The Nastier Nate posted:

You know you could save money on office space and parking fees if your employees are working from home.

Also toilet paper, water coolers, energy costs

FacelessVoid posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhk-iwmGBFI

Flesh Forge posted:

well if it makes you feel better she's walking away with something like four hundred million of the american dollars

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

I never understood why when you got to billionaire status, why wouldn't you commission a loving nuclear powered yacht that didn't need to be refueled for 20years. You already have a full-time crew so loving hire a navy nuclear engineer when he leaves the US Navy, and make him your engine room guy.

loving billionaires man. Also I loving hate "hydrogen fuel" as if the extraction process (hydrolysis) isn't done using coal powered plants anyway.

indigi posted:

do they let people just have nuclear reactors?

The Saucer Hovers posted:

says the person with the lain avatar

indigi posted:

seems like it'd be too much of a target

indigi posted:

seems like it'd be too much of a target

Mameluke posted:

Yachts are sinkin left and right these days

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

loving billionaires man. Also I loving hate "hydrogen fuel" as if the extraction process (hydrolysis) isn't done using coal powered plants anyway.

tokin opposition posted:

I stand by my contention that we must begin putting hundreds of nuclear plants scattered around the furthest part of the ocean from human habitation cracking sea water for hydrogen. Plus I bet we can make floating cables work, worst that happen is that we electrocute a few million fish in one go.

And what to do with the nuclear waste or any leakage? The ocean is big and her floor is far below.

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HOA Advantage

I live in an area of the country with a serious homeless issue and general affordability problem. Our suburban town is considering drastic zoning changes to allow for multi family housing anywhere, ADUs without permits, and even extended RV camping. Our HOA rules will prevent these changes from happening in our neighborhood. Worth all the dues.

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Ytlaya posted:

I will become President and create a bunch of "HOAs" that actually just exist to collect information on who to send to the camps

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Opinion by the
Editorial Board
May 14, 2021 at 2:27 a.m. GMT+8

WITHIN THE past two weeks, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has reported that a pattern of “debilitating” attacks on U.S. citizens abroad is “increasing,” in some cases leading to traumatic brain injury. CBS News reported that this year “more than a dozen CIA officers” serving in multiple overseas locations have returned to the United States to seek care after such attacks. CNN reported that a National Security Council official was attacked near the Ellipse last November — walking near the White House.

All these add up to an assault on Americans abroad — and now on U.S. soil — that has eluded detection and is running unabated. Although experts have suggested the cause may be a device emitting “directed, pulsed radio frequency energy,” or microwaves, nothing is known for certain, nor is it known who is carrying out the attacks, although the intelligence community considers Russia the leading suspect.

The attacks have caused real suffering. Starting with a 2016 assault on U.S. officials in Havana, those afflicted have reported at first perceiving certain sounds or intense pressure in the head, coming from a distinct direction, followed by hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, visual difficulties, headaches and fatigue, as well as cognitive, balance and sleep disorders. The scope of those injured has grown beyond Cuba and China to include a White House staffer hit while walking her dog in Arlington; two CIA officials hit on a trip to Australia and Taiwan, one of whom was among the agency’s top five officials; and another CIA officer hit on a visit to Moscow.

The Senate committee’s statement and the CBS report suggest the number of people targeted is even larger and growing still. The New York Times reports the total is now more than 130. A certain amount of confidentiality and privacy is justified for those injured. But it is worrisome that the U.S. government has been unable to figure out the cause and the perpetrators for five years.

The Trump administration failed miserably to make this a priority. A 2018 State Department Accountability Review Board report found “serious deficiencies in the Department’s response in areas of accountability, interagency coordination, and communication, at all levels” that “contributed to the confusion surrounding the events, and delayed effective, coordinated action.”

President Biden’s Cabinet members have promised to do better. As of now, less than four months into the new administration, there is one task force working on it at the Pentagon and another at the CIA; another is being “reinvigorated” at the State Department; and another studies past intelligence reports at the National Security Council. With new cases increasing, the Biden administration must reject business as usual. More task forces at different agencies with different agendas does not necessarily add up to answers.

It is time for Mr. Biden to put heads together and put all these people in one place — the intelligence officials, diplomats, military, research scientists, clinicians and medical experts — sharing all the data, including classified, with a single urgent mission: Figure out what is happening, take action to stop it and hold the perpetrators to account.

VideoTapir posted:

A Good Start

It's going to turn out to be like, building material fumes in US government offices or something.

YOLOsubmarine posted:

it’s going to turn out to be entirely psychosomatic, brought on by the stress of being evil people doing evil things in service of an evil empire

StashAugustine posted:

The occult shrines to Baphomet probably don't follow proper OSHA standards

YOLOsubmarine posted:

it’s going to turn out to be entirely psychosomatic, brought on by the stress of being evil people doing evil things in service of an evil empire

kraken! posted:

most of the time people don’t even use hydrolysis, they do steam reforming of methane

hydrogen is the xzibit meme of energy storage

TheGoonspiracist posted:

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It's been interesting watch this story trickle up through the news the last couple years.

It's only ever mentioned that it's a complete mystery, and nothing is ever brought up how much we may or may not have spent researching similar sounding things.

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

I am ignorant of this process, but it sounds like it would release a shitload of greenhouse gas and from the "steam" part it sounds like you are heating up water. IDK though, maybe it's actually a pretty efficient process?

Crazycryodude posted:

Burn a bunch of coal so you can turn natural gas into hydrogen and just dump all that useless carbon, clean as can be!

indigi posted:

why not just build enormous solar furnaces to do the heating

tokin opposition posted:

so what you're saying is nuclear powered

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

In certain places that makes sense. But giant mirror power plants aren't a good fit for the majority of places in the world. I can only think of maybe 10 or so regions where they would make sense, keeping in mind that it's not just the need of clear sky's and a high amount of daylight hours, they also have an enormous footprint and are extremely disruptive to local environment. (Yes cities do to, but you can build a nuclear power plant in a city along a river, you can't build a solar furnace in the same place.)

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

It's a complete mystery if the attacks even happened, but one thing our illustrious intelligence community is sure of, Russia is behind it.

ate poo poo on live tv posted:

Yes.