Tone
Death
For those curious about such things,
Republicans receive vastly
more political contributions from oil companies than
Democrats.
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In case you need a Daily Affirmation:
The events of January 6th were a determined
first attempt by the Republican Party
to overthrow the government of this
country, and they will attempt it again
until they succeed. I will do everything
in my power to stop any future Trumpy
dictator.
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I don’t think “It’s
shameful that Nancy Pelosi didn’t
have the national guard at the Capitol
for the tourist event that definitely
wasn’t an insurrection inspired
by Trump” is the winning argument
McCarthy thinks it is.
@Angry_Staffer
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I just saw the trailer for the latest incarnation of "Dune".
Remember when critics said the first Star Wars was "too
White"?
The struggle continues.
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Mankind
thinks it's a superbly advanced species but let's quickly
ponder where we'd all be right now if fossil fuels
had never formed
on this planet in the vast quantities to which we're
currently accustomed.
First and primarily, since the process of smelting
requires the kind of high temperatures far in excess
of simple
wood
fires
the science of metallurgy
would have
been severely hampered. No coal, no iron or steel,
no industrial revolution. Mankind would be still stuck
in the
Stone Age,
but through no fault of its own. (Yes, you can make
charcoal from wood but it would probably require a
minor deciduous forest to make a decent suit of armor.
No doubt nations would turn the world into one big
Easter Island in pursuit of an army equipped with iron
axes.)
So, yes, we do have fossil fuels but they're not inexhaustible,
though we act like it. If we'd had any sense we'd have
demanded, since the very first Model T hit the cobblestones,
that every new vehicle squeeze every last, possible
drop of mileage from each gallon of petrol. 50mpg minimum
or
GTFO!
This is hindsight, true,
but it's exactly how we should be thinking now. American
highways are stuffed with multi-passenger monster
SUVs shuttling Dad to and from the Big Boxes for 2x4's
and drywall screws, sucking high test at 20mpg while
all the time whining with dissonant entitlement about
the current high price
per gallon.
Again, if we had any sense, we'd
reject our masturbatory delight in horsepower and
torque and zero-to-sixty times, driven entirely by
marketing rather than necessity, and stick with less
powerful, more efficient vehicles
until the aliens finally arrive and sell us their blueprints
for a cheap and portable fusion-powered generator.
But I'm not holding my breath.
=Lefty=
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