This quote from Hippocrates reminds me of something astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said to an interviewer who asked him, “Well, if there is all this stuff in the universe that we don’t understand, why can’t that be God?”
He replied, “If that’s the way you want to play it, that’s fine. Just keep in mind that you’re standing on an island that’s getting smaller every year.”
It’s so gratifying to see these victories for organized labor.
A strong middle class gives back so many gifts to U.S. society, in the form of a stronger democracy, lower crimes rates, and better educational standards.
On top of that, we have quality of life; it’s nice to know that millions of Americans are benefiting from greater affluence and lower levels of poverty.
One further point: notice that this happened under a Democratic administration. This truly is the party that cares about working people. I know this is often lost in our political conversations, but it really is the truth.
From the American Energy Society: US supermajor Chevron acquired Hess for $53 billion two weeks after Exxon Mobil purchased Pioneer Natural Resources for $60 billion and while BP doubled its YOY profits ($27B). Note: Many SMEs believe the sector’s historic performance is far from over and that the Permian Basin in Texas will likely remain the centerpiece of all activity in the foreseeable future.
I’m reminded of a boss/senior partner I had as a young man who liked to say, on occasions such as these, “Well at least now it’s getting real.”
Yes, the gloves are off, and Big Oil no longer seems to care that its standing in the world of PR is really no better than that of Hamas. They are baking the planet for profit, and there is not a goddamned thing we can do about it, at least in the short-term.
In the long-term, of course, we can electrify everything and then hope there is a path back to methane and CO2 levels that stabilize the climate here on the only planet we call home.
Here’s a video explaining how mashed potatoes can be made by boiling a popular brand of potato chip (Lay’s).
Why not take all those chemicals, fill a syringe with them, and inject them directly into a vein?
As I mentioned in a post yesterday, American politics has reached a point where one of its two major parties, the Republicans, seems to have become aware that it offers nothing of value whatsoever to its base.
Its platform consists of a number of extremist positions, which are repugnant to most Americans: banning abortion, unlimited gun rights, cutting Social Security and Medicare, environmental devastation, the rejection of science, withdrawing support for Ukraine, and, most of all, kowtowing to a sociopathic criminal former president, has turned out to be entirely unappealing to most voters.
A year ago, one could have said that its policy of stopping whatever the Democrats want was held in high regard, but that also ceased to register at the polls.
How is it possible that it has taken so long for all this to emerge on the political landscape? I have no clue.
Needless to say, I’m not too impressed by the author of the meme here.
Unless you completely reject science, you understand that our consumption of fossil fuels is causing global warming, ocean acidification, the loss of biodiversity, and a variety of different diseases affecting the human race and the animal kingdom at large.
And, unless you don’t pay any attention to the world economy, you know that every major automaker on the planet is somewhere in the process of phasing out internal combustion engines in favor of electric powertrains.
Perhaps what happened in Kentucky’s gubernatorial election yesterday (see left) is evidence that the American people have seen enough. Enough of the criminal insanity, the gun mania, the rejection of science, the suppression of women, and the religious fundamentalism.
This could be that point of inflection that all sane people have been hoping for. 
I don’t know any more about U.S. politics than the next guy, but it sure looks like we’ll see voter turnouts in 2024 that shatter all records, and renounce the entirety of GOP extremism.
Well, that’s quite a statement from country music artist Tim McGraw.
The problem you face, sir, is that most of your audience, at least insofar as they’re aware of your stance here, is that they consider you a Satanist.
From 2GreenEnergy, however, we thank you for your honesty and your decency as a human being.
Gerald Maynard, who submitted the meme at left, apparently has a “thing” for spreading disinformation. Not exactly a virtue, I would submit.
The average retail electricity price in the U.S. is $0.11/kWh, so a full charge of Tesla’s largest battery pack (100 kWhs) is $11.
My advice to you, Gerald, is this: as you go through life, try to become a more honest person. You won’t regret it.
Perhaps “idiots” is the wrong word. The actual driver behind our electing the people shown at left is that many of us are desperate to be told that what we believe is true, even though if it’s plainly incorrect.
Take the assertion that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. Even Fox News went on camera and told its viewers that this was categorically false, that there was no evidence to support the claim, that they made it up, and they apologize for doing so.
Is that good enough for the people who vote for Marjorie Taylor Greene? Of course not. If you want to win a House seat from that part of rural Georgia, and you’re not willing to say the election was stolen, then you’re going to lose. It’s that simple.
