The entire right wing media machine has already mobilized behind the problem being over reliance on renewables. This will be parroted and widely accepted as fact within a few days, max.
This is an insane losing battle. Shell announced this week they anticipate 1-2% reduction in oil production every year going forward. They are filling that with renewables. The entire industry is actively working on this transition.
Dems ought to be pounding the table and coming up with solutions for Texas’s energy grid, but instead they’re going to launch yet another a task force to investigate Trump.
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Yeah I hate Trump more than anything but they are taking the bait with these stupid ass investigations and lawsuits. All it does is keep casual fan MAGA dipshits engaged and enraged.
What about…
Arnold Schwarzenegger?
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I’ve got one I like better.
What about…
Kimberly Guilfoyle
Gray Davis being recalled as CA Governor was an interesting confluence of events. There were many people in the state at the time(myself among them) who were pissed about his handling of the energy crisis, which was caused by Enron intentionally manipulating the market in what later became obvious was fraudulent behavior, and there was really no Federal help on the issue because George W Bush got quite a bit of campaign contributions from the conmen at Enron. I was an uninformed(relative to now) voter at the time, so I didn’t understand the full ramifications of the Bush Admin basically telling California to go fuck itself during that crises.
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As I’ve said many times in the climate change and other threads, despite politics I’m not worried that there will be a transition to renewables - including storage - simply because they are already less expensive in many areas and will continue to be become moreso.
It could happen faster or slower though depending on politics.
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Too bad native son, former Gov, former Sec of Energy, glasses-wearing Rick Perry didn’t have the foresight to deploy compact fusion reactors in the Great State of Texas to prevent this apocalypse.
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People need to stop ending topic titles with a period because it’s grammatically incorrect and it triggers me.
Yeah!
i was talking about the larger context, not quoting the video. if that wasn’t obvious, i apologize. but stop acting like you don’t understand what other people have complained about.
that report is so lol. it calls the police “heroic”, “honest”, and “law-abiding”. says police officers are “chosen”, selected kids for the riot control dodgeball based on “height and strength”. doing this essentially 2-3 weeks after a record number of protestors since Stalin’s repressions was arrested on a single day. a few days after a video of a cop went viral quitting the force because he didn’t want to do riot duty.
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At least you can just remove them on sight. It doesn’t do anything about the triggering, but it’s something.
This is similar to how in the USA there are military recruiters who visit school campuses. Sure, ostensibly the goal is to gain new additions to their work force, and there is not any overt intimidation of anyone. However, there is more to it than that. There is not only the normalization of the “work” that the organization does, but the elevation of it to being valorous.
I’d wager a lot of money that there isn’t equal time spent in the Russian schools interacting with & humanizing protesters, and allowing their perspective to be shared and promoted with the students.
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Aren’t people and Zara talking slightly at cross purposes. Her initial point was that this isn’t about the recent protests, and now she’s being told that actually the Russian state routinely employs this sort of propaganda. That was effectively her point, wasn’t it?
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Texted a friend in Austin. Response: Fucking republican c*********
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Ms. JordanIB and SIL-IB were packed up, car loaded, and were ready to try and get their 'rents over to a relative’s house…and the power came back on. Has been on for an hour so hopefully things will improve from here. At the very least, the house will have a chance to warm a bit before possibly cutting out again tonight.
Oh, and they probably wouldn’t have actually been able to take their parents anywhere. Roads are sheets of ice.
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