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@kf01 @icedquinn @skylar both really good points

As difficult as it is to make anything, it's even more difficult to make it simple and safe.

@icedquinn @kf01 @skylar diesel used to be cheaper than gas and congressional regulation ruined that

@skylar @icedquinn another solution might be to remove the requirement for ethanol in gasoline

In higher concentrations, ethanol becomes a more potent pollutant, is less energy dense, increases the cost of animal feed, increases the cost of food (corn is a staple for many cultures) and would require less corn to be planted (no subsidies for corn for energy production would result in less corn being planted/grown).

Let's assume, for a moment, that global warming is real and it is an existential crisis.

Do you think that novel interventions that could wildly disrupt the atmosphere couldn't possibly have unintended, catastrophic effects?

That the "cure" could be worse than the "problem"?

Experts don't have a great track record accounting for "unintended consequences".

@skylar So concerned about CO2, when are we going to address the greatest contributor to global warming -- water vapor!

Calling Someone 'Transphobic' In Florida Could Cost Accusers $35,000 Or More Under New Law

In what could very clearly become the slipperiest of slopes, a bill introduced in the Florida Senate would make calling someone 'transphobic' , 'homophobic' , racist, or sexist a form of defamation.

Introduced on Friday, SB 1780 "Defamation, False Light, and Unauthorized Publication of Name or Likeness," would make it easier for people to sue each other for defamation.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/calling-someone-transphobic-florida-could-cost-accusers-35000-or-more-under-new-law

Owl people

To be so smart, he is creatively infuriating...

In the 1970s, several major attempts were made to show that inhalation of tobacco smoke would produce lung cancer in mice, rats, hamsters, dogs, and even monkeys.

Although some of these experiments involved thousands of animals, the aggregated evidence failed to confirm the human epidemiological studies. Inhalation of tobacco smoke, even if conducted over the lifetime of animals, failed to reproduce the disease seen in man

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/10915810701490380

#SecondHandSmokeKills

@cmp might have to check it out 👍