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5 hours ago, Marvel said:
When I lived in Wisconsin, they had a contest to come up with a new slogan for their
License plate. It's been America's Dairyland for years. One of the entries was 'Come smell our dairy air'
I kinda liked it...
I was all for "eat cheese or die."
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21 hours ago, Dave1291 said:
Yea, they need glue! You're the go to guy! lolol @oldtimer's bottle of nuclear waste definitely took things up a notch! Even thought about a siesta but the neighbor kids are having batting practice in the back yard. They just can't seem to understand it when I tell them whiffle balls. Sooo, about ready to go up a step in the food chain & let their dad know. lol Wham and I hear it rolling down the roof. Grrrrrrr! lolol
Nuclear waste huh? I think I have a new name for another batch.
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On 11/19/2022 at 7:45 AM, Jeff Matthews said:
The creators' intent was to decentralize control over the currency (or rather, provide an alternative centralization) to achieve greater stability than the governments' fiat money. Crypto has proven to be anything other than stable.
Also, what's the deal with FTX? I understand Sam Bankman-Fried speculated with his depositors' coin and that many depositors are holding empty bags, but why does this result in the value of the coin plummeting? If the same thing happened with US currency, a dollar would still be worth a dollar, and people would want it just as much.
You answered your own question. What is the dollar backed by? The full faith and credit of the US government, and it is still the reserve currency of the world. What is crypto backed by? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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Brings back memories.
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Here's one take, and fairly accurate.
Coffee popularity has roots back to the Revolutionary War
As we all know, the US used to be a British Colony. And then there was a giant tea party where we tossed a bunch of tea overboard to protest taxes. But, what most people aren’t too aware of are the events that occurred afterwards.
John Adams declared tea a "traitor's drink"
In a letter from John Adams to his wife, he stated, "Tea must be universally renounced and I must be weaned, and the sooner the better." From this point on there was an unofficial boycott on tea in the (then) British Colonies. People united and vowed to only serve coffee in their homes. Soon this show of solidarity spread throughout the Colonies and people began to associate coffee with the Revolution. It even got to the point where people viewed drinking tea as a betrayal to the Colonies.
Why it was such a popular movement
Back in the late 1700s, tea was quintessentially British. The King and Queen drank it, all the royalty drank it and the entire population was fanatical about tea. On the business side, the East India Company (which was British) ruled the tea trade and the British were in the process of setting up their own tea farms in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) and India. Tea was so closely associated with Britain that to boycott tea was to boycott British culture.
Tea was eventually phased out
The Boston Tea Party occurred in 1773. The end of the Revolutionary War was in 1783. This means that the Colonists (and soon to be Americans) had boycotted tea for roughly 10 years. It was over these 10 years that people developed a taste for coffee and once people started to drink coffee every day, there was no going back.
Plus, brits destroy their tea with milk and sugar anyway, making it more of a slightly tea flavored milk and sugar drink than anything recognizable as decent...
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5 hours ago, grasshopper said:
there is a sort of "heat dome" over Texas around this time of year, almost every year. It is what causes the "monsoon" for us.
We're still waiting for the moisture. I checked the weather at 10AM... 95`.... 7%R/H. Not a typo... seven percent relative humidity. It was cool enough for me to wear a robe this AM... somewhere in the high 50's. House is cool enough to make me usher and Ooomph when I went outside and got a breath of warm.
Wife is going to be gone for another week. She is seeing some weather. She's in Springfield IL. Said half the town is dark... said it would be a few days before everything is back up. Her sister's was in the part that did have...
I'm enjoying the house stereo. The little speakers in the doghouse are nice... but, there ain't no replacement for displacement
No. This was ridiculous and not normal. Seems to be getting back to normal now.
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You too it seems.
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Zevon was a vodka guy. Then he quit and the song writing skills went with the bottles into the bin.
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1 hour ago, the real Duke Spinner said:
Bourbon every night
You will sleep like the Dead. 😀
Or...sleep when you are dead. Kudos to Warren Zevon.
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The AR spider had a monocoque body. I'm not sure of other models of the era.
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51 minutes ago, OO1 said:
500k- up to 600k $ , only 20 were built , I think that all were sold out
It's absolutely gorgeous, reminicient of the old gtv.
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Hotter than any memory with the current heat dome. Humidity is outrageous. Even the nights and mornings just ain't right.
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It's enough.
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The thing is the subject should not be viewed as an all or nothing proposition. This is not a zero sum game.
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True, Duke. But smoke this: Burning even fossil fuels for electricity to power other devices is more efficient and less polluting than burning fossil fuels and burning even more fossil fuels to power things. It is a scientific and engineering fact. Add to that the fact that in many places not beholden to old technology, such as my community in Texas that power the city which gets a greater percentage from renewable and less polluting sources and the gains from less pollution then you have a winning start. The world runs on fossil fuels, but the more we as US citizens can conserve and replace this source is a step up in keeping ahead of the rest of the world, and retaining our fossil fuel production for the military, which definitely runs on fossil fuels. Our military runs rings around any other nation and it makes sense to keep it that way as we transition to better technology. Some might prefer to wallow in crap, but a big picture perspective demands otherwise.
Been there, done that. A sane mixture of energy sources is way better than a simple knee jerk defense of big oil.
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Participate? Sure.
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Forget Oil. New Wildcatters Are Drilling For Limitless ‘Geologic’ Hydrogen (msn.com)
From Forbes. Interesting possibilities.
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Absolutely. Forcing will lead to unintended consequences. Let's try to pollute less as we go.
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18 minutes ago, Shakeydeal said:
I don’t mind if anyone embraces the EV hype. Good on ya. But don’t tell yourself you’re saving the planet, or any of that self righteous bullshite.
The planet isn't the issue. The planet will be fine without us. Like baba suggests, an intelligent progression towards better ways of doing things is what man has always done. It has to happen organically, economically, and logically. Self righteousness can also be another term for Luddite, supporting last century technology in opposition to a better future. After all, the horse was superior to the original motor car toys of the rich back in the day, right?
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I've got the tune to funky town.
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Fires ...
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Pretzel logic