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Hah! Right wingers every single time there's a mass shooting "The gun was irrelevant! He could have killed all those people with a knife or a boomerang or a rusty spoon if he really wanted to!" Right wingers on Jan 6th "There were hardly any guns! How could one person possibly have been endangered by a thousand rioters who weren't even heavily armed????"

From a youtube comment: "I wanted to wish Herschel Walker a 'Happy Father's Day' just in case he is actually my father."

Simple: we liberals are a bunch of fuck-ups on a never ending quest to spread our sense of good. No matter if a bus is coming fast, there is always time to stop and pick-up a piece of litter.

You aren't meant to. It's just troll bait.

Hi Dimintrilp, You will probably have to have someone make a set for you. I realize you are in Europe, but one option would be to contact Jump Shack. They make both normal toggles & the pins for the PdF style of toggle. I no longer have a photo of the PdF style of toggle. Try to get a photo to go along with any inquiry you might make to Jump Shack. Sport Containers - Parachute Laboratories, Inc. (plabsinc.com) Jerry Baumchen

Two consecutive lies, two sentences. Poor performance. Trump could get four lies in a SINGLE SENTENCE. You have a lot of work to do to measure up to your messiah.

Good article on that: If carbon dioxide hits a new high every year, why isn’t every year hotter than the last? PUBLISHED NOVEMBER 23, 2021 Just like your car doesn’t reach top speed the instant you step on the gas, Earth’s temperature doesn’t react instantly to each year’s new record-high carbon dioxide levels. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/if-carbon-dioxide-hits-new-high-every-year-why-isn’t-every-year-hotter-last

The meek are not going to inherit the earth or anything else besides a plot of sharecroppers land outside the city walls. No matter our delicate sensibilities, it is still a dangerous, fractured world filled with actors who will do anything to get or retain power. If Trump, January 6 and the right wing desire to rule permanently isn't enough to wake us up, it's over.

Ukraine needs arms, not prosecutors. If Garland doesn't want to do his job here, then he needs to be replaced by someone who is willing to do the job.

Why the hell is he wasting time in Ukraine instead of prosecuting the Trump crime mob?

Excellent news! Merrick Garland traveled to Ukraine on a mission of Justice. "The Justice Department said Garland announced the launch of a "War Crimes Accountability Team" that will be responsible for overseeing the administration's work to hold people accountable for war crimes in Ukraine. Garland named Eli Rosenbaum, a 36-year veteran of DOJ, to lead the team." "There is no hiding place for war criminals. The U.S. Justice Department will pursue every avenue of accountability for those who commit war crimes and other atrocities in Ukraine," Garland said in a statement." Well, thank the currently popular deity for that. We can't have anyone in other countries not being held accountable for their heinous crimes against humanity.

Above is a snip of a series of the McCrone spreadsheets. You can see in the upper left (Detail) how complex it is. The summary (right) is easier to read. The part in yellow is just a few columns of the detail sheet. I was interested to see that four elements were listed on each particle. There are 100s of thousands of these lines. I watched Tom's presentation at CooperCon 2018 and got more info. I need to dust off some of my detailed Excel training and figure out how to quickly get all the info into one tab so I can count elements. That may take me a bit. What will that get me? Not much. I think it will just say that Cooper was around a lot of equipment, machines, dust, etc. The guy had a clip on tie, which means he was probably not a CEO.

And just to re-emphasise about how refitting refineries for biofuels is just lying: Bio-fuel feedstock is usually triglycerides. To process it into biodiesel, you need to split the glycerol from the 3 fatty acids, then put them through esterification to turn them into methyl esters. Then possibly add some additives depending on the application (jet fuel, etc). That's pretty much it. The other main biofuel is biogas, which is methane (with some H2S impurities). All that's needed for that is H2S separation. Petroleoum refineries have fractional distillation columns, platinum formers, hydrodesulphurization units and a lot of other equipment that is simply useless and unnecessary for biofuel. So this blog post Brent links to accuses the Biden administration for lying, then lies about refineries being refitted for biofuels - when their link to the WaPo article says nothing of the sort. Just a normal day for brent I guess, with several lies before breakfast.

Thanks for all your help. Just ordered the WILEY X BOSS.

It also doesn’t make it a trend; it’s a single month, out of twelve, out of roughly 150 years for which we can sort of approximate data. The overall trend is rising. Individual points might be above and below that trend. After all, I paid less for gasoline the other day than I did last month. Inflation is over, I guess Wendy P.

Just because it's accurate doesn't mean it isn't heresy.

The fact that you're raging here actually shows that it's not as widely accepted as you want it to be. And that number is going down. Times are changing, old white men are raging.

I sent Tom Kaye a mid sixties Pennys tie as a control, made with the same Dacron Polyester material for testing.. some of the particles are used in fire retardants, fabric dyes and in the manufacture process of Dacron Polyester. It is dark blue though and not black...

A woman gets cheated by on by her husband. Devastated, she doesn’t know how to continue to live her life but then she hears that there’s a very wise monk who lives up in a mountain, and she decides to go there to consult him. After few days of traveling, walking, climbing, she reaches the top of the mountain and meets the wise monk, telling him, “I have spent my whole life with him, my youth was dedicated to support him, take care of him. And now he left me for a younger woman. My life is stolen, and I’m left with nothing. I don’t know what to do”. The monk gives her a cookie and asks her to eat it. After she finishes eating, he asks her, “Is the cookie delicious?” “Yes,” she replies. “Do you want another one?” “Sure, please.” The monk looks her in the eyes and says, “Do you see the problem now?” The woman thinks for a while, and then slowly speaks. “I guess human nature is greedy. You got one, then you want more, maybe a new one, bigger one. It’s never enough. And nothing lasts forever, anything is impermanence. We should be aware and not disappointed for that.” The monk shakes his head, “No, I mean you are too fat, you should eat less.”

I’m glad for all who made it. Lost my mother to cancer 4 years ago and my best friend of 50 years three years ago. Glad you’re doing good.

The oceans are rising, the glaciers are retreating, the CO2 levels are increasing the childish arguments keep on coming from the troll and people keep acknowledging him. The world keeps right on turning anyway.

Not sure,, If I share it publicly, it will blow up this case and be stolen by others... I need to protect this for now. It is never seen evidence from a witness that can be used to eliminate a suspect but not necessarily point to a specific individual suspect.. It narrows down the suspect pool to a very very small cohort. I think it is the biggest piece of case evidence I have seen in decades..

Yes - and you need more training to get those opportunities, AND the cost of that training is getting higher and higher. When I went to MIT it had the highest tuition in the country. Adjusting for inflation, today it would be average.

Agreed. I have long been a proponent for a work-visa program that works like this: You show up at the border. They do a biometric check. If you are not a criminal, you are given a work visa and allowed in. No other requirements. You get paid minimum wage (or above) - but you also get taxes withheld at whatever the maximum rate is. You can get a partial refund for those taxes if you file for those taxes, and physically pick up the check at the US embassy of whatever country you came from. Any crimes while in the US and you're banned in the future. If you cross illegally you are also banned in the future.

From what I’ve read, the Baby Boomers are the last generation in the US with a pretty good chance of having it better than our parents across the board. We had more heavily subsidized universities (therefore cheaper relative cost for college); housing was way more affordable on average, and when we were young workers, the pay scales weren’t quite as skewed towards the CEOs and C-suite types, so frankly there was more left for more general workers. There are still opportunities, but now they’re not waiting, they have to be sought with more diligence and luck. Wendy P.

Note that all of those rights are really just extending equality under the law to people who had been discriminated against based on perceived gender. If the people with power were just to recognize the innate equality for both rights and responsibilities of humans these enumerations of subsets of them being "granted" would be irrelevant. That these enumerations aren't irrelevant is telling. Wendy P.

This is the same verbatim argument being made in discussion forums everywhere, and highlights the black and white assumptions being made by those arguing against trans people in any sport - that a larger frame is always advantageous, and that the participant always went through a full biological male puberty. And those assumptions are wrong. A trans-woman who had puberty-blockers before transitioning, gets none of those testosterone-based growth advantages. That the examples making headlines are about people who've transitioned later, should not cause us to ignore the available variables here when making policy. If a trans-woman never had that growth advantage, on what basis now do we exclude her from participating in women's sports (if she chooses)? Second assumption - the outrage is almost always aimed at competitors in sports events where strength dominates. But what about where a large frame that no longer has its original supporting muscle mass is now a hinderance? In a gymnastics floor routine, a trans-woman who went through full puberty first is going to have a much, much harder time getting height off the floor - her frame is now a liability, not an advantage. This is a difficult problem, but not an unsolvable one. Anyone who thinks the answer is black and white though is being lazy.