bmacDonald94

bmacDonald94, 1 day ago to random

"There are two different types of people in the world, those who want to know, and those who want to believe."
Friedrich Nietzsche

bmacDonald94, 1 day ago to random

"I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed."
Friedrich Nietzsche

bmacDonald94, 2 days ago to random

"You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort."
Ray Bradbury

bmacDonald94, 3 days ago to random

"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
Will Rogers

smach, 7 days ago to climate

#Climate threat not often discussed:
“Pound for pound, gallon for gallon, hour-for-hour, the two-stroke gas powered engines in leaf blowers and similar equipment are vastly the dirtiest and most polluting kind of machinery still in legal use.

“According to the California Air Resources Board (CARB), the two-stroke leaf blowers and similar equipment in the state produce more ozone pollution than all of California’s tens of millions of cars, combined.”

• James Fallows

https://fallows.substack.com/p/gas-powered-leaf-blowers-the-end