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General Discussion / - Bugout Machine Subdivision...
Last post by K-Dog - Today at 02:21 PM
Quote from: RE on Today at 12:05 AMThese days, spending your Golden Years living on a Golf Course means pitching a tent in one of the Sand Traps.



https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/11/more-people-aged-65-face-homelessness-md-housing-officials-report/

More people aged 65+ face homelessness, Md. housing officials report

RE

It's America.  Bottom lines can't grow in capitalism without a reserve army of unemployed, and the homelessness that comes from it. 

American denial means times get tough.  The precariat must suffer as a function of system dynamics responding to denial and capitalist cultural hegemony.
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Past Peak / - Big oil firms knew of dire...
Last post by K-Dog - Today at 02:06 PM
QuoteBig oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

The roots of morality lie in applying logos to natural social relations.  This requires thought and is a cultural activity.  Natural social relationships are biological based on instinct.  Without culture biological relations dominate.

Tribal relations have the biological basis.  Successful application of logos to tribal instincts requires extensive cultural conditioning.  Tribal roots are deep.  Difficult to adjust.

Tribal relations say do not give a fuck about anyone but you and yours.  And the morality of certain traditions says everyone is in your tribe.  Problem solved.

But the going from A to B is not a thing that is automatic here.  Common morality worships biology over logos.  The morality of the useless eater.  Logos is in short supply.  Defining everyone as a member of the tribe is an enlightened tradition and not the default.

Consider MAGA and think about dropping the second A.  Make America Great does not have strong power without the 'Again'.  The 'Again' represents existing tribal membership.  It gives warm fuzzies to the circle-jerking tribe and fucks everyone else.  Without 'Again' people feel naked and alone.

The big oil tribe took care of itself and fucked future generations.  This is normal human behavior.

Logos is in short supply.
#3
Past Peak / Big oil firms knew of dire eff...
Last post by RE - Today at 11:51 AM
Of course this will be no surprise to long term readers of the Diner as well as anyone familiar with how the various corporate behemoths in industries like tobacco and pharmaceuticals employ scientists for the specific purpose of obfuscating and camouflaging the damage they do to both the health of people and the health of the planet.  It is worthwhile though to get specifics on who knew what and when they knew it in terms of at some point perhaps assigning blame and prosecuting the managers, scientists and engineers who were instrumental in what will in due time be the largest Mass Murder of homo sapiens in history.  If you cover up activity you know is deadly, that makes you an accessory to murder, so all the leading scientists and engineers who worked for the fossil fuel extraction industry should be tried for multiple counts of 1st Degree Murder and then Executed once found Guilty.


Of course, with Judges now being appointed by Trumpovetsky it's more likely said murderers will be given the Congressional Medal of Honor, but at least when they face Eternal Judgement we can be relieved to know they will Burn in Everlasting Damnation in the Fire & Brimstone of HELL.

Big oil firms knew of dire effects of fossil fuels as early as 1950s, memos show

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/12/big-oil-fossil-fuel-warning

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General Discussion / More people aged 65+ face home...
Last post by RE - Today at 12:05 AM
These days, spending your Golden Years living on a Golf Course means pitching a tent in one of the Sand Traps.



https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/11/more-people-aged-65-face-homelessness-md-housing-officials-report/

More people aged 65+ face homelessness, Md. housing officials report

RE
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General Discussion / - Billionaires like Elon Mus...
Last post by K-Dog - Nov 11, 2024, 08:36 PM
Quote from: RE on Nov 11, 2024, 06:41 PMThe feeling is mutual.

The only good Billionaire is a dead Billionaire.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/billionaires-elon-musk-hate-us-ultra-wealthy-climate-crisis

Billionaires like Elon Musk don't just think they're better than the rest of us – they hate us

RE
One does not have to be rich to be a narcissist, but those who are likely spread the most pain.

Inherited money drops the IQ of succeeding generations by 10 points every time.  Can something like that be studied?  No, but that does not make it less true.  Simply unproven.  Nobody is going to get a grant to study this.  What would Ockham say?

Who else but the rich the time to learn things at a deep level?  It is a genuine quandary.  The real deal.  It is getting back to nobody but them having any time for thinking.  Everyone else is busy bussing between part time jobs, too exhausted for any fatigue that critical thinking is sure to bring.

Thinking is tied to wealth.  If you are a janitor who smokes a fat doobie and watches You Tube all day you do not need the same political rights as Elon Musk.  Musk knows what to do with stuff and you don't.

There are weighty issues to decide.  You are just a maggot wiggling in the carcass of humanity.  One of millions and billions.  Just comply and die.  It's the circle of life.  Do your part.  And when Musk  makes a smoking husk of things say, it was not me.  All I did was stand by and watch.


When the undesirables are shipped to Mars it will be a paradise.
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General Discussion / Billionaires like Elon Musk do...
Last post by RE - Nov 11, 2024, 06:41 PM
The feeling is mutual.

The only good Billionaire is a dead Billionaire.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/11/billionaires-elon-musk-hate-us-ultra-wealthy-climate-crisis

Billionaires like Elon Musk don't just think they're better than the rest of us – they hate us

RE
#7
Past Peak / - Peak Oil 101
Last post by K-Dog - Nov 11, 2024, 01:05 PM
Quote from: RE on Nov 11, 2024, 11:14 AM

Currently at $68.  I wonder who still makes a profit when the price drops into the $50s?

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/WTI-Breaks-Below-70-as-Demand-Concerns-Drive-Bearish-Sentiment.html

WTI Breaks Below $70 as Demand Concerns Drive Bearish Sentiment

RE

Socialization for the rich.  Taxes will subsidize the extraction of every last drop.  The crisis of 2008 showed what the FSOA is willing to do to keep the gravy train of our elite going.  As long as there are proles too stupid to wonder about the big picture, and rich narcissists to exploit them.  The game goes on.

Global fossil fuel subsidies on the rise despite calls for phase-out

It is capitalism and die.  The decision has been made.  Fundamental changes that could save the day will not be made.
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Past Peak / WTI Breaks Below $70 as Demand...
Last post by RE - Nov 11, 2024, 11:14 AM


Currently at $68.  I wonder who still makes a profit when the price drops into the $50s?

https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/WTI-Breaks-Below-70-as-Demand-Concerns-Drive-Bearish-Sentiment.html

WTI Breaks Below $70 as Demand Concerns Drive Bearish Sentiment

RE
#9
General Discussion / The Allure of the Motorcycle I...
Last post by RE - Nov 11, 2024, 12:41 AM


In the reasons motorcycles are on the decline, the author neglects to mention the most obvious, the demographic shift and aging population. Cruising around on motorcycles is mostly a young male pastime, with its Macho, Tough Guy, Cool, Sexy image it conveys.   As has been noted in all the falling birthrate articles, there just are relatively fewer of the teen and 20-something male consumers of these vehicles around.

Far as the impracticality goes, that has always been the case, and the main reason lots of young men got them in the 50s & 60s was they were cheaper than cars.  Later on as they started getting super powered up and tricked out the price differential wasn't so big, but in the 50s you could buy a bike for a few hundred while a car ran a few thousand.  You could pay cash for it, no loan needed.

I doubt they will disappear completely.  At least until there are zero adolescent males around who want to flash a motorized penis substitute around to pick up girls.  Or these days pick up other guys.  lol.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-11-08/why-us-motorcycle-sales-may-never-recover?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDi7PAKMIXduwIw8fqvAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=g&gaa_n=AVINqTxW9QcNe3-WHQHWrRY__4XUCFSacGbewD0xy1nGLizR3QqL9SHTv9mtIeZOlYjBZWTzC9J_vjEfFM6T&gaa_ts=6731caea&gaa_sig=9pxjzqiWCQqS7q2UYiz37Ga5btDmYKWA8sD5yZYurgEZNW9lEYBepB3Mrz8aTUL3ed5hAGB9iCZp6dkAg9vV0A%3D%3D

Weekend Essay
The Allure of the Motorcycle Is Stalling Out
#10
Resources / Santa Fe couple frustrated ami...
Last post by RE - Nov 09, 2024, 08:40 AM
Looks like Santa Fe is  taking lessons from the Cubans.

https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/santa-fe-northern-new-mexico/santa-fe-couple-frustrated-amid-continued-power-outages/

Santa Fe couple frustrated amid continued power outages

RE