haven't heard the poem. I'll check.
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According to ChatGPT, a moral lesson similar to the one of The Hangman
can be learned from Aesop fables like:
“The Farmer and the Stork”
“The Wolf and the Lamb”
“The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”
“The Frogs Who Desired a King” (closest thematic Aesop fable)
The Frogs Asking for a King (1884 Aesop’s Fables translation):
The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King.
He, perceiving their simplicity, cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it.
After some time they began to think themselves ill‑treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign.
He then gave them an eel to govern them. When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they yet a third time sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another King.
Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.
Moral: When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.
Aesop’s fables are not stories in the modern sense. They’re very short parables, often only a few sentences long. There isn’t a “full-length story” version because they were meant to illustrate a moral quickly, like a proverb. In that sense, they are very much like bible 'stories'.
In historical times, people used parables to teach morality. Humans naturally learn through story, example, and emotion, not pure logic. That’s why parables, fables, and allegories have been so effective across cultures for thousands of years,
they teach without needing formal education or reasoning skills.
It simply tells a short story, and than says: "Do you see what happened to the frogs? Don't be like the frogs!"
That's similar for The Hangman, which only adds an artistic element; poetry.
The problem is that you can do the same for ALL moral lessons, good AND BAD.
In Aesop, the story shows: “This happened → here’s the result → here’s a moral.”
But the same structure could be used for destructive or unethical lessons if the storyteller wanted: Example: “Person X stole from neighbors → Person X enjoyed the loot and nothing happened → therefore stealing is smart.”
Readers or listeners might misinterpret the moral:
"The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (also Aesop) doesn't teach to not lie, if you think about it,
it teaches to never tell the same lie TWICE.
To show why an action is right or wrong, link the behavior to its real consequences for people in general. Then generalize it into a principle.
Morals are accurate when the cause → effect → general lesson chain is clear.
reads Aesop daily before going
to bed. He draws Ethics from it.
This is why he never lies more
thank once. phart is right for
recommending Aesop. He's doing what
his Führer does.
The movie
It smashed the box offices!
It made $1.99 during the first
day only!
Out of 12560 seats 2 were
occupied.
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The Trump administration has quickly abandoned its familiar "deny and attack" playbook after initially using it when federal agents shot dead Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
Let's review how phart's obedience-only-based logic works. He will side with the Führer's opinions always. If the Führer says the execution was justified, phart will say, yes it was.
But when the Führer abandons his rhetoric, phart will do exactly the same too.
In accordance to the principles of authoritarianism, a subordinate to it will follow every single bit that the dictators dictate. The subordinate will adopt the principles fully and blindly. When they change, he will change too.
phart's response, when it comes, will only prove what I wrote above. Of course, he may choose not to respond because he has nothing to say.
I wasn't there, so I didn't see it. And I have a distrust of the media.
Anyway, most Americans did see enough too, and are FUCKING FED UP.
Trump is doing EVERYTHING you lot always said that Democrats would do.
The big tyrannical government is HERE, and it is terrorizing EVERYONE.
You can sure hide in you cave for a while, but they will STARVE YOU OUT.
However, you still have enough energy to comment about it,
so I can only infer that you don't WANT to know. Or, we need to conclude
that you love us so much, that you can't miss us for a moment.
In any case, the rest of the country saw it, and is FED UP.
It can be something like this, that results in the end of a regime.
It's definitely showing cracks, even you cannot avoid that reality.
Even NRA is upset after the
execution of they man
in MN just because he
had a gun on him
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I bet phart will say that ICE are far left liberals.
Trump let the first warning drop, that he wants to kill the 2nd amendment.
“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk in with guns. You can’t do that.”
When he becomes afraid of the people, he will take what you care about the most.
OMG, will I laugh my ass off, when that happens.
So they are already having issues with charging electric cars?
Sheesh,what about in 5 years? The power company are not permited to build new power plants.Solar and wind are going to be important to keep the grid up. But that didn't work in Texas did it?
They make a lot of energy in Texas,but how many folks died over the winter this past 1?
Angel1227!
So a private, for profit, company did not plan on a hard winter so their production of electricity was not sufficient? And this utility, regulated by the states, failed to meet the demands? This state (Texas) governed by Repukers was not regulated correctly so this company spent less on production and got richer because of it? This sounds very much like a Repuker business idea.
I fault the power companys in texas to a point but I also fault the citizens for lack of preparedness.
Face it, sometimes you need regulation, especially for basic facilities like power.
And I then mentioned the issues in texas with electricity.
What everyone is missing here is the fact there is NOT enough electricity being produced to meet CURRENT demand.As Ananas has indicated.So imagine if you will,5-10 years from now,when there is GREATER demand? What a mess we are in for.
Regulation is not the solution. that is how you GOT TO THIS POINT. To many regulations preventing new power plants being built and trying to snuff out coal,a effective energy source.
You think that if they are running short they won’t try to catch up? The regulations you protest are there to protect the people and the environment. But, knowing how you think, fuck that. Let coal continue to pollute. We’ll be dead by the time our grandkids die of poisoned air.
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Only 2 under construction according to this chart.
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The US shut down how many? lets see
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Now, we shut down 39 and we are building 2. Does that sound like regulations are helping any? 2, there are 50 states. So state regulation is not changing anything where it may be either.
If you want coal gone,you need to have a replacement handy before hand.
Nuclear power is not the solution. There are 80 sites in the United States where nuclear waste is stored. Some of it is stored temporary in a location that is not safe long term. The best uranium sites are already running out and it's getting ever more expensive to mine the stuff.
That waste has to be looked after for the next 20,000 to 1M years, before it's safe. Humanity probably kills itself before that or there might be a few survivors that don't know how to keep the waste safe and radiation will finish them off. But who cares, right?
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Like nuclear is the only alternative to coal.
I just used nuclear here because MOST tree huggers-liberals,think nuclear is the answer.And it has Ooodles of issues that take Many years to deal with.
Actually, I even prefer fossil fuels over nuclear, even though I'm a tree hugger-liberal. Nuclear might be a bit better on carbon emissions when the reactor is built, but building new ones creates so much emissions, it takes 20 years to recover.
Another problem is that nuclear reactors take ages to start up and stop again, which is not practical as backup for solar and wind. Fossil fuels are at least needed until we have enough geothermal, hydro (incl. wave), biofuel, biogas, hydrogen, chemical storage (formic acid), thermal energy storage, battery storage and whatever I forgot or they think up next.
Then there is off-course the waste and the risk.
Eh so more electric cars will reduce demand?
I know you are not a engineer,but even you should be able to figure out that can't work.
groas violations of human rights, so the US or Europe don't need them as an ally.
If they can't sell us oil ,they will make their money on interest from loans.
We could afford to use fossil fuels if we could finish our pipelines and drill in otherwise useless lands like up north in alaska where there is nothing but woods.
The alaskan pipeline built long ago,was supposed to be such a wildlife disaster,ha,the animals love it,it is warm near the pipeline.
California has MILES of coast line,Why are they not looking into this tech?
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Instead of wasting all that coast line for half naked people to lay around and spread covid,there could be power plants there!
NO pollution! No noise that is not already there,and erosion control! WOW,
Kansas,could be using wind and solar to help of course.
Another non polluting power source,
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When I build a green house,yep,I will use geothermal to help with temp control.
Every bit you can use of it is better than none at all.
Here are some fun do-it-yourself builds on YouTube.
I had seen them before and it made me regret living next to a stationary ditch.
Maybe there are some ideas you can use:
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I DO NOT quite understand the amount of AMPS he is getting from that washing machine motor.
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How many Chernobyl’s do you know? One in the states, one in Japan, and one in Russia. Here, in Miami-Dade county, FP&L has been operating the local one over 50 yrs. Same in other cities around the state. And no pollution
You don't hear about the Mcquire plant here in NC getting to hot but it did a few years ago. The tree huggers were angry because a type of fish was dieing from getting caught in the cooling system water.So they put a screen over the intake. Worked fine for a while. Until the screen clogged up with little fishes.A employee told me about it.
Here is a long list of potential accidents and how to deal with them
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Yea,I know,I got dizzy after 10 minutes of readin!
I can't see a coal plant being any where near as dangerous to operate
They can't even take in water, without sucking up all the fishes
According to the Rainforest Action Network. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous.
Like I said, “What you don’t see can be more dangerous.”
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chernobyl didn just happen and stop.It is still happening today.
Smog will go away at some point.
coal smoke can be filtered.Try filtering radiaton.
So we only would need half that exclusion zone filled with solar panels
and that would cost about 78 Billion Euro's. That would raise our national debt from 56.3% of GDP to 66.2% of GDP.
Jobs for all our unemployed people will pull that debt down soon enough.
Accidents happen. Even if the chance is 1:1M (historically proven it's much higher), when you multiply that risk by the number of nuclear power plants required, something catastrophic will happen at some point. Such catastrophes could cost more than the complete energy transition.
That's not worth it, because nuclear power is only a temporary solution, because the uranium will run out at some point. It's already becoming more and more expensive to mine the stuff.
Even if all those problems didn't exist, it still takes 10 years before any nuclear power plant has compensates his own build. But it first takes 10 years to build any. Then after 20 years, they are just as CO2 effecient as wind and solar. That's too late. We need to lower CO2 emissions ASAP.
Anyone with some money to spare can invest in their own solar panels,
lower their costs and be less dependent on power companies.
It's nice to have air-conditioning in a heat wave, when the government
is telling you not to use power or you can't afford it when power companies are charging you 100x the normal rate.
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There are al sorts of natural disasters, but it can also be a terrorist attack or a hacker or just basic human error.
BTW, instead of Kansas I could have picked West Virginia
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As far as anything else, we have to trust security will prevail. Every thing is a crapshoot. Hopefully we don’t roll snake eyes,
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I also don't like nuclear energy and my arguments are in line with the science on climate change. That uranium has to be mined, which also emits CO2.
A nuclear power plant takes a lot of energy to be built and maintained.
Then afterwards we have to keep the waste safe for the next 20,000 years.
On the short term nuclear is about as energy/CO2 efficient as wind power and even less than solar. In the long term nuclear has a horrible energy/CO2 efficiency, because keeping the waste safe also costs energy. Also, building nuclear power plants takes a long time and lots of materials. It takes about 10 years before a nuclear power plant compensates his own build. That's about 1-1.5 years for wind energy and 2 years for solar. However solar is cheaper
on maintenance.
Other than that, I agree with most of what you said.
All energy technology costs money, materials, energy and land to build and maintain. All energy technology has downsides like pollution, mineral shortages, exploitation of people and CO2 emissions. We just need to stop with the worst energy technologies first and expand on the best ones the most.
It doesn't require completely changing our life or have impact on the quality of our life. However climate change already impacts our life and it will only get worse. We can either choose to accept some changes now and prevent total catastrophe later or we can deny the truth until catastrophe proves us wrong.
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