villakram

Hard not to pull for both of these guys in future.

2 hours ago, rodders0223 said:

I don't think I have ever once text my girlfriend how's it going at work or how her day has been and it not be an absolute rant or misery.

Gets you down man.

Just lie once in a while. "Good."

Even a "not bad."

 

 

I don't think I'll ask anymore.

Use nothing else. Just use one, go mad and use all three, even mix up the order. Simples.

If you like your democracy, you can have your democracy!

Interesting rumblings going on regarding future policy in the Biden admin. After the repubs countered his initial $2T plan with their own $1T plan, it appears Biden has come back to table after a week of chatting with a new $1T proposal. Little of the details regarding the proposal are being actually discussed, more the our plan is better than your plan stuff right now. I'll be surprised if the repubs allow him to pass anything but this may be an effort to construct a budget focussed proposal they can ram through via the reconciliation process.

3 hours ago, El Zen said:

The use of ‘heart condition’ here is quite speculative, imo. 
 

Edit: page break. Posted in response to @villakram. 

Care to elaborate? Myocarditis is by definition a heart condition, and quite serious too if you are older much as any other malady of the heart.

1 hour ago, mjmooney said:

Why have you put vaccines in quotes? 

You can still get infected after being vaccinated. That's not how that is supposed to work. It does keep the marketing people at the pharma companies happy however. Much as has been done with the Flu "vaccine". I'm not trying to change any minds here... language is a living thing and the common usage of the term is what it is. 

Further evidence of important side effects from the "vaccines". This time related to the Pfizer version, where a heart condition is being seen in populations of young people. Fortunately, to balance things out, this appears to be most common in males, after the earlier female favored clotting issue. It is not clear if there are correlated factors in the affected individuals, e.g., medical conditions.

"Israel’s Health Ministry said on Tuesday it had found the small number of heart inflammation cases observed mainly in young men who received Pfizer’s (PFE.N) COVID-19 vaccine in Israel were likely linked to their vaccination."

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-probable-link-between-pfizer-vaccine-small-number-myocarditis-cases-2021-06-01/

On 30/05/2021 at 13:44, bickster said:

Looks like Netanyahu is being ousted by a coalition of opposition parties including those from the right

More lives than a cat, let's see what storm he cooks up this time.

Everton got a little lucky here. Carlo should have had his head on the chopping block for their lack of results last season. Free dismissal and keep in Madrid's good books for potential future loans etc.

Good news for us. He has a bright future in front of him and now a full summer to be ready to push on next season.

Pep is becoming a parody at this stage. I'm amazed that someone experienced like Kidd or someone else in the backroom staff must be able to get through to him.

Nike covered up for a very un MeToo set of behavior. The apology ad should be great. Hope Puma sue the shite out of him.

Loads of upside. Solid young player that could give us 20-30 starts next year. A better fit than Buendia too imho.

18 hours ago, villa4europe said:

Which one of americas enemies was he saving you from? 

Edit - that sounds more like someone going postal, shot up his own workplace, mental health and probably depression issues that might not have been there when he passed any checks and legally purchased a gun, maybe a study more in how checks won't solve the problem 

Yup.

As much as people like to take the piss out of America, I can't imagine things being much different in any other country which such free form gun laws. 

20 hours ago, fruitvilla said:

Speaking as a chemist who has specialized  as a "hydrometallurgist" for the last forty odd years (in the mining industry), The primary issue, as I see it, is designing the battery casings so they are more easily recyclable, or even better reusable. Recovering the lithium is relatively straight forward. I can't imagine recovering the cobalt would be difficult either. 

I have had opportunity to be toured around the local lithium recycler (they recover lithium carbonate) from military grade batteries. The exciting bit is where they have to break up the batteries, especially if they have not been fully discharged. 

Can you add anything regarding the waste products generated in this process. That appears to be a difficult challenge given the nature of both primary processes, and it's not clear how much longer we can just send this stuff off to our own poor communities or less well run countries.

Of course, the energy requirements are interesting too.  

1 hour ago, chrisp65 said:

I’m just bamboozled that I’ve been asked to provide proof the vaccine causes rain.

Does raining money for CEO/shareholders of various pharma companies count?

UEFA officially begin proceedings against Madrid/Barca/Juve.

Barca will probably get off lighter as they can say old president, membership vote etc. This is a huge moment to see if UEFA have the guts to actually punish the instigators in Madrid and Turin or will everything just get lightly brushed under the carpet while we are all distracted by the euro champs. 

This is about as America as it gets. Media folks visiting the real world at George Floyd square this morning.

In more positive news, and one that really confuses many 1st amendment types, Abby Martin has won her anti-BDS lawsuit against the state of Georgia.

2 hours ago, stuart_75 said:

Texas about to pass an open carry handgun law, no need for a permit. Why oh why?

They passed a stringent abortion law too (~6weeks), with a really interesting enforcement angle. It's clear they are looking for a legal fight given the favorable legal conditions.

https://www.npr.org/2021/05/19/998237349/the-governor-of-texas-has-signed-a-law-that-bans-abortion-as-early-as-6-weeks

"Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans abortion the moment a fetal heartbeat has been detected, a move that makes Texas the largest state in the nation to outlaw abortion so early in a pregnancy.

The Texas law effectively prohibits any abortion after around six weeks of pregnancy — before many women are even aware they are pregnant.

The bill, which takes effect in September, makes no exception for pregnancies that are the result of rape or incest but does include a rare provision that allows individual citizens to sue anyone they believe may have been involved in helping a pregnant individual violate the ban. The provision cannot be used against pregnant people, but reproductive rights advocates warn it can be used to target abortion providers and abortion-rights activists."

17 hours ago, limpid said:

It doesn't. Battery recycling is unrelated to global warming.

Just like clearing up the years of petrol / diesel emissions around all the roads is unrelated to global warming.

Maybe they are more appropriately termed environmental concerns or quality of life issues, but they have all been subsumed into the climate debate (regardless of how sensible that is). I think most people would think of fossil fuel emissions clean up as intimately related to global warming even if the details are far more nuanced and hence, they could easily be argued to have less to do with global warming. Interestingly, your statement above would have climate crisis protesters virtually outside your house these days!

The issue here is maybe how far deep down the rabbit hole one goes and hence makes the subject purely science vs sociology-esque.

6 minutes ago, a-k said:

Ask yourself why the Gaza border with Egypt is almost always closed and why Egypt knocked down 3000 buildings (in violation of international law) to create a 1km buffer zone with the border.

 I'll take dictatorships backed by the US government for $500. 

1 hour ago, limpid said:

It's a piece about the science of recycling. Maybe better in the science thread or possibly a new electric vehicles thread then. It's not relevant to global warming.

Errr, maybe, but there's been a lot of that here lately. So, it seemed like a good place to continue this discussion. If placed in science, it lives on an island somewhat, whereas the macro scale importance is appropriate to the topic at hand. As society continues to pretend to care about these things, more and more practical things will occur and the venn diagram includes climate crisis or whatever it will have been rebranded as at that time.

10 minutes ago, limpid said:

What does this have to do with global warming?

One of the prime reasons for moving to EVs is stated to be the "climate crisis". Ditto with things like solar panels and turbines. Each of these have massive sourcing and disposal challenges that have been largely ignored. As these are now being deployed on scale, these problems need to be taken more seriously. Given the solution to all sorts of things is supposed to be batteries, more and more batteries, some meeting with reality is required. This article does a good job of presenting the state of the art w.r.t. to the EV power pack end of life issue.