War in Ukraine

[Rickyvol77]

You should probably go focus on running your little company today. Honestly, I don't want you getting in any trouble for being on Volnation too much.

The offenses of Army, Navy, and Air Force are very innovative and are fun to watch.

For the lower folk perhaps. I prefer to score points against actual high level teams

 

[Rickyvol77]

I don't see LSU trying to cancel their future match up with them.

Plus I thought the fun of college football was seeing different teams with different styles of offense play each other? Or will the game against Army bring about nightmares of when we played Nebraska in the 90s and when Air Force came close to beating us in Neyland?

Yes army is exactly like 1997 Nebraska

 

[0nelilreb]

The Arab Spring was in 2011.

Don't go Boomer on us.

I’m not a boomer , GenX . The first FB live stream wasn’t until 2015 . That was and that was the first live streaming real time you could get without having to video , upload and hope nobody blocked it . Imagine , if you will , “ boomer “,
the ease that you can go live now at anytime without having to have a war correspondent feeding you a narrative in front of a green screen in NY . 2011 was a lifetime ago in technology terms .

 

[DonjoVol]

You might want to step outside your comfort zone and try some extra education.

Already have. Even debating on whether I should pursue my Masters. Maybe you should try to avoid your lazy insults for once. Or better yet maybe you can step out of your own comfort zone. This isn't the 1990s anymore.

 

[Zues1]

Just highlighting the lunacy of blaming Biden for what is happening in Ukraine.

You're welcome.

Lunacy......Perfect choice of words for the lunatic sitting in the Oval office.
You're welcome....

 

[Rickyvol77]

Already have. Even debating on whether I should pursue my Masters. Maybe you should try to avoid your lazy insults for once. Or better yet maybe you can step out of your own comfort zone. This isn't the 1990s anymore.

It’s ok, I was successful back then too even back when I was doing unskilled labor in high school during the summer breaks. Life just gets better. I didn’t realize online trade courses offered masters in busboying. Congrats!

 

[DonjoVol]

It’s ok, I was successful back then too even back when I was doing unskilled labor in high school during the summer breaks. Life just gets better. I didn’t realize online trade courses offered masters in busboying. Congrats!

There you go again. I see why you are the resident troll on Volnation. Guess you have a lot of time on your hands in the off-season when you're not serving as VP of that fantasy football league.

 

[DonjoVol]

For the lower folk perhaps. I prefer to score points against actual high level teams

Ball State, Akron, and Tennessee Martin are high level?

 

[Rickyvol77]

There you go again. I see why you are the resident troll on Volnation. Guess you have a lot of time on your hands in the off-season when you're not serving as VP of that fantasy football league.

There’s no fantasy football being played. Do you even know what month it is? You are the one that literally everyone is making fun of on here, and you are relatively new poster so we are trying to give you a break in between your paper route and the cleaning the kitchen

 

[Rickyvol77]

Ball State, Akron, and Tennessee Martin are high level?

All those are on army’s level yes but I’m referring to SEC teams which comprise most of our schedule. You truly aren’t very bright at all

 

[DonjoVol]

There’s no fantasy football being played. Do you even know what month it is? You are the one that literally everyone is making fun of on here, and you are relatively new poster so we are trying to give you a break in between your paper route and the cleaning the kitchen

Wow. You really do lack basic reading comprehension skills. That's why I said the off season. Which explains the massive amounts of trolling you are doing now. You have to serve as VP of a fantasy football league because you are way too incompetent to run your own league lol. Troll.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Wow. You really do lack basic reading comprehension skills. That's why I said the off season. Which explains the massive amounts of trolling you are doing now. You have to serve as VP of a fantasy football league because you are way too incompetent to run your own league lol. Troll.

I’ve never served as either in a FF league because I’m not 15 years old. Plus that’s more unskilled labor and I’m not a teenager or felon so I’m good there. Now please when I come out to dinner again, please remember to wipe the table a little better next time

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

I like this guy a lot. Even after being poisoned and given what amounts to a life sentence he rallies the people from behind bars, and shows the patience of a patron saint.

 

[DonjoVol]

I’ve never served as either in a FF league because I’m not 15 years old. Plus that’s more unskilled labor and I’m not a teenager or felon so I’m good there. Now please when I come out to dinner again, please remember to wipe the table a little better next time

Dang. You didn't even wait until this afternoon to go to the liquor store. You must have been there right when the doors opened this morning.

 

[IluvdoubleD's]

 

[apevol]

I’ve never served as either in a FF league because I’m not 15 years old. Plus that’s more unskilled labor and I’m not a teenager or felon so I’m good there. Now please when I come out to dinner again, please remember to wipe the table a little better next time

never **** with anyone who handles your food

 

[Septic]

Did he ban all political parties or those with links to Russia?

 

[Rickyvol77]

never **** with anyone who handles your food

He doesn’t. I’m teasing him because he doesn’t believe in the term unskilled labor despite literally dozens others here proving him wrong. I would never actually go to one of his McDonald’s

 

[utvolpj]

I’ve never served as either in a FF league because I’m not 15 years old. Plus that’s more unskilled labor and I’m not a teenager or felon so I’m good there. Now please when I come out to dinner again, please remember to wipe the table a little better next time

Well your posts are really reading like a 15yo insulting someone on social media

 

[NCFisher]

Those are all reasons not to move to alternatives. We’re trying to solve several obvious problems here. The reasons to move toward them: reducing CO2 emissions, oil is a volatile market (that we don’t control), OPEC’s control of oil, becoming truly energy independent, cost efficiency, sustainability, creating new industry, improved public health, stable energy prices, lower maintenance requirements.

Now, I’m not saying there aren’t challenges. Nuclear has a host of challenges. Alternatives aren’t entirely carbon-free (as you point out), there is limited storage capacity at the moment, geography limits some possibilities… I understand all of this, but again in today’s context it makes a whole sh*t ton of sense to make that move and troubleshoot along the way.

Wind, solar and tidal - or whatever - have a host of challenges. Chief among them are requiring symmetrical, on-demand power from a plant powered by hydrocarbons, hydropower, or nuclear. The obstacles to nuclear are primarily political and regulatory.

Why is mining for material necessary for alternate energy production acceptable but not hydrocarbons? Don't we have to assess the total energy expended and environmental impact from mining, processing, energy production and end of life disposal and renewal of both to legitimize 'green'?

The U.S. is not a large producer of these materials. Manhattan Institute claims green machine energy needs require 10X more mineral extraction for the same output as hydrocarbon. I don't know if that's legit so let's say it's half; are we prepared for a 500% mining increase in this country? According to the left, as this most 'progressive president ever' promised, that answer is 'no'. What countries are mining these materials? These questions dismantle a host of green arguments, particularly these claims:

1.) We won't have to send U$D abroad - we either will or enormously increase U.S. mining
2.) We'll have energy independence and won't have to rely on wicked countries for it - same as #1. And the wicked countries are the largest producers of what we'd need.
3.) A better environment and stopping climate change - no, this is where green advocates deviate to 'Think Local and Ignore Global', NIMBY just means outsourcing the nastiness you don't want to see; "Yay! - green!". Or that one is so hypocritically cynical to choke other countries but preserve their own. Vast plumes of smoke and metric tons of toxic wastewater don't think local, but rather act global, don't they?

Green farms are damnable blights on the landscape and rapine of environmental habitat. T. Boone Pickens Pampa Wind Farm in TX panhandle would have covered a land mass of 400,000 acres - or 80% of the Great Smoky Mountains N. Park. - to power 1.5 million homes. When the wind blows.

There are around 140 million residences in the country; we'd need 37 million acres of wind farms just to power U.S. residences. Then there's commercial power for business. And you still need symmetrical, full-demand capacity hydrocarbon, hydropower, or nuke stations

I think It indicates climate and environment are not the actual concern, but is an anti-capitalist, quasi-Marxist primitivism bent on chopping the legs out from under the U.S. and the West generally. For decades, we've been seesawed from one climate emergency to another. It was cooling, it was warming - climate change do not occur in such a brief time span; man is impacting it. We know better than that now. People should read on 'abrupt climate change', in which enormous global shifts have occurred in as little as 1-2 years, and have done so multiple times. Climate alarmists still use the argument, though.

I think instead of chasing our green energy tail, we should continue to abundantly deploy the mature hydrocarbon technology we have and and focus on efficiency gains, and deploying nuclear, the greenest energy. While we're doing so, green energy can continue to trundle along entertaining itself on it's own dime.
That is not incompatible with being good stewards of the earth.

Green Energy Reality Check: It's Not as Clean as You Think | Manhattan Institute (A very lengthy article)
Among the material realities of green energy:

• Building wind turbines and solar panels to generate electricity, as well as batteries to fuel electric vehicles, requires, on average, more than 10 times the quantity of materials, compared with building machines using hydrocarbons to deliver the same amount of energy to society.
• A single electric car contains more cobalt than 1,000 smartphone batteries; the blades on a single wind turbine have more plastic than 5 million smartphones; and a solar array that can power one data center uses more glass than 50 million phones.
• Replacing hydrocarbons with green machines under current plans—never mind aspirations for far greater expansion—will vastly increase the mining of various critical minerals around the world. For example, a single electric car battery weighing 1,000 pounds requires extracting and processing some 500,000 pounds of materials. Averaged over a battery’s life, each mile of driving an electric car “consumes” five pounds of earth. Using an internal combustion engine consumes about 0.2 pounds of liquids per mile.
• Oil, natural gas, and coal are needed to produce the concrete, steel, plastics, and purified minerals used to build green machines. The energy equivalent of 100 barrels of oil is used in the processes to fabricate a single battery that can store the equivalent of one barrel of oil.
• By 2050, with current plans, the quantity of worn-out solar panels—much of it nonrecyclable—will constitute double the tonnage of all today’s global plastic waste, along with over 3 million tons per year of unrecyclable plastics from worn-out wind turbine blades. By 2030, more than 10 million tons per year of batteries will become garbage.

 

[NCFisher]

Jesus you are so dense. Maybe you can go with the other 9k people who give a sh*t about independent midmajor football and jerk off on slow white guys playing an antiquated offense against the likes of Fordham and Rhode Island. Meanwhile real UT fans will be watching the best offense in the country again ran by our all SEC QB

I'm not even taking a side here but upvoting because damn, that was funny.

 

[Rickyvol77]

I'm not even taking a side here but upvoting because damn, that was funny.

I’m here all week lol

 

[85SugarVol]

I think it's a better price than 4.49.
I think prices going down are better than prices going up.

Keep that up and they’re gonna kick you out.

 

[MontyPython]

 

[volkyries]

It went up $2 when mumbling Joe got in office you putz.

Gas is and always will be a little more important than TP. You can’t be mentally all there, I’m convinced that you have something going on mentally.

You do realize gas was only $2.31 because of the pandemic with its lockdowns and reduced demand right? Gas probably would have never gotten that cheap without that reduction in demand. Where it would be without the war and years of low interest rates and free money, I don't know, but let's not pretend $1.69 gas was going to be a real thing permanently in early 2020.