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[Brent in Az]

I absolutely love how so many of you cant even stay on topic for a single post without interjecting some conspiracy theories, insults, rumors, and other nonsense. Attention spans of a goldfish for sure. What is this disease that requires you to somehow link immigration policy with every single topic and then blame and complain about it? Let's call it immigration derangement syndrome (IDS).

You're very existence on this forum is an insult to every hunting and gun owning member.
Let's call it leftist derangement syndrome.

 

[Tanks]

Democrats are wild.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2070677434845077698

What's really interesting is that he is getting slammed for his support of Israel by the trans folks. If those same folks were at Gaza they'd be stoned to death or worse.

 

[spike.t]

Talking about genocide...in the future....

69K views · 1.5K reactions | What’s your take? Comment below #uknews #FutureOfUK #BreakingNews #RoyalBritain | WE ARE UK

What’s your take? Comment below #uknews #FutureOfUK #BreakingNews #RoyalBritain

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[Wheels]

Also... is there anyone on here from the DC area? I was watching the Big Weekend Show yesterday. They were going on and on about how that "state fair" was packed. The video footage I saw looked... "sparse"? It seems like neat idea - and maybe this ties to the previous conversation about people not getting hyped about 250. But it just didn't look heavily attended to me. Has anyone attended? Thoughts?

My daughter and family went. They live in NOVA. She confirmed it wasn’t very crowded.

A lot probably has to do with the demographics of DC, NOVA and Maryland. All heavy Democrat. Last I saw only around 30% of Democrats “love” America. That probably plays into it quite a bit. Many of the blue States aren’t participating. It would require a drive of a few hours or a flight for most red States residents to participate.

The general feeling is the hundreds of airplane/helicopter flyovers and fireworks show is going to have a great turnout.

 

[Pheroze]

I hope Germany reconsiders their energy taxation model. This is ridiculous.

Europe's heatwave 'linked to 1,300 deaths' as more records broken

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that Europe is not prepared for high temperatures.

www.bbc.com

 

[Brent in Az]

Spotted near Mamdanis NYC pride parade.
All of that type of stuff has a George Soros stench to it. George and his evil offspring have already donated $100m into the Democrat midterms.

 

[BlueFlyer]

Two things this week gave clues about the global future

Two things happened last week that give us a much clearer picture of what the world is going to be like from now on.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Russ16]

My daughter and family went. They live in NOVA. She confirmed it wasn’t very crowded.

A lot probably has to do with the demographics of DC, NOVA and Maryland. All heavy Democrat. Last I saw only around 30% of Democrats “love” America. That probably plays into it quite a bit. Many of the blue States aren’t participating. It would require a drive of a few hours or a flight for most red States residents to participate.

The general feeling is the hundreds of airplane/helicopter flyovers and fireworks show is going to have a great turnout.

They’ve made it very difficult. Limited entrances and not clear where or how to get in. I’ll probe walk over from the office one day this week but intentionally avoided it this weekend and I didn’t want to deal with crowds burning Jess that wouldn’t have been problem.

I think it’s neat but I’m not sure the tie to 250 makes a lot of logical sense.

 

[Altitude sickness]

@Altitude sickness please don’t confuse them with science facts! Lol. The same can be said for water. The atmosphere is closed. Water cannot be wasted.

In the long run. Water always wins.

 

[Happy Myles]

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[thoma018]

@spike.t , why does that dude doing the talking change shirts and coats but his oratory is not interrupted ? AI @ work ????

 

[mdwest]

I’m not sure where your $17,000 figure comes from.

We have lived in the same house for over 30 years. It is modest at a little over 300sm. We have 2, 3 ton units for the house (upstairs/downstairs) and a motel unit for the guest house in the back. We keep the temperature around 20C in the winter and around 21c in the summer. Our total electric bill is around $3k-3.5k per year. I am not sure how many kWh we use per year.

Yep.

We’re in a tiny bit less than 400 sm, have 2 units, and in the Texas heat we pretty much are running AC 24 hours a day about 8 months out of the year… our annual energy consumption isn’t a whole lot more than yours.

 

[Corey0372]

I understand why a lot of places in Europe don't have central air and whatnot....older buildings, don't need it all year, gas for heat, etc...

I live in NW MT and haven't needed AC at all this year yet, my house hasn't gotten above maybe 75 so far this year (its 55-60 and raining today and tomorrow). My house doesn't have central air either, but what I do have is one of these little portable units I bring out from a closet and hook up in the living room when it does get hot (it hasn't left the closet this year yet). I really don't understand why Europeans don't just pick these things up..... they aren't that expensive..... and you only need to run them for a couple weeks.

"But the windows open differently, they're Kipp- und Drehfenster!"

I'm aware, let's put our thinking caps on and get creative with some foam, ABS sheets, cut some plywood and paint it, or even cardboard. It's temporary, who cares?

Or just complain every year and keep thinking you're going to change the weather with taxes or whatever you guys are doing. Or die of heatstroke like the other 1,700 in France last week.

“Air conditioning was one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.”

-Lee Kuan Yew

 

[Tanks]

Climate madness in the UK.

Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown — The Telegraph

Climate change regulations prioritised despite soaring temperatures

apple.news

 

[Corey0372]

Yep.

We’re in a tiny bit less than 400 sm, have 2 units, and in the Texas heat we pretty much are running AC 24 hours a day about 8 months out of the year… our annual energy consumption isn’t a whole lot more than yours.

2300sqft, I've used about 8,300kwh so far this year, spent about $800 in electric bills. That includes using baseboard heat in January and February. Granted I typically keep my house pretty cold, usually around 65 all winter. It's also just me, so less laundry and hot water usage, I do have a an old fridge in the garage that cant possibly be "efficient".

 

[Corey0372]

Climate madness in the UK.

Air conditioning torn from homes under net zero clampdown — The Telegraph

Climate change regulations prioritised despite soaring temperatures

apple.news

I'm convinced the British government exists solely to gaslight and torment British people at this point.

 

[spike.t]

@spike.t , why does that dude doing the talking change shirts and coats but his oratory is not interrupted ? AI @ work ????

Yeah most likely....meant to say it in my post....but it is what is being said by them in UK and other European countries all the time....not hard to find if you look...

 

[KJE81]

@Altitude sickness please don’t confuse them with science facts! Lol. The same can be said for water. The atmosphere is closed. Water cannot be wasted.

Cant water be wasted in the sense that it is used in a way that makes it polluted and thus rendered unusable for drinking?

 

[Scott CWO]

Cant water be wasted in the sense that it is used in a way that makes it polluted and thus rendered unusable for drinking?

Sure, water can get polluted by substances added to it but it doesn’t disappear. Dirty water is H2O with floaters riding along. It can be cleaned by straining out the floaters.

I had an extended family member in Denver who was practicing, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.” She would leave urine in a toilet because she didn’t want to “waste” water. I explained that when she flushed the toilet, that water didn’t just disappear. It goes through the sewer system and ended up at a water treatment plant where the floaters are strained out and the clean water is put back into the South Platte River. Some of it will then evaporate and fall as rain somewhere else. The waste solids are taken to a farm owned by the Denver Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and spread on the fields and crops. I use to lease the hunting on that 54,000 acre farm/ranch. It had not been legally hunted for many years and we took a lot of great deer and pronghorn there.

It is also true that with a septic field used by homes in the country that once the dirty water passes through and is filtered by the soil, it is clean again. I was told this by the engineer who designed my septic system. Some soil types strain out the floaters faster and some slower. The water leached into the soil at my place is clean after just three feet of soil. The point is that water isn’t wasted in the sense that it disappears forever. Our atmosphere is sealed. The water you drink came from somewhere else and was recycled by man or nature.

 

[Russ16]

Sure, water can get polluted by substances added to it but it doesn’t disappear. Dirty water is H2O with floaters riding along. It can be cleaned by straining out the floaters.

I had an extended family member in Denver who was practicing, “If it’s yellow, let it mellow. If it’s brown, flush it down.” She would leave urine in a toilet because she didn’t want to “waste” water. I explained that when she flushed the toilet, that water didn’t just disappear. It goes through the sewer system and ended up at a water treatment plant where the floaters are strained out and the clean water is put back into the South Platte River. Some of it will then evaporate and fall as rain somewhere else. The waste solids are taken to a farm owned by the Denver Metro Wastewater Reclamation District and spread on the fields and crops. I use to lease the hunting on that 54,000 acre farm/ranch. It had not been legally hunted for many years and we took a lot of great deer and pronghorn there.

It is also true that with a septic field used by homes in the country that once the dirty water passes through and is filtered by the soil, it is clean again. I was told this by the engineer who designed my septic system. Some soil types strain out the floaters faster and some slower. The water leached into the soil at my place is clean after just three feet of soil. The point is that water isn’t wasted in the sense that it disappears forever. Our atmosphere is sealed. The water you drink came from somewhere else and was recycled by man or nature.

That’s all true. I think the more accurate thing people should say is that they are wasting usable water. If you live in a dry area or drought conditions it is possible to convert usable water to unusable water faster than it is replenished.

If you were in the dessert with 5 gallons of usable water for an extended period it wouldn’t be smart to use it to wash your hair. No the wayer wouldn’t disappear forever. But you’d die of thirst before being able to replenish your usable water.

On a larger scale a towns water system could be depleted faster than it is replenished or someone on a well could use water at a rate faster than the well ca produce. In those cases I would say the town or household could be wasting usable water.