Climate Change

[Kdogg]

Molten salt can be used to store energy. Not MY energy, ain’t nothing that can handle that, baby!

You can pair it with solar and/or wind. There a project out in California.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...th-24-7-power/

A Bill Gates backed company is planning to test run a nuclear reactor and use it to store energy.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/17/bill...coal-town.html

[Skydog]

Correct. Not having a state income tax effectively places a flat tax in the form of sales tax and flat taxes place a higher tax burden on lower earners than is present in states with a state income tax.

https://money.cnn.com/2015/01/15/pf/taxes/poor-state-taxes/index.html

I know Texas has very high real estate taxes, not sure about FL. Not surprising - I doubt Texas & Florida state gov’ts spend much less than average per capita and the tax revenue has to come from somewhere.

I think Texas also gets a lot of $ from taxes on oil income. I grew up in a small poor rural TX county yet our school bands provided free musical instruments to every student who joined. I was told at the time that we were a rich school district because of the tax base created by the oil wells in the county.

[bundabergdevil]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

[ClemmonsDevil]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

Oh. My. God. Legendary.

[OldPhiKap]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

“Moo”

[CrazyNotCrazie]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

Wow. Just wow. I am ashamed to admit that I just went through the list and spent quite a while placing odds on who I thought it was. I'm assuming it was someone for whom English is not their native language.

[OldPhiKap]

“Oddly enough, my name is Angus.”

Then tell her about your military service and rank.

[curtis325]

“Oddly enough, my name is Angus.”

Then tell her about your military service and rank.

Colonel Angus is an acquired taste.

[bundabergdevil]

Wow. Just wow. I am ashamed to admit that I just went through the list and spent quite a while placing odds on who I thought it was. I'm assuming it was someone for whom English is not their native language.

No. She knew exactly what she was saying.

[OldPhiKap]

“and I am Abe Froman, the sausage king of Chicago.”

[CrazyNotCrazie]

No. She knew exactly what she was saying.

Is she a vegetarian named Mary Moon?

[bundabergdevil]

Is she a vegetarian named Mary Moon?

As the kids say, I was today years old when I realized the song wasn’t about “Mary Moo”.


That song. Dumb and Dumber. <chef’s kiss>

[YmoBeThere]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

This isn't some sort of dream sequence where you wake up at the grocery store and a little old lady asks you to get a bottle of salad dressing from the top shelf is it?

[bundabergdevil]

This isn't some sort of dream sequence where you wake up at the grocery store and a little old lady asks you to get a bottle of salad dressing from the top shelf is it?

It is not. This is a true story. I sent that article to a friend on LinkedIn who was a bystander that evening just to be sure it was her.

[fidel]

It is not. This is a true story. I sent that article to a friend on LinkedIn who was a bystander that evening just to be sure it was her.

‘Me strong like Bull.’ Pounds chest.

What did you actually reply?

[budwom]

vegetables are what food eats.

[bundabergdevil]

‘Me strong like Bull.’ Pounds chest.

What did you actually reply?

It was so unexpected that I blushed and said something like, “Whoa, did not expect that”. Boring, I know, she’d been drinking and her friends apologized for her.


Definitely one of those moments where I cane up with a much wittier retort hours after the fact.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

It was so unexpected that I blushed and said something like, “Whoa, did not expect that”. Boring, I know, she’d been drinking and her friends apologized for her.


Definitely one of those moments where I cane up with a much wittier retort hours after the fact.

Reminds me of the Seinfeld "the jerk store called" episode - I am horrible at thinking on my feet so I feel your pain.

Still wondering which one it was...

[ClemmonsDevil]

I know this is going to surprise some of you, but I'm not as smooth with the ladies as you think I probably am. In my high school yearbook, a lot of people wrote: "Stay cool." I have some devastating news for those people.

[Steven43]

I don't know where else to share this but I do need to share it. I met one of the women on the list below at a conference that served an all veggie dinner. At the bar later, she was talking to a few folks I knew and I walked up. When I did, she stared me dead in the eye and said, "I don't always eat meat but when I do, I like big American beef."

https://www.reuters.com/business/sus...ge-2023-03-07/

I’m hoping/assuming it was either Cate Lamb (who looks a bit like Gwyneth Paltrow), Ezgi Barcenas, or Ajaita Shah. Or perhaps even Melanie Nakagawa.

You can go ahead and reveal which one it was now. Thanks.