Poultice
5mo ago
According to wiki:
"In 1978 the United States banned the use of CFCs such as Freon in aerosol cans, the beginning of a long series of regulatory actions against their use. The critical DuPont manufacturing patent for Freon ("Process for Fluorinating Halohydrocarbons", U.S. Patent #3258500) was set to expire in 1979"
citing DeSombre, Elizabeth R. (2000). Domestic Sources of International Environmental Policy: Industry, Environmentalists, and U.S. Power. MIT Press. p. 93
Poultice
5mo ago
Yeah, the quote I pasted said that as well.
I have no particular horse in the race, I was only seeking to clarify what DradIsPing was conflating. He was hewing close to what happened but mispoke(typed).
I don't know how valuable the manufacturing process was, how unique or difficult it was to manufacture CFCs without access to the proprietary process, and whether once it was off patent if everyone could have mass produced CFCs cheaply undercutting DuPont's margin.
If the process itself was so important, it amounts to the same thing as a patent for CFCs. From a business perspective.
Poultice
1mo ago
This is particularly rich because so much of the justification for puberty blockers and minor transition has been a "You can have a live daughter or a dead (suicide) son!" fear mongering which turns out to have been based flawed/non-existent studies.
Poultice
3mo ago
It's funny how so many people I read who are made at Musk are writers who don't have the ability to promote their Non-X writing platforms on X anymore. They find this to be a huge injustice and immoral, I find it mostly annoying because I have to read them complaining about it all the time.
Platform X doesn't let me promote other platform Y doesn't seem like a shocking situation to me. Nothing is preventing them from writing an X-article or wtf X calls their longer form platform if it bothers them so much. They're not being censored, they're being encouraged to produce on the same site they're promoting on.
Poultice
5mo ago
Entirely coincidentally I have recently started reading this series (I have only the most surface level understanding of WH40K and was looking to dip my toes into it.)
I started reading the series and after a few pages I had to flip back to the introduction to see if Sandy Mitchell acknowledged his debt to George McDonald Fraser, which he did. I resumed reading and have been enjoying it as very light fiction in between the heavier stuff I'm reading. It's an homage and while the characters are similar Mitchell's take is much misanthropic than Fraser's.
It's light but it's not trash, as a novice I've been enjoying it.
Poultice
9mo ago
Having recently visited said cursed island (which was delightful and I highly recommend) I can safely say Irn Bru trying was the worst part of the trip. That includes a trip to the cliffs of Mohr that was so foggy we practically couldn't see our hands held out in front of our faces.
Poultice
11mo ago
Maybe, but the whole - lifting it over her head in a throwing posture makes it less likely that she was planning on putting it away and more likely about to attack the officers with it.
Poultice
26d ago
Do you have a different video that provides more context than the one I've seen?
You've written up a whole story, psychoanalyzed this officer and based on very scant video. We have no context for what was occurring around her, or the officer, we have an incredibly narrow field of view and for all we know someone adjacent to her could have been throwing something and the shot was errant.
Poultice
8mo ago
This confusion is due to a misunderstanding from CNN last night (I saw it live) King talking to Tapper said that, and later clarified the stat is actually there's no county she outperformed Biden by 3% points.
Poultice
9mo ago
I have 3 kids, 1 was in a booster while 2 were still in their car seat. I made it work for a short time with 3 in the backseat of my crossover, but I had to buy a seatbelt extender just to be able to buckle in the booster seat.
Poultice
10mo ago
My experience with Bikers on hiking trails hasn't been pleasant. The bikers "claimed" a hiking route in a park near me (ie they put up a handmade sign indiciating that one of the parallel paths were for bikers only). This was in spite of signage placed at the entrance to the park indicating the paths were shared and that bikers had to yield to hikers.
I ran into one on the "bikers" path and I thought we were going to have a fist fight when he got uppity about me being in his way. He was threatening and stated it was for my own good that I stay off this route.
Poultice
10mo ago
The YouTube algo must have identified and hit all of us with the same recommendation. I did precisely the same thing. She actually reminded me a lot of Jenny Nicholson, whom I've watched a bunch of stuff from. I assumed that's why I she was inmy feed. I was surprised when I looked up Collier to find that she was a PhD and Science commentator and not a media reviewer.
To this point in my life, I've probably watched 10x the amount of ST:Discovery dissection than I have the show itself.
Poultice
27d ago
"We burn, break shit, and threaten people all the time, which is fine and good"
"You only do it the once, when you're really upset, so that's bad."
It's really solid, well founded logic.
Poultice
5mo ago
That was my first reaction to that as well. I'm always surprised by how low UK wages are, and that seemed exorbitant. I thought maybe there was some translation effect and that role was much more important than it sounds from the title.
Poultice
26d ago
I have family that were in law enforcement and I am very much aware of my pro-blue default nature but I also have some vestigial libertarianism that counterbalances my bias.
I'm not even saying you're wrong, I just think it's too early to judge (the soup/meat analogy is perfect).
If anything the last 10+ years has taught me is patience, especially with incidents like these.
Poultice
2mo ago
I think he didn't bother defining because it has been the subject of a recent Scott post, and featured in a post on the Motte 2 weeks ago.
Poultice
3mo ago
I’ve made converts of friends and acquaintances with recordings of Pavarotti‘s Nessun Dorma, and YouTube clips of Donizetti‘s Cheti, Cheti/Aspetta duet. Anything current? Sadly, no.
Funny enough I became a fan of opera for almost precisely this reason. I credit Tom Cruise and "Rogue Nation" for introducing me to Turandot and went to see it performed live at the MET a few years back.
Poultice
3mo ago
I checked their website on the wayback machine but it wasn't loading fully me so I don't know if they claimed to be "private" or you misunderstood but according to Wikipedia at least they weren't just "founded" by Congress they're also "funded" by Congress.
I don't understand what the word "private" is supposed to mean in the context of a publicly funded organization.
Poultice
6mo ago
My wife and I had to hand sew a Hobbes stuffed tiger for our son when he was born, it wasn't until that moment that I realized he never merchandized the characters.
Poultice
2mo ago
You see the difference is that Karmelo was actually trespassing while Rittenhouse was spiritually trespassing (on public ground in a local community that he has ties to). Obviously Rittenhouse's offense was much more egregious.
According to PEW party affiliation of Asians is merely 2:1 in favor of the Democrats, I'll leave that up to the reader to decide whether that is "solidly left"
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