...says the guy working for a for-profit corporation which relies on capitalism to provide him a job and whose company is likely responsible for more carbon emissions than any damn tree in NYC.

Balsam Hill has been aggressively advertising their artificial Christmas trees on Ion TV. Now you have this long attack on natural trees. Coincidence? Or sneaky sponcon? Is there a pile of gifts for the Kahn family this year labeled “Brought to you by Balsam Hill”?

Man, there’s bad takes and then there’s this one. It’s a tiny thing that makes people happy. One tree in a world of trees is not going to be the thing that pushes us over. Christmas tree farms are a greener solution to those god awful plastic ones and farmers plant 2-3 trees for each one cut down. Particularly good if…

but the answer to that can’t be everybody’s sit in a damp hole in the ground chewing on tree bark....

I wanted to make an elaborate photoshop picture of the climax of A Christmas Carol, but this is 2020, so you get MS Paint.

Trees are a renewable resource, like corn or other crops. They must be harvested so the forrest stays healthy. Mature conifers pose very little nutritional value to forest animals.

If you think that Clinton or Obama would have dealt with the AIDS crisis differently if they were President at that time, you’re only kidding yourself. Obama wouldn’t even support gay marriage when he ran for President in 08 and Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act. 

Are you even old enough to know what happened in the 80s when Reagan was President? I lived them, it wasn’t so bad, however it wasn’t great either, but it was better than the Jimmy Carter days. Also as much as I dislike Activision/Blizzard I do not believe they went political about the game, unlike you in this…

Base on this article and many other ones on earther I imagine editor’s notes on first drafts go something like this. “This is great, but can you make it a little more sanctimonious? Can you shoehorn the word ‘capitalism’ into it a few more times? Could you make a bit more of a mountain out of this molehill?”

Lighten up, Frances.

Article translated. I’m misurable and depressed. I hate success (captalism) because I’m a failure. Let’s cancel everything because someone is insulted / environment / blah blah blah. If you don’t agree its because you are an ranty asshole with no REAL values. Everyone else to need be misurable because schadenfreude is…

I’m thinking we should cancel this post, instead. 

Yes, I used to have social anxiety. I am a voiceover actor and was about 10 minutes late for sessions for YEARS because I’d need that time to have a panic attack in my car. Then I realized I was less nervous if I got there early. Or like, you, I would need to go back to the house to check the stove or the iron. or to…

When you KNOW what your issues are and why you’re running late yet you don’t take major steps to adjust for your own shortcomings and you continue to run late you are in fact saying that you’re time is more important.

Flexible and 40% heavier? That isn’t a carbon fiber replacement. You use carbon fiber when stiffness and weight is critical. If the primary purpose of a component is impact resistance, you generally don’t want carbon fiber - fiberglass or metals will handle impact better.

I can't imagine a market for this at all unless it's essentially free. No engineer has ever said to himself I think I should take a 40% weight penalty. 

Supply and demand is one thing.

This is called price gouging; not supply and demand.

Because of the basic rule of “supply and demand”?

$150,000 Mustang?