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KUTradition wrote: Fri Oct 04, 2024 8:48 am
A new report reveals that a handful of wealthy countries, led by the United States, are spending billions on unproven climate technologies, according to the Guardian.

These nations have given nearly $30 billion in subsidies for carbon capture and fossil hydrogen over the past 40 years. The U.S. alone has spent $12 billion in taxpayer money, and dirty fuel giants hope to secure even more in the coming years.


not only are these relative bandaids (rather than sutures), but they don’t even appear to be able to stop the bleeding
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“simple” for sure
Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?
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My brother was in a hole in the wall bar in Minnesota this weekend waiting for some of us to arrive and within 15 minutes the locals were talking to him about how the Deep State government, aligned with Blackrock, were manipulating the weather in order to drive people out of areas so that they can mine the lithium deposits.
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sounds like an interesting bar conversation. those are the kind of conversations that you hope to have when you walk into the bar and belly up. that's awesome.

i think your brother made that up. but it is still awesome nonetheless.
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He did not.
He pointed out the gentlemen.
Bright orange hats and all.
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pdub wrote: Mon Oct 07, 2024 1:33 pm My brother was in a hole in the wall bar in Minnesota this weekend waiting for some of us to arrive and within 15 minutes the locals were talking to him about how the Deep State government, aligned with Blackrock, were manipulating the weather in order to drive people out of areas so that they can mine the lithium deposits.
You were in Minnesota? Dude. I would have fired up the smoker and shoveled out the man cave.
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You live there now?
Whoops.
I was an hour outside of Minneapolis, close to Annendale.
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We're a couple of blocks East of St Paul
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But how are your lithium deposits?
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I didn't know we had any to be honest.
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the current season of "The Old Man" is all about a lithium mine. i think the locals were messing with your brother.

they probably recognized he was someone they could have some fun with.
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You were not there.
It is currently a conspiracy theory moving around on twitter/reddit.
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in real life, when people talk, my stock response is "i hear you and i respect you." then i turn around and walk away.

it works good.
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Well when we showed up there were only 2 seats left at the bar so he either coulda just moved down 2 seats or asked to be seated at a table alone while he waited.
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i would not have done either. because that sounds like a really cool bellied up to the bar conversation with a stranger. your brother is lucky.
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you just said you'd turn around and walk away.
i agree he was lucky, i'd have wanted to know all the other deets they knew.
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my response would have been "let me get your next round. and you tell me more."
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In spite of climate goals and widespread outcry from environmentalists, president Joe Biden's administration has gone ahead and approved the controversial, $8 billion ConocoPhillips Willow oil drilling project in Alaska.
03/23 Biden Turns Blind Eye to Climate Change, Approves Massive Oil Drilling Project
"Allowing the Willow project to proceed would result in double the carbon pollution that all renewable progress on public lands and waters would save by 2030."
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