I thought this guy was serious–until I read past the first sentence.
And he’s correct, of course. Catastrophes have no effect on the way the U.S. federal government is structured, how it functions, or whom it serves. As long as the rich can make money by plowing along in a certain direction, regardless of how devastating that may be to our lives, we’d be very foolish indeed to think that a change may be in the offing. (more…)
Note to self: If you’re elected to lead a country and you face a lethal pandemic, a looming recession that will be both deep and lingering, and a panic-stricken population, at least pretend that you care of the public’s well-being. Resist the temptation to ignore the needs of a desperate nation and talk about your television ratings.
Here’s a wonderful video on the so-called “war on science,” featuring, among other things, the Flat Earth Society, which drew a record 650 participants to its fourth annual conference.
For grins, I caught a few minutes of the lectures on the Flat Earth on YouTube; yes, they honestly do believe that the Earth is shaped as shown here. (more…)
Is this for real? Possibly, but I’m always suspicious of people who claim to have “invented” some new electromechanical breakthrough, but who don’t know the units by which its supposed benefits are measured. This guy says this motor has three time the gravimetric torque density of its predecessor as measured in Watts per kilogram, which is a unit of power density.
The text in the meme here translates as “The EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) projects that the production of biofuel will grow slowly until 2050.”
I doubt it. With each passing year, it’s becoming more clear that biofuels are a terrible and non-scalable idea. A few of the major oil companies worked their butts off to make this happen, and simply gave up. (more…)
Excellent point. If you’re a progressive and want to point out that Biden isn’t, that’s cool. If you think the kind of government found in the rest of the developed world, i.e., democratic socialism, isn’t right for the United States, that’s fine too.
But don’t forget that we have a sociopath in the White House who must be removed, regardless of what else happens this November.
Whenever I come across things like this video, I wonder: a) Do this guy and I actually live in the same country? and b) Has the person making this assertion ever run so much as a lemonade stand? Reagan claims that a “little intellectual elite” in Washington D.C. thinks it “can plan our lives better than we can ourselves,” and that government “has the power of life and death” over our enterprises. (more…)
In response to the meme here a reader noted, “This decision is welcome news to everyone who believes that the perpetrators of war crimes should not enjoy impunity, no matter how powerful they are. (The decision) vindicates the rule of law and gives hope to the thousands of victims seeking accountability when domestic courts and authorities have failed them.”
As reported by GreenTech Media, Spain and Portugal are on a tear to build wind farms, in a concerted effort to meet their 2050 objective of carbon-neutrality. Spanish oil giant Repsol is using the metric of carbon intensity to gauge its progress. Interim targets, on a 2016 baseline, are 10 percent by 2025, 20 percent by 2030 and 40 percent by 2040. (more…)
Constant lying about little, meaningless things, like the size of the 2017 presidential inauguration, is despicable, but it’s not dangerous except insofar as it’s an indication of mental illness.
Lying about a lethal and highly contagious disease endangers the lives of every single one of us.
