Lord of Oop North

For sure. My house was in the path, so the whole area the just slammed with people everywhere. It reminded me of the great blackout. Everyone out and about at once.

Now it's a bright sunny day,

The cloud cover was bad, but in the last 10-15 minutes it cleared up a lot and we could see if through our glasses. But once it went total, cloud cover again. Total night was pretty cool.

The difference between 98% and 100% (totality) is literally night and day.

So on that link of the eleven incidents: 1 was drunk passengers, and 3 were Airbus. Bad month for sure, but sometimes you got to question how much of this is always going on, and not that serious. But is just more in the spotlight now because of the Boeing fiasco.

Wine to Survive

There are lots of engineers. In Canada we probably have too many if we are being honest. The problem is we didn't and don't really encourage people to go into technical fields where they actually know how to build things. I don't just mean skilled trades, but technicians of various disciplines. You do not need to be a P.Eng to go that route. This is changing slowly.

I haven't watched the video, but it may be based on a study that NPR reported on this past summer, where they analyzed the energy emissions overall. They found that when methane leakage rates were taken into account, the overall emissions were basically the same. However, I don't believe the study said anything about other particulates that are released, which I am sure are worse with coal. Here in Ontario, after they shutdown the coal plants, the smog problem ended.

Isn't the Dutch paper reporting on this, De Telegraaf , basically a tabloid?

One of the most useless legislatures we have ever had. So much legislation passed and then repealed or struck down. Bunch of total clowns.

Who on this thread is saying that? Or defending slavery? I think what people are saying is that people of the past are products of their time. You and I would be too, I'm sure. So yes, you can look at someone and say that they are totally shitty based on universal morality. There are some that are obviously beyond any redemption too. But understanding the context of the time can help to understand why those people turned out that way. Ultimately people are products of their society - nurture is a strong force in shaping human personality. With regards to rationalization, humans are so different that you will run the gamut from those with conscience that use the rationalizations of society to ease that, to those with less conscience that are in essence true believers in the rationalizations of society.

Sure, and then he turned into a fucking wanker. Great character, for sure, but he certainly did awful things.

That I had total Google Fascinating.

Huh? Please learn to read.

The current staffing crisis has nothing to do with the miniscule about of nurses that refused to be vaccinated. Everything that I have read has said that 99% of "employees" complied. That includes non nursing staff. In Ontario, we literally need to hire like 10-15k+ more nurses per year to actually have safe staff to patient ratios, and to offset retirements and turnover.