2024 US Presidential Election: First Polls Close in 24 Hours

Of course not, I’m just saying that it’s not surprising that fossil fuel companies like a model where they get to have their cake and eat it too by both harvesting ongoing short term profits in their fossil fuels business while claiming the mantle of savior by developing alternatives. I don’t see that as a conspiracy, they’re pretty damned transparent that the alternative (massive immediate regulatory curtailment of fossil fuel production) is both impractical and there isn’t enough social capital to do that (people are not even willing to slow down the rate of their personal energy consumption growth, let alone reduce it). The energy industry in Canada, for example, isn’t wrong that they only path forward is to allow them to keep on keeping on and invest in R&D for alternatives. The public wouldn’t accept any other solution.

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But that isn’t a path forward

R&D isn’t going to solve this. It’s a straight binary choice. Almost total ramp down of FF or catastrophic climate change. Those are the only two options

There is no cavalry coming over the hill.

It’s vital that we focus on framing this debate properly.

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https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1850009220491456550?s=61&t=CwVKdl7e5GoYqphDmQHrPg

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“I don’t know what will happen in 100 years, but I am very sure what will happen in 1,000 years” is certainly an… interesting statement.

Trump ain’t getting a third term bro

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I think you’re being intentionally obtuse. What these people want is laid out pretty clearly in that link.

”We’re doing the most expensive, least applicable thing first rather than cheapest easiest things first at great expense to taxpayers and with no analysis of net climate benefit.”

They’re arguing that CCS project money can be much better spent right now on technologies we know work much better, much cheaper.

He’s really not.

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And if Trump wins this election, this will be their explanation in 2028 when they declare themselves the winner again. “Obviously there’s massive fraud on a scale no one’s ever seen before, so we win”. They’ve already got rank-n-file cops on their side. They’ve got the MAGA gun nuts with AR-15’s on their side. All they need now is the military, and if they get them too, then who’s going to stop them? The Supreme Court? Ha.

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The real problem is newspapers don’t make money. The Times only does on crosswords and wordle.

Curious what you would place the odds of him still being president after 4 years (assuming he wins this time of course)?

I don’t know what the weather will be next Tuesday, but I know that in New York in 2030 December will be colder than July.

I agree, maybe Rogan’s brain isn’t entirely mush after all

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4954591-trump-meets-blue-origin-leaders-bezos/

Trump met with some execs from a Bezos company on the same day Bezos killed the WaPo endorsement. Gee, I wonder what they chatted about?

I haven’t read or heard anything else but the snip posted here, but I have a feeling ol’ Joe is going to come around to Trump being the clear and obvious choice for God King 2024.

Honestly, Rogan did better than any journalist I’ve heard interviewing Trump by simply not giving up on the follow up asking for specifics.

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Voted in New York City this morning after a thirty minute wait. One of the perks of voting early is that my polling place is the Metropolitan Museum of Art instead of the middle school where I normally vote.

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I think you win “best polling place”

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I understand. Ramp down of FF isn’t going to happen here. Canadians get more angry and mobilized by the threat of bike lanes than the threat of climate change. We are getting catastrophic climate change 100%.

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They used to own the solar market, but quit and/or were forced out by competition.

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And there is a fair amount of pumped hydro already working in the opposite direction from solar (pumping at night and drawing during the day). It’s been around for generations and used to smooth power production/use for utilities.