Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
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Little did I know that the EPA has declared wood burning to be "carbon neutral." So there.
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Reminds me of the old "Industrial Egg" diagramMaddy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:10 pm Little did I know that the EPA has declared wood burning to be "carbon neutral." So there.
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Here's a great thread from a twitter account that has a strong handle on world energy markets.Maddy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:10 pm Little did I know that the EPA has declared wood burning to be "carbon neutral." So there.
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And a sample snippet about Europe declaring wood pellets as carbon neutral. But, as they say. Read the whole thread.
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There is nothing more surreal-freaky than the high-pitched whine of a harvester taking down everything in its path. My own view is that if you can't take it down with a chainsaw and a couple of horses, then you have no business taking it.Mark Leavy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 9:14 pmHere's a great thread from a twitter account that has a strong handle on world energy markets.Maddy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 19, 2022 6:10 pm Little did I know that the EPA has declared wood burning to be "carbon neutral." So there.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/explorin ... on-neutral
And a sample snippet about Europe declaring wood pellets as carbon neutral. But, as they say. Read the whole thread.
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I was amused by the EPA's stance but of course take it with a grain of salt. Everything has costs and impacts. It's the high-tech stuff where the costs and impacts tend to be hidden, offshored, or simply denied, that seems to generate the greatest amount of delusional thinking.
Re the whole "carbon neutral" thing, you gotta wonder where all those carbon atoms are going.
P.S. Mark, your diagram looks like an electrical circuit with a lot of resistors.
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Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 6:49 am
Adams is on a quest to personally debunk and eliminate ESG as a thing. I hope he succeeds.
Then, when he does, I hope he tackles DEI (I suppose the two are intertwined anyway) next. Between the them, it's costing shareholders (and Universities, etc.) a fortune and accomplishing very little other than creating high paying jobs for a few lucky people.
DEI?
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I did later Bing it to see what it was. I had never prior encountered it anywhere.
Good communications don't use acronyms not generally understood by all. Burden of good communications is on the sender, not the receiver.
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Official inflation here is 18%. Guess unofficial is twice than that. Nice, ah? Today I realized that the local store that's normally quite busy during early morning hours has almost no clients now, the same time. Wondering how far will that go in EU...? ECB is lead by bunch of morons ... Still housing market is red hot, and there are new buildings popping up like mushrooms after rain... I know where this will gonna end, but really really hope we'd enter recession and tightening sooner than later...
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To millions of Americans it means "Dale Earnhardt, Inc."vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:30 amI did later Bing it to see what it was. I had never prior encountered it anywhere.
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MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:48 am
vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:30 am
I did later Bing it to see what it was. I had never prior encountered it anywhere.
Good communications don't use acronyms not generally understood by all. Burden of good communications is on the sender, not the receiver.
Anyone who doesn't know what DEI stands for at this point has been living under a rock, so I didn't feel the need to spell it out.
Or, maybe it means it is not the threat you perceive it to be? Not all that pervasive in American life?
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It's a huge deal to the twitter right+left.
I presume it's pervasive in the xyz-studies departments in universities.
Maybe it shows up at big-corporate seminar training sessions where people roll their eyes in a wasted afternoon.
But my daughter has being doing online public elementary school for the past three years and I haven't overheard any DEI stuff.
And I work for a purple-blue State government and haven't heard a single instance of that acronym being used.
Not saying it doesn't exist, but my anecdata is with vnatale here.
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My understanding is it's a big issue in universities in particular, where promotions/grants/hiring/firing are based more on skill at demonstrating fealty to a DEI agenda than to actually doing what you're there to do.
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Please explain how my exact words: "Or, maybe it means it is not the threat you perceive it to be? Not all that pervasive in American life?" mean how you paraphrased them?
There is a HUGE difference between "existing" and being "pervasive".
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Can you elaborate? What I recall was that he was one of a small number of voices saying "this guy has a chance to win, and people don't see it because they're watching a different movie, interpreting the same events very differently". Seemed pretty insightful both at the time and in hindsight.
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MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:48 am
vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:30 am
I did later Bing it to see what it was. I had never prior encountered it anywhere.
Good communications don't use acronyms not generally understood by all. Burden of good communications is on the sender, not the receiver.
Anyone who doesn't know what DEI stands for at this point has been living under a rock, so I didn't feel the need to spell it out.
Through various means I asked various people if they knew what "DEI" stands for. Unless otherwise noted all of them live in Western MA.
Former co-worker. Gay woman who is married. She knew. Not unexpected.
Former co-worker. Big into racial equity. She knew.
Going back to my former place of work - a non-profit. The organization received a huge grant to promote racial equity. Each of our staff meetings had a significant portion of it devoted to discussed White Supremacy. Never once during all those meetings did I hear anyone say "DEI".
Friend. Upper 50s. Work in a huge corporate environment wherein his boss is in California. He knew it. His words: "training in our system on it two weeks ago. pc gone awry"
Friend. 77 years old. Extreme liberal. Small business owner. Reads voraciously, books and other. No idea what it meant.
Friend. 81 year old. Liberal. Former president of a small business. President of the housing unit where he lives. Had to look it up in Wikipedia.
Friend. Upper 50s. Has worked at the RMV (Registry of Motor Vehicles) for many years. He knew it. I assumed he'd known it as result of trainings in that job. So I was surprised when he told me he knew what it was from Google. So he had not prior known.
Friend. 60s. Travels all over the world. Runs a travel oriented business. He initially did not know.
Former public school music teacher. 60s. She knew, which would not be surprising given the environment she worked in.
So it seems that one is most likely to know the meaning of the term if one has been involved in some environment where it is actively discussed or promoted. Otherwise it seems to be far from mainstream. My sample above says that about half knew and half did not.
I asked one of them if he was going to be coming to my "rock" today or whether we would be meeting at his "rock" today!
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A successful cartoonist who understands the power of the Halo effect and uses it as an entrepreneur.Desert wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:34 amYeah, he did correctly predict Trump's chance of winning, I'll give him that. He was wrong in his view of Trump's capabilities, and he's continued to double down on that view for years now. His devotion seems to have turned him into yet another rabble-rouser, delivering up a stream of culture-war trolling that feeds a certain segment of society's need for continuous outrage.Xan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:55 pm Can you elaborate? What I recall was that he was one of a small number of voices saying "this guy has a chance to win, and people don't see it because they're watching a different movie, interpreting the same events very differently". Seemed pretty insightful both at the time and in hindsight.
I think his Trump election call was an asymmetric bet. If wrong, everyone would forget, and if right, he could always point to it as the foundation for why everything else he says must be right.
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Scott Adams has been right about Trump's ability to live rent-free in people's heads...
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glennds wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 9:06 am
Desert wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:34 am
Xan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:55 pm
Can you elaborate? What I recall was that he was one of a small number of voices saying "this guy has a chance to win, and people don't see it because they're watching a different movie, interpreting the same events very differently". Seemed pretty insightful both at the time and in hindsight.
Yeah, he did correctly predict Trump's chance of winning, I'll give him that. He was wrong in his view of Trump's capabilities, and he's continued to double down on that view for years now. His devotion seems to have turned him into yet another rabble-rouser, delivering up a stream of culture-war trolling that feeds a certain segment of society's need for continuous outrage.
A successful cartoonist who understands the power of the Halo effect and uses it as an entrepreneur.
I think his Trump election call was an asymmetric bet. If wrong, everyone would forget, and if right, he could always point to it as the foundation for why everything else he says must be right.
Similar to someone who "predicted" the 2008 / 2009 financial crisis and then has been living off that call ever since?
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> Scott Adams has been right about Trump's ability to live rent-free in people's heads
True. And thats funny. But Adams suggests Trump is 200 IQ. Will be interesting to see if the left slanders DeSantis just as fanatically. I think they will, and it will vindicate Trump a little.
True. And thats funny. But Adams suggests Trump is 200 IQ. Will be interesting to see if the left slanders DeSantis just as fanatically. I think they will, and it will vindicate Trump a little.
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Re: Scarce and high priced energy in Europe
vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 8:29 am
MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 11:48 am
vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 10:30 am
I did later Bing it to see what it was. I had never prior encountered it anywhere.
Good communications don't use acronyms not generally understood by all. Burden of good communications is on the sender, not the receiver.
Anyone who doesn't know what DEI stands for at this point has been living under a rock, so I didn't feel the need to spell it out.
Through various means I asked various people if they knew what "DEI" stands for. Unless otherwise noted all of them live in Western MA.
Former co-worker. Gay woman who is married. She knew. Not unexpected.
Former co-worker. Big into racial equity. She knew.
Going back to my former place of work - a non-profit. The organization received a huge grant to promote racial equity. Each of our staff meetings had a significant portion of it devoted to discussed White Supremacy. Never once during all those meetings did I hear anyone say "DEI".
Friend. Upper 50s. Work in a huge corporate environment wherein his boss is in California. He knew it. His words: "training in our system on it two weeks ago. pc gone awry"
Friend. 77 years old. Extreme liberal. Small business owner. Reads voraciously, books and other. No idea what it meant.
Friend. 81 year old. Liberal. Former president of a small business. President of the housing unit where he lives. Had to look it up in Wikipedia.
Friend. Upper 50s. Has worked at the RMV (Registry of Motor Vehicles) for many years. He knew it. I assumed he'd known it as result of trainings in that job. So I was surprised when he told me he knew what it was from Google. So he had not prior known.
Friend. 60s. Travels all over the world. Runs a travel oriented business. He initially did not know.
Former public school music teacher. 60s. She knew, which would not be surprising given the environment she worked in.
So it seems that one is most likely to know the meaning of the term if one has been involved in some environment where it is actively discussed or promoted. Otherwise it seems to be far from mainstream. My sample above says that about half knew and half did not.
I asked one of them if he was going to be coming to my "rock" today or whether we would be meeting at his "rock" today!
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Just got the answer from someone who lives in New Jersey, early 50s, Extreme Liberal, works as a researcher for the MLB Network, just completed reading his 600th book of the year (!!!!!) -- with most of them being related to politics. He had no idea what "DEI" means.
I rest my case.
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I’m glad that’s been decided.
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I'm blocking everyone but Vinny.