@cloud9_nb@nypost That’s not a good look - his family living large while their murdering son gets ready to spend the next 20 years of his life in prison.
@BarbellFi Hate to say it, but you’re f*cked. SS is a classic Ponzi scheme that should have been set up as a pension plan, which could have made you multiples on the money you paid in.
@jeremyct This sucks. And if the government hadn’t inflated the money supply by massive government spending and instead had a sound money supply backed by gold, her house price and property taxes would still be at a much lower level. Sorry to hear about her situation.
She didn’t say that. I’ve known Sheryl for many years and she’s been a fair and thorough journalist. I have a number of issues with some young journalists who act more like advocates than reporters, but Sheryl is definitely not one of them. She’s one of the old school reporters I like to read, not an activist or political party collaborator.
Back to idiots taxing carbon, the foundation for all life on earth.
From Wikipedia:
“All known life on Earth is considered carbon-based because carbon serves as the chemical backbone for all complex biological molecules. It acts as the skeleton for essential structures like DNA, proteins, and carbohydrates, making up roughly half of the dry biomass in living organisms.”
@Logically_JC Norway has a sovereign wealth fund based on their massive oil profits that massively subsidizes their national welfare programs, like free healthcare, college, etc.
@DarrigoMelanie I thought Social Security was something you and your employer paid into as taxes and then receive back later as monthly checks. Are you saying that money didn’t get put into Gore’s “lock box” or get invested into mutual funds as some kind of pension plan? 🤔
A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024.
Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions.
They don't match.
From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low.
Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling.
From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase.
As the author concludes, "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming."
Comments by the experts before the 2000 tech crash. The Nasdaq was similarly overvalued back then. Many thought the boom would never end but it didn’t reach its previous all-time high until 2015.