I bet they are going to miss getting woken up to their neighbor mowing at sunrise on a Saturday

clubhi said:

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I bet they are going to miss getting woken up to their neighbor mowing at sunrise on a Saturday

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I am sure yardwork will be banned in Austin very soon. Clown World. Gonna be some serious weedeating and mowing going on between now and 1/1/2024. After that, not so much.

They are tackling all the important issues; doesn't Newsome have any real issues to tackle.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-first-state-mandate-gender-035518663.html

Don't worry. We will find you a different career.

Rawhide said:

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RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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clubhi said:

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Don't worry. We will find you a different career.

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Actually, I kinda enjoy yard work and shredding. It is not beneath me.

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Spent the weekend working in my yard. It's relaxing and nice to look at a job well done.

clubhi is just jealous because he doesn't have the room for a lawn at his trailer park.

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He'll make it to the trailer park someday. It's the Venezuelan Dream.

so many walmart scooter riders triggered in a single thread. lmao

clubhi said:

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so many walmart scooter riders triggered in a single thread. lmao

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Real men ride gas powered rascals.

I keep my pulse jet powered scooter handy in case I have a Southwest flight cancelled.

Do they even make battery powered riding lawnmowers?

And are lawn companies going to have to have 10 batteries so they can switch them out and charge all day long?

But let me guess... there will be some sort of exemption for large yards/areas so that the golf courses, politicians and celebs with big yards can still get them mowed by gas powered riding lawnmowers or tractors.

Maybe all the lawn guys should register their equipment as identifying as electric....

I'm going to buy some stock in goat farms!

and beaver ranches!

and pet diapers to lower methane output!

Harrison Bergeron said:

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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When I was a kid in Mesquite, Texas .....I absolutely never saw smog anywhere in the metroplex . Now its common .

When I moved to El Paso Texas in 1979 the smog was limited to downtown Juarez . Now it regularly goes out almost a hundred miles in every direction.

50 miles north of Denver had some of the clearest skies imaginable back in 1992. Now there is smog more days than not from Denver all the way to Cheyenne .

Now if I fly to San Diego during the summer months its not unusual to see a blanket of smog through the entire region......all the way from Utah to the southern Pacific coast .


The problem is we grow up with an ever changing 'normal'. Creeps up on us so slowly we get used to it .

None of us have lived long enough to see an LA skyline totally free of smog . So for us when the entire city is black with smog......that's perfectly acceptable.

Will our species get ahead of the curve and address the problem ?


Not a chance in hell.

Canada2017 said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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When I was a kid in Mesquite, Texas .....I absolutely never saw smog anywhere in the metroplex . Now its common .

When I moved to El Paso Texas in 1979 the smog was limited to downtown Juarez . Now it regularly goes out almost a hundred miles in every direction.

50 miles north of Denver had some of the clearest skies imaginable back in 1992. Now there is smog more days than not from Denver all the way to Cheyenne .

Now if I fly to San Diego during the summer months its not unusual to see a blanket of smog through the entire region......all the way from Utah to the southern Pacific coast .


The problem is we grow up with an ever changing 'normal'. Creeps up on us so slowly we get used to it .

None of us have lived long enough to see an LA skyline totally free of smog . So for us when the entire city is black with smog......that's perfectly acceptable.

Will our species get ahead of the curve and address the problem ?


Not a chance in hell.

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

Harrison Bergeron said:

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Canada2017 said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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When I was a kid in Mesquite, Texas .....I absolutely never saw smog anywhere in the metroplex . Now its common .

When I moved to El Paso Texas in 1979 the smog was limited to downtown Juarez . Now it regularly goes out almost a hundred miles in every direction.

50 miles north of Denver had some of the clearest skies imaginable back in 1992. Now there is smog more days than not from Denver all the way to Cheyenne .

Now when I fly to San Diego or Vegas during the summer months its not unusual to see a blanket of smog through the entire region......all the way from Utah to the southern Pacific coast .


The problem is we grow up with an ever changing 'normal'. Creeps up on us so slowly we get used to it .

None of us have lived long enough to see an LA skyline totally free of smog . So for us when the entire city is black with smog......that's perfectly acceptable.

Will our species get ahead of the curve and address the problem ?


Not a chance in hell.

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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Unknown.

But your lungs would probably recover from all the garbage you are now inhaling .

cowboycwr said:

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Do they even make battery powered riding lawnmowers?

And are lawn companies going to have to have 10 batteries so they can switch them out and charge all day long?

But let me guess... there will be some sort of exemption for large yards/areas so that the golf courses, politicians and celebs with big yards can still get them mowed by gas powered riding lawnmowers or tractors.

Maybe all the lawn guys should register their equipment as identifying as electric....

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Don't think there are any electric ride on mowers, but I could be wrong. Companies will probably end up idling their trucks all day long to run the inverter to charge their battery banks (as far as I know the CA idle laws only apply to diesel trucks).

Not sure how "small" the engines impacted are. Plenty of 2-4 cylender diesel and gas powered equipment used on golf courses that would likely not be impacted (by design as you note).

Harrison Bergeron said:

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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Didn't the world cut emissions in half or more in March 2020-Fall 2020???? And what happened to temps???

Funny, my experience is the opposite. For example:

My brother was born in Pittsburgh, and when we visited in 1972 I remember the sky was full of smog and the buildings were all a dingy grey. Particulate matter could be seen on the ground like lint.

Nine years later I visited Pittsburgh on business and the city flat-out sparkled. Clean blue skies and clean buildings downtown. What made it most impressive is that this did not happen because of a government plan, but due to a regional alliance of industrial businesses, especially steel companies, to remove particulate matter and clean emissions. Water quality was also a primary goal.

We can and do solve problems all the time. But it's not fashionable to say so, much less praise the individuals and private groups who do what the EPA pretends is impossible.

BTW, I have also been to several industrial cities in China. From the filth I see in their air and rivers, I expect the cancer rate in the PRC is a nightmare, and no, I would not go by WHO numbers on that point for what should obvious reasons.

whitetrash said:

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Canada2017 said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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If we stopped all human-caused carbon emissions tomorrow, what would the effects be on global temperatures?

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When I moved to El Paso Texas in 1979 the smog was limited to downtown Juarez . Now it regularly goes out almost a hundred miles in every direction.

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There was a story circulating around those parts back during the Clinton administration that the head of the EPA came to El Paso, and the local director took him up on Rim Road at daybreak on a cold morning to show him all the smoke and smog hanging over the valley. EPA chief berated him and asked why he wasn't vigorously enforcing environmental regulations. Local director's response: "Because that would require invading a foreign country."

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It was common knowledge in El Paso how the Mexicans did not enforce any clean air standards.

Their constant refrain was ' Let the Americans worry about it '.