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21 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:
Currently many in the GOP do not acknowledge the problem. That has not always been the case. George W Bush said in his 2007 state of the union speech that "global climate change is a 'serious challenge' that should be addressed through technology." He also "asked U.S. lawmakers to 'join me in pursuing a great goal' of reducing gasoline consumption by 20 percent." His administration also "prepared a plan to expand civilian nuclear energy at home and abroad." If you actually want Gen IV nuclear reactors developed and installed in the US, then you are going to disappointed when the pendulum swings and the democrats are in control; they will actively block such progress because it suits their interests to do so. Most people on the internet who are now terribly concerned about the environment and all the carbon being released will not even know that they are committing such atrocities, as long as the political leaders speak the way we would like them to and mention their concern from time to time; in lieu of actual solutions, we will get headlines with additional wind and solar farms that do not significantly increase our on demand base load power supply and we will marvel at the progress.
As opposed to not only nothing, but actual OPPOSITION, and a promise to go back to coal, from the current iteration of the GOP (an iteration that brooks no dissent, by the way).
But you're right, both parties are the same and whatnot.
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20 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
John Lee Ratcliffe is an American politician who serves as the congressman for Texas's 4th district since 2015. In Heritage Action's final scorecard for the 114th Congress, Ratcliffe was ranked as the most conservative Texas legislator in Congress and second most conservative legislator in the country.
Before this shitshow is over, we're going to end up with an across-the-board least qualified cabinet and staff that has ever existed.
There is literally one single qualification for a cabinet/staff position: be willing and eager to suck Trump's dick with a smile on your face. That's it. That's the only thing that matters.
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56 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:
Do you have any idea how much damage the democratic party and their progressive supporters & associates have done to the environment with their absolutely ridiculous initiatives and policies over the last several decades, initiatives that continue to this day? What the world needs is safe, reliable, on demand large centralized power plants that produce no carbon and other greenhouse gases. As it happens, the world has had technology like that for many decades now in nuclear power plants. Who do you think halted the expansion of the nuclear industry? Many current democrat examples could be given that continue today with these initiatives. Tom Steyer is anti nuclear and "bankrolled an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state’s sole nuclear plant." He also has large investments in non-nuclear renewables (and also coal and natural gas). Strange coincidence. There are many other current leading democrats who oppose nuclear energy, e.g. Bernie Sanders and Ed Markey.
Also, democrats now oppose natural gas, which produces only half the CO2 emissions that coal does for a given power output. Right now, the world has two well proven and reliable on demand power sources that can replace coal, one that has zero greenhouse emissions and another that cuts the emissions in half compared to coal. The democrats oppose them both. They even use fear mongering and pseudoscience to achieve these goals, just like the GOP. Millions and millions of tons of carbon have been released into the atmosphere and will continue to be released for the foreseeable future because of the actions of democrats and their progressive supporters. We could replace coal completely within the next couple of decades with nuclear and natural gas plants, but that won't happen in part because of resistance by democrats. Imagine where we would be without republicans or democrats.
You may be looking for me to argue with you. Prepare to be disappointed.
I strongly believe that a long-term strategy that 1) uses natural gas as a readily available and less-harmful bridge and 2) uses nuclear energy where appropriate (and this concept starts with re-invigorating western nuclear generation technology - the world is pretty much down to just Russian technology, and....that's not great).
There should be a kabillion facets to the strategy -- from how we develop cities and their transportation infrastructure, how we build new buildings, and how we generate power, and a kabillion other things. But they all must START from a foundation of "carbon emissions are hurting our climate, and we need to put in an enormous multi-disciplinary and multi-actor effort to reduce them." The GOP won't even cooperate with that starting premise. In the name of....shit, it's not even all economic greed, a good bit is just "fuck you" stubborn idiocy.....they are actively fighting AGAINST any strategy to solve a problem.
If you want me to argue with you about the warts that the Dems bring to the table, sorry to disappoint. But for fuck's sake, the GOP doesn't even acknowledge that there IS a table. It's insanity, and it doesn't even have a decent point behind it.
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38 minutes ago, FartingMonk said:
Yeah. While it is true that 22 percent of the energy produced this year was from wind. It is still very misleading. That's 22 percent produced. How much of it was consumed is the problem. Wind mills have a few (about 40) extremely good days and produce a shit ton of energy then they have bad days about 300 where they produce 0. So Energy produced to energy consumed is probably 5:1 so there is a lot of waste. Coal costs money. So they fire it up when on demand energy is required so it's probably closer to 1:1. Wind is great but we can't get energy from it when needed. A lot of times ERCOT NERC guys hate wind because they have to dump energy and get plants to fire down because their output is so high
Nope. The data COMES from ERCOT, and it reflects percentage of load served. That means "consumed." You are correct that wind has varying days, although your ratio is way off. It has some great days, it has some bad days, and it has a lot of days where it's just in the middle. The weak days are days like March, where it's cranking out a lot, but demand is low -- on those days, pricing can even go negative. But that's (broadly speaking) how the grid is managed, by real-time pricing.
Coal is not cost-effective anymore. AND, those plants take longer to fire up. Quick-start gas plants on the other hand -- those are often a money-maker. Some of them are just peaking facilities -- they just operate during high demand, when prices are high. And as a bonus, gas burns much cleaner, and is available locally (as opposed to coal, effectively all of which comes from Wyoming these days -- so you have to pay expensive rail costs, too).
For all of it, transmission capacity is still the biggest challenge -- getting it from where it is generated to where it's needed.
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4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:
Uber for longer trips, Fast Park for shorter
Short, to the point, and correct.
For 1-2 day work trips, I Fast Park.
For a week+ family trip, we Lyft. Pickup at the airport is a bit more of a pain than before, but it's still quick and easy.
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Saw some roadside bar kinda off in the trees between espanola and Taos NM. It was just a trailer. After a day fishing, my buddy and I decided we needed a beer. We sat there and drank cheap beer with a dude who said he used to be a roadie for Willie. He was surely full of shit - the bartender said he was - but his stories were good.
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Straight Fire.
Finally, while we would not sink to name-calling in the Trumpian manner — or ruefully point out that he failed to spell the congressman’s name correctly (it’s Cummings, not Cumming) — we would tell the most dishonest man to ever occupy the Oval Office, the mocker of war heroes, the gleeful grabber of women’s private parts, the serial bankrupter of businesses, the useful idiot of Vladimir Putin and the guy who insisted there are “good people” among murderous neo-Nazis that he’s still not fooling most Americans into believing he’s even slightly competent in his current post. Or that he possesses a scintilla of integrity. Better to have some vermin living in your neighborhood than to be one.
That’s just a bullet to the head. We need a lot more of those. Time for all people to call him out for what he is. All the time. No holding back.-
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Well, that’s who the GOP is. I don’t understand why anyone even bothers to argue about this anymore. The GOP’s foundational platform is white nationalism. Every other policy position serves that one. -
Anyone protesting Trump will be labeled as ANTIFA.
Correct.
Step 1: create a broad category of “terrorist organization.”
Step 2: deem anyone who opposes you to be a member of that organization.
Step 3: toss them in prison.
It’s one of the most-referenced pages in the authoritarian playbook.-
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Republicans want our voting machines to be hacked because our enemies are currently supporting Republicans in their cyber attacks on this country. Hence, they will continue to block legislation that would prevent it.
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Yeah...this should be a short thread. We don’t have election security. Because that’s how the GOP wants it. -
Nazis are still fine people though.
But never mind what the actual facts are (hint: trump fans are the actual threat):
“FBI Director Christopher Wray said Tuesday that the agency has made about 100 domestic terrorism-related arrests since October, and the majority were tied to white supremacy.
"I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well," Wray said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, referring to cases in fiscal 2019, which began Oct. 1.” -
Like that’s even a real language. Someone just smashed a keyboard.
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No words can describe how not funny that tweet is.
You know that socially awkward dipshit in high school who would repeatedly try to be funny....and every time, it just made you cringe and feel a little sorry for him, but also the him a little bit for being so unfunny? Yeah. That.-
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So Maria Pia could actually be Onomato Pia's kid.
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54 minutes ago, Neonmoon said:
I’m not believing any story that states Louisiana schools have computers
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;Follow up story: Taking down all school computer and phone systems just improved Louisiana student test scores by 20%.
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16 minutes ago, Axiom of Choice said:
The president does many, many stupid things. It would be better if he was overtly supportive of green energy. There are a few ways the president can support green energy. One is through publicly supporting it, another is through creating tax incentives or subsidies, and the third is through protecting emerging technology providers. He is certainly not doing the first two things. He is somewhat doing the third (though inadvertently for green technology) in his dealings with China, the unrivaled IP thieves on the planet.
It's not just the president. Not even close. It is the entire party in charge of our government -- the GOP. And they have been throwing up roadblocks and actively attacking any efforts to mitigate climate change for YEARS. If you don't think that has been a HUGE drag on our path to mitigating climate change, I have a bridge filled with unicorns to sell you.
Look at where we are.
Understand that it's woefully short of where we need to be.
Now imagine where we would be if the machinery of our government wasn't actively FIGHTING AGAINST US.
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1 hour ago, Axiom of Choice said:
Millions of people, many of them in the US, are talking about how we can solve this problem. There are new technologies being developed and ongoing research into this problem happening right now in the united states. We are not stuck at the starting gate. The US is currently and will continue to be among the global leaders in green energy.
We are doing so IN SPITE of our leadership and government, not because of it. That's the problem. We have several horses pulling the sled in one direction, and one horse digging its hooves in, slowing us WAY the fuck down. That's my point, dude.
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41 minutes ago, RomaVicta said:
If they hadn't made it a political issue, which it shouldn't be, we'd likely have a lot cooperation and good faith efforts to address this problem.
Instead of arguing about the sincerity of the scientific community, we would likely have neighborhoods working on increasing greenery; cities and states focusing resources on reducing cars and car emissions; and nations finding common ground for the common good.
But no. We have the American GOP whom we've put in charge. We have division, confusion, and lies. We can't discuss actions to take because of the disingenuous denial of the problem.
Dealing with huge problems should not divide people and resources. Any decent manager or leader knows that.
But decency is long gone around this sewer.
Exactly -- in a sane world, we'd be talking about HOW we can solve this problem. We'd be working on coordinated efforts by individual citizens, private groups, businesses, and governments.
Instead, we are being run by a cadre that has cemented their heads in the sand, and insist that there's no problem at all, so we're largely stuck at the starting gate when the race has been underway without us for years. Fucking stupidity -- and ultimately, evil -- of the highest order.
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34 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:
Don’t worry. ICE has only wrongfully detained thousands of citizens in Texas alone. I’m sure we can trust them
But, I mean, this is all cool. The United States would NEVER actually deport American citizens out of their home country.....except, you know, it has a history of doing 1) EXACTLY THAT, 2) with respect to EXACTLY the citizen group at issue today:
QuoteAccording to former California State Senator Joseph Dunn, who in 2004 began an investigation into the Hoover-era deportations, “the Republicans decided the way they were going to create jobs was by getting rid of anyone with a Mexican-sounding name.”
“Getting rid of” America’s Mexican population was a random, brutal effort. “For participating cities and counties, they would go through public employee rolls and look for Mexican-sounding names and then go and arrest and deport those people,” said Dunn. “And then there was a job opening!”
“We weren’t rounding up people who were Canadian,” he added. “It was an absolutely racially-motivated program to create jobs by getting rid of people.”
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The so-called repatriation effort was, in large part, a misnomer, given the fact that as many as sixty percent of those sent to “home” Mexico were U.S. citizens: American-born children of Mexican-descent who had never before traveled south of the border. (Dunn noted, “I don’t know how you can repatriate someone to a country they’ve not been born or raised in.”)
“Individuals who left at 5, 6 and 7 years old found themselves in Mexico dealing with process of socialization, of learning the language, but they maintained an American identity,” said Balderrama. “And still had the dream to come back to ‘my country.’”
The raids, as detailed in Balderrama’s chronicle, were vicious. With national concerns over the supposed burden that outsiders were putting on social welfare agencies, authorities targeted those Mexicans utilizing public resources. “In Los Angeles,” explained Balderrama, “they had orderlies who gathered people [in the hospitals] and put them in stretchers on trucks and left them at the border.”
The efforts were equally chaotic. “The first raid in Los Angeles was in 1931—they surrounded La Placita Park near downtown L.A.,” Dunn recalled. “It was a heavily Latino area. They, literally, on a Sunday afternoon, rounded everyone up in park that day, took them to train station and put them on a train that they had leased. These people were taken to Central Mexico to minimize their chances of crossing the border and coming back to the U.S.”
Yeah, that's cool. Nothing for us to worry about.
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To be clear, the system is as follows:
1) any moron with a CBP badge can decide that he doesn't believe that you -- literally anyone of "you" -- is not a US citizen.
2) he can toss you in detention and keep you there.
3) CBP doesn't submit the matter to a judge; it's not like an ordinary arrest and charge, where you are promptly arraigned before a judge. It's all done in the sole discretion of a moron with a badge.
4) that's the sum total of your "offense" (some guy doesn't think you are really a citizen) and the sum total of your "due process" (he'll investigate the matter, when he gets around to it).
AMERICA! FREEDOM! EAGLES AND STUFF!
Fucking "patriotic 'muricans" are literally the most un-American force we've had to deal with in my lifetime.
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On 7/24/2019 at 4:13 PM, bolverk said:
A couple new studies have come out providing yet further confirmation:
As I'm making this post, it's just after 11pm in Paris and the temperature is still 92 degrees. Tomorrow, the forecast high is 108.
12 hours ago, old white guy said:No shit. And now he can't even look at the Antarctic for solace: https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14414
2 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:Yet the current admin and its sycophants flat-out deny it all.
It's fucking infuriating on every level -- in its stupidity, its greed, its folly.....
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Back to Trump's absolute and undeniable racism in his "send her back" and "go back where they came from" bullshit....I was listening to some music yesterday afternoon, and Gary Clark Jr's "This Land" popped up. Great song, hell, I'd all but forgotten about it. But understand this -- it came out a while back, BEFORE Trump attacked the four Congresswomen.
Gary - and every minority in this country - is familiar with those phrases. We know their history, and we know what they mean. Here's a snippet of some of the lyrics -- again, written before Trump attacked the four congresswomen:
QuoteI remember when you used to tell meNigga run, nigga run
Go back where you come from
Nigga run, nigga run
Go back where you come from
We don't want, we don't want your kind
We think you's a dog born
Fuck you, I'm America's son
This is where I come fromThis land is mine
This land is mine
This land is mine
This land is mineSure, go ahead and continue denying that Trump is a racist fuckbag who said racist shit. You just look fucking stupid.
Hey Trump -- fuck you. This land is mine.
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Just now, lemonlime said:
He was a kid. You're argument is that as a kid he was a "party to fraud" committed by his mother, so it's okay for us to lock him up for a month without due process. You're either a moron or don't give a fuck about human rights. Or both.
You just hit the bullseye.
1) he was a minor at the time of the prior paperwork. 2) it's an issue that takes very little time to clear up. 3) a fucking US citizen was held FOR WEEKS because he couldn't meet a burden of proof to a moron with a badge -- not a court, not a judge, just a moron with a badge -- that he actually IS a US citizen.
The legal burden of proof is on all US citizens (oh, who are we kidding -- it just applies to the brown ones, you white folks don't have to worry about this one) -- you must be prepared to prove that you are a legal citizen AT ANY TIME A MORON WITH A BADGE DEMANDS IT, and if you do not meet that burden -- a burden that only the moron with the badge decides upon -- then you can be tossed in the hole for weeks on end.
How's that "America, land of freedom!" shit working out? Not so good, I think.
The Climate thread
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I put this in terms that show how nonsensical your bullshit equivalency is.
Yeah, they are "terrible in different ways." But one of them is a straight-up killer with a very high mortality rate; the other is still miserable and even dangerous, but at a much lower mortality rate.
If I had a chance to choose a disease, I'd pick the flu and work on getting better over Ebola 100% of the time.
If I have a chance to choose a political group to deal with climate change, I'm picking the Dems over the GOP 100% of the time. That doesn't mean that I'll love everything the Dems do -- some of it will actually make me sick. But it's a shit-ton better than the alternative.
Did the concepts of "degree," "volume," and "amount" die recently? Because I hear idiocy like this whenever anyone discusses, say, presidential lying, or how we can deal with climate change, and, shit, practically everything.
Give me someone who lies once a day versus someone who lies 10 times a day.
Give me someone who occasionally says something mean, as opposed to someone who engages in purposeful cruelty every fucking day.
Give me the flu instead of Ebola.
Give me a political leadership that actually believes a problem exists, and we should do something to try to solve it, over one that fucking denies the problem even exists and is working to bring back coal-fired electric generation.
Fuck this stupid fucking shit.