Speed Bump by Dave Coverly for December 10, 2020

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    awgiedawgie Premium Member over 3 years ago

    It sounds perfectly ridiculous in this setting, and yet some big wigs don’t see anything wrong with trying that same approach on human beings.

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    Strob Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I’ll go out on a limb and guess this is the branch manager.

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    Concretionist  over 3 years ago

    This is NOT a joke.

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    danketaz Premium Member over 3 years ago

    It would help if you breathed less.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Must be a MBA.

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    wiatr  over 3 years ago

    “If that’s the way you’re running this organisation, I’m leafing!”

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    SHIVA  over 3 years ago

    Or a mid-level flunkie sounding like the order came from him!!

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    tudza Premium Member over 3 years ago

    I understand with trees it’s not so much the oxygen production as the carbon storing. "Scientists estimate that 50-80% of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. " Still means you shouldn’t plow down half a forest.

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    PICTO  over 3 years ago

    Double your respiratory rate or you’re deadwood…

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Or I’ll turn you into my other desk!

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    Radish the wordsmith  over 3 years ago

    Republican ‘logic’.

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    Shirl Summ Premium Member over 3 years ago

    Ah, just like most jobs. You’ll have to do more with less.

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    Brass Orchid Premium Member over 3 years ago

    You will also be using the oxygen of two trees when the sun isn’t shining. At least you will go dormant when the production to use ratio would be unsustainable.

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    dflak  over 3 years ago

    I think every rooftop in the world should have an algae farm on it: as an extra layer of insulation, to absorb photons and make them do work rather than re-radiate in infrared and to convert CO2 back into Oxygen.

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    P51Strega  over 3 years ago

    You can bark right back at him. He’d end up making an ash of himself if he had to do your job himself. He clearly can’t cedar forest for the trees.

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    KEA  over 3 years ago

    typical capitalist

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    Nyckname  over 3 years ago

    Jair Bolsonaro.

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    Zen-of-Zinfandel  over 3 years ago

    Sounds shady..don’t risk life and limb.

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    Mighty Phavahg  over 3 years ago

    This is the problem with marginal costs.

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    kv450  over 3 years ago

    Self-defeating short term approach adopted by too many businesses. These execs secretly hate their own grandchildren.

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    unfair.de  over 3 years ago

    Sure boss, just double my share of sunshine, water and space and in almost no time I’ll give you the oxygen you ask for. Won’t take more than 15 years.

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    PO' DAWG  over 3 years ago

    “HOW DARE YOU!” ( get Greta the mental help she needs )

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    NatureBatsLast  over 3 years ago

    Goodbye Amazon rainforest…hello dry grasslands and soaring CO2 above 415ppm.

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    paranormal  over 3 years ago

    You heartless bastard! There you sit at a desk made of one of the trees elders…

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    Asharah  over 3 years ago

    Ever hear about when Henry Ford decided to start a rubber plantation in South America to supply the tires and other rubber parts on his car. Instead of hiring people who knew something about rubber trees, he got engineers who said, “If we need to produce X amount of rubber, we need to plant Y amount of trees, and based on the amount of land we need to plant them in rows Z inches apart.” So if one tree got sick, it spread through ALL the trees because they planted them too close together. I don’t think he got an ounce of rubber out of that plantation.

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    WoodTrail  over 3 years ago

    You’re barking up the wrong tree.

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