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Captainant

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  1. 5 minutes ago, Anastasis said:

    Try harder to pay attention guys. 

    Political aspectsEdit

    In January 2018, United States Secretary of StateRex Tillerson said that the U.S. and Poland oppose the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. They see it as undermining Europe's energy security and stability.[167] The Nord Stream 2 pipeline was also opposed by former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, former U.S. President Donald Trump, the European Council President Donald Tusk and British foreign minister Boris Johnson.[168][169] The president of the European Council Donald Tusk has said that Nord Stream 2 is not in the EU's interests.[170] Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán have questioned the different treatment of Nord Stream 2 and South Stream projects.[170][171] Some claim that the project violates the long-term declared strategy of the EU to diversify its gas supplies.[172] A letter, signed by the leaders of nine EU countries, was sent to the EC in March 2016, warning that the Nord Stream 2 project contradicts the European energy policy requirements that suppliers to the EU should not control the energy transmission assets, and that access to the energy infrastructure must be secured for non-consortium companies.[173][174] A letter by American lawmakers John McCain and Marco Rubioto the EU also criticized the project in July 2016.[175]Isabelle Kocher, chief executive officer of Engie, criticised American sanctions targeting the projects, and said they were an attempt to promote American gas in Europe.[176]

    German Chancellor Angela Merkelwith Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi, Russia, 18 May 2018

    In June 2017, Germany and Austria criticized the United States Senate over new sanctions against Russia that target the planned Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany,[177][178] stating that the United States was threatening Europe's energy supplies.[179] In a joint statement Austria's Chancellor Christian Kern and Germany's Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said that "Europe's energy supply is a matter for Europe, and not for the United States of America."[180] They also said: "To threaten companies from Germany, Austria and other European states with penalties on the U.S. market if they participate in natural gas projects such as Nord Stream 2 with Russia or finance them introduces a completely new and very negative quality into European-American relations."[181]

    On January 1, 2021, an annual defense policy bill passed by the U.S. Congress included sanctions for companies who worked on or insured the pipeline. On January 26, the White House said that newly sworn-in President Joe Biden "continues to believe that Nord Stream 2 is a bad deal for Europe" and that his administration "will be reviewing" the new sanctions. (Biden had previously opposed the pipeline as Vice President.) According to congressional aides cited in a February report by NBC News, the sanctions enjoy "strong bipartisan support" on Capitol Hill.[182][183][184]

    On 28 April 2021 the European Parliament passed a resolution that urges all EU institutions and EU Member States to stop the completion of Nord Stream 2.[185]

    In May 2021, the Biden administration waived Trump's CAATSA sanctions on the company behind the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and its chief executive.[186][187] Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov welcomed the move as "a chance for a gradual transition toward the normalisation of our bilateral ties".[188] Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was "surprised" and "disappointed" by Biden's decision.[189]

    nonono you're supposed to post a 10-15 minute youtube video without any other context or analysis from yourself. Not just copy/pasta a wiki article. Man, your concern troll skills have been slipping

  2. 4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

    We went cheap in a lot of places, or were restricted in some manner, with things like leaving our power lines above ground on poles.  Good windstorm, ice storm, etc., and we get fires, or power outages, etc.

    Bastrop Fire - 1,600 homes wiped out, over $325 million in damages, because 30mph winds knocked some trees down on power lines, causing lots and lots of sparks.

    That's just one example.

    Wasn't PG&E's reluctance/feet dragging on maintaining their above-ground lines what touched off the last few rounds of California wildfires? Seems like above-ground lines are super cost-effective relative to buried cables, but carry a significantly higher risk with use in some biomes

  3. Just now, Satchel said:

    People don’t like hearing that, but it’s true. Some were never able to come to grips with the idea of Obama as POTUS.

    in 2015 I went with a buddy to go hunt dove on his family land in Arkansas and his dad, who is a capillary/vascular specialist MD, a military officer vet, and generally intelligent person, would only refer to Obama as "the Kenyan".

    Racism runs deep in this country and is a constant reason to believe the disinformation coming from fox and oann.

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    Edited by Captainant

    29 minutes ago, SquishMitten said:

    Guess it wouldn’t be a bad idea to get a generator. Anybody got goods recs on something that could run a couple refrigerators and maybe a portable AC unit? I don’t know shit about them or how to determine what size I’d need

    TL:DR from the other conversations is: a ~10KW genny will run most of a house in a pinch, look for one that runs on natural gas so you can connect it directly to your home's natural gas line, and hire an electrician to install a transfer switch so you won't kill some poor linesman while powering your house

  5. 1 minute ago, Anastasis said:

    Just treat Biden consistently in the same way you did Trump when it comes to Russia. Not hard. 

    Lol, I didn't realize that Biden was meeting with russian dignitaries on solo fights with sealed doors in the oval fucking office. Or that he was trading polling data with them to get an in-kind campaign contribution through advertising and disinformation campaigns.

    Try harder man, or at least change your avatar to a big-brain meme like GRHorn did to let everyone know that you're not a serious person - it was a nice bat-signal for you on TOS

  6. 1 minute ago, GRHorn said:

    You spoke as though you were informed on this and could quickly communicate the immense value of gain of function research. I was just hoping to tap into your vast reservoir of knowledge on the subject. 

    Well not all of us have degrees in giving massages so I guess we should just defer to your medical expertise and insight

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    Edited by Captainant

    25 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

    And here I thought I was being eco-woke by having a 16 seer Trane unit installed 8 years ago and 15” more attic insulation blown in two years ago.

    You can realize some pretty solid savings on energy spending with improved insulation and A/C unit efficiency. When I lived in a janky Midtown 1000sqft apartment with single pane windows and daylight shining in the doorframe, I was easily paying $175 and as much as $275 in August to keep the A/C at 74 at night, and 78 during the day. I just passed my first year in a new-ish 3 story 2200sqft house with double paned and U/V tinted windows I've never paid more than $160 while keeping the A/C at 71 at night and 75 in the day - and there's a lot more shit to power in a house than an apartment lol.

    "Eco-woke" is just another word for willing to pay up-front costs for long-term benefit.

  8. The thing that really grinds my gears is that residential power use isn't the biggest strain on the grid, it's commercial use. But we don't request businesses to conserve in their usage - shit when I got my car serviced today they had the office cranked down cold with a door to the garage propped open. 

    That's gonna suck a ton more power than moving a home from 77 to 74 degrees. 

  9. 1 hour ago, Cajun said:

    I cannot believe how much water I drain out after a day that thing doin' its suck thing.  Easily over a gallon and a half.

    That'll be especially handy for flushing your toilets when we inevitably lose water pressure again due to some stupid bullshit

  10. 1 hour ago, BrickHorn said:

    So much of what works for today’s GOP was ripped off from pro wrestling. Back in 2015 or 2016, there were stories of angry mobs harassing CNN reporters and cameramen at Trump rallies.

    Donald Trump Wwe GIF

  11. 7 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

    lol

    AL.com is so lucky to have someone like Kyle Whitmire calling out the rot in this state.
     

     


    Fucking Fox News Brain.

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    Lmao, that conversation with the Alabama rep reads just like the bullshit being propagated here by PHLAggy and Donkey and the like.

    from the article:

    Quote

     

    “It basically teaches that certain children are inherently bad people because of the color of their skin, period,” Pringle said.

    That sounded very serious, indeed. Nazi-like, even. So I asked Pringle if there were any critical race theorists he could point to who have been spreading such toxic garbage?

    “Yeah, uh, well — I can assure you — I’ll have to read a lot more,” he said.

    I began to get the feeling that Pringle didn’t know as much about critical race theory as I had hoped. Were there other examples he could give me where critical race theory was being put into practice?

    “These people, when they were doing the training programs — and the government — if you didn’t buy into what they taught you a hundred percent, they sent you away to a reeducation camp,” Pringle said.

    Pringle was a little difficult to follow but this sounded serious. These people — whoever they were— sounded terrifying, and if there were reeducation camps operating in America, that would be big news someone like me should get to the bottom of. I asked Pringle, who were these people?

    ...

    “Here’s an — it doesn’t say who it was, it just says a government that held these — these training sessions …”

    Pringle trailed off and I told him that, if he liked, he could send me a link to the article, but then he began to speak again.

    “The white male executives are sent to a three-day re-education camp, where they were told that their white male culture wasn’t their —” he trailed off again.

    I was worried that we’d lost our connection. These sorts of conversations sometimes end abruptly, but Pringle was still on the line and after a little more hemming and hawing he retreated to a common safe-space of politicians who’ve crawled too far out on a limb: He just wanted to start a conversation, he said.

    “I introduced a very brief version of the bill to start the conversation, but it’s very difficult in this cancel society to have a frank discussion about racism in this country and this country’s history,” he said. “I mean, history is being rewritten and I’m not exactly sure of the accuracy of what’s there now and what they’re trying to change it into.”

     

    He's "just asking questions" and "just wants to start a conversation" about a topic that he has no fucking idea what he's actually mad about past his narrow worldview and white supremacy talking points

  12. 50 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    I mean, considering we've had multiple high profile ransomware events recently and it's been escalating for years now, I don't think questioning this qualifies as a conspiracy theory. We should be asking that question every time something like this happens now. 

    It bears reminding though, none of the ransomware attacks have impacted operational technology. They've all been attacks against the information technology surrounding it that impacted the business's profits but not the stability of the infrastructure itself

  13. 24 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

    ERCOT is like insurance - you keep paying for it until you really need it then they cut you off

    All while holding critical infrastructure hostage behind their control with the threat of crippling debt if you don't pay the piper. And completely unaccountable to their own failure and profit seeking

  14. 41 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    They went down because shit broke. 
     

    maybe they should be fined. That’s at least a path to change. 
     

    california was literally criminal conspiracy by Enron folks who shut down perfectly fine plants to generate scarcity and jack up prices. It was revealed upon investigation. That is unlikely to happen again, as I said. These operators/companies are all independent so you’re talking about a criminal conspiracy among many different entities, and I havent seen just one company yet that is as corrupt and evil as Enron was from top to bottom. Nevermind that they’d be ruined if discovered. And in this environment folks are dying to expose a bad player. I don’t see it. 

    Just thinking out loud, what about on the natural gas side? They're the ones who made out like highway robbers during the freeze, despite it being their own doing to be so ill prepared

  15. 14 hours ago, Augustus said:

    I kept thinking that I was watching a female Tim Curry.  Her facial expressions, eye rolls, voice modulation... she was just fantastic.

    Hahaha I hadn't made this connection but it's pretty spot on

  16. 49 minutes ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

    What a clusterfuck.  We should be able to negotiate a fixed price contract with utilities that we only pay them if they provide x days/months of uninterrupted service (excluding local outages due to transformers, rogue squirrels etc).  

    Now now now, we can't go putting service level agreements on critical utilities! That would be BUSINESS KILLING REGULATION RAHRBAGHLGLGLG

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    Edited by Captainant

    31 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    Yes. Then we agree.

    Take it a step further and ask: if you (generally, the royal You) were at the top of the caste, would you willingly or knowingly knock yourself down a few rungs? Maybe you or a few highly evolved thinkers and stoics would. But would the sum of the parts? I would say no; likely you'd need the power wrested from you. Hence my comments on CRT being a threat and why it's actually pretty prescient to nip it in the bud...and anyone trying to reason that it's not a tool to whittle away their power, prestige, influence, money and privilege, is not being honest.

    Because I'm no Marxist, but of this I agree: there is no racial or religious or philosophical war-- there is only class war. And it is a constant war in a world of scarcity-- a world that is nasty, brutish and short. There is no utopia; that's not the human experience and condition.

    But I think folks are on to something that white people have done for centuries. Take the education and development back from the state and an external locus of control and roll up your sleeves and do it yourselves. It does take a degree of privilege to be able to home school, but that's a huge lever to pull in educating and empowering a future generation. Teach CRT and formulate and codify action items and strategies for your side at home-- you won't be allowed to in public.

     

    I don't want to mischaracterize you, but are you actually advocating for the inequalities in our system? You prefer that redlining and racially-driven discrimination occurred because it means your property value could be a few percentage points higher?

     

    ...

     

    You realize that's incredibly racist and fucked up, right? Literally just "fuck you, I got mine". 

    Take off your mask, Johnny Sack.

  18. 1 hour ago, DonkeyCigars said:

    The Republican voterbase understands they are not multimillionaires. They also understand that the possibility of being the next Jed Clampett or Jerry Jones or My Pillow Millionaire guy, is an easier, greased skid if white privilege remains tipped in their favor. 

     

    So is your thesis that conservative whites won't want to address racism because it'll be more difficult for them on an equal playing field? On that we agree.

    On 5/19/2021 at 5:12 PM, Captainant said:

    If all you've ever known is the fruits and privileged of an inherently inequal system (read: being born on 3rd and acting like you hit a triple), then equality certainly could seem like oppression. 

    This thread is a flat circle.

  19. 5 hours ago, Hate said:

    Yeah, I said it.  I don't know if they taste worse than they smell or smell worse than they taste. 

    Sounds like you've never had well prepared brussels sprouts - halved and tossed with balsamic, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper and then air fried or oven roasted is fuckin goooooood

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