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  1. 1 hour ago, Chuckie Finster said:

     

    lol, lmao even

     

    30 minutes ago, Js1 said:

    They are bringing it back up tomorrow once Scalise is back. Why they didn’t wait a day, idk. They just ended up looking stupid today 

     

    I'm shocked it made it to the floor. All of Republican leadership is functionally retarded.

    So with Scalise back it goes to 215-216. Still a loss. Maybe it'll take another 14 tries.

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    We don't want no part of invading Iran, but we could bomb the shit out of them for a while to let 'em know who's boss.

    They will return fire. Are you comfortable with American casualties?

  3. Fuck Tucker, but he's right in that we don't want a war with Iran. I have no qualms about him calling out known warmongers.

    The proxies are fair game, if likely a futile exercise of whack-a-mole.

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  4. All of you centrists and former Republicans seem to forget that turning out the base is priority #1 for any winning campaign. For environmentalism causes, this is up there with canning the Keystone XL.

    This matters even more to the millions of young people that have aged into voting since 2016 and 2020. Many of them are terrified of climate change and inaction from elected officials, real or perceived. At minimum, this will help Biden score some much needed points with this group after his approval of the oil expansion up in Alaska and the Gaza war. Getting voters from this cohort will outweigh any losses from other demographics.

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  5. 2 hours ago, LTtxfan said:

    baylor and aranda are clueless...  

    Aranda saw how a good offense turned down the temperature of Wilcox's seat and is looking for the same. Spav turned Cal's offense around this season once he settled on a QB. 

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  6. On 11/25/2023 at 2:22 AM, InkaUtexas said:

    You all hear of the new emerging virus? Hard to track. Hits kids hard. Reminds me of the early days of Covid reporting. First reports that something was fucked up though came from a friend in Burma.

    Yay china. 

    HONG KONG — Hospitals in northern China appear to be “overwhelmed with sick children” as the country grapples with a surge in respiratory illnesses and clusters of pneumonia, prompting the World Health Organization to ask Beijing for more data.

    At the Beijing Children’s Hospital in the capital, long lines of people were waiting to register during a visit by NBC News on Thursday. Waiting rooms were crowded with parents and children, some of them on IV drips.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/china-hospitals-children-pneumonia-respiratory-illness-who-data-rcna126480

     

    Minor point, but getting an IV drip is the norm for most hospital visits over there. It's like something patients expect and not a sign of anything out of the ordinary.

  7. On 11/10/2023 at 12:54 AM, PTINS said:

    Global Warming:  8 billion people at 98.6 °F, approximately 30 ° warmer than the ambient temperature, generate a lot of heat, which warms the atmosphere. If everybody would simply hold their breath for 4 minutes, the problem would go away.

    On 11/10/2023 at 9:06 AM, PTINS said:

    We eat organic compounds, carbo-hydrates, yet scorn the use of oil and gas, hydro-carbons. Different slice of the same pie.

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    Society in General: Entropy is a scientific concept that matter and energy in the universe will degrade to an ultimate state of inert disorder.   I believe that is where we are heading.

     

    steve-buscemi-fuck-all-that.gif

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  8. On 11/9/2023 at 11:41 AM, FirstTimeCaller said:

    Question for anyone that knows anything about batteries... why don't they last forever? What's the process whereby a battery holds less of a charge over time? Are they able to be renewed?

    When a battery is charged or discharged, ions such as Li+ need to flow through the battery from one electrode to the other to counterbalance each electron that flows through the circuit. This is a significant amount of mass transfer that needs to be fully reversible, which is a huge ask. Basically during use, one electrode is corroding away and new material is depositing at the other end. In order for this to be reversible, the ions have to be dislodged from their new location and find their way back to where they were before. Each atom takes up space, and the materials need to accommodate atoms moving in and out repeatedly. An ideal electrode works like a sponge soaking up ions during one direction of operation and releasing them in the other. That is a huge ask.

    Each electrode has a preferred state, either with or w/o ions, and will be less stable in the other state. During the less stable phase, the material will be prone to irreversible changes that reduce the overall capacity to accept ions. Maybe the material will change its bonding and lose its flexibility to accommodate the volume changes of ions moving in and out. Other times, it will find something else to react with. Most often, the metal oxide cathode is the weak point and responsible for the lifetime of most rechargeable batteries.

     

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  9. 1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:

    If the R’s win in VA, it’ll be a preview of what a R 2024 looks like across the nation 

     

    The Republican strategy for abortion is that they still have no strategy. There were talks from the VA state party about uniting behind a 16 week ban as a compromise, but there were some R pols in competitive races who were ducking the issue entirely. And then there's this dipshit. 

    If the Rs have a good night, it's not because they have suddenly become coherent.

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  10. GOP is spiking the football already in Virginia because Youngkin has seemingly convinced GOP voters to go early. 

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/republicans-may-have-found-a-winning-election-strategy/ar-AA1jlq6z?ocid=mailsignout&pc=U591&cvid=cc41f88307b149e1b386d95d66646b7e&ei=18

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    This year is the first time that a full General Assembly election in Virginia has had a 45-day early voting period and no-excuse absentee mail ballot rule since new voting laws were passed in 2021. Voters will have until Saturday to cast an early vote in what is widely viewed as a bellwether for the 2024 election. Every single seat in the state Legislature is up for re-election.

    45 day EV period? Why would anyone in VA vote on election day?

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  11. Shen Yun is bankrolled by the Falun Gong, that pseudo-cult that took the mainland by storm back in the 90's, prompting a nasty crackdown by the CCP. Odd, because they learned all the same authoritarian tactics. They are not the good guys.

    FG also finances the Epoch Times, one of the more fucked up and Trump-ball-gargling of right-wing rags.

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  12. 20 hours ago, Smax said:

    I haven't seen the episode in the op yet but anyone who has been half way paying attention should know the threat they pose. They've stolen top secret information about our reactors, subs and stealth technology. Their Gen 5 fighters basically appeared out of nowhere when most western expects have said it should have taken them 20+ years to develop and all the sudden they have them.

    I cant even begin to imagine how much corporate theft china has done to the west

    FWIW their gen 5 fighter more closely resembles the Russian Su-57 than any of our stuff.

     

    6 hours ago, chainsaw said:

    I'd rather have too many homes than too few.

    Those homes aren't actually built to handle any long term occupancy. They exist because the construction and real estate industries are 30% of the Chinese economy and the people don't have any other options for stashing away their money. Whole 5 year-old subdivisions are falling apart.

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