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So, being able to get pregnant is your standard. Okay. I can't get pregnant either. Does that make me a man? Then again, I did just retire from several decades in the Marine Corps, so maybe I have been mis-identifying all this time? I'm so confused.

And the avalanche of mental diarrhoea is back

Hopefully, Dominion decides a public exoneration is more valuable to them, (and the country), than Fox's money.

This isn't even a discussion, it's just Slim King spamming russian propaganda to this thread almost nonstop, with incoherent rambles. But one got my curiosity: Name one.

Yup. Abso-fucking-lutely hilarious how fragile their little egos are. Almost as delicate as a... Snowflake.

Judge has since ordered the trial to start tomorrow. Dominion ain't settling.

There's a new movie in the works. The Thomas, Crowe Affair.

A t shirt vendor at couch freaks had a shirt that pictured a skydiver under canopy and it had a quote that (I think) was attributed to a german ww2 submarine commander. The quote said something along the lines of "Life is primarily a matter of chance. The risks we take have little bearing on the outcome." I'm trying to find the exact quote. Does any one know it?

This has come up a few times lately so I figured I'd start a thread on it. Hydrogen has been around forever. It's been used as a fuel for spacecraft (the Space Shuttle's main engines used hydrogen and oxygen) as a feedstock for refinery cracking, and as an intermediate step in a great many industrial processes. It is even planned for manufacture on Mars via a fairly clever fuel cycle, like so: A lander with a few hundred pounds of hydrogen lands; the rest of its tanks are empty. The lander then takes CO2 from the air, and via the Sabatier process, turns the two ingredients into methane and water. The water is broken down into oxygen and hydrogen. The hydrogen is reused; the oxygen and methane are stored in the lander's tanks. After a few months the lander has enough fuel to return to Earth. This is called ISRP (in situ resource production) and is about the only way to get back from Mars in a reasonable time. But that's a side note. The 'battle' that is shaping up, if you will, is between battery and hydrogen storage of energy. Batteries have been assumed both for grid scale storage (for peak loads and to store solar/wind) and for EV's. This is mainly because batteries are very, very efficient and storing and releasing energy; you can see 75-99% efficiencies depending on charge/discharge rate. They are expensive though, although that cost has been dropping rapidly. They are now sufficiently energy dense and sufficiently cheap to make cheap long range cars available. The one remaining problem is that the raw materials are scarce, but as lithium ion gives way to lithum phosphate and eventually sodium, that problem will decline - making batteries more and more attractive. Hydrogen hasn't been standing still, though. And there are now more and more companies making compact electrolyzers that are both efficient and cheap. Off-the-shelf systems now hit 80% and smaller experimental electrolyzers are hitting 98%. And they offer an interesting niche - as solar and wind get built out, there are times when the grid cannot accept all the power that they produce. During one day last spring, for example, solar/wind/hydro produced 103% of California's power needs. (The 3% was exported.) This means that pretty soon we will see periods where way more power than the local grid needs will be produced by renewables. At that point you can curtail (shut down generation) or find other loads. Batteries are a good load, but their cost goes up by how much energy you store. Hydrogen is the opposite - you pay for power, but energy (storage) is very, very cheap. More and more companies are making small (two shipping containers) electrolyzers that will take 10 megawatts of power and convert water to hydrogen with the power. And these go for a few million. If energy is free, that sort of system will recoup its cost in 3-4 years. And more and more often, energy will be free for part of the day, especially near solar and wind farms. And this is starting to happen. Several natural gas plants in the LA area now run on a 70/30 methane/hydrogen mix, and fuel cell peakers are in the planning stages. I used to think that hydrogen was going to be a non-starter for both storage and vehicles until we had high temperature nuclear reactors that could do thermal dissociation of water. But the advent of efficient and cheap electrolyzers - along with the unexpected problem of having too much free energy - has been making me rethink that. It also enables some solutions (like aviation) that are decades away from being doable with batteries. So in the future you may see hydrogen start to creep into wider use as a storage medium and as a motor fuel. Rapid reductions in battery cost will slow that down, but hydrogen will continue to be a more and more viable option as time goes on.

Nah. She's just a Saltine. You know, a 'cracker.'

True story - When KBJ was going through confirmation hearings, someone asked her if she could define what a woman was. She said she was not a biologist. She was widely ridiculed by the right. One reporter asked one of those mockers if he could define "woman." He said "Easy! Someone who can give birth to a child, a mother, is a woman. Someone who has a uterus is a woman. It doesn’t seem that complicated to me.” The reporter then asked him whether a woman who had a hysterectomy was still a woman. He replied "Yeah . . . well . . . I don't know . . . would they?" And that is the state of republican understanding on what a woman is. "I don't know."

Imagine if they start using pictures of the dead children and the wounds they died from on shite beer brands.

Attacking people for their sexual gender or identification is an offense that will earn banning and blocking from damn near EVERY social media platform. It's past time for Dizzie to catch up. The hatred in here is getting old, it's just sick ignorance. It's a very harmful stance on people at the receiving end of the hatred. Some here will have to face this in their own family. Hatred comes full circle in some of those cases. Or maybe it's just karma.

Thousands of people in the US are in city and county jails awaiting trial, because they couldn't post bail. Bail and fines is a money-making venture for entirely too many cities and counties, and if they sit in jail, then they have to pay jail fees when they get out. Just another way to keep poor people poor, because we don't dare tax the rich. They went to court for an arraignment, but haven't been to trial yet. Wendy P.

OK? He's also not a politician and not Ukrainian. Now come on, as it stands you owe Olof $12,000. Are you going to welch on that bet?

Give me $50 and I'll tell you. Oh no wait, that would be a stupid and childish game. Of course there is still corruption in Ukraine. A ) There's some corruption everywhere. B ) There's still an active malign influence (Moscow) trying to create corruption in Ukraine while they're trying to root it out.

Look, you're the one who claimed there were 600 political prisoners without trial. Since you can't even come up with ONE name, we'll just assume that your claim was bullshit. Tell your son to walk, have a nice day!

I don't think there are any "Gulages" in DC And find your lunch money from someone else, you're just doing that because you have zilch, nada, nothing

Looks like you got 'nuthin.

Distance from pupil to pupil. Importance specification when having glasses made. I have "beady eyes" with an IPD of 57..................

Reminds me of this Stephen Lynch song.

I just posted photos to the Vintage category of the Mother Lode and Antioch jumpers from the late 60's and a few from 1975.

inter-pupillary distance https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pupillary_distance

Well, of course. As long as it is clear that the white man is in charge.

Not quite a stooge font, but these could be used as quote marks sometimes: (quoted material) Wendy P.

Together with a stooge font. So a post so obviously a thought, solely designed to be subservient to someone else. Can be awarded as such. i.e. Stooge font: the posts of Slim King :stooge font.

Ive lost track of when and who released the Dan Cooper comic info first. Tom's team member Carol Abraczinskas? Or Snowmman first before Carol ? 2008-10 ? Tom Kaye included it in his first citizen sleuths website around 2010 ? I do remember that Carr advertised and used it almost immediately ... Carol used it to claim Cooper might have been Canadian .... I am sure Tom Kaye can recite chapter and verse on when the comic first surfaced but, it was Snowmman who dug deep into the publishing history of the comic ....... followed by FJ adding his own research several years later.

I believe that the reference to a scar on one of his hands came from the Gunther book. I don't think anything to suggest an identifying feature has been mentioned elsewhere.