Denise Amundson

Utopia is a frame of mind. Choose joy.
Army Veteran. No JMF's for me. but I do love a COW.
Don't make me open it!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@OliLondonTV Willie has lost his mind.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

Apparently Obama is attempting to finish his "transformation". You're both America Haters and destroyers. I despise your kind. Not to mention what an absolutely superglued on stupid BHO is for supporting someone who called his tenure a failure. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Biden...Clinton...Sayed? Hmm. Funny thing about hypocrisy and the means to the end. They'll say and do anything to maintain power to destroy. FY.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

Dang. My husband was a tech freak! He bought me my first Minolta X-700. Then we had a Canon EOS Rebel. I migrated to a digital point and shoot- Canon, a Minolta and a Panasonic Lumix. After that, while I had a camera phone, we bought the Sony Alpha 55 mirrorless, EVF. I never learned how to use it effectively. My father in law gave me his old Sony a couple of years ago..also a mirrorless. Easier to use. All my "great" photos were known as "happy accidents" with a 35mm.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

This is why we moved to a neighborhood without an HOA. The last home had an HOA but it was really only because we had a neighborhood pool. The tenants expired after 25 years. We all had nearly an acre of land to manage and if you gunked up your yard? Sure, it could piss people off...but to be told I can't paint my trim- enclose the garage with a single unit A/Cw/o approval, or that the 22 year old little brat in the BMW can give a 40 week pregnant woman a lawn violation was too much! He should have offered to mow the postage stamp! That was 1992.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@Johnny_Joey I was with a unit who did daily PT. Our Unit CO and 1SG were always there sometimes even the Med Group Commander. We never made fun and it was great for Unit comradery.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@AngoraGoatLady I do so despise poor diction or lack of proper pronunciation. I guess that makes me "old". 🤣

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@factpostnews You don't have a clue how heavy that ball is, do you? And you have no clue what exercise came before the ball. L-L-loser. FTR, We call it the end of a set...where one should barely be able to do one more rep or might squeak out a piece of the next.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@Johnny_Joey Haha! My worst exercise are box jumps. I look fatigued from start to finish!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

Ha! Dear Anne, I haven't had regular flu shots in my life. I can count on having 2. My children were not given flu shots either. They rarely missed school for the flu, but definitely viral puke illnesses and sometimes Strep. In 30 years, I can tell you I've taken antibiotics maybe 5 times, had the chicken pox and shingles and will never ever get another vaccination.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@KJP I can put it away and not care. Especially of all of my family is present. I make a point to not take it out in public spaces, stores, restaurants. I've gone a week without it. And it's nice, very nice.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@JimHansonDC Their bat guano is deeeeeep!!!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@DutchRojas Ka-boom!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

Do ponder after reading. Common sense and science.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world consumes roughly 28 million tonnes of copper every year—a mass equivalent to five Great Pyramids of Giza.

Yet that refined metal is just the tip of the iceberg of a far more monstrous physical reality. Beneath those 28 million tonnes of copper sits a massive geological footprint: billions of tonnes of blasted rock, colossal volumes of chemical tailings, vast energy expenditures and trillions of litres of water. This is all fresh, relentless demand.

Crucially, up to 75% of that copper never enters individual turbines, solar panels or electric vehicles. It goes into the invisible grid infrastructure required to link everything together and make it function. When you trace 28 million tonnes of copper backward into the Earth, the true scale and cost is staggering.

The drive to overhaul the global energy structure rests on a profound misunderstanding of physics: it treats energy supply as a 'software' problem while ignoring the devastating raw material gridlock caused by manufacturing billions of solar panels and over a million wind turbines, with hundreds of thousands more in the pipeline.

When an energy system shifts from reliable, high-density fuels—hydrocarbons and uranium—to low-density, intermittent sources like wind and solar, the physical apparatus needed to capture, convert, stabilise and transmit that diffuse flux just explodes.

It becomes an absurd trade-off: expending colossal amounts of finite, high-grade fossil fuels upfront simply to dig up materials for low-density generators—generators that can never run a steel mill, power an ocean cargo vessel or sustain international air travel.

Mining is already a vast consumer of continuous energy. As global copper ore grades decline—frequently dropping to 0.5% or lower—the mass of rock that must be dug, hauled, and crushed grows exponentially per unit of recovered metal.

Crushing rock alone accounts for roughly 3% to 4% of total global electricity consumption. Demanding billions of additional tonnes of processed metal creates a self-defeating loop: huge volumes of reliable, baseline power are consumed just to extract the raw materials needed to construct weather-dependent hardware.

Yet the primary metals drain does not come from the turbines or arrays themselves. It stems from the enormous physical web needed to transport that energy across vast distances. Diffuse generators located hundreds of kilometres from cities require unprecedented volumes of step-up transformers, substations, high-voltage transmission lines and regional grid overhauls.

The heavy overhead wiring looping across the landscape regularly dwarfs the metal required to build the turbine in the first place. Because two centuries of industrial civilisation have already extracted the highest-grade deposits, meeting future demand forces miners to dig deeper, crush harder and manage billions of tonnes of toxic slurry.

This is a twin crisis: the escalating physical cost of ore recovery on the front end, and an unprecedented tsunami of industrial e-waste bound for landfills on the back end. The physical limits of this model are not dictated by how much metal remains in the crust, but by the soaring energy penalty required to dig them up and refine them.

Heavy industrial processes—blast furnaces, chemical synthesis, cement production and deep-shaft mining—all need continuous, high-temperature thermal energy and uninterrupted high-voltage power. Intermittent turbines and panels cannot reliably deliver that dense power to sustain heavy industry, let alone an entire national economy.

The ultimate irony is that the staggering industrial muscle needed to build, maintain, and periodically replace these diffuse energy systems relies entirely on the coal, oil and gas they were meant to replace.

The dream of a fully weather-dependent industrial grid ignores physical reality. It overlooks a looming nightmare of endless ore extraction, refining bottlenecks, and perpetual grid expansion.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@LTCTheresaLong If I could…I would.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@JimHansonDC A good thing he no longer performs! He should pay attention to his own Country, FFS…AND have a steaming hot cup of STFU!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

Please answer the questions:
What is the bacteria that causes Bubonic and Pnuemonic Plague? In the 1600's how was the Bubonic Plague spread? In the 1900's and forward how is Pneumonic plague spread? How is it treated?
The person who died broke a tube containing live culture of Pnuemonic Plague bacteria and likely inhaled the droplets or whatever form of vector spilled from the breakage. If you don't have a high efficiency hepa filtration system, other protocols for cleaning up needed to be in place. Sounds like she was careless and there was no protocol for administering prophylactic antibiotics. And any others entering the space were equally at risk and being monitored. Maybe Quarantined but not locked down as in a whole city.
There is no known manipulation or gain of function being discussed. And as it is in Russia, you should be smarter about your hysterics and speaking as if you know something we don't.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

I just laugh. I remember that it's Yersinia pestis...from my Army Lab days...the Black Death spread to Oberammergau, Germany in the 1600s and the village prayed to be spared. When they were spared? The Passion Play was born and is performed every 10 years or something...the actual disease of Bubonice Plague is not the same Pneumonic Plague.
Apparently, people love the drama...and forget that our sanitation, and advances in medicine are real!

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@jsolomonReports Well, Tom...at least you did one thing correct...as for the rest? GFY. You betrayed your constituents left and right. You're nothing but a weasel.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@AngoraGoatLady @EastTNMama When I sold my house, I can promise with two area rugs and wide plank pine? I didn't have near the dust as in the townhome I rent. It's gross. Every day, I'm dusting. And haven't had A/C or heat on in 3 weeks.

[Denise Amundson @DefendUSA]

@CynicalPublius Money: In an all volunteer force, PRIDE as a member of an ELITE military is not only preferential, it is required.
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