From our insufferable apartment management comes this little bit of eco-silliness:
I refrained from pointing out that the energy required to manufacture the snacks and bottle and deliver the “free” water would vastly exceed the puny energy “savings” from our little complex. Talk about “virtue-signaling”…
Now, what other momentous event occurred on April 20th?
Oh yeah, a birthday:
Wherever the bastard is, I hope the temperature is set to BROIL.
Turn off the lights in the middle of the day in the middle of the week for 30 minutes??? How effective. But the AC will still be on in the office right??
If they really wanted to make a statement, they would have to kill ALL the power for 6 to 12 hours on a hot ( or Cold or dark ) when the most people were there. But then they might get some real push back.
What happened? Lights out in past years was a whole hour. Tell ya wot. I promise not to have a bright thought during that half hour.
On 4/20, I bet more people light up than light out.
News story this morning: there apparently is a ganja glut on the west coast. Too many newly licensed growers and producers, prices too high, too much illegal competition. Retailers and growers are going out of business at an alarming rate. Estimates say there are over three million pounds of weed aging in warehouses because there is no market.
I expect that there’s no glut in the black market. The problem is, CA so loaded down the legal producers with taxes and regulations that the black market pot is much cheaper. It costs less to hire gangsters to guard your business than to let the government in!
True. A site on my regular haunts had a pik of a receipt where someone purchased about $325 worth of the gov’t weed but there was about $80 worth of taxes in that amount. 25% tax, with zero benefit to the purchaser. No doubt the tax was for diversity hires.
Been a long time since I purchased weed and when I did it was from a private individual I knew and it was a full ounce of redbud for $40.
Get a portable air conditioner, plug it into an extension cord and just leave it running out on the sidewalk.
Come on. You and your co-dwellers can take 30 minutes to smugly show your moral superiority.
I doubt there is a coincidence between these events celebrated today. Certainly today’s environmental watermelons have taken notes from ole one ball’s playbook.
There was a video that some guy posted for Earf Day. He started with small tools and such working his way up through leaf blower, mower, and finally a diesel truck. He started each one up and let them run for a few minutes as he worked his way down the line and held up a sign, “happy earth day” I try to share it every year.
I think Ravenwood is right, more will light up the jazz cabbage.
A pot glut in California? I find that very hard to believe. they’ll probably include a baggie of it with every school lunch
JQ
I for one will be igniting searchlights for an hour to probe the sky and proclaim Victory Over Earth Day.
Nature is a cast iron bitch, red in tooth and claw, who will kill you given an opportunity. The ONLY thing that keeps her at bay is human intellect and intention driven activion.
Otherwise, it’s all rags, zombies, death, disease, slavery, and more death.
Can we all say “open carry “ at the same time?
I hope you participate carrying your weapons in full display wearing a stridently pro-2A shirt or jacket
Let’s Go, Brandon, or FJB, apparel would similarly suffice
Shoot. I missed earf day!
I had some motorcycle batteries I wanted to put in my trash to celebrate.
Dang it.