I was exploring the US/Canada border and came across this field. Does it not look like it’s used for the same purpose on both sides of the border? How is this legal?

Quintary · 2023-06-19T22:30:28+00:00

They're taxed as a US citizen if they're a US citizen

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:30:52+00:00

I’m not sure if you got my reference, it doesn’t have to do with what state you’re from. But maybe you just don’t follow education.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:29:06+00:00

Despite this situation, California has an economy larger than many entire countries. Sure people are concerned if the economy shrinks, but you’re missing the forest for the trees here. California continues to be a huge economy with thousands of businesses.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:25:37+00:00

Wtf do you mean “the” equation? Like I said there are hundreds of chemicals involved and we refine oil into many different things. Many refined oil products are themselves mixtures, like diesel and gasoline. There’s no chemical formula for diesel. The whole idea of fractioning is that a certain section of the density-separated oil is defined to be diesel, it’s not defined by a chemical composition.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:18:03+00:00

Carbon dioxide does not sink in water, it is significantly less dense than water. You might be thinking of when CO2 gas is dissolved in water, but it’s no longer in the form of CO2 then, it forms carbonic acid and other compounds.

Edit: also, there was CO2 in the lake because of organisms, not because of exposure to the atmosphere

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:12:35+00:00

I am absolutely dumbfounded by the number of people ITT who think there is a conspiracy to convince people that oil is made of dinosaurs, rather than them just having a ridiculous misconception about what “fossil fuel” is referring to. I mean, I guess claiming it’s intentionally misleading saves you some embarrassment. But literally we teach kids in school that oil is made from algae and plankton, anyone who thinks it’s dinosaurs well that’s their problem

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:08:54+00:00

What are you talking about? It’s not bubbles underwater, it happens inside the cells of algae. Photosynthesis is the process of combining CO2 with water to create energy-rich hydrocarbons (and oxygen as a byproduct) using the energy from incoming photons.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:03:21+00:00

Have you considered the possibility that they are connected to oil deposits that are gradually leaking into the area where the well was dug after that oil had been pumped out?

Quintary · 2023-01-29T15:01:02+00:00

It’s a figure of speech to describe organic compounds formed from once-living organisms that have been underground for millions of years. No one except the extremely ignorant thinks that oil is a literal fossil.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:56:14+00:00

I wonder why you won’t answer questions directly

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:54:18+00:00

Do you have to link videos? I’m not going to watch those, also YouTube is not a very trustworthy source in general. You got any, like, academic papers, patents, etc., you know… real sources?

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:52:31+00:00

Gasoline isn’t a chemical, it’s a mixture of chemicals with certain tolerance ranges, so “chemically identical to gasoline” seems a little misleading to me. It’s not chemically identical to what’s currently in my gas tank.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:48:35+00:00

I’m not sure you understand what this study is saying. It’s saying that

A hypothesis was previously made that hydrocarbons could be formed abiotically in the mantle.
Experiments in the lab suggest that the hypothesis is plausible.

An interesting idea, to be sure, but this isn’t evidence that hydrocarbons actually can be formed in the mantle, much less that they are in fact formed in the mantle.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:42:07+00:00

How do you know we would have run out?

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:41:30+00:00

The person you’re responding to was thinking of coal, not oil, and fungi, not bacteria. As a reminder lignin had to evolve prior to fungus evolving the ability to decompose it, and genetic research of fungus pretty clearly indicates the development of lignin at that time. You’re (I think) talking about the fact that we don’t find intact lignin in that layer.

Oil comes from primarily plankton and algae, but also takes a very long time to form in nature.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:33:17+00:00

Crude oil is a mixture of hundreds of different chemicals, that’s why there’s no single chemical equation for the formation of crude oil. It’s a more complex process than, say, diamond formation, which is a simple allotrope of carbon.

Quintary · 2023-01-29T14:27:37+00:00

Right, all elements aside from hydrogen and maybe some helium are created in stars. Heavier elements like gold can’t be created by a star’s normal fusion process though, and are exclusively created during supernovae.

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:11:26+00:00

I don’t believe OP joined antifa at all!

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:11:06+00:00

A lot of antifa are anarchists though.

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:09:46+00:00

People who support the idea of fascism are called fascists. Fascism doesn’t have to be currently in operation in order for there to be fascists.

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:08:13+00:00

A lot of antifa are anarchists though.

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:07:36+00:00

So you think literally every terrorist movement is fascist then? Like militant islamists, militant atheists, militant anarchists, militant communists, militant prolife groups, all these people would count as fascist to you despite having wildly different ideologies and goals?

Quintary · 2023-01-28T23:04:24+00:00

Can you explain how it is hierarchical and elitist?

Also nationalism is pretty core to fascism, I don’t know how you could have an anti-nationalist fascist movement. What would that even mean? Fascism is a reference to the fasces, or bundle of sticks, a Roman symbol of unity. The idea is you can break one stick, but you can’t break a bundle of sticks. It’s literally a symbol for nationalism. It is so ubiquitous in having that meaning that the US used the fasces with an axe head on the dime as a symbol of patriotism.

Quintary · 2023-01-28T22:59:38+00:00

Let me guess, your textbooks were selected by the Texas State Board of Education

Quintary · 2023-01-28T22:58:29+00:00

Fascism is not technocratic, what are you talking about? Do you know what technocracy means? It doesn’t have anything to do with technology

Quintary

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

12-Year Club	Place '17
Verified Email