Posts by Threadbane@newsie.social
(DIR) Post #AVzt98VsruG2niaxXM by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-05-25T00:45:57Z
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@MaryAliciaZiff @kevinrns I have been screaming about this for 30 years. Doesn't ANYBODY take high school physics anymore? Plow topsoil into the sky as dust, pollute the rivers with runoff, expend more energy to grow corn than we can extract from it. Instead of grazers natural prairie flora that returns to the ground as manure ->compost ->peat ->carbon capture, it's taken away to be converted into some trivial amount of alcohol -> no carbon capture.BETTER OUT OF OIL THAN OUT OF SOIL.
(DIR) Post #AWSQfCJoWHvFfbdPE0 by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-06-07T19:11:07Z
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@EarthOne @breadandcircuses The first I heard about planetary heating was the Bell Telephone Science Hour. We watched all of them in school, but The Unchained Goddess really got my attention. I still remember this scene clearly, more than 60 years later. There was somehow a sense of foreboding in Dr. Baxter's delivery.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1ph_7C1Jq4
(DIR) Post #AWrrisI5e0WRIHo1CK by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-06-20T01:51:34Z
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@lowqualityfacts Lot of good info week after week, but this looks like something we can really use.
(DIR) Post #AYj4uvwJvcm0Pifniy by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-08-14T15:50:49Z
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@stux There seem to be a lot of signs and warning labels on things that seem totally superfluous. For example, riding down a newly-paved road yesterday, there were signs reading: No Center Line. No shit. If you hadn't noticed, you really don't belong behind the wheel of a car.
(DIR) Post #AZCQjmJduHVT63cdcm by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-08-28T19:42:03Z
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@stux "Psychopathy is contagious."
(DIR) Post #Aa9mcp7S0evhfydkZc by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-09-26T10:54:58Z
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@EU_Commission You forgot:- learning another language increases your command of English
(DIR) Post #AdLElF3uhHx4I9PbMG by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-12-30T13:15:42Z
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@raymondpert There is no reason to support any of the governments in the Middle East, including Israel and Turkey. The Middle East offers us nothing at this point but an expense and an international political headache, because we are now totally fossil fuel independent and we need the ME for absolutely nothing. (We export as much oil as we import, so we should stop importing AND exporting oil entirely.) We should do a Vietnam, declare victory and leave - completely. Let them fight without us.
(DIR) Post #AdLU6j5jk5QMoty2LI by Threadbane@newsie.social
2023-12-30T20:00:58Z
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@pthenq1 @raymondpert Some pax. There are over 100 conflicts now active and America has brought zero peace to the Middle East, Africa, South Americ or anywhere else, rather we've just armed everybody to the teeth so they can kill each other off faster. It should be called Bellum Americana.
(DIR) Post #AdXMZv31tsLyYzd5bU by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-01-05T13:33:06Z
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@rchusid The first thing that Biden has to do is replace the Zionist, Anthony Blinken, with a sectarian Secretary of State. Having a Zionist as Secretary of State is like having a NAZI Secretary of State in 1939.
(DIR) Post #AdZj3NkMrbTdHGH55U by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-01-06T16:54:21Z
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@rchusid I'm not so sure. Resignations are popping up right and left, both at the State Department and other Departments, and I suspect much of the policy has been directed by Blinken and his Zionist beliefs. I think we'd have dropped support for Israel weeks ago without Blinken and his ultra-religious Zionist nonsense standing in the way of more sensible advice.
(DIR) Post #AhQdLSwE20SpRHBPEW by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-04-30T23:06:20Z
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@stux He belongs in a facility for the criminally insane.
(DIR) Post #AiFvNfiJRPUejKJfQ8 by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-05-25T16:58:21Z
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@futurebird Except that the GOP's systematic disassembly of the US public education system, begun in earnest in the late 1970s, has created the situation that 54% of Americans are functionally illiterate. We are no longer "universally literate". The current reading level of US high school texts is grade 5.3. Not only can we not really read anymore, what we are taught is literally children's reading material. We have become a nation of witless victims of propaganda and conspiracy theories.
(DIR) Post #AiM6A9y2QWWSwyBtOi by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-05-27T20:36:05Z
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@Hudson @Mary625 @Jennifer @zakalwe @micchiato What every president since Truman has done to the Palestinians. Gaza is just a continuation of the Zionist colonization of Palestine. Netanyahu's sadistic slaughter of the indigenous people of Palestine was aided by every Western power. Biden tried to end the worst of the arms shipments, but the way our govt is organized, the Republican House made stopping them entirely impossible. Biden gets VERY bad advice from his Zionist Sec of State,, too.
(DIR) Post #AiM6AE4DBVpzfH6sZk by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-05-28T16:17:54Z
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@Mary625 @micchiato @ogalachowski @Hudson @Jennifer @zakalwe Iran-Contra was more about paying the Ayatollah for keeping the hostages until after the election and trying to overthrow the communist president of Nicaragua. Congress refused to fund his war, so Reagan stole US armaments and sold them to the Ayatollah, an act of treason against the US, for $167M to finance the Contras in Honduras to wage a proxy war instead. Reagan even mined Nicaraguan harbors in violation of international law.
(DIR) Post #Aj3u237NWhXARiicQS by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-06-18T19:39:15Z
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@ZachWeinersmith The Old Testament is an oral history laced with magic beings, along the lines of Homer. The New Testament is a total fiction, almost like fantasy, written by individuals over a period of centuries (Mary doesn't become a virgin until the 4th Century AD) by people who knew nothing about 1st Century Roman history or law or Judaism. Herod never killed the first born Jewish sons; Jews would remember this, but they don't. Roman's did not require people to go ANYWHERE to pay taxes.
(DIR) Post #Aj6FHpmLNMr53uASnY by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-06-19T18:32:50Z
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@Mx_EddyNikko @GottaLaff I frequently point on these Ten Commandments threads that 6 of the 10 are in and of themselves unconstitutional, starting off with the very first one. I'm an American, God damn it, and I can have as many gods as I damn well please.
(DIR) Post #Aj6NIi9Y0rnnKlwyuW by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-06-19T20:26:53Z
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@jeffowski
(DIR) Post #AjWUT9MDSiwbQI3eHw by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-07-02T14:39:23Z
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@futurebird Those using Facebook still are lost souls anyhow, like those swallowed up by other cults.
(DIR) Post #Ajvaw8UmCafWSCVoYq by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-07-14T17:19:12Z
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@aral I vaguely remember a story from the 1930s, where a miner asked why the mine owner cared so much about the mules but not the miners. "Replacing a new mule costs me $40, but I can replace you for nothing."
(DIR) Post #AkNDiiwB3cWMu1qHFg by Threadbane@newsie.social
2024-07-28T01:11:05Z
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@futurebird Not only no insects but almost no birds because they've killed everything that a lot of species of birds eat, the grubs, the worms, the bugs and seeded "weeds". Plus, they add cancer risks for their families and can send neighbors with asthma to the emergency room when the wind is right. Horrific.