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Why assume that petroleum is formed mostly of animal remains.
Petroleum is a fossil fuel derived from fossilized organic materials, such as zooplankton and algae. Vast amounts of these remains settled to sea or lake bottoms where they were covered in stagnant water (water with no dissolved oxygen) or sediments such as mud and silt faster than they could decompose aerobically.
When I was a kid, there was a chain of service stations^1^ in the western US that used a dinosaur as its logo. This pretty clearly implied that petroleum has something to do with dinosaurs.
Petroleum was formed from stuff at the bottoms of lakes and seas laid down long before dinosaurs dominated.
It's just as easy to teach people (kids in particular) the truth, so why not do so? "Gasoline, kids, comes from algae and plankton, not dinosaurs."
^1^
You'll notice that I wrote "service" stations, not "gas" stations. The difference is significant. We still have gas stations, but we haven't had service stations in nearly 50 years.
In the film Back to the Future you'll see a service station. BTW, service stations were history when that film was made, and that film is already 40 years old.
When you pulled into a service station, at least one person would run out to your car, and start cleaning the windows while, at the same time, offering to check your oil level, offering to check your tire pressure, and asking how much gasoline you'd like to buy. The most common reply was "Fill 'r up." Never was a customer expected, or even allowed, to operate a gasoline pump.
In addition, individual service stations hired mechanics to do auto repair and preventative maintenance (e.g., changing the oil). Auto manufacturers didn't yet monopolize maintenance and repair.
Authorities advised people to call 800-733-2767 if they were trying to locate a loved one. One thing is for certain, we can't blame the deep state for this one. Rescuers raced against the clock on Friday night in their frantic search for more than 20 missing girls from a private Christian camp and anyone else who may have survived the deadly, unprecedented, and catastrophic floods when the Guadalupe River burst its banks in Kerr County. The floods have claimed at least 24 lives.
Forecasters warned more rain was coming to the region, nicknamed "flash flood alley," which may only worsen a "mass casualty event" that swept away entire buildings, and sent cars swirling through the gray and brown waters.
A somber assemblage of Texas National Guard commanders, state troopers, and emergency management joined Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on Friday night in a livestreamed update. Abbott stressed that Texas would send all its resources to aid the rescuers. They provided no update on the missing girls.
Rescuers raced against the clock overnight in their frantic search for more than 20 missing girls from a private Christian camp and anyone else who may have survived the deadly, unprecedented, and catastrophic floods when the Guadalupe River burst itโฆ
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Taking some supplement with a side-effect of lowering blood pressure or thinning the blood could help, if any of these effects are noticeable.
For example, the nattokinase enzyme, ginger, and garlic are said to thin the blood. That's probably a good thing when you're straining muscles to the point of possible damage, anyway.
The first #StopCopCity RICO defendant's felony trial is set to begin Monday, January 7. Ayla King, a young working class activist arrested at the Welaunee Music Festival, bravely filed for a speedy trial and refused any plea deal. Their case will mean mountains for the other 60 defendants.
People in (and traveling to) Atlanta are organizing for a festival-like atmosphere outside the courthouse to support Ayla and the movement, as well as funds for court and organizing costs including food, clothes and housing for Ayla in the event the trial lasts the expected 4-6 weeks. To that end, a new fundraiser page has been made - please give and encourage others to give here: givesendgo.com/freeaylaking
If you're unable to be in Atlanta, host a fundraiser, make a care package, and raise a ruckus for Ayla and the other defendants. Our movements are only as strong as our support for targets of state repression, and now's the time to show we defend out people!
Local officials said they have rescued or evacuated more than 200 people since the Guadalupe River flooded early Friday morning, but the fate of more than 20 girls missing from a camp remains unclear.
If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
This is new and unusual. To get an idea of how weird this is, let's take a quick tour of some of the many times the US federal government has officially persecuted entire groups of people.
1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."
About half of the deported people were US citizens.
Few if any Anglo Americans seemed to have a problem with this.
Mexican Americans ran the court battles, protests, and educational campaigns against forced deportation on their own. While they were struggling to keep their families together day by day.
WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.
The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.
Some white Americans did publicly oppose rounding up their Japanese neighbors. They were in the minority & overruled.
Resistance was limited to individual efforts to tone down the impact of incarceration- tending jailed neighbors' farms while they were away, sending supplies to the camps, etc.
Public outrage over the many US citizens deported caused Operation Wetback to get its funding pulled. โฆ After 3 months & over 1 million people deported.
This was the fastest a purge ever got rolled back. But it still took people a while to notice & stop it. At the supposed peak of US unity.
Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.
Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.
But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.
The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.
There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.
@Sarah Taber I was with you up to this point--the U.S. has NOT been about this the whole time. What the U.S. has been about the whole time is the see-saw between the people in power who do that sort of thing and the people who give that lot the boot from time to time.
If the U.S. was all about that the whole time, there never would have been a Civil War OR an end to the Vietnam War, and this should be said. No, the U.S. wasn't born in 1960 , but it was in the 1960s that the people you describe lost power--Vietnam ended, Civil Rights were encoded into law--and it was also the time when the Republican Party morphed from the Party of Lincoln into the Dixiecrat-Kremlin Party.
But understand this: I stand with the NAACP and ACLU to make it known that we're Americans too, and we will NOT be overlooked.
I see "late stage capitalism" as a very positive thing. It means capitalism has mostly run its course and will soon cave in under the weight of its own excesses. That will be painful, but if we can survive to get to a post-capitalist society, it will be better.
@Sarah Taber ...and then there were the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, 1943. There was more to that than just a catchy tune by Cherry Poppin Daddies--it actually happened.
"They're rounding people up just because of their skin color and locking them up!"
Yeah, like you said, I'm just glad people are speaking up about this in a big way because this has been happening for decades. I think one of the key differences is that they've dropped the pretense that what they're doing is "justice."
Liberals have been more than happy to lock black and brown people up en masse as long as they can run them through the system first. If someone is convicted of a crime, they're completely okay with throwing them in prison. Does "convicted" mean "guilty?" Should what they were convicted of even be a crime? We've never really had a meaningful conversation about that in this country.
But the numbers really speak for themselves. Things *were not okay* before Trump was elected. When this fascist regime falls apart, we *cannot* go back to how things were before.
From the thousands dying now abandoned by USAID, or those in Ukraine who suffer by the reduction in military aid? Or maybe from Palestinians shot by so called 'American aid contractors'? Or maybe the 132,000 trans people who will now be denied medical care?
I listen to a lot of history podcasts and I know about these times because of that, but mostly it has made me sad we didnโt learn anything. Turns out, maybe we did? I guess I want to say this has been really helpful for me - thank you for writing it
Thank you for posting this. I've been reading and relearning a bit of this countries history lately and I quickly realized how it's the same shit in a different decade, but none of that could cover how it's any different than what we're experiencing now. I wouldn't have considered that the response is quicker.
This is a great, informed take. Not rose colored glasses but forward thinking and historically grounded. I couldn't agree more about the whole 'this being the worst timeline' being really problematic. That's a cop out; that's throwing your hands up; that's giving yourself an excuse to give up and not try. It's showing a lack of imagination, if you truly cant think of worse things. There were times during the Cold War people lived in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. It's also showing a lack of historical knowledge, especially knowing that the underlying issues of what is happening (racism, sexism) are foundational particularly to Western culture, and human culture in general. We've never actually had a reckoning with our past (or present). To think that these issues were just going to go away quietly is naive, or that somehow with education we had suddenly become not-racist. It's also not surprising that we are having a hard time forming a coherent resistance party given how much technology has changed politics in the last 20 years, and given the diversity and complexity of global problems we are facing. Let's give this issue, the rise of violent ultra-nationalism in the 21st century, its due as the complex historical problem that it is and not get frustrated when we can't solve it or defeat it in six months. But like you say, there are signs that American society as a whole, not just those directly persecuted, are resisting in ways that are novel. We are far from powerless here and I'm really tired of takes that paint us as such.
We are witnessing premeditated murder and the last nails in the coffin of democracy. No celebrating for me. I'm in mourning for what used to be our nation
Excellent thread. Thank you for this. This is why I share Heather Cox Richardson's blog posts every night. She puts things in historical perspective and while that doesn't make me feel better about what's going on, it keeps me from panicking, knowing what we've been through.
How much more will it take for people to realize that the political stage (internationally, nationally, at the state level and to some extent even locally) is just that: a stage. --Itโs all a scam, a show, a farceโฆwhatever word youโd like to use. It is so sad to me to watch so many good people get sucked into this giant spectacle, wasting their passion on people who lie and quite frankly do not care about them. Iโve tweeted and said before: this guyโs role is the convince you to take the โsafe vaccinesโ. Heโs been a pro-abort & hard leftist on pretty much every issue his whole life. He ran as a DEMOCRAT yet somehow became the darling of the right??? What? nurseclairesays.com/2025/02/01โฆ
I know FreeTube works when you use a working Invidious instance. I don't know if I could delete my Google, as pretty much all of my videos for three channels are on there (and I don't break TOS as far as I'm aware).
Flan is a nice and playful girl. Real cute. Of course, you'd never spot her most the time. She's an extreme shut in. Has rarely ever left her room in at least 495 years.
Well of course you'd be hit by a large blast of her artwork, 7/4 (or 4/95) was her day. Lots of people looking to admire her for what is the closest thing we have for her to a birthday.
Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A new #mural in #France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in #shame was unveiled one day before #America's Independence Day. Happy Birthday, America
Lola is gone, and I miss her. Momo misses her too; he adored, tormented, chased, played with, and humped her. We are both adjusting. I'm glad he's here. He's very different from Lola, but I love him and he loves me and we have each other. (For now; Momo has IBD and is sustained by Prednisone, which reduces longevity. One day at a time.)
If this happens, it could not happen to a more deserving smug, self righteous, MAGA twit than Alina Habba, also known as the interim United States attorney for the State of New Jersey. (Relocated there
Hope springs eternal. I saw E. Jean Carroll talking to Tim Miller about her new book about court with Trump. Surprisingly, Carroll, a smart woman, said Habba is fiercely bright, and that Trump berated her and degraded her constantly during the trial, and that Habba was very pleasant one day and obnoxiously arrogant the next.
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers.
Next year is ramping up to be something nationwide and particularly in New York. Elise Stefanik is running for Governor. She evidently decided to unhitch her wagon from Donald Trump's star and that's a good
The #middleclass, once the backbone of #America, has been eroded through decades of neglect. The #Americandream of the middle class has slowly turned into a #nightmare.
Now is not the time to get discouraged. Now is the time to ramp up for a fight. In fact later this month No Kings is organizing another round of protests using the late, great
@pluralistic Just finished this little number. Just wanted to say thanks for another rollicking tale. I was in secondary school when all this "happened", and it brought back so many memories, and pointed out so much that I missed at the time. Highly recommend! #books #Bookstodon #BooksWorthReading #thanks
Who the fuck puts a used skillet and spatula in the oven and walks off and leaves it with out telling anyone? Now I got to clean melted plastic off my skillet and out of the oven
Seriously, stay the fuck out of the kitchen if you can't clean and put away dishes. BTW, I know who did and they better be glad they are gone off watching fireworks, I'd seriously jump their asses for being lazy niggers. โ
Prostate milking machine. I believe Germany developed some that they used at the Auschwitz Luxury Resort and Entertainment complex. They were pretty state of the art at the time.
Trump knows how bad what's about to happen in the House is. And he WANTS to see it happen. He wants to destroy, and cause great pain and suffering. He's lashing out because HE is
#TRUMP: โJ.D., nobody pulls up the ladder quite like J.D. Grew up in a trailer, wrote a very sad bookโฆ they say many people were cryingโฆ I didnโt read itโฆ but many were crying. There were many tears! And now heโs up there saying, โNo more poor people!โ Itโs beautiful and I respect it.โ /s
midterms lol. Theyโll blow someoneโs brains out at a voting booth and that will be the last time. He did say if he won no one would ever vote again. And now he hates half the country so fuck me if that budget for ice doesnโt turn into brownshirts by December Iโll eat my hat (itโs a nice and large hat)
>Rees bluntly states, โthe human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphereโ and โwide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted โ collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.โ
If our present path doesn't change drastically, the science seems to suggest we are likely to experience a collapse of civilization โ and we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.
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The Guadeloupe River @ Comfort, Texas rose 12.93 feet in 15 minutes this morning. That's 10.34" per minute or an inch every 6 SECONDS. That's one of the fastest rises I've ever seen. Very hard to get away from that kind of flash flooding.
โ There is much in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists( Communists), in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism are Comsonant with the Finest ideals of Judaism.โ โ The Jewish Chronicleโ April 4, 1919
I got a spray bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol just for when some flying insect gets into my room, knocks them onto the ground for an easy kill, TOTAL FLY DEATH
David
in reply to anonymiss • • •Why assume that petroleum is formed mostly of animal remains.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleuโฆ
naturally occurring flammable liquid
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in reply to anonymiss • • •David
in reply to anonymiss • • •When I was a kid, there was a chain of service stations^1^ in the western US that used a dinosaur as its logo. This pretty clearly implied that petroleum has something to do with dinosaurs.
Petroleum was formed from stuff at the bottoms of lakes and seas laid down long before dinosaurs dominated.
It's just as easy to teach people (kids in particular) the truth, so why not do so? "Gasoline, kids, comes from algae and plankton, not dinosaurs."
^1^
You'll notice that I wrote "service" stations, not "gas" stations. The difference is significant. We still have gas stations, but we haven't had service stations in nearly 50 years.
In the film Back to the Future you'll see a service station. BTW, service stations were history when that film was made, and that film is already 40 years old.
When you pulled into a service station, at least one person would run out to your car, and start cleaning the windows while, at the same time, offering to check your oil level, offering to check your tire pressure, and asking how much gasoline you'd like to buy. The most common reply was "Fill 'r up." Never was a customer expected, or even allowed, to operate a gasoline pump.
In addition, individual service stations hired mechanics to do auto repair and preventative maintenance (e.g., changing the oil). Auto manufacturers didn't yet monopolize maintenance and repair.