Leo Niehorster Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 14 hours ago, DB said: Bear in mind that many Commonwealth countries that have Liz as head of State may review that shortly, as she's clearly running out of steam and nobody really believes that Charles is a suitable replacement. "Barbados to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 14 hours ago, DB said: Bear in mind that many Commonwealth countries that have Liz as head of State may review that shortly, as she's clearly running out of steam and nobody really believes that Charles is a suitable replacement. The royal family is the Common Wealth's version of the cardassian family. Supposedly the cardassian family show is being cancelled due to low ratings. Many news networks refuse to cover them. Maybe the UK / Commonwealth nations will cancel the royal family once the sequel comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Niehorster Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 41 minutes ago, 17thfabn said: The royal family is the Common Wealth's version of the cardassian family. . . . Maybe the UK / Commonwealth nations will cancel the royal family before once the sequel comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 1 hour ago, 17thfabn said: The royal family is the Common Wealth's version of the cardassian family. I don't believe you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Who, then, is the Obsidian Order? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Ahh. The spoon heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 (edited) On 10/22/2021 at 4:14 PM, Ssnake said: I don't believe you. My apologies to the fine Cardassian people for comparing them to the royals. Edited October 24, 2021 by 17thfabn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/10/26/rapper-bryson-grays-lets-go-brandon-anthem-mocking-biden-soars-past-adelle-to-1-on-itunes-charts/ Quote Rapper Bryson Gray’s “Let’s Go Brandon” song mocking President Joe Biden has soared to #1 on the iTunes Charts, ranking above pop superstar Adele’s latest single. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Funny...I thought Woke Biden would be hip with the young rap crowd....cause you know, Trump was such a racist and terribly unpopular with the same crowd for decades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 It's perfectly possible to hate both, for different reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmgill Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) I don't give a toss if someone posts mean tweets while trying to execute reasonably sane policy. The current furor of the moment with the Biden admin is how the Fed Chair is proposing taxation on capital gains that haven't been realized yet. ie, they pump money into the economy via the printing presses, your 401k stock/mutual fund portfolio then becomes worth $800,000 vs the $500,000 it was 2 years ago, thus you owe them taxes on the $300,000 you 'made' on your 401k program.... Never mind you've cashed NOTHING out yet and not converted it to $$$ yet. No word on if your stocks lose value that they'll send you back a payment to cover your 'losses'. Edited October 28, 2021 by rmgill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Becker Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 (alleged) Vote harvesting in nursing homes is making waves in Wisconsin. https://www.fox6now.com/news/wisconsin-election-law-violations-racine-county-sheriff-reveals-findings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Tan Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Fox is lies. CNN is pravda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Renowned mechanical engineer Joe Biden on electric car efficiency; “When you buy an electric vehicle, you can go across America on a single tank of gas, figuratively speaking.” https://jimtreacher.substack.com/p/biden-thinks-electric-cars-are-magic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ssnake Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 While the statement is wrong on many levels, obvious and not-so-obvious, there might be one angle from which it's not entirely wrong - if you compare the price of a filling for a large tank (of the most expensive type of gasoline) with the industry price for electricity and the Ampere hours that you might load into the electric car for the full distance, assuming you take the most efficient route at constant 60mph at a time of the year that isn't so cold to reduce battery capacity, and not so hot that you need airconditioning. Not that I want to defend the guy, but this might come close, strictly price wise, and the tangled wiring in his brain might just have combombulated figures from a briefing paper enough to create this output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Galbraith Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 There is technology where you can, in theory, recharge electric vehicles at traffic lights. The only question is whether you really want to, or whom pays for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 13 hours ago, Simon Tan said: Fox is lies. CNN is pravda. Isn't "Pravda" truth..... in 1984 speak? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said: There is technology where you can, in theory, recharge electric vehicles at traffic lights. The only question is whether you really want to, or whom pays for it. What could go wrong with that, hundreds of volts of electricity flying around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
17thfabn Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 2 hours ago, Ssnake said: While the statement is wrong on many levels, obvious and not-so-obvious, there might be one angle from which it's not entirely wrong - if you compare the price of a filling for a large tank (of the most expensive type of gasoline) with the industry price for electricity and the Ampere hours that you might load into the electric car for the full distance, assuming you take the most efficient route at constant 60mph at a time of the year that isn't so cold to reduce battery capacity, and not so hot that you need airconditioning. But you also have to take into account the huge upfront cost of the electric vehicle, especially the batteries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markus Becker Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 32 minutes ago, 17thfabn said: But you also have to take into account the huge upfront cost of the electric vehicle, especially the batteries. And their rather short life span. It is said that electric cars are only greener than conventional ones once thy have run for more than 100,000 km. Some say way more depending on how green the electricity is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKTanker Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Word coming out of the Vatican is that investing in Kimberly-Clark, parent company that makes Depends adult diapers, would be a good move. Supposedly Biden's meeting with the Pontiff ran over time so that his soiled shorts could be attended to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Tan Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 (edited) Pravda is indeed truth in Russian. Who are of course behind everything that ails Joe and his sock puppet Tanknet account. Edited October 31, 2021 by Simon Tan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivanhoe Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted October 31, 2021 Share Posted October 31, 2021 20 hours ago, Markus Becker said: And their rather short life span. It is said that electric cars are only greener than conventional ones once thy have run for more than 100,000 km. Some say way more depending on how green the electricity is. Inevitably there will be a crossover point if one is more expensive and also more efficient. 100,000 km isn't a huge distance for such a crossover - less than 5 years motoring on pre-COVID averages and well within the expected lifetime of such a vehicle. If that time period is true, though, it means that the first owner doesn't really gain an economic benefit from fuel use 9although they would in many places have lower annual taxation fees). I wonder if there is an online resource that does all the work for estimating this, even if one uses the simplistic EPA averages for fuel consumption. (I don't wonder enough to go looking, though.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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