Maybe I should ask these guys for help?
As of writing this, I have been on hold for 30 minutes with the Social Security Administration. I have an hour to go, in their estimate. I managed to navigate the phone maze and get a replacement 1099 for my 95 year old father. Now I am on hold because I still need one for my Mom, who passed away in July. All this is so that I can get the income taxes done. NOT HAPPY RIGHT NOW.
But that is my problem, not yours. You came here for links (ha!) and an open comment section!
So links away!
- So this asshat gets 16 years for trying to impress gaming friends with his access to secret stuff…So, anyone else say… keep secret docs in the garage and give ’em out, to, you know a ghostwriter or such?
- Good old NASA. Always up to set fire to a billion or two.
- Even the Swiss vote themselves other people’s money. Doesn’t work well, mitenand.
SAVE THE DATE. Who knew STEVE SMITH was so musically inclined?
The comments are all yours.
You can’t get them online?
ONLY If you are the person in question.
What about power of attorney? Besides, online, no one knows if you are a dog.
I have POA from my Dad, but Mom is deceased.
Are you the executor for her estate?
No estate – small estate affidavit, had nothing but a small IRA with a survivorship to my Dad, and some personalty.
Sorry Swiss.
Sorry, about your mom.
Sorry about your mom, Swiss. That is rough.
Are you still at/near Chicago? Surely if you can vote for your Mom you can get her 1099….. (as long as you vote (D) of course…)
+1 identity theft. Sorry you have to deal with that bs Swiss.
STEVE SMITH HAPPY TO ADMINISTER TO GOVERNMENT LACKEYS…. AND BY ADMINISTER, MEAN….
See also “We’re the
phone companygovernment. We don’t have to care!” (always a classic)… HUG FROM BEHIND.
Laws are for the little people.
They couldn’t wait a day until 4/20?
You’ll need 4/20 to mentally cope with a STEVE SMITH mass rave. (AND BY MASS RAVE, MEAN….)
I think I’ll pass on a STEVE SMITH rave…
STEVE SMITH RAVE SONG.
Turning 67 soon. Retirement no where is sight.
Fuck Joe Biden.
I’d say I’m probably going to work until I drop — but I’m in an industry known for ageism…. so I really wonder when/if the next layoff or restructuring comes if I’ll mysteriously just never find work again.
Extra incentive to pay shit off already, I know, I know…. working on it.
Fortunately, my bosses know that I plan to stay on, and they seem happy with it. I enjoy my work, and the pay is good.
It’s just about coming to grips with the situation. Five years ago, I would have said the target was spring of 2024. Here we are, and that target has moved out another 8 to 10 years.
I enjoy my work, and the pay is good.
Ain’t you a fuckin’ unicorn. I hated my work. If I had only been ‘meh’ about it I might have stayed on, for the money.
Ain’t you a fuckin’ unicorn.
Yup.
Well, now you’ve done it.
Obligatory.
For what it is worth, my uncle didn’t retire until he was 79 and forced to. Still loved programing.
That stinks. Sorry Kinnath.
It was a conscious choice a year ago. I’m not terribly unhappy. But the COVID lockdowns, bailouts, and generalized economic fuckups made this certain.
And all the “whycome you want to kill granny” lockdown types don’t give a shit how they fucked up your retirement, and that of millions of people like you.
In fact, a lot of them come across as gleeful that this happened to Icky Class people like you.
The wife and I are totally icky people.
“This is historic,” Pierre-Yves Maillard, head of the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB), told AFP.
Switzerland’s Greens Party celebrated a “significant victory… for the many retirees who will see their situations improve”.
Just because they’re Swiss doesn’t mean they know basic economics. Although in this case, it appears that they’re just responding to incentives. If someone offered me more Swiss cheese for free, I’d take it too.
IT’S A TRAP!
Munny for nothing and Swiss cheese for free…
I want my…I want my…I want my cheddar cheese
“Mohamed Hadid, the real estate tycoon and father of models Gigi and Bella Hadid, called President Biden a “Zionist criminal” and claimed in a scathing social media rant that he and others would be “hunted down” like the Nazis for their support of Israel.
Hadid, who is Palestinian American, posted a clip of a woman saying “F**k Israel until the end of time,” claims that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip and the slogan “Free Palestine” — adding an ominous “or else.”
“This is Biden’s war on the Palestinian people. He will be in the court with the rest of the Zionist Criminals. We will hunt them down like they did the Nazis,” Hadid wrote in his Instagram Story on Sunday.
Hadid has been vocal in his criticisms of Israel since Hamas attacked the Jewish state on October 7.”
https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/world-news/mohamed-hadid-calls-biden-zionist-criminal-who-will-be-hunted-down-like-the-nazis/
CWAA
If they want to actually declare war on us — that’s their call. I would 100% vote we take any actual declarations of war seriously and return that favor and act appropriately.
At least they could try to be honest.
This is the part that stands out to me.
Muslims can lie, rape and murder – as long as it is infidels they do it to. God said so.
Is that a waiver of the off-topic waiting period?
I believe so, yes.
Turns out I didn’t have anything to say.
OK I LOLed
For my links, always, yes.
Re: Pentagon sentencing — it isn’t like he was colluding to bypass the chain of command, seize control of nuclear launch capability and hold conferences with agents of a foreign power or anything, just because he didn’t approve of his boss… that would be bad…..
And if I hear one more time “compromised our intelligence gathering / abilities” I’m going to puke. At this point, all I can think of to that tends to be “GOOD. SALT THE EARTH.” I think we should take our chances on the domestic front (and get the hell out of being world police to reduce our non-domestic profile) rather than let these assholes keep thinking they’re the sole arbiters of What is Right and Good for the Republic, unlike those silly citizens and their elected representatives.
I am a big fan of Saxsquatch. I wonder if he is inviting PPL MVR?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ZJLNozC5A
That Jack Teixeira story never made a bit of sense. If some National Guard Private actually had that kind of access, somebody else fucked up massively.
It’s usually easier for younger, junior enlisted types to get TS/SCI clearances, as they have fewer foreign contacts and less time to get into trouble.
Apparently “compartmented” doesn’t mean what I would think it does, since it seems you can scan the entire TS universe.
I just assumed that it was what always happens.
Too much of a hassle for the important people to always be on call and have to be handling secure stuff. So they delegate downward. Better that some lance coolie has to be on call and put up with all the inconvenience than to have to handle secret stuff securely.
Laziness always beats security.
I’m assuming SpaceX with their in-orbit refueling plans for Starship are going to work out a system for this anyway.
I believe that SpaceX is developing that under contract from NASA. Elon needs this for Mars, and the US taxpayer is paying his R&D. The Starship on-orbit refuelling system is on a very different scale than would be needed for most satellites. Also, satellites weren’t designed with externally accessible, machine friendly fueling ports, and they tend to use monopropellants such as hydrazine, as opposed to Starship which uses liquid methane and liquid oxygen (gotta keep ’em separated).
Valid points — I’m rather assuming that at some point keeping a Starship stage up there with one or more adapter modules which can then be resupplied for whatever fuels are required would be a natural step. Especially since you can then charge literally astronomical fill-up fees (and don’t get me started on the cost to have someone go out and clean the camera lenses!).
Yes, there is a tanker version of Starship in the works. Helpful for lunar exploration, a necessity for crewed missions to Mars.
Just in case you don’t have enough to fret about
Satellites and spacecraft burning up in our atmosphere are leaving metal particles in the stratosphere — and scientists are worried it could harm our planet.
About 10% of the particles floating around the stratosphere now come from the aerospace industry, and we don’t know if this could impact the climate.
——-
These new particles could also migrate to the troposphere, where they might influence the formation of feathery cirrus clouds. Unlike other clouds, cirrus clouds retain heat in our atmosphere, which could worsen the climate crisis.
It’s also possible that the particles could create a completely new phenomenon. Or they could do nothing at all.
Assume the worst. That’s where the grant money is.
“If they can barely be measured, their effects can be whatever you say they are!” seems to be the current
griftscientific push…. Stupid layman that I am — I find myself wondering about relative rates from meteorites, belched particles from volcanoes, etc…. not to mention that the human body fundamentally is weakened by “pristine” environments and all….“…relative rates from meteorites, belched particles from volcanoes…”
Like the ozone hole they are assuming the rates as they are now are a new condition. NASA says about 50 tons per day of extraterrestrial material falls to the earth. It is almost as if the earth is still in the process of accreting.
The usual suspects usual mendacity on display.
According to this, you’re off – on the low side – by two orders of magnitude:
https://www.space.com/extraterrestrial-dust-falls-on-earth
Self-own of the day, starring Keith Olbermann: https://twitter.com/jarvis_best/status/1764728149143613509
It’s not as if he’s terribly bright.
He is apparently pissy about it, though.
Urine such trouble when Swiss reads that.
*narrows gaze*
*narrows stream*
Now you’re going to have to prostate yourself at the feet of Swiss.
Lots of whiz-dom in that statement.
9-0? This is what happens when the fascist fake shit is brought up to a court with even a shred of integrity.
Unhinged.
What? He is against the fascists that want to destroy our govt, so he wants to destroy one entire branch of that govt. Makes perfect sense. You have to be a bigger and faster fascist so that the fascists can’t do their worst!
I don’t know if he’s a retard or if he’s just playing to his fans who are retards. He consistently has the stupidest take but the people that hang on his words like that nonsense.
I like how he calls out the liberals.
Keith Olbermann. I heard you were dead.
Some racist guy on X was blaming Clarence Thomas. And that’s it. Just Clarence Thomas.
I wonder who the next Emmanuel Goldstein will be?
Steve’o appears to be operating a turntable, so no, not musically inclined. Unless the guy that is available for wedding receptions and Bat/Bar-Mitzvahs is also a musician.
“Independent researchers said that while exhaust fumes have historically been been blamed for carbon emission pollution, the biggest polluter is now tires and brakes.
They found that brakes and tires release 1,850 times more particulate matter – which is air pollution – compared to modern tailpipes which have filters that reduce emissions.
The problem, they say, is that EVs are 30 percent heavier on average than gas vehicles, which causes the brakes and tire treads to wear out faster than standard cars and releases tiny, often toxic particles into the atmosphere.
EV batteries weigh about 1,000 pounds, and can result in tire emissions that are nearly 400 times more than tailpipe emissions.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13155147/ev-pollution-worse-exhaust-emissions-study.html
But EV’s get free power from the wall, and are made out of organic trees.
Just don’t brake. EV owners get special privileges to run every light in the name of Gaia.
EV demolition derby!
Just don’t get front row seats.
Tesla y weighs 300# less than a Ford Explorer. How will our roads survive?
Regarding the canceled OSAM satellite servicing project – yeah, it sucks that they burned through 2 billion USD of taxpayer money. But, at least they aren’t throwing more money at this.
Industry has this, folks. There is huge commercial demand for on-orbit satellite servicing, including deorbiting.
^^^
Nice.
While we are on the topic, I see that SpaceX just flew one of their Crew Dragon spacecraft for the 5th time. They will be evaluating the possibility of reusing them up to 15 times.
Meanwhile, Starliner has yet to make it to the ISS. Aren’t you glad we paid them nearly twice as much as SpaceX (because they are more experienced and reliable and we needed it sooner). Amd Aren’t you super glad that we cut them a check for nearly 400 million dollars extra to “expedite” their spacecraft, since we were in such dire need of having a craft immediately so we wouldn’t have to rely on the Russians?
My biggest worry at this point is that SpaceX will so thoroughly trounce the competition that they’ll sit back and become Boeing. No one else really seems to be stepping up to compete.
Not til Elon dies, at least
“Biden administration ADMITS illegal migrant secret flying program that has transported over 320,000 has national security ‘vulnerabilities’
Customs and Border Protection refuses to disclose information about a program last year secretly chartering flights of thousands of undocumented immigrants from foreign airports directly to U.S. cities.
This means that while record numbers of migrants were flowing over the southern border last year, the Biden White House was also directly transporting them into the country despite them holding no legal status.
Use of a cell phone app has allowed for the near undetected air import of 320,000 aliens with no legal rights to enter the United States.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13155765/biden-illegal-migrant-flying-program-national-security-vulnerability.html
Your tax dollars at work.
I wonder if they flew them to sanctuary cities?
Look fat, did they get to where we need them to increase our district count in the next census and vote once we ram through amnesty? Then fuck everything else, man…. we’ll have the power and that’s all that matters!
Now where’s my ice cream! Matlock? Did you bring it? Stand up, Matlock!
treason
O’Keefe and a few others have been documenting the industrial scale illegal migrant transport operation.
A slew of NGOs (many funded by the US government) are running a system to bring illegals from Ecuador to the border… and another group grabs then in secret once they cross the border and moves them.
The border patrol delivers the. By the bus load to secret distribution centers across the southwest. Local governments participate, but the facilities are labeled as an NGO charity.
Much more expansive and sophisticated than we have been led to believe.
If the homeless are now “un-housed” shouldn’t illegal immigrants be “un-American”?
Heard on the radio yesterday. Thought it was kinda clever.
Fulton county admitting voter fraud while trying to obfuscate.
The main point of the clip is that they cannot comply with an order to produce the scanned mail in ballot envelopes because they never did claimed scan.
Worse…. they claim it will take years to produce the reference signatures for the registered voters. Why? Because they are in 2 separate databases and they have to type in each voter ID or drivers license to pull them up 1 by 1 and check if there is a signature and then print it out.
Can’t even understand the request to just dump the entire database.
What does this mean?
They have *never* even attempted to verify signatures on mail in ballots, despite the requirement in state law.
Amazing, since when I show up to vote they have my signature right there and I sign right below it on the registration.
Nobody is ever even going to know this happened. Nor will they see how stupid their public servants are.
Any computer programmer … *any* computer programmer could write a program or script to match the envelopes and the reference signatures in a few days. Yet we are 3 years into merely deciding if it is possible to comply with the request (which is required by law within days of the election, IIR)
https://twitter.com/CannConActual/status/1763805955102277952?s=19
“All the ballot envelopes were under that water pipe that broke!”
(I’m honestly surprised they didn’t just say that and flip off the judge and the rest of the country).
Hell, you could probably do it in Access with zero programming
Exactly. This is intentional obfuscation. This is something they are required to do in every single election for every aingle mail in ballot… yet they are clearly not capable of doing it at all. Ever.
Any honest reporter would be running with this as a major scandal. But since they want the ability to “produce” mail in ballots without such limitations, nobody says anything.
This is how you know they are all in on it. As if the “requiring ID is racist” line wasn’t a giveaway, having no way at all of validating a mail in ballot should do it. Unless you know they are using that to rig the system.
They know.
I helped my 93 year old mother fill out her mail-in ballot in CA this weekend. So many ways to cheat. 1) I could have filled it out for her and she wouldn’t have known. 2) I could have pressured her to change her vote. 3) I could have spoiled her ballot if she voted for someone I didn’t like. 4) I could have not mailed the ballot. In an environment where people are convinced that the Orange Man is Hitler, does anybody really think none of the above happened?
Any minute now the quarter of a billion dollars Trump fans forked over to fight this are gonna produce results.
“costumes encouraged”
It’s a great opportunity for STEVE SMITH to walk around and do, um, other stuff in plain sight.
Under the heading of “credit where credit is due”, when my Dad passed away (finally, 2 years after a debilitating stroke) and we simultaneously moved Mom into a memory-care facility, I had to work a buncha things out with the SSA. To my great surprise, the SSA office in Statesboro, GA absolutely knocked it out of the park as far as service, speed, and communication.
Swiss, I hope when you get (got?) off of hold that your experience is (was?) as good. There are still a few high-performers out there.
UPDATE – after an hour ten, an agent was able to send a copy via snail mail.
Case of the Mondays, perhaps. /nk
Hmm, hope there are no Sheffield United fans among on. They’re done; today, & for the season.
Relegated?
Yep. Eleven games to go, eleven points from safety. But, it’s really twelve because their goal difference is -50 (which is close to unbelievable). Seventeenth placed team is -15.
Standard caveat: if Forest and/or Everton lost points then it could change things.
More points, in the case of Everton. Although they got 4 of the original 10 back.
But it doesnt matter, Sheffield U and Burnley are going down.
You left out Man City on the possible point losses….okay, I am laughing too hard to finish that thought.
13th fucking tier is where Man City should end up. Although, using the Everton appeal as a measure, I guess it would only be about 8th tier.
Re: City. Yes, but probably not relevant to the relegation issue.
Well, at least the hope won’t kill them. Ask Leeds about that last season.
Speaking of Steve Smith, did anyone link to this most Glib of memes?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2024/03/Screenshot-2024-02-28-at-3.59.01%E2%80%AFPM.png
Apparent no one has.
“But that is my problem, not yours.”
No. Social Security is everyone’s problem.
I and my former delightfully charming spouse of 12 years (no kids, thank god) parted ways over 25 years ago. She got half. She is six years my junior, so statistically, I’ll die first. Because we were married for 10 or more years, when I kick the bucket, she’ll start receiving a portion of my Social Security benefits every month for the remainder of her days. Is this a great country or what?
Ask the recently-spotted Elspeth.
I’m glad she got rid of those spots.
r– s–.
Oll korrect?
Oh oh, that sounds ominous.
That went right over my head.
Our resident matrimonial lawyer EF peeked in the other day.
Good to see you again.
My ex was gracious enough to die before she reached retirement age. She had hardly worked.
My mother got remarried X 2 after my Dad died, she switched to husband # 2’s SS ’cause it was bigger, then he died. #3 was still bigger so she switched again. Kept moving on up.
Thanks. Retired nearly four years ago. Since I was no longer at work, I really didn’t have time it takes to be here. Hoping all of you are well.
That’s the problem with retirement, not enough time to get everything done.
I don’t know, winter seems to slow things down.
Speaking of Elon and my being apparently in the Very Much Wrong Line of Work:
Almost $300k an hour… holy shit. Hopefully this isn’t going to that same idiot dingus who already ruled… because that’s just absolutely insane.
I forget…what was the premise for their argument that Musk cant work for his own company on his own terms?
Well, at least Maine isn’t going to try to skip around the Supremes. That’s a small bit of sanity.
“Monday Afternoon Screw Government Links”
Yes.
Raze it and salt the earth. That should get us a good generation or two of freedom.
A call by trade unions to add a 13th monthly pension payment each year secured nearly 60 percent backing, final results showed.
But a separate vote to raise Switzerland’s retirement age to 66 from 65 was soundly rejected by three-quarters of voters.
Other people’s money is sweet, sweet, sweet.
It is town meeting and town election season here in southern NH. The usual suspects are upset again about the SB2 system. Back when I first moved in NH, the usual suspects bitched about how hard it was to pass “necessary spending measures” because each spending measure had to go through two votes. Then the usual suspects figured out how to organize and get their proposals through. Now Republicans and libertarians are pushing back. So the usual suspects are complaining that the SB2 system is “too easily hijacked by a tiny minority.”
My town will have two deliberative sessions. One for schools and the other for the rest of the town government. The usual suspects have some big spending proposals because other people’s money is sweet, sweet, sweet. We’ll see what comes out of the sessions for the upcoming town elections. I’ll be at both sessions.
Fucking logic- how does it work?
On Monday, the Supreme Court decided unanimously that Trump is not disqualified from the presidential ballot. The Supreme Court was united on the idea that Trump will remain on the ballot in Colorado and that the state cannot remove him off its ballot. But the justices were divided about how broadly the decision should be construed. A conservative 5-4 majority, usually very respectful of states’ rights, said that no state could remove a federal candidate off any ballot — with four justices, including the court’s three liberal justices, asserting that the court should have limited its opinion.
States’ “rights” do not include imposing their laws on other states unilaterally.
States do not have the right to declare someone has committed a federal crime.
Yeah that’s how I see it.
Bring back the Fugitive Slave Act!!! Naturally Democrats would be pushing for that kind of federalism.
How does it work? More easily in the absence of TDS, that’s how.
TDS just really brings it out in the open – these fucks would be just as bad if Trump didn’t exist.
True.
Like Hitler, Trump was an evitable result of conditions they created themselves. If not Trump it would eventually be someone else. I suppose the name ‘Trumpeter’ is appropriate just not in the way they intended.
JFC. Does that come before or after the 13th month of vaction?
It comes out of a magic well. Dont you even economics?
SCOTUSblog on oral arguments on Trump’s bump stock ban
The Supreme Court on Wednesday was divided over the validity of a 2018 federal regulation banning the “bump stock” rifle attachment. The Trump administration regulation barred ownership of bump stocks, which transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a weapon that can discharge at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute, under an existing general prohibition of machine guns. Although some of the court’s conservative justices expressed concern that the regulation could subject the owners of bump stocks to criminal liability even though the devices were legal when they purchased them, several justices also contended that the lethal capacity of semiautomatic rifles fitted with bump stocks was precisely the kind of weapon that Congress intended to target.
With the gun-grabbers it is all horseshit all of the time.
No Congress was quite clear about what a fully automatic firearm is.
Fletcher emphasized to fire a machinegun such as an M16, an automatic rifle commonly used by the U.S. military, a shooter would press the trigger back and hold it. To fire a rifle equipped with a bump stock, he explained, the shooter would push the rifle forward, which both “initiates and continues the firing.” That is a “single function of the trigger,” Fletcher contended, because the shooter only takes one action – pushing the rifle forward.
Irrelevant. According to the statute, an automatic weapon fires continuously with only a single function of the trigger, not a single action of the shooter. A bump stock merely allows the trigger to function more rapidly, but each function of the trigger still only fires one shot.
This is one thing I’d love to have had DeSantis or anyone else throw in Trump’s face.
Uffda. Seems like cultural appropriation to me.
How dare they try to steal hip hop from black americans?
Stolen first from the Anglos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqGMMnGIi4
And it’s always hip hop – what is up with that?
Where are the indigenous dream pop artists?
Indigenous Dream Zydeco artists?
Indigenous Techno – UNTZ, untz, untz, untz, UNTZ, untz, untz, untz…
which transforms a semiautomatic rifle into a weapon that can discharge at a rate of hundreds of rounds per minute
Bump stocks hold a lot of rounds.
More points, in the case of Everton. Although they got 4 of the original 10 back.
But it doesnt matter, Sheffield U and Burnley are going down.
You left out Man City on the possible point losses….okay, I am laughing too hard to finish that thought.
13th fucking tier is where Man City should end up. Although, using the Everton appeal as a measure, I guess it would only be about 8th tier.
Dont know how this got down here too?
It was relegated to a Brooks thread?
*opera applause*
While the court’s liberal justices rightly grasped that the majority decision would emasculate the constitutional disqualification for waging and abetting an insurrection against the US government, they wrongly surmised that upholding the Colorado decision would allow each state to go their own way. Just as this decision allows Trump to be on the presidential ballots of all states, upholding the 14th Amendment disqualification would have meant his removal from the presidential ballots of all states.
That probably makes sense in backasswardland.
“waging and abetting an insurrection against the US government”
Has any such charge been brought? Has any such charge been prosecuted? Has any such prosecution led to a conviction?
The people pushing this are claiming they can punish a person for crimes they invent sans any due process. They are claiming that they, outside a reading of clear law, can decide whom voters are allowed to choose.
I never dreamt they would be able to stray so far outside our system and be able to pass Stalinesque edicts with impunity. A mere tut-tut from SCOTUS doesnt really go far enough. The real cherry on top is the howling and screeching over this decision. They are like retarded children foaming at the mouth and screaming “YOU CANT TELL ME NO!”
They still haven’t had their half billion dollar judgment, sans any real due process, overthrown.
This epitomizes “and then nothing else happened.”
Bunch of leftists are pissing and moaning about the 5-4 decision to pre-emptively ban ALL the creative attempts by states to remove Trump from the ballot. As if a narrow ruling wouldn’t have had exactly those attempts to subvert this decision by flinging other bullshit rationales for disenfranchising all the voters in a state.
Sweatshirts are in, this season
Ithaca Tattoo & Piercing is closed on Mondays. But the downtown two-story brick building was bustling recently, even without customers around.
Heating and air conditioning vans were parked on the street, and crews brought equipment to replace the building’s natural gas furnace with more efficient electric heat pumps. The workers sawed through flexible yellow gas hose, pulled it from the walls and hauled it out to the sidewalk. That’s where building owner John Guttridge was standing and looking proudly at the growing pile of hose and old equipment.
“We have just torn out the very last of the gas appliances in this building, which we have just replaced with all air source heat pumps. So we are going fully electric,” he says. Asked what this moment means to him, Guttridge says, “That my children are going to have a sustainable future on this planet.
A liberal college town in upstate New York, Ithaca pulled together widespread support for an ambitious plan to eliminate its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 — 20 years earlier than the target date the White House set for the rest of the country. But half-way through its 10-year plan to address climate change, Ithaca has seen how difficult it is to move off fossil fuels.
Saving the planet, one hippy-dippy college town at a time.
He’ll probably be confused when he gets his first winter electric bill.
Greedflation!
“…more efficient electric heat pumps.”
My experience with heat pumps is that they dont heat worth a shit.
They don’t cool worth a shit either. In fact, they only work properly in climates that are 72 degrees Fahrenheit, year round.
Today is the day the Finger Lakes stop rising.
In 2019 the city passed a Green New Deal resolution that also promises to address, “historical inequities, economic inequality, and social justice.”
The city is focused on eliminating gas from buildings because natural gas is mostly methane, a potent greenhouse gas with more climate-warming power than even carbon dioxide when first released. The goal then is to switch buildings to electricity that’s generated mostly from renewable electricity.
Hocus pocus, alakazaaaam!
It will be generated by the combustion of natural gas and then much of it lost in the transition and transmittance, using many times the amount of natural gas that would be combusted if they just burned it directly in the building. The duncery behind the whole greenie shell game is breathtaking.
COP is 3:1 not a good trade,
Yes, my gas stove just emits methane. No combustion necessary for it to produce heat.
Wut?
Just riffing on what the author of the article seems to believe. Sure, methane released as methane is a more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2. That seems to be one of the arguments for banning gas in homes even though the gas is burned to release CO2 instead.
Ok.
*Sighs
Pull my finger. I’ll show you methane.
Did you get a permit for that?
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFweeet!
I just shove a garden hose up my ass and fart through a lawn sprinkler.
Is it a little tractor sprinkler or one of those swing arm ones?
“As of writing this, I have been on hold for 30 minutes with the Social Security Administration. I have an hour to go, in their estimate”
Sorry for your loss.. Not to minimize but USCIS won’t even take calls these days. If you yell at the’digital assistant’ then it hangs up on you!
Our government has gone to pot.
Actually, if they went to pot we could at least check one box off the libertarian wish list.
ha
more efficient electric heat pumps
“Efficient” not same as “effective”.