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The discussion was about the initial shutdown the feds and the states did due to covid. Newsom was pointing out that DeSantis followed the "science" and shutdown the state. What Newsom failed to say was that DeSantis also followed the science and lifted the shutdown as one of the first in the nation to do so. Thus the argument. mspart

Ouch!!

Didn't watch it. For those that did, what did you think of the format, intrusiveness of the moderator, and the time allowed for the debaters to make their point? Is this a template for future Primary and General election Presidential debates? mspart

House is 51F per thermostat. mspart

Definition of a first world problem!! mspart

Yes, Let's talk the brown stuff. mspart

And when the government is advising the business of which content should be censored? Then that becomes part of the question. And that is what happened as demonstrated by the Twitter files. mspart

I joined the local neighborhood swim team my junior year to stay in shape over the summer. They did a 500 yd warmup. I think I got maybe 150 yds and the warm up was done. By the end, I was up to 350 yds for the warmup. My first race was a 100 yd medly. I came in dead last and could hardly get myself out of the pool. I'm not a great swimmer, but the one thing I did learn was how to relax while swimming. I could have done 500 for a warm up given enough time. But they were impatient. I do remember some 8 year old girl had the most amazing butterfly stroke I had personally ever seen. It was a thing a beauty. I tried it and it was horrible, way to much energy and drowning with that stroke. mspart

I could never even do that. Maybe any 10 meters after her 500th. mspart

The above is not to say that BigBrog is wrong. On the contrary. The less we can pollute the earth, the better. I do my fair share of air pollution (cars, house, lawn mower, weed whacker, chain saws). But I use those things rarely except the car and house and the car is a diesel and gets 35+ miles per gallon routinely. Not as good as a hybrid, but pretty good. Right now my house is without a furnace so you'll all be glad to know I am not polluting with my house yesterday, today, and probably tomorrow. And it is cold here in PNW these few days. mspart

Interesting intro to this article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/01/how-the-little-ice-age-changed-history It is easy to forget just how variable the climate of the earth has been, across the geologic time scale. That is partly because the extent of that variability is so difficult to imagine. A world entirely covered in ice, from pole to pole—the so-called snowball earth—is something we find it hard to get our heads around, even though the longest and oldest period of total or near-total glaciation, the Huronian glaciation, lasted for three hundred million years. A world without ice is also hard to visualize, though it is by comparison a much more recent phenomenon: perhaps only thirty-four million years ago, crocodiles swam in a freshwater lake we know as the North Pole, and palm trees grew in Antarctica. The reality is that our planet oscillates between phases with no ice, phases with all ice, and phases in the middle. The middle is where we happen to be right now—a fact that is responsible for our faulty perception of the earth’s climate as accommodating and stable. mspart

Ouch is right. Splits with that kind of weight on you!! I'll bet he was feeling that the next day. mspart

You don't know nothing about wrestling, your name is true. mspart

This might be transformative. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/battery-crushes-teslas-tech-unveils-160816090.html New Battery Crushes Tesla's Tech, Unveils A Solid-State Marvel With 300% Higher Energy Density, 15-minute Ultra-Fast Charge mspart

I assume you mean for here in Seattle. Can you state with authority whether it was or was not? That's right..... Didn't think so! mspart

And there will be sunlight. Hunter is trying to circumvent the subpoena. Congress dictates the terms, not the person under subpoena. As noted in the Turley article: House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., quickly disabused Hunter of the point of the subpoena and said that he will indeed appear in a private session before a public hearing. That is precisely what the Democrats have done, including with dozens of witnesses in the January 6th committee. So why is this a problem? Because D's know what they did under similar circumstances with regard to leaks and such and are wary the same will happen here. And they are concerned about what could happen. Too bad. mspart

If this were a dire emergency, the money would be allocated and spent. Obviously this is neither a priority or an emergency. mspart

So will this dog and pony show provide any more real evidence? I guess we shall see. There is plenty of evidence against Hunter. mspart

It will be both, so you get your wish. mspart

Paraphrasing scripture - Not bad!! mspart

But fireplace doesn't put out. mspart

Furnace broke, cold in house. mspart

My artistic skills are incredible eh? mspart

I believe he is optimistic that a solution will be found to fossil fuel driven energy use from cars to power plants to home heating and farm machinery. Some other "thing" will provide the energy needed. Perhaps fusion or small fission reactors, or more efficient solar and wind (terrible idea really), or something out of the blue that we haven't considered yet. For instance a power cell that converts H2 to H2O would be the most obvious CO2 friendly thing to do but there is not much push for that. Fusion that converts H2 to He would be really good too, but proof of that pudding is decades and decades away. We have the former, why not use it? They use them to power huge tractors and such. mspart

Plasi makes a good point. He is saying climate change is real, man is making the difference, and just wait, it will all get better. Things will work out. Not to worry. Plasi is not paralyzed by the rhetoric. He is optimistic that a solution will be found. I tend to agree with him on that. But if you listen to the climate alarmists, we must go back to the 1500's to come out of this mess. mspart