Only ten grand
NSFW
Bonus smut: twitter.com/michaelkrivicka/status/1418360968938246147
Thanks to machinepix for the rabbit hole, so to speak.
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unclepills, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 11:51,
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More NFT stupidity. Wonder when folk will get bored with this nonsense.
(, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 13:14, Reply)
Am I going to get pinged if I watch that?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 12:28,
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{:-D
So well fed I'm surprised it could jump.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 15:32,
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Cryptopica 007 - topical prize cryptic crossword
I made this!
More news-inspired cryptic craftiness for anyone that likes that sort of thing. Deadline for entries is 1 Aug. Enjoy.
Download links...
Printable PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/18qCyKBNgQv0Z7DGThIop6G3WFP9_KY8O/view?usp=sharing
Interactive (AcrossLite) PUZ format: drive.google.com/file/d/17rKecNYx7nPb8N00B31HX1SxSVQcFXDW/view?usp=sharing
Solution to last month's puzzle (with explanations):
drive.google.com/file/d/1VpIYaQubgSDo5-_gJOx1Km9wy0I9PrrD/view?usp=sharing
New one from Paul McCartney
With a lot of Beck as well I feel. Pretty good. The oldsters are having a bit of a renaissance, what with decent material from Tom Jones and The Hoff as well.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 21:30,
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does beck still believe in aliens to avoid tax! or has he changed his tune to gain a bigger audience.
Liking the song either way
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A Scientologist?
I thought he said he wasn’t any more.
Not sure it would affect his market anyway.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 22:40,
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Is that the tube font?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 2:32,
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I do like Beck
I do not like Paul McCartney but I *do* like this. So I clicked like.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 7:51,
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not sure but perhaps this was taken from a calendar that "kurzgesagt" previously offered for sale
I'm not American, so none of this applies to me anyway.
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Woodkovsky ☹️➝🚻➝🚽➝😣➝💩➝🧻➝😁, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 16:48,
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That's just the image from the link... you input variables
DOB, Nationality, shoe size, etc.
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The only ones that seem to affect the death date
Are DOB and Nationality. The rest just change the colours of the rows.
Which seems a bit over simplistic as a way of guesstimating life expectancy.
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LP, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 9:48,
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No it isn’t.
But it does assume that each year is exactly 52 weeks long.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 18:44,
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^
Every 28 years needs an extra week
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 18:59,
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It's missing all the 'lost' weekends.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 19:46,
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Well, a couple of those.
Mostly at home though, I often log on to B3ta to find out what I posted the previous night...
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 17:16,
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it is depressing seeing the age of death of so many famous talented people and then comparing what they did to what I've done :(
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The only winning move is not to play
Football team's secret of success
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I did an EEG on an a chap with implanted "horns" once.
He was really friendly, but his horns were right where I wanted to put F3 and F4!
Thats all.
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ivesb Highly specialised Clinical Physiologist crapbag, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 7:22,
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Not going to lie, I kind of like the idea of getting ridges put in
But I just know it would interfere with everything, from medical stuff to playing VR.
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Extinct Jesus Dossier "...I think it counteracts Hitler's magic...", Thu 22 Jul 2021, 10:40,
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Wait, you can play VR with your cock now?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 13:02,
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I can’t help but wonder if there was a connection.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 16:52,
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Do they interfere with the signals?
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 17:07,
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If I had time I would learn and create some sort of ML algorithm and train it on all the comments from the daily mail and daily express and just keep commenting on all their stories
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When the data is so predictable maybe ML is unnecessary
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 8:45,
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Just copy the top rated comment from another story
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 10:29,
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I hope this is Jeff Bezos's next midlife crisis obsession
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 10:53,
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how does it smell?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 15:31,
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Idiot
Nostrils are there for a reason, he’s in for a lifetime of infections.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 21:33,
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But as an orc he gets a +2 Constitution
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 4:52,
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Accidental ambient weirdness
- caused by bad uploading artefacts.
Appo-polly-loggies for the FailBook link and 12 minutes of chill out.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:40,
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I really love this, but then
it is quite similar to the shit I've been making/posting since 1996
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fred zeppelin (Taylor's version), Thu 22 Jul 2021, 18:43,
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I love accidental music
Like Gary Numan's broken drum machines
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 20:56,
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I quite like the shit you've been making/posting since 1969
So there
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Makes the BBC ad look a bit lame
:(
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:42,
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They'll both be good in their own way and probably took a lot of effort
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:54, Reply)
I'd watch Sumo pole vaulting, scored on the Richter scale.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 18:49,
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They might end up the only athletes allowed to attend at this rate.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:33,
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I wonder what the person in charge of making it
thinks about the Holocaust.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 9:16, Reply)
Yes and I wonder what the composer
thinks of disabled people.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 13:53,
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They probably had some standing by in case of the worst
Thank you for calling the Nuclear Emergency hotline, if you're currently experiencing vomiting and hair loss please dial 1...
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Oooooh Genooooooooooohhhhhh!
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:28,
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What's Wrong with Wind and Solar?
Interdasting
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SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:25,
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I suspect that channel might be a bit biased toward fracking.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:53,
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Nobody should trust Wikipedia, says man who invented Wikipedia
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/wikipedia-founder-larry-sanger-democrats-b1885138.html
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SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:59,
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he said "you shouldn't always trust wikipedia", which isn't the same thing at all
he seems to bummed that wikipedia imposes editorial standards which it didn't when it started.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:48,
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Bloody wiki, citing sources and links to backup the text...
The organization depends on donations to produce its content. Much of PragerU's early funding came from hydraulic fracturing (fracking) billionaires Dan and Farris Wilks. Two members of the Wilks family sit on PragerU's board. The next-largest donor is the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Other donors include the Morgan Family Foundation, Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund, Donors Trust, the late Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson, Lee Roy Mitchell, and the Minnesota-based Sid and Carol Verdoorn Foundation, led by former C.H. Robinson CEO Sid Verdoorn
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arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/is-there-a-shift-from-disbelieving-climate-change-to-attacking-renewables/
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:02,
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even that critique is poorly lacking
the argument has never been "we need enough batteries to capture all of the electricity currently being generated". It's a moronic assumption. countries that increased renewables have had reliable power generation because they only needed enough capacit to cover the shortfall in fluctuation, less so when you have a mix of renewables. And they've also found the power plants don't need to do as much because households are now getting their own roof and battery supplies to supplement the grid, as prices keep falling. There are now 5 countries on 100% renewable, with a bunch more over 50%. so what is the point of saying it would take some tesla factory, which is dedicated to making car batteries, 500 years to produce enough batteries for some thing that will never be needed? It's already fucking happening. you can run a whole country on renewables
The argument about efficiency is also irrelevant. Only the cost per MW is what matters commercially, though the obvious point is that nobody cares about the 70% of sunlight and wind that you waste, while the 50% or so wastage of coal plants lost in heat come in the shape of burning coal that you've dug up and turned into CO2 and other pollutants, as well as fucking the local water table aquifers and leaving a great hole in the ground and big ass plant that needs decommissioning when the seams runs out that nobody factored into their costing. Ah, fuck. I ended up deconstructing it after all.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:56,
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Those 5 100% renewable countries are absolutely tiny,
to the point of total insignificance in any discussion about global energy demand.
And almost all their energy comes from hydroelectric or geothermal sources, which simply are not practical alternatives in the vast majority of places, and they also come with their own environmental issues.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 17:08, Reply)
If only hot air could be harnessed as a renewable. It certainly abounds.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 22:12,
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what an original and witty observation. It must be the first time anyone has ever used that line
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 0:21,
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Well, Norway's not that small and Brazil is at 75% renewables and it's got 200 million people
but I take your point, the point I was making was about batteries and the claim made in the vid, and there's plenty of examples of countries that have shifted to wind and solar have found they've been able to scale battery capacity to manage these fluctuations. Spain now gets 50% more from wind than coal. In Australia, an example I'm quite familiar with was south australia, which now gets 60% from wind and solar. There was identical fear mongering along the lines of this video when SA proposed at the time was the worlds biggest battery farm, "it's not going to be reliable when there's no wind etc.". But the warnings turned out to be hot air. The battery farm has been doing what it's supposed to do and has been making a good profit as they've sold their excess peak power from windy days to other states when they've had issues with their coal-based grids at times. The idea that battery capacity is holding it back is false, those that have shifted have been able to scale battery storage with increased generation capacity. SA saved millions by eliminating the need for a fuel-powered ancillary service with their battery farm. Other places are following suit, with larger battery farms built or in development around the world.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 23:24,
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Norway has a population less than that of London. It’s that small.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 11:43,
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and yet it produces a lot more electricity than indonesia, which has 270 million people which I think is a little more than london
it's almost as if we're comparing electricity production, not population. Norway ranks 28th in the world for electricity production, out of 209.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 15:01,
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Talk me through Norwegian oil exports.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 17:28,
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they export a lot of oil. and cod, i'd imagine. Their capital is Oslo, which is also the name of a kind of lunch they used to serve to Australian school kids
you can find out more here: 25 fascinating facts about Norway
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 0:15,
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Again though,
Brazil's renewables are mostly hydroelectric. So many thousands of km^2 of rainforest is now underwater, and tens of thousands of people have been displaced from their homes.
Building their Itaipu dam actually involved destroying some lovely natural waterfalls which were a popular tourist attraction, but much worse than that those falls acted as a natural barrier separating species before and afterwards... now invasive species from below the falls are threatening those from above.
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this is all fascinating. do tell me more about Brasil, you'll have to give me your recipe for moqueca
But the video made some specific claims that a car battery factory in the US would not be able to supply capacity for the entire US's electricity production, therefore wind and solar could no be substituted for fossil fuels. I countered that this was an irrelevancy as this much battery capacity would never be needed, and that countries had been able to scale renewables to meet their needs such that battery capacity had not been a limiting factor. If you have anything to say about this, go ahead.
If you'd prefer to discuss the migratory pathways of capybaras and perhaps compare the relative harm of this hydro to that of a study published this month that because of the great drying out of the amazon and fires, the entire basin has depressingly gone from a net carbon sink to a net carbon emitter of 1 billion tonnes of CO2 per year, which will consequentially contribute to it drying out even faster as large parts of the southern and eastern forest the size of fucking france have already significantly changed their vegetation profile away from that of a rainforest, I'm happy to have this comparative discussion too
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 15:22,
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I pointed out the renewables are not the panacea
that you and others are making them out to be, and that the specific countries that have high levels of renewables also have pretty specific situations that are not generally applicable to other countries. Most countries don't have anywhere to build the 200GW dams required.
But you appear to have taken it pretty personally for some reason.
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I never said they were a panacea, I'm well aware of the issues around hydro. My comment was in response to claims made about the reliability and capacity of renewables in the video
However, and this is a side point, I do think the relative harms of the Itapui dam are dwarfed by the increasing apparent consequences of global warming caused by greenhouse gas emissions. Massive sections of amazonas transitioning to a dry sclerophyll forest or no forest at all is killing a lot more critters than the dam ever did, and is already affecting rainfall patterns and water reliability in adjoining rich agricultural areas. So renewable have that big advantage over fossil fuel generated power.
I don't take it personally, I like to argue, and B3ta is a good place to do it, as it's not as if the place matters. And the OP is quite possibly a Poe anyway. Though perhaps my general disgust levels are a little raised when during once in a thousand year heatwaves and fires in western north america, massive floods in europe and china, billionaires thought it a great idea to start space tourism, yet another source of emissions, just so ultra rich people can get a 10 minute astronaut scout badge.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 1:00,
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Heh fair enough...
I personally sit on the middle in this.
I think you're right that the greenhouse gas emissions issue is the greater problem right now. But I do also get irked by the way that alternative options are often presented as an easy fix (except for fission which everyone hates even though it's clearly the best one).
I'm not gonna get fully drawn into the whole Bezos thing again, except to say that I believe his ultimate goal for pushing this space program is to get humans living in space so that we stop fucking up the planet. I read a interesting interview a number of years ago where he explained this, but I cannot for the life of me now find it (I think it was in some Airline's onboard magazine). So, no doubt he is bit of a ruthless cunt, same as Musk, but if their space programs can be made viable long term then I think that's a good thing.
(, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 11:20, Reply)
Eh hang on is someone on b3ta unironically linking to Prager 'University' videos?
Interdasting.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:14,
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i cant tell if you're serious or not
you're buying into some serious corporate right-wing propaganda
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:41, Reply)
Clue's in the description
(shhhh, don't tell the others)
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SpookySpoon www.vivino.com/users/hig.func, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:53,
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I thought you were posting for ironic lols at poor argument until you posted that bit about wikipedia
there's a certain predictability to people who share these kinds of videos
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 1:11,
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the reasoning in this video is so stupid it almost burns
I could deconstruct it but I reckon I'd be a wasted effort if you're the kind of person who would sit and watch something this bad and think "hey, this guy's makes a lot of sense. I'm going to post this so other people can learn"
I learnt about global warming in the 80s. I thought at the time that greed being what it is, we'd probably have to wait until the shitty things, like regular once in a thousand year floods, fires, heatwaves and the like actually started happening before the world all moved as one to do something about it. Now that's it's happening, I guess I underestimated just how fucking stupid and easily manipulated many people are.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:12,
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Yes, well trained consumers consuming at all costs.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:17,
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it's even more depressing, these people aren't passive
it's like if the tobacco industry persuaded millions of people to share videos about how smoking causes cancer is a hoax
I could do one using the irrelevant fact logic of the above video
"did you know cigarettes are up to 75 efficient at not causing lung cancer? did you know that more smoke is produced by cars every day than all the cigarettes smoked in a year. that's because people want you to think smoking is dangerous"
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:34,
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This oil industry propaganda is probably modelled on the tobacco industry campaigns.
vintagenewsdaily.com/30-outrageous-vintage-cigarette-ads-claimed-that-more-doctors-smoke-camels-than-any-other-cigarette/
Plus all the films from the 40s onward that made smoking look sexy.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:57,
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accurately documented the glamour, sophistication and sexiness of smoking.
Seriously, bring back smoking on TV and films. All the villains have toothpicks these days. Toothpicks! It's ridiculous.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:48,
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these days you'd depict people standing near the skips outside shopping centres trying to suck down a marlboro in their 5 minute break. it'd only be 3rd world countries you could go all bogart and not make it fantasy
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 2:34,
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Please do waste effort on the stupid to make them wise
I did Environmental Science GCSE, late 80s, global warming was not part of the syllabus. In fact the syllabus mainly used the example of the coming ice age theory, backed by Greenpeace and other international govts, as a how not to lesson.
A Leonard Nemoy presented film about it is on YouTube if anyone wants a real hoot. All the same people backed and funded that film as back global warming now, except isnt it a ‘climate holocaust’ in the new jargon? These are the same buy now pressure techniques a life insurance salesman might use. With the previous ice-age scare they used Mr Spock cos he is a clever tv character and that’ll convince ‘em, he had no formal training on the subject. More convincing than the teenage school drop-out by comparison, true. So the stupid is spread all over the greeny fictions as well.
In 80s Environmetal Science GCSE, I’d say the overriding common exam question was about “peak oil” and that too fell by the wayside in the intervening years. Lastly a note for an equivalence being made elsewhere here: Greenpeace is richer than many oil companies at this point, mainly due to the way they keep refreshing their product lines. Though yes, follow the money always.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 21:16, Reply)
Look out lads a fallacy from authority
Point was made above about “learning about global warming in the 80s” taking an exam in the subject in that period in which it was not even prominent in the syllabus is entirely cogent. Obviously one A level counter bid trumps me, or 97% of scientists maybe.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 21:35, Reply)
greenpeace, as a registered charity, produce audited financial statements that anyone can read
Here is greenpeace international's financial report: www.greenpeace.org/static/planet4-international-stateless/2021/06/0639667b-greenpeace-international-combined-financial-statement-2020.pdf. Their worldwide turnover was 90 million euro, with 52 million euro in assets, which puts them as about a medium sized charity.
Now if I take Santos, which is a medium sized oil producer in Australia, a very small player by world standards. their profit was 1.8 billion.
So you're not only wrong when you say "Greenpeace is richer than many oil companies at this point", you're wrong by a factor of 100s, which takes a special kind of ignorance. So when I say "how fucking stupid people are", here's a good example. and along with many stupid people, you won't let this change your mind. you'll keep repeating this absurd claim as if you have access to some inside information. you don't.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 0:05,
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How do all the hippys pay for the boats when they don't even have jobs then smart arse?
(, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 14:41, Reply)
Now you mention it,
how does the RSPB have any money, since birds don't even have wallets? WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!!!1!
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Did you know Oxfam hasn't saved a single fucking ox yet they still have the cheek to solicit donations?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 2:15,
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Given the username, he'll keep repeating it.
Projection seems to be endemic in far right wing circles, they are most annoyed by their own behaviour; Which they seem to have little insight into.
Ooh look, another one has had their arse kicked
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-57930901
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 15:30,
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He didn't say he passed...
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MyFrontFellOff ; his mouth full of teddies, urinating defiantly, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 21:44,
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Greenhouse effect first recognised and human effects discussed in the 19th C.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 22:35,
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Hi, troll.
I took my GCSE Geography in the mid 90s, all our textbooks were from the 80s, and nothing at all was taught to us about a coming ice age, so you'll understand me assuming you're a fucking liar, or some sort of b0t regurgitating facebook nonsense.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 20:09,
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What bit has got you riled up exactly?
Or was it just the existence of Bezos?
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:08, Reply)
You have to admit he's a prize cunt
whatever your feelings about pubeless space voyaging.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:34, Reply)
OK sure.
But this looks a bit like a case of "bitch eating crackers".
Like... look at that fucking guy. Holding a press conference about a milestone in human development. Celebrating the triumph, and happily thanking everyone who had any involvement... what a cunt!
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:35, Reply)
Replicating someething that was achieved by the Soviets in 1961
is hardly a milestone in human development.
Also, I'd be interested to hear from an Amazon warehouse hand about their intimate involvement and personal investment in turning some guy into spacespunk.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:58, Reply)
The Soviets put Gagarin in orbit. First try. Straight to orbit.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:10,
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A superpower government put a government working into orbit.
(worker*) That tin can he was in never did anything afterwards.
This is a private company, taking civilians into space, in a reusable rocket vehicle, as a potentially viable long-term commercial endeavour. It's a completely different milestone.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:16, Reply)
"Tin can" lol
When you have to disparage the previous milestones to prove this milestone is actually a milestone then you might be struggling a bit
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:33, Reply)
Why do you interpret that as disparaging?
It's a descriptive term... it was a disposable metal container. It is in no way disparaging of the milestone, but is comparing the primitiveness of the early vehicle with the sophistication of a modern one.
Have you ever actually engaged in a discussion in good faith? Yet again you've picked on a totally irrelevant aspect of your oppositions argument, instead of actually addressing the content therein.
Stop with the straw man and learn to steel man.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:36, Reply)
It wasn't made of tin
tin has too low of a melting point.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:38,
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Apart from the equipment tests and launches that included animals
Also, though by now probably far less likely, some may not have survived attempts
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:30, Reply)
“milestone in human development”?
Pfft. Nice trolling.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:01,
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You don't think that progressing
space technology to the point where space tourism by a private company is now an actual thing is a milestone?
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:11, Reply)
No.
This doesn’t progress humanity one jot.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:42,
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What’s the human development part of this?
Reusable rockets? SpaceX got there years ago with Falcon 9. An orbital class launcher.
Reusable capsules? SpaceX got there last year with Crew Dragon. An orbital class capsule.
Space tourism for the super rich? Dennis Tito would like a word.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:28,
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One guy hitching a ride on government rockets
might be technically space tourism, but it isn't exactly a budding space tourism industry.
Falcon 9 is not completely reusable.
Everything we make is human development, you do realise? Your house... the leisure centre down the road. How is this ever not human development?
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:41, Reply)
Yes, but how many of the things we build actually count as milestones?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 13:07,
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Are we including or excluding actual milestones?
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:10,
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1st commercially reusable tourism rocket
is not an unreasonable milestone.
I mean, it definitely took much more effort to do that, than paving 1 mile of road.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:31, Reply)
Like I said...
that other one is not entirely reusable. Some parts of it need to be rebuilt between flights.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:48, Reply)
Virgin Galactic?
Not sure which bit of that system needs rebuilding between flights, but I doubt that Blue Origin would just restack and refuel without performing extensive maintenance checks.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:55,
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Virgin Galactic
uses sub orbital space planes, with rocket engines, but they're not rockets, and it's debatable if they actually even go into space.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:56, Reply)
OK, so the Space Shuttle wasn't a rocket. Got it.
I don't understand why you're so wedded to the need to describe this pointless irrelevance as a milestone, while simultaneously so determined to ignore the other pointless irrelevance that successfully beat it to an arbitrary definition of space. It's like trying to argue that Charlton Athletic are the best football club in London because Leyton Orient only play in the second division.
Have you got tickets or something?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:24,
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The space shuttle wasn't a rocket.
It was also a space plane, which used a pair of independent rocket boosters to get it close enough to space for it to fly independently.
I didn't say the other things weren't milestones or even suggest that. I pointed out how they were different, and so were not THIS milestone.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 20:03, Reply)
hey, we get it
you've got a boner for bezos
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 5:05,
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I'm surprised at you.
You don't usually surrender with this few moves. Even benny lasted longer than you.
(, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 16:46, Reply)
it's ok to have a man crush
you don't need to justify it
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 6:43,
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And they need to replace the engine each flight, I think.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:26,
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I know they use a solid propellant,
so I guess they'd have to have some kind of replacement cartridge at the very least. As stated above though, I'd expect them to have to go through an exhaustive series of maintenance checks between each flight anyway, so I don't see that as much of a handicap.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:39,
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You clearly haven't seen my house.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:13,
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Let's just see if the Vulcans spotted him
and land to make first contact with him tomorrow.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:29, Reply)
Is a rollercoaster a milestone in human development?
It's basically an amusement ride for rich folk. I know you can argue it's a stepping stone to bigger things, but that's stretching it. They went straight up and then came back down in ten minutes. This was already done 70 years ago.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:03, Reply)
When the corporations are as wealthy and powerful as many countries
it's hardly a solid argument
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:03, Reply)
What's that even got to do with it?
You seem to be suggesting that because an company has the resources to achieve something previous beyond all companies, it's suddenly not an achievement?
The simple fact that some companies are as powerful as some governments is itself a milestone in human development, regardless of whether anyone thinks it's a good thing or not. Such milestones don't have to be things that are good, or right, or just.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:44, Reply)
they're not subjective, though that's just how I feel
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 5:17,
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He's thanking his min wage / min rights workforce for financing his mid life crisis
Then the room laughs at the little people. The fact that you can't see anything wrong with that really says more about you than anything else.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:54, Reply)
Just noticed the woman astronaut looks appalled by it all
So at least there's one grown-up in the room
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 10:58, Reply)
Not sure she looks even remotely appalled by anything to be honest.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:22, Reply)
She's spent 10 minutes in an enclosed space with him
I reckon she hates him more than I do at this point
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:37, Reply)
Well, he's thanking his workforce certainly.
And then the room laughs.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:23, Reply)
Blue Origin is not Amazon. Blue Origin is funded from Bezos' own wealth, created by Amazon employees working their arses off in sweatshop conditions.
It would be like Mike Ashley thanking all his Sports Direct employees for buying him a new boat.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:39,
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Well, you've set up the rules that whatever he does he's a cunt.
If he didn't thank people you'd call him a cunt for not being grateful.
So your opinion about him thanking people isn't exactly valuable, as you're starting from a position of "how can I interpret this guy's actions so that he's a cunt?"
Like I said, this is all just bitch eating crackers.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:51, Reply)
I've never heard him talk before this, so I've got nothing else to go on. However this interview makes him look like a tone-deaf cunt.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 14:17,
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You think this is a hill to die on?
Whereas I see this as yet another opportunity to highlight the pair of giant sequoia trunks you meticulously balance on each shoulder.
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:27, Reply)
Sorry was that too cryptic?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_on_shoulder
(, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:49, Reply)
I like him, at least he provides a decent counterargument, even if he is trolling sometimes
and b3ta being what it is these days, it's not like we're distracting from something better
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 5:26,
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And you're nothing to me,
so what of it?
Is your contribution supposed to interest people?
(, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 16:49, Reply)
They didn't pay for it. You did you dick.
You spent $20bn over 17 years building the world's tallest fairground ride so you could have 11 minutes of "fun". Knobhead.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:15,
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summer time is passing faster
Fuck you Simple Minds haters. You better explain
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The Ann Coulter Fan Club Babylon is burning at, Tue 20 Jul 2021, 23:02,
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Classic Minds
See also
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vhhTvcLoRw
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TBL I posted this on, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 9:26,
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Poundland U2
I'd forgotten how good they were back before they turned glam.
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Linbox has a serious dunk habit, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:00,
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