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Just now, chasfh said:

I tried to do something like that with this thread:

 

 

But it seems as though this other thread may well get more traction:

 

 

Either way, I'll go where the people go.

Fixing the "Autocrat problem" is couple phased thing.   G2 warned me about Citizens United and I was too blinded by partisanship to see that back then.  Now, its clear as anything that the foundation of the US electoral system is rotted.  I don't know how we fix that without massive COVID-like emergency.  Good news!  This administration won't take long to create the conditions for that next disaster.  I just hope the educated and ethical among us survive that next horrible thing. 

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10 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Clock or time-bomb?

(between the election and spouse's knee replacement surgery, That ticking could just be me 
 

 

I guess it's technically a timer, since timers count down and clocks count up. So, timer's ticking.

Meaning someone's fi'na get booted.

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3 minutes ago, smr-nj said:

And I then saw Lee & others do a perfectly good job of answering / clapping back at that comment. 
You seem unhappy lately. Is everything okay?

I am really good, thanks for asking. Traveling a bunch for my new gig. Been in Chicago working on organic diesel engine tech with the big three engineers. Clean diesel is closer to reality then EV now! 

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28 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

I am really good, thanks for asking. Traveling a bunch for my new gig. Been in Chicago working on organic diesel engine tech with the big three engineers. Clean diesel is closer to reality then EV now! 

I would tend to agree that for heavy engines diesel's are going to be harder to replace than getting gasoline engines off the street.

One aspect of this that gets sort of into the weeds technically but that is interesting to me because of my history, is that if  demand for gasoline falls precipitously, which there is every likelihood is going to happen in the next 30-40 yrs, but demand for diesel and jet fuel do not - and it's hard to see how they can drop anywhere nearly as fast,  there is going to be a very hard question of what refiner's are going to do with all the light ends they are going to have left over. The Otto engine was invented/gained popularity in the first place because gasoline was cheap and available because the major refinery product back then was medium weight oil - heating/lighting etc and the gasoline was left over. It's generally harder to process small molecules into larger ones and since the rise of the spark engine, gasoline has long been the major refinery output, there wasn't much need to. To reconfigure refining in so major a way will cost refiners huge dollars when they are facing overall shrinking sales volume.

To me this is the kind of real world tech 'gotcha' laying in the weeds out there that flies well below any academic or political consciousness about the future.

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Tulsi to DNI is apparently the thing they wanted to hide with the Hegspeth pick for SecDef

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Tulsi in a national security role would be a disaster. She’s a Putin and Assad apologist and has completely misguided foreign policy opinions. This is how you start off alienating our allies.
 
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