@Goudriaan2 I wish I could double-like this one. Such depth.
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Roger van Baaren
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@thinkingwest Much of this is just will to power opportunism. Tudors, Saxe Coburg, even William of Normandy - sketchy claims and near 0 blood right.
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British royal family tree traced back to the 9th century
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Alex Fasulo@alex_fasulo
Just finished taping with @RMConservative on Blazetv. It should air in 2 minutes at 12PM EST. We covered ORES and foreign interference in Upstate NY. We also covered BESS in the Adirondack Park and what’s happening to our prime farmland. I will go on any show that invites me to share what I have learned, on the left or right. Still waiting for @KathyHochul to acknowledge what’s happening.
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@rustbeltkid1 Let’s put the data centers here and not farmland. This is right along the Lehigh river for cooling and obviously has massive electrical capacity.
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Primary production mills (steel, lumber, etc) are the best barometer for economic outlook.
They operate at much lower margins and costs so much that it effectively requires an economic consensus from well capitalized groups signally a positive outlook for 10-20 years.
Mr. P. Explores@ExploresMr
The rusting colossus that was once the massive and vastly productive Bethlehem Steel, on the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania.
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Roger van Baaren retweetledi
“It’s the landowner’s right to do whatever they want with their land!”
You’re right, it is. Until the state comes in and pieces together land from 31 different participating parcels to create an industrial complex 500+ acres in size.
Now it’s everyone’s problem.
When these commercial solar projects are jammed into agricultural zones, they are departing from the zoning everyone else had to follow. This causes property values to decrease. It takes prime farmland out of commission, which increases the cost of available farmland for younger people hoping to buy the farmland.
An industrial complex brings perimeter fencing, access roads, substations, herbicides, diesel generators, blinding lighting on the complexes all night, and eyesores.
You wouldn’t want a Walmart being built in your backyard, would you? Your property value would go down.
The problem is not the panel itself. It’s what they’re commercially doing to our land with solar as a Trojan horse.
No solar complexes on prime farmland. The land will never be farmed again.
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Roger van Baaren retweetledi
In 2020, the same year the Office of Renewable Energy Siting was created, New York State changed how it classifies “prime agricultural soils.”
NY doesn’t follow the @USDA prime farmland classifications. It made its own. It’s called Mineral Soil Groups (MSGs).
In 2020, with the help of @Cornell, NY downgraded many soils that were previously considered prime.
By downgrading soils, it allows foreign solar and wind developers to site projects in areas they wouldn’t have formerly been allowed to.
Even better, downgrading the soil means the developers have to pay less money to mitigate the loss of prime agricultural land under the ecological detention centers.
Funny coincidental timing, right? That the state ordered Cornell to help them downgrade soil one year before mass renewable buildout?
The corruption here in NY is so deep and so vile that we need an aggressive federal intervention here immediately.
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Roger van Baaren retweetledi
You’re looking at a solar complex smack dab in the middle of one of the rarest ecosystems in the Northeast: a pine barren.
Those of you from Albany, NY probably know why pine barrens are so important: they support the federally endangered Karner Blue butterfly.
A pine barren habitat exists at the Albany Pine Bush Preserve, although developers are keen on shrinking its size with one recently proposing building 210 apartments on the preserve in Guilderland, NY.
Many don’t realize that another critically important pine barren can be found in Wilton, NY. It’s known as the Wilton Wildlife Preserve & Park.
Like the developer seeking to build 210 apartments at the edge of the Albany Pine Bush, this solar developer set up shop at the edge of the Wilton Wildlife Park.
Beautiful, and rare, pine barren was destroyed for perimeter fencing and Chinese-made panels that generate at only 15% of their annual potential in this climate. No one’s electric bills went down.
The Karner Blue butterfly is federally endangered because its habitat is almost gone. Clearing any more of their habitat for a green energy scam that’s robbing our state of its beautiful biodiversity is disgusting.
To call yourself an environmentalist and think that this is a “necessary evil” is a sign that propaganda has melted your brain. The Karner Blue is one of the most celebrated species of Upstate NY. How the Wilton town, planning, and zoning boards allowed this is beyond me.
It all has to do with money. With the subsidies and credits and the quiet deals paid off to board members. They sneak these proposals on the agenda minutes at the last second. No one notices. Next thing you know, you have an herbicide-soaked (herbicides kill butterflies) ecological detention center in the middle of what should be a protected and revered ecosystem.
This is why everyone has to start attending your town board and planning board meetings. Get active and stay alert. Trillions of dollars are being siphoned through foreign renewable conglomerates intent on destroying our American environment.
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Bad penalty there from Martone on the backcheck. Just gotta be smarter than that, don't put yourself in position for Jarvis to draw that. Might have got away with just the initial tug.
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@Ne_pas_couvrir A great series. That guy was the same genius whose 1 off-list item was a still. He was the only one who would have survived winter of all the contestants (thanks to theoretical alcohol sales) and they accused him of cheating.
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The 1800s were hard, generally. In 2002's "Frontier House," ep. 4, the hard labor & diet turned a fat lawyer from a soft mess to a lean muscular man. He couldn't believe the transformation.
Amitryptyling@AmiEverAfter
okay which one of you big anon account’s is Anne Hathaway? she’s got to be on our side of the internet to appreciate this enough to buy the rights
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@NoContextDutch1 Not everywhere. My aunt gets new bread every day from the baker. Yesterday’s leftovers go to the chickens.
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These blades and a sawzall are great when you don’t feel like cranking up the chainsaw for smaller stuff.
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@F1Clapped @formulaleonog7 Great driver but I hold him partly responsible for the current regs with his outspoken “green” advocacy. Perfect shut up and dribble moment
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Yeah i'm watching the 2011 season and Vettel is just peak! 🔥
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抗がん剤再開の副作用が思ったよりしんどく、なんとか耐える日々になっている。
今日も負けない！！
完璧じゃなくていい。
ギリギリでも生きていればいい。
だから負けない。
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@LeonMaughan @Porkchop_EXP In the US there is very little consideration of age. If a procedure is medically necessary and you can survive it, you get it. In NL they do take age into account to deny needed surgeries (coronary bypass, AAA,enzo…). Not saying one is right or wrong, tho.
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@Porkchop_EXP @Genxmemoir yeh in NL, I’m saying in the US it’s decided by insurers so there’s cost-benefit gatekeeping in both systems
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The Dutch healthcare is affordable because they are ruthless with price-benefit evaluations. If an expensive cancer treatment, for example, offers what they consider “marginal” benefit they won’t offer it (something that might still be standard in Germany or Italy even).
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Health insurance for my family of four in the Netherlands is abour €300 per month. The “own risk” which we in the States call “the deductible+out of pocket” is also about €300-400 per year. Basically a rounding error. Health insurance in the Netherlands is so low that I often don’t even include it in my family budgeting at all. Relative to US health insurance costs, it is relatively speaking… free in the Netherlands. A lot of Europeans have no conception of how expensive health insurance is in the US… And most Americans assume that the reason European healthcare is so affordable is because the quality is poor… I know a ton of European residents will chime in on this and claim waiting time this and shitty situation that… as if the US healthcare system is some sort of utopian high-tech luxury resort experience. Did you know that depending on where you are in the US… If you have an emergency… There’s a 10 to 30% chance that you’re going to be picked up and treated by local residents volunteering on their ambulance and rescue squad in that particular area? Many of them awoken from a deep sleep in the middle of the night to rush to their local squad building and rev up their rig to try to get to you quickly. I’m not saying these people are not trained… I would know because I was one of them for a decade… But a big part of the US healthcare system foundation is built on volunteers… It can’t even pay enough to incentivize people to work in EMS full-time as a career. There is no equivalent volunteer medical system in Europe. It is fully professionalized. Anyway back to insurance.. in the US, we’d probably be looking at somewhere between $3000 and $4000 per month for the exact same level of insurance coverage not to mention the deductible would literally be 1000% higher than in the NL. They’re just completely different planets when it comes to health insurance — driven by culture which then informs tax policy.
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@Porkchop_EXP My experience has been that “Nederland regelland” is more true than not.
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The Dutch are much more willing to think in terms of solutions. The Germans can be so cold and heartless when “rules” leave someone in a vulnerable situation.
Dutch Duke@Apparatchik_1
Germans are such sticklers for rules. We Dutch don't mess with that shit. We're basically the less autistic version of the Germanics
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@DaveAMcCarthy @BR_OpenIce Have been wondering the same thing! Hope he’s enjoying the ride.
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This extremely irate gentleman was beside himself after #Sabrehood was shutout 4-0 by #NYR in their home opener this season.
Anybody know who he is? I’d like to know how he’s feeling now.
@BR_OpenIce with the footage
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@DonnyVerstappen And Apple TV will lose a lot of subscribers.
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I have a feeling F1 is loosing a lot of racing fans this season.
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