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    René Magritte Mysteries of the horizon (a.k.a. The Masterpiece) 1955   • Debate Erupts Between Trusted Medical Doctor And Dr. Fauci (Bbee) • Fauc
    [See the full post at: Debt Rattle July 21 2021]

    #80371
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Fah Talai Jone is a Thai herb that has had some success against the covid virus in terms of symptoms.
    It’s Latin name is andrographis paniculata, commonly known as creat or green chiretta
    It’s also called Thai echinacea…
    Anyhoo, it’s worth a look; we have some on standby in case my Ivermectin fails to make it here…

    We indeed have been had! Maybe the most ever…
    Surely we’ll pay a huge price for our lack of due diligence…
    The Galoots won this round…but, at this time it is not the last round…but not many rounds left…so…when do you wake up and fight…tooth and nail to the end…

    I wonder…is it worth a fight anymore?
    I honestly don’t know…………………….

    #80372
    V. Arnold
    Participant

    Oh, I forgot the Magritte: René Magritte Mysteries of the horizon (a.k.a. The Masterpiece) 1955
    It’s a wonderful piece…

    #80373
    Huskynut
    Participant

    @Ilargi Australia is done. Pull the plug and let it pour down the drain. The only things people there think are “wrong” in their isolation campaign are in not building quarantine accomodation, and in not ordering vaccines fast enough. Blind as bats.

    You nailed it. The batshit insane thing about Australia and NZ is that the media output is as decoupled from the rest of the world as our borders. The border isolation plus media echo-chamber in these parts means the fear has been stoked exponentially. Whereas in Europe and the US there are counterfactuals provided by bordering countries or states, down here it’s a mono-factual. The majority truly believe we’ve dodged a plague of biblical proportions due to the wisdom and efficacy of the politicians.
    It is the best example I’ve ever seen of why plurality of opinion is perhaps the most essential defence against tyranny.

    #80374
    Huskynut
    Participant

    PS: that said, a new group of GP’s has sprung up here to fill the gap of CovidPlanB who appear to have passed the cudgel on. They appear to have taken the gloves off very early and I’m enjoying their output: https://nzdsos.com/posts/

    #80375
    Huskynut
    Participant
    #80376
    oxymoron
    Participant

    Looking at the funding money for the cray-cray research – it comes from NIH (faucci) Gates, Wellcome Trust, the US Military.
    No wonder we are in the position we are in right now.
    Liars.

    #80377
    oxymoron
    Participant

    England says Delta is 65% more transmissible – CDC says 225% China say you get 1000 times more Delta than Wuhan.
    It’s Wednesday and the facts are flying in. So good to be kept in the loop.
    Yep back to Zero trust

    #80378
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Interview with Dr David Martin

    Patented Genocide

    He really strips the bark off the Plandemic and ultimately lays the case at the feet of the utterly corrupt ‘justice system’, having given copies of his research and presentation to every one of the 94 US attorney in the country plus relevant members of the DOJ. Nothing but crickets so far.

    Even the judges, who do have the ability to at least suggest to the DOJ avenues of inquiry are silent and gutless cowards. they all have a wide fat yellow streak sewn into the back of their black robes.

    https://odysee.com/@Jadu200:7/Stew-Peters—Dr.-David-Martin:5

    #80379
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Dr Martin in the interview particularly takes Rand Paul to task as a faux crusader. He says Dr Paul is merely showboating and knows damn well that he knows the whole story and had the ability to nail Fauci to the wall during his false testimony to Congress with an actual PERJURY charge, but didn’t.

    Facist Fauci could actually be charged for lying to Congress, Rand Paul is using his ‘performance piece’ to raise money for his re-election campaign. What a shock.

    ..

    https://i0.wp.com/aim4truth.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/coronavirus-stock.jpg?resize=776%2C626&ssl=1

    #80380
    Oroboros
    Participant

    The double image posts is the result of WordPress’s amazing crappy unreliable code

    #80381
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #80382
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    The emergency use authorization vaccines that are currently on the market, however, are strikingly effective against the Delta variant. [..] At this point, experts say the picture looks fairly rosy.

    Wow, that particular bull must have dysentery.

    #80383
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    De Volkskrant:

    Research: Janssen protects less against delta variant, extra jab may still be necessary

    The blood of people who have been vaccinated with the Janssen vaccine can cope a lot worse with the delta variant of the coronavirus than with other variants. This could mean that the 750 thousand Dutch people who have been vaccinated with Janssen’s ‘one-shot vaccine’ will need an extra shot.

    https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/onderzoek-janssen-beschermt-slechter-tegen-deltavariant-extra-prik-mogelijk-toch-nodig~b540f5a5/

    Note: J&J is called Janssen in Holland.

    #80384
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Let’s see if WordPress can actually post an image correctly

    Venn diagram

    This is what the competing relationships and narratives around the Plandemic look like, if WordPress actually works.

    Unlike a standard simple Venn diagram

    Simple Venn diagram

    #80385
    Oroboros
    Participant
    #80386
    Oroboros
    Participant

    ,

    #80387
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Finally.

    This Venn Diagram above is closer to the reality of the Covid story and to most issues in Life

    #80388
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Using a Venn Diagram to find your purpose in life.

    #80389

    Let’s see if WordPress can actually post an image correctly

    No use blaming WordPress for your own screw-ups, Oroboros. If you put a YouTube video in a image link, that’s your fault.

    #80390
    Polder Dweller
    Participant

    Yesterday, president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen posted this:

    It made me feel sick to my stomach. We didn’t even vote for her, let alone for an associate of Jeffrey Epstein who’s into depopulation and eugenics and certainly isn’t a European.

    #80391
    a kullervo
    Participant

    NSW Health Official Tells Australians To Refrain From Talking To People (RT)

    Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant: the portrait of someone who has not experienced a single happy day in her entire life (up until now). Now, she is in a position where she can infect large swaths of her compatriots with her special brand of misery – who’s laughing now?

    Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household. Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And whoever does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
    Matthew 10:34-39 [English Standard Version]

    The “Jab” = The Second Coming?

    #80392
    those darned kids
    Participant

    czech

    #80393
    those darned kids
    Participant

    to polder dweller:

    imagine bill gates (more) in charge of this fair orb:

    WINDOWS 13 FOR PLANETS

    An error has occurred. To continue:
    Press CTRL+ALT+DEL to restart your planet. If you do this, you will lose all of God’s creation in any open applications.
    ERROR: CV : 019 : VXPZ1NJCT
    Press any key to continue __

    #80394
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Magritte is benighted.

    China’s in trouble, 3 dams breaking, troubles elsewhere. As they are the pride of the nation and the sole purview of government, for which they destroyed whole townships and erased the farmland. Now not only did they kill that, but everyone downstream. Why, I don’t know, but like Chernobyl, it discredits, undermines the government, where the people will stop looking to them and go around.

    I mean, here too, but our system looks to independence and localization as a goal, whereas China takes regionalization as weakness of the master over you to be exploited.

    “Most people do not know, but the Speaker of the House is just another political job that is subject to the vote of the members of Congress. A Democrat has introduced a bill to limit that position to just members of Congress. Why? For months, there has been talking behind the curtain that Trump might run for Speaker against Pelosi. CNN would be ecstatic. Their ratings might rise again, for now, they keep just beating Trump because they have nobody else, and they have become such an anti-American news organization that is really just propaganda.

    The Democrats seem to be so intent upon imposing a dictatorial economic view and are by no means ruling from the middle. Their extreme move to the left has only inspired the extreme right in the Republicans. (where?) As this food fight continues, the nation is being hurled toward 2032, where our computer models forecast the end of representative government as we have known it. The closer we get, the easier it is to see that the computer will be correct once again.” –Armstrong https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/politics/anyone-can-run-for-speaker-of-the-house-in-congress/

    We have seen the Speaker hinted before, with Pelosi, she hinted about others (DNC) already. Universities have posted the left-right charts where GOP moved a little (actually to the Left) while the Left moved over the event horizon. Problem being: normal Democrats are now closer to the remaining RIGHT than their own party, which has gone to Democratic Socialist Transgender Authoritarianism. I don’t know how or why we got here, (uh, billionaire social engineering?) but it’s a problem to win elections, or even keep any modicum of popular support. What was it Bill Maher said? “Boy they sure got that transgender prison vote covered.” C’mon, who are you representing anymore? Not the working man. Jeff Bezos and NAMBLA?

    The point above though is that “End of Representational Government” IS coming. …In a way. By screwing with elections, pulling RussiaRussiaRussia – even now! — then especially refusing open audits, they’ve undercut all faith in election PROCESS, Left AND Right. But who cares? Since the Federal level is about to go bankrupt and default, lose their money, power, and influence this year anyway. States are already totally, completely broke, AND as morally bankrupt as everyone else. Boom, boom, down two levels: back to the Town Board and School District where you can keep an eye on them (who are STILL stealing, dealing, and embezzling constantly. Even when you’re looking RIGHT AT THEM).

    But unlike China, THAT’S OUR SYSTEM. State and Federal governments are not SUPPOSED to be doing anything, paying anybody. They exist solely to defend the coastlines and to prosecute murderers, keep track of land deeds. There’s nothing IN controlling the economy, medicine, education, communication, research, entertainment, sports… And at the Federal Level is SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED (10A). Like I said: they do everything they’re NOT supposed (allowed) to do, like economy, medicine, and Assange, and don’t do anything they ARE supposed to do, like investigate 30 years of child rape and Jeffry’s sudden death.

    So we can tolerate such a drop, although quite bad. It’s healthy as losing weight that’s got us 40 stone and bedridden. I think Orlov “Closing the Collapse Gap with the Soviet Union” will be surprised and annoyed. End of Representational government? Think “We ain’t giving tax dollars out of our sight. If you want it, we need 20 layers of accounting, and will probably do the job on the local.” …Just as it should be, and just how we got into this mess. Texas is already seemlessly replaced INS and is finishing the wall with men from other states. …At a fraction of the price.

    Downside: Charity and community care is now YOU, bucko. You can’t pay off your responsibilities, let 60% (eg Welfare) be wasted by fake contracts and palatial Federal Pay, and pretend you care, oh so much. If you care, now there’s only YOU, and your checkbook, in the dark. Nobody will make you, nobody will know. Do you really care or not? No more of this “Fantasy Football” caring, “I paid my taxes” (for killing 1M Iraqi children using my Citibank card) caring. If you care, show up with a dustpan.

    ““You take an animal virus and you increase its transmissibility to humans, you’re saying that’s not gain-of-function?” Paul asked. “That is correct..”

    Fauci has now had to fall back fully on appeal-to-authority. Luckily that works 100% of the time, and not the death of 6M brown people, 50,000 soldiers, nor $7 Trillion in lost funds can cure it.

    Yup the NIAID funding number that paid for coronavirus to be made deadly is NOT Fauci and the CDC funding research for viruses to be made deadly. Then it getting out at the most convenient time ever where Armstrong’s insider billionaires were forewarned and traded on the release. Why? Don’t you see his coat? It’s very white. Paul also owns a coat, but his doesn’t count. Some animals are more equal than others.

    And why not? Since “Appeal to Authority” is nearly the first logical fallacy, everything piled on afterwards is moot. Make it as illogical as possible. “[Paul] earned an M.D. degree in 1988 and completed his residency in 1993” –Wikipedia.

    There is one difference though: Paul was RIGHT about everything so far and DIDN’T fund open bioweapons research on behalf of the Communist Party, while Fauci and Daszak were totally, completely WRONG about everything so far, and did.

    Guess who we’ll listen to?

    “Sen. @RandPaul: “I will be sending a letter to the Department of Justice asking for a criminal referral” into Dr. Fauci”

    Hahahahahahaahahahahaha! The DoJ? Why not to the PowerPuff Girls? The DoJ won’t look into LITERAL MURDERS. Literal sale of Uranium to Russia. Literal open-servers to China. Literal handover of entire LABS like Sandida to China. Too busy looking at garage-pull ropes and snorting meth in their Connecticut forensics lab.

    NOW do you see why the Federal and State levels have to C O L L A P S E ? Cease to be? Become no more? Bereft of life? Rest in peace? We can’t have a REAL Justice Department until the fake one is wiped from the face of time-space reality and, as Kennedy said, “Is strewn to the winds,” for which he and Eisenhower agreed. Let’s see: young, old. Heartland, coastal. Rich, poor. Democrat, Republican. General, civilian. NOPE! We’ll still trust all the secret service state experts from the CIA and FBI hired by their corporate-state merger with CNN. Clearly 5-stars and connected insider families are both cray-cray. Trust us! …And they do.

    Over Half Of Australia’s Population Now Under Stay-at-Home Orders (RT)”

    Speaking of trust, there are what? 20 cases on the whole continent? Right then, suppose it all works: what’s your plan for opening up and re-joining the planet after?

    “NSW Health Official Tells Australians to Refrain from Talking to People (RT)”

    Is this more, or less, crazy than demanding 1-year-olds wear masks without the slightest evidence? A: It’s Crazies all the way down!

    “More Than 200 Facebook Groups Actively Circulating Vaccine Misinformation (F.)”

    That is, anybody we don’t like, who didn’t vote for Joe, not just with their hands, but deep, deep in their HEARTS. You not only need to OBEY great leader, you need to LOVE him. Willingly. Mindlessly. Lavishly. NEXIVM-ly.

    Anyway, wasn’t this group the one that got American Conservative de-platformed last year for nothing? And aren’t they funded completely by dark (China/CIA Drug) money? Nice that they get to decide. Also don’t forget the cross-platform. Psaki says it’s not fair that if you get banned on Ravelry for posting fake, misinformation knitting patterns, you’re not banned from Facebook, YouTube, Google, eBay, and Twitter too. …You naughty knitter. Yup! And remember: your bank is now merged too with PayPal, Facebook pay. Better see if that dumpster has any food for the kiddies tonight!

    So…these are all the same guys who got the Iraq War right, yes? Who didn’t say there were WMDs that were never found, they would greet us with flowers, it would pay for itself, and we’d win in F-stan and be out in a jiffy? I mean, seems like all of us who got all of that completely, totally, dead right, and did NOT commit 20 years of universal war crimes and mass murder would be the ones “misinforming” people back then. Like the Dixie Chicks. Deplatformed and destroyed. With open Glee.

    Oh and Science of course works when no one can speak and there are no debates or theories. That’s just common sense.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism “More than 3,000 mainstream biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the campaign to suppress scientific opponents. The president of the Agriculture Academy, Nikolai Vavilov, who had encouraged Lysenko, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed. Research and teaching in the fields of neurophysiology, cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.”

    Pikers! We’re Waaaaaaaaay beyond Uncle Joe’s level. Say hello the new Joe same as the old Joe.

    Like so: “Biden Regime Jails a ‘Domestic Terrorist’ (Julie Kelly)”

    Guess he should have voted Biden. But maybe he did! (who would know?) His crime was not LOVING and obeying Great Leader lavishly enough. He had a flag! Did you see his flag? I have a flag! (Eddie Izzard)

    “Lawmakers Sound Alarm over China Purchases of US Farmland (ZH)”

    Yeah, we’re gonna steal it back from them and make up some s—t about it. $15T reparations? Or is that “we’re defaulting on the exact amount of U.S. Treasuries we owe”? Duh. They’re governments. They can’t be trusted. They steal everything they’re able. …Says Adam Smith in 1775. Slow learners.

    “Oliver Stone’s New JFK Assassination Doc Is Being Ignored by the MSM (RT)”

    ‘Cause of the above. JFK was the enemy of the people presently in power. They don’t want their crimes uncovered.

    I think the Passport is a fake. The Pharaoh would never fly to a nation as backward as Britain.

    “Faucist Fauci could actually be charged for lying to Congress,”

    Hahahahahahahaaha! Like James Clapper was? Shirley, you jest. In #OppositeLand, the only way to get arrested is to NOT commit a crime. Like a bunch indicted recently, so criminal the IRS themselves didn’t see any wrongdoing. While admitting you’re openly doing federal drugs, then lying about it to get illegal guns…plus a billion dollars, even from Moscow, de nada.

    #80395
    Mister Roboto
    Participant

    I can’t link the article because it’s “subscribers only”, but the Milwaukee-Journal Sentinel (pretty much a subsidiary publication of USA Today, like many local Wisconsin newspapers now) is hyping a “times three” rise in new Covid cases in the state. As is the case in many states, this is from a very low baseline, and there has been no appreciable rise in deaths to accompany it. I’m guessing that the article I can’t read doesn’t mention this at all.

    #80396
    those darned kids
    Participant

    to dr. d:

    Right then, suppose it all works: what’s your plan for opening up and re-joining the planet after?

    i think the plan is for the rest to join them.

    lockdown down under,
    lockdown up above,
    lockdown all the prisoners,
    lockdown all you love.

    lockdown sheeps’n’cattle,
    lockdown those who speak,
    lockdown those who tattle,
    lockdown till they’re weak.

    lockdown all the stupid proles,
    lockdown bars, cars, kids and mars,
    lockdown all the free, kind souls,
    lockdown to leave so many scars.

    lockdown ’cause it’s good for you,
    lockdown ’cause it’s great profits, too,
    lockdown ’cause it’s just step two,
    lockdown, lockdown till we’re through*.

    *with you.

    #80397
    Oroboros
    Participant

    Sorry I pasted the wrong link into the wrong tag, still, the interface can be squirrely sometimes :>(

    #80398
    Oroboros
    Participant

    I was thinking the other day of the long gone sad tragic figure of Richard Brautigan and his poem All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace and meditating on how it has stood the test of time vs H G Wells’ vision in The Time Machine, you know, with the Morlocks and Eloi.

    Wells 1895 tale vs Brautigan’s 1967 poem of the Future.

    Trans-sub Humanism vs Rainbows & Unicorns.

    We really didn’t appreciate the Beast we were nourishing in computers in 1967. I remember it took 250+ IBM punch cards to instruct a main frame to draw a simple cube in 3-D.

    Today’s smart phones could have run rings around that same main frame, ‘Big Iron’ as it was nicknamed at the time.

    As a school kid, I thought Huxley and Orwell were warning humanity of future dystopias. I was wrong, their stories were detailed Blueprints for the Techno-narcissus Psychopathic Overlords to enslave societies.

    Roll it out now boys, watch yer heads!

    Brautigan just smoked too much dope.

    All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

    I like to think (and
    the sooner the better!)
    of a cybernetic meadow
    where mammals and computers
    live together in mutually
    programming harmony
    like pure water
    touching clear sky.

    I like to think
    (right now please!)
    of a cybernetic forest
    filled with pines and electronics
    where deer stroll peacefully
    past computers
    as if they were flowers
    with spinning blossoms.

    I like to think
    (it has to be!)
    of a cybernetic ecology
    where we are free of our labors
    and joined back to nature,
    returned to our mammal
    brothers and sisters,
    and all watched over
    by machines of loving grace.

    #80399
    lloyde
    Participant

    It’s funny how it feels as you dismiss Oz to be flushed. I sit comfortably down here in Strahan, working as I please, going to the pub or restaurants freely, travelling around the state without hindrance, talking to whomever I please. In the past month I have been to an AFL footy game, an huge (for Tassie) concert, and still have never, outside of work (grinding, galv welding etc.) had to wear a mask. I listen to (read) you guys so I am not frightened of COVID as others are, and I take the “John Day” precautions, as I understand that it will get here again, but still in some parts of this country our life is really very normal.

    #80401
    zerosum
    Participant

    Cat fight
    Get out of the way

    Rand Paul Asks DoJ To Investigate Fauci For Lying To Congress – outsourced to China – word definition

    Disasters – City floating, forest burning, crops and livestock dying

    Delta variant – Unwaxxed – show hairy legs of >30 year olds

    experimental trial – conspiracy theories, – old, sick people are dying

    The Biden regime – opposition equals domestic terrorist

    #80403
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    A friend of mine who is a pastor shared this NT verse with me in reference to the current wokester/vegan fad/fetish:

    “1Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.” 1 Timothy 4:1-3

    Just an interesting correlation. I read the Bible with as many grains of salt as I read anything.

    #80404
    zerosum
    Participant

    Within firing range.
    Whos firing range? China? UK?
    Thanks

    UK To Permanently Deploy 2 Warships To Asian Waters In Counter-China Mission

    #80405
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    “It’s funny how it feels as you dismiss Oz to be flushed. I sit comfortably down here in Strahan, working as I please, going to the pub or restaurants freely, travelling around the state without hindrance, talking to whomever I please. In the past month I have been to an AFL footy game, an huge (for Tassie) concert, and still have never, outside of work (grinding, galv welding etc.) had to wear a mask. I listen to (read) you guys so I am not frightened of COVID as others are, and I take the “John Day” precautions, as I understand that it will get here again, but still in some parts of this country our life is really very normal.”

    Here we are reminded that the media that lies to us lies to us. Reality on the ground is rarely in fidelity with its media reportage. All too often, we are jumping at shadows.

    #80406
    madamski cafone
    Participant

    It’s the little things that hammer economies. Lots and lots and lots of little things:

    Taco Bell is facing a food shortage

    #80407
    HerrWerner
    Participant

    Something I’m up to – off-topic but germane to what Raúl covers in TAE – I thought the TAE audience might find my dabbles with “solar power” interesting. Last year when the Mostly Peaceful Protests™ were raging in the US, the Ms. FrauWerner and I took our prepper planning into high gear. Among preps like the garden and pantry, I invested in some solar panels and related kit. It’s been highly educational for me, doing this hands-on and not paying somebody to build it. It’s also been instructive of shifts in the greater economy – the US losing its manufacturing base and being dependent on 8,000 mile supply chains – that modern commerce which to my newly-opened eyes seem operated for the benefit of swindler-billionaires.

    The solar panels are a fun thing to tinker with, but also part of my SHTF plan. It is a modest system; enough to provide some lights and pump water and keep devices charged. Refrigeration would be limited to a few days w/o sun (haven’t tried that yet). It is just enough to run some modern conveniences, so we can lose our sanity with a glass of wine and the lights on, like civilized ppl. Heat or A/C is out of the question (but that is true even of most rooftop systems.) The woodpile and other preps are there to address that. My goal is to spread risk and have several paths that can be called up as things fail. Resilience, rather than clinging to 1st world levels of power.

    I am at once in awe of solar panels – and in awe of their limits, and fragility of the system. The panels are a wonder of technology and industry – a hundred times better than the ones my dad and I dabbled with decades ago, and a fraction of the cost. At the same time I have a clunky lead-acid battery, a tech barely changed for 100 years, yet still competitive with state-of-the-art LiPO batteries. The environmental impact of both is quite bad; I have no illusions about green-spraypaint Saving the Planet™ with my efforts. Scale my tiny system up a million times and you have the same problems a millionfold. It’s great when the sun shines, and everything is new and the subsidy checks don’t bounce. Add 10 years of weather, lightning strikes, hail, MTBF, stork poop, not so much.

    Sourcing the components has been instructive. There are a number of components: panels, a charge controller, a battery, and an inverter to convert to useful AC power. All of this stuff – even the wires and connectors and baubles and bits – comes from far-eastern factories, mostly China. Quality is all over the map.

    I bought the panels through Amazon. It took ordering 10 panels in order to get six good ones. One arrived damaged but still usable, I tried to finagle a discount or freebie, but they wanted it back to credit my acct (I’m sure it’s in a landfill now, though still usable, too complex to repair. but WOOHOO free returns!) Three others had crappy performance that didn’t meet their published specs and were returned. “Free” shipping both ways. 80 pounds of bulky, fragile gear that someone has to wrangle back to the warehouse. The guy at the UPS store seemed kind of pissed when I dropped them off. I’m sure UPSFEDEX loses money both ways. Amazon is so big it can screw over even a company as large as UPS. But, we’ll make it up in volume.

    The charge controller is a specialty item. There are companies that know what they are doing and many that just sell crap. I paid premium for a good one – designed in Europe by a company that’s been in the biz for decades. I bought it through a small alt-energy dealer and paid a bit extra (Amazon woulda saved a few bucks) to keep them in business, and maybe benefit from their customer service.

    After research, I bought the inverter through Amazon. The inverter is a consumer-grade item, a hundred companies you never heard of make them. I wanted to buy a good one from a reputable outlet like the place I bought the controller. But they are selling the same cheap crap as Amazon and Ebay. Look at the reviews for a good-ish one on Amazon and they are bimodal – lots of 4-5 star reviews, lots of 1-stars. The 1-stars are for ones that arrive DOA, or die early in the bathtub curve. The 1-star reviews usually gripe about contacting customer service (ha! far east, got their money.) QC is expensive and simply not done. Repairs are not cost-effective over 8,000 miles. The brand name will be something else in 5 yrs, so no skin in the game. They’ve never set up service centers, there are no repairmen, there are no service manuals to work from. And there never will be.

    So it’s running, converting sunshine and storing electrons for us. An engineering marvel. Dunno if this stuff will work out. Like any preps, it’s a roll of the dice. The high-technology stuff is the highest-performing, and also the most delicate. My fancy-shmancy charge controller might be running 30 years from now. It could also get zapped by a lightning surge next week. If it dies, especially 5-10 years from now, I don’t know if I will have the money to replace it, if a replacement can even be had. But I can cobble things together, farm-engineer style. I can still run lights with an old car battery. I can build a rudimentary charge-controller from junkyard parts if I have to. Time will tell! 🙂

    #80408
    Mr. House
    Participant

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/20/institutions-that-can-defend-us-trumpism/

    He gets one thing right, we’re currently in a non violent civil war. That is about the only thing he got right.

    #80409
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Ha he also cites one of his own articles.

    In America’s ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are The Aggressors

    #80410
    Mr. House
    Participant

    Seems more to me those articles are just the “left” projecting what it is doing on its opponents again.

    #80411
    madamski cafone
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    For solar power, I like using it stored in tree wood and plant/animal food. solar powert stored in fossil fuels was exhilirating but the withdrawal jones are wicked.

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