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1. about 1 hour ago on Prickly City

   Well guess what bub, according to the worlds biggest oil companies, gas prices will never drop below $2 a gal. Why, because the break even price at the pump is $2.65, below that number oil companies are losing money. Aside from the fact that the US became the worlds largest oil producer in 2023, when Biden was President. Big oil has been sitting on thousands of oil leases since 2021 in and around the US but no reason to start drilling. Also FYI the price of oil is geopolitical, with OPEC pricing having far more to do with determining the price per gal at the pump. IOW doesn’t matter who the US president is, he has bupkis to do with what prices big oil charges or what their current break even point is. It costs them far more to drill a new well than to keep an old well working. In 2014 13,745 new wells were drilled, in 2020 that number dropped to 7,147. The number of active rigs has decreased 69% since 2014, but crude oil production increased to record levels since 2020

2. about 2 hours ago on Prickly City

   Global Climate Change is not restricted to increasing temperature. There is long term drought in the Amazon Basin, along with both long term drought and desertification in Africa. Hurricanes/Typhoons increasing in both numbers and strength. If the Gulf Stream breaks down, its quite possible that Europe would see longer colder winters and shorter cooler summers. The glaciers in Himalaya and China that provide potable water to the 2 most populous countries of the world are melting much faster than predicted. Meanwhile the ice sheet of Greenland, along with the Antarctic ice cap, are also both melting far faster than predicted, causing ocean levels around the world to rise.

3. about 3 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   According to Tulsa World,[lame duck] Gov Stitt has appointed an unpaid, special volunteer to lead DOGE-OK. Lawyer and economist Marc Nuttle’s DOGE-OK remit is to comb through Agency budgets, legislative appropriations, and contracts. Given the fact that Oklahoma is in the bottom 10 states in almost any category you would care to name, DOGE-OK is IMPO just another attempt by term limited[lame duck]Gov to try and get a job offer from trump. from what I have read in the Tulsa World over the last several years, all Mr. Nuttle would have to do is read all the stories about OK governmental malfeasance over the last several years(in the files of the Oklahoman and Tulsa World) then start with State Superintendent Walters vast misspending which, until a few days ago was being both condoned and covered up by Gov Stitt. I have been calling, emailing and writing to my state legislators ever since Walters proved he could not do the job he was elected to do(as he is attempting to use the position to get elected Gov while still hoping his antics get noticed by trump so he can get a federal job)to impeach him. But as he is an R in a super R state, the state legislature will not impeach Walters no matter what he does.[maybe if he kills someone in downtown OK City, or they discover he is a member in good standing of the Church of Satan]

4. about 5 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Oklahoma, a GQP super majority state for the past 30 years. Gov Stitt has decided that our state needed a OK-DOGE agency to sniff out waste and fraud. Well there is a lot of waste and fraud being generated by state Superintendent Walters who has done nothing about OK being #49 in education, but spent several hundred thousand to promote himself on far right media. Then of course there is Gov Stitt Who wasted $2Million tax dollars to buy and stockpile hydroxychloroquine, a malaria medicine, because his god trump said it cured COVID. So lots of waste and fraud to be found in OK, too bad they won’t be able to blame anything they find on the Ds

5. about 5 hours ago on Arlo and Janis

   Lays makes a baked potato chip I think it tastes better than the classic or less salt varieties. But there is a new snack maker in town called Sensible Portions that makes a vegetable snack called Garden Veggie Straws using pureed tomato, spinach and potato along with other flavors.

6. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   It doesn’t. Hell MI area code is 734

7. 1 day ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   I do not believe that a good portion of the people of our country, like the low education people that trump is so fond of, really understand what multi-syllable words like “disinformation” mean. However they do intuitively understand what the word “lie” means. While I have never actually heard anyone use the word “disinformation” in a conversation, I have quite often heard words like he lies, he lied, she is lying They are lying to you.

   The Oxford Languages Dictionary definition of disinformation: False information which is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media. Disinformation first made an appearance in dictionaries in 1985 specifically in Websters New College Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary.

   Do you think that kids in todays HS English classes are being taught how to utilize the word Disinformation and what it means? It was not until 1985 that the word first entered the English lexicon however common everyday use of the term disinformation did not start until 2016 with Brexit in the UK and the rise of trump in the US.

   21% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate as of 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th grade level(20% are below a 5th grade level) I was totally unaware of those figures until I looked them up less than 5 min ago Only 34% of adult lacking literacy proficiency were born outside the US.

   In 2018 nearly 9/10[90%] of all adults in the US 25 years of age or older had completed at least HS or obtained a GED/HS equivalency certificate. Only about 1 in 3 adults[35%]had attained at least a bachelor’s degree. WTH. 54% of adults have below 6th grade literacy. 21% are functional illiterates. So 1 in 3 have a college degree while 2 out of 3 are either functional illiterate-21% or low literacy-54%.

   So once again, all those news stories about “disinformation” a term that perhaps 35% of all Americans over the age of 25 understand

8. 1 day ago on Dick Tracy

   So very sorry for your loss………..

9. 1 day ago on Arlo and Janis

   There is a weight loss drug where you need to keep getting shots, if you stop the weight comes back. 3 years ago one of my son-in-laws got lap band weight loss surgery, he lost weight for a while, then gained it all back because he never changed his diet of FF and lots of snacks. Now he is losing weight again with the shots.

   If you really need to lose a lot of weight and want to keep it off forever, do what I did 25 years ago[I was medically retired-OTJ injury-weighed 260 for over 30 years, after I retired I did not change my diet and very quickly gained weight, got up to 412 pounds] I got a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass[RYGB]it worked. 25 years later I weigh between 210-220. IMVPO its a whole lot better than lap band
10. 1 day ago on JumpStart

    Of course they were.