What Do You Think Of Greta Thunberg?

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Versus 5 hours ... PLANES WIN!

True. But you pay for them.

 

[fncceo]

Labor is only about a third of the cost of a product, and shipping to and from China has got to be almost equal to that?

Let me know when Apple stops using Chinese slaves.

 

[fncceo]

True. But you pay for them.

As long as I get my stuff tomorrow, cool!

 

[Rigby5]

Versus 5 hours ... PLANES WIN!

Planes are almost 2 orders of magnitude less efficient.
The plane has to lift the weight of the plane and cargo instead of just rolling friction, and the high speed they have to maintain to stay up, like 300 mph, causes wind resistance that is probably 100 times more resistance than slow vehicles, like 55 mph.

 

[Rigby5]

Let me know when Apple stops using Chinese slaves.

Eventually Apple will have to, because the Chinese will eventually feel they won't need Apple any more, and the Chinese will sell their own cellphones exclusively. By then, Apple won't even remember how to make them any more.

 

[fncceo]

Planes are almost 2 orders of magnitude less efficient.
The plane has to lift the weight of the plane and cargo instead of just rolling friction, and the high speed they have to maintain to stay up, like 300 mph, causes wind resistance that is probably 100 times more resistance than slow vehicles, like 55 mph.

Are you saying, "If man was meant to fly...?"

 

[JWBooth]

What does Time Magazine think of Greta?

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Same as they thought of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Same as they thought of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao

And what is that? Let's check this bizarre claim.

 

[fncceo]

And what is that? Let's check this bizarre claim.

It's true ... Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938

Mao in 1958

and Stalin TWICE 1939 and 1942.

 

[JWBooth]

And what is that? Let's check this bizarre claim.

They also thought enough of Ayotollah Khomeni, Putin, and Nixon, to give them the same honor as the petulant fetal alcohol syndrome child

 

[rightwinger]

They also thought enough of Ayotollah Khomeni, Putin, and Nixon, to give them the same honor as the petulant fetal alcohol syndrome child

It is the person who made the biggest impact
That can be for good or bad

 

[j-mac]

I do think Jimmy Carter was right, but clearly cars and deforestation are the main issues.
Houses do not need that much for heating.
My furnace usually does not even go on during the day.

You do realize that Carter was resoundingly seen as America’s worst President don’t you? That is until the disaster we have in office today that is.

Carter was wrong on and for America. High inflation, wrecked economy, and seen as weak on the world stage.

Repeating that is insanity.

 

[j-mac]

It is the person who made the biggest impact
That can be for good or bad

Just like liberals to reward failure.

 

[fncceo]

It is the person who made the biggest impact
That can be for good or bad

And while I agree, Thunberg did do a lot of damage to the Climate Cause ... people do that every day.

Hardly something worthy of a $6 magazine cover.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Swiped off of Fagbook, original source unknown…

One crisp winter morning in Sweden, a cute little girl named Greta woke up to a perfect world, one where there were no petroleum products ruining the earth. She tossed aside her cotton sheet and wool blanket and stepped out onto a dirt floor covered with willow bark that had been pulverized with rocks. “What’s this?” she asked.
>
> “Pulverized willow bark,” replied her fairy godmother.
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> “What happened to the carpet?” she asked.
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> “The carpet was nylon, which is made from butadiene and hydrogen cyanide, both made from petroleum,” came the response.
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> Greta smiled, acknowledging that adjustments are necessary to save the planet, and moved to the sink to brush her teeth where instead of a toothbrush, she found a willow, mangled on one end to expose wood fibre bristles.
> “Your old toothbrush?” noted her godmother, “Also nylon.”
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> “Where’s the water?” asked Greta.
> “Down the road in the canal,” replied her godmother, ‘Just make sure you avoid water with cholera in it”
> “Why’s there no running water?” Greta asked, becoming a little peevish.
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> “Well,” said her godmother, who happened to teach engineering at MIT, “Where do we begin?” There followed a long monologue about how sink valves need elastomer seats and how copper pipes contain copper, which has to be mined and how it’s impossible to make all-electric earth-moving equipment with no gear lubrication or tires and how ore has to be smelted to a make metal, and that’s tough to do with only electricity as a source of heat, and even if you use only electricity, the wires need insulation, which is petroleum-based, and though most of Sweden’s energy is produced in an environmentally friendly way because of hydro and nuclear, if you do a mass and energy balance around the whole system, you still need lots of petroleum products like lubricants and nylon and rubber for tires and asphalt for filling potholes and wax and iPhone plastic and elastic to hold your underwear up while operating a copper smelting furnace and . . .
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> “What’s for breakfast?” interjected Greta, whose head was hurting.
> "Fresh, range-fed chicken eggs,” replied her godmother. “Raw.”
> “How so, raw?” inquired Greta.
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> “Well, . . .” And once again, Greta was told about the need for petroleum products like transformer oil and scores of petroleum products essential for producing metals for frying pans and in the end was educated about how you can’t have a petroleum-free world and then cook eggs. Unless you rip your front fence up and start a fire and carefully cook your egg in an orange peel like you do in Boy Scouts. Not that you can find oranges in Sweden anymore.
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> “But I want poached eggs like my Aunt Tilda makes,” lamented Greta.
> “Tilda died this morning,” the godmother explained. “Bacterial pneumonia.”
> “What?!” interjected Greta. “No one dies of bacterial pneumonia! We have penicillin.”
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> “Not anymore,” explained godmother “The production of penicillin requires chemical extraction using isobutyl acetate, which, if you know your organic chemistry, is petroleum-based. Lots of people are dying, which is problematic because there’s not any easy way of disposing of the bodies since backhoes need hydraulic oil and crematoriums can’t really burn many bodies using as fuel Swedish fences and furniture, which are rapidly disappearing - being used on the black market for roasting eggs and staying warm.”
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> This represents only a fraction of Greta’s day, a day without microphones to exclaim into and a day without much food, and a day without carbon-fibre boats to sail in, but a day that will save the planet.
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> Tune in tomorrow when Greta needs a root canal and learns how Novocain is synthesized.​

 

[Bob Blaylock]

You do realize that Carter was resoundingly seen as America’s worst President don’t you? That is until the disaster we have in office today that is.

Carter was wrong on and for America. High inflation, wrecked economy, and seen as weak on the world stage.

Repeating that is insanity.

Carter was the last honest man, to serve as a Democrat President. He was incompetent as shit, but at least he was honest and sincerely tried to act in America's best interest.

Every Democrap who has been President since him has been thoroughly corrupt and crooked. And on top of that, the last two have been at least as incompetent as well.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It's true ... Hitler was Time's Man of the Year in 1938

Mao in 1958

and Stalin TWICE 1939 and 1942.

So therefore, TIME has the same view of these people? Uh, okay.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

It is the person who made the biggest impact
That can be for good or bad

Have to explain it like they are children, I guess.

 

[easyt65]

I've been reading up on the Climate Summit in Scotland and something stuck in my mind when Greta Thunberg said, "“Change is not going to come from inside there,” she told the crowd. “That is not leadership; this is leadership.”

So, if change is not going to come from the world leaders, what are the details of how her leadership is going to make the necessary changes to save our planet? What things is she going to do that does not involve the world's leaders?

I have cometely ignored her from day 1. What she has to say is insignificant. Her opinion Is no more or less important than that of some homless person in San Francisco.

 

[fncceo]

So therefore, TIME has the same view of these people? Uh, okay.

Each of those persons ... in the opinion of the editorial staff of Time Magazine ... wielded the greatest influence, for good or ill, in the world that year.

My time machine is out of dilithium so I can't go back and poll all the employees of Time in 1938, so I'm just going to take the magazine covers at face value.