No one ever accused me of being a devoted multiculturalist. People - all animals, really - like to associate with those who are rather like themselves. I think America does a pretty good job of being that melting pot, by and large, where people assimilate rather than segregate. Well, not Phibes, but you can only expect so much.

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing. Only One Person Has Survived Rabies without Receiving a Vaccine

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She should check to make sure someplace else will take her, before she leaves Texas.

My father's father got a leg full of German machine gun bullets at Belleau Wood. Regular Army, not Marine, they were there too.

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The Devil Dog thread had a reference to making the Pershing Park into a WW1 memorial. Maybe that was it?

@taiwan_girl said in Time to end the imperial presidency: @Jolly said in Time to end the imperial presidency: But I want to give the POTUS more power in one regard. I want the line item veto. And for Congress, I want a balanced budget amendment. Lastly, I want an age cap on the federal judiciary. I don't think people in their 80's should be sitting on the bench. I agree with #1 and #3 above for sure. Dont know enough about #2, but seems to make sense. If a house is expected to keep their budget inputs/outputs balanced, then why not government. The only thing I would say is that the balanced budget should be on more than a 1 year cycle. Getting a budget and forcing you to spend in in that year or lose it does not work all the time in my thinking. Maybe have a 5 year cycle or something like that. You can set it up as you wish, as long as it can't be fudged or the can kicked down the road. There will be exceptions for war, etc.

I dont quite understand, but reading a paper from the EIA, refining capacity is down only 1% from Jan 2021. And, of the 12 pipelines cancelled in the US since 2019, 8 of them were cancelled in 2020 or before. So President Trump gets 66% of the blame and President Biden 33%? 555 (https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39672#)

Hoop houses are great and are very efficient. A good bit of truck farming is headed that way. But you can't have pecans, etc in one. And one of the largest water users in agricultural crops are almond groves. Jon is probably on the right track

The “improvements” to Soldier Field to “modernize” it made it look like a UFO landed on top of the Parthenon, It is beyond FUGLY. And now, she wants to make it worse. Best thing that could happen is for the Bores to leave Chicago and put themselves in the ‘burbs. Oh, and how much is it going to cost? How about hiring more cops, Madam Mayor?

We can manage more than one hard sum at a time. As somebody who qualified as a maths teacher in the UK, to be honest I'm not sure I believe the "prestigious scholarship awarding body" - when I studied, admittedly a long time ago, they were ripping maths graduates' arms off to get them to do teacher training.

@George-K said in Hay Cats! What time is it?: And a bonus: Kindness: That dog is completely pussy-whipped.

Nah, they're doing just fine.

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There was an article recently about Mark Cuban who said that with all of the businesses he invested in from the Shark Tank, he has mostly lost money. LOL Overall Loss from Shark Tank Businesses

@Jolly said in How much energy?: @taiwan_girl said in How much energy?: I think that the video does not mention is the advances in energy efficiency. For example, something like a refrigerator now uses about 4x LESS energy than just 20 years ago for the same cooling. I am sure that for a refrigerator 50 years ago, the energy usage is probably almost 100x less. I do agree that fossil fuel is not going away. Too much investment in "inter structure" etc It will decrease over time, but will be more of a slope than a cliff. I also agree with @mik Nuclear should be looked at more. (Funny, but I just read an article about the US Army and their attempts to use portable nuclear power on remote bases, the first time 60 years ago in Greenland https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/07/20/the-army-tried-portable-nuclear-power-at-remote-bases-60-years-ago-it-didnt-go-well/ Problem is, how long does that refrigerator last? I can show you multiple old refrigerators, 70 years old. Most people I talk to today, grumble about how short the life of a new frig is nowadays. I agree, but I also think it would be possible to build a long lasting energy efficient refrigerator. Right now, the manufacturing/disposal/raw material means that a long lasting energy efficienct fridge would cost more and not too many people would buy it. If for example, disposal costs increase by alot, then more incentive to build them to last longer. I think that humans are good at adapting to what is needed.