This is a discussion we come across frequently. What type of person both follows the teachings of Christ and supports Donald Trump, a man completely devoid of mercy and compassion for others?
The answer, of course, is that for some, Christianity has little to do with Jesus’ actual teachings; it’s the belief that the worship of Christ is the only path to heaven and the avoidance of eternal damnation.
Should you be investing in the tech that converts excess CO2 in the air into sustainable transportation fuels?
Well, that suggests that there is such a technology and that this company owns it.
Neither is the case.
If there is a path forward here, and there is, it doesn’t involve “excess CO2 in the air.” It involves capturing CO2 from point sources like coal-fired power plants and concrete manufacturing facilities, combining it with hydrogen from the electrolysis of water, and using huge amounts of off-peak energy from nuclear or wind plants.
The optimum process for synthesizing hydrocarbon fuels in this manner can be found here.
For the vast majority of Americans who can’t read music, the left- and right-most signs in the meme here are what are called “repeats,” I.e., read it once, then repeat it, so forth, in perpetuity.
There are many excellent reasons to teach music in elementary school. One of which is that music theory is firmly based in mathematics and basic physics. What better way to teach fractions than by explaining the time-value of whole-notes, half-notes, etc.?
As a scientist who spent her life studying animals, Jane Goodall and her comment here should hit home for many of us.
Why we slaughter some animals and not others is a matter of freakish chance.
I have to confess that I have a terrible case of this “disease.”
It’s incurable, but there are two keys to managing it:
Silence, i.e., minding one’s own business and keeping these thoughts to oneself.
Patience, i.e., recognizing that lousy grammar is on the march. When you hear a TV sports commentator describing an errant golf shot with, “That ball could have went anywhere,” respond with a smile rather than an incapacitating stroke or seizure.
From a reader:
Back in the day, there used to be the FTC (Federal Trade Commission) and FCC (Federal Communications Commission) who policed such things as false advertising. When was the last time you even heard about those groups, much less viewed or received any warning? Exactly. Just like thee and me, they are overwhelmed by a barrage of such BS and complaints. So, as usual, the responsibility rests on us. Cover thy hindquarters, do your own research, and make the best decisions you can based on the data you have… regardless of the hype.
Like so many other elements of our society, the bad guys have overwhelmed governmental efforts to keep us safe from them. I see this in the cleantech space constantly, e.g., products that are essentially perpetual motion or something similar that either violate the laws of physics or grossly overstate their capabilities.
These people should be in prison, but the justice system is inadequate to make that happen.
On the other hand, Trump is still, at least as of this date, a free man too. It’s possible that his lawyers and the Supreme Court will delay justice indefinitely.
These are disgusting human beings selling terrible, low-nutrition food. My advice: Stay away.
It would be interesting to know what’s behind the sticker like the one on this guy’s truck. Obviously, America suffers its share of anti-woke, pro-Trump sentiment, which could be self-organizing.
Yet, needless to say, Big Oil may lie at the bottom of all this.
In any case, it requires some heavy-duty ignorance to be unaware that the world of energy and transportation is in the process of phasing out fossil fuels in favor of electricity.
Two comments and my response:
Reader #1: Keystone pipeline was Canadian oil, sent through our breadbasket and getting sold to China. It was all risk and no benefit to the country. Even the jobs it would have provided were minimal. About 2500 jobs for 2-3 years and then only about 36 jobs once it’s built. The US produces plenty of oil. Our reserves were enough to flood the market, drop the price of oil and buy it back cheaper with money that was made. There are over 2000 permits to drill the oil companies have yet to use. The idea that we need more oil is just not true. We have and have been producing more oil than ever.
Me: Exactly right.
One would have thought that what the president of the United Auto Workers said here was so obvious that it was hardly worth mentioning. Yet a surprising number of the working class under Trump had turned to the Republicans, presumedly on the basis that the GOP was not “woke,” and it was important for these folks to “own the libs.”
But that doesn’t seem to be holding in place at this point. Labor unions are on the rise, their members want to elect a U.S. president who honestly and vigorously stands behind them.
I was listening to an excerpt of a speech Trump gave the other day, which theme was that Kamala Harris is not too smart. What stood out to me was that the audience was almost completely silent.
It was only recently that his support base would go bananas when their hero made derogatory comments about his opponents–especially black women. Is it possible that the bloom is off the rose here, i.e., that these morons have simply heard enough of this hateful garbage?
