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$2.50 for a cup of 0.05 c coffee. Isnt this anti progressive price gouging?

Your all democrats if you support this!

I thought if they had anime and robot costplay, this was plastic blow up doll costplay.

Wogster, how does Chile dodge that so well?

- coastal effect
- are they relatively dry heat as well? (Larger capacity for wet bulb cooling?)

I'm thinking this is how California manages to squeak by. There have been a few darn right sticky tropical days in San Jose the past couple years though.

Are California and Chile both mostly higher elevations?
Because mountains

Rew says

Starbucks is already over 8,000 vets in recent hiring push they made. They have way more than that company wide.

When companies says this, they usually don't seek to actively hire vets. They hire normally and a portion will be veterans. When HR tallies those with a military record arriving at 10,000, they declare "We hired the Vets we promised".

(I suspect this may be the case with refugees)
Entitlemented says

$2.50 for a cup of 0.05 c coffee. Isnt this anti progressive price gouging?

And they don't even put the cream or sugar in it for you. It's like paying $2.50 for self-serve gasoline when the place across the street has full-service for $1.35/gallon.

Dunkies kicks Starbucks' ass.

FortWayne, I agree.

I'm pretty pissed about Citizens United in general as well, but if Trump manages to allow religious institutions the same direct donations power, well ... Companies may be the only counterbalance of opposition there.

Rew says

Half the US and Australia no more. :(

We've got AC, bitchez!

FortWayne says

Fake news

FortWayne Unabridged Dictionary

Fake news (n) - Real news that discredits my political agenda. For example, climate data independently confirmed by hundreds of organizations around the world is fake news if that data demonstrates that man-made climate change is going to kill people because public acceptance of that fact would cause a lack of support for my selfish political interests. See also facts.

Fact (n) - Something to be avoided at all times when discussing politics because facts cannot be controlled. Instead, convince the audience to accept a delusion over facts. Delusions can be shaped to support whatever political agenda you have. Facts are stubbornly resistant to change and have a liberal bias.

Liberal (adj) - Communism, socialism, progressiveness, Nazism, witchcraft. Some dictionaries list these terms as having different definitions, but I don't understand the difference, so I'll just lump them all together. All I know is that I hate liberals, and I blame them for every problem I create.

Jesus Christ (proper noun) - Founding father of the United States of America; author of the Constitution; card-carrying NRA member. He hates fags and is very much in favor of torturing those who deserve it. Also, he's in favor of capital punishment having first hand experience in that.

Donald Trump (proper noun) - Second coming of Jesus Christ, just with smaller hands. Smaller hands makes it easier to grab pussy.

Our power grid, in life threatening heat, is going to fail due to load.

We really DON'T have AC we can count on.

Rew says

We really DON'T have AC we can count on.

Americans will sit in their cars idling with the AC turned on while eating McDonald's.

Rew says

Our power grid, in life threatening heat, is going to fail due to load.

We really DON'T have AC we can count on.

Fuck grid. We have roofs and money for solar panels, bitchez!

Ironman says

Ironman says

That new Twitter hashtag was born after Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz said he would hire 10,000 refugees over the next five years in the 75 countries where Starbucks operates.

I wonder how the women in Saudi feel about that?

Wont have an impact on Saudi Arabia. They don't allow refugees into their country.

Why does that barber have a headlamp?

Rew says

RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks says

go there if you want some free suicide bombings to go with your morning coffee.

Wake me when one happens.

A bomb could explode right next to you, and you still won't wake up.

That's odd because I've been to tropical countries where the temp is usually 95+ with tons of humidity and although it's not comfortable for a white boy like me, I saw the locals doing just fine. The older people were even wearing sweaters! I am just not buying this story. I did see that some desert portions of India got to 130F last summer and killed livestock and people. That seems quite likely at those temps! But 95F killing mass people? Nah.

Run for your lives there's a Photo Shop file on the lose!!!
Grab women and children first, Oh the horror!

It works because Asian women don't get Smile lines until they are in their 70's.
The only scam here is convincing Asian women they need it in the first place.

Most heatstroke in this country occurs in cities. Seems replacing trees and grass with skyscrapers and asphalt does not a cooler earth create. Yet GW alarmists never mention this.

I guess real problems that affect people, right now, aren't really their bag...

We rarely ever get high humidity in Los Angeles.... Dry desert heat I can handle... Especially while floating in my now overflowing backyard pool due to all this rain this past winter!

Hater says

Charts based on fake data to support lies that have already been thoroughly debunked.

Some dishonest people go way out of their way to persuade the public of lies. These people should not be respected. The have evil, despicable intentions, and they don't care who gets hurt, who dies, and who becomes homeless as a result of their greedy, short-sighted political agendas.

Climate change is real. It's man-made. It's dangerous. It kills. It destroys trillions of dollars of real estate. And it's fucking bad for the economy, too. Short-sighted greed is not a good economic strategy.

Nature taking the trash out. Time to add mines and machine guns to the wall.

Hater says

So do you have a chart that shows the "REAL" temp history?

Yes, but you don't care. Facts contradict your lies and so they don't matter to you. I can present the evidence to you, but no matter what it is, you will reject it because it demonstrates you are lying.

Nonetheless, for other people, I will present the real evidence.

Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Zoomed in on the past century in the Arctic, a key region...

Source: NASA

And, of course, this is due largely, but not entirely, to CO2 pollution from burning fossil fuels.

Source: NOAA

This is real evidence from credible sources, and that evidence is independently confirmed by scientists around the world. Yet, this will not at all persuade you because you don't care about the truth. You are perfectly OK with lying to get to screw over other people for your own selfish interests. This makes you a bad person that no one should respect or listen to.

Science works. Politics and religion does not. You don't get to accuse those using scientific evidence as being "religious". That's you and you're a hypocrite.

Right - I saw another upgrade too a few days ago

I am surprised there is that much profit taking on something that pays 8% - not easy to come by that dividend these days

Ironman says

Those are just a few days we had 95 degree days with 100% humidity..

But not at the same time. The highest relative humidity is usually first thing in the morning when the air is the coolest and it drops as the air temperature increases, so the humidity might have been near 100% earlier in the day but was most likely much lower once the temperature reached 95 degrees.

Hater says

Do you have a temp graph to back up your talk?

You know I do. You marked the evidence as an ad hominem in order to suppress it. Guess what? That's not going to work.

Also, @Patrick, time to remove Hater's ability to mark as ad hom.

Hater says

So do you have a chart that shows the "REAL" temp history?

Yes, but you don't care. Facts contradict your lies and so they don't matter to you. I can present the evidence to you, but no matter what it is, you will reject it because it demonstrates you are lying.

Nonetheless, for other people, I will present the real evidence.

Source: Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Zoomed in on the past century in the Arctic, a key region...

Source: NASA

And, of course, this is due largely, but not entirely, to CO2 pollution from burning fossil fuels.

Source: NOAA

This is real evidence from credible sources, and that evidence is independently confirmed by scientists around the world. Yet, this will not at all persuade you because you don't care about the truth. You are perfectly OK with lying to get to screw over other people for your own selfish interests. This makes you a bad person that no one should respect or listen to.

Science works. Politics and religion does not. You don't get to accuse those using scientific evidence as being "religious". That's you and you're a hypocrite.

Censoring posts with false ad-hom reports is, by definition, trolling. It should be a bannable offense.

GIGO

Dan8267 says

Censoring posts with false ad-hom reports is, by definition, trolling. It should be a bannable offense.

I'm glad you've come around on the subject, since last week you were doing that exact thing to my posts!

Quigley says

I'm glad you've come around on the subject, since last week you were doing that exact thing to my posts!

Hardly. I censor no evidence, false or true. If it's true evidence, I accept it. If it's false evidence, I expose it for the lie it is. It's trivially ease to do that.

Hater says

Dan8267 says

This makes you a bad person that no one should respect or listen to.

Sounds like ad hom to me.

Which is why no one should listen to you.

A judgement based on verifiable evidence is not an ad hominem attack. Calling out a person on lying is not an ad hominem attack. Pointing out the hypocrisy of a person is not an ad hominem attack.

An ad hominem attack is a baseless personal attack used in lieu of refuting the person's argument. I refuted and destroyed your argument, demonstrated that your evidence was false, and presented multiple lines of evidence from independent reputable sources that reveals beyond any doubt that your claims are all lies. That's not an ad hominem attack. That's the exact opposite of an ad hominem attack.

It is perfectly valid to question the sincerity of an opponent who repeatedly demonstrates dishonesty and insincerity, especially when the evidence of malfeasance is so clear. Intent matters.

Hater says

So what are the problems with these charts?

They are blatant lies, not mistakes, but actual lies that have been thoroughly debunked.

David Lappi was a fossil fuel advocate and climate change denier because he founded a company,, LAPP Resources Inc., whose entire profit model was based on fossil fuels. You cherry picked his false data graph because it supported what you wanted. You didn't even know that Lappi was completely debunked as a pathological liar by every reputable scientist, both climate change scientists and other scientists. And Lappi was no climate change scientist. He was a geologist, and he went into the field to make money off fossil fuels, not to do actual science.

The same can be said about the charlatans Cliff Harris and Randy Mann. Even a cursory Google search demonstrates that they and the chart you posted have been thoroughly debunked. Are you now, having been made aware of this, willing to refute your position and admit that man-made climate change is rapid, uncontrolled, and dangerous? Unless the answer is a resounding yes, you are not at all sincere in this debate.

I present peer-reviewed evidence from Scientific experts with long and distinguished reputations like NASA, NOAA, and Scripps. You present the self-published fraudulent claims of a couple of crackpots with perverted financial interests who couldn't get published in any newspaper or scientific journal. That should have been your first clue that you are on indefensible ground.

Hater says

Actual temps Fahrenheit or celsius that show the world has never been warmer.

Of course the world has been warmer in the past. For example, when the dinosaurs were around. Only an idiot thinks that means there are no consequences to present day warming such as mass death and economic loss.

Literally hundreds of millions of lives will be threatened with malaria as the Earth warms because entire cities are built just above the mosquito line. That's the line in altitude above which mosquitoes, the carriers of malaria cannot live. That line moves upwards with rising temperature exposing hundreds of millions to the fatal disease. That alone makes climate change are far greater killer than all criminals and all terrorists in all of human history combined. It also makes climate change denial one of the greatest immoral acts you can commit today.

And that's just one consequence of uncontrolled climate change. Other consequences include floods, droughts, famines, trillions of dollars of lost real estate, an hundreds of trillions of dollars of lost economic activity over the next century. Only a fool thinks uncontrolled climate change has no negative consequences.

Build that wall!

Hater says

So as a "denier" should i be burned at the stake or just ridiculed until I come to my senses and drink the kool aid?

You should be treated as the village idiot you play. Your opinion should be ridiculed. And you should not have a seat at the table were policy is discussed.

One doesn't let a Holocaust denier write policy towards Israel. One doesn't let a climate change denier influence environmental policies.

Hater says

Actual temps not anomalies.

Honey, your graph doesn't show actual temperatures. It's all phony data. Are you still going to defend it? Show me one reputable scientific publication that has published the graph you referenced. You can't because it's bullshit.

Meanwhile, every scientific organization, and there are hundreds of them around the world, has contradicted everything you said and officially state that man-made climate change is real and dangerous. Even the Pentagon has stated unequivocally that climate change greatly threatens national security and increases terrorism.

these are A LOT more common:

That first chick looks like a dude in a hair metal band, maybe a young tommy lee

6 subscribers. congrats :)

no joke though, much respect for braving that crowd.

At what time in the video does the guy get hit?

inflation is driven by wage inflation which has been kept low by artificial means: huge immigration, globalism, outsourcing, offshoring, and H1B programs. These are INTENTIONAL disruptive actions taken to depress wage gains and ensure that inflation will remain pitiful.

Thanks, I had not considered that globalisation keeps inflation down.