Talcosis

Depends on who you piss off

Investors don’t care about the companies they invest in, they care about return on investment.

If it destroys the company, they simply invest in another company.

Access to young men.

Seriously. It’s a community that is likely popular among people who care about fitness, which likely means young men and some women, and then he can sneak in conservative propaganda between actual calisthenics stuff to nudge people to the right.

Same reason they buy makeup influencers.

Yeah, but the general dumbing down of society is a complete fiction. In reality, someone born ten years after you should statistically have +3 IQ points.

Flynn effect.

Cancer like cancer alley in texas, where life expectancy is a full decade lower than the nice neighborhood five miles further.

Gas plant pollution is currently responsible for approximately 21% of asthma cases in the country.

Yes it is.

Then again everything causes cancer. Aging causes cancer.

Yes, that is my point. It is completely unreasonable to make gas clean enough to not affect air quality. We do what we reasonably can. And that results in pollution.

Well, I think we could easily start by synthesizing high purity methane. As long as you do it very slow and in small amounts, you can at least get rid of hereroatoms. After that, we could have several stages of carb/exhaust loops to ensure complete combustion. Of course, you’re going to need to heat the last few stages.

Then you just spent 10x the energy you’ll get from the natural gas just making it clean. Checkmate, liberals.

Yeah. Of course, the phrase “sufficient exhaust scrubbers” is about as reasonable as “100% perfect combustion” in this context. Engineering or no.

Perfectly combusted butane only releases CO2 and water, too. The point of that experiment is showing nothing burns perfectly. Even 100% pure methane burning at 100% efficiency releases CO2, which has measurable toxicity in humans.

That being said, largery hydrocarbons will generally burn less perfectly then smaller ones. Methane has 1 carbon. Butane has four. Gasoline has 8-10, lower grade fuels have more, tars get to 20-30. Coal is a mixture of tars and hydrocarbons with even longer carbon chains.

I already quietly mutter to myself throughout the day. I think I’m going to have to turn it into a fully unhinged ongoing ramble just on the off chance that some random android will pick it up.

Someone’s gonna be looking at their notes like: “Grocery list: apple, eggs, milk, the third nitration of TNT happens at around 85C and is extremely exothermic, requiring careful temperature control to avoid runaway reaction and subsequent detonation, sugar, and the fancy cheese”

Gas burns cleaner than coal, but almost nothing burns 100% clean. Nor is any fuel source 100% pure.

Hold a lighter up to some tinfoil. See the soot?

Yeah…they’re literally saying that the threats need to be viewed in the context of trump being consistently too chickenshit to follow through. That isn’t normalizing threats. That’s adding context, and the context is that these threats are often meaningless.

Edit: otherwise, we are all normalizing threats by not taking them seriously at face value and rushing to the bomb shelters every time Donnie opens his mouth.

Nobody deserves shit. I made the choices I made and got to where I am. A number of kids I grew up with made different choices, and left that village for the first time to go die in Ukraine.

C’est la vie.

Not really, trumpy himself is normalizing threats of violence. ABC is (correctly) pointing out that’s he’s more often than not too much of a bitch to act on them.

The oligarchs will escape. The people up against the wall will be those that are not wealthy enough to escape, but not poor enough to be desperate.

There’s a reason that Orwell was banned in the US for being pro-communist and banned in the USSR for being pro-capitalist. That reason is because Orwell was anti-authoritarian.

I was born in a small village ~200km SE of St Peter back in the soviet days. We got electricity when I was six years old, because my neighbor figured out how to tap into some nearby high voltage lines. After the collapse of the soviet union, I collected enough scholarships and got a visa sponsorship to get a chemical engineering degree in the US. Then I went on to grad school. Then I got the rest of my family out of there. Now I am somewhere in the top 10% of the US.

The only advantage I was born with is above average intelligence and the ability to put it to work. And a bit of luck for everything else to work out.

That is the cost of my comfort. And yes, I am sure that whether leftists or fascists take over, I will be persecuted. Fascists will persecute me because I am not a fascist. Leftists will persecute me because I have done reasonably well for myself, but not well enough to hop on a private jet when the shit hits the fan. That is also the cost of my comfort.

Yeah, everyone except the people that end up against the wall.

More often than not, those people aren’t the ones causing the structural problems in society. The really rich people with the power all escape before that point.

If you can’t tell the difference between someone who doesn’t think the world is 100% bad and trump, then your ideological purity tests are too black and white for us to ever be anything other than enemies. I won’t ever be able to 100% agree with every thought you have. Nor will anyone else.

Yeah, no shit. I do things to improve my life. If you don’t, then you’re either lying or an actual example of capitalist caricatures of leftism, just looking for a handout.

Edit: And if you’re not acting to improve your life and the lives around you, what’s the purpose of revolution? Action for the sake of Action? That’s point #3 on Umberto Eco’s list of the 14 common features of fascism.