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Amazon wears people out and throws them away.. They are one of the worst corporate feudal lords trying to dominate us. I'd love to see them broke up like AT&T. I'd love to see Bezos kidnapped by crazies and made to pay the worlds first billion dollar ransom.

The solar may be helpful in some respects (like providing the power for the life-support systems on the ship), but I'm talking about a return to classic sail cargo ships like used for all shipping before motorized ships became popular.

I did a quick search and was glad to find some articles confirming that many people are indeed thinking about exactly these things:

https://www.machinedesign.com/...
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
https://www.theguardian.com/en...

The current big players in the car battery are in East Asia, with China rapidly becoming the dominant manufacturer. Some projections have China with 70% of the worldwide market within two years. With government subsidies and other cost advantages, batteries and especially EV batteries will be sourced largely from China. That other locales with cleaner energy exist won't matter that much. The question is how quickly China will ramp up their renewable energy availability. Estimates of renewable/nuclear energy production range from 20% to 50% by 2030.

How exactly is the OP a racist liar?

He is a White calling a Colored a liar. As we've learned during Obama's Presidency, this — or any other criticism — makes the White a racist. Case closed...

What I'm getting from this is that you're a racist and lack basic reasoning skills. Kind of fits with your comments, I guess.

How exactly is the OP a racist liar?

He is a White calling a Colored a liar. As we've learned during Obama's Presidency, this — or any other criticism — makes the White a racist. Case closed...

The biggest incident relted to nuclear power was the 2005 leak at the reprocessing plant where a 20 tons of nuclear fuel disolved in acid leaked out of a pipe and into a containment vessel.
You must be very young ...

The biggest incident was Sellafield/Windscale, which nearly lead to a Chernobyl like disaster.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

You can google easily for more about this incident ... youtube is full with videos about it.

You know that you're talking about the country with the world's largest biometric database of its citizens, yes?

That's a bit like saying Facebook would defend itself against handing over data to the government. Yes, it's nice that they don't bend over, but mostly they don't out of pure self interest, not because they give a shit about you.

The Tories reversed the law on new homes needing to be zero carbon three years ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

I've been seeing this nonsense a lot lately. The right wing claim that socialism and fascism are the same thing, make a few snide comments about Venezuela (but skip over the Soviet Union since they're friends with Putin) and use their media apparatus (Fox News, CNN, even MSNBC and Politico have gotten into the act) to hammer the point home .

I keep saying this, but this is all a classic tactic devised by the Soviets and perfected by Karl Rove during the Reagan years; to wit: Whatever faults you yourself have your relentlessly accuse the other side of. So we have a GOP president who is the defacto head of the American right wing and praised Chinese President Xi for seizing power for life, we have a GOP that let the water situation in Flint, Mi happen to save a buck, and we've got the right wing to thank for our $600 billion/yr Military Industrial Complex and somehow it's the folks who want to give people healthcare that are the real oppressors....

I wish I knew what to do about it. Talk radio's a major problem. You've got millions of people who get a 60-90 minute dose of propaganda everyday. I don't know how to counter that. I'd say more education, but the right wing's figured that one out too.

On the plus side I come from a short lived family and probably got 15-20 years left tops. Less if this stress gets any worse...

. . . Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
https://chinachange.org/2017/1...
https://www.sciencealert.com/c...
https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

The most common job for psychology majors a year after graduation is "Uber driver".

In fact, people with psych degrees are among the most employable.

Its so revealing that you just randomly shit on people you don't like in order to make yourself feel superior. Not only that, but you have to lie about it. Despite all your ugly elitism you are too incompetent to even spend 30 seconds with google before opening your mouth and making a fool of yourself. God you must be insufferable in person.

https://www.theguardian.com/en...

tl;dr 70% of emissions come from 100 corporations, and we know who they are. Anything you do as an individual is effectively irrelevant, and only collective action through the governments we elect can do anything right now.

To wit:
"If affordable mass transit isn’t available, people will commute with cars. If local organic food is too expensive, they won’t opt out of fossil fuel-intensive super-market chains. If cheap mass produced goods flow endlessly, they will buy and buy and buy. This is the con-job of neoliberalism: to persuade us to address climate change through our pocket-books, rather than through power and politics.

Eco-consumerism may expiate your guilt. But it’s only mass movements that have the power to alter the trajectory of the climate crisis. This requires of us first a resolute mental break from the spell cast by neoliberalism: to stop thinking like individuals."

So vote. If you care, voting for a serious government that plans to tackle this problem on our collective behalf is your most meaningful action.

But, isn't it also true that the vast, vast majority of the polluters is energy, manufacturing, and transportation?

Actually, from what I read, one of the the largest single source of carbon pollution is cow farts,.

another link

another link

And yet another link

Some say they are worse polluters than cars.

Because, you know, all those ethics courses managers take (the people who make all the decisions) are working out great!

That's one of the silliest things of today. Sexual harassment surveys. Domestic abuse billboards and NFL commercials. "Code of conduct" seminars.

It's GREAT to want to make the world a better place. However, what we're lacking is ANY SCIENTIFIC PROOF whatsoever that doing these things actually solves the problem they're trying to solve.

In fact, there WAS a study that showed the opposite. That women who were told of all the "unconscious" ways that men oppress women, the women were less likely to engage and integrate into the workplace because they were "primed" and constantly looking for harassment and were more likely to assume it was harassment even when it wasn't. Likewise, the men in the study after going to these seminars? Simply __stopped interacting with women__. [1]

Which is GREAT way to get women to powerful positions in STEM. Take all the guys currently in power, and make sure they never interact and see hardworking, intelligent women and give them raises.

You see how "feeling like your helping" doesn't actually equate to "helping"? Kind of like how like 90% of all the funds for Bono's 1985 Live Aid charity concert to help stop Ethopia famine, ended up FUNDING AN WARLORD'S ARMY.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/us...
[2] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Li...

If "ethics" courses worked, then why the hell is basically every major business scandal the result of managers... who already take ethics courses? #VWDidNothingWrong

The PRC is not a good example.
Never mind the environmental disaster that was the Three Gorges Dam, in the PRC they have orange air, the highest particulate counts in the world and this:
Rare-earth mining in China comes at a heavy cost for local villages

Dateline CHINA: Interpol Chief Disappeared!

Evidently I am one of many in North America who was unaware of the status of the Interpol chief, incorrectly assuming when I heard his name that he was a Chinese-European --- and appalled to learn he was a Chinese national and member of the Chinese Communist Party who had been number man at their intelligence organization, the Ministry of Public Security!
Holy Mother of God !!!!!
And there are still fools --- and minions of the oligarchy --- who question and criticize Brexit!
The devil with those jackals!
The government of China is a vile, despicable totalitarian capitalist state full of corruption of the princelings, the spawn of the founders of the Communist Party in that country and it is obvious that the Interpol chief, Meng, was with the competitor political faction to Xi Jinping's political gang --- Xi Jinping being China's self-appointed emperor. (Jinping's daddy was the author of the original Chinese constitution which Xi amended.)
This is a most blatant and public insult from China to the EU --- suggestive of China's bellicose and warlike stance against the democracies of the world!
Let us not forget the many recent disappearances performed by China: against pro-democracy academic critics, journalists, and the wholesale disappearance of most --- if not all --- of China's human rights attorneys of several years ago!
In America, those jackals of the Business Roundtable, National Association of Manufacturers, Cato Institute, American Enterprise Institute and too many other viper nests, assured us that if all the jobs, technology and investment were offshored to China they would have long since morphed into a democracy by now.
So much for the feckless self-serving assertions of jackals!
With China's program of "soft" intelligence penetration by way of their Confucius Institutes (from a decidedly anti-Confucius government) coupled with their Trojan horse of foreign property acquisition through debt warfare (their One Belt One Road (One Ruler) Initiative) --- and their militarization of artificial islands in the seas of the Pacific, especially the South China Sea, of which two-thirds of the oil shipments traverse --- their global martial strategy is evident.
Add to that their insidious implementation of an ultra-Orwellian control system: their Social Credit System, to further subvert any possibility of human rights in China and the future is obvious and cannot be disputed! Supporters of China's government spew nothing more than red dragon droppings: giant piles of crap! Suggested reading:
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.nchrd.org/2018/07/...
https://www.scmp.com/video/chi...
https://www.rfa.org/english/ne...
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
https://foreignpolicy.com/2018...
https://www.hrichina.org/en/pr...
https://qz.com/1129837/human-r...
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They have no evidence, not even circumstantial evidence of guilt. They have hearsay, uncorroborated statements, witnesses who have a history of actions that devalue any statements they make. There's not even basic general knowledge statements that they can give which can be corroborated by people. Nothing has been to court, nothing has been tried on fact or law. There's been no verdicts rendered...

I'm sure that Paul Manafort, Rick Gates, Michael Cohen, Michael Flynn, and George Papadopoulos will all be quite relieved when you inform them of this.

https://www.washingtonpost.com...
https://www.gq.com/story/all-o...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com...
https://www.theguardian.com/co...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=kavanaugh...

The "secret sauce" to Google's products is their engineers, algorithms, and more recently, AI - and of course, their vast and unparalleled collection of user data put-together helps. Not to mention collective user analysis to better predict users, their buying habits, and to ultimately influence them (e.g. filter bubble).

It wouldn't be strange if they sold portions of user data to any entity, as long as it doesn't give the complete picture about that person. e.g. they can sell all they know about your health issues to insurance companies, without exposing your risky behaviour or things you get up to in your time, such as your drinking/drug use, and looking for prostitutes every 2 days after midnight in x-radius area, etc.

Just as we know they likely sell a small subset of our data related to products we might be interested in, in the recent past, and other related data which shows your wealth and how affluent you are, to big buyers such as retailers so they can charge a different price to each individual.

We also know from Snowdon's revelations that Google is basically an arm of NSA, they work closely together, and in part, Google gives away vast sums and even user data to the government in exchange for relaxed laws that benefit themselves - i.e. Google is one of the biggest US Gov lobbyist (briber).

Well of course. It reported by Guardian, it must be true. Is it "corroborated" by your BBC?

I'm sure even The Guardian make errors sometimes. In this case, the details in the quoted article look to be rigorously documented though.

Oh, I am sorry ... you were being ironic, right? That was intended to be an ad hominem ... of course.

The bigger case is that of 4 Russians caught red handed in Sweden, with plenty of physical evidence. All the denials in the world cant make this go away.
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

Well... the full implications could be easily tested by purchasing some uranium glass beads on ebay, grinding them to powder, pouring said powder into an envelope and mailing it to Andrew at Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the Administrator, 1101A, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20460.

After all, it's not like the Trump EPA ever freaked out about chemicals surrounding their boss.

We could do it in the US, but we've got evangelical so-called "christians" who refuse to give their kids the vaccine, because Jesus told them sex is bad, m'kay? These are the same people who will enthusiastically vote for child molesters and men who admit to committing sexual assault because their helmet-haired preachers have told them they are "chosen".

https://www.theguardian.com/us...

https://www.thetrumpprophecymo...

And that has NOTHING to do with massive subsidies, tax breaks, and freebies for those purchasing an EV, right? It seems to me that EVs that stand on their own are tiny, low-range, and really low cost - the exact opposite of Tesla. The only way Tesla seems to survive is with lots of subsidies and giveaways.

The mathematical law that shows why wealth flows to the 1%

I don't know if it's inevitable, but it's an observed phenomenon that wealth distribution follows a poder law, and it makes sense that it might be so from how money flows towards those who already have it.

A power law distribution is a common mathematical outcome in dynamic systems where the one with a small initial advantage is in a better position to outperform the rest in next competitions, so the advantage is cumulative. This has entered common knowledge as the proverb "money begets money".

Ask a farmer if temperatures affect yield.

Well here in Australia this so-called climate change is having absolutely no effect on farmers at all! No wait ...

Don't you think it's about time to stop sending your money to Arabs and Japs and buy an American car built by American workers for an American owned company

Honda Accord is built by American workers in Marysville, Ohio.

powered by clean electricity produced by American power companies

Isn't the majority of electricity still generated from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas?

And what about the environmental harm that's caused by producing electric vehicles, not to mention the costs from trying to get minerals like cobalt and nickel out of the ground?

Mr Ward came to my lab about a year before his death needing help to turn what was essentially a party trick into a useable & commercialy viable product. The problem he had was although the powder component did exactly as it said on the tin, he had found no way of applying a lasting coating. All he really has was some powder mixed with PVA glue, the problem being that although you could apply it to certain objects it's longevity was no more than 2 weeks. While testing we discovered that a sample he'd kept for almost 10 years could be destroyed in a matter of minutes under a methylacetylene-propadiene propane blowtorch. Unfortunately after many samples & tests we where unable to find a effective application method & we parted company on good terms. Sadly this is the true reason why Mr Ward was never able to sell or bring his incomplete product to market

As for the nuke-proof claims? Pure fantasy, unless you're quite a long distance from ground zero, but in that case vehicular armour or similar will provide the same level of protection.

Back to the normal business of oppressing women and minorities and attempting to islamise the west.

Take dating for example, it's all about discrimination. Shouldn't people should be free to associate with whomever they want no matter the reason?

Apparently no we should not. Just be thankful you are still allowed to select based on age and gender ...at least for the time being.

where is the cobalt (a conflict resource) coming from? where's the lithium coming from? and how's the recycling coming along? also, do we have enough copper to supply absolutely everyone currently owning a car with their own personal 2 tonne electric vehicle? and what's the environmental cost of neodymium refining? https://www.theguardian.com/en...

but so far, I don't think they can reach inside your brain to ferret out the passcode for access.

Sure, but they can also jail you indefinitely until you cooperate.

Maybe Elon Musk is pulling a Joaquin Phoenix.

Nobody here is blaming the average Chinese citizen

Only the Mao government for the unfortunate position at which the last war drew the Chinese border and the number of people who happen to be within that arbitrary line.

What people are doing is blaming the Chinese government for not growing their energy output using sustainable technology.

The Chinese government accounts for half of the global investment in green energy at over $120bn.
In 2017 the Chinese increased this investment by 30% over the previous year.
In 2017 the USA decreased their investment by 6% over the previous year.

Per capita China is spending more that the USA on green energy and the trend is going upwards.
The USA in the meantime seems dedicated to a policy of sticking their head deeper in the sand.

But hey, credit where credit is due. I'm Australian and our government is king of the stupid environmental policies https://www.theguardian.com/au...

Their recent rate of growth was not sustainable

Their recent rate of growth produces a fraction of the CO2 that their past rate of growth has. That's the thing with green energy investment. Speaking of growth and clean energy that never makes the "green" energy news: http://www.world-nuclear-news....

As I said, the USA needs to step up it's game. China is beating you, and investing heavily to beat you even further.

Also not true :^) look it up if you like. Hint: nitrous oxide.

Wrong.

CO2: 65-80% dissolves into the ocean in 20-200 years, with the balance removed in processes taking >200 years. Net half life is thousands of years (hint: what goes into the ocean also comes back out if/when CO2 drops)

NO2: Destroyed in stratosphere in ~100 years.

CO2 is removed by multiple parallel mechanisms, so that you cannot simply pick the few fastest.

Kristian Saucier took pictures of a sub to show his kids. Jail time.

Nghia Hoang Pho took documents home to work on. Jail time.

More classified documents keep coming to light that Hillary had on a non-secure server. No Jail time.

Did I miss anyone?

The rest of the world just laughed in his face at the UN

Sure they did buttercup.

It's not that simple. There is a huge insects decline everywhere, mostly in developed countries, except mosquitoes (they don't rely much on other insects, and love human proximity). In countries where malaria is a problem, the idea is to get rid of only one (maybe a couple of) mosquito breed(s), the ones that transmit the disease. That shouldn't have an important impact on the ecosystem there.

> The value is in creating chaos. In the Clinton case, in order to believe there was substantive criminal activity, one must believe that the whole of the FBI and intelligence community were in cahoots with Clinton.

No, it's more than that, there's still too many people looking at the whole Russia-Trump-Clinton thing through the eyes of US politics, let's be clear here, the morning Wikileaks leaked the damaging material on Clinton, Nigel Farage attempted to sneak into the Ecuadorian embassy to meet with Julian Assange - the US House Intelligence Committee has since received intelligence that this was to provide Assange with a thumb drive and that Farage was a Russian conduit:

https://www.theguardian.com/po...

https://www.france24.com/en/20...

If you're looking purely through the lens of "My candidate won, you're just bitter" then you're missing the point here. Let's be absolutely clear - Nigel Farage is incredibly friendly with a guy in British politics called Arron Banks. Arron Banks is a guy who no one had ever heard of until he dramatically appeared on the British political scene around 2015 with a story about how he was going to defect from being a major Conservative party donor to being a UKIP donor, despite the fact no one in the Conservative party had any idea who he was, he suddenly had £1million pounds to dramatically donate to UKIP. Since then he has come under investigation, because no one can explain the source of all his wealth as it's hidden incredibly well behind a cascade of fake businesses in places like the Cayman Islands which are well known conduits of Russian money. Of course, you could fairly trivially dismiss this as paranoia if it weren't for the fact that Arron Banks is married to Ekaterina Paderina. Who you ask? Someone a Russian defector described as one of their greatest intelligence assets, someone who had an affair with a much older MP who just happened to be in charge of one of the constituencies where Britain's nuclear submarines are housed:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/...

On top of that, Farage has consistently refused to condemn Russia even when it annexed Crimea, he has attended Russia's far right convention in St. Petersburg where a number of far right anti-EU parties in Europe were granted support and funding from Russian state entities:

https://themoscowtimes.com/art...

So at this point, if anyone things it's about Clinton or Trump, they really are failing to see the bigger picture. There's a massive web here with ample evidence trailing all the way back to Putin's doorstep, and what's more, it stems from before Trump was even a US political candidate at all, which in itself highlights the fact it's got nothing to do with "bitter Hillary" supporters or whatever justification people like to use for refusing to acknowledge it.

At this point, if you really don't think Russia is involved in interfering in Western politics in an incredibly serious manner, and if you don't think Putin had anything to do with Brexit, Trump, Hungary's Jobbik, France's NF, Greece's Golden Dawn and so on and so forth then you're in denial over such an overwhelmingly large body of evidence that you genuinely only can be either pro-Russian and anti-Western, or the kind of useful idiot that these kind of intelligence operations rely on in the first place.

Assange and Wikileaks are just one part of a massive web

"Britain is significantly increasing its ability to wage war in cyberspace..."

Translation: "to fuck up the Internet"

The Conservative conference is about to start and the UK government is desperate for anything to distract them from the Brexit catastrophe. This is why a group of people who have regularly compared the EU to the Nazis are suddenly getting upset about a photo with no cherries. The real translation is "please don't notice the puppeteer .

So, give the money directly to the parents to choose whatever educational options they think best (including homeschooling and private schools). See my essay on this from about a decade ago:
https://www.pdfernhout.net/tow...
"New York State current spends roughly 20,000 US dollars per schooled child per year to support the public school system. This essay suggests that the same amount of money be given directly to the family of each homeschooled child. Further, it suggests that eventually all parents would get this amount, as more and more families decide to homeschool because it is suddenly easier financially. It suggests why ultimately this will be a win/win situation for everyone involved (including parents, children, teachers, school staff, other people in the community, and even school administrators :-) because ultimately local schools will grow into larger vibrant community learning centers open to anyone in the community and looking more like college campuses. New York State could try this plan incrementally in a few different school districts across the state as pilot programs to see how it works out. This may seem like an unlikely idea to be adopted at first, but at least it is a starting point for building a positive vision of the future for all children in all our communities. Like straightforward ideas such as Medicare-for-all, this is an easy solution to state, likely with broad popular support, but it may be a hard thing to get done politically for all sorts of reasons. It might take an enormous struggle to make such a change, and most homeschoolers rightfully may say they are better off focusing on teaching their own and ignoring the school system as much as possible, and letting schooled families make their own choices. Still,homeschoolers might find it interesting to think about this idea and how the straightforward nature of it calls into question many assumptions related to how compulsory public schooling is justified. Also, ultimately, the more people who homeschool, the easier it becomes, because there are more families close by with which to meet during the daytime (especially in rural areas). And sometime just knowing an alternative is possible can give one extra hope. Who would have predicted ten years back that NYS would have a governor who was legally blind and whose parents had been forced to change school districts just to get him the education he needed? So, there is always "the optimism of uncertainty", as historian Howard Zinn says. We don't know for sure what is possible and what is not."

On why early start times are terrible teenagers:
https://www.theguardian.com/bo...
"The book bears a sobering and vital message, too, about the centrality of sleep to the proper development of young minds. Early school starting times - particularly in the US, where, barbarically, almost half of public high schools start before 7.20am - are disastrous for the mental health of teenagers. There is serious evidence, Walker suggests, for viewing lack of sleep as a factor in the onset of depression and schizophrenia."

Were not the recent mass shooters home schooled? Just sayin'

https://hsinvisiblechildren.or...

So, give the money directly to the parents to choose whatever educational options they think best (including homeschooling and private schools). See my essay on this from about a decade ago:
https://www.pdfernhout.net/tow...
"New York State current spends roughly 20,000 US dollars per schooled child per year to support the public school system. This essay suggests that the same amount of money be given directly to the family of each homeschooled child. Further, it suggests that eventually all parents would get this amount, as more and more families decide to homeschool because it is suddenly easier financially. It suggests why ultimately this will be a win/win situation for everyone involved (including parents, children, teachers, school staff, other people in the community, and even school administrators :-) because ultimately local schools will grow into larger vibrant community learning centers open to anyone in the community and looking more like college campuses. New York State could try this plan incrementally in a few different school districts across the state as pilot programs to see how it works out. This may seem like an unlikely idea to be adopted at first, but at least it is a starting point for building a positive vision of the future for all children in all our communities. Like straightforward ideas such as Medicare-for-all, this is an easy solution to state, likely with broad popular support, but it may be a hard thing to get done politically for all sorts of reasons. It might take an enormous struggle to make such a change, and most homeschoolers rightfully may say they are better off focusing on teaching their own and ignoring the school system as much as possible, and letting schooled families make their own choices. Still,homeschoolers might find it interesting to think about this idea and how the straightforward nature of it calls into question many assumptions related to how compulsory public schooling is justified. Also, ultimately, the more people who homeschool, the easier it becomes, because there are more families close by with which to meet during the daytime (especially in rural areas). And sometime just knowing an alternative is possible can give one extra hope. Who would have predicted ten years back that NYS would have a governor who was legally blind and whose parents had been forced to change school districts just to get him the education he needed? So, there is always "the optimism of uncertainty", as historian Howard Zinn says. We don't know for sure what is possible and what is not."

On why early start times are terrible teenagers:
https://www.theguardian.com/bo...
"The book bears a sobering and vital message, too, about the centrality of sleep to the proper development of young minds. Early school starting times - particularly in the US, where, barbarically, almost half of public high schools start before 7.20am - are disastrous for the mental health of teenagers. There is serious evidence, Walker suggests, for viewing lack of sleep as a factor in the onset of depression and schizophrenia."

Any time a person in the government's crosshairs gets arrested on a sex crime or pedophilia charge, be VERY wary of believing it.

Anyone remember what happened to the IMF Director who was stupid enough to challenge the supremacy of the U.S. dollar?

Cody Wilson [...] was a pedophile, and he's just been arrested for assaulting an underage girl he met online.

Cody Wilson — accused of having sex with a young prostitute who registered on SugarDaddySomething.com — is just as much a "pedophile", as Julian Assange — accused of deliberately ripping a condom in an otherwise consensual encounter — is a rapist.

In addition to the actual accusations being far from from what's normally associated with the terms used ("assault", "rape"), both men have another thing in common: their infamous crimes have surfaced shortly after they greatly inconvenienced the US government.

Had you really been a Liberal, you wouldn't have parroted these accusations... But you aren't... Maybe, it is the tenure track — rather than a gun — that "makes jack-offs into bigger jack-offs", uhm?

Obligatory reference.

However, whatever steps taken should be done with actual planning by competent people that understands the complexities. Trump's administration clearly hire the dumbest and most unqualified grifters.

That applies to every single issue that trump has glommed on to. His schtick is to say "You hate foo? I hate foo too!! You should support me!" But foo is always secondary to his grifting. At best he neglects foo because it doesn't make him richer, but when foo becomes an obstacle to him, he abandons it.

Consequently everybody who thought they would get their issues addressed is actually getting fucked. If you cared about NSA spying on innocent people, the end result of trump's war on spies is going to be increased support for spies as the fact that they actually caught him and his crew conspiring with foreign countries. If you were a steel worker, you won't get jackshit because the steele corps are keeping all the profits for themselves. If you wanted better healthcare, all you are getting is more sabotage. If you were a democrat who didn't like how Comey treated Clinton, he tried to co-opt you into supporting his firing of Comey. If you wanted more racism, trump's going to fire his most effective racist because sessions won't do enough to protect trump from a criminal investigation.

ET4S: Everything Trump Touches Turns To Shit.

I visit Spain often and I have to agree. The way cities are managing car / pedestrian interaction is incredible and varied. Lots of town planers are currently looking to Barcelona for their trial of the superblock concept:
https://www.theguardian.com/ci... which effectively eliminates thoroughfare on many roads.

While there are many more, and more important, things to consider; Pontevedra just made my list of cities that I might like to call home one day.

Not to take away anything from the city, but we have suburbs larger than Pontevedra (which makes its social experiment possible.)

If you can afford to move and live there, by all means. I just hope you are paying attention to job prospects in such a small city with double digit unemployment rate, with the Spaniard economy experiencing a lot of hurting.

It would be a nice place for retirement (though not necessarily the cheapest.)

No need to go that far away - probably most of the benefits of going car free can be had via superblocks - https://www.theguardian.com/ci...
I always thought being able to drive directly into my house garage was a massive luxury with clear exernalities like road noise, traffic danger and increased pollution, and honestly if I could instead park away from my house and had to walk there to take my parked car (or more likely, public transit or taxi), I'd consider it a good tradeoff (esp. considering kids would be safe from traffic in that superblock)

The Catalan capital’s radical new strategy will restrict traffic to a number of big roads, drastically reducing pollution and turning secondary streets into ‘citizen spaces’ for culture, leisure and the community

How long did it take for Weinstein to face the music? That started the #MeToo movement, and after that a comedian like Louis C.K. stood no chance.

So you're arguing that because this super-rich and powerful man's well-oiled rape factory was able to operate for a long time undiscovered, that's evidence of tribalism, rather than evidence of the effectiveness of a powerful, efficient, and well-funded rape factory?

Al Franken is an illustrative example, because there was initially a lot of pushback to prop him up. But this was during the time of the Roy Moore election, so eventually he fell because it was more politically expedient to drop him.

In other words, he was pushed out in line with their morals and prinicples, but this behavior ultimately benefitted democrats so it doesn't count? No it still does. Maybe you should get your guys to try this morals and principles thing sometime if you'd like them to benefit. Or don't..who needs votes from decent people, right?

But what about Keith Ellison? Oh ho, different story here. He's deemed too important right now.

How is that an example of hypocrisy or tribalism? Trump has surrounded himself with domestic abusers, only one of which has been pushed out by incontrovertible evidence. If they were all being pushed out on allegations alone, then I could see that as a case of hypocritical behavior.

What about Roman Polanski? Remember how Hollywood stood by him?

So? He's a fugitive hiding from US law enforcement. Hollywood nutballs aren't politicians.

What about Joe Biden? As Vice President, this creepy perv got all touchy-feely with the wives, daughters, and granddaughters of Senators at a public swearing in ceremony, in front of cameras.

I haven't heard of this. Is this what you're talking about?

Is Bill Clinton still in good standing within Democrat circles?

How is this relevant? Should adulterers be treated the same as rapists and misogynists?

Why did the New York Times hire a racist to their editorial board, and then double down after being called out?

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we might not hit 100%, but we can get pretty darn close if we try.

That said, rebuilding our entire grid to run off solar and wind is a moon-landing level enterprise. A country that keeps slashing taxes on the well to do and cutting infrastructure spending while engaging in war (8 and counting and not a single country has attacked us) can't afford these kinds of things.

They're actually in the process of changing this right now, so that 'no fault' divorces can happen.

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