Super Snow Moon: Part 2
Tuesday's Moon was the official Super Moon.
However, it was an hour darker, so the photos were harder to come by.
I used two cameras.
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Alan, I was shocked to read on the previous thread, that article you posted about cities burning recyclables..! WTF??!
ReplyDeleteThere is no need for that at all. I didn't even know so much had been being sent to China. That's absurd! Think of the transportation costs, especially with regard to carbon footprint! Here in Vermont we have a Solid Waste plant. They do an awesome job. It makes me so angry that despite regulations about recycling, so many places have not worked out what to do, locally, with recyclables!
Yes, that has been going on for a while--the US as a whole lacks the ability to process all its recyclables, and had been shipping a lot to China. China decided it didn't want so much. A lot from the UK and maybe other European countries is dumped (legally or not) in poor third-world countries that can't process it.
DeleteCome to think of it, listener, do you know what happens to the solid waste after it is sorted and baled by Vermont's processing plant? Even such a simple thing as paper is a problem--the demand for recycled newsprint paper is inadequate to the supply these days. Come to think of it, a Fisher-Tropsch liquid fuels synthesis plant could use unsalable paper and plastic as a feedstock; it would at least be carbon-neutral, and would depress demand for petroleum. It could also be adapted to using carbon dioxide in the air as a feedstock. It might even be able to become carbon negative by converting said carbon dioxide into solid form such as breeze blocks or concrete substitute.
DeleteI see that Vermont has an admirable recycling program, but the effect of
DeleteChina’s refusal to take US recyclables [Click] [shortly after Trump’s tariffs were imposed] has had a serious adverse effect, just like elsewhere.
It’s hard to believe that as many as one-in-six of the Tweets you see about a presidential candidate have been generated by a single troll farm, but it’s actually quite possible. Trying to combat this kind of behavior in real time is impossible, so it becomes a game of whac-a-mole.
ReplyDeleteDemocratic voters will not be able to avoid being subjected to these kinds of aggressive influence operations. Many will willingly participate in them when they see it as advantageous to their preferred candidate. They’ll share disinformation because it confirms what they want to believe or because they cynically think it will serve their cause. Whether wittingly or unwittingly, people will do the work of the social media trolls for them.
If you want to be a responsible citizen, you should resist this whole process. Sharing posts that are disparaging of other candidates should be done very selectively, and only after you’ve satisfied yourself that they contain factual information vetted by responsible reporters. When anonymous people behave badly in the name of a candidate, you should presume that they’re not actually supporters of that candidate or even necessarily supporters of the Democratic Party or even necessarily American citizens. Pointing at their bad behavior and sharing it widely to harm a candidate is likely to be exactly what they want you to do.
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2019/2/20/16554/1234
Roger Stone Says He’s Stressed and Broke [Click] Pardon me, but I doubt his veracity, and have no sympathy for him on top of that.
ReplyDeleteNew York Is Prepared To Charge Manafort If Trump Pardons Him [Click]
New Jersey Bill to Keep Trump Off the Ballot? [Click]
Mother Jones: Donald Trump Has a Cash Problem [Click] Damn shame, that.
ReplyDeleteAn Important Lesson About Election and Voter Fraud [Click]
ReplyDeleteThis link is the same as the previous one.
DeleteOOPS! Thanks, Bill. Try this one:
DeleteAn Important Lesson About Election and Voter Fraud [Click]
Trump Serves Up A Word Salad When Asked About NC’s 9th District [Click]
ReplyDeleteTrump Intends to ‘Cause Chaos’ In Democratic Primaries [Click]
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Bonus Quote of the Day
February 22, 2019 Taegan Goddard
“Look, you could be a senior senator and have never managed more than a hundred people in your life. I not only have more years of government experience than the president of the United States, but I have more years of executive experience than the vice president of the United States, and more wartime experience than anybody who arrived in the office since George H.W. Bush.”
— South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, quoted by the Washington Post, on his experience to be president despite being 37 years old.
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Dianne Feinstein displays her arrogance yet again. [Click]
Somewhere or other I found mention that only once has the mayor of a city been nominated for the presidency by a major political party: DeWitt Clinton, mayor of New York City, in 1812. I looked up the populations of NYC around 1812 and South Bend today, and South Bend is a few thousand bigger than NYC was back then.
DeleteThat's a great quote. I do think it's telling that the most recent war any U.S. president served in was WWII. Both Clinton and Trump were eligible to serve in Vietnam, and both are draft dodgers.
DeleteAppalachia wasn’t always conservative. In Virginia’s coal country, a long history of grassroots organising is inspiring a new wave of activism. By Elizabeth Catte [Click] This is one essay from an issue/book of the Boston Review. I followed the links at the bottom of the page, as well as googling and wikipediaing, and this looks like A GREAT PUBLICATION! Includes fiction and poetry to boot. I am very sorely tempted to subscribe. Anyone else here have any familiarity with Boston Review?
ReplyDeleteSadly, I'm not familiar with the periodical. Thanks for the plug. I'll look into it.
DeleteFascinating article, that offers some hope.
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