How exactly do all those Americans get on planes in the US with guns and only get found out when exiting in the destination country?

Golly, you're not just making up a bunch of crap, are you?

Are you?

Again: if you're a known liar the only way to become trusted is to EARN that trust by TELLING THE TRUTH going forward.

This is stuff you should have learned in kindergarten.

Your 2+2=3 analogy is ridiculous, btw. We are talking about things that require information only Xi has. Please try to discuss like an adult, not a college freshman if you want to be taken seriously. Look inside yourself for the flaw, not at others; your post is nonsense to any rational adult.

Your concept here is they are known liars so they should keep lying and everyone should trust them because if they tell the truth for once then they will be criticized for it? Complete crap. Illogical, irrational, ridiculous crap. Seriously, are you still in college?

I see. So they are evil and proven untrustworthy therefore the flaw is in me for not trusting them.

Is the sky not blue in your world? Does the sun rise in the west and set in the east? Does 2+2 != 4?

Your backwards pseudo logic is incredibly twisted. Did you get paid to post that?

Maybe we should not trust proven evil liars who have a track record of lying and evilness until the prove themselves trustworthy which they could start by coming clean about covid? No? That would be asking too much. We should blame their victims instead.

Hey I know let's create a new legal system! We punish victims for not forgiving the criminals who steal, rape, burn, and murder them. Sounds great!

*eye roll*

When Xi comes clean about covid he will earn a tiny shred of trust. But not much because of everything else. He's not trusted because he's not trustworthy.

Gosh maybe they should release the data then we can see how the west reacts instead of shilling for an evil totalitarian murderous dictatorship and saying it's ok they continue to lie because the west is all bad.

How about that?

Is Xi even psychologically capable of coming clean?

Maybe he's just distracted by his efforts to wipe out the Uighur and Falun Gong, crush the last vestiges of freedom in Hong Kong, build up the military ever stronger for the coming Taiwan invasion, continue raping Africa and South America, and Tibet and tiananmen square? Can't remember what those places even ate now. To say nothing of the mass IP theft, financial system manipulation and daily oppression of their own people.

All that can keep a guy like Xi too busy to worry about the source of some pesky pandemic.

Sigh... ok no I didn't read this one. This is just a general comment on corporations and apparently government agencies posting April's fool stuff every year.

Does anyone look forward to these things? Voltzwagon? Space elevators and apples? Whatever other not funny things get posted today? Does anyone find them funny? Do they brighten your day? I feel grinchy saying this but I really wish all the not-funny people (99% of them) would just stop.

I'm not sure if this could lead to criminal charges but the fines for these sorts of things can be astronomical and the odds of that goes higher if they can prove the company maliciously hid stuff.

To say nothing of their damaged reputation going forward and lost sales. Time to polish resume for everyone there who cares about their career.

In other words, no, you don't have a quote, you made up that shit and now you blame me for your inability to find your faked up not-quote on Google.

Ok, got it. I understand perfectly. Thanks for explaining.

Many viruses are named after the location they are first discovered or blow up into a huge problem.

Spanish flu, Ebola, West Nile, German measles, Marburg, Lassa, Rocky Mountain, Lyme, and so many others.

Everything isn't "RAAAYYCCISSSSTT!!"

Sometimes things just are what they are.

Do you have a Ronald Reagan quote where he says HIV/AIDS is a punishment from God?

I disagree on one thing you said. I think they know -exactly- what they are participating in.

Read again some of the quotes against RMS. They are passionate. These are true believers. Not people just going along with the torches and pitchforks mob. They are leading the mob and riling it up.

They know.

This cartoon is brilliant. It allows us to teach all the non-scientist deniers how dramatic the climate change has been. What better way to teach all those dummies than with something at their level, a cartoon? If only it were in crayon it would be perfect. The science is settled. At work I always simplify incredibly complex topics into single panel cartoons. Everyone loves it so they don't have to think or know anything. They just post a link to the cartoon I give them and everyone nods sagely and knowingly. It's nice to be in the in-crowd of smart cartoon readers.

You need to consider both sides of the equation. In exchange for each unit of CO2 produced how much output is there?

Talk to your Indian friends about the horrible pollution in any city, lack of clean water and so on, look at the output per capita for that pollution and you'll see the US or any other 1st world country is far more efficient than India. You get huge GDP output (which is food, products and services) from the US for that CO2 but get almost nothing from India. So you need to decide if you want to continue having an efficient high tech highly productive society or go back to world wide rice farming and tiny population.

I'll take efficiency, high productivity, high tech and clean air over anything India has to offer every time.

I haven't been to Africa or the South Pole but every other place with clean air, clean water and efficient industries are much nicer, healthier, safer and freer places than those without. Agrarian hell hole wold not be my first choice for humanity's future.

It isn't as if pretty much every single time throughout all of human history when we five with nature we either make things worse or just flat out destroy a local environment. Nope, no sirree! Humans do not have a near 100% failure rate trying to manually improve on nature.

Most the time the manipulation wasn't even intentional. For example, introducing new predator species everywhere as ships cross oceans. There are very few islands left that don't have a highly destructive foreign species breeding g out of control or having already wiped out some local wild life. And those events are usually by accident. Except of course where we intentionally introduced outside species and shockingly the same thing happened. Or over farming, using up all the water resources in an area. And so on. I'm sure you can all think of many others.

Want to fix the climate? Sounds great. Do it by ceasing activity that caused the problem in the first place. Remove humans as much as possible from the equation. This could mean more renewables, lower birth rates, more efficient buildings and cars and shutting down old inefficient crap. (And nuke China, it'll be worth it in the long run).

But letting a bunch of arrogant hubris spewing numb skulls who seriously believe they understand the planet so well *and* our planet's interaction with the Sun start fucking with the climate on a global scale using the only planet we have as a giant lab experiment? That is sheer madness and absolutely guaranteed to go worse than doing nothing at all. SMH! What a dumb idea.

I pity your grand kids if this shit is allowed to happen.

OTOH, if this is just the usual "we came up with a great idea for more grant money and we won't even need to show results for decades!" scam (I used to work in academia and have assisted in grant writing, it's very cynical), then carry on, it's just more waste no one will notice. Welfare for otherwise unemployable PhDs. I'm ok with that.

Uh, same thing in the US. I've never met anyone in suburban or urban environment who owns a generator. I have a distant relative off grid out in no where who has solar and I assume batteries and a backup generator (we had power at night) but that's extraordinary.

I assume all 1st world countries have stable consumer power and many non 1st world at least have it in cities and larger towns.