The Crazy Years

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It must be like seeing your child being handed over by social workers for adoption by the registered neighborhood sex offender.

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Good lord that is an awesome analogy.

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Central African Civil Engineering

“Who knew the ribbon was structural?”

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Coming soon to a government structure near you…

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How soon you forget:

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Hey! That is sexist! Just because a bridge designed & built by an all-female team falls down, we should not draw any general conclusions about the competence of women. Other bridges have fallen down. Remember that other one … it was in Scotland, across the River Tay … as recently as 1879! Bet there were no women involved in that design & construction!

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California electricity supply hits the wall.


Around 5% of California’s electricity supply comes from the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, which they plan to shut down by 2025.

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NO my conclusions were drawn well before 2018.

In the spirit of ESG, it is important to acknowledge diverse resources were employed and materials involved were returned to nature in an expedited manor, so as in Germany’s Demodernization Energy Projects, this project was a remarkable ESG-success!

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Fungibility alert! Note the 0% coal. The smarmy leftists must be proud of that. But then note the 18.8% Imports @ 8.9gW. Because there is far more than 8.9gW of coal-sourced electricity out there, that’s 8.9 gW of coal production that would be unneeded if CA had not killed off the rest its nuclear generation.

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You svill eat zee bugz:

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Then, it’s not diverse…

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According to the 2011 data cited by Wikipedia, the UK population is 87.1% white. If half are male (it’s probably a tad less due to difference in mean lifespan), then 43.55 would be white male. Evidently, this cabinet does not “look like Britain.”

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Good news, Diablo Canyon is not yet doomed: https://www.city-journal.org/how-grassroots-activism-saved-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant

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This is the same plan Minnesota is planning to execute. Shut down nuclear and import power from a coal burner in North Dakota.

I wonder if the Davos types have thought about the inherent problem. No power, no boob tube. No boob tube, no propaganda for the dim witted. Also, the yungins may realize that no power, no cell phone. Then the heads will roll.

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You know things are getting bad when a toilet paper manufacturer files for bankruptcy. That’s what happened in Germany on 2022-09-05 when “Toilet paper manufacturer Hakle files for bankruptcy”.

The company cited soaring energy costs and consequent increases in the price of pulp for paper-making.

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CT, I am not shocked at all.

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Paper industry is one of the oldest and most energy sensitive businesses – under appreciated unless shelves are empty.

I wonder how much of power use is tied to environmental regs that Chinese competitors laugh at. (compare water discharge at Western mills vs. China).

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