Yah. The fact that we're turning edible food into worse gas, and thereby driving up food prices worldwide for no reason, is nothing short of inhumane. It's not even a reduction in greenhouse gas; it requires so much processing that it's about the same as just pumping crude out of the ground.
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Hmmm, interesting. Looks like there's some fuel stabilizers that can preserve it for a few years (most of what I can find are for 1-3 years). I'm guessing the 5-year blend has a shorter shelf life once opened? The really interesting part seems to be that some of these stabilizers can be added to old gasoline to make it usable again. So as long as an organization had an utterly gigantic supply of stabilizer, they could potentially keep using gas for quite a while.
These stabilizers are definitely not in regular gasoline, though, so everyone except the extremely paranoid would be SOL.
Wouldn't even be a year. Gasoline has a shelf life of six months. Three months if it's an ethanol blend.
After that, you're down to homemade diesel, electric vehicles, and bicycles.
Whole lotta minerals that will get a lot easier to exploite as the planet warms.
Copy-pasting the article since archive.is makes you do a captcha if you have a VPN:
President Trump said in a middle-of-the-night social media post early Thursday that he would come after the European Union and Canada if they banded together to “do economic harm” to America, opening a new front in the unfolding trade war.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Mr. Trump wrote.
Mr. Trump’s post creates a new problem for the European Union, which is already trying to respond to his tariffs on steel, aluminum, autos and potentially a broader array of goods and services.
The United States is by far Europe’s most important trading partner, and the prospect of worse trading conditions has left the European Union scrambling to negotiate. But the Trump administration has showed little appetite to strike a deal so far.
“In the end, as it is said, one hand cannot clap,” Maros Sefcovic, the trade commissioner for the European Union, has said.
That has left Europeans seeking to strike new alliances and deepen existing trading relationships. And concerns about President Trump’s shifting stance on military support have driven partners like the European Union and Canada closer together. Canada is already working toward providing industrial support for Europe’s rearmament push.
European Commission officials did not immediately comment on Mr. Trump’s post.
“If the European Union works with Canada in order to do economic harm to the USA, large scale Tariffs, far larger than currently planned, will be placed on them both in order to protect the best friend that each of those two countries has ever had!” Mr. Trump wrote.
'Be my friend or I'll hurt you' is literal crazy child shit.
I mean, yah. That probably falls under the umbrella of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. DEI is good, and we shouldn't stop using the term just cuz Orange Man upset (IMO).
Fair enough, I learned some things today. I was under the impression that indigenous languages were a lot more normalized than they actually are. I still think that using more indigenous language in everyday stuff is low-key a win, but for it to be commericalized while denying it elsewhere is just a slap in the face.
Enh, it's at least a little more complicated than that. Native or mestizo people are much more common in Mexico than the US. For example, Nahuatl has somewhere between 1.3 and 1.7 million speakers, mostly in Mexico. This is not counting over a dozen other languages that have hundreds of thousands of speakers apiece (wiki. By comparison, in the entire US there were only about 372,000 people that speak any indigenous language.
Depending on how you want to look at it, this could be just...a normal name, or even a tribute to the Nahuatl community. Or just a cynical attempt to sell more cars by looking inclusive. How many people need to speak a language before it's 'normal', after all? We don't go asking Italians before we put stuff in Latin. Or the Irish before we sell St Paddy's Day shirts. Etc.
Anyone think about what they used to do before we started making indelible records of all our social activity? Probably ask you some questions and that's it. Yet now they think it's 'vital' that they be able to see everything you ever said to your friends? Bullshit it is, they're just powerhungry petty tyrants.
The chat built into my hospital's charting software has the 'thumbs up' react so you can quickly and easily show that you've read it. So for me it just means 'heard', 'roger', etc.
I mean, that is one glaring point of fridge logic. If you've seen how many people can cram onto a bus in developing countries, Immortan Joe's guys should have been like 15 to a car. Also, if gas is precious, why not use a train? They're substantially more efficient.