The Majestic Metal Wizard
According to one guy, who appears to have a history of being associated with environmental causes, NGOs and whose consultancy website fails to serve the correct SSL Cert (which I might have been leniant on like 5 years ago, before LetsEncrypt really kicked off).Originally Posted by Kickaha
Suffice to say I am not taking his opinion with much weight.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Embracing mediocrity
If you don't like that opinion, avail yourself of one of the many other news sources reporting that it was pointless, stupid, and created risk to life and property.
Who knows, if you became a bit more informed and less dogmatic in your belief despite evidence to the contrary, people might take your opinion with a bit more weight.
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Is that like the many other news sources reporting that:
- No way Covid could come from a Lab
- Definitely wasnt Hunter Bidens Laptop
- Kamala will definitely win
etc.
Shall I go on?
However - I did decide to look at the many other news sources - and curiously - I only found one other person being cited:
Victor Hernandez, who oversees water management on one of the rivers, the Kaweah in Tulare County.
One wonders if he might have a reason to be opposed to Trump...
You do realize the *exact* same sentiment can be directed at Journalists and the News media in general - if they treated Trump fairly - I might give more weight to their opinion.Who knows, if you became a bit more informed and less dogmatic in your belief despite evidence to the contrary, people might take your opinion with a bit more weight.
As for this article
As for people giving my opinion weight - I was right about Trump winning, I was right about how flawed the NZ Government method of reporting on Covid Deaths was.
Perhaps they should pay a little more attention...
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Geriatric hoon
The calls to invoke the 25th Amendment have started. It's too soon yet but that could be how Trump ends his presidency. For anyone not familiar the 25th Amendment is invoked when a president is unable to function because of health, either physical, or as in this case mental.
Musk has a team of very young and possibly unqualified people working in Treasury. Nobody knows what they are doing and they have access to all US Treasury systems. Some refer to this as a hostile takeover, some refer to it as a coup. Certainly nobody voted for it whatever it is..
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-mus...ung-engineers/
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The Majestic Metal Wizard
Right, so we had a walking Corpse that was Joe Biden who could barely form a coherent sentence - Nope, totally fit to be President...
Vs Trump who is invigorated, speaking as clearly as he always has and full of beans.
No, I think you will find people *did* vote for it, because he talked about US Federal spending and how he will bring it down and get it under control.
Right or Left - the US at the moment is 36 TRILLION in Debt. Both sides can agree that this is a big number and needs to be brought down.
So, Musk going in and finding out what is being spent and cleaning house - sounds good to me.
Afterall - He stopped Twitter from hemorrhaging money...
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The Majestic Metal Wizard
This is what a reasonably balance review looks like. There are elements here that I disagree with. There are elements that demand further debate. There are elements where Ryan is fairly critical of Tulsi and there are times when he fairly defends her.
For example, on the Edward Snowden point - I can see the view that he broke the law, I also think that what he did was necessary (even if it did introduce problems)
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Geriatric hoon
That didn't take long. Trump has lost his tariff wars and surrendered. In Canada's case there is an announcement of new border control measures except they are not new. They were announced previously. It's so transparently pathetic it makes me wonder if it's just intended to distract the media from something else even more worrying.
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In the riders seat
You obviously didn't look very hard
"If you can make black marks on a straight from the time you turn out of a corner until the braking point of the next turn, then you have enough power."
The Majestic Metal Wizard
That was across 7 different news articles.
But by all means, if there is one you think I missed...
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Geriatric hoon
Just looking at some of Canada's responses to Trump's tariffs. Ontario announced that they was cancelling their new $100 million contract with Musk's Starlink. Canada announced a 100% tariff on Tesla cars. Trump promptly folded. It's almost as if his puppet master felt the trade war was getting too expensive.
Canada has a 'different' system of liquor sales, the government owns the bottle stores? The bottle stores removed all US products from the shelves. Individual Canadians had already largely stopped buying US grocery products.
A Canadian politician said it would only take a week before the US car companies were starting to run out of Canadian "just in time" supplied components. The US farmers were worried about an increase in the cost of fertiliser, components of which come from Canada.
It's almost as if Trump hadn't thought it through.
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No8 Wire Extraordinaire
Oh no, the beauty is that it makes Good Business Sense. It's all part of the Art Of The Deal[tm]. You just can't see The Long Game that he playing.
He is softening them all up by jingo they will be for the hop if they don't Toad the Line.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
Embracing mediocrity
Regardless of your opinion of the political leanings of the people quoted in the various articles, the general consensus is that it's dumb and not doing what he's claiming, and it's hard to overlook the stupid in his post saying that the water was going to Los Angeles when it's demonstrably not.
Where it is going, however, is onto the megafarms in the republican voting counties of california, what a happy coincidence.
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There, fixed it for you.
The General Consensus, amongst Whom?
Would that be a media class that irrationally and unreservedly hate him and have demonstrated time and time again that they are willing to Fabricate stories or simply kowtow to the whims of the Democrats to try and discredit him?
Are these the same Megafarms that, according to the two people quoted, are crying out to Trump not to do it, because it will ruin their irrigation needs in the Summer?
Do you see the problem?
You want me to believe on one hand that this is a massive publicity stunt for his voter base and an exercise to enrich his farming mates and simultaneously that those same farming mates are up-in-arms about it nearly flooding their land and ruining their summer water supply.
Now - to be clear, not a hydraulic engineer - I do not know if this move will have the desired effect or not - but the above seemingly contradictory statements suggest to me that the criticism of this action may have some ulterior motives.
And to be quite frank, I am tired of the constant and unreasonable slagging off of Trump. If you believe in Democracy - He won the Popular vote, the house, the Senate and the Presidency. Like it or not - that is one Hell of a mandate from the people.
So, get with the program, it is what the people voted for.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
"channellling the Pleideans"
I feel sooooo dirty. I have Starlink interdweebs.
I have had three years of fuckery with lines companies and legacy infrastructure and a mate suggested it. Ordered the hardware, signedup, and idiot me had the thing running in an hour. instantly three times quicker than our current provider. Also 2/3rds the price.
Its like living in the future. Where's my goddamn jet pack. And flying car. and 20 hour work week? And robot sex doll?
My point is that cunty Elong has done two cool things: Starlink, and SpaceX landing that big fucking booster stage. On balance does it make up for all the rest? Probably not, but damn, Starlink is good.
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Kiwibiker
Cheers for this news Pritch, what a laugh!Just looking at some of Canada's responses to Trump's tariffs. Ontario announced that they was cancelling their new $100 million contract with Musk's Starlink. Canada announced a 100% tariff on Tesla cars. Trump promptly folded.
It's almost as if Trump hadn't thought it through.
Clearly the Canadian Government reads KB and took up my suggestion of targeting musk to end the trade war.
So bloody hell, I leave to go out for a day ride to Masterton to clean my grandaughters pool with a us/canada trade war going on in the background, then when I get back the war is over - with the Canucks all sitting round smoking celebratory cigars admiring their trump and musk trophy wall mounts alongside the moose and bear trophies
Oh to be a fly on the wall of the whitehouse these days. Canada kicks trump in the cunt, then the cunt has to once again (4th time now?) tell vice president trump to stop his dumb plan. I have no idea why president musk has not sacked trump as a DEI failure?
Oh yes, musk getting full control of the federal payments database, you can bet mush has already done a data dump - considering the value of people data these days, this heist is worth an eye watering amount of money. Turns out buying an election is exceedingly financially rewarding. This is all happening in plain sight and I do believe musk is only just getting warmed up on enriching himself - and the fact it is even happening at all is mind boggling.
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