tigeraddict

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This + our huge population means our education system still produces the best (and we import many of the best from abroad).

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Add to it that those with means going private school have better chances at higher scores. We are just dragged down by averages from inner Chicago, Atlanta, NYC, LA, ect. Where many can’t even pass literacy norms.

We still produce plenty of high achieving math students out of the 360m pop to sustain our needs.


Also doesn’t help that we are bringing in more sub 100 IQ populations across the border each year.

I call BS on some of his paths.

Especially in the wilderness of Alaska and Siberia.

Go to Google Maps and plug in anchorage to whales, AK (bearing straight).

No road connections no walking connections.

Most of Alaska is only reachable by plane. And there are a lot of mountains in Alaska to cross as well.

CHINA

we took away another source of below market priced oil from China and greatly weakened China's ally in the ME we also degraded the biggest force of instability in the ME while doing so. (Hamas/Hezbollah)

we have shown the EU as weak and shined a spotlight on they "green Energy follies"

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Modern Federal-Aid Highways: Most standard federal surface transportation programs and major capital projects use an 80% federal / 20% state matching ratio

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The article states the $2.5b price tag. And only $250m the state can allocate and taking 10 years of no other funding. So it the $2.5b the states portion of the costs or did the articles author not include the 80% federal match?

“If life gives you lemons….”

I can’t believe going to India with its great sanitary conditions could cause someone to get sick…..

1) electrical infrastructure is already taxed and becoming insufficient (we are not building enough electricity production facilities to keep up with growth. this incudes NG, coal, wind, hydro, solar, nuke)

2) majority of our electricity come from NG, so killing NG at the point of use, will push more use are the origin, and worse, push to more coal or older, less efficient NG plants to kick it to pick up the load.

3) transmission losses, transformer losses from power distribution is less efficient then NG distribution losses.

4) electrical point of use water heaters are limited by residential infrastructure. a 100k BTU gas instantons WH needs about 30kW to have the same GPM output. (120 amps at 240v) most houses dont have an electrical panel to support that. so most will go tank type to give more storage with less recovery.

5) the US is a net exporter of NG. we have an abundance so less risk to geopolitical issues with supply

6) much higher chance to lose electricity from weather events and natural disasters then to lose NG

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This is going nowhere. Massie is just lashing out.

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50% attention whore
50% toddler meltdown

Last year LAPELS (Louisiana engineering board) held a web class on AI basically about this same issue. Facts being wrong that AI gives.

AI is a tool, not a replacement.

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The whole “melting steel” argument has always been so stupid. Steel is forged through extreme heat. It doesn’t have to melt, just simply weaken and the rest is, as we see, history.

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the weakening of steel at higher temps is the reason they spray structural steel with 2-hr fire rated materials. to give time for everyone to get out before the steel is effected by the higher temps.