Friday On Turtle Island

12 Replies to “Friday On Turtle Island”

1. We don’t need no self-driving, suicidal sparky cars.

   1. They didn’t quite ram it they boxed it in and brought it to a safe stop.

   2. Yet, we have non EV owners in Alberta whining about the $200 annual EV road tax. And it’s not because it’s too low.

      From Sh*t666meme
      “More taxes. Is this why you voted UCP?”

      https://globalnews.ca/news/10328084/alberta-new-ev-tax-land-titles-levy-2024-budget/amp/

2. MAID cures everything.

3. Human trafficking has been carefully cultivated.

   https://twitter.com/calirn619/status/1765850884527796711?s=46&t=z7S-uN3flOn-qrtEr-qf1g

4. re: “Emissions analytics” from tires.

   Couldn’t they just weigh the tire new and used?

   1. Today logic and rational thought no longer exist.

      1. Oh, yes, they do. They’re just a little more optional now.

   2. Does it matter, when there is a narrative to build?

   3. Can’t be that bad, or the sides of the roads would be deep in used tire dust, like horse poop, if everyone was still riding horses..

      Some modern tires can go 100,000km and loose a couple pounds of rubber, each, in the process..

5. regarding the german weed whacker approach, never forget a visit out west, huge swaths of clear cut and ground rubble bulldozed into piles.
   that part puzzled me so l ask the kid brother forestry consultant and he tells me the ndp administration took offense at how untidy the sheared off forest looked so they took it down to the plain dirt.
   ye gawds, CLUELESS as to true forestry management but given TOTAL POWER to engage in it.
   also scotland has already done this

6. Wind energy makes a decisive contribution to the energy transition and the preservation of nature. It is the only way to preserve forests and important ecosystems.”

   So this is what has become of the fabled German intellectual logic? Cut down the trees to save them?