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  5. On 7/29/2023 at 7:49 PM, gowlerk said:

    That’s not going to happen. And if it did, the price of Tesla stock would collapse quickly because the main reason it’s so high is his fan boys have driven it there.

    Yup - when tesla was the only game in town it was a different thing and the stock rose on its own merits. 

    Now with loads of really good options on the market from automakers that actually know how to build a robust car, tesla is looking less and less appealing - anyone pinning their dreams on the cybertruck is smoking something IMO. Tesla was never an option for me because they don't do a proper wagon and I can't imagine living without the load space (and a pickup is not an option because they are dumb for most people!)

  6. 14 hours ago, normiss said:

    Although this is starting to look like an indefensible case now. 40 charges so far. Evidence is rock solid.

    I honestly think Trump may very well end up incarcerated. 

    And it ain't over yet, more cases, more charges.

    Theoretically - I'd love to know how this would happen. I think the fantasies of seeing him in Gen pop in an orange suit are sadly unrealistic - I'm guessing some form of house arrest on an island - like Napoleon? (Lots of parallels there!) 
    I don't see it ever happening somehow but I'd love to be wrong.

  8. 34 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

    On the same day that former president trump released his new e-mails to solicit money to pay for his lawyers. Former President Obama released his summer book reading list. "His list of books include Matthew Desmond’s “Poverty, By America,” Dennis Lehane’s “Small Mercies,” Jonathan Eig’s “King: A Life,” Ann Napolitano’s “Hello Beautiful,” S.A. Cosby’s “All the Sinners Bleed,” Eleanor Catton’s “Birnam Wood,” DK Nnuro’s “What Napolean Could Not Do,” David Grann’s “The Wager” and Tiffany Clarke Harrison’s “Blue Hour.”

    None of this was noted nor any attention paid to it because as every American knows. Republicans don't read books and some just can't read.

    In other presidential news trump's Truth Social SPAC has agreed to pay a $18 million dollar fine to the SEC to settle a fraud investigation. trump and fraud. Sounds like another money raising e-mail to his republican suckers...er...supporters and voters.

    When people put out lists like this - I always wish they would add something utterly trashy in - the latest Dan Brown (or whoever), something less cerebral and deep.
    I haven't checked out every book on this list but they mostly seem pretty serious.

  9. 1 hour ago, CygnusX-1 said:

    Then I'll say it for you. Brent knows he will be long dead before renewables will 100% replace fossil fuels. Therefore for him it is a win and he will not have to change anything. He obviously does not care about humanity or the future of humanity. As long as he gets his, that is all that matters. The affects that we create today are someone else's problem and he doesn't care about them at all. He has no concept of the idea that a small change today can make a big difference in the future. If you study history, you see this behavior from people in the past. Look at all the people who thought we could never exterminate the American Bison. Brent cannot see the damage we do until the last one dies.

    He's happily selling his thneeds.

  11. 32 minutes ago, olofscience said:

    And incest, lots of sex, and shocking violence.

    I was in my early teens when I decided to try to read the bible like a novel - man, that was a shocker.

    Combine that with christian children being taught Jesus' death in very gruesome, graphic detail. It's messed up, that Utah board was right to ban it from schools.

    My son had some idiot teacher show them a video about the easter myth with fairly graphic representations of crucifixion etc at the age of about 5 (non-religious school). He had nightmares for weeks. Some choice words were had with said teacher - She was christian herself but hadn't actually watched the video prior.

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  12. · Edited by Stumpy

    On 7/11/2023 at 7:12 PM, olofscience said:

    creationists

    Creationists are up there with genuine flat earthers as a special kind of stupid.
    (I distinguish "Genuine" flat earthers here - I'm pretty sure most flat earthers MUST be taking the piss for shits and giggles)

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    1 hour ago, grimmie said:

    Pretty spot on. And add in a gallon of religious fundamentalism, a dash of paranoia and a sprinkle of ego.

    I suspect there is a high correlation between heavily religious types and Q followers. The mentality that needs to be led.

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  15. 7 hours ago, gowlerk said:

    All I have on hand right now is Glenlivet. Oh well, there's whiskey in the jar-o.

    That should do the job just nicely :D

  16. 16 hours ago, JerryBaumchen said:

    Hi airdvr,

    And, just what credentials do you have to conclude that?

    Also, just how much time have you spent with Joe?

    Horsepuckey at it's finest.

    Jerry Baumchen

    You forget, baseless innuendo and lying about everything are pretty much all they have.

  19. 57 minutes ago, billeisele said:

    You can't say that. CA earned that comment many years ago and continues to claim their ownership of it. 

    Nah - from an external perspective (and having spent plenty of time in both states) california is weird, and quite a lot neurotic. Florida is full on, card carrying, screaming at the moon crazy.

  20. 27 minutes ago, SkyDekker said:

    Just the name of the stuff. Considering you are that close to the Crown Royal distillery figured you would want to know they call that stuff whisky on the bottle and everything.

    As currently a native of scotland I'm now extra snobby about Whisky. Crown Royal doesn't really qualify.

     

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  21. 6 hours ago, beowulf said:

    There is no such thing as a privilege that is granted based on skin color.

    Oh wow. It takes some serious head in the sand thinking to genuinely believe this. Read the john scalzi link that billvon posted. I don't hold much hope of anything penetrating but you never know.

    6 hours ago, beowulf said:

    The US is probably the least racist country on Earth.

    That's not the most wrong thing I have read on the internet today, but it's up there.

  22. The right wing talking point is that Sotomayor is just as bad because she took money from Penguin. They clearly aren't bright enough to understand the difference between a legitimate business relationship that was oficially declared, and whatever it is that Harlan Crow is doing to Thomas.

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  23. 1 hour ago, BIGUN said:

    Not at all. 

    In which case, you CAN protect people in schools, just about every country in the civilised world has managed it, there are just far too many people with money invested in not wanting to do so, mainly on the right hand side of the isle, but the left is not blameless either.

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  24. 3 hours ago, Slim King said:

    Russia moves it's weapons almost every day... It's nor called retreating... 600 more innocent kids died in Bakhmut today .. Congrats... Ukraine must be winning just as  we won in Viet Nam...

    Oh dear, you really are struggling aren't you. Vietnam is probably not a bad analogy, in that the larger more powerful invading aggressor got schooled by the underdog.

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  25. 2 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

    How is it that we could develop an entire TSA in about 8 minutes due to 3,000 people being killed at the twin towers and all the other peripheral things in the name of public security, but we can't protect children in schools.

    I'm guessing thats a rhetorical question