David [Blackmon] led numerous industry-wide efforts to address a variety of issues at the local, state and federal level, and from April 2010 through June 2012, he served as the Texas State Lead for America’s Natural Gas Alliance

America’s Natural Gas Alliance (ANGA) works with industry, government and customer stakeholders to promote increased demand for and continued availability of our nation’s abundant natural gas resource for a cleaner and more secure energy future.

Huh, would you look at that. The usual fair, unbiased reporting from the Torygraph.

…are penguin eggs any good?

They are if you like eating translucent blue eggs that taste of fish.

Not enough to not vote for one for your president apparently.

Common enough that they should really make them with flared bases.

Mr lover man obviously.

They clearly state they don’t use child labour, because the little cunts are too inefficient apparently. (Multiple reports show that children are specifically used in Chinese factories, including assembly lines for Apple and Samsung, because their small hand are better at assembling components.)

Volkswagen shareholders weighing up the benefits of short term gain versus long term damage…

Half the comments on Lemmy are people fact checking one another.

Welcome to being older. The magic goes and the cynisism sets in. There is still hope though. If you can clear your eyes of the razzle dazzle of unfettered consumerism, you can realise it’s a nice time to spend with those you care about. Makes it an even better time of the year. Edit. I realise that sounds too flippantly jolly. My point was that for all of human history this has been a festival to stave off the deprivations of starving and freezing. I just feel this< angle is a good way to look at it.

Hard to tell without trimming the bush.

Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.

That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.

Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!

These are both subjectively true.

Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

You from New Zealand? Look in the mirror and say “can’t”.

The man seems to know what he’s doing and, well, “might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb”. Plenty more CEO’s in the range.

IIRC the NK soldiers have been fighting (and dying) in the Ukrainian occupied parts of Russia, and haven’t been deployed to the Russian occupied parts of Ukraine yet.

In ancient Rome, the sitting emperor often would choose a successor from, well anybody really, often not even a relation. They then adopted that person. If one has to have hereditary rulers, this seems a fairly sensible way to go about it.