"Hey everyone! I'm currently visiting the islands, and I've noticed an abundance of ridiculously lifted pickup trucks."
It times back, the weather was a solidly safe holiday dinnertime conversation. Unlike politics or religion, the sun shining, or not, clouds raining, or not was a simple matter of observance. Easy. Clean. No longer. Any mention of the elements, these days, will ignite the table into full civil war. Daughter yelling at mother that the government is seeding the skies with chemicals. Son yelling at uncle to shut his gross polluting mouth.
Very uncomfortable.
The two broad camps, of course, are those who believe man is changing the environment through his consumption of fossil fuels and those who believe earth gonna earth and our smoking cigarettes etc. doesn’t make a dent.
The polite society thing to profess is, of course, the former except new details from Hawaii are baffling the most ardent climate change activists.
Hawaii, currently, has more snow than Boston and New York combined.
Per Newsweek:
Meteorologists described Hawaii as a “winter wonderland” earlier this season after a late November snowstorm dumped approximately half a foot of snow at the Mauna Kea Weather Center on Hawaii Island. The weather center is based on the Mauna Kea volcano. The peaks at Mauna Loa also saw snowfall. Meanwhile, Boston has only received a fraction of its average snowfall, with .2 inches falling on December 6. Snow has yet to fall this season in New York City.
While this should prop up theories that mans’ gas guzzling has irrevocably altered “normal,” Hawaii is home to this:
Peak gas guzzle.
Lifted V-6s and V-8s are a national treasure on the archipelago, praised and honored. A plume of holy smoke puff puff puffing out of polished exhaust pipes.
Glorious things but back to the snow issue, what to make of it?
This is the sort of vehicle popular in bone dry New York:
How to square with current theories?
Certainly more questions than answers.
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More importantly. If the reefs get fucked then it’s pretty hard to be overwhelmingly optimistic about every thing working out oh kay okay in the future. Sure, things will move to where it’s habitable but how realistic is that for the existing biomass that depends on the existing structures. Enjoys your prawns and reef fish for the foreseeable. Mucho depressing.
https://www.theguardian.com…
What do those lifted things drive like? Can you hammer it through a corner or do they make you seasick?
to quote one of the most famous authors on Planet Carbon.
Welcome to Paradise, No Go to Hell.
Greta Thunbergs face looks a lot like the front of that EV (pictured).
It’s only 27 comments in so things could still go downhill, but so far everyone’s resisted biting Chas’ bait. @JohnsKnees:disqus nibbled around the edges a bit but showed remarkable constraint.
The dawn of a new era?
Will Chas and Derek lose their sense of identity if they no longer incite rants on command?
How far will they push before someone breaks?
What a time to be alive!
It’s like we’re living in that Carl Sandburg poem*.
*The People, Yes
Those tires are sporting 2-3 bottles of Armor All, for that nice satin black shiney finish!
Even wiped in between the treading.
That truck has a serious case of redneck envy
https://youtu.be/2n0Pm4AQ-k…
watch to the end
Haha wow people are fucked
Eh Huli! Don’t forget da Japanese, Chinese, Korean or Portuguese “locals” w/their lifted trucks and SUV’s, mostly 2wd’s w/automatic transmissions. And yes, most of them still live in mommy and daddy’s house that was passed on to them from gramma or grampa, living rent free with free home cooked meals. The worst part is most local girls will tell you, “yeah he’s not too cute, he lives w his parents, he doesn’t have a job but he get one nice truck!” It’s a punani magnet for dumb chicks bwahahaaaaa!!!
Haha you right about dat my bruddah. Crack me up cause all of dem guys scared fo’ take ’em off road. They might get the tires dirty.
I’ve said it before but ill say it again, governements and talking aheads alike have both pushed the blame on the indivudual consumer (you and I) rather than pushing the blame on the largest contributors to fossil fuel consmption (governments and corportations).
According to some research the US Military is the largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world.
Back to the Trucks, what is up with Hawiians and the ugliest lifted trucks of all time?
In South Africa, a certain demographic lowers the suspension and puts on low profile tyres on there 4X4s. Not sure which is more stupid.
I think I know…Australians whom all drive their cockhead rigs onto the beach.
I first saw the explosion of the climate movement during a senate session some decades ago when the DemDude stood up and praised rising gasoline prices. Then Sheryl Crow (who recently ‘abandoned’ LA) mocked the use of more than one toilet tissue per session; then academia and Scripp’s Institute of Ocean started using modeling to predict rising seas; then WSL 1978 screeched that The Great Barrier Reef was being bleach by rising O temps…and cows and methane and CO2…oh god! we’re in WW3 and the politcks pass on the human loss of life and want to end wars…why? cause it screws up the environment! Nikki Sixx is moving to Cor de lain, ID. Todo, we’re not in Kansas anymore and some Oz Dude is behind the curtain pulling all the levers.
How does these Dudes get paid?
Now I get it. That Murdoch cunt. Only took me 3 days.
P: it was about the same time that congressional hearings focused on banning some ‘objectible’ rock music…and leading to warning labels and testimony by Zappa, Dee Snyder, John Denver. More DemDudes~intruding into our lives…
Uh Chad, that stupidly lifted shiny Tacoma screams Filipino. Not Hawaiian. Immigrant Flips are the most rapidly growing demographic in Hawaii.
In Hawaii, 1 in 4 residents are Filipino and it’s growing as real locals are being displaced and the low wage service sector of the tourist economy is mostly populated with recently arrived Filipinos. BTW that photo is from Maui where at least 1/3 of the population is Filipino.
There is an insect called the Praying Mantis. After mating, the female eats the male. Coming to BG and expecting accuracy in the articles is like looking for love amongst the mantises.
Howzit Occ I hope you’re getting some of this recent good rain on the BI. I got a quick praying mantis story for ya.
I once had a resident big-ass cane spider and a resident praying mantis. Their paths never crossed until one day when there was a face off.
The mantis was very still, all zen-like, while the cane spider was skittering back and forth around it. I thought at first the spider was stalking the mantis but it turned out that the mantis was attempting to get at the cane spider’s egg that looked like a giant quaalude that it carried around under its body. After some jabs and counter swipes the two just stared at each other for a while before the cane spider exited stage right in a flash. https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
We’ve gotten about 10″ in the last 3 weeks. Supposedly, BI is in a “severe drought”. Lol. Here’s a Mantis in our yard, hanging out on a rollinia seedling.
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How big the cane spiders get? We don’t seem to have any here.
grunion’s runnin into the spider web at the corner of the pic…a normal occurance when a west swell meets with a high tide. Mondo’s. no animals were injured, but could strangle the neighbor for putting too many boulders in front of the seawall. launching ramp!
https://ca-times.brightspot…
That one in the photo is about the size of an outstretched palm of your hand. They don’t have webs but prowl around hunting.
They’re related to the Huntsman of Australia which get pretty big.
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Whats purple and brown, buk buk buk buk!
Do they work in construction/manual labour or in the service industry? By rough estimation one third of the domestic labour force in Singapore is Filipino (could be more, could be less: impossible to tell) but they are all women. No lifted Toyotas here – all the manual construction jobs are Bangladeshi dudes. Filipino cuisine: most probably amongst the least appealing (maybe unfair but pretty fucking shit from what I have tasted). The FX conversion rate from USD to PHP is massive, so no surprise they are offshoring.
It’s official—gas guzzling trucks in Hawaii are the cause of El Niño
El Filipiño
Kelly told me the EV is going to take 10 years to start offsetting the carbon emissions involved in it’s production. Around that time the battery becomes obsolete and has to be changed, which costs as much as a new vehicle.
The only ones winning are the slave miners owners. Is Kelly right in this one?
Kelly is always right in the world according to Ke11y.
Is it anti-Hawaiian week on BG?
It’s actually hard to get good snow in Hawaii. Plenty of ice, but the South American Booger Sugar(quality*) is rare!