This isn't about the federal government paying for anything. The Trump administration is trying to withdraw the permits to build it.

When I was a little kid, I remember watching Captain Planet and thinking that it was a gross oversimplification since obviously people couldn't be such petty villains. And I thought that even more so when I got older and used it as an example of how when dealing with environmental issues one had to realize that people one disagreed with were not Captain Planet villains. But the last few years have shown I was just wrong. Captain Planet level environmental villains who really do want to just destroy things really exist. And unfortunately they are now in control of the US government.

Ordering drone strikes are within the normal realm of official acts where we can politically disagree and where the President has large leeway. That's very different than actions which are transparently corrupt and just happen to be using "official" power. Moreover, the Supreme Court explicitly ruled that actions taken as part of official acts could not even be used as evidence for charges regarding other actions. It really would help here to read both the opinion and the dissent.

This is essentially identical to the targeted shakedowns of lawfirms that Trump is doing. He now can exempt specific companies from tariffs if they do things for him. This is blatant corruption, but because the Supreme Court has ruled that he cannot be prosecuted for any official acts, he's completely free to do this.

Given the ways that Trump has gutted the federal government which does a lot of the forecasting of hurricanes and the assistance from it, this is going to be worse. And it is going to be especially worse in blue states since Trump is not only blocking FEMA, he's specifically blocking FEMA assistance in blue states, in direct violation of a judge's order. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.courthousenews.com%2Ftrump-slammed-for-covertly-withholding-fema-funds-from-blue-states%2F.

I had always assumed that NaNoWriMo was a grass-roots thing where people just wrote. I didn't even know there was an organization behind it until the recent drama. I've talked with two friends who have done it in the past, and they both didn't know there was an organization even as they've done the writing element for years.

My response was in particular to your claim about how people from there should be "blocked." If you think people should be blocked, it isn't clear why you think there should be an exception for refugees. And in fact, while it did allow in some refugees, it included a 120 day ban on refugee resettlement from those countries and drastically limited the number of refugees. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Frefugeerights.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F02%2FThe-Muslim-Bans-An-Overview-3.pdf. And again, this doesn't even address all the many other anti-immigrant things he's done, including trying to now kick out a half a million legal immigrants.

1) None of those countries. All of those countries have people with clear legitimate reasons and interests to be here. Students, refugees and others. And note that even if you somehow thought that wasn't the case, and completely ignored that, you'd still have to deal with all the other anti-immigrant things Trump has done, including as mentioned trying to kick out a half a million legal immigrants who are already in the US.

Nothing prevents them from winning prizes. Some US prizes are from people born here, and at a per a capita level, US prize winners are themselves high. But the fact is that a major part of why the US has so many prize winners is because the US has accepted so many immigrants and many of those immigrants are smart, talented, hard-working people. The US thrives off of that.

Empirically, that's not true. Even in the first Trump administration, which was less extreme than the new one, much more of his anti-immigration focus was on legal immigrants. Even tourist visas became tougher, but H-1Bs as well as becoming harder to get green cards for people already here. He also tried to completely ban people from coming at all from a whole bunch of countries, with his "Muslim ban." And now he's just revoked the legal status of a half a million immigrants https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Ftrump-administration-revoking-legal-status-more-than-500000-migrants%2F. So no, he's pretty obviously against legal immigrants, with the complaints about illegal immigrants essentially a fig leaf for his general anti-immigrant attitudes.

Around 35% of all US Nobel prizes are won by immigrants to the US. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiir.gmu.edu%2Fpublications%2Fnobelprize. More than two thirds of all Nobels to the US are either immigrants or 1st generation children of immigrants. The US economic and scientific success relies heavily on its immigrant population. Unfortunately, the current US administration is hell-bent on destroying everything that makes immigrants want to come to the US when it isn't actively harassing and deporting those people.

From the summary: "deflation, debt and demographics are structurally hampering growth -- are melting away." But also: "Size matters. A bigger talent pool alone gives China a better chance to disrupt." But the entire point about demographics is that a smaller population a few years from now is going to mean a smaller talent pool. That's why size matters.

This isn't really about AI. Even before the rise of the new AI systems, a lot of elite schools were dropping AP classes. Choate was one of the first https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmthmountain.com%2F2017%2F03%2F24%2Fschool-abandons-ap-curriculum%2F but now a lot have done so. Their reasons for it are complicated, but it is spreading to more schools. The upshot is that the College Board, as a business, needs to offer other products to stay relevant. This is in keeping with that need.

The good-faith goal doesn't seem to be to make them untraceable, but seems to be to have them have numbers which can directly reach him by being on a pre-set list. But I agree that this looks close enough to being deliberately untraceable that this is a bad thing. I have a friend on a local planning board who has to report if anyone calls him to discuss any of his work, and document the call. This does very much look like one rule for the governor, and another rule for everyone else. Whether or not that was the intent, even the appearance of corruption should be a problem. We also live in an era where the US President engages in far more blatant corruption, so the standards have just fallen for everyone. 50 years ago, it was a big deal that Jimmy Carter owned a peanut farm, and he had to sell it as President to avoid conflicts of interest.

Hmm? I didn't refer to you pointing out a lifespan that is four times as an insult. I was referring to your decision to write "STUPID IDIOT" in all caps.

So apparently you think someone is a "STUPID IDIOT" for rounding more generously than you would? That's an interesting viewpoint. But maybe we should discuss why I did decide to use 10 years rather than 40 (which I agree is more typical). Repowering is a thing https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwwindea.org%2Frepowering-an-efficient-tool-to-boost-wind-power where turbines are replaced in part or in whole well before the end of their lifespan. And while this is only a small fraction of all turbines, it does occur. The sort of people who are apparently ideologically committed to being against wind power like to point this out especially when there are systems which are being replaced in around 12 to 15 years. So by using 10 years, it preempted any claim of that sort.

As for the rest of your comment: I'm mostly in agreement and would only take issue with your last two sentences. But the precise claim in question is about the amount taking up by wind turbines going into trash. And you are in agreement apparently with the OP about the blades, which are large, heavy and a major component, and are not currently recycled. (Although we're working on getting better at that). So it certainly then isn't a "myth" that they cause trash and garbage. The amount really does matter. The amount is small, but it isn't a myth.