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Gas is required to generate electricity. Gas price increases cause electricity price increases. The cost of oil effects literally everything

The cost to fully charge an e-bike is around 50 cents to $2 in extreme cases, still less than half the cost of a single gallon of diesel. It would cost maybe $10 to pay for enough charges to cover the same distance as a full tank on a Silverado or something like that. There's no question as to who is being hit harder.
 
Thing about Newsom is he’s a talking hair piece. If he was the governor of Texas he’d undoubtedly be the most hardcore outspoken republican.

He should give a raise to whoever runs his social media accounts.
Newsom is basically American Trudeau where he's this vain pretty boy who goes nuts when he's given emergency powers. Most Dem governors don't get a recall election that requires national resources to fight.
The cost to fully charge an e-bike is around 50 cents to $2 in extreme cases, still less than half the cost of a single gallon of diesel. It would cost maybe $10 to pay for enough charges to cover the same distance as a full tank on a Silverado or something like that.
Like with anything involving transport, what is the load you need to carry? A bike makes sense if all you need to transport is yourself. It doesn't if you need to take a passenger. need to be hygienic like in an office setting, or carry a week's worth of groceries.
 
Hungary used masks too. Covid was killing people left and right at first.

We used masks, we didn't die of it. The maga chimpout over masks I could never get. Vaccinations, sure they turned out bogus and suspect, but a mask?

The miga mind can't understand the middle ages wisdom of quarantine, a month long lockdown so your ship won't bring plagues.

It is also unable to be inconvenienced to lessen health risks to his comrades. Wear a mask so that other americans don't die? How dare you ask a patriot to make a sacrifice for his countrymen?

Hillary did go lockdowns rayciss hug a chinaman at first so both parties failed, but the right side is funnier this time.

The resistance to masking has its origins in the messaging that went out early on in the pandemic. At first (we're talking the February 2020), people were buying up N95 masks to protect themselves from a potentially lethal virus. Because of just-in-time inventory systems, this sudden increased demand rapidly led to shortages of N95 masks for hospital workers. Authorities attempted to dampen this demand by saying, "You don't need to go around wearing masks to protect yourself from the virus! Please stop buying N95 masks, people in hospitals need them!" You can see this messaging in the following New York Times article from March 31st, 2020 (full article spoilered, important part excerpted):

C.D.C. Weighs Advising Everyone to Wear a Mask

Widespread use of nonmedical masks could reduce community transmission. But recommending their broad use could also cause a run on the kind of masks that health care workers desperately need.

By Abby Goodnough and Knvul Sheikh
Published March 31, 2020 Updated May 7, 2020

Should healthy people be wearing masks when they’re outside to protect themselves and others?

Both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have repeatedly said that ordinary citizens do not need to wear masks unless they are sick and coughing. And as health care workers around the world face shortages of N95 masks and protective gear, public health officials have warned people not to hoard masks.

But those official guidelines may be shifting.

On Monday during the coronavirus task force briefing, President Trump was asked whether Americans should wear nonmedical masks. “That’s certainly something we could discuss,” he said. “It could be something like that for a limited period of time.”

Dr. Robert Redfield, the director of the C.D.C., confirmed in an interview with WABE in Atlanta, a National Public Radio member station, on Monday that the agency was reviewing its guidelines on who should wear masks. Citing new data that shows high rates of transmission from people who are infected but show no symptoms, he said the guidance on mask wearing was “being critically re-reviewed, to see if there’s potential additional value for individuals that are infected or individuals that may be asymptomatically infected.”

The coronavirus is probably three times as infectious as the flu, Dr. Redfield said. Some people are infected and transmitting the virus probably as long as two days before showing any symptoms, he said. “This helps explain how rapidly this virus continues to spread across the country, because we have asymptomatic transmitters and we have individuals who are transmitting 48 hours before they become symptomatic,” Dr. Redfield said in the interview.

“That’s important, because now you have individuals that may not have any symptoms that can contribute to transmission, and we have learned that in fact they do contribute to transmission,” Dr. Redfield said.

A federal official said Tuesday that the C.D.C.’s review of mask wearing for the public stemmed from a request by the White House coronavirus task force, which is leaning toward recommending it.

One concern, which Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, voiced in an interview with CNN, is that such a recommendation could cause even worse shortages of N95 and other medical masks for health care workers, who need them most.

“You don’t want to take masks away from the health care providers who are in a real and present danger of getting infected,” Dr. Fauci, a member of the task force, said on CNN on Tuesday morning.

Nonetheless, Dr. Fauci said: “The idea of getting a much more broad communitywide use of masks outside of the health care setting is under very active discussion at the task force. The C.D.C. group is looking at that very carefully.”

Masks work by stopping infected droplets spewing from the wearer’s nose or mouth, rather than stopping the acquisition of the virus from others. Both medical grade N95 masks and flat face masks are made of a special melt-blown fabric, which is able to stop infectious particles even finer than a micron in diameter. But in many Asian countries, where everyone is encouraged to wear masks, the approach is about crowd psychology and protection.

If everyone wears a mask, individuals protect one another, reducing overall community transmission. And places like Hong Kong and Taiwan that jumped to action early with social distancing and universal mask wearing have gotten their cases under much greater control.

There have been troubling reports that indicate the coronavirus may be able to travel farther in the air and stay in the environment longer than is possible by respiratory droplets, which have so far been assumed to be the primary mode of transmission of the virus.

One study in Singapore found traces of the virus in air vents in patient isolation rooms. In another study, researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center detected extensive contamination in patient rooms as well as in air samples collected from the hallways outside rooms.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, said in an interview on Sunday that the C.D.C. should put out designs for cloth masks for the public. “The value of the mask isn’t necessarily to protect you from getting sick, although it may offer some protection,” he told CBS News. “It’s to protect you from other people. So when someone who’s infected is wearing a mask, they’re much less likely to transmit infection.”

He said studies involving the flu suggested that you could reduce your ability to spread the flu by about 50 percent if you wore a mask.

This is what the C.D.C.’s guidelines currently say:

“If you are sick: You should wear a face mask, if available, when you are around other people (including before you enter a health care provider’s office). If you are caring for others: If the person who is sick is not able to wear a face mask (for example, because it causes trouble breathing), then as their caregiver, you should wear a face mask when in the same room with them. Visitors, other than caregivers, are not recommended.

“Note: During a public health emergency, face masks may be reserved for health care workers. You may need to improvise a face mask using a scarf or bandana.”

In the radio interview, Dr. Redfield also emphasized that social distancing, staying at least six feet away from others in public spaces, and staying home, were important measures to keep in place for now.

Both the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have repeatedly said that ordinary citizens do not need to wear masks unless they are sick and coughing. And as health care workers around the world face shortages of N95 masks and protective gear, public health officials have warned people not to hoard masks.
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One concern, which Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, voiced in an interview with CNN, is that such a recommendation could cause even worse shortages of N95 and other medical masks for health care workers, who need them most.

“You don’t want to take masks away from the health care providers who are in a real and present danger of getting infected,” Dr. Fauci, a member of the task force, said on CNN on Tuesday morning.

People didn't listen to this messaging since N95 masks obviously protect you from viruses. Why else would people in hospitals be wearing them? When there is a potentially lethal airborne virus going around, you would have to be a fool not to buy and wear N95 masks which are specifically rated to filter the air.

The failure of this first message to dampen demand led to a modification. "OK, masks do protect you, but it doesn't need to be an N95 mask. Any random scrap of fabric over your face will work. Please stop buying N95 masks!" Again, you would have to be a fool to not use an N95 mask and instead use random scraps of cloth, which can't be trusted to filter anything. Mandates to wear random cloth instead of actual, rated N95 masks could rationally be seen as security theater, and the authorities were not going to mandate real N95 masks since the whole point of all this was to get people to stop buying N95 masks.

However, this sort of nuanced evaluation is too much for the retarded masses. The problems and inconsistencies in authoritative messaging ultimately devolved into "I ain't wearing no face diaper" Red team vs. "Triple masking with random cloth even when alone in a car" Blue team stupidity.
 
People didn't listen to this messaging since N95 masks obviously protect you from viruses. Why else would people in hospitals be wearing them? When there is a potentially lethal airborne virus going around, you would have to be a fool not to buy and wear N95 masks which are specifically rated to filter the air.

The failure of this first message to dampen demand led to a modification. "OK, masks do protect you, but it doesn't need to be an N95 mask. Any random scrap of fabric over your face will work. Please stop buying N95 masks!" Again, you would have to be a fool to not use an N95 mask and instead use random scraps of cloth, which can't be trusted to filter anything. Mandates to wear random cloth instead of actual, rated N95 masks could rationally be seen as security theater, and the authorities were not going to mandate real N95 masks since the whole point of all this was to get people to stop buying N95 masks.

However, this sort of nuanced evaluation is too much for the retarded masses. The problems and inconsistencies in authoritative messaging ultimately devolved into "I ain't wearing no face diaper" Red team vs. "Triple masking with random cloth even when alone in a car" Blue team stupidity.
Blue team is retarded enough that I almost don't blame Red team for existing solely for the purpose of being contrarians to them. Social distancing is important guys, quarantine yourselves, unless it's to start nationwide riots over a dead criminal.
 
I just don't see any actual progess happening with politics until people start rejecting the red vs blue construct.

Every arguement I've seen where people start throwing out well your side did x, the other just says well your side did x too, or well your side did y.

Everyone just ends up talking past eachother. Both sides do the same shit, they both suck, they both use the other as the villian while ignoring that they do the same thing. They are both heavily influenced by lobbying, and disregard what the people actuslly want.
 
I just don't see any actual progess happening with politics until people start rejecting the red vs blue construct.

Every arguement I've seen where people start throwing out well your side did x, the other just says well your side did x too, or well your side did y.

Everyone just ends up talking past eachother. Both sides do the same shit, they both suck, they both use the other as the villian while ignoring that they do the same thing. They are both heavily influenced by lobbying, and disregard what the people actuslly want.
15 years I might agree with you, but the Republicans right now are a literal cult devoted to worshipping and deifying a fat, elderly, pants-shitting, mush-brained, war-mongering pedophile. It's not even close right now
 
Hungary used masks too. Covid was killing people left and right at first.

We used masks, we didn't die of it. The maga chimpout over masks I could never get. Vaccinations, sure they turned out bogus and suspect, but a mask?

The miga mind can't understand the middle ages wisdom of quarantine, a month long lockdown so your ship won't bring plagues.

It is also unable to be inconvenienced to lessen health risks to his comrades. Wear a mask so that other americans don't die? How dare you ask a patriot to make a sacrifice for his countrymen?

Hillary did go lockdowns rayciss hug a chinaman at first so both parties failed, but the right side is funnier this time.
I don't see how anyone was supposed to take the covid psyop seriously after the sanctioned and condoned riots in veneration of Saint Fentanyl.
I just don't see any actual progess happening with politics until people start rejecting the red vs blue construct.

Every arguement I've seen where people start throwing out well your side did x, the other just says well your side did x too, or well your side did y.

Everyone just ends up talking past eachother. Both sides do the same shit, they both suck, they both use the other as the villian while ignoring that they do the same thing. They are both heavily influenced by lobbying, and disregard what the people actuslly want.
Muh democracy is the most refined and elegant system of control ever invented. Voting itself is the humiliation ritual, where the cattle are gaslit into believing that what happens after the election is by consent when in reality all candidates are controlled by the same interests. It diverts frustration and malcontent towards other cattle, rather than upward where it belongs. It provides a constant release valve, promising you'll get to vote again in x years so just stay cool and try again later.

In a dictatorship or monarchy there are no such release valves, distractions and no figleaf of choice.
 
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Blue team is retarded enough that I almost don't blame Red team for existing solely for the purpose of being contrarians to them. Social distancing is important guys, quarantine yourselves, unless it's to start nationwide riots over a dead criminal.

You’re seething about something that happened six fucking years ago and has zero impact upon your life today.
 
In a dictatorship or monarchy there are no such release valves, distractions and no figleaf of choice.
There's none or almost no full blooded autocracies with a President of King as an absolute personal ruler nowadays (barring DPRK or maybe Eritrea). They also will usually have parliaments and political parties, but these are usually a joke. The Shah's official parties were nicknamed the 'Yes Party' and the 'Yes Sir Party'. Republican Party and Democratic Party might seem risible but they're not the worst. Tolerating emigration is another release valve.
 
You can say a lot about Milei but he has been playing the US and China against each other to Argentina's benefit for a while now. The fact that all it takes to get US approval is acting like the biggest Israel defender on social media is just comical, but it is what it is
That's the correct approach. More countries should play China and America against each other for their own benefit.
Gas is required to generate electricity. Gas price increases cause electricity price increases. The cost of oil effects literally everything
I have solar panels and "free" charging outlets at the office's parking lot. ;)
 
You’re seething about something that happened six fucking years ago and has zero impact upon your life today.
The face diapers took YEARS off the lives of these MAGA PATRIOTS. It's almost as bad as when the nanny state tells you to wear resperators around asbestos, or welding masks to protect your eyes from cataracts and other eye damage, or seatbelts to save your life (just kidding about the last one seatbelts are hella gay).
 
When you actually look at the democrat base, none of them really give a shit about troons or bathroom rights. They are mainly focused on healthcare, wages and not sucking up to corpos.
You'd have to actually go outside to know that though. Trans issues are wayyy overrepresented on social media compared to how much people care about this shit in real life.

Now, if you're a terminally online goobergater, you'd think politics is an existential battle between trans rights vs. boobs in video games. Anime avatars are the useful idiots of the right.
 
I just don't see any actual progess happening with politics until people start rejecting the red vs blue construct.

Every arguement I've seen where people start throwing out well your side did x, the other just says well your side did x too, or well your side did y.

Everyone just ends up talking past eachother. Both sides do the same shit, they both suck, they both use the other as the villian while ignoring that they do the same thing. They are both heavily influenced by lobbying, and disregard what the people actuslly want.
Good luck convincing Blue Team to stop shitting their pants when people reject the status quo and vote Lolbertarian or Green. "Vote for us, or you'll get him" has been their strategy for the past 12 years.
 
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He's been ranting at NATO and the Iranians earlier today, he was clearly extra-pissed off about something this morning
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Based on AP Reporting he's already switched up his stance at this Cabinet meeting, now calling the Iranians "very smart in a certain way" and "lousy fighters but great negotiators". They've also now confirmed the 15 point plan (despite the Whitehouse dismissing it as "speculative" yesterday) and Hegseth is describing the Iranian war as "success, pure American success" and "stuff for the history books, stuff for legacy". I do agree that this is "stuff" for the history books and Trump's legacy, although probably not in the way Hegseth intends.
Never forget: the holocaust, 9/11 and now that Iran was mean to Trump
We were absolutely forced into constant masking by Gavin Newsom. Small, "non-essential" businesses were forcibly shut down because of the Democrat governor. If you didn't get vaxxed, you could be fired for it. The Democrats were all in on authoritarian government when they got emergency powers.

Thank God Putin invaded Ukraine. It got the Dems to stop oppressing the US.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=9YdHvGU-fEk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=T5DCs7_SUt0
https://youtube.com/watch?v=E4Q0Xuz5_t0
So leave California. Why stay there?
Sucks to suck, California.

I live in a blue state also, and you know what restrictions we had? Here's the grand total...
-Restaurants had slightly reduced hours
-Kids were out of school for 2 months
-Places asked politely to use masks if we were sick or coughing.

WOW, 1984 amirite?
Same. I also worked for an industry at the time that was decimated by COVID and they only required vax in public or customer facing areas.
California is the state run by 90% Democrats. That's what they do with unlimited power.
It’s also one of the biggest economies in the world. So maybe Dems are better for that?

Make you fags a deal. Next pandemic we’ll give you a whole month to run wild and die out before we take over. Deal?
 

I just learned Joe Kent went on Mark Levins show. I've only heard a clip from it so far and that alone was insufferable to listen to because of Levin. Idk if I can make it through the whole thing.

14:25 is the timestamp for when Joe comes on.

I honestly don't know why everyone doesn't fucking boot this guy from their side. All he does is make them look bad. Like just from a strategic point of view you would think people would realize having this guy advocating for anything you want is a bad move.

I also happened to have something autoplay onto his podcast ealier today coincidentally. He was talking about Benadict Arnald, and I didn't finish the show, but my impression was he was trying to make the point that the people not supporting us going into a war of choice in Iran for Israel are Benadict Arnold's. The most insane backwards shit I feel like you could say about the political situation right now.
 
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