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Nonprofits Are Making Billions off the Border Crisis

I believe that they are breaking numerous laws. It is illegal to aid and abet illegal immigration. We see the occasional videos of someone picking up migrants at the border and driving them away and being chased by the police. These people all go to jail for that. At the very least use the lawfare practice against them and take them to court, keep them in pretrial custody, make them hire attorneys, confiscate their personal property and wealth, put their names and pictures in the news for all to see.

#1 OneGuy on 2024-05-25 09:52 (Reply)

re Is Beef Production a Major Contributor to Climate Change?

No.

The very idea is preposterous.

Next question?

#2 feeblemind on 2024-05-25 11:33 (Reply)

Why do you consider it preposterous? It would seem to be an empirical question.

#2.1 Zachriel on 2024-05-25 13:29 (Reply)

Methane is a trace gas consisting amounting to 0.00017% (1.7 parts per million).

That is a number that is very close to ZERO.

At a bare minimum, naturally occurring methane is 40% of the emitted gas. Of the remaining 60%, it is speculated that 30% comes from animal agriculture. Cows are just a percentage of THAT.

To suggest that the tiny output from cows of a trace gas that is virtually ZERO percent of the Earth's atmosphere, would somehow move the needle on "climate change" is indeed preposterous, unless you are assigning magical properties to methane.

#2.1.1 feeblemind on 2024-05-25 14:45 (Reply)

feeblemind: Methane is a trace gas consisting amounting to 0.00017% (1.7 parts per million).

Hand waving in the classical sense! Very good! Very good! Your argument is of the form if it is below a certain amount, it can have no effect.

The body weight of a fly is about 0.1 ppm of a human's weight. Pesky flies are like pesky facts, you easily can't shoo them away. Though what is the weight of a fact?
A small bullet (.22) is about 31 ppm of a human's weight, so that's a bit larger proportion, but still significant in that it can kill a person. Okay, still too big.
The weight of uranium in the atomic bomb that killed about ≈100,000 people at Hiroshima was about 10 ppm (mass of uranium per mass of person killed). Okay, still too big.
A dose of LSD is about 0.001 ppm of body weight. But, per your argument, should have no effect.
The total weight of ALL viruses in ALL human bodies is about 1 kg, or about 0.000002 ppm. Yet, those viruses kill millions every year. Yet, per your argument, it is "preposterous" that those viruses can have a significant effect.

#2.1.2 Zachriel on 2024-05-25 16:22 (Reply)

And you ignore the most prevalent greenhouse gas of all... water vapor. Now try to rid us of that and its constant changing. Underwater volcanos anyone? Cloud cover anyone?

#2.1.2.1 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-25 18:00 (Reply)

Oh, and about 'that' virus.... the 'science'

https://x.com'DrC_IET17/status/1794154861438935528

#2.1.2.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-25 18:16 (Reply)

feeblemind: To suggest that the tiny output from cows of a trace gas that is virtually ZERO percent of the Earth's atmosphere, would somehow move the needle on "climate change" is indeed preposterous, unless you are assigning magical properties to methane.

Let's start with the basics. From fundamental physics, we know that without the greenhouse effect, the Earth's surface would be largely frozen. (Calculate the blackbody temperature of the Earth's surface.) Now, monatomic and homonuclear diatomic molecules are virtually unaffected by infrared energy; consequently, nitrogen, oxygen and argon are not greenhouse gases. That means when saying "percent of the Earth's atmosphere," you should ignore most of the atmosphere as being irrelevant to the greenhouse effect. It's the trace gases that determine the greenhouse effect. Is 33°C a significant effect? Guess it depends. It doesn't melt rock, but it is the difference between all the Earth's oceans being frozen and the actual state of the world.

#2.1.3 Zachriel on 2024-05-25 16:33 (Reply)

Let's start with just STFU and go away, you're annoying the adults.

#2.1.3.1 Zachinoff on 2024-05-25 17:01 (Reply)

All you have it +or_ 40 some models of which none even equate to a theory. If the "science" was remotely plausible, you would have one or maybe two models. All your models have is a wish in one hand and hope in the other.
The purpose of climate BS is simply to acquire power and control over others through lawfare and, of course, money from grifting. I'm only surprised the Nigerians aren't deeper into the grift.

#2.1.3.2 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-25 17:48 (Reply)

In my opinion this country would be better off if Mayorkas was charged with treason, found guilty in court and hung in the public square. Too many or our politicians have been playing fast and loose with this countries security and have literally allowed our enemies and foreign armies to enter through our Southern border. Hanging for treason might just wake them the F... up. It won't happen of course mostly because so many in our government are complicit in the treason. So we are fated to endure whatever these foreign enemies have in store for us, another 9/11 perhaps but maybe bigger. Sadly even then none of our treasonous politicians and bureaucrats will ever be punished. Stay safe out there. Stay away from crowds.

#3 Anon on 2024-05-25 11:47 (Reply)

Like Impossible Foods, synthetic meat has gotten caught up in the culture wars. I think synthetic meat is a good idea. The problem is that outfits like WEF push it along with their more coercive BS like getting rid of cars and limiting people's right to travel. So many people start to associate synthetic meat with these other things and start to wonder why it is really being pushed and if there is a nefarious motive behind it.

To overcome this, the start-ups developing synthetic meat need to publicly disassociate themselves from organizations such as WEF and instead state they are merely offering a free market competitive alternative to natural meat and that they accept swimming or sinking by free consumer choice. Companies like Impossoble Foods need to do the same.

#4 Abelard Lindsey on 2024-05-25 11:51 (Reply)

The CIA and social media... the leadership has violated most every law that distances them from spying on and censoring American citizens. Yet they are still free and continuing the charade of public safety. Like the FBI, they protect the old ruling elite. How far they have all fallen away from the republic.

#5 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-25 12:54 (Reply)

Stuart... Nothing like marxists turning law and medicine into compostable crap. The multi-culti mafia escorting civilization to the new stone age.

#6 indyjonesouthere on 2024-05-25 13:14 (Reply)

Taylor Swift “ conference” was in 2021

#7 Marina on 2024-05-25 13:40 (Reply)

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