News:
SMF - Just Installed!
- Welcome to THeBlueCashew.
This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.
#101
The Flea Trap / Davos Gang's Terrifying Plan to Reset Global Food Production
April 04, 2023, 12:07:53 AM #102
The Flea Trap / Would Murdy the Nympho Deflower Joe the Elderly Virgin
March 31, 2023, 10:08:36 PMShe sent nudes to Seamoron, so we know she has no standards or shame. Maybe Murdy will deflower Joe. I think they live an hour or two from each other. It could happen.
#103
The Flea Trap / The Illusion of Choice
March 21, 2023, 04:53:13 PM
#104
The Flea Trap / Shows and Movies You are Watching
March 13, 2023, 09:52:05 PMI watch the seven part series True Story. I give it a nine out of ten.
#105
The Flea Trap / White Privilege
March 12, 2023, 02:51:36 PM #106
The Flea Trap / the Last Free Bird has Flown
March 06, 2023, 06:58:25 PM
And in later years
#107
The Flea Trap / What Follows Flu Season-Stroke Season
January 21, 2023, 09:43:49 PMA Calgary-based family physician and urgent care doctor appeared on Canadian state media earlier this week to explain the alleged link between influenza, infection, and stroke.
Bhardwaj told CBC Calgary News that a stroke is ultimately when "the blood supply to the brain is compromised for some reason. It's basically a plumbing problem in the pipes that supply blood to your brain. And there's two things that could go wrong with pipes, right: they can get blocked or they can burst."
Systemic inflammation resultant of influenza can reportedly help trigger these plumbing issues.
"It can make the inside of the pipes stickier. It can make your blood a little bit thicker, especially if you get dehydrated. And it can even put the heart into a weird rhythm called atrial fibrillation," said Bhardwaj. "All of those things can increase your risk of having a stroke."
When explaining the linkage, Dr. Raj Bhardwaj of the University of Calgary noted his recent surprise at discovering that there is now reportedly a "stroke season."
While Bhardwaj was cognizant of the potential link between flu and stroke, he was nevertheless caught off guard by the alleged existence of a "stroke season."
"I didn't know about this either until last year, but it turns out that after flu season, about three or four weeks later, there is a stroke season," he said. "Most of Canada is getting down off of a big hump of flu, so now we're starting to see more strokes."
#108
Politics / EV's, Reliable Power, et al
December 24, 2022, 12:41:25 AM1) no price penalty for being unreliable
2) huge subsidies for unreliables
3) mandates for unreliables
By Alex Epstein
The Opportunity
America, given its combination of abundant domestic energy resources, technological ingenuity, and free-market competition, has the potential to have the best grid in the world—providing electricity that is low-cost, ultra-reliable, and increasingly clean.
The Problem
Although America could have world-leading electricity, the American grid is instead becoming a national embarrassment—with rising costs and mounting reliability problems, most problematically in California and Texas but now spreading around the country.¹
The cause
A root cause of America's cost and reliability problems is extreme preferences for unreliable solar and wind electricity:
1) no price penalty for being unreliable
2) huge subsidies for unreliables
3) mandates for unreliables
Here's how they work and how to fix them.
Unreliability preference 1: no price penalty for being unreliable
In almost every area of life we pay far more for a reliable service than for an unreliable one. But in electricity, unfair rules make utilities pay the same for unreliable solar and wind as they do for reliables.
Policy solution: Electricity markets should require all generators to meet technology-neutral reliability standards.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and ERCOT (the Texas regulator) should set reliability standards that all competitors must meet—not allow some to sell unreliable electricity, as they do now.
Technology-neutral reliability standards do not prevent solar and wind from being used.
They simply require that generators who want to use solar and wind take responsibility for combining it with reliables and/or storage to guarantee reliability. Instead of foisting responsibility on others.
Technology-neutral reliability standards may well lead to innovative, truly cost-effective uses of solar and wind—e.g., solar/gas/battery hybrid generators in sunny parts of the country that can provide reliable electricity at lower costs.
Any company or academic who believes that solar and wind can be cost-effective generation sources on a large scale should welcome technology-neutral reliability standards.
They can try to prove their ideas on the market—not force us to use unreliables and then trust that it'll work out.
With tech-neutral reliability standards, electricity "markets" can function as competitive markets—lowering costs and raising reliability—since all competitors will have to offer the same level of value.
Subsidies for unreliable electricity, above all the Investment Tax Credit and the Production Tax Credit, force taxpayers to pay huge amounts of extra money to unreliable solar and wind generators.
The "Investment Tax Credit" and "Production Tax Credit" solar and wind subsidies pay utilities to shut down or slow down reliable gas and coal plants whenever the sun shines or the wind blows. This defunds reliable plants, causing many to be shut down.²
Solar and wind subsidies are driving reliable power plants out of business, leading to higher costs and lower reliability.
Ominously, the "Inflation Reduction Act" recently extended them indefinitely.
A future Congress should end solar and wind subsidies, driving lower prices and higher reliability.³
The "Inflation Reduction Act" pretended to be pro-nuclear by including nuclear under "clean energy" subsidies. But since nuclear overregulation makes new plants cost-prohibitive, the IRA's endless "clean energy" subsidies created an endless trough for solar and wind.
Another solar and wind subsidy of the IRA is "green hydrogen." The IRA forces us to give those who make hydrogen using solar and wind an extra $3/kg. That's twice the normal market price! This is like forcing taxpayers to pay gas stations an extra $8/gallon!⁴
Another form of subsidy to eliminate: government subsidizing unreliable solar and wind by socializing their costs, such as additional transmission lines or redundant backup capacity. This subsidy further rewards unreliable electricity at the expense of reliables and of customers.
Solar and wind subsidies not only drive the shutdown of reliable power plants and loot taxpayers, they also inflate electricity prices. Because solar and wind can go near-zero at any given time, they don't replace most of the costs of reliable power plants—they add to them.
The combination of no price penalty for unreliability and special subsidies for unreliables means that instead of unreliables receiving far less dollars than reliables, they get a huge premium. And more and more reliable power plants go out of business.⁵
Policy solution: End all subsidies for unreliables.
Abolish the Investment Tax Credit and Production Tax Credit. Stop "green hydrogen" subsidies. Require generators using solar and wind to pay for the extra infrastructure they need instead of forcing others to foot the bill.
Even beyond paying a premium for unreliable electricity, many states mandate a certain percentage of unreliable solar and wind—and states are becoming more and more aggressive with those mandates. Another dire threat to our grid.⁶
Policy solution: End all mandates for unreliable solar and wind
These mandates, which require areas to use solar or wind and shut down reliable fossil fuels and nuclear, regardless of the impact on cost and reliability, should be ended at every level: national, state, and local.
Summary: America can stop the decline of our grid and move toward low-cost, reliable, and cleaner electricity by ending all preferences for unreliable electricity:
1. Require tech-neutral reliability standards
2. End all solar and wind subsidies
3. End all solar and wind mandates
#109
The Flea Trap / Stanford University Releases List of 'Harmful Language'
December 20, 2022, 02:55:26 PMStanford University has identified a list of words and phrases that it will soon be removing from its websites. "American," "he," "straight," and "gentlemen" are among the forbidden words listed in the school's index of so-called "harmful language."
What are the details?
Stanford claims on its website that "freedom of speech is core to the mission of academic life of our university."
Marc Tessier-Lavigne, the university's president, previously alleged that besides threats of harm, disruptive speech, and unlawful harassment, "we do not otherwise restrict speech in our community, including speech that some may find objectionable."
It is now apparent that where official communications are concerned at the university, common words and idioms that conflict conceptually with LGBT and identitarian activists' agendas are not to be used freely.
The Wall Street Journal noted that administrators have embraced the recommendations of the so-called "Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative" and published a master list of forbidden words.
According to the university, the EHLI "is one of the actions prioritized in the Statement of Solidarity and Commitment to Action, which was published by the Stanford CIO Council and People of Color in Technology (POC-IT) affinity group in December 2020."
The terms listed in the censors' index are reportedly "in alignment" with those used by similarly censorious peer institutions, including Brandeis University and the National Science Foundation's Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment project.
#110
The Flea Trap / Time for this Bitch to Find a New Job
December 10, 2022, 08:24:49 PM #111
The Flea Trap / The Funnies
November 27, 2022, 08:03:23 PM
#112
The Flea Trap / Hollywood Idiots
November 26, 2022, 07:24:52 PMActress-turned-activist Alyssa Milano backed herself into a corner after she bragged about ditching her Tesla electric vehicle. Milano hinted that she got rid of her Tesla because Elon Musk is the CEO of the electric vehicle brand, suggesting that nobody should do business that aligns with "white supremacy." However, reactions on Twitter pointed out how her new electric car is problematic.
Milano posted a virtue-signaling tweet on Saturday morning about scrapping her Tesla in favor of a Volkswagen (VW) electric vehicle (EV).
Milano has been a fervent user of Twitter since 2009, racking up more than 3.5 million followers.
Numerous Twitter users noted a flaw in Milano's rationale to switch from a Tesla to a Volkswagen to fight "white supremacy." Several commentators pointed out that Volkswagen was created by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.
The Libertarian Party of Tennessee: "Volkswagen... who were they founded by?"
Radio host Jennifer Barreto-Leyva: "Someone clearly doesn't know the story of Volkswagen. Poor thing."
The Hodge Twins: "Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazi's and Hitler."
Writer Mark Hemingway: "Nothing says 'I'm concerned about white supremacy' like buying a car from a company founded by the Nazi government."
Music composer Deborah Lurie: "Buying a VW in righteous defiance of white supremacy? I can't tell who's doing dark parody at this point."
Podcast host Zeek Arkham: "So... you already bought the Tesla, which made Elon money, and then 'gave' it back, which costs Elon nothing. Yeah, you sure showed him. I hope he learned his lesson on that one."
History.com noted, "On May 28, 1937, the government of Germany—then under the control of Adolf Hitler of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party—forms a new state-owned automobile company, then known as Gesellschaft zur Vorbereitung des Deutschen Volkswagens mbH. Later that year, it was renamed simply Volkswagenwerk, or 'The People's Car Company.'"
#113
The Flea Trap / Dayum
November 22, 2022, 10:03:40 PM #114
The Flea Trap / Does Guest Posting Add any Value Anymore?
November 22, 2022, 08:24:56 PMUoT was the only worthy guest. He has left. Now it's Seamoron, Eddie the Chug and that retarded 360 wanker from Butthurt Fagtory who post as guests and all they do is shit up threads.
This aint a new discussion here either. It was wide open for a while under Fash and Kiebers and they were getting the same result. Fash banned Seamoron's IP and guest posts were put on mod approval. CW, Biggie Smiles, and I think Treasurer were given sub mod powers to approve or disapprove guest posts. It worked well.
None of the other forums have guest posting and I can see why they don't want it. The folks using the guest option don't contribute to discussions, they mess them up.
Guest posting as it works here just aint worth it. That is old Herman's two bits on the subject.
#115
The Guest Nest / Is This What They Voted For?
November 12, 2022, 08:51:30 PMMore serious was the report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) that Biden had given a $1.1 billion gift to the Taliban after his August 2021 shambolic withdrawal from Afghanistan. SIGAR's report said that it can't figure out why the gift was made or who was responsible because several federal agencies won't say. In other words, there's a massive coverup going on.
#116
The Guest Nest / Democrats' second-biggest donor is the biggest billionaire loser on record, shedding 94% of his fortune overnight
November 09, 2022, 08:06:11 PMExtra to losing the supermajority of his Democratic Party slush fund, the 30-year-old also announced on Nov. 8 that his crypto exchange FTX was being sold to a rival firm to remedy a liquidity crunch.
Bankman-Fried founded the Bahamas-based crypto exchange FTX in 2019.
Investors valued the company at $18 billion in 2021. A year later, its value, coupled with its U.S. operations, had a combined value of $40 billion.
With a growing company and unchecked confidence, Bankman-Fried determined he would help reshape the American political landscape or at the very least bolster the Democrat status quo.
According to Politico, Bankman-Fried was the Democrats' "newest megadonor" ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. He donated $10 million to then-candidate Joe Biden in 2020.
This past year, he reportedly hired a network of "political operatives" and spent at least $39,826,856 in an effort to help Democrats win their House races.
The now-former FTX CEO was the second-biggest individual Democratic donor this election cycle, after leftist billionaire George Soros, according to a Fox Business report.
Bankman-Fried told Jacob Goldstein of "What's Your Problem?" that he might donate "north of $100 million" and up to $1 billion to Democrats in the 2024 presidential elections.
#117
The Guest Nest / Scouse is Celebrating His New PM
October 24, 2022, 08:50:53 PMAint multiculturalism working like a charm for Britain.