There’s worse things than being alone ! I learned that the hard way from my first marriage ! The second taught me how better life can be with the right person !
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Mystic
We're all born mad
And that, all, is a true love story.
Ernie, you've said it all, succinctly and elegantly.
DeadRock
Ideas Guy
...and my first is my third...who'da thunk?
Well ether you’ve both mellowed or are growing senile together ! lol what ever works ! My brother in law left his wife after she cheated on him took 1/2 of everything blew it ! Had a live girlfriend for 15 yrs she passed on , no his ex wife is his live in girl friend ! Who’d of thunk it ! Loo...and my first is my third...who'da thunk?
Sorry for the typos no is now loo is lol damn spell check !
Mystic
We're all born mad
"Smoking kills" is but one of the slogans connected to anti-tobacco advocacy groups — and it's quite true. When looking at behavioral risks, meaning types of risk that can largely be avoided, especially in highly industrialized nations, smoking cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products is connected to a variety of diseases responsible for 7.7 million deaths worldwide. As our chart with data from the 2019 Global Burden of Disease study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington shows, no other behavioral risk factor comes close to the disease burden of smoking.
Coming in second on a global level as well as in terms of risk-factor-associated deaths in the United States in 2019 is alcohol use with an estimated 2.4 million global and 137,000 U.S. deaths in 2019. Roughly 57 and 30 percent of global deaths associated with risk factors and connected to substance abuse and digestive diseases, respectively, can be traced back to alcohol use. While a high-sodium diet is connected to almost two million deaths on a global scale and therefore ranks third worldwide, the United States have a different problem: drug abuse.
In 2019, around 105,000 people were estimated to have died from diseases connected to drug use, which constitutes a four-percent share of the overall deaths connected to behavioral risks in the country. This is especially striking compared to the same metric globally, where the share of deaths barely reaches one percent. The total number of deaths from risk factors in the United States amounted to 1.8 million, while the global number stood at 35 million.
While the consumption of most drugs is illegal and often carries a social stigma, alcohol and tobacco are legal drugs permeating all levels of society. The risks of both are well-known and well-documented, with the International Agency for Research on Cancer classifying both as a group 1 carcinogen, which includes agents with "sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in humans [and] both strong evidence in exposed humans that the agent exhibits key characteristics of carcinogens and sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals."
That groundhog lied to us! It ain't spring in Massachusetts.
Of course, where such an idea comes from, I would like to know.
Of course, where such an idea comes from, I would like to know.
Can’t trust those varmint’s !
Well of course he did.........
Rip me outta a nice warm bed way too early and start askin me questions about the weather, , , and you'll be lucky if lyin is all I do to ya....
nailer
audionerd
The US swapping drug use for high salt diet (which will cause ones BP to rise) makes sense. Caused by our high drug use, thank is no small part to our entertainment industry's products/marketing, and our Medical Industry providing innumerable scripts for HBP meds.
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nailer
audionerd
Don't think Elon is losing any sleep over this.
Mystic
We're all born mad
An analysis by the energy think tank Ember has found that several countries in Europe could soon face bottlenecks in their national transmission energy grids, as more solar and wind power will be generated than these networks have capacity for. As the following chart shows, Spain, France and Poland are just some of the countries that will have energy grids which undershoot their country’s respective 2030 policy targets for wind and solar capacity. Out of the 26 countries studied by Ember in this comparison, 11 will not have enough capacity for the expected wind and solar build out if the present grid plans are realized.
This pattern is not Europe-wide though: several grid plans were found to be closely aligned to the renewable energy targets and and in four countries they were even more ambitious (Croatia, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands). According to the writers of the report, these latter countries have adopted a “sensible approach that better prepares transmission networks to accommodate potential future step ups in national ambition levels.”
Ember analysts say that the misalignment between grid plans and policy targets is likely due to a time lag between the creation of national policy and the development of grid plans, adding that the current lack in grid plan capacities is due to previous policy targets.
The deficit in capacity is problematic, as the writers of the report explain: “Since it takes far longer to increase grid capacity than it does to deploy wind and solar projects, grids may not be prepared to meet the scale of future increases.” This will make it harder to achieve energy policy targets.
spicer
Lunatic Member
Is that a pose.
nailer
audionerd
That's because they live on the internet which is a simulation.
