Here’s a baby possum:
https://fb.watch/oMA2SjD7D-/?mibextid=cr9u03
You have to admit he’s kind of cute! I didn’t know that they gave themselves baths like cats do
KanekoaTheGreat
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🚨 The corporate media is pushing a mass propaganda campaign alleging that Donald Trump is an authoritarian overlooking key facts about Joe Biden’s political history.
Joe Biden, not Trump, proudly claimed credit for drafting the Patriot Act and the 1994 Crime Bill.
The Patriot Act is widely criticized as one of the most profound encroachments on constitutional rights in American history.
It expanded warrantless wiretapping, eroded civil liberties, and unconstitutionally harnessed the U.S. government’s surveillance capabilities against its own citizens.
Biden’s 1994 Crime Bill, touted as the largest in history, allocated nearly $10 billion to federal prisons.
Its policies contributed to the U.S. hosting over 20% of the world’s prison population despite comprising only 5% of the global populace.
The legislation, infamous for the three-strike provision and mandatory minimums, disproportionately targeted impoverished minorities, creating the mass incarceration Democrats now complain about.
There are videos documenting Hunter Biden committing the crimes that his father incarcerated millions of Americans for.
Moreover, Biden is the first U.S. President in history to oversee his own Department of Justice prosecuting the leading opposition party’s presidential frontrunner.
What’s more authoritarian than prosecuting the opposition party’s leading presidential candidate?
Furthermore, Joe Biden was the Democrat Senator most responsible for starting the Iraq War, and as Vice President, he was in the White House while the U.S. started wars in Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
In contrast, Trump’s presidency was the first time in 40 years that the U.S. did not get involved in a new war.
Trump didn’t write the Patriot Act or the 1994 Crime Bill.
Instead, he signed a landmark bipartisan criminal justice reform initiative into law, the First Step Act, which reversed some of Joe Biden’s harsh sentencing practices, particularly for nonviolent drug offenders.
When objectively scrutinized, there is nothing that Trump did that was more authoritarian than Biden’s Patriot Act, his 1994 Crime Bill, his prosecution of his leading political opponent, or his role in starting wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya, and Yemen.
2:37 PM · Dec 6, 2023
I have no clue if all of this is true, fact checking it would have been tedious. But probably worthwhile!
This is a Tesla model Y battery. It takes up all of the space under the passenger compartment of the car.
To manufacture it you need:
—12 tons of rock for Lithium (can also be
extracted from sea water)
— 5 tons of cobalt minerals (Most cobalt is made
as a byproduct of the processing of copper
and nickel ores. It is the most difficult material
to obtain for a battery and the most
expensive.)
— 3 tons nickel ore
— 12 tons of copper ore
You must move 250 tons of soil to obtain:
— 26.5 pounds of Lithium
— 30 pounds of nickel
— 48.5 pounds of manganese
— 15 pounds of cobalt
To manufacture the battery also requires:
— 441 pounds of aluminum, steel and/or plastic
— 112 pounds of graphite
The Caterpillar 994A is used for the earthmoving to obtain the essential minerals. It consumes 264 gallons of diesel in 12 hours.
Finally you get a “zero emissions” car.
Presently, the bulk of the necessary minerals for manufacturing the batteries come from China or Africa. Much of the labor for getting the minerals in Africa is done by children! If we buy electric cars, it’s China who profits most!
BTW, this 2021 Tesla Model Y OEM battery (the cheapest Tesla battery) is currently for sale on the Internet for $4,999 not including shipping or installation. The battery weighs 1,000 pounds (you can imagine the shipping cost). The cost of Tesla batteries is:
Model 3 — $14,000+ (Car MSRP $38,990)
Model Y — $5,000–$5,500 (Car MSRP $47,740)
Model S — $13,000–$20,000 (Car MSRP $74,990)
Model X — $13,000+ (Car MSRP $79,990)
It takes SEVEN years for an electric car to reach net-zero CO2. The life expectancy of the batteries is 10 years (average). Only in the last three years do you begin to reduce your carbon footprint. Then the batteries have to be replaced and you lose all the gains you made in those three years.
It’s so homely, it’s cute!
I know that doesn’t make any sense, but it applies
to this homely little guy.
My cousin by marriage adopted one in Nebraska.
She showed it to me when I was out there on a visit.
It was chewing on a long string of cooked spaghetti,
and pulling it slowly through it’s little paws while it ate it!
It was so fun to watch! Their little “hands” are just so cute!