[GatewayPundit] "Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand," Gates said. "So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible."
From Gates’ interview with Technology Review, via The Hill:
"I do think all rich countries should move to 100% synthetic beef," Gates said when asked about how countries can help to reduce methane emissions when it comes to food production. "You can get used to the taste difference, and the claim is they’re going to make it taste even better over time.
"To help combat methane emissions produced by livestock." "Eventually, that green premium is modest enough that you can sort of change the [behavior of] people or use regulation to totally shift the demand," Gates said. "So for meat in the middle-income-and-above countries, I do think it’s possible." All about controlling our food supplies.
Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States.
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Ugh. Green premium that tastes wrong? Nobody will want it, and eating real meat will signal good taste. Put enough external pressure on it — regulation, social media control — and eating real meat will become a mark of wealth and success, too. At which point the poor will start raising rabbits and guinea pigs for meat, feeding them on kitchen scraps.
#5
Bill Gates needs to be disabused of the notion that he can tell anybody what to eat and what not to eat. His billions do NOT give him that right.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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After enough vodka I can't tell the difference from the cheap crap... After enough vodka I probably won't care if it's real or fake meat - if I even bother to try to eat it...
#9
synthetic meat is a really, really difficult task
vegetable protein to make a meat substitute is much easier - Impossible Meats and Beyond Meat have already produced 3rd generation products - still not as good as real beef but getting closer with each improvement
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#13
This is what happens when leftists worm their way anywhere close to public policy--they have ZERO opposition to mandating their personal opinions to become universal law.
[IsraelTimes] If the Mideast Studies Association adopts the anti-Israel resolution, it will be the only academic group to do so — and then, most likely, it will quietly back down
The massive international response to the crisis in Ukraine should have shocked BDS
...the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, an international outreach effort by the PLO to Jew-hating social justice warriors which has waged economic warfare on Israel since 2005. Omar Barghouti is the public face of the thing...
activists to the core. Twenty-plus years into its efforts to single-out Israel and sever its cultural, economic, and academic ties with the rest of the world, BDS has nothing to show for its efforts. Not a single company, bank, or university has joined the effort. Those who have attempted even a semblance of a boycott (like Ben & Jerry’s recent refusal to sell ice cream in the West Bank), faced immediate backlash, hurried to distance themselves from BDS, and eventually walked back their boycotts. Most US states now have anti-BDS laws on their books, as does Congress. As I show below, even on the most politically active campus in the U.S., students are unfamiliar with BDS, are skeptical about the effectiveness of sanctions, and vehemently reject academic boycotts.
#1
China will overcome this. Seeing how global markets weakens them will cause them to redirect their future efforts with Russia. They can't count on the west and Europe. They see more stability with Russia in my opinion. Attention now will be directed to pipelines whichever way is feasible. They have shown the will to act and quickly. The Arab world, Africans, Latin America, India all seem to work well with Russia and (India) must with China.
#8
In Operation Barbarossa the aggressor was Adolf Hitler and NAZI Germany. People who assume the aggressor in the current Ukraine war is Vladimir Putin are, I believe, mistaken. IMHO the war currently raging in Ukraine was started by Barack Obama and his deep state sponsors when they engineered the Maidan coup in 2014 to oust Ukraine's then pro-Russian President Yanukovic. This violent expansion of Western influence triggered a civil war in Ukraine's eastern provinces which was, until recently, being fought on a low level. So, in this respect, the comparison to Operation Barbarossa is apt because the invasion is going from West to East. The comparison is also apt because the Russians are having great difficulty repelling it.
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^ This is correct. It's fundamentally a civil war that has been going on since 2014. The Biden people view it as a proxy war between the US and Russia. You can make a strong case that the US Ambassador and the State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.
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/\ em>State Department and CIA started the war by engineering a coup in Kiev in February 2014.
Not to be critical, but is there some other method for starting wars we've somehow overlooked in the past 50 years or so ?
[SupermacroSubstack] Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.
On Saturday, in a speech in Poland, Biden said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power.” For the first time since Congress passed the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 and George W. Bush invaded Iraq to depose Saddam Hussein five years later, regime change is once again apparently U.S. policy.
This step is only the latest act of self-indulgent, imperious stupidity by Biden and the Harvard Kennedy School glee club running our foreign policy. A year ago, Biden blithely called Putin a “killer.” This month his administration accused Putin of being a war criminal. And now Biden is purporting to direct who can govern Russia.
Not since the Ottomans issued grandiose and widely ignored proclamations from the Sublime Porte in the last days of Constantinople has imperium been so pretentious and pathetic.
#1
This man is a menace. He is not of sound mind. His sick obsession is threatening the peace and prosperity of the planet and he is leading his nation off a cliff.
Remove Joe Biden from power. Before he destroys us all.
#2
Just when you thought that Washington couldn’t possibly concoct a worse foreign policy, President Joe Biden rose to the challenge—abetted by the Beltway uniparty. Democrats and Republicans alike seem to share the goal of putting America last.
He's to be pitied. His brain is decrepit. He does not understand that the art of negotiation requires carrots and sticks: Richard Nixon understood this well. For poor braindead Joe Biden there is no stick and no carrot, only words. So many words: "Killer!" "War criminal!" "Bad person!"
"Joe Biden went to Europe and advocated for a nuclear power's regime change, and then 10 minutes later his own White House had to contradict him. Seems like a big deal."
For sure. How much longer will they allow this cretin to utter such dangerous nonsense? Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage
#4
AP reports (via Twitter) that "After President Joe Biden declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin "cannot remain in power," a White House official asserted that the U.S. leader was "not discussing Putin’s power in Russia or regime change."
What kind of government operates like this? The head of state calls for regime change, and then his subordinates loudly and publicly contradict him. This is truly dangerous. The US needs to climb down and stop making these foolish and irresponsible pronouncements.
#5
Joseph Marionette Biden. He just says stuff. He doesn't have any real power. None of them do. The last guy thought he had power and you know where it got him. So they put a tool in office who needs notes and is led by the elbow to his meets.
When commissariats cut out the electorates and assume control of all decisions, the face of the party does not matter. Removing him requires them to find another flexible geriatric first. The disorganised nature of the Washington DC power structure was the problem. It was too representative. The Democrats have now solved it.
#6
This is the third time in the last few days that the American president made a reckless, outrageously provocative policy statement which his top aides were forced to walk back. He said he'd put US troops in combat in Ukraine -- triggering WW III. He said he'd use chemical weapons. He's pledged to overthrow Putin as if he were CornPop.
And every time, his advisers jumped in and said that this degenerate somehow meant the OPPOSITE of what he plainly said
#7
That's what I'm trying to tell you. He didn't mean to. They are trying to keep him on script but he is of the old order and forgets he is not in charge sometimes. Or, they never told him. Which is more funny in a way.
#8
All excellent comments and all are accurate. Biden, Graham, the late McShame, and others in Washington are simply parroting the Deep State (DS) "regime change" process they've come to know and love. They are not in charge of anything, they are simply handmaidens of the DS.
They're the crooked cops, pretending to protect us from the evil doer's while pocketing graft and kickbacks for themselves.
By the way, they treat enemies of the DS, both foreign and domestic in the same manner. The 2020 presidential election is a good example of their regime change handiwork.
#9
Gag him and lock him in the attic before he does any more damage
Nope. Gotta think things through:
1) Jo-jo back in the basement
2) Kama-Kama-Kameleon back under Willie Brown's desk
3) Skeletor back in her crypt with some Absolute to keep her quiet.
#10
This Christian Whiton substack writer is brilliant. His diagnosis of Washington's insane obsession with regime change is very accurate:
"Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism and wokeness abroad, and that American power and money are limitless. Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.
In fact, Ukraine has developed into something of their last stand. Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum put it plainly in an article in The Atlantic: “Ukraine Must Win.” No amount of killing and destruction around the world will deter her quest:
“That goal [in Ukraine] should not be a truce, or a muddle, or a decision to maintain some kind of Ukrainian resistance over the next decade…”
Only elusive victory will do, damn the cost of people, money, or risk to America. Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
If the globalists can snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in their outpost of empire in Ukraine, which they tried to tilt westward through a successful coup in 2014, then the hundreds of thousands of corpses from their failed interventions and nation-building experiments won’t look so bad, or so they reason.
#11
That pretty well sums it up. Explains why Biden is doing everything wrong, in ways that are contrary to American interests. He's deliberately prolonging the war when it's in our interest to end it. He's punishing the entire world with self-destructive sanctions that are just screwing over Americans and taking the US economy. He's causing powerful nations all over the world to dump dollars, find ways to trade with Russia, and making them determined to bring an end to the dollar's reserve currency status.
Only some bizarre quasi-religious higher goal could possibly justify such an extreme spectacle of self-destruction. Washington's obsession with "regime change" for Unwoke Leaders We Don't Like explains this well.
#12
#10 Biden and his enablers in both parties are being driven by the discredited fantasy that they can install neoliberalism Catastrophic failures in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria apparently haven’t given pause to the woke crusaders.
Exactly. Crusaders of both parties. Neocons and neoliberals trying to make the world over and trashing everything they touch
Quintessential globalist Anne Applebaum
Neocon bitch. Deranged Russophobe constantly shilling for her husband's Poland
Prolonging the war and subjecting Americans to the risk of a nuclear exchange with Russia for someone else’s dispute is worth not having to admit one’s world view is wrong.
So much damage results from people in power refusing to admit when they screw up. The Iraq war and the covid debacle also come to mind.
#13
Pay no attention to that man behind the podium.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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I continue to disagree as to his state of decrepitude. He has been a semi coherent blowhard his entire career in public life, this is not new.
That and even glancing knowledge of the man and his criminal spawn would suggest that the family motto is 'Do you know who I am'. You think the boys are full of interesting hi-jinks, have a look at the niece, there's a heartwarming tale.
This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully. Remember some of his lusty interactions with voters on the campaign trail.
So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.
Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
#15
#14 This nitwit's first impulse has ALWAYS been to bully.
Yes. Like all bullies, a shit talking coward
So now you have Putin in office until 2035, minimally, and however you might refer to this malignant imbecile calling him 'dictator', butcher', oh, and let's not forget 'war criminal'.
Mao Tsetung was the biggest butcher in history. Didn't stop Nixon and Kissinger from smiling and toasting him and singing his praises when it came time to seal a deal that would advance US interests.
Good thing the adults are back and brought all their 'Smart Diplomacy' with them.
These fuckwits are retarded children with no emotional control. Greta Thunberg is a sage by comparison
#19
This idiot has been talking nonsense for at least 13 years. He was the point man for Obama on Ukraine and he fucked it up back when the whole mess started, with the US coup in 2014. Biden's been saying stupid shit and off ever sense. Remember "limited incursion"?
#20
Niall Ferguson got it right. The Biden approach is a mixture of rank cynicism -- stoke the war, kill thousands -- and stupid wishful thinking about Russians miraculously rising up to overthrow Putin and replace him with a transgendered postmodern pro-American liberal. Ferguson on Twitter:
"People didn't pay enough attention to the evidence I presented last week about the cynical/optimistic plan to let the war keep going until there's regime change in Russia. So they were surprised by Biden's "gaffe."
#22
Yes, the problem goes way beyond Biden the marionette. The policy of trying to prolong the war is stupid and self-destructive. There is absolutely no chance that Putin will be overthrown. The sanctions are punishing us. These people are retarded. We will pay dearly for many years to come for their breathtaking incompetence m
#26
President Putin and the White House team fronted by President Biden both fully expected Ukraine to collapse within a few days. So did the cognoscenti running most of Europe.
So they were all comfortable talking tough on the assumption that they were not going to have to back it up.
Now they’re all in the distinctly uncomfortable and exposed position resulting from the fact that the Ukrainians are much tougher than predicted. Despite the deep corruption of Ukrainian politics and general society typical of former Soviet and Third World countries — including Mother Russia herself — the Ukrainians have thoroughly bloodied the Russian nose, and shown they’ll probably be ungovernable if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.
Whether or not Vladimir Putin is overthrown over this, President Biden will not be — that’s not how Americans do things. Hopefully the Republicans will take control of both Houses of Congress following the election in November, and continue the trend of adding more legislative seats and executive positions across the country at the state and local level. As an aside, note that Putin is now age 70, so his odds are poor of still running things in 2035.
#28
if the Russians don’t give up their quixotic quest to reestablish the Russian empire.
This is the flimsiest of all the straw man arguments put forth by the West's clueless analysts. There's no evidence whatsoever that this was ever Putin's goal. He stated clearly he wanted to destroy Ukraine's usefulness to NATO -- first, to "demilitarize ", Ukraine that is to render it neutral, and bomb the hell out of it ("wreck Ukraine" as John Mearsheimer says) so that it's now a basket case broken nation a la Palestine.
Second, to destroy the hold of the Ukrainian paramilitaries and shock troops on the Russian-speaking Donbas region. That's what Putin means by "de-Nazify": destroy the paramilitaries ie Azov, Praviy Sektor and the other neo-Nazi or far right military groups that have terrorized the Donbas for eight years.
Putin has achieved both of these goals. The Ukrainians have conceded in western interviews that Putin has won the south and completed his "land bridge" across Azov all the way to Crimea.
Putin never set out to "conquer" Ukraine or "restore the Soviet Union." These myths are just another example of how badly the US has fucked up its handling of this matter.
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Deleted your comments as requested, DooDahMan.
#30
No one who's been paying attention to this savage civil war during the last eight years could have underestimated the ruthlessness and savagery of Ukraine's far right paramilitaries. They have been killing and torturing Russians for eight years: over 10,000 butchered at their hands.
It's only ignorant and self-absorbed Americans who have failed to see that this is essentially a civil war that was triggered by the Obama administration's cynical coup plotters, Pyatt and Nuland née Nudelman. Like all civil wars it was always going to be ferociously fought tooth and nail, with horrific civilian deaths, on both sides. The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
Posted by: Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 ||
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#31
* yawns *
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03/27/2022 21:52 Comments ||
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#32
The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now.
#33
Russian empire is not exactly the same as USSR. While covering the same physical territory, one was a totalitarian Socialist mess, while the other will be a perfect Volksheimat with Valodya as the Great Man perfect leader, protector of civilized Christendom from the Muslim horde.
#34
#32 The "restore the USSR" narrative is embarrassingly stupid bullshit
"Putin did want to establish/expand what he called a Union State comparable to what is the Russian Federation now. You can read it here"
I've read that before, thanks. It's totally consistent with my point. You actually misinterpreted it.
The subject of that extremely literate and well-informed discussion is not the territories that correspond the the former Soviet Union. He is focused on "the southwestern lands of the Russian Empire" only, ie what are traditionally known as "Little Russia" and "Novorossiya, Crimea."
In other words, that document understand less my point exactly. He was NOT interested in "restoring the USSR." He was totally focused on defining the relationship to Russian history of those particular "southwestern lands."
And note the specific emphasis on Crimea and Novorossiya. Crimea was restored in full to Russian control in 2014, and Novorossiya has now been restored to Russian control control the last month's campaign.
Thanks for proving my point.
Posted by: Gomez the Rasher of Bacon3319 ||
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You really should read it more carefully. It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:
"Ukraine and Russia have been developing as a single economic system for decades, centuries. The depth of cooperation that we had 30 years ago could be the envy of the EU countries today. We are natural, mutually complementary economic partners.
"Such a close relationship is capable of enhancing competitive advantages and increasing the potential of both countries. And it was significant in Ukraine, it included a powerful infrastructure, a gas transportation system, advanced shipbuilding, aircraft construction, rocketry, instrument making, scientific, design, and engineering schools of the world level.
"Having received such a legacy, the leaders of Ukraine, declaring their independence, promised that the Ukrainian economy would become one of the leading, and the standard of living of people one of the highest in Europe.
He then describes the complete devastation Nd degradation of Ukraine during the period of gross corruption, plundering and manipulation by Ukrainian 'oligarchs,' their puppets like Zelensky, and American neocon conspirators and carpetbaggers:
"Today, industrial high-tech giants, which were once proud of both Ukraine and the whole country, lie on their [backs]. Over the past 10 years, the output of mechanical engineering products has fallen by 42 percent.
"The scale of de-industrialization and, in general, the degradation of the economy can be seen in such an indicator as the generation of electricity, which has almost halved in Ukraine over 30 years. And finally, according to the IMF, in 2019, even before the coronavirus epidemic, the level of per capita GDP in Ukraine was less than 4 thousand dollars. This is below the Republic of Albania, the Republic of Moldova and the unrecognized Kosovo. Ukraine is now the poorest country in Europe.."
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#35 Thanks for proving my point. My comment was an aside. And you're welcome.
My mistake! Sorry. Please revise my last comment to "You EVERYONE should read it more carefully..."
Thank you again (sincerely!). That's an exceptional document. A pity that the West's leaders aren't even half as literate and well-versed in history as the author of this document.
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#38
It's exceptionally balanced, moderate and well-argued. Here are three paragraphs that show how utterly misguided and destructive America's meddling in Ukraine in the Obama-Nudelman era was:
I agree with the first sentence.
So, let me simplify it, so my feeble mind can comprehend:
Barky and his Barkettes fomented a coup in Ukraine in 2014. Russia moved to preserve his Black Sea Naval base in Crimea by taking over Crimea, and as a prelude to this war, sent FSB operatives and others to stir up a separate coup, and a subsequent civil war.
The missive, the link of which I posted, was Russia's cause of war.
[Bus Insider] Tesla CEO Elon Musk in a recent interview said that the United States has a "very, very ancient leadership" and questioned how leading figures can "stay in touch with the people" if they are several generations removed from most of the population.
The comments from the electric vehicle and clean energy company leader came this week during a conversation with Mathias Döpfner, the CEO of Insider's parent company, Axel Springer, at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California.
Musk spoke about everything from Russian President Vladimir Putin to revelations that he sometimes feels "lonely," but he had pointed criticism for leaders whom he feels are disconnected from their citizenry.
When Musk was asked about humans having "a significantly increased lifespan," he offered a straightforward view about human life.
"I don't think we should try to have people live for a really long time," he told Döpfner. "That it would cause asphyxiation of society because the truth is, most people don't change their mind. They just die."
He continued: "So if they don't die, we will be stuck with old ideas and society wouldn't advance."
Musk then said that a "gerontocracy" — where a government is essentially controlled by citizens significantly older than the bulk of the population — is not healthy.
"I think we already have quite a serious issue with gerontocracy, where the leaders of so many countries are extremely old," he revealed. "In the US, it's a very, very ancient leadership. And it is just impossible to stay in touch with the people if you are many generations older than them."
He added: "The founders of the USA put minimum ages for a local office. But they did not put maximum ages because they did not expect that people will be living so long. They should have. Because for a democracy to function, the leaders must be reasonably in touch with the bulk of the population. And if you're too young or too old, you can't say that you will be attached."
Musk said that he'd like to see political leaders "be ideally within 10 or at least, 20 years of the average age of the population."
He said that while he would like to sustain good health over an extended period of time, he doesn't fear death.
"I am not afraid of dying. I think it would come as a relief," he said in the interview.
Over the course of President Joe Biden's tenure, Musk — who seemed pumped about the administration's push to combat climate change early last year — began to criticize Biden, who is 79, over his failure to include Tesla in the national conversation about electric vehicles.
In January, the billionaire on Twitter blasted Biden as "a damp sock puppet in human form."
Last month, the president during a speech called Tesla the country's "largest electric-vehicle manufacturer" after facing repeated criticism for not acknowledging the company as a leader in the automotive industry.
#1
I guess because Elon's grifts are aimed at young people and the "we'll just invent new power sources, never mind the industrial throughput..." naivete.
#5
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Dear fellow commentors;
Did you actually understood what you read? The age of average U.S. citizen is 38 point something so translated into plain English, Musk was saying that professional politicians should be "kicked out" of politics and away from the levers of power by the time they are ~60.
Are you really disagreeing with this considering the current clown-show of 60+ geriatrics in DC?
#6
As DeGaulle opined, "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." The problem here is too many of them use the trappings of power to put the graveyard off for too long.
Term limits are all that's really needed, along with a "no lifetime bureaucrats (looking at you, Fauxi) and no family political dynasties" policy enshrined in a special clause of the Constitution that says "this clause is not subject to alteration or removal."
Oh, and reduce the power they wield and the opportunities for graft. You will be surprised how quickly a certain type suddenly gravitates to other pursuits.
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An amen to both #5 and #6. Denying the obvious has become the hallmark of politicians and the current roster of democrats for certain.
Another method of effective crop rotation would be the taxpayer funding of first two terms only. Stay for more than two terms and the comp package is your responsibility.
#9
No correlation either way between age and effectiveness. Jefferson and Bobby Kennedy were in their 30s; so are Ocasio-Cortex and Swalwell. Franklin, Eisenhiwer, De Gaulle, Reagan were in their advanced old age when they achieved great things; so were Brezhnev and so is our fetid geriatric politburo.
Musk has achieved a lot. Kudos. He's also an exploiter of corporate welfare, a chaotic and nasty boss, a manipulator of markets. I wouldn't trust him or his fellow Silicon Valley overgrown adolescents anywhere near the levers of power.
#10
^ That's an excellent idea. I also think eliminating full-boat lifetime benefits for those appointed to fill a partial term and then not re-elected would be helpful. I also think when a politician is tossed out (rare, I know) for criminal reasons, the district they serve should do without representation until the next regular election. they can use the time while they have no say in gummint to maybe ponder electing a better class of candidate next time.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#11
Have the states compensate their own legislators.
"I am not afraid of dying. I think it would come as a relief," he said in the interview.
He wants yo die? Let the putz drive these Teslas. In the meantime despite my own age I'll still learning from the experience and wisdom of my elders. TW comes to mind.
Check out Karl Pillemer's work on the subject.Lessons for surviving crises, from the wisest among us.
He said “Oh you mean like a Tesla or something? The answer is you can’t. You cordon off the area, and spray a fine mist of water on the fire to try to keep the temperature down until it finishes burning. Takes a few days until it is safe”.
The problem is, besides being highly flammable, lithium is literally the lightest metal. At atomic number 3, it is the first element in the periodic table which is a solid. The two previous elements, hydrogen and helium, are both gasses.
Lithium is so light, it floats on water (lithium density 0.543, half the density of water). Lithium is entirely happy to blaze away while sitting on the surface of a puddle of water.
So if you try to smother a lithium fire with sand, the sand sinks to the bottom, and the lithium floats on top.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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