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  1. 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.

     

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. It helps to scroll to the bottom of the article. 

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    The survey is an online sample drawn from the Harris Poll and weighted to reflect known demographics. As a representative online sample, it does not report a probability confidence interval.

    Polls are small samples of the population and this survey was a sample of that sample. Conducted online. Because methodology.

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  8. 1 hour ago, GW Hayduke said:

    Now do the Likud party.  Bibi and the far right factions in Israel are the ones who have undermined peace and empower hamas. Without spooky browns to stir up fear and provide political power, far right elements in Israel would be very weak, and left wing elements would be in power, the settlements would stop, and peace would become an option. 
     

    To get to peace, we would need to remove the far right elements from both Palestine and Israel.  Hamas needs Likud.  Likud needs Hamas.

    Yep. The far right is the far right, whether in Israel, the USA, or 1930s Europe.

    They stir up shit because it's how they stay in power.

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  9. 30 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    The other viable solution is the complete and utter defeat of Palestinian resistance and the integration of remaining Palestinians into Israel as a unified state. We are a lot closer to that one happening, for better or worse. It isn't my preference by any means, but I think it is what will happen in the long run. 

     

    Yes, the one-state solution is the only one that is viable over the long term. Any country that looks like this has no future by virtue of the laws of physical geography.

    Even with the 1949 borders, Palestine was a geopolitical failure waiting to happen. 

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    We won't be getting a secular pluralistic democracy once Palestine is fully digested.

  10. NWS Houston forecasters are just saying fuck it at this point. This guy isn't even the comedian of the bunch.

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    Another way to take it is my main takeaway from the night shift`s
    briefing to me this morning - conditions now are typically what we`d
    expect to see in the summertime. Not the blast furnace summer that
    we just experienced, but an actual normal summer. And in many ways,
    that is what my forecast reflects. The NBM output seems to mostly be
    putting forth this picture, so I didn`t have to make much more than
    minor tweaks. Somebody should probably tell the atmosphere that
    while it is a very lovely summer pattern it`s giving us, we`re going
    into October now and maybe we should consider doing some more
    autumnal things.

     

  11. 14 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    I guess I disagree with that a bit.

    There are a handful of programs that are of national interest irrespective of on-the-field performance.  Texas falls into that group.  So does Notre Dame.  Michigan, Ohio State, USC, . . . I don't know--maybe Alabama.  But those programs are pretty limited in number.

    And then there are a lot of programs that are of national interest when they're good enough to be challenging for a national championship.  I think Clemson is the archetype for this category.  Clemson is obviously of national interest right now.  Pretty much all of us watched them get their clocks cleaned by Duke Monday night.  But pretty much all of us remember pre-Dabo Clemson, when that program wasn't particularly good.  And when it's not challenging for a national championship, Clemson is of little interest outside the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson megalopolis.

     

    I get all that. I'm not arguing that on-field results aren't important historically, but there are many posters questioning the alignment of a program based on its team winning or losing six days ago, and some of them aren't trying to be funny.

    I can't think of any teams at risk of relegation in which on-field performance is the main reason.

  12. On 9/5/2023 at 1:07 PM, 'stache said:

    Yeah, BYU guy is annoying, I've been negged by him multiple times, doesn't change the fact that the extent of your hatred of the Big XII overall is bizarre. The comment you specifically mentioned was "The Big 12 will be just fine without TX and OU" which is true. We'll be paid what we're worth and it is pretty good under the circumstances. There's plenty of middle ground between BIG/SEC and complete irrelevance. We're below those two in prestige and well above the G5, and will be compensated accordingly. The networks aren't going to reneg because two traditionally middling Big XII teams shit the bed in Week 1.

    Maybe on page 687 people will realize that all this shit isn't really about on-field performance.

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  13. On 8/24/2023 at 7:10 PM, redswingline said:

    Their best shot was 2004 when A-aron was playing QB.

    Problem is they had to play USC, who was in its best run ever (2002-2008).

    If I recall A-aron got Cal to 1st and goal near the end of the game, but couldn't get it punched in.

    I don't want to get all technical or anything but Cal was co-champions with SC back in '06. Finished the year pushing aggy's shit in.

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  14. On 7/24/2023 at 11:58 AM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    fuck Israel. it's way past time we stop propping them up. I have never heard a good argument as to why we send them so much money. Key protector if the region? Orly? which recent conflicts have they prevented or stopped? as best as I can tell they only use their military against people who have as much right to be there as they do. they could share, but they don't want to. their bigotry is no more tolerable than the versions we have here at home.

    The Israelis know where the bodies are buried. Careful letting the dog off the leash.

  15. 7 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

    Best approach is to get into any power conference, hold on, and hope that they can hang on when the next round of realignment takes place.  Lightning will also have to strike in the form of a generational football coach a la Harbaugh and a Phil Knight style alumnus to save the program.

    Being relegated finishes Stanford football off, with very negative implications for all its other sports. 

    Your prognostication applies more to Cal than Stanford.

    Harbaugh/Shaw actually happened and the best Stanford could do was not even fill their own stadium. The Phil Knight option is more realistic but money doesn't matter if the networks don't think people want to watch. They are a disinterested fanbase and there's no changing that. That said, I think it would be possible for a handful of donors to prop the AD up even in the absence of power conference membership, or anyone else caring.

    Cal was selling out its stadium in the mid/late 00s but football reverted back to the mean and couldn't maintain fan interest. A Harbaugh-like coach or major benefactors would both be godsends right now. Maybe we're seeing the latter, but they have to contend with campus politics, a retiring chancellor, and a meek AD. For Cal, I'm afraid it really is power 4 or bust.

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