70 Replies to “March 14, 2022: Reader Tips”

    1. Amazon will immediately restate its commitment to its Chinese vendors. Because “globalism.”

    2. China, unlike the West, genuinely respects Russia.

      Russia is the only country on earth whose government is not for sale to Chinese investors, and Vladimir Putin is the only blue-eyed barbarian Xi Jinping takes seriously. Putin would happily destroy China if the dragon decided to make a meal out of Siberia.

      So the Chinese, wisely, have not gotten involved, happily leaving the hard work of demonstrating that the West is a paper tiger to the Russians.

        1. While your head is buried in Trudeau’s buttcrack licking his crusty sphincter clean. Do you both raise your fist in strong-female defiance when shouting “I stand with Ukraine”?

    1. Was that statement about the electorate getting what it ordered supposed to be a boast or a scolding? Both?

      1. She’s so in love with herself she’s incapable of recognizing the destruction she and Biden have wreaked. Remind you of anyone in Ottawa?

        1. Or she’s deliberately ignoring it. Again, does that remind you of someone in Ottawa?

    2. It’s hard to imagine even the scum of Chicago’s most dangerous neighbourhoods voted for global thermonuclear war.

      I mean, I’ll be thrilled if Putin solves America’s Negro problem along with eradicating Wuhan flu. That’s two plagues in so many months. But what would the bruthas and sistas get out of being barbequed?

      1. I’m a little bit concerned with the comment equating “America’s Negro Problem” with a “plague.”

        Perhaps you may want to consider rephrasing that.

        1. That is not the first time he openly supports genocide of black people for their crime of being black. He makes no distinction between despising ghetto culture and hating them for their skin color.

          2. This is the second time I called TAT out on a dubious, dare I say “racist” comment bordering on hate.
            I am deeply disappointed, because I know that TAT is a believer, and I will urge him to reflect on those rather hateful views he seems to possess.

    1. He was terrific in Body Heat and also played the robotics scientist in the first season of Humans.

      1. “He was terrific in Body Heat”…
        I agree. He also brought out the best in her part from his then lover Marlee Matlin in “Children of a Lesser God.” Of the two, I preferred “Body Heat.” Do you think TCM will play his movies now in tribute or are they too modern for that channel? I also liked the “Big Chill” “Broadcast News” and “Accidental Tourist” but missed the bulk of his body of work, unfortunately.

        P.S. in the 1980’s photos I just noticed how much my deceased brother resembled him, it’s uncanny. Missing him.

        1. They’ve shown some of his movies in the past, such as Body Heat and Children of a Lesser God, so I’d expect that there may be a tribute to him once 31 Days of Oscar winds up.

          Sorry to hear about your brother.

    2. NR, like many successful actors he always seemed to be playing himself. Not sure if that is an accurate way of stating what I think, but there were many successful actors that I thought the same about.

      1. I disagree VOWG. A successful actor would be unreckognizable; certainly not playing themselves. Needles to say, they are rare.

        1. I always saw the man being himself portraying a character but I did not lose sight of the actor. Not sure quite how to explain that. Steve McQueen was always Steve McQueen no matter who he was playing.

      1. Only a small fraction of them need to work to eliminate the Empire of Lies as a meaningful threat to the survival of the Russian people.

        A H-bomb set off near Bay Street might just negatively affect the value of your condo in Toronto.

      2. I’ll lend you a hammer and you can go into one of the silos and check it yourself if you like.
        They certainly make fantastic rockets if the US keeps buying and using them.

        Stupid questions deserves stupid answers.

        Do you think our education on gravity is accurate?
        Keep wondering why bugs aren’t stuck to rocks if you are.

        1. The United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V booster uses Russian engines. It’s due to be retired and its remaining flights have already been booked. The engines that are needed for them have, apparently, been delivered. However, Russia won’t service them.

          The Atlas is supposed to be succeeded by the Vulcan. The Vulcan is designed to use engines developed by Blue Origin, but there have been problems with that. Until that’s sorted out, Russian engines may be the only alternative.

          https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-03/card/russia-halts-rocket-engine-deliveries-to-u-s–cXv7UBKAVZVCkeoZ6Iiy

    2. IMF is right,this cannot “trigger a financial crisis,because we are already in one.
      Thats what “the war” is for,to divert the pigeons ,I mean taxpayers,attention.
      “We are from the government,we are here to help you….”
      “Into poverty and servitude”, being the rest of the sentence.

  9. SDA readers tips is one of the first things I have read everyday for over a decade. It replaced my morning newspaper to know what was going on in the world. It has now got to the point where it is a waste of my time.

    1. Like everything else, you just gotta sift through it and glean what you will. Besides, the off-topic stuff is great!

    2. You are right Rusty The entire web site has turned into something I want nothing to do with Signing off

    3. I took a break from the site around the first time the “two weeks to flatten the curve” due to the degrading of the commentary. The basement trolls seemed to have been emboldened by the rules that meant no one could come looking for them, I guess.

      About a week or so ago I took another look in as I did miss David’s Friday updates on the stupidity in the world.

      I am stunned by the comment content I’ve seen! This site’s comment section is what the far-left wishes it to be! I don’t believe how bad it has been allowed to get to!

      Wandered back this morning to follow up on something I read last week. Never again.

        1. David, the site is still terrific it’s the quality of the comments threads that has gone to hell in a hand basket.

    1. “crypto currency [] is a major currency for crime”. If you think about it, so is the US dollar.

    1. I know a lot about what Paul was talking about. A lot of what he mentioned are simply make-work projects for professional layabouts and career shirkers.

      During one of the many head-butting sessions I had with my Ph. D. supervisor, the issue of research funding came up. He, quite unashamedly, admitted that he didn’t care what he worked on or investigated, so long as someone else paid for it.

  18. It’s a start.

    THE MORNING RANT: Tennessee County Dumping Dominion Voting System Due To Vote Tabulation Discrepancies; Voting Shenanigans in Houston

    https://ace.mu.nu/archives/398205.php

    Interesting observations on the shortage of paper ballots. I hadn’t heard of that. Solution? Ballots printed for 100% of voters. Period.

    1. This is from Unifor press release:

      “On January 26, 2022 Unifor National Secretary-Treasurer Lana Payne received a written complaint that, now former, Unifor National President Jerry Dias engaged in an alleged breach of the Unifor Constitution.

      Following review of the complaint, Payne promptly initiated an independent external investigation. On January 29, 2022, Dias was notified of the investigation, which is ongoing.

      On February 6, 2022, Dias went on medical leave and subsequently notified the National Executive Board of his immediate retirement on March 11, citing health issues.

      In order to ensure the integrity of the ongoing investigation and to maintain confidentiality in accordance with the Unifor Constitution, specifics of the complaint will not be divulged at this time.

      Every Unifor member is held to the same standard and afforded the same rights under our Constitution.

      Unifor’s National Executive Board will meet on March 21, 2022 to discuss the matter. The union will have no further public comment prior to receipt of the investigative report, expected in the near future.”

      https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/statement-on-jerry-dias-869262098.html

    2. Unifor president Jerry Dias retired

      He finally performs a public service….

  23. Hey Please Pass Along.
    This is an excellent breakdown for the Facebook fact checkers to dispute… it’s called science!

    Batteries, they do not make electricity – they store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So, to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid.

    Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?”

    Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.

    There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.

    Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium. The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.

    All batteries are self-discharging. That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old, ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.

    In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle single-use ones properly.

    But that is not half of it. For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive production costs.

    A typical EV battery weighs one thousand pounds, about the size of a travel trunk. It contains twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside are over 6,000 individual lithium-ion cells.

    It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just – one – battery.”

    Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls, and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”

    I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not. This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.

    The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.

    Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades.

    There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions.

    “Going Green” may sound like the Utopian ideal but when you look at the hidden and embedded costs realistically with an open mind, you can see that Going Green is more destructive to the Earth’s environment than meets the eye, for sure.

    Obviously copied/pasted. I encourage you to pass it along too.

    2. FNC’s Laura Ingraham calls juts these nutters “greeniacs” –thanks for the piece Watcher.

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