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When you go from dick jokes to Dad jokes, you lose power.

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The Land of Enchantment needs it because you've all gotten hosed in recent years. Party on, New Mexico, my southern neighbor!

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I hope that you get some real help as soon as practicable. I'm not a therapist but after years of therapy myself, I can recognise when someone needs a bit of support.

I'm assuming everyone here is pretty cool so here's my cell # I'll come back later and delete it but I want you to have it. I'm available 24/7 to listen. I may not be a therapist but I have lots of experience with them and have 2 masters degrees if that helps.

Take care of yourself, first and foremost. I'm serious, call, if you need or want to talk. As a COVID Case Investigator, I'm fully apprised and compliant with HIPAA.

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I hope so. We need good news in southern new mexico. I am glad that Las Cruces seems to be all in on EVs, though.

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Forty-one states have community solar installations so far, with different arrangements, so the HUD initiative announced yesterday will help managers of public housing programs get residents in their communities connected to the local programs. On average, says HUD, qualifying families save about 10 percent on their electric bills, although in some community solar plans, like Washington DC's "Solar for All" program, the savings can be as much as 50 percent annually compared to traditional utility companies. Must be all that DC current, you know.

Considering there are only 50 states, that's a lot.

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But is Dok still fired???

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There is absolutely no reason to believe any new leases sold will be drilled. The easy to get oil has been gotten. Alaska is very hard to work in, and the Gulf is in plain view. Shortcuts taken there will be noticed.

Look at all the extra land the oil companies currently have. Sales don't mean shit. Also, do you want old people to continue to suffer from egregiously high drug prices? Do you want Obamacare to fail? It's a package. Look beyond the end of your own nose and notice the other parts of the bill. Besides, do you really think Biden didn't consider what you are concerned about?

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They Might Be Giants have a song for everything....

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I've taken my phone # out so just contact me through here if you need to talk. {{{hugs}}}

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Weird...I was just watching "reaction" videos to The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald last night.

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Waaaal, as a longtime science nerd astrophysicist type, "gas" was good enough -- a plasma is a special form of a gas, in that it's ionized. So their correction was not needed.

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But in the Empedocles classification of the four "elements," what we would now call the "phases" of matter, surely plasma is Fire while gas is Air

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Nah. According to medieval science, plasma must be "ether". =D

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My Volt died on me a few weeks ago. I'm in the market for a replacement, would like to find a newer model used Volt. A tax credit on used would be nice. I'm tempted to go all electric, but I'm fairly rural and have to frequently drive long distances for work. I'd need to upgrade my charging situation as well for all electric. The market is super tight right now for used hybrids.

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