“a Stygian pool, reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors”
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A vividly descriptive account of what life was like in pre-industrial London and Europe.
“Every household burnt coal … The smoke from their chimneys made the air dark, covering every surface with sooty grime. There were days when a cloud of smoke half a mile high and twenty miles wide could be seen over the city … Londoners spat black.”
“Every household burnt coal … The smoke from their chimneys made the air dark, covering every surface with sooty grime. There were days when a cloud of smoke half a mile high and twenty miles wide could be seen over the city … Londoners spat black.”
“Pigs were reared in freedom in the streets. And the streets were so dirty and muddy that they had to be crossed on stilts.”
https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1745
Any fantasies you might have about the idyllic nature of pre-industrial society will be washed away forever.
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Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Keithk1
Lol yeah and your boy wants
Lol yeah and your boy wants to keep coal burning power plants open even though the TVA is against it. You truly are a moron.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/12/693966847/president-trump-and-allies-push...
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GravyTrain
sweet self pwn, Thom
sweet self pwn, Thom
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
I learned what Stygian means
I learned what Stygian means today
Styg·i·an
/ˈstijēən/ - adjective
relating to the Styx River.
LITERARY
very dark.
"the Stygian crypt"
THERES A STYX RIVER?!??!!?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: GravyTrain
“Pigs were reared in freedom in the streets. And the streets were so dirty and muddy that they had to be crossed on stilts.”
Drain The Swamp--How's that working out? About as good as "Mexico will pay for the wall" I guess...Thools!
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I read it as “a Sybian pool,
I read it as “a Sybian pool, reeking with ineffable and intolerable horrors”
Damn, thought you had something interesting Thom.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
I didn’t have to look up
I didn’t have to look up Sybian
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Thumbkinetic
I thought this was about the
I thought this was about the Beacon in the early 80s.
Carry on.
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: jeff
Does Thom continually make
Does Thom continually make himself look like an idiot on purpose? Very masochistic behavior.
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>>THERES A STYX RIVER?!??!!?
>>THERES A STYX RIVER?!??!!?
You'd better believe it. And bring money for the boatman, or else....
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Bucky Badger
...you’ll come sail away?
...you’ll come sail away?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Ausonius
"You truly are a moron. "
"You truly are a moron. "
And you are truly an asshole. Feel better now?
Top of Page Bottom of Page PermalinkFull Name: Keithk1
Wow a response from Thom. I'm
Wow a response from Thom. I'm honored.
From the article I linked. Need that cash to feed that jones. You and your MAGA friends should be proud. The swamp has never been deeper.
In his latest effort to boost the coal business — and in the process help a major supporter — President Trump has called on the Tennessee Valley Authority to, essentially, ignore the advice of its staff and keep a large coal-fired power plant operating.
The move has drawn extra scrutiny because that plant buys coal from a company headed by a large campaign donor to Trump, Murray Energy Corp. Chairman, President and CEO Robert Murray.
The facility at issue is the last remaining unit at TVA's Paradise Fossil Plant in western Kentucky.
In an environmental assessment signed Monday. TVA staff proposed retiring the coal-fired plant. The report says, "As a large coal unit with medium operating costs and a high forced outage rate, as well as the need for significant repairs, PAF Unit 3 does not fit current and likely future portfolio needs."