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    Quote Originally Posted by Haghstull View Post
    Ah. So when I asked you to explain which regulations we should remove, you respond with a list of every regulation that exists in connection with a completely discredited right-wing moneymaking scheme that is, at the most, orthogonal to Texas’ real problem.
    How is a government boondoggle "right wing"? Am I "right wing"?

    The reason your grandmas are dying and everybody else’s aren’t has nothing to do with wind power. Most of the power gap is owed to your shitty, deregulated, profit-obsessed natural gas consortium—the one that controls ERCOT, and has been exposed so thoroughly as a criminal operation at the time of this writing that even filth like Greg Abbott are too embarrassed to refrain from condemning it: Texas governor calls for investigation into grid operator over 'unacceptable' power outages | TheHill
    If you take 13% of the power offline and couple that with the coldest weather in 40 years, of course you freeze people, and of course it's wind.

    Let me explain something to you: your (Texas’) power grid is seen by absolutely fucking everyone as already as ‘deregulated’ as it can fucking be. You don’t have a sleek, vertically-integrated monopoly that controls generation, transmission, and distribution where sane government regulators set the price the profiteers are allowed to charge, like every sane fucking place in the country had before you, Pelosi, and the rest of McConnell’s unwitting, unwitted little serfs got their fucking hands on us. Instead, you have a sprawling, hyperbureaucratic fucking shitshow where a bunch of snotty little LLC asswipes control electrical assets and “compete” with one another to sell electricity to another set of snotty little LLC asswipes who couldn’t care less if your great-aunt freezes to death as long as they get to line their fucking pockets.
    No argument from me about the criminals running every government. What does "regulated" look like to you? Government ownership of the whole thing? You think the state of Texas doesn't control prices, distribution, access, and infrastructure? Where do you live?

    Over half of the missing electricity is from natural gas (Grid operator has restored power to 500,000 households). Wind’s performance was even worse. Only ¼ nuclear plants were forced offline, proving for the umpteenth time that they are better alternatives by leaps and bounds. Isn’t it weird how Hannity hasn’t given you permission to support nuclear yet?
    If you have no straw men, you have no men at all. Hannity??? You listen to that illiterate fool? You really are a goddamn idiot if you think I don't support nuclear power, and have for decades.

    How about one more fucking thing: absolutely fucking nobody who has read my shit thinks that I don’t know anything about the history of policy in the US. And I know goddamn fucking well that you don’t think so, either. If it’s fun to be mean to people who sometimes care about different shit than you, carry on—but don’t think for one isolated fucking second that you’re fucking fooling me about this.
    If you think that deregulation doesn't lower prices, you don't know anything about the history of deregulation. Maybe you're so young that you don't remember The Telephone Company.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alydar View Post
    But isn't this how a deregulated economy works?
    Oh you silly, silly person. Utility companies are suspended high above the market forces that drive a "deregulated economy".

    Sad. In my earlier days coming of age out West, the men I knew would never be heard uttering such vulgarity. The ranchers and farmers of my acquaintance took pride in never showing such a juvenile lack of self-control, or demonstrating so publicly such a filthy mouth. And this word, the "C-word," especially. To use it to insult a man you do not like is to insult women just as much, by suggesting that their qualities - physical and spiritual - are to be seen as negative, even loathsome. As one old fellow I knew long ago would have said, "Time now to grow up, son."
    Do you also refrain from calling people dicks to avoid insulting men, and thus implying their physical and spiritual qualities are to be seen as negative?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    How is a government boondoggle "right wing"? Am I "right wing"?
    If you believe in individual liberty (and individual responsibility), you are right wing. This is where we are. Government is infallible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    I wonder if anybody in the eastern half of the US is still confused about which is better, global warming or cooling?
    China Joe said there would be a dark winter. All this pain and suffering is democrat and rino and China induced. Get ready for more. They are just getting started. How are those gas prices doing? You think that will make retail prices for every day products rise or fall? Don't forget to put two masks on when you are shoveling snow (or anything else for that matter).

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    PandaCast | A Conversation with Dr Knut Wittkowski - PANDA

    You might wanna give this a listen before the next british/african variants lockdowns

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    How is a government boondoggle "right wing"? Am I "right wing"?
    … are you serious? Your government abdicates responsibility for keeping people from freezing, auctioning off the rights to profit from pretending to try to do same to sociopathic LLC asswipes, and you’re STILL trying to claim this counts as ‘left-wing’?!?!?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    If you take 13% of the power offline and couple that with the coldest weather in 40 years, of course you freeze people, and of course it's wind.
    Yes, taking 13% of the power offline would be terrible. The number was more like fifty percent, and again, natural gas was the real problem. Anybody who told you otherwise lied to you—no better than Hannity. Here: https://twitter.com/JesseJenkins/sta...95199924215813

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    No argument from me about the criminals running every government. What does "regulated" look like to you? Government ownership of the whole thing? You think the state of Texas doesn't control prices, distribution, access, and infrastructure?
    This is what ‘regulated’ looks like to me: nationalize the nuclear divisions of the ten biggest energy firms in the country. At that point, we will have enough coordinating power to make a HUGE investment in the mass production, assembly-line reactors we need. Like most things that actually work, this must be done at a macro-level, because the cost reduction benefits of very large-scale repetitive construction cannot be reaped by small investors.
    Other advantages to this strategy: safety for community and working conditions for plant operators will improve with standardization. “Innovation” is poison in this scenario. “Innovation” is windfalls for profiteers at the expense of consumers. The ostensible need for “innovation” is trumpeted by California GND sociopaths and frackers alike. Isn’t there anything suspicious about that to you?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    Where do you live?
    Tampa. Our situation is different because it is not possible for us to be cold, even in the freakiest of freak years. Besides, plants being forced offline due to severe weather is not a relevant issue because the only severe weather is hurricanes, and they will damage the power line infrastructure long before they shut down power plants, anyways.
    Of course, we pay the same prices you do despite lacking your reserve power needs. This is how privatization works: the services get worse, the profiteers get richer.

    Three cheers for Desantis! Three cheers for neoliberal Harvard globalists!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    If you have no straw men, you have no men at all. Hannity??? You listen to that illiterate fool? You really are a goddamn idiot if you think I don't support nuclear power, and have for decades.
    … you think Powell and Flynn have more credibility than Hannity? I’m speechless.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    If you think that deregulation doesn't lower prices, you don't know anything about the history of deregulation. Maybe you're so young that you don't remember The Telephone Company.
    I am a little too young, actually. Surely you are not referring to the breakup of the monopoly? So anti-trust regulation magically starts falling under the umbrella of ‘deregulation’ when right wingers have their backs against the wall? ‘Deregulation’ becomes an all-encompassing term for anything good that happens? Terrific. Just as long as I know the rules. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to step out on my balcony and deregulate a different type of green energy.

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    You have 20,000 troops in D.C to guard against a pretend enemy.

    US food aid shipped around the world everyday. Billions of dollars being distributed annually.

    ...and people are freezing to death in Texas. I doubt a single MRE has been given to these poor people. Incredible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Haghstull View Post
    … are you serious? Your government abdicates responsibility for keeping people from freezing, auctioning off the rights to profit from pretending to try to do same to sociopathic LLC asswipes, and you’re STILL trying to claim this counts as ‘left-wing’?!?!?
    If it weren't for straw men, you'd have no men at all. It is not the government's responsibility to keep me from freezing. It is MY responsibility. In this case, the government has fixed it up so that -- even though I personally can keep from freezing since I have taken my responsibility seriously and have planned well -- most people have been prevented from doing so, because their contractual arrangements with private companies (their way of preparing by trusting the Government Regulators) have been abruptly destroyed by The Fucking Government and their Regulations. ERCOT fucked this up, and guess what ERCOT is: It is a Government REGULATOR. They REGULATED us into the freezing cold so that the private companies -- your "greedy profiteers" (I guess you listen to Jim Hightower instead of Hannity) -- cannot sell to us what they do not have, since ERCOT allocates the product, not the market. ERCOT decides what energy is worth, not us, and right now most people would pay more for what the Government Regulators have made scarce -- supply/demand/price, right? Wind power is bullshit: it is masturbation in a porn theater -- it makes special people feel good about themselves while not accomplishing anything real, since it doesn't work when you need it most. But it has been regulated and subsidized into existence by the Government to satisfy whining children. And your Government Regulators are directly responsible for not saying "No!" to these children. It is always the same with Government Regulators: they are paid off criminals, and all your Marxist indignation cannot change that.

    And what about the municipal water supplies that are down all across the state? Which greedy profiteers are responsible for this clownshow? Why didn't your highly-qualified Government Regulators regulate that backup power supplies were available to keep their government owned utilities (like you envision for nuclear power) up and running so that people can at least flush their fucking toilets?

    I'm not going to address the rest of this blather, because it consists of lies, logic errors, and straw men. Like all leftists, you are a stupid child, only able to think at about 65%. Anybody else who wants to engage with this childish nonsense can type away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    If it weren't for straw men, you'd have no men at all. It is not the government's responsibility to keep me from freezing. It is MY responsibility.
    Texas mayor Tim Boyd resigns after telling residents desperate for power and heat "only the strong will survive" - CBS News

    ^ That’s what happens the day after an elected official in the most libertarian state in the union expresses this sentiment.

    This is a fact.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    And what about the municipal water supplies that are down all across the state? Which greedy profiteers are responsible for this clownshow? Why didn't your highly-qualified Government Regulators regulate that backup power supplies were available to keep their government owned utilities (like you envision for nuclear power) up and running so that people can at least flush their fucking toilets?
    The government regulators are not competent, because they were appointed by Cornyn. Stronger: they're very competent--at creating profits for investors, which has been their explicit stated goal this entire time. If you don’t like it, don’t vote for it.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Rippetoe View Post
    I'm not going to address the rest of this blather, because it consists of lies, logic errors, and straw men. Like all leftists, you are a stupid child, only able to think at about 65%. Anybody else who wants to engage with this childish nonsense can type away.
    You can call me a stupid child all you want, and I’ll bet you can believe it too.

    That doesn’t change the fact that every single person who tries to convince you that what the ‘teams’ are wind/solar vs. fracking is intentionally misleading you and/or decidedly not a shrewd analyst of energy policy issues.

    Heed these words, or risk being duped. I’m talking to all of you.

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    Per ERCOT:

    It sounds like there was a report created after a similar situation in 2011, with its recommendations being largely ignored.

    When instruments at a generation facility freeze off and shut the whole place down, that type of thing trickles down to the level of an instrument tech saying something like “hey we should probably heat trace these impulse lines so they don’t freeze when it gets real cold”, and management saying something like “yeah, that would be nice but we don’t have the money for that right now.” Couple that with operators who have no experience of what to do when shit freezes and you’ve got a disaster.

    Having been involved with electrical reliability in an industrial plant setting for the last ten years, I’ve seen it first hand, repeatedly. Except we have plenty of experience fixing shit when it freezes.

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