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JHC I just was waiting on a train platform up here and sweat beads were instant. 10 min train delay metro north. At least the trains work. I picked the wrong day to host a dinner in the city. Damn.

Yep. Those trees block the snow too. So they say.

Yep. TP is disgusting. I hate hotel travel because most don’t have bidets. So I got an RV. I literally drag my toilet behind me.

Bidet. Always. I've even got one in my RV.

So bucolic I could just shit.

I got bit this weekend by a small one. I'm going on Doxy today and getting a collar for the dog. He had one seizure last year while one bravecto, collar, and permethrin in the lawn. We are cutting bravecto and the permethrin and hoping the collar on its own doesn't cause seizures.

I got with a deer tick yesterday. Going on Doxy today. Damn.

Ticks are insane. The small ones esp. Up until this year it was not a problem for the dog because he used to be able to have a collar or take meds. Never had seizures before then BOOM he had one. Vet says no more tick meds or collars. Leash walks now only in the neighborhood. We may try another tick topical product and see what happens.

Permethrin will kill them, and all the other bugs - including bees which we don’t want to do. I’ve seen literally dead giraffes in Africa die from ticks so dead deer is no surprise. Sad . I pulled 14 of my dog after one woods walk. No more of that. He can’t use tick meds or collars because of seizures. Can’t use bug spray either. Sucks.

The new ones have failsafes that work no matter what the circumstances are. No human intervention needed. Esp. The micro plants that Amazon and Google are using soon.

not in France. Its the cheapest energy source in Europe by a wide margin. The operation and cost of fuel per kilowatt hour is cheap even compared to many fossil fuels. Its the regulation that is costly. This is changing in many states however. As far as waste, France uses about 20% of its nuclear waste to produce more electricity! They lead the world and show us how it's done. As an approved wingnut, don’t get me started. Lol. We gave up on science decades ago. Technical schools have been disappearing since the 70s. College has become more about social status than anything. Marketing and money. Oberlin isn’t teaching anyone how to split the atom safely. Sure is hard to get into though! What does that 300k get you? You can say you went to Oberlin! And the rest of us get high electric bills. Thanks Oberlin!

Preach on man. Neither country is paradise of course but the food…amazing.

True facts!

Look at the bill. 2/3rds is not electricity cost. At least. They get their money or the lights go out.

NY isn’t off fossil fuels by any means, we just buy it from elsewhere. We produce clean energy - but thats not what we use by and large. NY has utterly lost control of energy prices despite having one of the largest last untapped clean energy sources in the US. The propaganda is if the smoke came out of a stack in another state, it didn’t happen. We believe it nonetheless. France has 60+ reactors running, with over 70% of their electricity production. Amazing. Why cant we be like France. Nice food too. They are also the closest country in the free world to a fusion reactor apparently. Adding - they are also the leading exporter of energy in the world. Guess who the biggest customer is? Their neighbors (the always effervescent and affable Germans) who closed ALL of the their nuclear plants a few years ago. Sound familiar? Yes - they produce clean energy (shhh coal is not clean) but they use nuclear anyway. If the reactors in France blow up, Germany will be fine! Oh wait…no. I think nuclear return to the US though in a relatively short time in many states (never here). We just need to find scientists who will leave their countries and work here. We don’t have strong nuclear programs in universities anymore. (We do have strong gender studies programs though). The only nuclear engineers we have work in the Navy and they will be busy fighting China in a few years.

Same ones we've been getting shafted by these last few winters.

Lets go ahead and add May.

Djf

They had a good run so far this year.

Started. The wind farm out in LI was contracted to charge 300% over spot energy rates…which are terrible to begin with. Who's getting that money? A foreign company thats who. Who’s paying it for it? Subsidized by NY and federal tax payers who don’t even use that power. Its a disgusting deal. The other power source is in another country - Canada - who hate us - dumb dumb dumb. So we have the second highest electricity rates in the US and there is no hope of that changing that unless we can fleece federal taxpayers into subsidies. NO WAY will NY ever build more power plants. Impossible. Except subsidized wind farms.

in other words sunscreen and installs

Sweden tried socialism back in the last century. They really had that utopian vision of paradise everyone dreams about. Then, they (the people) realized how quickly they were going broke and how unsustainable it all was. They were on the brink of collapse. Luckily they were still a democracy and were able to turn away from the failed experiment and avoid the police state and gulags. Swedes don’t have the stomach for real socialism it turns out. We do have this new breed of socialist now…lightweight socialists. They tend to like or even own vineyards and drink Prosecco. They’ve never once set foot in a socialist country and have no clue what socialism looks like. I am likely one of the very few people on this board who's been to any socialist states. Multiple, pre wall socialist states. The real thing. There was no Prosecco.

If you’re not afraid of socialism, you can’t be afraid of anything. Humans don’t do well under socialism. People have different desires, whims, goals, tastes, religions, etc. and socialism doesn’t allow for that, so you get concentration camps and gulags. Like in China and North Korea. Everyone is supposed to be equal (poor), or more equal (the communist party members). there is a lot of heavy industry up there in the nordics, and Norway is as much a petro state as any with few peers. The largest gas rigs on esrth are norwegian. Also, Sweden has the second highest per capita murder rate in Europe. Behind Albania. Paradise is elsewhere.

Uh...you should see what socialism does to the environment...Chernobyl anyone? I'vealso seen eastern Europe prior to the wall coming down and - and China are not exactly Thunberg adherents. The State comes before all else and no fs given about climate. They are building coal plants still like no other place on earth! its gross in China. I've been there too.

A lot of 'industrial' farming has gone no till actually.