You are highly regarded.

Unlikely. The upside of being socially inept though is that I have more time and headspace for important things…like knowing the difference between a Country and a Continent.

I remember stuff that I was to young to viable be able to remember.

Same! My earliest memory is a man, who wasn’t my Father, coming to the house and giving my Mother a letter. After reading she hid it inside a flower pot underneath a fake plant. It happened in 1973 when I was just about 12 months old. I know the year because I talked to my Mom about it a few years ago and after she got over her shock she told me when it happened.

Yes my Mom was a serial cheater and yes my first memory of life is her getting a love letter from one of her lovers. 👌

Short Term and Working Memory of a damn goldfish. Long Term memory is so freakishly good that people think I’m making it up.

I can struggle to tell you what I had for a meal 10 minutes after I finish eating but I can tell you the exact page and location on the page of phrases that I read in a book 20 years ago.

Why did I just go to the kitchen? Who the fuck knows. Ask me what I was doing last Thursday afternoon at 3:30 though and I can write you a detailed description of the entire days events.

Welcome to ADHD.

Fucking fascinating. But I’d have to publish it as fiction because nobody would believe it.

Same, particularly before my mid 30s.

Did you seriously just compare the landmass of the United States with the entire fucking CONTINENT of Europe?

Yes…yes you did.

If that’s the comparison you want then the Area of North America is 24,474,000 sq km.

The better comparison would be the US and the European Union. The EU is 4,422,773 km2.

Now sit down short stack. You aren’t tall enough for this ride.

This show suffers from the same illogical plots, very questionable dialogue, and blatant canon failures

So it’s basically the same as TOS? Excellent!

It’s a reference to Buell Motorcycles and their tractor like engines.

Neat machine. I wish Noel had done more exploring of it in the video.

As long as both groups of people are following their choice then it’s all good.

Prescribing, manufacturing, sale, and use. The Government is watching and analyzing literally every link in the chain from the drug precursors to the patient.

Maybe, but my doctor and pharmacy both blame the DEA meddling for all the difficulties.

Sure, because that’s what they can see and what is relevant to them. They have no insight into the manufacturers allotment of production, what that production schedule is, or how much of their production allotment they’ve already used. What you’re seeing in this article is “behind the scenes” look at just how deeply the US Government is involved in Healthcare.

Quite a large number of Republicans, including Trump himself, spend decades trying to ram Yucca mountain through. It faced heavy resistance from both the Clinton and Obama Administrations, the State of Nevada, and myriad of environmental organizations. Trying to blame it on “Conservatives” is pretty ridiculous.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/history-of-yucca-mountain-1982-2018

Yucca Mountain was killed by decades of persistent interference by opponents of nuclear power.

As for what France does, as I mentioned, the US has not developed or built that tech because there is ultimately no profit in it and the US is unwilling to spend tax money on it.

First Ford, then Carter stopped commercial re-processing in the United States. Reagan brought it back. G. H. W. Bush then put the brakes on it but stopped short of an outright ban. Clinton stepped on the brakes even harder but again stopped shy of a full ban and when Bush Jr came into office he started a slow process of bringing it back. That’s as far as this CRS Report goes although there may be an updated one somewhere out there.

Still, the US has spent money on it and was doing so at least as recently as 2008. It appears the biggest worry we have is proliferation of nuclear material, not profit or cost.

Average January temps where I live are lower than Stockholm. I chose Reykjavik because it’s a neat place, not because it was particularly cold. :)

It wasn’t until somewhere in the last 15 years that air type type heat pumps, as opposed to ground loop, could cope with the cold temperatures in the northern states without having to fall back to resistive heating for weeks at a time.

When you have to run resistive heaters the electrical usage skyrockets and makes a heat pump system vastly more expensive to operate.

If you live in a cold State, Zone 6 or higher, then you need to be careful when purchasing an ASHP to make sure that it has an HSPF of 10 or greater. If it doesn’t then you’ll be paying big electrical bills trying to keep your home warm. Those units are also more expensive to purchase than a regular Heat Pump like you would run down under.

Frankly nowhere in Australia experiences cold anything like what I do on a yearly basis. The coldest temperature ever recorded anywhere in your country was a mere -9f. Here in the United States there’s quite a few places where that is a common daytime high temperature in the winter, even in the lower 48. There’s quite a few places even in Zone 5, see previous map, that will get to -9 and stay there for days at a time.

It’s not uncommon for overnight lows in Zone 6+ to hit -20f and temperatures even lower are definitely possible. At my house in Wyoming last winter we touched -40f / -40c for a some hours one night.

Air type heat pumps simply could not handle those kinds of temperatures until relatively recently. That’s why so much of the US doesn’t have them already. They just didn’t work during the winter in northern half of the country.

Would the original team want to patent this finding…

Patents were already filed in Korea and internationally.

Average temperatures for Bangor, Maine in January are colder than the average temperatures for January in Stockholm, Sweden.

Bangor

Stockholm

Still within range of a good heat pump but Scandinavian countries don’t have a lock on cold. January averages where I live in the US are colder than Reykjavik, Iceland!

…which in the north only happens for a few hours a year…

I know the guy in the TC video used Chicago as an example but the “few hours a year” thing simply isn’t true for many of us.

Where I live we had many days below -15f including a week where itpretty much stayed between -20 and -30 for nearly a week straight.

A Heat Pump will still work, even here, but you need to be careful about which one you purchase and how it handles cold weather.

A political party is not the Government nor do their ads attempt to whitewash Government misdeeds.

Was the US Federal Government paying Fox News to run ads talking about how the mass murder of American Indians was a good thing?

No? Then GTFO out of here with this whataboutism. It’s fucking gross.