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A river has the advantage of flowing, and being near power and fiber and places where employees would like to live. NOLA is a fun town with great food.

Mississippi is nice, except for the heat and humidity. The primary schools are excellent.

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What problems would a bit of lukewarm water cause? It will mix rapidly in the turbulent river.

Obviously the big heater of the Mississippi river is sunlight. A gigawatt extra is trivial.

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But kills fish and plants first.

And a warmer river generates more fog, and reflects some of that sunlight back out into space. Feckless optimists will rely on this.

Not that John Larkin wants to think about that. The US is going the way of the Soviet Union, with all the money sticking to the people at the top of the tree. At the moment the US does have more money to spread around, but gross income inequality cuts the productivity of society as a whole.

If you followed the progress of your compatriot Freddy the traveling soccer fan, you’d know that he’s been blown away by the general amazingness of the southern US, both places and people.

The river that caught fire was the Cuyahoga, in Cleveland, Ohio, which incidentally is a longer drive from NOLA than Berlin is from Moscow.

What burned was mostly accumulated animal fat from the meatpackers. Not too nice, to be sure, but 100% biodegradable.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Mississippi Burning is a movie.

Catfish are tough, and there aren't a lot of plants in the Mississippi River.

Besides, discharge water would necessarily be just warm. ICs like to run cool.

You have impressive talents for finding reasons for not doing things.

I don't see that here. The big income inequality is from immigration and drugs.

Elon Musk's trillion dollars of stock shares don't hurt working-class people. Shares are just bits on a hard drive somewhere. He doesn't eat as much as a million people, and he doesn't have 10,000 houses.

We do have too many lawyers.

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I think a lot of the US's economic future is in the south. It has land, energy, water, transport, great food, low taxes, and people with common sense.

There's not enough fat to set the Mississippi River on fire. You've seen it. It's gigantic.

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Actually it's salaries, educational inequality and tax avoidance. Drugs are essentially self-medication to deal with mental health issues. Mental health care isn't great anywhere, and criminals are happy to supply whatever medication is popular.

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But he is going to spend the money on some ill-chosen developments projects. You don't like his data centres in orbit.

And England has too many accountants. Germany and China may have the right number of engineers, but societies aren't great at training the younger generation with the right distributions of skills - if there are people who are responsible for getting the tertiary education system to produce the right numbers of the right kinds of specialists nobody talks about their work. Most tertiary educated people can retrain themselves to exploit new opportunities, so maybe it doesn't matter too much.

From 1988, apparently. I haven't watched a movie in longer than that, except for one documentary about a friend's family, which I could hardly escape. But it wasn't about a river on fire, whereas you said "_the_ Mississippi was burning".

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Red states, generally. The exodus is accelerating.

The Cuyahoga is basically a ditch, which is why the current didn't clear out the fat bergs.

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Phil Hobbs

John Larkin thinks that Donald J. Trump has "common sense".

The Mississipi is a long river, and it gets bigger as it gets closer to the ocean, where John Larkin may have seen it.

I grew up a few blocks from the river, at 318 Broadway in New Orleans. We used to look UP at ships on the river.

My first real job was at an outfit upstairs from The River Rondevous bar, a few steps from the river levee. They paid me $400 a month, a fortune for a student at the time. One could get a nice lunch with ice cream dessert for 85 cents.

I was arrested once for riding my motorcycle on the levee at 2AM.

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Scofflaw. There are certain standards, even if they're somewhat less certain in NOLA. ;)

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Phil Hobbs

It didn't have a license plate.

But I was busted by the jaypees, the Jefferson Parish cops, and I claim to this day that the levee is federal land and they didn't have jurisdiction.

We used to ride dirt bikes in the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which was also illegal.

Laws down there, things like legal drinking age, are just suggestions.

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In Iceland, they have a 80 Km/h speed limit everywhere, but nobody cares. I got hunted by 40 ton lorries on dirt/gravel roads with the motorcycle. Nobody cares.

I have seen kiddies driving their father's 4X4 monster trucks. Nobody cares.

But if you drive into the wild with the bike, they will get you from the helicopter. Tickets are simply shocking.

Your trace will wash out when it rains and after 20 years you will have created a new canyon.

I could imagine that a levee is sensitive, too.

Gerhard

Icelandic interpretation on the theme "motorcycle": <

There is a great book about the great river floods of 1927

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Good book, sad story. Especially sad was the fate of the parishes who believed the NOLA grandees' promise to pay for the reconstruction if they were allowed to breach the levee to save their own property.

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Phil Hobbs

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About the American South East. "It isn't the heat, it's stupidity."