Apparently you’re the only one. Fox New’s Half Hour News Hour didn’t last long. https://youtu.be/KCl_--E3T2c It was their attempt to copy The Daily Show and even the title was recycled. It didn’t last long

It’s always cringy when “the right” can’t come up with an original idea so they imitate something successful on “the left” and swap out words and think it’ll get anywhere

In 1991 two small businesses were busted for being fronts for illegal gambling parlors. 30 Cleveland cops were part of the bust. I lived next to both of them at one time. One was a t-shirt printing shop, I forget what the other was. A year later I moved into a neighborhood that had a pizza shop with a very nice sign, no windows and never seemed to be open. It was not uncommon to see a patrol car parked in front

Here’s the Futureshock documentary I was show in high-school around 1982 for anyone interested https://youtu.be/fkUwXenBokU

You are 100% correct.

IMO the pandemic showed us we need to improve our social safety net (unemployment benefits) and get all workers contributing (taxed wages). We heard all about the “gig economy” and the US government threw money at everyone and everything driving up government defecits and inflation. Caveat: not an economist

If the US didn’t support them they would go to someone else and take their intelligence gathering with them.

I can’t speak for NY but that is the situation in Cleveland. I have a customer downtown on city steam. I watch hot water discharge to a drain at the rate of about 3 gallons a minute and there’s 1440 minutes in a day. When it was built I’m sure they reclaimed most of it (80% return is considered good) but over time the pipe corrodes and you have leaks.

It’s terribly inefficient. The efficiency is lost when the steam that condenses back into hot water is lost and none of it is returned to the boiler to be reheated. Rather than reheating this returning water which normally is at 120-160 degrees Fahrenheit, fresh water is used which in the winter here is around 56 degrees. Aside from this the cold water taken in contains impurities such as dissolved gasses which cause corrosion and dissolved minerals which can cause scaling that acts as an insulator raising the amount of energy needed to heat the water.

If it were that simple everyone would have done it by now. This method of heating your building is very expensive. Long story short, I’m in the HVAC business and two of my customers have made themselves independent. One was a private property management company that gutted an empty building and was successful, the other is a federal building that hired a private company to convert over and got screwed.

Some big cities originally heated their buildings by producing steam in one one centralized building and delivering it to large buildings thru pipes underground. The steam you see is from leaking pipes in this antiquated infrastructure. It’s a very inefficient method if you ask me. Cities should offer these buildings low interest loans so they can update and be independent but they never take my advice

I was pressed for a response at work to which I replied, “do you want a quick answer or a correct one?”

Rye Coalition: The Story of the Hard Luck 5

If you like rock docs this is a good one.

Hard to argue logic like that

After thinking about it i began to wonder if the whole on/off tariff stuff isn’t a ploy to boost economic numbers temporarily to look good. Imagine if you are a business such as a car rental company that could heavily be affected by a tariffs on cars. Buying a new fleet now could save millions if not hundreds of millions versus waiting until tariffs are enacted. This is the long held basis for target 2% inflation. We saw something like this during Trump’s first term with the Carrier deal in Indiana and Foxconn in Wisconsin. Great news is promoted when the deal is made but not much is said after it fails to pay off. To be fair stuff like this happens and it’s not limited to one party or the other. Another example is the GDP hitting 3% after the 2017 tax cuts, it quickly went back down to 2% the following quarter. The 3% got lots of attention on Fox News, the drop back to 2% and the trillion dollar deficit did not

Is this an effort to force Americans to buy Tesla? Because if I remember correctly it was Barrack Hussain Obama who was supposed to force us all to buy electric cars

Yeah I came here to say the same. It’s the edgelords on the left that can’t bring themselves to vote to keep trump and friends from turning the country into a shit show

If I knew how I’d already have a cult of my own. I hear being charismatic is a prerequisite

Start a cult

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