TheEncogitationer

Robert,

The environmental benefits of electric cars are favorable even after mining and processing the materials for EV batteries, such as lithium and cobalt, the impacts are generally considered to be less than with the extraction and refining of fossil fuels. This assumes that the power companies burn less and less fossil fuels themselves.…

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Reg,

@Enco – having driven both the Model Y and the ID4, I am happy to keep my old BMW V8. (The E39, if that does it for you!)

V8s made by free people are always the smoothest rides.

Alas, BMW didn’t make any during the war, though. Back then, their specialty as stoolies for the Reich was war planes for the Luftwaffe made by slave labor. B…[Read more]

Reg,

“Those people aren’t attacking Tesla dealerships. They are tourists showing love. I learned that on January 6th 2021” – FaceBook meme.

The memes should read: “We were for him before we were against him”. Or perhaps: “We have to burn them before we find out what’s in them”.

Alysa Milano actually thought she was doing a good thing ditchin…[Read more]

Robert,

By the way, Underwriter’s Laboratories was founded in 1894, 131 years ago. Hardly a short-term quarterly-obsessed business. Nor is anyone using their testing. People who like profit want things that work.

Robert,

What would be really anti-human would be to run ships beyond their sea-worthiness and sink hundreds or even thousands of humans and the life-suztaining cargo the ships carry.

Or if the shipping companies just cut the ships off in the oceans to be ‘ghost ships’ harboring disease-carrying carrion feeders, and letting the hazardous…[Read more]

Robert,

We have heard that story for 5o years. Nobody ever mentions that government spending become people’s wages, jobs and contracts for American companies. Until they find out they are the ones getting cut.

As if business would not even open without government contracts?

Nobody mentions that we actually need roads and good safe b…

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Reg,

That Neil Degrasse Tyson video was fantastic, and the exact antipode and anticote to the goody-grinning nonsense of Francis Collins:

Richard Dawkins challenges Francis Collins on miracles

With a view of science like Francis Collins’, I shudder to think that this man was head of the National…[Read more]

Strega,

It turns all boats into racers and could power generators tapping it.

Robert,

Are you trying to out-Strawman Unseen? Reducing taxes and untaxing everyone and reducing government spending across the board isn’t “Trickle-Down” or “Trickle- Up,” but a Big Splash. And wouldn’t people of all classes be more resilient against disasters with more of their own earnings in their pocket?

Robert,

A government that kept to Constitutional bounds wouldn’t be worth billionaires buying it off because attempting to buy off such a government would be self-defeating for anyone wanting to accumulate wealth.

By the way, accumulating wealth is how the poor stop being poor.

Reg,

Or was he? He got around alot!

Which Was Arafat’s Faith?

Which was Arafat’s faith?

Fixed That For Me

Reg

World of Woo: The dangers of digital media.

The dangers of any media without thinking. And why do the words of Rumi make a damn? Things can be true witout being “Necessary” or “Kind.”. And hey, Yassir Arafat was a Sufi too.

Fixed That For Ya.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Wokeism, Antisemitism/Antizionism, and Pseudoscience all at taxpayer expense. And it was all on Biden’s, Obama’s, and Bush’s watches. No big loss if this dies.

A Columbia Professor Marched for Hamas—and Received Millions in Public Funding
Jennifer Manly has been associated with over $100 million in grants over the past 20 y…[Read more]

Fellow Unbeievers,

Call The Guinness Book Judges! Looks like somebody combined the World’s Safest Travel Itenerary with the World’s Biggest Strawman!

Fellow Unbelievers

More on food:

If the food truck and the ice cream wagon where you have got your lunch for years have paperwork for an L.L.C., they are Corporate Food. Porky Pig and The Good Humor Man are Bourgeois Kulaks.

If you have ate there for years without gastonomic incident, shut up and enjoy your Street Corn Tamales and your…[Read more]

Jake,

All of those innovations from Israel are Sowell-ian trade-offs that are oh-so-well-played trade-UPs.

These innovations are continutions of The Green Revolution, which was a great step forward for humanity that saved over one billion lives in the 20th Century.

In justice, the Owl houses are where the Middle Agers got it right and today the…[Read more]

Reg,

I’d run from that therapist, take the kid away, and get the kid an RC car and a tour to an auto factory to teach the wonderful benefits of individual tranportation.

Jake,

Doing categorically without modern pesticides could mean some not-so-well Sowellian trade-offs:

Mideaval Pest Control

Medieval Pest Control

So sternly-worded letters to rodents and anecdotal remedies by people with primitive grasp of causal connections, remedies that may not even have reproducible…[Read more]