Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Vox" channel.

  1. “If it ain’t broke, break it.” -US Government
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  2. DaVinci: “Tell no one my helicopter actually worked.” DeMedici: “Done.”
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  3. “A relationship is like a shark, it has to keep moving or it dies... and I think what we have here is a dead shark.”
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  4. Between this, Iraq and (South) Vietnam, we genuinely stink at “nation building” and probably should just let the UN and their peacekeeping forces do that job. But no, that won’t feed the Military Industrial Complex… we ignored Eisenhower’s warning to our peril.
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  5. OPEC to their investors: Don’t Panic. The Future: Yeah… panic.
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  6. GTA V, the characters push doors, but they seem to open both ways, still it’s better than the older GTA games where the doors just fly open when you bump into them.
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  7. Even universal PAID family leave is “controversial” politically in this country… and that’s just not right.
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  8. Maybe “local energy” needs to be a thing… with battery storage tech. Like putting solar panels on buildings to power those buildings and their neighbors.
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  9. When your military spending is 10x that of the next nation (Russia) you’re going to have a lot of extra stuff laying around. I’m waiting for an NYPD Harrier Jet.
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  10. I learned about Hand Talk from”The Mandolorian”, as Native American actors portrayed Tuskan Raiders, or Sand People, and they would communicate with Mando (and later Boba Fett) using Hand Talk to negotiate to traverse their land (something many people didn’t bother to do, and then they wondered why they were shot at.) Really sad most people don’t know that ASL was derived from Hand Talk.
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  11. Daniel Swarovski Yeah... the “American Dream” is quickly becoming only a dream for everyone that isn’t uber rich... especially because they keep trying “trickle down” tax cuts that are supposed to create new jobs, but most companies just bought back their own stocks and horded their money.
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  12. I liked bi-partisan America... why can’t we go back to it?
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  13. Greg Pecaut remember, those Democrats are not the same ones we have now... after LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1965, the southern good old boy racists fled from the Democrats to the GOP, and the African-Americans started voting Democrat.
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  14. All foreign car makers that build their cars in the US (to avoid the costs and tariffs from importing) have their factories in Southern States that are unfriendly to Unions (especially the UAW.)
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  15. It needs to be: if you don’t use the “sword” you can’t have the “shield”.
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  16. For residential use at least, the “dry air” was replaced with argon as it works a little better.
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  17. Then there’s the enclosed water slide from Action Park that ended in a loop that was a perfect circle… and sent so many people to the hospital because of either whiplash, or bashing their head into some part of the inside. 🤦‍♂️
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  18. I’d like to pull an Annie Hall: “You know, I happen to have Jesus right here.” “You know nothing of my work... how you got to preach to anyone is beyond me!”
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  19. Right, but licensing is abused, here in NYC if I wanted a handgun, it’s at least $5000 non-refundable to apply... and there is zero guarantee of approval. Yay?
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  20. Not just comments, people in public have mask-shamed others, “WHY ARE YOU WEARING A MASK!” The Governor of Florida just did it to a group of High Schoolers he was meeting.
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  21. Defense Contractors are basically pulling the strings at the Pentagon and Congress... you cancel a large military contract, factories will close in at least 30 different states because they make sure it’s “job creating” in as many states as possible. Cut that contract, those voters lose their jobs. It’s called Political Engineering.
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  22. We need to show way more respect to our Native American/First Nations people. Then again, so called “civilized” people barely respect each other these days, so maybe I’m asking too much. Radioactive waste is just the tip of the iceberg, asbestos, chemical spills, toxic dust, etc... that is the legacy of allowing industries to put profits above basic safety standards!
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  23.  @chrisofstars  after 9/11 we were more united than I ever remembered. After we invaded Iraq, we were more divided than ever.
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  24. I have a feeling we are still centuries away from Star Trek levels of medicine. “What is this, the dark ages?” -Dr. McCoy
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  25. SKG that’s because there are exactly zero price controls on medicine and medical equipment... so a drug that cost $1 per pill one day can be $1000 per pill the next, just because some pharmaceutical executives think it’s “too unprofitable”.
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  26. Unreal Engine 4 is also being used by architects to render entire cites, so new construction can be rendered into an existing city to make for photorealistic concept “drawings” to give the public a glimpse at the future of their neighborhood.
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  27. Those San Jose parents will wake up one day and wonder why their kids don’t have teachers, because those teachers will move to another community where they can afford to live without having to commute from far away!
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  28. I’ve always said, the amount of arable land used solely for animal feed in the USA is nuts. If you switched that land to growing food for people, we’d either have a much lower food crisis, or none at all.
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  29. Yeah, next time to see a retired General or other officer on TV complaining about this, look up where they work NOW, it’s probably a defense contractor that would continued to profit from this forever war.
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  30. Temporary supports, adding in layers of new foundation as you dig down, it’s almost like digging a tunnel where right behind the open face you have crews installing mesh grids and concrete tunnel wall sections to keep the roof from caving in and killing everyone.
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  31.  @imisstoronto3121  I would prefer that... lately it’s like “it’s 18 months to the next presidential election... so I’m announcing my run!”
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  32.  @tylerswint2695  The ITER is still about 5 years from switching on, and there’s no guarantee it will produce more power than it uses to keep the plasma from fizzling. Plus it’s costing billions of Euros, so it not only has to work right, but be scalable to the point that it’s cheaper to build.
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  33. Too many people are happy driving alone for us to completely give up on the car and switch to mass transit. Just look at how many single occupant cars go out on the roads in rush hour, compared to how many use the HOV lane. At least leaving an electric car (or hydrogen, or some future clean option) as a choice will make transitioning easier.
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  34. Same arguments were used against the freed African-Americans, and the Irish. “They’re taking jobs away!” “Would you do this kind of work?” “…No.”
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  35.  @mancerrss  GTA VI is still probably a long way off though.
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  36. Many will quote the Bible: “he gave us dominion over the animals” but dominion at that time meant two things, not just “we can rule over them”, it could also mean: “take care of the animals” and not the mafia meaning of “taking care”!
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  37. Fun (or not so fun in this case) fact: US cluster bomblets are yellow. The ration packs we dropped as civilian aid in Afghanistan were also yellow… took us a while to realize why the people were not rushing out to pick up those ration packs, and they were recolored pink.
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  38. “Now, who here likes a good story about a bridge?” Buzz Killington
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  39. Truly a race where you don’t want to have a bad qualifying session.
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  40.  @harrypainter7472  if we all complied and didn’t go “muh freedumb” this would have been over much earlier.
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  41. It’s the same as “smart” TVs... it’s there to mine you for your personal data so someone can sell you something via targeted advertising.
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  42. Well the first A in NASA is for Aeronautics.
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  43.  @nromk  one party system vs. 2… honestly both are not good, look at the rest of the world that has more than 2 or even 3 parties, having a coalition government (because getting a majority is not easy) helps things get done, right now the 50-50 US senate may as well have no tiebreaker option, nothing is getting done!
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  44. Colm Moloney I think I heard one of them was considering going metric...
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  45. Theory about the conspiracy theorists… what’s scarier, a shadowy group plotting to assassinate a President, or a lone actor that cannot be explained (him being dead doesn’t help that.) I think an unexplained lone actor is much scarier…
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  46.  @lesussie2237  most banana varieties can’t survive the long trip to those markets… there was a better (and apparently tastier) variety but a parasite wiped it out, so we got stuck with Cavendish.
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  47. Because the amount of cleanup insurance mining companies need to start a new mine is a horribly low number that doesn’t cover squat... the laws for this are vastly outdated, but the mining lobby keeps Congress from updating it.
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  48. Minimum Wage: I’m going up to $15! Cost of living increase has entered the chat.
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  49. Meanwhile in an alternate universe, President Gore personally beheaded Bin Laden in 2002, and left the White House in a flying car in 2008.
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  50. Nastronomical typical trumptard... or Russian troll.
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  51. Rich nations: “Throwing money at the problem, instead of working together isn’t helping? Preposterous! Let’s throw more money at it!”
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  52. Also politicians: and since this will help the future, make the future pay for it..
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  53. The consequence of 24/7 Cable News is: it’s less “information driven” and more “ratings and ad dollars driven.” I’m so glad I don’t have cable TV.
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  54. “We the people” only matter to politicians during an election year.
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  55. Several trials were held regarding crimes from the Balkan wars, an infamous result was one of them snuck cyanide (or something similar) into court, which he took after yelling he was not a criminal.
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  56. Southerners claim to be “true Americans” yet honor traitors that tried to break away from the United States by showing up to protests to remove the statues with semi-automatic rifles?
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  57.  @mattomalley3056  I live in Queens, there are HUGE chunks of Queens (and Brooklyn) that aren’t connected to the subway unless you take at least one bus first. You can go between Brooklyn and Queens without needing Manhattan... on the G train.
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  58. People foolishly believe that the metal and concrete “vault” will stop you from decomposing... they don’t realize that the body breaks down from the INSIDE out. Plus most of the vaults leak anyway... who’s going to check that it’s secure?
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  59. It’s Ghostbusters, they are trying to force the end times instead of just letting them work out naturally... That’s not the work of any god... it’s the work of devils.
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  60.  @TheRedStateBlue  both parties serve their own selfish interests, they don’t serve the people.
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  61. Remember, the victorious are the writers of history… to get the full story you need to track down the losing side too.
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  62. Trams getting priority over cars is a no-no in America... here one person in a car is much more “important” than a silly tram full of people... this is way we need to build trams on separate rights of way.
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  63. See Agent Smith’s diatribe from the first Matrix film... he’s right. We are a virus.
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  64. Bugs Bunny vs. Daffy Duck governing.
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  65.  @Ilikefire2793  they have cargo ships designed to carry cars, it’s basically a giant floating parking structure as there’s several decks to hold cars, and a ramp that folds out and raises up and down to each level (since there’s no port infrastructure like that). That’s what sank near the Canary Islands carrying all those high end cars from Europe.
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  66. INTRAGAME SOLUTIONS the argument is that it’s easier to obtain a rifle or shotgun license, and that handguns are too easy to conceal (there’s also a conceal carry permit, but you need a REALLY good reason to get that!
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  67. That was a primary election, they were voting for who would run against each other in November.
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  68.  @sammierose1150  it’s the South Park argument: “Dey tuck ma jerb!”
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  69. Play the music from Star Trek when Spock has to fight Kirk on Vulcan.
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  70. John Delorean was also over 6 feet tall.. he designed the car for someone like him. The doors originally didn’t have those straps to pull them closed, because he could actually reach the handle. Once they realized a lot of people couldn’t do that, they added the straps.
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  71. Didn’t ask for directions.
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  72.  Don  USSR actually put nuclear powered robotic rovers on the moon first, lunokhod 1 and 2.
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  73. Every other nation had a nationwide plan to deal with this, the US federal government left it up to the states, so we had 50 different plans with limited regional cooperation. Once the “hotspots” managed to fend off the virus, the curve line went down like everywhere else, other areas threw open the doors under the false belief that “it’s over! Time to fix the economy.” And then the line went back up like a roller coaster.
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  74. Russians: “what...? it’s balmy outside.”
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  75. Eisenhower tried to warn us before he left office... we didn’t listen.
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  76. Sadly both of my grandmother’s spent their last years in a Nursing facility. Neither had dementia, but one suffered several strokes that affected key areas of her brain that impaired her memory, eventually she had more strokes that caused her to go into a physical decline and she ended up bedridden for a few weeks before she passed. (Both of my grandfather’s died much younger in hospitals). My other grandmother basically gave up, didn’t want food, didn’t want water, just was done with life (it was sad, but she did live to 94, and also had she outlived for her husband 25 years! I think that much time passing really affected her choice.)
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  77. Catching the ball and being able to drop kick it towards a lit objective takes skill that some people just don’t have the patience for... but the machine will take your quarters either way. I love the controlled chaos of multiball, if I ever hit the lotto my one frivolous buy will be a pinball table.... maybe two if I can somehow get Star Trek the Next Generation. 😏
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  78.  @Sasataf  the machines a programmed for use by either party, I guess they can't lock out the side you aren't supposed to vote on.
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  79. The surface part might be intact, but I’m guessing all that saltwater and pressure (Titanic’s remains are over 3.8km down) are affecting it, but maybe from the bottom layers up.
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  80. If they actually put up and passed a bill that kept the government open for at least 2 years (the amount of time between House elections) this would be less of a problem… but no, now we just need the minority party to have a tantrum over the bill to continue funding and shut downs happen… Welcome to Minority Rule.
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  81. You commit a crime and tell the judge “I didn’t know that was a crime.” Judge: “ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Cops do it, “Well it’s not department policy, so I didn’t know. I wasn’t supposed to do that” Judge, “case dismissed.”
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  82.  @superslimanoniem4712  they are also working on making supersonic flight less annoying for people on the ground, the plane they came up with looks like a skinny boat hull.
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  83. Unfortunately the sad truth is, the gave renters a break, but not landlords, especially smaller landlords. They still had to pay property taxes, mortgages, etc... and rents were being used to fund those expenses. We may go from an eviction crisis, to a defaults on mortgages crisis that sees all the smaller landlords vanish.
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  84. There’s a documentary: “The Confederate States of America” that what-ifs history into the South winning the war.
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  85.  @JohnDoe-dr9ff  I guess we’d have to look into the record of Medicare to see how good or bad it can get.
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  86. Most suburbs became affordable because of those copy/paste ticky-tacky houses.
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  87.  @lukeshaul820  now? I’m pretty sure it’s been a while since they got those.
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  88.  @mrseyo6572  perhaps we should be researching ways to use it after it's no longer viable for power plants. Certain designs of "molten salt reactors" could be an option, as they don't need as pure of a fuel source, and can even use depleted uranium.
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  89. This was my argument... pay someone to go sick, or have the entire business get sick from them.
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  90. Yes, Sears & Roebuck Catalogs used to be THE place to order everything, including the kitchen sink and the rest of the kitchen and the house around it if you wanted.
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  91. Problem is, the two parties controlling everything now, aren’t going to give up the system that gives them total power over the country.
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  92.  @rorypaul153  cut out the middle man, there’s no need to eat animals!
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  93.  @infocat13  some new housing developers are doing district geothermal power, heating and cooling, but that’s dependent on local geology.
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  94.  @BGGIEMAN  Trump promised more coal mining and jobs for coal miners... the coal industry is still collapsing, because most electric plants that use coal are shutting down, or converting to Natural Gas.
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  95. The more 2020 goes on, the angrier I am that it’s actually difficult to leave America and go somewhere else (because until I can obtain another citizenship the IRS will HOUND me like I’m trying to hide money offshore... I’m not a billionaire, but I will be treated like one if I became an expat. It’s almost like they are saying, “How DARE you try to leave!” So much for “freedom”.)
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  96. Wow, reading more into this, Reverend Jim Jones (yes, the Jonestown Massacre guy) tried to save the building, and even got 2000 of his supporters to help surround the building at an earlier eviction attempt. The city Sheriff knew Jones, and actually refused to follow the eviction order! (The Sheriff wound up being held in contempt of court for it). The new I-Hotel is in the same exact spot, the land was bought by the Catholic Archdiocese.
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  97. Captcha: “I’m not a robot.” Terminator: “Cybernetic organism.”
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  98.  @arghost9798  you need permission from the UN first.
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  99.  @mphomosoahle4845  except many large companies are paying little to no taxes via loopholes (Amazon for example paid zero taxes at least once. How are they not making profits? Creative accounting, that's how. )
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  100.  @thetimelapseguy8  unfortunate more bears=more competition for food, and more contact with humans as the sea ice comes in later and later for the starving bears. Plus the Grizzly’s range is expanding towards Polar Bears, and some wonder if they will compete with each other, or interbreed to create a Polar-Grizzly hybrid that will drive non-hybrid Polar Bears to extinction.
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  101. Actually 2 should be: “Spend more, then wonder why you’re out of money.”
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  102. If only they bought lots on the other side of 8th Avenue... they’d be holding some prime real estate once the park was open.
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  103. This may explain those stories of people in royal circles having 10 course dinners.
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  104. President Jefferson invited a French expert to bring over a Meter and a Kilogram so we could see if the system was better or not... But the poor Frenchmen’s ship was hijacked by pirates, his examples stolen, and he never made it to the US. Think about that next time you root for Jack Sparrow.
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  105. 3:33 Mickey puts on blackface... Yeah. Bet Disney wants us to forget about this.
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  106.  @Dan-fo9dk  yes, and that’s where many of the people coming here illegally are from, not Mexico, but Central American countries overrun by government and police corruption and gangs.
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  107. Not just Japanese, all Asians were seen as inferior to whites in America, and were for a time barred from obtaining US citizenship… sadly some ignorant people still treat Asians this way even today.
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  108. Funny, when I played with family and friends when I was a kid, I was better at 3s than inside the arc, and that was over 20 years ago.
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  109. “Subdivisions/ in the high school halls/in the shopping malls/ be cool or be cast out.”
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  110.  @Coolsomeone234  Fun fact: the Keystone XL pipeline would NOT bring more oil into the US, it would simply shift oil off of rail cars and into the new pipeline (a cheaper alternative to ship oil for the oil companies).
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  111. Hmm, if this was done by appointment, like say they knew Mrs. Lincoln was coming in, couldn’t they have painted Abe on the glass with something not detectable to the average individual that when processed affects the print?
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  112. So a rushed into distribution vaccine that only works 50% better than not having a vaccine and no idea of any long term side effects? To quote Dr. McCoy, “What is this, the dark ages?”
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  113. People were encouraged to shoot bison from passing trains. 🤦‍♂️
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  114. Why, because you try asking Trump to let someone else take the central role in a crisis! Trump: “You don’t want ME up front and center?? You’re fired.”
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  115. Just 4 strings... and no frets like on a more modern instrument so you have to learn how to intonate with your fingers without hitting sour notes. Good luck.
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  116. Auction is useful if you land on something and you can’t pay full price... and neither can your opponent.
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  117. Star Trek called, they want their Holodeck back. 😊
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  118. Right, so you raise taxes on the 1% to make them pay more... and they take their money and move it offshore... or they just up and leave the country altogether because they can actually afford to do it!
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  119. “Target is moving too slow... suggest we get out and walk.”
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  120. DEVO puts it best: “Freedom of choice is what you’ve got, freedom from choice is what you want.”
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  121. Problem with electric heat: in the 1990s a major ice storm hit Quebec and knocked out the power... Quebec had cheap enough electric power (thanks to hydroelectric dams) that most homes used electric heat... no power+extremely cold temperatures= people froze to death in their homes.
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  122. Putin is scared that Navalny will start riding bears with no shirt on.
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  123. There is mounting evidence that Russia was also using trapped civilians as human shields to stop Ukraine from targeting them.
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  124. You still need them on public transit and airplanes in the US at least until mid-April. The governor claimed that you can’t do contact tracing on the subway here in NY… but then NY state cut most of their contact tracing teams a few weeks after. 🤷‍♂️
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  125. Because when you make it mandatory, and even offer to cover the costs, the companies will scream “my profits!” And then jack up prices for their customers... who will blame the government for “over-stepping”.
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  126. Is the Polish tribunal a “for life” thing like the Supreme Court in the US?
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  127. If you are relying solely on social media to decide whether or not to vote, or who you’ll vote for... you’re doing a huge disservice to yourself and the country.
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  128.  @UnknownUser-ej8tk  materials may not last much longer if 3D printing tech expands rapidly, then you’ll only need the “ink” for the printers.
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  129. The earth had millennia to create and maintain a balance, and in only a few centuries we have disrupted the balance by burning carbon in excess. The only comparison I can think of is a massive volcanic event in what is now Siberia that threw so much ash and gases into the atmosphere that it caused a global temperature drop that wiped out a majority of species in a mass extinction.
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  130.  McDonken  as that episode goes on that just devolves more and more... "De tuk r jerbs!"
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  131.  @realenew  I’ve done that on the subway getting stuff home from IKEA, helps that I’m near an elevator station and I have a folding cart. But if it’s too huge I’ll just have it delivered.
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  132.  @starboysuniverse9956  did you not watch the video, pooling money into the Covax system would have been better, the bilateral deals should have been subsumed into covax so everyone benefits and there wouldn't be a long wait for poor nations (in in the US, but thanks for assuming things.)
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  133. No, unfortunately the last funding bill “dies” and can’t be used anymore, even if there’s no replacement in place.
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  134. Slava Ukraine, na huy Russia.
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  135. We are literally trashing our planet.
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  136. Al Czervik was right.
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  137. Wind turbine blades are fiberglass like boat hulls... not exactly easy to recycle... and apparently when you replace them you either have to eat the cost to recycle them or just landfill them... I think most are ending up in landfills.
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  138.  @jackfitzpatrick8173  this video was about the Clinton administration, yes Biden was there as a Senator, but Harris was probably in law school back then.
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  139.  @BS-vm5bt  actually Eritrea taxes citizens living overseas, but it’s a small tax and they are much less aggressive about it. Total irony: the USA complains about Eritrea doing this at the UN, but no one ever complains about the USA doing it.
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  140.  @donny_doyle  that may only work temporarily until an even more expensive solution is found (and then give the contract to a donor)
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  141. @ and then don’t actually fix anything… so you can use it again in the next election!
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  142. Actually tried to make a west African dish with real yams... And they under cooked by a lot... 🥵 (Probably because they were sitting in the store for a long while.)
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  143. It’s Hollywood thinking the loon call will bring in the Loonies, from Canadian moviegoers. 🇨🇦
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  144. Putin would love to see NATO vanish. See what he did to Crimea... He'll do that to all the former Soviet states. Maybe we need to make peace with Russia and China, if we aren't seen as adversarial towards them they would back off. We also need to lead the world in denuclearization... That would stop places like Iran and North Korea from saying, "oh, we can't have nukes, but you can? Pfft."
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  145.  @mashedtomato2079  everything east of the ends of the Queen's blvd line and flushing that isn't served by the LIRR.
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  146. Right, but who’s getting the profits, and who’s getting the shaft… look at Nigeria, oil swamps, toxic water, billions of dollars vanished.
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  147. That talk of making a $1 trillion coin to cover debt… what’s to stop us from just making 30 of them and paying off all that debt? Yeah it might crater our credit rating for a while, but that’s why we mint extra coins.
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  148. Look, either just take the terrorists out back and shoot them or admit this is a prison for non-Americans and we’re holding them without due process or trial for the rest of their natural lives. Whichever is cheaper for the taxpayers. (Though I suspect someone is making money off this hand over fist.)
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  149. The irony is, it was supposed to be CHEAP after the expensive F-22!
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  150. Reminds me of the opening of Blazing Saddles, “When you was slaves, you sang like birds. How about a good old n—— work song?”
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  151.  @specialingu  Lafayette
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  152. Story of the Throgs Neck and Whitestone bridges in New York City, first they built one to relieve strain on the Triborough bridge... and then they had to build the other one to relieve the strain on BOTH bridges. Adding the extra capacity just created more traffic problems.
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  153. 2000 election: everyone called Florida for Gore, Fox News called it for Bush, then everyone moved it to too close to call and finally it went into “Dumpster Fire” until the SCOTUS finally had to shut it down a month later.
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  154. Having been overseas a few times I don’t mind Metric, you can drive at 100...kph... (which is actually 62mph, that’s why most cars sold here have a “0 to 62” time now btw), but it’s fun to say, “I’m doing 100!” Most manufacturers have already switched if they are selling things outside the us. It’s actually cheaper, since you don’t need to have two sets of parts and tools.
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  155. Every nation has an “other”, a minority part of the population which is looked down on, oppressed, vilified, etc. Go to parts of Europe and see how Roma “Gypsies” are treated or talked about. If if you get religion involved... yikes! (See Myanmar where “peaceful Buddhists” are violently treating Muslim Rohyngas).
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  156. Typical “throw money at the problem” thinking… not that I mind the checks, it’s helping me pay off debt and also save a little.
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  157.  Imin Hiscare  right, but people don't realize they are wicked!
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  158. Congress is ALWAYS the first to make sure they get paid… and get raises (yes, they can vote for their own pay raises!) Meanwhile my boss claims we don’t have the budget to give me a raise or promotion unless the union gets a new contract… which will be signed by… 🤷‍♂️?
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  159.  @blackmancanjump23  Congress is full of rich people
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  160.  @LocalAitch  the founding fathers wanted congress to be a side gig for professionals (doctors, lawyers, professors, etc), not a career.
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  161. The US needs to recognize a sovereign Taiwan (stop calling yourselves China guys… the mainland is no longer yours.) Heck, the entire world should recognize them… will China fight everyone over it, risk becoming a hermit kingdom? I don’t think they can afford it!
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  162. Trump: “I asked Google, and they confirmed that I am your King, so I’m cancelling the next election.”
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  163. The Vision?
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  164. Perhaps instead of building all new lines, we should try to upgrade existing rail corridors to high speed, like on the Northeast corridor. This would require Amtrak to buy more railines (or build tracks next to existing freight lines) which might eat into the benefits of the new service depending on the area. (HSR in the US stops making sense after about 500 miles as it becomes more convenient to fly, even with the issues of getting to/from airports and dealing with security lines.)
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  165.  @sebastiant5695  plus the shade will keep the cars cooler
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  166.  @ElectricBuckeye  geothermal can be an option in rural areas, but the costs of installation need to go down.
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  167. Vote out any government that strips away environmental protections for profit! They don’t care about their people.
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  168.  @kaitlyn__L  problem is, corporations are considered “people” according to campaign finance rules.
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  169.  @nikodavor5480  actually in New York State is paid for from payroll taxes. It can be used for birth/adoption of a child, personal illness or family illness.
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  170.  @TexZenMaster  in my state paid family leave is a small deduction from my paycheck, so you have to work to get it.
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  171. “We support your war of terror.’ -Borat
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  172. The tests are also too prone to false positive AND negative results because they’ve been rushed out without proper review.
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  173. Easy, everything is better with spinning.
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  174. I don’t think the name is bad, it pumps heat from one place to another, just depends on the fan direction. I think geothermal home heating and cooling should also be a subsidized option.
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  175.  @Chad.Commenter  most older furnaces are inefficient, more modern units are much better at using less fuel and stop putting out a good amount of heat. But you’re still burning hydrocarbons which is not so great for our planet. Of course if your electric heat pump is going power from a gas, oil or coal plant that’s just shifting the pollution away from your house to the power plant. Best example is where I live in NYC. We had a nuclear plant upstate, Indian Point ,but it was old and possibly near a fault line, so it was shut down a few years ago. Now most power generated is from natural gas, though we’re building long underground transmission lines all the way up to Quebec, which uses hydropower. I don’t believe we’d ever be able to only use Quebec power though. There’s talk of building offshore wind farms out in the Atlantic, but I don’t know when it if they’d build it.
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  176. The blast size and radius... it’s like nuke went off... I read that people in Israel and Cyprus heard the explosion.
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  177. I saw a few take offs of Concorde... there was no mistaking that LOUD noise for any other plane... but it was beautiful and graceful at the same time.... I miss it.
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  178. 63 elections??? When did we find 13 extra states?
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  179. The GOP knows they can cheat to stay in power by controlling state level governments and the rules for elections... That’s why the people need to keep up the momentum from this election and turn out to VOTE in the same numbers to fight back... Too many past elections less than half of registered voters couldn’t be bothered to vote!
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  180. Why is it always the people (men) who will never need an abortion the ones looking to limit this medical procedure? This needs to be between a woman and her doctor, government should not be involved!
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  181. That was supposed to be what the UN Security Council did… too bad they failed to think that one of the 5 permanent members would abuse their Veto power like Russia has.
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  182. We rejected British rule, but keep using their old system of units... more or less (the gallon is larger in the UK).
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  183. cooldloop unless it’s something that’s supposed to help the people, then it’s “No, that’s too expensive... what’s this $4 billion for 1 new aircraft carrier... where do I sign?”
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  184. Clearly all highway signage should be written in Zaf Dingbats. 😂 Seriously though, GPS has gotten so much better that many people don’t bother with the signs.
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  185. Yes, I was about to say this! We’re hoarding the vaccines and not sharing the recipes, even though we signed into Covax!
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  186. The Russians and the US also continue to use anti-personnel landmines, despite an international ban on these. Russia left THOUSANDS of these behind when they backed away from Kyiv to “focus on the East”. Some are hidden in homes, in cars, under corpses, and they seem to have sensors that can detect a person walking past them, so you don’t need to step on it, just walk in the area (it pops up and blows a circle of shrapnel all around it. It’s banned for the reason that most victims of these things are civilians long AFTER the war they were deployed in ended.)
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  187. You can build it, but you have to convince people it’s better than driving their car... good luck with that.
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  188. The pejorative term for these is Stroads, not quite a street (serves local traffic in a town/city), not quite a road (connects towns/cities), and it’s bad at being both.
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  189. Bring back the electric streetcars! (Trams for those in Europe). It’s less costly than a full metro, holds more passengers than a bus, and it will move cars off the road (or else.)
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  190. I still think they should keep the ads for ED pills off TV until after 10pm... otherwise kids are watching these ads!
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  191. Spain got erased by Napoleon first.
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  192. Better idea: DC was supposed to be a square, but they gave the land for the 4th corner back to Virginia... so give the land outside of the actual “federal district” back to Maryland.
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  193.   rightspot025  well we actually do did that to the Native Americans.
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  194. Decreased grip strength and hand slowness... not if you’ve been playing guitar for 26 years! My hands are probably the strongest part of me.
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  195. It’s not just to avoid transit fees, Russia and some European nation get into a spat... and suddenly the gas supply goes out in the middle of winter due to a “technical problem.” So the PEOPLE suffer, complain about their government and Russia looks good when they turn the gas back on “problem fixed.”
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  196. So OK came before Okay? (And Oklahoma.)
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  197. $25,000 in 1981... At that time most American cars were about $8,000. Today $25,000 will get you a small car. But, $60,000 will get you that new Corvette. So it’s still about the same in terms of pricing, but back in 1981 if you asked someone “Corvette, or DMC-12?” They’d probably go for a Corvette, because it was (and still is) American made. (Sadly most other “American” branded cars these days are only “Assembled” here, usually out of parts from anywhere but here. If only Delorean did what foreign makers are doing now, build the factory in the South without UAW labor, might have turned out differently.)
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  198. Hot Black Ice needs to be a band name.
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