Climate Con

Just a reminder of what China is doing to aid in the effort to stop Climate Change and push decarbonization. China's message for the rest of us.  

Get screwed you dummies

It's very very easy to let the Big Principles be forgotten when we get caught in the chaotic minutia and happenings over everyday life.

But if there is a Big Principle in this regard, it is one that you all know: Socialism makes people less sociable toward each other as it is instilled in them that life is a zero-sum game. That is, that other guy over there is taking from the government things that diminish what I can get. Socialism makes us all zero-sum competitors as opposed to friendly and productive competitors in a free market whose rules tends to (or used to) moderate our worst impulses. If you want money from other people (unless you are a thief), you need to play "nice" and provide a product or service of value to them.

Socialism, on the other hand, turns us all into thieves. And it definitely un-socializes us in the ways that count. (And we do not count the grievance-mongers and virtue-signalers who pretend at being social Albert Schweitzers.

The one thing I've noted, especially among young males, is the almost absolute lack of sympathy for one's fellow man. It's as if they've bought into the Jackass movies as the model for real life.

As much as I criticize the women for being soft on crime, soft on law, soft on logic, and soft on discipline, perhaps what scares me more are the legions of near sociopaths that we are producing in the "men."

Let's therefore eat Progressives. What they really want anyway is to reduce the population. The point isn't eating less meat. It's about not eating animals who, in their vision, we should give back the world to. Seems like a win-win. We'll need to come up with some good recipes. I imagine the meat will be tough.

Photo caption of guy preparing to submerge into the icy water:

Oh, jeepers. I'm a professional graduate of Mr. Kung's Nattering Nabobs of Nitpicking. And I must point out that the outside temperature is going to make zero difference to the man.

We have not awarded the Douchebag Company of the Year award. My nominee is Honda for all those really obnoxious commercials they've been doing. Particularly egregious is the one that trumpets at the end, "We are working to be carbon-neutral by 2050." And I can't help thinking, "Well, that's awful white of you."

2050. Geez. Don't strain yourself. And that's only for neutral. To go below neutral they'll have to start killing their car owners or something.

Mr. Volt, I'm pretty sure I read (at least regarding ebike batteries) that if you get these batteries too cold, you can kill them...or at least harm them. But I have no idea why this would be effecting the charging stations for cars.

Again, we don't have a name for it but I might as well call it a Fetish Economy. It gets in the heads of people that electric cars are "green" and that's the end of it. But the reality we are learning every day is that they are far from "green" compared to gas-powered cars. But once the anti-oil fetish is instilled in modern UCI (useful consumer idiots), that can be a hard idea to displace with, err, cold facts.

I didn't know that Boeing built those.

[Insert rim-shot here]



That seems to me to be a wash with the expected "global warming."

Oops. One fellow makes this observation which seems reasonable:



I've been following the chronicles of "The 8-Big Guy" on YouTube. One of his areas of interest is solar panels. He lives in Texas (a generally good place for them apparently) and has rigged up quite a system. He tests it from time to time by unplugging from the grid to see just how long he can run on the power (both being generated and on the batteries it has charged). I think he can get by for about 24 hours, but limiting air conditioning or heating to just certain rooms. I think he's done this both in the summer and winter.

It seems to work for him but it looks like an awful lot of fiddling. And it looks quite expensive as well. Offhand, I don't remember if these systems have paid for themselves yet or if they ever will. The English narrowboat programs that I watch (there are a couple good ones on Amazon Prime) often talk about solar panels for the narrowboats. And that seems to work well for them, although it's obvious that this stuff is pretty pricey….more of a rich man's toy more or less.

Again, I don't know the financial practicality of installing solar panels on the roof of your home. But many people are doing it. Part of the motivation might be virtue-signaling. But in the case of The 8-Bit Guy, he does seem serious about making it work.

But solar panel farms, as well as wind farms, might be a boondoggle in the long run. Yeah, you can make anything work. But at what price?