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by reddog 6y ago
When a tree blossoms is due to its temperature and the amount of light its "seeing". Tree genetics is also a factor. Couldn't this early blooming trend be due to the huge increase in night illumination? I've certainly
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by reddog 6y ago
Plus if you trade in one functional old car for a newer model with better emmissions, that perfectly good car is not magically lifted into automobile heaven never to emit again. It will be bought on the used market by someone else can&#x27
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by reddog 6y ago
Also, according to the BLS, one of the 10 most dangerous jobs in the country. If met plenty of farmers that have missing pieces.
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by reddog 6y ago
As Beria, head of Stalin’s secret police said, “Show me the man and I will find you the crime.”
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by reddog 6y ago
As Max Planck observed, science advances one funeral at a time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
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by reddog 6y ago
> Don't Mess with Texas Don't Mess with Texas was simply a highly effective ad campaign from the '80s aimed at reducing littering on Texas roadways by the Texas Department of Transportation. https://en.wikipedia
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by reddog 6y ago
It will. You can bet on it. The Texas Legislature is currently in session (it only meets every other year). Maybe a quarter of them will have personally experienced this power outage and all of them will have a parent, sister, son, neigh
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by reddog 6y ago
Fair point. But I get my electricity, telephone service, water, gas, groceries for entities owned by someone else and I don't have to worry about having any of these services pulled because of what I posted on twitter yesterday. Imag
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by reddog 6y ago
Yes is is good for the US, but not so much for the Manor Independent School District that is being ask to not collect property (school) taxes on the plant despite the massive increase in attendance that it will generate.
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by reddog 6y ago
Only a small fraction of that $17B would be spent on building the plant and hiring workers (1800 jobs is what I've read). Most is for the extremely expensive equipment used to produce the chips and that will be bought and shipped in f
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by reddog 6y ago
>until they piss off someone too big to not give up without a legal/public fight Don't hold your breath. Didn't Google/Youtube recently ban the sitting President of the United States who is also a billonaire and noto
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by reddog 6y ago
"It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave-driver of yourself." -- Thoreau
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by reddog 6y ago
Wow. People in glass houses...
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by reddog 6y ago
Add license plate scanners and high resolution police/military drones to that list.
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by reddog 6y ago
OK, I have to conceed your point. You can drive from Austin to Big Bend NP in an electric car. I didn't know you could now buy a Tesla with a 400m range. Of course that longer range Model S costs $65K, not $48K. And you have to dri
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by reddog 6y ago
I've worked on ICE vehicles my whole life and I'd be happy to say good riddance. But this article has a heavy urban bias. The author has obviously never driven through West Texas or taken a road trip from Brisbane to Alice Sprin
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by reddog 6y ago
I wonder by how many orders of magnitude that this would be less safe and more expensive that as commercial airline first class ticket to the same destination. Those two helicopter hops probably make the trip 100x more dangerous by them sel
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by reddog 6y ago
> I have yet to see a scam which would fool me Maybe not but you will. If you live long enough you will suffer inevitable cognitive decline until one day you will be vulnerable to such a scam. We all will. No amount of good diet,
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by reddog 6y ago
Good question. Normally I would try to figure this out for myself by logging on to Parler and taking a look. But Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have decided that I can't be trusted to do that --
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by reddog 6y ago
The optics are certainly bad. It looks like the Big Tech Cartel colluded to destroy one of their members closest competitors.
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by reddog 6y ago
I've read that Twitter and Facebook were used more than Parler to orchestarate the capital takeover. But, being founding members of the high tech corporate cartel, they will never get banned. Your right though -- you often can't
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by reddog 6y ago
>You had to go back 15 years to find an example of the mainstream media misleading people on this scale. Have you forgotten 3 years of the MSN saying Trump's presidency was illegitament because he stole the election by coluding with
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by reddog 6y ago
The more cable news you watch the stupider you get. You can actually feel your IQ dropping minute by minute as you watch Fox or MSNBC. They aren't there to make you more informed, their sole purpose is to say whatever will keep you
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by reddog 6y ago
>I have yet to see a report that CNN broadcasts people that claim that the election was "stolen" or "manipulated". There is a massive difference between biased reporting and openly distributing lies. You may have miss
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by reddog 6y ago
It makes you wonder what will happen ofter the tech cartel completes its project of silencing half the country.
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by reddog 6y ago
Your local community library is also full of extremism. You will find copies of The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kamph, The Turner Diaries, The Anarchist Cookbook, Platos Republic, In Defense of Selfishness and The Koran. It has “problemati
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by reddog 6y ago
I am more concerened about people attacking the Bill of Rights than I am people attacking the capital building. Bottom line: if you are anti-free speech, you are the baddie.
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Everybody is "potentially armed".
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by reddog 6y ago
I enjoyed my time living on campus and I understand the authors point, but a college campus is the ulitmate elitist gated community. Imagine a city that required you pass an IQ test, submit your high school grades and an essay, ask for the
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by reddog 6y ago
Also, no outrage in the MSM about police shooting and killing an unarmed female protester. This summer I was told that this was a very bad thing indeed. I guess the situation here is different than what happened in Minneapolis because...we

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