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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: Ben on September 18, 2019, 04:36:17 PM
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NBC "News" (note quotes) wants people to confess their climate sins.
I don't know that I have any climate sins, but I do have some awesome climate stuff I do.
I live in Idaho
I burn half my trash
They don't have recycling bins for rural pickup and I throw away hundreds of plastic bottles
I have cheap electricity and use a ton of it
I have a wood stove
I BBQ
I drive 100 mile round trip just to try a new burger joint
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I know there is way more awesome stuff I do because smart people invented stuff to make my life easier.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/09/18/feeling-guilty-about-contributing-to-global-warming-nbc-news-is-taking-climate-confessions-definitely-not-a-religion-though/
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For 21 years I drove a Ford F250 superduty 4x4 with a V10 gas triton. Sometimes it was only hauling me and a briefcase.
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"No, this doesn't make it a religion you Science denier!!!!!" - Leftist
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I have campfires for the simple enjoyment of roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.
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I have campfires for the simple enjoyment of roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.
Oh yeah, after my grand niece gets a chance to play in the fort/playhouse the previous owners left in the backyard after her visit next week, I'm tearing it down (and probably burning it) and turning that area into a backyard fire pit for whiskey and cigars. The enviros are way on the hate train regarding heating with wood stoves, campfires, BBQs, etc., so that's where I'm focusing my efforts. :laugh:
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Instructions:
1. Complete step 2 before moving to step 3
2. Remove children
3. Burn playhouse
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I just mowed 15,000 square feet of lawn using a gas-powered Honda push mower.
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I have campfires for the simple enjoyment of roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.
Always pissed me off that the bastards are going for our oldest, most basic tech and demonizing it. Next they'll come for the wheel.
I have fires in the back yard all fall, weather permitting. It's completely illegal and that just makes me want to do it more.
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I modified all the spouts on my gas cans as well as drilling holes in the handles opposite the spout so that the gas actually pours out defying the EPA. I mow and fill up gas cans and cars on whatever those days the tree huggers tell us not to mow or fill up your gas cans and cars.
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My home is heated by nat gas and cooled using electric derived in part from coal.
My kitchen uses nat gas and electric appliances also.
Daily i drive a vehicle manufactured using petroleum products, it runs on petroleum products and mostly is driven on roads made in part from petroleum products.
Every day I wear clothing that is comprised wholly or in part of materials derived from petroleum.
All the Chinese manufactured crap I own came over in shipping containers transported by the largest polluting form of transportation on earth.
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My home is heated by nat gas and cooled using electric derived in part from coal.
My kitchen uses nat gas and electric appliances also.
Daily i drive a vehicle manufactured using petroleum products, it runs on petroleum products and mostly is driven on roads made in part from petroleum products.
Every day I wear clothing that is comprised wholly or in part of materials derived from petroleum.
All the Chinese manufactured crap I own came over in shipping containers transported by the largest polluting form of transportation on earth.
Awesome, right up to the shipping part. Pound for pound ships and trains can't be beats for transportation efficiency.
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I've kept a tire fire burning continuously on my back 40 for the last 37 years.
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My household consumes almost 3 times the world average of meat per capita. My wife is vegetarian.
We keep the thermostat at 72 year round.
We have more cars than drivers.
there's probably more, but that seems to be enough for now. Do we say 5 Al Gore's, or is there going to be flagellation involved? Or am I imagining the religious overtones and this is more of a struggle session (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struggle_session)
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I've kept a tire fire burning continuously on my back 40 for the last 37 years.
My hat's off to you, sir. You just won the thread.
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I've owned/driven SEVERAL cars that got single digit mileage but were VERY quick/fast/powerful
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I fart
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My hat's off to you, sir. You just won the thread.
Thread, hell -- I think that won the entire Internet.
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I fart
Now that is the last straw!!! (really, it the last one since they outlawed them). We have to pass legislation to regulate charby farts (and burps also). It is for the CHILDREN!!!
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I live on a piece of land large enough to house a few thousand city hive dwellers, and I keep most of it in the form of a neatly mowed lawn.
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I live on a piece of land large enough to house a few thousand city hive dwellers, and I keep most of it in the form of a neatly mowed lawn.
Push mower, I hope. Nothing that uses Petro-Poison.
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Push mower, I hope. Nothing that uses Petro-Poison.
16hp lawn tractor, 2-smoke trimmer, blower, hedge trimmers... I use a whole 3rd world village worth of small engines to groom my 3rd world village sized plot of land. Did I mention roundup? Or weed and feed?
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I routinely use old, dirty motor oil to start my brush pile fires, sometime it takes a couple of gallons.
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16hp lawn tractor, 2-smoke trimmer, blower, hedge trimmers... I use a whole 3rd world village worth of small engines to groom my 3rd world village sized plot of land. Did I mention roundup? Or weed and feed?
I would have been impressed if you also had a small corner dedicated to an eternal tire flame like HankB.
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I pour old gas on the ground behind my shed. We heat the house to 78 in the winter. I ran up two months of electric bills of $230.00 a month keeping the house cool during our heat wave.
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I'm a white American that eats meat and drives a car wherever I go. I even sit in my car and run the AC on my lunch break. I don't even recycle.
So proud of myself right now.
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I pour old gas on the ground behind my shed. We heat the house to 78 in the winter. I ran up two months of electric bills of $230.00 a month keeping the house cool during our heat wave.
A/C is not only bad for the environment, but its incredibly sexist as well.
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A/C is not only bad for the environment, but its incredibly sexist as well.
So much the better. He gets double shitlord points.
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Nuts. Elizabeth Warren is better at this than I am.
Elizabeth Warren
✔
@ewarren
Every so often while I’m traveling around the country, I’ll have someone come up to me and say, “I’d love to grab a beer with you.” Well, here’s your chance. Chip in now to be automatically entered and, if you win, we’ll fly you and a friend out to grab a drink with me.
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HankB wins.
We also have more cars than drivers, including a 4wd Jeep thats only really necessary 4-5 days a year if my wife chooses not to work from home those days. In the spring and summer, I often will spend Friday evenings hanging out at a quarter mile strip of pavement laid down in the middle of pristine farm land. While there, I will often heat my tires releasing foul smelling smoke into the atmosphere and then proceed to run the car full throttle for around 11 seconds over and over for no good reason. I'll also usually consume some red meat heated over red hot chunks of coal in between runs...
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I commute too far, but bought a 35mpg car due to the economics. I heat with wood but if no one else is here I like the house at about 63. The AC ran for five weeks this year, more than normal. I eat meat but I strive to produce a fair amount of my own protein. I drive off road to rape the land of indigenous critters but I pick up a bag of trash every time I do. I don't recycle everything I can but I teach my offspring to focus more on the reduce and reuse as they are far more important than the lazy R. I used no lawn or garden chemicals this year. My bees and native bugs thank me.
We can not be woke leftists and still give a crap about the world we live in.
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NBC "News" (note quotes) wants people to confess their climate sins.
I don't know that I have any climate sins, but I do have some awesome climate stuff I do.
I live in Idaho
I burn half my trash
They don't have recycling bins for rural pickup and I throw away hundreds of plastic bottles
I have cheap electricity and use a ton of it
I have a wood stove
I BBQ
I drive 100 mile round trip just to try a new burger joint
That's all I can think of off the top of my head, but I know there is way more awesome stuff I do because smart people invented stuff to make my life easier.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/09/18/feeling-guilty-about-contributing-to-global-warming-nbc-news-is-taking-climate-confessions-definitely-not-a-religion-though/
filled in the online confessional
<wail!>
I flush. Every time!
Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
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Woke folk are logic-impaired.
My town has had recycling for many years. Mind you, we don't have municipal trash collection but, for those of us who make the weekly Saturday pilgrimage to the transfer station (formerly sanitary landfill, and before that just "the dump"), we are expected to separate recyclables from "trash" and to deposit this into the appropriate dumpster. But the rules keep changing. At one time, newspaper had to be separate from magazines and office paper, and both had to be separate from corrugated cardboard. Non-corrugated cardboard was "trash." Now? All of the above go into the same dumpster.
Also in previous years, plastics went into one repository (but only two of the six classes), glass went into another (but, inexplicably, not green glass -- that was "trash"), and cans went into another. Now glass, all classes or recyclable plastic, and all glass go into the same dumpster.
We now also have a 40-foot storage container devoted to collecting computers, monitors, televisions, and printers. But you're not allowed to touch anything once it has been discarded.
As many of us know, though, the most effective way to recycle is to reuse, thereby keeping things out of the waste stream entirely. Other towns in my state recognize this and at their transfer stations have established areas, or even entire buildings, where people can deposit stuff that still works but that they don't want or need -- and other people can come in, pick through it, and take whatever they want, for free. I have suggested to my town government multiple times that we do this. I've given up suggesting it, because I have been summarily rejected each time I mentioned it. Apparently my town's governing politburo fears the notion of hoi polloi being attracted to our pristine utopian paradise by the siren song of our ... trash.
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Okay -- I confess:
When I shower, after soaping up I don't shut off the water while I scrub.
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Okay -- I confess:
When I shower, after soaping up I don't shut off the water while I scrub.
I shower twice a day. On summer days it's often 3 or 4. Beat that.
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I shower twice a day. On summer days it's often 3 or 4. Beat that.
The female sailors on the Iwo were taking so many showers a day (dodging work) that they depleted half our fresh water in a matter of days and got the entire ship put on water hours. Normally our plant made s much excess we had to dump fresh water back into the ocean.
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I’m a straight white ultra right wing male, which of course is the greatest sin of all time. I maintain machines that rape the earth. I live in a large house that is far larger than our “needs” and i keep it as cold as our A/C can. I have four methane emitting and resource using dogs. My wife drives a hummer (only the baby H3, wish it was an H1), i drive a V8 pickup and we both drive 45 mins to work. I eat meat, and lots of it.
Too bad I’m not a woke climate change leader with multiple mansions and a private jet that burns a couple thousand pounds per hour of fuel, I’d be so much more earth friendly then!
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Too bad I’m not a woke climate change leader with multiple mansions and a private jet that burns a couple thousand pounds per hour of fuel, I’d be so much more earth friendly then!
Well, if you were half as woke as (for example) Al Gore, you would just buy "carbon credits" to atone for your climatic excesses.
What the bleep is a "carbon credit," anyway? To me that sounds like buying charcoal briquets using a Visa card.
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Well, if you were half as woke as (for example) Al Gore, you would just buy "carbon credits" to atone for your climatic excesses.
What the bleep is a "carbon credit," anyway? To me that sounds like buying charcoal briquets using a Visa card.
It is paperwork fiction. The people running the carbon credit exchanges (the politicians and wealthy pushing global warming) would make a cut of the exchanges and net quite a bit of money.
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It is paperwork fiction. The people running the carbon credit exchanges (the politicians and wealthy pushing global warming) would make a cut of the exchanges and net quite a bit of money.
Not just would, did....
https://www.quora.com/Is-Al-Gore-really-profiting-from-his-climate-change-advocacy-via-carbon-trading-programs-or-is-it-more-right-wing-fake-news
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I believe one or two of you can beat me, but I have 4 children. (And we'd like even more.)
That right there beats everything the rest of your put down.
Additionally, I'm teaching them that the climate crap is a bunch of hysterical claptrap, not science.
Anyone else care to trump that?
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Okay. I remember seeing an article saying Obama and some wealthy friends were trying to set up a carbon exchange in Chicago about the time he was pushing for carbon credit legislation as President.
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I can't run with you big dogs of climate sin, but I did enjoy this tasty steak, grown from an EXTRA flatulant steer. (got him from the 4H auction!) 1 1/4 ribeye of climate denying goodness, served with potatoes dug by tractor, corn fertilized and pesticided to GMO perfection, and washed down with gin from another continent!
And I'm gonna have a fire tonight because the county has outlawed fun. >:D
(https://imgur.com/a/yQrPc5x)