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You should have given up on posting anything remotely related to Social Security after your bizarre claim a couple years ago that Biden should be thanked for lawfully mandated annual cost of living increases. That was a classic.

Obviously not informed, but aren't some meniscus clean ups relatively minor?

I can empathize a bit, as I'm rehabbing a complete knee replacement done two weeks ago. I was so bothered by this Max situation and how it could impact our season that I thought that if you draft a corner in the first round, once he gets done hugging the Commish, drag him the nearest, best ortho guy and rebuild his knees. I have calmed down a bit since, until the next injury. This game/position is not meant for human knees, and the position is so impactful.

Simply the best news thread ever.

There is some validity to it. Covid happened. The economy was dead in the water. About six trillion dollars was created to keep things afloat, in my estimation, four trillion of that was a mistake. Now you have all these new $'s chasing non expanding supply, especially in the housing market, causing non traditional increases in cost, which attracts further spending in that area of the economy, resulting in disproportionate price increases. Saving things comes at a cost.

I think you misunderstood. I was agreeing with yall's post, which referred to the kid's silly claim, which was ridiculous. Not your experience.

That's what happens when these things aren't read carefully. One is talking about the first half, and the first quarter was slow. The other is talking about the second quarter, where growth was quite brisk.

It absolutely is.

Did you actually read what that kid posted? He's complaining about them suggesting financing a car purchase when he's prepared to pay cash, and then states they want just under 20% interest. He's either an idiot, or he's lying. I see dealership commercials all the time, and they advertise 3.5 to 5.5% rates. He is quoting credit card rates, which you would have to be a moron to even consider. Since you can get over 4% on simple money market funds, seems quite reasonable. Further, if you offer cash you don't have to sit and listen to anything. If they don't want it, and they all will, just leave. Seems like a full class idiot to me.

It doesn't surprise me it was here. That peninsula has the highest number of volcanoes and volcanic activity on earth. Used to go over it and the city of Petropavlovsk all the time on the way from the US to Tokyo. They have tones of geysers and other stuff that indicates really active sub surface stuff. Weird area.

Yes. It's what was used in the space shuttle when they were unable to generate enough solar, based on orbit geometry. The technology and efficiencies are much greater now, to the point where companies who cannot tolerate utility outages are buying on site energy delivery sources that are completely reliable and independent from public utility companies and the nonsense and politics that involves.

Solid oxide. The technology converts natural gas, bio fuel or even hydrogen into electricity without combustion, resulting in little or no CO2. When using natural gas, there is some CO2 produced, but dramatically lower, (cleaner), than when it is combusted. In addition, the CO2 is much purer than when burned, resulting in it being recovered and repurposed. Companies, scores of them like Walmart, Home Depot, Honda, Owens Corning and a host of others use this now. They do not want to worry about grid supply failures or other back up options. Very significant marine applications and even towns have purchased them.

I'm going to avoid discussing Robert Reich, who is another political/academic careerist who has never had a real job in industry, other than to point out that the link to his missive seems woefully negligent in a couple issues. First, it claims :18% increases over a decade. That figure would be well below existing Fed inflation goals. Second, he seems completely unaware of recent developments in electricity production in our innovative private sector. Every week new deals are announced using developing technology to provide on location electrical power. No combustion. Extremely clean. Almost no water requirements. No storage requirement. Not reliant on weather conditions. Most importantly, economically competitive and with no reliance on the weakness of the current delivery system, the grid, managed by public utility folks. When you produce it at the site, you don't care about the grid. Additionally, relatively large scale capacities can be in place in 90 days, not years of public fighting over new utility plants. A certain energy producer that I won't mention has just concluded agreements with Oracle, American Electrical Power, Equinex and Quanta Computing, as well as having scores of existing, producing units at many Fortune 500 companies. Robert Reich might exit the faculty lounge and find out what's going on, not that he ever has. Solar and wind on any scale take up huge amounts of space and are ugly and often dangerous to various flying things. Domestic solar succeeds to some extent because it is subsidized by the taxpayer. When I had this house built, I fully intended to use it. My garage is good size, and perfectly suited for it: roof faces true south and is of the proper slope for this latitude. It has simply never made economic sense.

Surely you can't be serious. "Energy prices, particularly the cost of electricity, have skyrocketed since President Biden took office, outpacing inflation and putting a dent in Americans’ wallets. Since January 2021, electricity prices have soared 29.4% — 50% more than overall inflation — rising 13 times faster than the previous seven years, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Meanwhile, in those seven years before Biden took office, electricity prices rose just 5%." https://nypost.com/2024/04/12/us-news/electricity-costs-soar-under-biden-administrationenergy-prices-soar-under-biden-administration/ As an aside, there is a lot going on in the electricity supply chain, and way more to play out, so we will see. The recent heavily publicized threat of data centers sucking up residential supply is really not necessary, as recent agreements among other alternative energy companies have indicated.

Asinine bull####.

Ask Hamas. They have been stealing financial and food aid for years.

Ya. There is no getting through to me by any lunatic who would ever state that I support genocide, which you have done. I have a fair amount of experience and knowledge of the Iranian issue, which is what Hamas is from the cellular level. They are the force behind this tragedy. Full stop.

Is this a quiz? I know who created the July 2025 Hamas, just as I know who created the Oct 7, 2023 Hamas. The answer is Iran.

Dumb question. One is too many. How many hostages have died so far, and they were in Hamas' "custody."

It's incredibly easy to broaden the issue of Hamas' attack and the Israeli response beyond the basic reality. Hamas is a terrorist group of torturing murderers who have no goal of improving the life of Palestinians, and never has. Netanyahu's political or legal issues are of no concern to me. Israel is very much like the US regarding support or disdain for their Prime Minister. Scores of their political commentators, ex office holders and influential media folks talk about this all the time, but they don't disagree on what needs to be done to Hamas or Hezbollah. Regarding the strikes on Iran, the Israeli dismantling of Iran's air defense system, and the US strike on the three weapons facilities are the best thing that has happened in the Middle East in my adult lifetime, and maybe in 2025 years. A near miraculous outcome when what was possible, and thought likely, is considered.

They've had 18 years.

This is an insane claim. Totally wacky. Reaches the point of disgusting.

Of course they need to adjust in order to reduce a humanitarian disaster, and I absolutely hope they do. It doesn't change the fact that they didn't start this, no are they in any sane way responsible for what Hamas has morphed into as a client of Iran who trains, funds and supplies them for the sole purpose of killing Israelis. Same thing happened in the Six Day War and Yom Kippur. Gross aggression against Israel. In a few days they kick ass, them the aggressors go to the world court of public opinion to get them to stop. They do so, and it's repeated a few years later. That aside, I sincerely hope there is a change that allows the humanitarian aid to get to the innocents and not be stolen by Hamas. .

No. Just someone who has been watching this and paying attention for a very long time, and at times, very closely in the physical sense.

A few thoughts on this. Israel getting "briefed" by the US very likely isn't meaningful. Warnings of this sort happen all the time across the world, kind of like the US was warned about an attack prior to 9-11. There's probably twenty warnings for any event that occurs, and they must be considered and judged. The Israelis thought they had a pretty good grasp of Hamas' intentions prior to Oct 7, and they were dreadfully wrong. In fact, I was listening to the ex Israeli Ambassador to the US a few months ago and he stated that the general Israeli population lost a great deal of confidence in their domestic intel agency. By "primitive attack," are you referring to Oct 7? That was a ground invasion. Iron Dome is a very sophisticated air defense system which can still be overcome by numbers saturation, as all systems can. Israel has absolutely nothing to do with what Hamas has become under the command of Iran. I have no view on an energy component to this situation. We certainly don't need it. Again, the Palestinians have been offered a home state option three times, and refused each. Now they have no leader that the Israelis or the rest of the world can negotiate with. Because Israel is a sovereign nation under no obligation to reveal this info, and they are not signatories to any non proliferation treaties.