Crtcl Rice Theory

2 hours ago, yuna628 said:

Just disgusting.

The La Pierre's are disgusting on several levels. This only came to light because they ran afoul of tax and fraud law that made these documents public.

They used NRA funds to finance their conspicuous consumption. My Dad was a member for decades and was so frugal he wouldn't spend $10.00 for a good sandwich (and he loved the 4.99 breakfast at the greasy spoon). Why should funds he , and others, assumed were for lobbying and education be used for yachts, Caribbean villas and junkets to kill  exotic animals for sport?

The foundation claims the trip was educational because most of the animal parts went to the NRA museum. 

"After Susan killed the elephant in Botswana, video shows, she was fixated on the creature’s feet. As she touched them, she said, “He’s so wrinkly. . . . Wow. A podiatrist would love working on him.” Photographs of the taxidermied appendages show that the animal’s wrinkled gray skin, the light coating of hair, and the massive, cracked toenails are all preserved, and, in the case of the stools, topped with wooden rings and black leather seating pads."

To top it off, Wayne couldn't even bring down his animal in a sportsman like manner. What a loser.

The slam against the LaPierre' s isn't that they went on a legal elephant hunt, it's that they are self absorbed, indulgent, tone deaf, unsporting, wasteful, willfully uneducated on ethics and proud of all of that, as long as their taxpayer subsidized and NRA member funded luxurious lifestyle is on someone else's dime.

8 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

I hate to think about the Texas power grid in these circumstances.

Back to the original article: a smart grid+ economically viable storage+renewables is the path forward.  Solar would have saved Texas's bacon. 

Another point as we got off track with electric vehicles. The storage capacity inside one of these can run small house for a few days, that would have been nice to have during your grid collapse.

• The LaPierres secretly shipped elephant parts from their Botswana hunt to avoid public outcry.
• Susan LaPierre requested the shipment have no clear links to the couple, The New Yorker reported.
• Taxidermy records showed the parts were turned into stools, an umbrella stand, and a trash can.

https://www.businessinsider.com/ex-nra-head-wife-secretly-turned-elephant-home-furniture-report-2021-7?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=news_tab&utm_content=algorithm

19 hours ago, Neonred said:

To be honest, the PNW was just a little on the wacky side even before.

 

Much unlike the FL Keys....

Ok pro tip here, DO NOT, search "Florida Keys recreation" on your work laptop. 

7 minutes ago, Trompe le Monde said:

polling suggest broad, popular support for it so why not?

 

society has yet to break down in the states where it is legal

Don't make that case in this forum, certain parties around here are convinced everyone in the PNW is camping in the streets protesting and wearing Che Guevera, and we legalized not too long ago.

3 hours ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

so if there is zero voter fraud and why do they get so touchy about investigating it. We spent 4 years and 2 impeachments investigating total absurdity and lies on Trump.

 

Only President ever impeached for asking someone to look into the blatant abuse of power by Biden and his son 

The answer to both of those questions tie back to the fruitless, wasteful and tiresome Benghazi hearings

1 hour ago, Dashinka said:

Makes sense.  Still wondering how long it will be before people start figuring out that inhaling products of combustion are bad for you.

42 minutes ago, Neonred said:

Does it have to be inhaled?

 

Asking for a friend.

Inhaling those brownies can lead to issues, so a friend told me.

1 hour ago, laylalex said:

Ignored.

Sounds like your immune system is kicking in just fine.

2 hours ago, Neonred said:

Wow.  There is so much wrong here and so much misinformation.  As you said you are not a doctor, so I will give you just a little slack.  

I wish I had the time or inclination to correct all this but I don't.  Starting vacation today.

Good thoughts on your vacation, wait, isn't every day vacation in Florida?

6 hours ago, InhaleExhale said:

I couldn't give you a purer "I will not" as an answer.

Given the data we have from the clinical trials plus additional studies, combining that with other facts like absence of liability, lack of necessity etc. there is literally zero benefit but huge amounts of risks. For anyone.

I have only researched Pfizer and Moderna so I can only speak about those. 

I want to stress that neither of those are actual "vaccines", which contain a weakened live or dead virus and prevent infection and transmission of a specific disease. That is not the case here. Here you get injected with instructions for your own body to create a pathogen hoping that your body then will answer with an immune response to the toxin it is creating. But none of the trials have data on immune response or prevention of infection or transmission. It was never evaluated.

Moderna themselves call this an "investigational mRNA medicine", which is exactly what it is. It is a genetic code in a lipid nanoparticle envelope inserted into your body, therefore rendering this a gene therapy and it is investigational = an experimental drug. -> https://www.modernatx.com/mrna-technology/mrna-platform-enabling-drug-discovery-development 

Even the SEC calls it gene therapy: "Currently, mRNA is considered a gene therapy product by the FDA." -> https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1682852/000168285220000017/mrna-20200630.htm

 

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Anyways, you asked me for laymen's terms, and I'm no doctor either lol

In one sentence I would answer: For a disease with an overall 99.74% survival rate, why would I choose to be injected with an experimental unapproved drug that gives me less of a theoretical benefit than my immune system can provide me, and where the confidence of its quality by its own manufacturer is so low that they won't even offer liability for it, AND where there are several other safe and approved drugs available to treat this disease with a very high effectiveness?

Where would be the rationale behind still choosing to get this injection? That's a serious question.

 

More detail on my reasoning:

The experimental injections...

1- do not prevent infection or transmission 

2- have a statistically insignificant efficacy of roughly 1% for preventing severity of symptoms

3- have never gone through proper safety trials as required for all other vaccines, animal studies were completely skipped

4- protocol of the clinical phase III trials show several data gaps

5- we have over 425,950 adverse events and 4,500 deaths now reported in association with these shots (in comparison the swine flu vaccine was pulled after 53 associated deaths!) -> https://wonder.cdc.gov/controller/datarequest/D8;jsessionid=F0B56B446EE5F8311B8C209C4EEC, and these are numbers in a system that catches less than 1% of adverse events, -> https://digital.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/docs/publication/r18hs017045-lazarus-final-report-2011.pdf

6- manufacturers have ZERO liability, all the while Pfizer has a very long rap sheet (criminal history) and Moderna has never produced an approved drug at all

7- if you are injured you have extremely limited avenues, you only have 1 year, and you can only recoup medical expenses, nothing more. Not even legal expenses. The manufacturers are completely immune and tax dollars are paying for every cent paid to injured individuals.

8- the inventor of mRNA technology Robert Malone has warned about many unevaluated risks as have hundreds of other doctors, many petitions and suits were filed. I can link to several if you wish. All these risks have not been investigated. Maybe that is why we now have more deaths associated with "vaccines" than we had in the last 30 years combined? -> https://www.globalresearch.ca/dr-wodarg-dr-yeadon-request-stop-all-corona-vaccination-studies-call-co-signing-petition/5731458

9- there is no data on when your body will actually stop creating the pathogen (the spike protein) - what could possibly go wrong...

10- there is no data on long term safety because there logically cannot be any data given the limited time passed

11- the manufacturers first said the created toxic spike proteins will stay in the injections site but it turned out otherwise, they travel all over the body and into the blood (https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab465/6279075) which may lead to all the blood clotting events

12- it is a given there will be many other discovered unknown unknowns given the process and more than short time frame to create these injections

 

-Anyone who claims these injections are "safe" is not telling the truth. I would love to see data that confirms that they are indeed "safe".

They are clearly not safe at all and there is a plethora of data for that. No one can even say they are safe given the fact that not enough time has passed to evaluate the long term safety.

 

-Anyone who claims they are effective and insinuates a high efficacy is also not telling the truth. We have an estimated 1% efficacy according to the trial data.

We have no data on effectiveness (there is a difference between efficacy and effectiveness).

Interestingly in the Pfizer study there were 3,410 participants that were excluded from the efficacy calculation (https://www.fda.gov/media/144245/download#page=42). The reason for the exclusion was NOT revealed. Had they been included even the RRR would have been between 19 and 29% instead of the RRR of 95% (https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-we-need-more-details-and-the-raw-data/). Likewise the ARR/actual real efficacy would then be about 0%.

I think this is what is actually happening. Because of the lack of preventing the infection or illness if you do get this shot that's why new "cases" are from both injected and uninjected.

 

In addition, now we have even Rochelle Walensky herself admitting being fully "vaccinated" is not working and the "vaccinated can still spread the "virus".

In contrast, and another argument for not getting this shot, is that our own natural immune system is way more sophisticated than anything the injection can do. Our natural immune system will give a much more robust immunity and for decades. Even for variants of a virus.

I would rather get infected and have my immune system take care of it than exposing my body to a medical unnecessary experiment.

And again, for the vulnerable there are at least 2 other drugs that work well and that are actually safe (have been for decades) and approved. I can share the studies if you wish.

 

In summary: we have a potential lethal threat of 0.26%. And we have studies of drugs that work to overcome this.

We do not have studies of injections that work.

But we have tons of data on injuries that happen after people are injected.

The decision is quite easy for me  

 

9 minutes ago, Dashinka said:

Not really sure what you are talking about as I did not really calculate anything.  So which numbers are you questioning?  If you have better information feel free to share.

1.Actual mileage range for to he f150 lightning is coming in higher than Ford's published estimate not lower.

2. Average home charging station costs come in around 1500 installed, and most modern homes have 220 available

3. Speed is valuable when charging away from home, less valuable at home as we are doing other things

4. The super chargers for leafs and Tesla go from zero to full in less than an hour.

19 hours ago, Dashinka said:

There are a lot of assumptions in those numbers from Ford.  The first is that one has access to a 240V outlet in their garage, and one also purchases the fairly expensive inverter unit for their house (essentially the same cost as an electrical switch for a standby generator).  If one is relying on 120V, then I think the charge rate is about 3-4 miles per hour of charge.  Twenty minutes (if you can find a fast charger, and it is free when you pull in) is still a bit off as compared to internal combustion vehicles when you are on a long drive and are not looking to add a lot of time to that drive.  

 

Like I said, there is a market for EVs, but EVs are not one size fits all until they come up with vehicles with 500+ miles of range that recharge to 100% in 5 minutes.

I am positive your calculations are way off. 

17 hours ago, ILikeBread said:

Lol no. Trump lost, consistently failed to prove election fraud and his supporters have been milked for money by a bunch of grifters for months.

 

Mad coping going on here.

On a side note, my popup ad on VJ today was Republicans asking for money to fund election lawsuits.  The algorithms obviously mistook my sarcasm and participation as gullibility and reactionary anger.  Maybe I should click through and not enroll just so they have to pay for the lead.

26 minutes ago, Nature Boy 2.0 said:

Dear god boy you finally get it 

5 hours ago, yuna628 said:

I had to take my first COVID test this week, which was easier said than done. The thing is there is lots of ways to get the vaccine in this town, but testing is either non-existent, or makes one jump through some hoops. Anyway I called a place that said they do walk-ins, and as my husband told me it only takes like 30 seconds of time I figured this would be easy - especially since I wasn't feeling great and just wanted to go to bed. 2 HOURS later, I'm still sitting there, and I ask what is going on? I get a lot of attitude from the desk like my polite asking was being a major Karen of the month, and they're doing me a favor. I leave, never successfully getting a test. Want one from the health department? Need a doctor's note which I don't have, even though they've told me to get one 'just in case'. Pharmacy? Nah come back another day or they don't offer the one the doctor wants. Finally, find a location an hour's drive away, where I have to administer the test myself. Now, I think I'm competent and don't mind doing it myself, but how does one know if one has done it accurately if one is not medically trained? Anyway they are all so kind to me, and within 24hrs I have an obvious NEGATIVE result (which of course they warn actually might not mean much but if it makes my doctor feel better... then?). I begin to understand why only a few people tested positive this week in this county, because they are so hard to obtain, but positive hits from people crowding the hospital being very sick is on the rise.

 

I am confident I do not have COVID before I ever took the test (the doctor refused to see me until I would get it even though they thought it UNLIKELY I HAD IT ANYWAY), and now begins a long hassle of running all these crazy tests of four tubes of blood and five tubes of samples I have to give for weirder tests and questions about whether I have eaten any foodstuffs that may have been recalled recently (GUYS. I THINK THEY THINK I HAVE 'MONSTERS INSIDE ME' :X). I almost thought I had found the culprit but the sell by date was wrong. At any rate do go to the ER if I get worse while waiting...and waiting...and waiting.. but I am told that the ER is so full they had to open up a 'holding clinic', to put patients they have no room to admit on a waiting list.

I have not seen a shortage of tests in our neck of the woods.  We are going to take our second trip to Canada next week and should be able to walk into the local clinic and get a test we can share on ArriveCan within 24 hours.  I have also been to the doctor several times and not been hammered about being tested.  My first reaction is .."What are you afraid of Doc? Why are you not vaccinated? If you don't believe that a vaccine and mask and the screening at the door takes care of the risk, why should I trust your medical judgement?  Furthermore, why all the tests? Do you have a quota?

1 hour ago, Dashinka said:

No, just commenting on some methods of deflection.  Btw, where is the science behind the new CDC recommendation?  

I like Layla, she is a very smart cookie. I would ask her about cooking tips, how to choose a scotch and how to score free online video services.  I don't expect her let me know what the CDC Science is or should be.  

Nothing to see here, whatabout BLM? , why are we focused on invasion of congress when invasion by marxist of our city streets is so destructive and treasonous,  no one died, except one veteran who was targeted for her beliefs, the Police welcomed protestors with open arms, Pelosi should have prevented this, the election was fraudulent so the protestors are not terrorists, ....Did I miss anything?

Just now, laylalex said:

I mean, I'm going to trust you on this one. But I thought maybe you had a report? (Diagrams and charts would be good, especially if there is a calculator involved for the difficult arithmetical bits, if any.)

You gotta be kidding me, I have boxes full of Conservative Beaver.

Ms July right here

3 minutes ago, laylalex said:

What's it like then?

are you calling BS on my claim?

4 hours ago, Dashinka said:

What I meant was it takes 5 minutes to fill the fuel tank for a 500 mile driving range rather than 40+ minutes of “fast” charging to get maybe 200 miles of driving range.  

The new F150 will add 60 miles in 10 minutes and get from empty to 80% in 20 minutes. Driving range is around 250 miles.  The 800 V vehicles are faster charging.  Another thing the Lightning will do is smart charge overnight on the cheapest rate.