One of the people that handed Trump his 2016 win by announcing an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server just a couple of weeks out from the election - while mostly sitting on all the information that Russia was assisting Trump’s campaign for fear of looking biased/conspiratorial?
Can’t think of a more appropriate leopard for Trump to eat the face of.
The US is still helping Israel because Israel is effectively the largest US military base in the middle east, and monitors and protects many US interests in the region: ie makes sure the oil, gas, minerals, and rare earth materials keep flowing and in addition the Suez canal and trade route keeps clear to ensure international trade and transfer of these materials continue without any interference - terrorists, local warlords, or even just populist leaders that want better deals for their populace.
In short, Israel assists as an enforcer for capitalist wealth extraction from the middle east to the rest of the world.
As former US army general and secretary of state (under Reagan) and long serving white house chief of staff (under Nixon and Ford) Alexander Haig famously said, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”.
So that’s the main reason little kids continue to get bombed and shot in Israel. The US is addicted to oil & middle east resources, and the capitalists don’t care what the human cost is as long as order is maintained.
“Where were you when you heard that Trump’s plane went down?” is a conversation that does sound fun to have one day. But I just doubt it will happen. Too many other self-serving people in the admin will push to ensure it’s safe behind the scenes (for them).
Besides, I’d rather see him in a jail cell. Or an execution chamber, if the court determines it required given treason is a capital offense and he is a repeat prolific offender. Either is fine with me - beggars can’t be choosers.
I never said they don’t leak, all those systems have leaks with enough time and a certain failure rate right?
If they have increased their failure rate since being offshored largely to China and SEA I would not be surprised, as the manufacturing standards there are infamously lower than USA/EU/etc, but it seems like something where evidence is scant - I can’t find anything in my searches. I’m not saying your experience is not valuable, I believe you when you say you service more of the new ones than the old ones, but there may be other reasons for that than those models having a higher failure rate.
For example, it could be that people are buying fridges more often nowadays (like every 7-8 years instead of every 15+ in the 90s) because so many components on them are made cheaper and fail earlier… Everything is made to me more disposable nowadays (for the worse, IMO). If there are surviving models around from the 90s and earlier then you get survivor’s bias - you don’t see all the ones that failed as they went to scrapyards 25 years ago, etc.
At least they got the hands right
Freon is a brand name that covers a bunch of refridgerants, but when people talk about freon with negative connotations they are usually referring to the original CFC-based Freon products such as the widely-used refridgerant R-12. Fridges haven’t used CFCs since the early 90s, when they were banned and phased out world-wide due to their ozone-depleting potential.
They were replaced by R-134a (tetrafluoroethane) which is less harmful, and other non-CFC refridgerants but those have since also being phased out for even better options. Modern fridges of the last 10-20 years use butane (R600a) and alternatives which are the current least-harmful options for both health and the environment. Butane is burned as a fuel by the millions of tonnes every year, so an ounce or two leaking from a refrigerator is of truly minimal concern.
In short, if you have bought a fridge since circa 1994 you don’t have to worry about it “leaking freon”, that is a non issue.
The ozone hole is being actively & closely monitored and has been closing since the ban, projected to completely close & return to 1980 levels by 2075. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ozone_depletion&wprov=rarw1
Agreed, except for in the only place that really matters - because it has lifetime terms and determines how all law is interpreted by the courts - the supreme court.
I say this is the only place that matters because laws passed by congress can easily be undone by the next congress, however a two thirds majority is needed to make constitutional amendments (and other major changes) - so in other words, it all just swings back and forth between Super Shit (R’s) and Shit Lite (D’s), and the only time who’s in charge is very important is when there’s supreme court nominations up - because they can set the course for the country for 40 years.
And Trump nominated four of them.
Im aware. Which is why I added, “a few jurors on his side and he could be found not guilty”. It was two possibile outcomes listed, not just one.
TIL that a ~50% improvement in energy use is ‘absolutely negligible’.
I agree that the energy star system may be flawed but the premise of your comment is wild.
Sure, but it’s gonna be a real stupid attempt if they take it to trial with such shaky evidence, all it takes is a single juror going “lol no way do I trust that evidence” and the jury is hung, a few jurors on his side and he could likely be found not guilty and that would be the end of that, no retrial, he walks a free man.
Thankyou for bringing this into my life