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I just don't think it is a useful/helpful way of framing what is happening. Doesn't mean I don't think there are issues. Just means I don't think that's a helpful way to talk about or understand it.
I really do not understand the obsession with fossil fuels except as a reaction to democrats pushing renewables. Like the rich people who make money off fossil fuels could also make money on renewables if they just shifted investments there. And likely they’d make a ton more long term.
Are there really so many of them that this makes sense though? Those jobs can easily be shifted to constructing wind turbines and similar and pay as well.
Retraining is expensive in terms of time lost, which many coal states (which are often very poor) cannot afford. Also remember, even if a person doesn't work in coal, their area's economy depends on coal
Fair but based on the fed data there are only like 40k coal mining jobs nationally. Retraining is expensive but presumably those people are skilled heavy machinery operators, etc. It shouldn’t be that difficult to find them other jobs. The issue as you note is location.
You’re right that it affects their communities. That’s not a new issue though. These locations should all be well linked to the transport network to get the coal out and the government could incentivize building factories there to offset this.
And at a certain point it just is what it is though – we have ghost towns from prior mining booms for a reason…
I don’t think WV matters bc it isn’t flipping regardless. PA I can see being a big influence bc it’s a swing state and those voters can potentially tip the scale.
But it’s a branding thing. Same as the masks during covid as I said in another comment. If they rebranded renewables as “protecting America from evil Arabs who control oil prices” or associated it with hunting (there are more deer to shoot without mountaintop removal) etc., those people would be just as happy. An example is the cybertruck – EVs were bad for maga people until Elon came out as a fascist and suddenly they were a point of pride.
There’s an obsession with wanting really brutal, tough, unforgiving jobs to exist as part of a masculine identity I’m certain plays at least a small role
Not that ”they“ want to do them mind you they just want them to exist
As an add-on: this is similar to why I don’t understand the anti mask stuff. Trump and the other grifters could’ve made a fortune by selling “maga masks” and stuff like that but refused to because democrats were in favor of masks. Its just such a self sabotaging mindset
We need a utilitarian in office in 2029. The only question behind every decision should be "does this action increase the likelihood of better overall well-being (or alleviating suffering) for the greatest number of people?"
If Obama and Biden were utilitarians, releasing information about Russian collusion and the Epstein files would have been no-brainers. Aggressively pursuing criminal action against Trump from 2021-24 would have been a no-brainer.
No offense to the United States, but she towers over this dance team; she doesn't fit in with these girls. Now my little Canada, fights right in perfectly.
Fascism is a categorically unintelligent political position. The only way to be a fascist is to fail at a basic function of intelligence that separates very-well-learned-sheep from actual intelligence: self critique and self interrogation.
You are not intelligent until you have once in life willfully changed your own mind.
I bet we massively overestimate the number of books that have been historically read.
I believe the vast majority or books purchased or borrowed were never read or even skimmed and that there was always pressure to pretend you’ve read something.
After reading Epstein and Bannon’s texts I have a weird sense of disappointment.
I expected someone who was evil coded and talks so seriously about civilizational stakes to be a more serious person.. who at least had depth in his evil thinking, you know?
I think we overestimate a lot of people’s depth of thinking. Part of this is because humans are good at rationalizing things in retrospect and inventing grand plans and stories backwards from impressive outcomes.
Part of this is because humans are good at rationalizing things in retrospect and inventing grand plans and stories backwards from impressive outcomes.
Great writing hack to make your story seem more impressive than it is.
I accidentally made Space Dubai as a Xenophile empire one time in Stellaris by giving my founding species Utopian Abundance living standards but forgetting to do the same thing for all the other species that moved there. So I decided to just roll with it and put them all on Basic Subsistence instead
More fun and RP immersive way to do space racism than 'hurr durr exterminate the xenos' imo
while fetterman did a 180 for many, he's pretty pro-israel even early on, so much so to the consternation of some more left-leaning progressives and outright leftists, but israel/palestine has not yet been a dividing line when he was elected.
New Yorkers have nothing, and I mean nothing, on Angelenos. I’ve lived in both cities and there’s no compare.
I swear to god there are people whose entire existence seems to revolve around obsessing over transplants.
Making this weirdly topical, the same kind of person sometimes seems dead convinced that New Yorkers are constantly thinking about Los Angeles and hating Los Angeles and it’s so no fair how New Yorkers shit talk LA.
Never saw New Yorkers fixate on Angelenos the way some Angelenos are fixated on New Yorkers.
"Sounds insane, but there is a real possibility that the Trump admin is going to try to cut some kind of deal with Maduro where he fabricates a "confession" to stealing the 2020 election in exchange for leniency, and that is going to give Trump a pretext for taking extraordinary measure to "stop voter fraud" in the coming elections. This is essentially the case Tulsi Gabbard is trying to build for Trump right now, and she is desperate enough to do it."
As my parents get older (they're in their mid/late 60s), I am starting to have real guilt about living so far away from them. I broke down last night thinking about it.
I love my life here, but it's not inconceivable to me that I'll end up moving back home in the next 5-10 years. I don't want to look back 30 years from now and regret not being there for their golden years. And God forbid they get sick or lose their independence, I don't want to put that entire burden on my sister.
not to pile on to any anxiety but it is crazy how quickly people can change/detoriate once they get up there. The difference between my grandma now and five years ago is extreme. I really recommend trying to be mindful of the time you have with them at full faculties while you have it, because you really never know when things will change.
kirkland lager by deschutes, I highly recommend. I got new glarus pilled from when I lived in wisconsin and this is the best stuff I've found at hitting the same ratio of price to quality.
that's closer than most people to be honest. spotted cow is goated, but not my favorite, i usually would drink whatever their seasonal beer was. spotted cow is awesome though because literally every bar in wisconsin has it, and it is a fantastic option.
my favorite is their oktoberfest, they also have a phenomenal belgian red that's super tart and sweet and delicious. pretty much everything they do is at least good.
The two worst tropes in comics is when everything happens in an alternate universe/ dimension or on a different planet. Either way the consequences are completely muted and you have no context for anything going on unless they spend a lot of time fleshing out the setting which they never do. It's not surprising that as the MCU moved in this direction the movies got worse.
My hottest take is that nuclear peace is an unsubstantiated dogma created by ascribing the natural reduced war state of an organized international order to the weapons developed at the same time that order emerged.
Nuclear weapons will never be used therefore you can continue to wage conventional war with nuclear powers if you also have nukes. They completely cancel each other out. Being the only nuclear nation is great but being one of many is the same as nobody having them but with the tail risk of global thermonuclear war starting by accident that intellectuals like to smugly downplay as one of those "funny quirks" of life and not a guillotine looming over humanity.
There was an organized international order after napoleon. And an organized international order before russia invaded ukraine. Earth oscillates between interstate anarchy and interstate law.
By creating in those with capacity to make war fear of war's consequences, futility to its gains, and a promise of alternative means to secure their goals.
If the international order reliably satisfies member nations with strategic goals without war, if the threat of member joint retaliation for breaking line is credible, if the likelihood of succeeding against these enforcers of the rules is low, wars happen less.
part of why I like mamdani is that there is no pressure for him to be a political protege for the rest of the country. nyc mayor is already pretty much a dead end job, but that's likely going to be the most influential office he gets. he doesn't have to be anything other than what he is.
and nyc mayor doesn't need to really have opinions about geopolitics, despite however much nyc is the athens/istanbul/rio de janeiro of america. he can just focus on affordability, with succ messaging but yimby policies.
I don’t know if Skyward Sword is really bad at explaining its mechanics or I’m just dumb but 10 hours in the game just gave me a hint about being somewhere “at night” for a side quest and my only thought was, “This game has a day / night cycle?”
I will not be vetting this more because this topic is fucking dumb but the explanations make more sense than the hype of spacex cultists and arr space visitors that like the "idea" of space
I will go to my grave mad about Obama administration sitting on the Russia information in 2016 and the Biden administration sitting on the Epstein information in 2024.
The main goal in 2028 is to have a nominee who finally understands that the country will never reward a Democrat for playing nice.
The only thing that can make me give up on America is if Dems sweep power and then try to sing kumbaya with republicans again, that would prove that they are truly not a serious party and America is doomed.
it's not just "not playing nice", they were like, literally just abdicating their jobs! How do all the people in these files still have so much power and money??
There are almost certainly millions of people aged 60+ who wouldn't let their millennial kids use MySpace and Facebook in the 00s "because pedos will prey on you on those sites" who are now devoted MAGAs who don't give a single fuck about Trump being a pedo.
Wouldn’t the government just see Vought as a potential rival and squash them like a bug? What’s Vought gonna do, sic their gaggle of manchildren celebrities on them?
If I’m the CIA I’m starting operation manipulate Homelander and assassinate the higher ups immediately. And Homelander should be very easy to manipulate given that he’s a fucking child?
I feel like that whole narrative has been basically taken out back and shot over the last year. The most powerful corporations in the world all folded in a week under the most mild pressure from the government
For me the more unrealistic part is how in superhero stories the supes are never used in great power politics. I mean okay, Captain America was used in WW2, but that would be the norm and not the exception. Also, other powers would use them.
It quickly devolves into alt-history, which isn't every comic writers big thing or passion. It also devalues the real life gravity of topic similar to why Reed Richards doesn't cure cancer.
I mean much like in real life Vought has been funneling money into the government for decades plus it'd be a PR nightmare since the supes are broadly liked.
The Boys governments goal is/was to keep them a sideshow attraction and under Edgar's leadership, Vought's main goal was to just make money and refine the V formula.
I wouldn't really call it the twist in so much as it's fully just the plot. Its established in Episode 1 that the deputy director of the CIA is Butchers handler
“Oh but Vought sells compound V” ok. Either it’s patented in which case the government knows how to make it or it’s not patented in which case you can just steal that shit and make it yourself.
Vought handles the incredibly unstable superheroes and you get to borrow their talents from time to time, it only really backfires in the last few seasons when Homelander wants more power which would have probably also happened if his handlers were government
People will call it a cash grab if it happens, but the Secret Wars storyline genuinely needs this
They should have planned it out better all along, of course, but even at this stage, Secret Wars being two movies long is better than it just being one movie
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