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An awesome American politician!
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Don't you love her?
A TNT
Too soon?
""beep beep": BOOOM! At least now the wounded are "marked" and will be easier to find. just remember this process in a few years when we start buying more electronics from overseas.
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And read this part if you read nothing else.
"A post-pandemic jump in costs of labor, freight and raw materials such as plastic resin have also pressured its business."
jump in LABOR cost. Some of you keep telling me i am repeating rhetoric, well damn it, there it is somewhere else,
We will continue to loose out if labor and other cost keep going up.
not because of labor costs, but because they are a pyramid scam.
Their competitors make very similar products at a fraction of the price.
I won't lose any sleep over Tupperware being assigned to the dustbin of history.
Thanks to automation and letting developing countries have a chance to grow their economy's, there will be more bums in this country as it is because people can't quit having 15 kids.
You were just complaining about labor costs, those are people's wages.
Capitalism is about competition to provide the best wages too.
The labor market is tight, people will find new jobs.
The laws of capitalism eliminate the weakest competitor. Consumers should pick
the winners and losers, so they have some control over the free market.
Employees should have an easy choice in picking the best employer, so the employers don't have all the power. That's how real capitalism is supposed to works.
Provide a safety net for people to fall back to and people can move from job to job without fearing for their livelihoods. That's a benefit to capitalism, because it eliminates failing employers. They should compete on quality and efficiency not on exploitation.
It's not my preferred system, because I'm a socialist, but as long as we have capitalism, at least I support following the competition laws of capitalism.
Companies don't have a right to a monopoly.
Companies don't have a right to customers.
Companies don't have a right to employees.
because the customer doesn't have a choice anymore.
The only recourse smaller companies have at some point, is selling on Amazon
and let Amazon take a big chunk of their profits.
This is not how capitalism should work. It's the government supporting the biggest companies (with tax-cuts) and driving all the smaller competition into the ground. Then those big surviving companies can screw the customer. Your politicians know this, but they get donations from those big companies. Those companies want something back for it; an unfair advantage. Corruption delivers the best return on investment. A million dollars to one another politician, gives them billions of dollars
in profits in the long run.
That's why some have started eating cats and dogs.
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I was fully convinced and apologize for having said the opposite earlier.
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Not a masterpiece like the other one, but still pretty damn good.
This is going to be a hype like no other.
Trump should indeed be under the the closest professional scrutiny,
so he doesn't cheat AGAIN in the next election.
When Trump cheats again, he should indeed be prosecuted to the fullest
extent of the Law, which will include long term prison sentences for him
and all his co-conspirators.
So, why is he not prosecuted to the fullest extent of the Law yet?
He has ALREADY cheated in the LAST election. He IS a disgrace to the nation.
Trump himself supports this for people who are a disgrace to the nation.
Apparently he supports going after all lawyers, and even Political Operatives and Donors. Is that happening now?
He is always crying how he is being indicted for cheating in the election,
but he wants to go after people he will accuse of cheating, like never before
seen in your country. Unfortunately!
Why are we even talking about him getting to cheat in the next election?
LOCK HIM UP!!! It's what he says needs to happen, himself.
"This image is not for public view".
Can you see it now?
The guy is the creepiest creep and the worst kind of human being.
You listen to too many doom and gloom prognosticators. Much is made up.
I’ve had some very tough times in my life and I always came through with a few more bruises, but, they healed.
Stupid conspiracy nonsense; you don't attack your enemies with a biological weapon by releasing it on your own completely unprepared country, wait a few weeks for the problem to grow, then lock down and isolate your country, and hope the virus still finds its way to your enemies.
With that statement you show reality is a mystery to you,
which delegitimizes everything else you said.
by an incredible percentage, while your country has only
decreased the living standards of its citizens, for decades.
I don't like that they didn't use democracy to do that,
but seeing that your country hardly has any democracy left,
and you are the one who will vote to give it the coup de grâce,
you are not the one who gets to criticize them for it.
Right now folks complain about BIG OIL>
let harris continue what obiden started and the villains will be BIG WIND and BIG LITHIUM.
Here's a song.
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It'll soon become a classic!
Hope you enjoy.
Oh oh, this stock isn't doing well.
The guy who owns the company told
too many lies!
You must admit that the guy who owns it, had a genius level of irony
to come up with that name.
If he only had the same skill of leading a company, it would do great.
Indeed, the irony is amazing.
WHO talks about truth? They guy who claims that immigrants eat cats and dogs?
The value of his company, like all his businesses, is failing.
"When I'm president I will go to Ohio and perform the biggest deportation in the history of the United States. I will send all those Hatians back to Venezuela......"
🤪🤪🤣
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Look. Here's proof:
A migrant ate a cat 30 miles away from where Vance is.
It's true. He clearly states it.
What else do you want, huh?
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while admitting he's lying.
Don't think he's smart enough to do that on the spot,
he had that prepared, waiting for the lie to come out.
"I'm lying for you!"
No fuckface, you're lying for your job and your donors!
"If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do."
He admits he's lying and states he will continue to do so!!!
He is creating a false flag, to DISTRACT people and the media about what causes the suffering of the American people. The immigrants are a scapegoat.
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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