I have to think they’re safe. The one I use was built by Chinese labor too.
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12 year old Chinese girls chained to stitch machines make nice running shoes. Just sayin’…
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They’ve got at least 7 years of working experience by then, so should be good.
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There’s an evil skit about attempting that experiment with junior high school American girls in there somewhere.
No skit about junior high school American girls can be more evil than real life with junior high school American girls.
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Things everybody uses…interstate highway system, roads bridges, medicare, medicaid…MONEY… are all commonly used and therefore …errmmm… socialist because society uses them and not because they are bad. I have Medicare…I like it… I wish everybody could have it. But the compromise to get it passed was it was only for old farts like me over 65. BECAUSE Goober opposition.
See? Goobers don’t want stuff held in common. They want everybody to be soaked by the already obscenely rich class. Just use your eyes and you will see.
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25 terms in the House. He must like his job by now.
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Just doesn’t want to deal with Alaska winters.
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Josh is spot on and this is why getting this bill is useful. Success generates success. Momentum, concrete take homes.
Last week we were bleeding out.
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Well… that’s a bit exaggerated. Lots of the stuff I have seen are decent infra. It’s just China often sends over its own labor (really seriously, I once was in line for hours in an airport in Africa behind a tribe (being ironic here) of Chinese "engineers’ (so they visas said) … laborers…) and structures their deals in ways that really screw the host countries over (but not the corrupt guys who got them the contracts).
Certainly some white elephant potential stuff but they’re more on a neo-colonial, they totally mean to get control and sweat those assets at any cost…
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House GOPers Insist They Love Infrastructure—
… that helps their district / state …
— Just Not The Very Socialist And Bad Kind In The BIF —
… that is being given out to other degenerate districts / states …
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We have a lot of good incumbents in the House who’ve won twice under different electoral landscapes. I seriously doubt any GOPer is going to knock off an incumbent Dem who runs hard on BIF and BBB. It would take redistricting advantages to do that, and there aren’t as many opportunities for the GOPers to put Dems in a tight spot vs 2010. In fact, it’s the Dems who are putting the GOP in tight spots. For those that are being redistricted into less favorable territory, the incumbent would probably retire or run somewhere else.
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Editorial by Secretary Haaland in the Seattle Times today: $216 million to support climate change adaptation for tribal communities (the editorial refers to “most vulnerable” tribes and “coastal tribes” - not sure how the bill is worded exactly)
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I take it DC winters are that much better?
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-50 and just sub-freezing are slightly different.
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Where I live it’s uncommon to see freezing temps. Maybe 5 to 10 nights a winter… if that recently.
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Just saying that the WV crowd always votes against their own best interest. I am amazed that they vote for Manchin.
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Build Back Better Plan is critical to our survival as a species not to mention all the other innocent creatures who will likely disappear before we do. There’s no exaggeration here on likely outcomes. Mitigation and Adaptation are our only options now and adaptation gets harder the longer we stall…
Kevin Anderson Nov 3
Fascinating & deeply disturbing talk by @climate_ice (Jason Box) & @twilamoon (Twila Moon) detailing mechanisms of ice melt in Greenland, many important ones are not yet included in ice-melt (& hence sea level) models. Empirical ice melt for Greenland is now at or greater than was estimated for RCP8.5!
https://twitter.com/KevinClimate
“The removal of the aerosol masking effect is one of the very alarming effects of having cleaner energy” —@climate_ice (Jason Box) on Greenland & several feedbacks not included in current models
Twila Moon, PhD Nov 3
Sea level rise from ice sheets is tracking higher than paired for given emissions pathway projections. I.e., work urgently for low emissions, plan/build for SLR on high end of projections. Scientists continue work to narrow projections!
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We already know there are permafrost processes not included in current climate models used for IPCC. Follow @queenofpeat (Dr. Merritt Turetsky) for excellent #permafrost content.
https://twitter.com/twilamoon
COP26 talk – Greenland’s Tipping Point/Thresholds
International Cryosphere Climate Initiative
with Jason Box & Twila Moon
**@57:00 mins- the projections of the future, brace yourselves they’re like this …
the paris scenario is the lower curve and the business as usual is the upper curve
this is what negotiators here need to make sense of what is at risk is basically a governable society.
They love infrastructure. Sure. And I like tax cuts. I prefer tax cuts for the people already paying the largest taxes as a percent of income. To people who will spend in our economy, creating a multiplier effect. Just not the trillion dollar kind of tax cut enjoyed only by billionaires, who will just piss it away on trips to weightless places.
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