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From: john larkin <JL@gct.com>
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Subject: Re: OT: Kamala Makes an Astute Observation!
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On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 12:26:38 +0200, albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl wrote:

>In article <vena4h$22gbq$1@dont-email.me>,
>Bill Sloman  <bill.sloman@ieee.org> wrote:
>>On 16/10/2024 1:18 am, john larkin wrote:
>>> On Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:10:30 GMT, Jan Panteltje <alien@comet.invalid>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:22:30 -0700) it happened
>>john larkin
>>>> <JL@gct.com> wrote in <kvjrgj581aeh14c337e1taigc8fvcdaqdh@4ax.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 14 Oct 2024 23:29:28 -0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
>>>>> <cd999666@notformail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This woman has a simply astounding intellect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>https://www.zerohedge.com/political/kamala-election-packed-some-stuff
>>>>>
>>>>> This is weird:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/10/14/harris-proposes-legalizing-marijuana-industry-black-men/7567088
>>>>> 8007/
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it constitutional to have "fully forgivable" loans for just black
>>>>> men?
>>>>>
>>>>> How would she decode who is black?
>>>>>
>>>>> She is also assuming that black men are pot addicts.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's scary to think about what sorts of idiots do indeed occupy the
>>>>> highest places in government. Politics is one of many professions
>>>>> where more expertise and experience make people dumber.
>>>>
>>>> It is just US Military Industrial Complex puppets
>>>> they do not care about Americans at all.
>>>> Making war everywhere, supporting genocide by youws
>>>>
>>>> Massive flooding causes millions without power, many dead
>>>> polliticsians flying sightseeing missions above it...
>>>> When we in the Netherlands had massive flooding many years ago
>>>> we build the 'Delta works':
>>>>   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Works
>>>>
>>>> A better way to spend your tax money than making guns and
>>killing people.
>>>
>>> It's more difficult to build a wall that will keep a hurricane out.
>>
>>The Delta Works aren't aimed at keeping a hurricane out - they just help
>>cope with the flooding that the hurricane brings with it, from storm
>>surges and very heavy rain. They don't do anything against tornados.
>>
>>The equivalents in Florida would still have saved quite a few lives.
>
>The USA doesn't seem to realize as a nation that climate change
>is the reason for the increased severity of hurricanes.

Hurricanes in the USA are neither more frequent nor more deadly than
in the past, even with a thousand times more instrumentation.

The deadliest hurricane in US history was the great Galveston storm of
September 1900. Deaths are estimated around 10,000.

>They should be grateful for the Chinese who have switched
>to electric vehicles for a great part and working to phase
>out fossil fuels.

They are building about a coal power plant per week.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China#/media/File:China-energy-consumption-by-source.svg

>Imposing 100% tariffs on EV's from China prevent all but the well
>to do from switching to EV's.

People in the US and europe are losing interest in ev's.