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Massive disruptions to the supply chain predicted by experts
DIR By: RE
Date: August 9, 2022, 6:46 am
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Hard to have a Supply Chain when you r short on Supply.
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CsZh3sQ61g
RE
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Shortage of the Day: CO2
DIR By: RE
Date: August 10, 2022, 4:08 am
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Can't they just take it out of the air?
HTML https://www.foxbusiness.com/small-business/breweries-scramble-co2-amid-shortage-scary-situation
Breweries scramble for CO2 amid shortage: 'A scary situation'
RE
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Nationwide caregiver shortage leaves nursing homes, assisted
living facilities struggling
DIR By: RE
Date: August 13, 2022, 6:34 am
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I can attest to this shortage personally.
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Nationwide caregiver shortage leaves nursing homes, assisted
living facilities struggling
RE
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Pop pop fizz fizz
DIR By: K-Dog
Date: August 13, 2022, 8:36 am
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> Can't they just take it out of the air?
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> Breweries scramble for CO2 amid shortage: 'A scary situation'
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> RE
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It would cost too much. Burning something makes it cheap.
A doom despot if allowed to take over and run the show,
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would require CO2 production result from biochar production
efforts.
Making beverage CO2 net zero.
But that would require socialized arrangements because
capitalism can't do it. The maximum profit principle of
capitalism makes such innovation impossible.
[move]Did I just type that capitalism STIFLES INNOVATION
??![/move]
Well I'll be dammed, it does.
* I wonder if a beverage company that used CO2 from the air
would have higher sales because of social approval?
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Right K-Dog, they will care about that as soon as they demand
regular sugar replace the high fructose corn syrup that got
silently swapped into beverages in the 1970s. You efin dreamer.
Flesh flows in the direction of fat dumb and happy. You think
you can stop that?
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Pop pop fizz fizz
DIR By: K-Dog
Date: August 13, 2022, 9:00 am
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HTML https://www.gem.wiki/Jackson_Dome
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> Jackson Dome is a natural carbon source field located in
Rankin County and Madison County, Mississippi, operated
primarily by Denbury and the company's largest current source of
carbon dioxide for industrial purposes.[1]
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It turns out CO2 comes from gas wells. Worse than getting it
from burning by far.
CO2 under pressure is a solvent. It can extract hash oil from
marijuana or it can be pumped into the ground to dissolve hard
to get oil.
I don't even want to think about how much CO2 the oil industry
must use.
CARBON CAPTURE IN REVERSE is what it is
All the proposals for sequestering CO2 in the ground must make
oil people laugh their ass off.
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Re: Pop pop fizz fizz
DIR By: FarmGirl
Date: August 13, 2022, 11:17 am
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> [quote]Jackson Dome is a natural carbon source field located
in Rankin County and Madison County, Mississippi, operated
primarily by Denbury and the company's largest current source of
carbon dioxide for industrial purposes.[1]
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It turns out CO2 comes from gas wells. Worse than getting it
from burning by far.
CO2 under pressure is a solvent. It can extract hash oil from
marijuana or it can be pumped into the ground to dissolve hard
to get oil.
I don't even want to think about how much CO2 the oil industry
must use.
[/quote]
Look at this, an entire pipeline moving 1.2 billion cubic feet
a day..
HTML https://www.kindermorgan.com/Operations/CO2/Index
to use to pump
into oilfields. If you pump it into the oil at one end of the
field, won't it just move along with the oil and come out the
other side?
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The Chip Shortage Leads To The Strangest Things
DIR By: RE
Date: August 14, 2022, 3:50 am
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The Chip Shortage Leads To The Strangest Things
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Re: The Chip Shortage Leads To The Strangest Things
DIR By: K-Dog
Date: August 14, 2022, 6:03 am
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> The Chip Shortage Leads To The Strangest Things
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Murphy's law
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Teacher shortages continue as the 2022-2023 school year kicks
off: 'We don't have a workforce'
DIR By: RE
Date: August 14, 2022, 6:57 am
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Who would teach at the salaries they pay?
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Teacher shortages continue as the 2022-2023 school year kicks
off: 'We don't have a workforce'
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Re: Teacher shortages continue as the 2022-2023 school year
kicks off: 'We don't have a workforce'
DIR By: K-Dog
Date: August 14, 2022, 1:03 pm
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> Who would teach at the salaries they pay?
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> Teacher shortages continue as the 2022-2023 school year kicks
off: 'We don't have a workforce'
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You-Tube replaces skool. Being shot to death at a low wage also
has no appeal.
I have a Medium subscription. There is a woman into doom I
follow. She too saw the Fox news article.
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> It’s getting pretty bad.
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> Schools are resorting to all kinds of last ditch measures.
They’re planning to hold classes three or four days a week.
They’re hiring teachers from outside the country. They’re
recruiting military vets. They’re letting college students with
no training into the classroom. They’re not going to be interns.
They’re going to be in charge of everyone’s kids.
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> We’re not just talking about K-12 schools, either. The
shortages have started hitting colleges so hard that, once
again, they’re talking about increasing class sizes and upping
our loads.
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> Nobody wants to teach.
>
> Not anymore.
> Almost nobody respects teachers.
>
> Teacher shortages have been a long time coming. They’ve been
losing us for a solid ten years now, maybe longer. The solutions
to every year’s teacher shortage makes the problem even worse.
The teachers who stay wind up doing more work for less pay. We
grind up our souls, and we’re rewarded with post-it notes and
chocolate bars.
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> More teachers get fed up.
>
> They quit.
>
> Everyone secretly thinks they can teach because they watched
Mr. Holland’s Opus. They don’t know the first thing about
teaching.
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> They wouldn’t last a week.
>
> There’s a long, long history of Americans undervaluing
teachers. They’ve never paid us a living wage. For most of the
19th and 20th centuries, it was seen as women’s work, and
therefore constantly trivialized. Nobody even understands what
teachers do. There’s times when politicians and administrators
even promote the notion that teachers should work for free,
because it’s “not about the money.”
>
> When I tell someone I’m a teacher, they don’t say anything
along the lines of “thank you for your service.” No, they
usually talk about how much they hated school. They complain
about your summers off.
>
> They don’t know the word pedagogy. They don’t understand the
difference between outcomes and objectives.
>
> Most Americans don’t think teaching is a real job. They think
schools exist in order to warehouse children while their parents
do the real work, and to keep them out of trouble. It’s the same
way they think about moms and nurses. That’s not a coincidence.
>
> It’s a pattern.
> Teachers are beyond burned out.
>
> I want to light the word “burnout” on fire.
>
> It’s the worst way to describe what’s going on with teachers.
When you call someone burned out, it implies a personal moral
failing on their part. The phrase shifts the conversation away
from work conditions to a teacher’s individual personal choices.
>
> Burnout is just victim blaming.
>
> We call someone burned out when we want to accuse them of
working too hard, caring too much, or neglecting their personal
lives. It happens to teachers all the time. Their bosses
increase their class sizes and teaching loads, assign them all
kinds of service projects, and then lecture them about the
importance of dedication/sacrifice.
>
> My own administrators routinely praise faculty and staff for
living in their offices, going without showers or sleep, and
eating fast food, all so they can “dedicate their time to their
students.”
>
> It’s commonplace in education.
>
> Principals and deans and superintendents go around talking
like this, extolling the virtues of overwork and priming
teachers to give up their lives in exchange for pitiful
salaries.
>
> Then all their teachers quit.
>
> They wonder why.
> Americans think it’s “not about the money.”
>
> It’s one of the great ironies of our culture.
>
> Americans think it’s great that some dude like Joe Rogan or
Elon Musk can make a fortune off being an ****. They’ll launch a
crusade to save them from cancel culture, explaining all the
reasons why they deserve their money and how they’re a
misunderstood genius. They’ll mourn the loss of Jordan Peterson
from Twitter for a few days.
>
> Bring up teacher pay, and their eyes burn. They tell you,
“It’s not about the money. They love what they do.”
>
> Well, I’m a teacher so let me tell you:
>
> It’s definitely about the money.
>
> Every single teacher I know has a second or third source of
income, even professors. They’re either married to a banker, or
they work a conventional second job. They have side hustles.
>
> They drive an Uber.
>
> Last year, South Dakota made 10 teachers crawl around on the
floor of an ice hockey stadium for cash. The money wasn’t even
for them, it was for lesson plans and student projects. For once
there was a public backlash, but only because it was impossible
to watch them and not feel deep shame for how we treat teachers
in this country.
>
> For some reason, Americans accept the premise of billionaires.
They celebrate it. They cheer for con artists.
>
> They reject the idea of paying essential workers more. It’s
like they don’t know what the word “essential” means, or maybe
it’s become a code word for expendable unskilled labor.
According to them, the job is essential — but the person doing
it is disposable.
>
> Teachers fit right into this category. They’re not supposed to
demand more money, because they’re doing something important.
The job itself matters more than their needs. They should feel
honored simply to be doing something so vital, without fair pay.
>
> The job of teacher is sacred.
>
> Teachers aren’t.
> Teaching has become truly miserable.
>
> Americans still talk about the joys of teaching.
>
> What are they again?
>
> Everywhere you look, states have banned almost every aspect of
education that’s worth teaching. States banned math books for
being too woke. They’re passing bills that don’t let you teach
history.
>
> Academic researchers who study this thing called “burnout”
have discovered that what really drives teachers out of the
profession, even more than stress and low pay, is lack of
autonomy.
>
> Nobody listens to us.
>
> Teachers have a dozen bosses, including a bunch of parents and
politicians who are never satisfied with our performance. If you
can’t meet the standards they decide on with testing companies,
they don’t help you. They punish you. They take away your money.
>
> They make your job even harder.
>
> Teachers spend their afternoons, evenings, and weekends
dealing with complaints about how they do their jobs. There’s
always a new set of laws, rules, polices, or guidelines to
learn. Our bosses make us write reports, and they don’t even
read them. Last year, I got kicked out of my office to make room
for a Starbucks.
>
> My university has partnered with a dozen major corporations to
outline curricula for us. They believe a CEO is more qualified
to decide what students should be learning than I am. They’ve
hired a dozen consulting firms to decide everything down to when
we should teach.
>
> Almost every school does the same.
>
> They love consultants.
>
> They hate teachers.
>
> Demoralization is what happens when you spend years becoming
an expert in a subject area, and nobody cares. They’d rather
hire another MBA to make all the important decisions, while they
stick us on committees writing reports for ghosts. That’s when
teachers start to withdraw from their jobs, when we realize it
doesn’t matter what we think, and it definitely doesn’t matter
how amazing we are at what we do.
>
> So, we give up.
> It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.
>
> Some of the solutions colleges and school districts are coming
up with belong in satire. I mean, they’re letting anyone in the
classroom now. I’m surprised they haven’t started recruiting the
homeless.
>
> Maybe inmates could teach.
>
> Let’s say you get arrested for weed. Instead of going to an
overcrowded prison, you’re sentenced to nine years in the
classroom.
>
> In many ways, teachers already feel like prisoners. They join
a profession hoping to do something they love, something they’re
good at. They want to make a difference. They wind up broke,
drowning in debt, overworked, and forever sleep-deprived.
They’re constantly harassed and threatened, sometimes by their
own students.
>
> Other times, it’s their parents.
>
> They’re exposed to diseases in poorly ventilated classrooms.
They’re lucky if they have air conditioning.
>
> Meanwhile, every Harvard alum with a keyboard and a friend at
The New York Times feels qualified to tell the entire world what
teachers should be doing to combat made-up terms like learning
loss, and how they can make school during pandemics feel more
normal. It almost always involves teachers putting themselves in
harm’s way, actively ignoring their students’ mental health as
well as their own.
>
> It’s never about paying them more. It’s never about giving
them the kinds of classrooms they actually need.
>
> It’s never about listening.
>
> Surprise.
> America doesn’t deserve its teachers.
>
> You might remember any number of articles over the last two
years talking about the teacher shortage, warning everyone that
we wouldn’t continue to put up with the abuse, on top of being
asked to breathe children’s germs and fling our bodies toward
gunfire.
>
> Now it’s happening.
>
> America doesn’t have enough teachers. They’re so desperate,
they’re hiring anyone off the street. Bureaucrats are scratching
their heads, wondering if maybe they should finally do the
unthinkable and raise teacher salaries and get them an air
purifier, maybe even stop telling them how to do their jobs
while banning all their books.
>
> The real question for me isn’t how we’re going to solve the
teacher shortage. Teachers have been saying it for decades.
>
> The question is why they haven’t all quit.
>
> That’s the mystery.
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America doesn’t deserve its teachers!
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