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Bitter Klinger's avatar

I’m not a houseplant either, although I have occasionally been potted. Anyway, I’m sure Bozos will appreciate this piece, aboard his carbon-neutral ocean liner.

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William A. Wheatley's avatar

My mother wouldn't allow house plants to stay in the house at night. She was afraid they'd suck up all the oxygen. True story.

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Bitter Klinger's avatar

Yep, plants are sneaky that way.

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Glenn K Beaton's avatar

I have a daughter who worried as late as about age 23 that we were ingesting microwaves when we ate leftovers reheated in the microwave oven.

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William A. Wheatley's avatar

When I was working on construction of the Limerick Nuclear Project near Philadelphia, I had to attend some of the public hearings leading up to licensing of the plant, at which members of the public could make comments. Most of the members of the public who attended were anti-nuke activists, including one professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, who advocated against licensing because he didn't want radiation from the plant coming into his house through the wires.

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Ranger K's avatar

Leftist are the ruling class in America. They control the capital, the schools, and the government. Their philosophy does not work. The meek houseplant shall inherit the earth.

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Lauren Anderson's avatar

Leftists obsessing about the minutiae of the carbon cycle to this degree is an obvious sign of mental illness. Get counseling and medication.

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Richard Baker's avatar

Well, "virtue signaling" has created disasters in the various self-proclaimed sanctuary cities so what ever could go wrong in controlling and trumpeting your "virtue" about houseplants? Since real science is a mystery to lefties then maybe they can blame it all on phlogiston or Trump.

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Bitter Klinger's avatar

While the allusion to Joseph Priestley is apt, Anthony Fauci would be my choice, being a fraud of a scientist AND a liar.

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Richard Baker's avatar

Dr. Science, as I call him, is a very public example of what I refer to as "political science" and in the most pejorative manner possible.

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William A. Wheatley's avatar

When I was working on construction of the Limerick Nuclear Project near Philadelphia, I had to attend some of the public hearings leading up to licensing of the plant, at which members of the public could make comments. Most of the members of the public who attended were anti-nuke activists, including one professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, who advocated against licensing because he didn't want radiation from the plant coming into his house through the wires.

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HUGH ROBERTS's avatar

I'm in Hawai'i. We have a volcano that is pumping out TONS of toxic gasses daily. Can't we do something to plug this menace? Mahalo.

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Glenn K Beaton's avatar

No worries, Hugh. So long as the toxic gas is natural, then it's harmless....

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