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Average American has energy equivalent of 450 human slaves working 8 hours shifts every day
Next Big Future ^
| November 20,2015
| Brian Wang
Posted on 11/23/2015 3:11:25 AM PST by jmcenanly
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To: jmcenanly
Its all white racism. I dont have slaves though, i got hoes. Wait,
To: Fresh Wind
No, electricity is slavery and we need to stop making CO2 to save the Erf at the upcominng Parris meeting of commies.
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posted on
11/23/2015 4:29:22 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: PubliusMM
You need the unmetered nuke u leer power promised in the 50s. Or a Mr. Fusion...
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posted on
11/23/2015 4:41:30 AM PST
by
Paladin2
(my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
To: jmcenanly
My slaves would work from sun-up to sundown, none of this 8 hour crap. Of course there would always be one or two running the bicycle powered generators to keep the phones charged and the night lights lit.
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posted on
11/23/2015 4:42:40 AM PST
by
CARTOUCHE
(The world began to come apart when the Mickey Mouse Club was cancelled. See ya real soon!)
To: Bryanw92
Bring back the long Mandarin fingernails.
-PJ
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posted on
11/23/2015 4:44:30 AM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
(If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
To: wally_bert
This master cylinder?
He always seeks to control Felix The Cat, who is black. Definitely racist.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:00:12 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(Falcon 105)
To: jmcenanly
This might be the dumbest comparison article I never finished reading....
RLTW
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:03:20 AM PST
by
military cop
(I carry a .45....cause they don't make a .46....)
To: jmcenanly
Through out human history it is freedom and liberty that have been the aberrations. And now the forces of tyranny are close to enforcing total subjugation upon humanity again.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:10:15 AM PST
by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
To: jmcenanly
A huge part is how many it would take to pull your car around.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:14:29 AM PST
by
cuban leaf
(The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
To: ETL
"So the energy released would be almost 5 times the amount released from nuclear weapon."Wow! That's gonna put the terrorist belt manufacturers out of business.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:16:51 AM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: Fresh Wind
Uh, yup. Thus we are still guilty for slavery. Or something. It gets loonier and loonier by the day.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:21:33 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: MV=PY
Wow! That's gonna put the terrorist belt manufacturers out of business. Lol! Fortunately, it doesn't appear to be something that can actually put to use.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:24:25 AM PST
by
ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: jmcenanly
450 slaves and no one to make me a samich.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:28:22 AM PST
by
Flick Lives
(One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
To: Gen.Blather
In real life there is seldom a clear good or evil. Mostly its just shades of evil. Some are darker than others.
...
Many in the South held the belief that slaves were better off in America than they would be back in Africa, slave or otherwise.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:39:07 AM PST
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: Gen.Blather
Thanks, I couldn’t find that video either. This was interesting, child labor in a recycle glass factory....if the boy didn’t work - his family would starve...so where do you go with that information? UNICEF workers there were not stopping child labor there because families would starve.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJiOSuG9gZ4
Where Children Must Work - Tropic Of Cancer - Episode 5 Preview - BBC Two (Bangladesh)
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:43:27 AM PST
by
libertarian27
(FR Cookbooks - On Profile Page)
To: jmcenanly
Slave labor is vastly overrated. In the pre-Civil War South, there was a saying that with a lot of patience and a year of training, a slave might be competent to push a broom or pull a rope.
And there were a LOT of jokes about how lazy slaves could be.
One of the best motivators of slaves was the threat that if they did not get to work, they would be “sold down the river”, which was a literal threat. The river was the Mississippi, and there were sugar cane plantations in its delta. And harvesting sugar cane is extremely hard and unpleasant work.
So the threat was get to work or you will be sold to a sugar cane plantation.
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:44:13 AM PST
by
yefragetuwrabrumuy
("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:48:29 AM PST
by
pa_dweller
(But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain - JRK)
To: jmcenanly
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posted on
11/23/2015 5:49:30 AM PST
by
Pajamajan
( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
To: jmcenanly
Does that include afternoon nap time?
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posted on
11/23/2015 6:02:42 AM PST
by
moovova
To: ETL
we come to a grand total of just over $160 This is an excellent example of inflation. I was very young the first time I saw this calculation and the value was less than $1. The next time was 1977 and the bill of material's value was $5.70.
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posted on
11/23/2015 6:10:30 AM PST
by
MosesKnows
(Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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