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20 minutes ago, subee said:

I hope they make public the series of events that led to this failure. ...

Considering that it has been less than 6 months since the first pig kidney was transplanted, how did you come to this conclusion?  Even closely matched human organs can be rejected.

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1 hour ago, subee said:

Pretty irrelevant when you consider that it's now been 50 years since the first oil embargos and yet, our government has done nothing but cater to the oil industry which has gotten us to the point.  In the end, it's up to the family to decide how poor they want to be.  No one has to have kids before they are financially ready. Why I never had kids.  I despised being poor. When things go south, it's always the poorest who will suffer the most.  It would be better to give them a 0% loan to buy a car that get's great mileage if they are driving a guzzler.  Do you have another solution?  

I don't see how a responsible family driving a gas efficient car but struggling with rising gas prices is "pretty irrelevant".   My point is that many people struggling with rising gas prices are already driving a fuel efficient car so no they don't need a zero interest loan.  You apparently missed that point and went off on a tangent on them not being able to afford their kids and driving a gas guzzling car which had nothing to do with my post.

 

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1 hour ago, subee said:

Pretty irrelevant when you consider that it's now been 50 years since the first oil embargos and yet, our government has done nothing but cater to the oil industry which has gotten us to the point.  In the end, it's up to the family to decide how poor they want to be.  No one has to have kids before they are financially ready. Why I never had kids.  I despised being poor. When things go south, it's always the poorest who will suffer the most.  It would be better to give them a 0% loan to buy a car that get's great mileage if they are driving a guzzler.  Do you have another solution?  

It is relevant.   It's not just the cost to fill up the tank.  The cost of oil effects the price almost everything else one has to buy, including food and clothes.

I know those around here whose jobs depend on tourists who come by car are also concerned about just keeping a job.  Those tourists may opt to stay closer to home this Summer.

 

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1 hour ago, chare said:

Patient in Groundbreaking Heart Transplant Dies

He was brave in taking this option for humanity.  Too bad it didn't work out for him.  But advances are being made every day.

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Just now, Beerman said:

It is relevant.   It's not just the cost to fill up the tank.  The cost of oil effects the price almost everything else one has to buy, including food and clothes.

I know those around here whose jobs depend on tourists who come by car are also concerned about just keeping a job.  Those tourists may opt to stay closer to home this Summer.

 

Yes, the ripple affect is far and wide and it does influence people's behavior and driving habits.

Still people seem more than willing to take the hit for Ukraine, although oil prices were on the rise prior.  But what it's going to mean of the long run, and how patience Americans will have with high prices remains to be seen.  

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6 minutes ago, Tweety said:

Yes, the ripple affect is far and wide and it does influence people's behavior and driving habits.

Still people seem more than willing to take the hit for Ukraine, although oil prices were on the rise prior.  But what it's going to mean of the long run, and how patience Americans will have with high prices remains to be seen.  

Conservative Americans are already impatient and unhappy and their political leadership is expressing that everyday. We should expect lots of whining from the same people who didn't want to be troubled to wear a mask to save American lives as we pay higher prices to save Ukranian lives.  

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2022/police-misconduct-repeated-settlements/

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The Post found that more than 1,200 officers in the departments surveyed had been the subject of at least five payments. More than 200 had 10 or more.

The repetition is the hidden cost of alleged misconduct: Officers whose conduct was at issue in more than one payment accounted for more than $1.5 billion, or nearly half of the money spent by the departments to resolve allegations, The Post found. In some cities, officers repeatedly named in misconduct claims accounted for an even larger share. For example, in Chicago, officers who were subject to more than one paid claim accounted for more than $380 million of the nearly $528 million in payments.

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The Post analysis found that the typical payout for cases involving officers with multiple claims — ranging from illegal search and seizure to use of excessive force — was $10,000 higher than those involving other officers.

Despite the repetition and cost, few cities or counties track claims by the names of the officers involved — meaning that officials may be unaware of officers whose alleged misconduct is repeatedly costing taxpayers. In 2020, the 25 departments employed 103,000 officers combined, records show.

“Transparency is what needs to be in place,” said Frank Straub, director of the National Police Foundation’s Center for Mass Violence Response Studies, adding that his organization has called for departments nationwide to publicize cases with settlements. “When you have officers who have repeated allegations … it calls for extremely close examination of both the individual cases and the totality of the cases to figure out what’s driving this behavior and these reactions and to see if there is a pattern in an officer’s behavior that triggers these cases.”

I'm pretty sure that Chauvin was one of those repeat offenders.  I think that police would benefit from civilian oversight and better record keeping practices.  

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1 hour ago, toomuchbaloney said:

Conservative Americans are already impatient and unhappy and their political leadership is expressing that everyday. We should expect lots of whining from the same people who didn't want to be troubled to wear a mask to save American lives as we pay higher prices to save Ukranian lives.  

Yes I expect them to complain about high gas prices, but aren't we all?  I think you're mistaken that it's only those people.  

We all are complaining about gas prices.  Also there seems to be agreement on all sides to deal with it if it hurts Russia both from the camp that whined about wearing masks and the rest of us.  Last poll I read was 80% of Americans supported boycotting Russian oil and products even if it meant higher prices. 

I reserve the right to still "whine" about high gas prices.  It sucks.

I saw today on a friends facebook when he was talking about hurting Russia with an oil ban "and Biden blocked the oil pipeline first day in office, anything to hurt Trump,  and he cares nothing about America".  Fresh out of the conservative playbook.   So yes while they are taking advantage of it to criticize Biden, they aren't whining about high gas prices. 

I think it's pretty universal that we don't like the high gas prices but are willing to put up with it. 

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1 hour ago, Beerman said:

It is relevant.   It's not just the cost to fill up the tank.  The cost of oil effects the price almost everything else one has to buy, including food and clothes.

I know those around here whose jobs depend on tourists who come by car are also concerned about just keeping a job.  Those tourists may opt to stay closer to home this Summer.

 

Exactly.  A large range of our economy is dependent on oil, and since the nature of oil extraction, transport, and refining will always be volatile to at least some degree, that broad dependence makes our economy more volatile than it needs to be if we're not making attempts to be less oil-dependent.  

Again, feel free to ignore the "green" part of it, purely economically speaking we're better off being less oil-dependent.  

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18 minutes ago, Beerman said:

Some are learning "green energy" may not be as green as they thought.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/green-activists-stage-tent-protest-halt-lithium-exploration-serbia-2022-02-11/

https://www.vox.com/22965660/electric-vehicles-lithium-ion-batteries-flamingos

https://www.wsj.com/articles/clean-energy-fossil-fuels-protests-11626094401

 

Nothing is 100% green and pure, or cheap.  

It pays to look at the total picture.   Risks vs. benefits and which is better dumping tons of C02 pollution into the air or an alternative that has other unintended side effects.

I will agree the unintended effect of harm to flamingos is disturbing and worth looking into a solution. 

As a person that eats plant based,  I hear the same argument that farm equipment kills rodents.  Yes it does even though most rodents hear the equipment, and feel the vibrations,  and run to safety.  But I still feel that's better than the billions killed in factory farms.  But I don't want to harm flamingos anymore than a pig, cow or chicken.

 

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A day after Americans faced the highest costs they've ever seen at the pump, gas prices jumped once again and set a new all-time record on Wednesday, according to AAA. The national average now stands at $4.25 per gallon, the highest ever following Tuesday's record of $4.17 per gallon. 

It's not just whiny people with big trucks taking notice of high gas prices.   I'm middle class, and while I understand that I'm not being bombed and forced to be a refugee, like I said, I reserve the right to take notice.  

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/gas-prices-new-record-high-at-pump/?fbclid=IwAR0xQFGF41B9EAp2usbj74NwbvZ-Z718S6K9a3barSbgCwYJx3oJSrB0syk

Cue the Republicans:

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“Before Russian bombs began to rain on Ukraine. Before hundreds of innocent Ukrainians lost their lives. A horrific decision had already been made. Joe Biden caved to the radical environmentalists and stopped America’s Keystone pipeline and dramatically increased Americans’ dependence on Russian oil, endangering America’s security and helping Russia fund their invasion.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/09/pence-backed-ad-falsely-blames-biden-hike-purchases-russian-oil/?fbclid=IwAR196lCGxAeQxGUjL5Ykkf08Lx9qHJGsRHqLFcw-s_2jwIvEaM_zmRNrbEI

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