I don't self-identify as a 'liberal' because I don't embrace all of their core values -- I just registered as Democrat out of self-defense and a desire to try to bring back some socio-political BALANCE to this country, instead of the socio-political indicator needle slamming back and forth from extreme to extreme like it has been. I'll call Trump a 'retard' all I want, because he thinks he's a genius, when in fact all he is, is a loud-mouthed bully with narcissistic tendencies.
This isn't so much about the money, it's about the intent and the message that sends; Trump and his cronies are saying "fuck renewable energy, we want coal and oil, and we don't care what anyone thinks about that!". Couple that with the very clear message of "we don't believe in 'climate change', we don't want it discussed or researched, and we don't care what anyone thinks about it", and you see an ass-backwards trend. Fossil fuels will run out sooner or later, stet? We must move on to another energy source sooner or later, stet? It only makes sense to encourage (either with money or with intent) the change-over sooner rather than later, when it'll be an emergency, stet? Trump & company are being stupid about this -- and so many other things.
What Trump and the GOP are calling "Make America Great Again" is just a re-branding of "Bring Back the Good-Old Days". They want to turn back the calendar to some decade before the 1960's, in every way that matters, and this is just a small part of that agenda. Take a look at how America was, socio-politically, in the 1950's and before, and you'll get an idea of the hell-hole they want to drag us back to.. but I diverge. This is one of the most retarded things Trump has done. Of course it probably won't have any effect on industry, since the energy industry as a whole has some actually intelligent people working for it who see that fossil fuels' days are numbered and that other sources are going to be necessary if we want to continue having a civilization; the only real effect this will have is to further prove that Trump and his cronies aren't living in the Real World and are not fit to lead. We won't be 'making America great again' by being left behind by the rest of the industrialized world; we sure as fuck won't be impressing anyone when the likes of China passes us up because our so-called 'leadership' has it's collective head up it's collective ass like this.
Right. Like I said elsewhere on this subject: brains both very similar and very different at the same time, and a totally different worldview being a cetacean, since their world is so different from ours (being land-dwellers).
Well in this case it's Facebook not Twitter so I'd think that the PGOTUS (Pussy Grabber of the United States, or alternately, 'PGIC', Pussy Grabber-In-Chief) won't rubber-stamp that. xD
Their brains are simultaneously similar and very different from our own. In addition to this, their world, and thus their worldview, is very, very different from ours.
Are they factoring in how much carbon footprint is produced by having to maintain an ICE vehicle compared to electric? I'm talking about everything that produces all the parts and supplies necessary to do required maintenance of an internal-combustion engine vehicle compared to all-electric, which requires a fraction of the maintenance.
Face it, ICEs are going to go away sooner or later. If practical, I'd rather it was sooner. I've been repairing and maintaining ICE vehicles of all kinds since I was 15, and it's no picnic. An electric vehicle would be so much easier to deal with, so much cleaner.
Why the actual fuck would I want to do that? I go outside to get AWAY from technology! The highest-tech device I want to look at when I'm outside is the cyclocomputer on the handlebars of my bike, and that's only a quick glance every once in a while. Leave all your tech at home and GO OUTSIDE.
So, in other words, I should never use an elevator in a hotel that has these robots ever again, unless I want some hacker to send me hurtling to my death? Gotcha.
But sitting around indoors not seeing the sun, not getting sunlight on your skin, and breathing recirculated, treated air instead of fresh air, sitting on your butt all the time staring at a computer screen, getting fat, weak, and diseased, isn't good for you at all, and I don't need to link to peer-reviewed double-blind University studies to prove that, either, it's common sense. It's also proven by the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates in first-world countries where the ability to sit on your ass in front of a computer is ubiquitos and people don't go outside and move their bodies regularly. Forget the Internet, forget 'virtual reality', GO OUTSIDE AND MOVE YOUR BODIES MORE. Without a healthy body, you can't have a healthy brain, plain and simple.
Try participating in an endurance sport on zero carbs and tell us how you do. Nevermind, that was rhetorical; I know how you'll do: at best you'll plod along at a slow pace, unable to do better, because using bodyfat exclusively to supply your muscles with the fuel they need is a slow process. Furthermore your brain runs on glucose. So-called 'keto' diets are not sustainable nor are they healthy.
By the way I am an endurance athlete (race bikes). If I didn't understand proper nutrition I wouldn't be successful at it at all, nor would I have the low bodyfat percentage I have -- and I'm 53 years old in less than 2 weeks.
The key to this subject is pretty much the same as it is for so many things: moderation is the key. You do not have to eschew sugar (or as you say 'anything that turns to sugar, which is all carbohydrate sources) entirely 'to be healthy', you just have to be sensible about it.
Unless we're really living in a world where parents have completely abdicated their authority over their children, it should be as simple as telling them "you are forbidden to go on Facebook for any reason" and make it stick -- preferably, leading by example, not having Facebook accounts themselves. If necessary block Facebook access on home computer(s) by locking it out in the household router.
How about some 'luddite' actual, in-person social skills instead, Sexconker? We don't need an entire generation of socially-avoidant people because they never leave their houses and interact with their peers in real life.
I am (technically) an Old Person now; I dumped Failbook years ago and never looked back, and encourage others to do the same. So much for statistics, I guess?
If you haven't noticed, at least here in the U.S. religious organizations think it's "their time" now, are demanding more and more rights, would love nothing better than for the separation of church and state to be abolished, and of course science and real knowledge, real truth are their enemy.
In my opinion, if we as a species want to survive another 2000 years and still have a viable civilization, we need to fix that somehow. Seems like there's too many people that want to drag us backwards at least 1000 years, socio-politically speaking.
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I'm pretty sure that to Donald Trump, everyone is a failure
Well, that's pretty much par for the course when you're talking about a narcissistic 5-year-old with delusions of godhood.
I don't self-identify as a 'liberal' because I don't embrace all of their core values -- I just registered as Democrat out of self-defense and a desire to try to bring back some socio-political BALANCE to this country, instead of the socio-political indicator needle slamming back and forth from extreme to extreme like it has been. I'll call Trump a 'retard' all I want, because he thinks he's a genius, when in fact all he is, is a loud-mouthed bully with narcissistic tendencies.
This isn't so much about the money, it's about the intent and the message that sends; Trump and his cronies are saying "fuck renewable energy, we want coal and oil, and we don't care what anyone thinks about that!". Couple that with the very clear message of "we don't believe in 'climate change', we don't want it discussed or researched, and we don't care what anyone thinks about it", and you see an ass-backwards trend. Fossil fuels will run out sooner or later, stet? We must move on to another energy source sooner or later, stet? It only makes sense to encourage (either with money or with intent) the change-over sooner rather than later, when it'll be an emergency, stet? Trump & company are being stupid about this -- and so many other things.
No, but I'll bet cash money it removes things you actually want, that compete with a Miscreant-o-soft product.
Scumbags.
Of course there's open-source alternatives like Libre Office and Open Office, aren't there?
Also, I'll bet cash money that someone comes up with a hack or some sort of 'shim' or 'wrapper' that will allow it to install under Windows 7/8/8.1.
What Trump and the GOP are calling "Make America Great Again" is just a re-branding of "Bring Back the Good-Old Days". They want to turn back the calendar to some decade before the 1960's, in every way that matters, and this is just a small part of that agenda. Take a look at how America was, socio-politically, in the 1950's and before, and you'll get an idea of the hell-hole they want to drag us back to.. but I diverge. This is one of the most retarded things Trump has done. Of course it probably won't have any effect on industry, since the energy industry as a whole has some actually intelligent people working for it who see that fossil fuels' days are numbered and that other sources are going to be necessary if we want to continue having a civilization; the only real effect this will have is to further prove that Trump and his cronies aren't living in the Real World and are not fit to lead. We won't be 'making America great again' by being left behind by the rest of the industrialized world; we sure as fuck won't be impressing anyone when the likes of China passes us up because our so-called 'leadership' has it's collective head up it's collective ass like this.
Right. Like I said elsewhere on this subject: brains both very similar and very different at the same time, and a totally different worldview being a cetacean, since their world is so different from ours (being land-dwellers).
You are 100% correct, and you get a Gold Star for the day for pointing that out. :-)
Well in this case it's Facebook not Twitter so I'd think that the PGOTUS (Pussy Grabber of the United States, or alternately, 'PGIC', Pussy Grabber-In-Chief) won't rubber-stamp that. xD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Their brains are simultaneously similar and very different from our own. In addition to this, their world, and thus their worldview, is very, very different from ours.
..is the word that comes to mind. Or perhaps they're already sentient, but in ways we don't quite understand yet. Who knows?
Maybe we get lucky and this is foreshadowing of the beginning of the end for Facebook? :-)
Are they factoring in how much carbon footprint is produced by having to maintain an ICE vehicle compared to electric? I'm talking about everything that produces all the parts and supplies necessary to do required maintenance of an internal-combustion engine vehicle compared to all-electric, which requires a fraction of the maintenance.
Face it, ICEs are going to go away sooner or later. If practical, I'd rather it was sooner. I've been repairing and maintaining ICE vehicles of all kinds since I was 15, and it's no picnic. An electric vehicle would be so much easier to deal with, so much cleaner.
Why the actual fuck would I want to do that? I go outside to get AWAY from technology! The highest-tech device I want to look at when I'm outside is the cyclocomputer on the handlebars of my bike, and that's only a quick glance every once in a while. Leave all your tech at home and GO OUTSIDE.
So, in other words, I should never use an elevator in a hotel that has these robots ever again, unless I want some hacker to send me hurtling to my death? Gotcha.
But sitting around indoors not seeing the sun, not getting sunlight on your skin, and breathing recirculated, treated air instead of fresh air, sitting on your butt all the time staring at a computer screen, getting fat, weak, and diseased, isn't good for you at all, and I don't need to link to peer-reviewed double-blind University studies to prove that, either, it's common sense. It's also proven by the obesity, diabetes, and heart disease rates in first-world countries where the ability to sit on your ass in front of a computer is ubiquitos and people don't go outside and move their bodies regularly. Forget the Internet, forget 'virtual reality', GO OUTSIDE AND MOVE YOUR BODIES MORE. Without a healthy body, you can't have a healthy brain, plain and simple.
zero carb
Try participating in an endurance sport on zero carbs and tell us how you do.
Nevermind, that was rhetorical; I know how you'll do: at best you'll plod along at a slow pace, unable to do better, because using bodyfat exclusively to supply your muscles with the fuel they need is a slow process. Furthermore your brain runs on glucose. So-called 'keto' diets are not sustainable nor are they healthy.
By the way I am an endurance athlete (race bikes). If I didn't understand proper nutrition I wouldn't be successful at it at all, nor would I have the low bodyfat percentage I have -- and I'm 53 years old in less than 2 weeks.
The key to this subject is pretty much the same as it is for so many things: moderation is the key. You do not have to eschew sugar (or as you say 'anything that turns to sugar, which is all carbohydrate sources) entirely 'to be healthy', you just have to be sensible about it.
Go back to Russia and tell Putin you failed to influence us yet again, because you've been made.
Unless we're really living in a world where parents have completely abdicated their authority over their children, it should be as simple as telling them "you are forbidden to go on Facebook for any reason" and make it stick -- preferably, leading by example, not having Facebook accounts themselves. If necessary block Facebook access on home computer(s) by locking it out in the household router.
You've watched the movie, I hope? Truman escapes his artificial world in the end.
"Bread and Circuses" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
How about some 'luddite' actual, in-person social skills instead, Sexconker? We don't need an entire generation of socially-avoidant people because they never leave their houses and interact with their peers in real life.
I am (technically) an Old Person now; I dumped Failbook years ago and never looked back, and encourage others to do the same. So much for statistics, I guess?
More evidence that so-called 'social media' is a metasticized cancer on our civilization. Time for some serious chemo.
If you haven't noticed, at least here in the U.S. religious organizations think it's "their time" now, are demanding more and more rights, would love nothing better than for the separation of church and state to be abolished, and of course science and real knowledge, real truth are their enemy.
In my opinion, if we as a species want to survive another 2000 years and still have a viable civilization, we need to fix that somehow. Seems like there's too many people that want to drag us backwards at least 1000 years, socio-politically speaking.