Bears and penguins hate each other. That is why they stay at opposite ends of the earth.

Polar bears are almost just white grizzlies, having differentiated fairly recently. So no big surprise that they can change back to a warm climate.

It's so weird that when I was a kid the Left had "Save the Whales!!" bumper stickers and now it's the Right-Conservationists.

They even dedicated Star Trek IV to the cause.

Maybe if the whale killers get reinstated we'll at least get case law to prohibit permitting denials for Integral Fast Reactors and that can at least clean up the Boomers' nuclear waste to protect the ecosystem long term.

You have a weird hangup with Putin. He is merely the annoying dictator of a medium size oil company with an army. Economically, Russia is similar to Italy, Spain, Canada or California. Militarily Russia is similar to France with one ancient aircraft carrier a few submarines and a foreign legion for an army. Russia can only wage war successfully against very minor war lords.

Simple people tend to confuse race and religion. Jews are not a race, any more than Christians or Muslims are a race. Most Jews come from Central Europe and there are still millions of Jews in Central Europe - they just learned to keep a low profile.

Krikey - all the old yarns rolled into one. You need psychiatric help.

Aus is very sparsely populated compared to the US, but how peaceful a place is, depends very much on the quality of its police force. The best policing I have seen are in the central and southern European states like Hungary, Spain, Italy, Croatia and the worst are Germany, UK and France. The southern cities are clean, crime free and nice.

Hmm, so it was a MAGA gun nut who shot innocent immigrants at Bondi beach? Yeah, guess not.

Actually, the expressions are:

Old World - essentially the world formerly part of the Roman Empire
New world - the Americas
Third world - other stuff.

Shit-hole - USA, Russia, and some parts of Africa, South America

You are kinda correct. Some countries have gigantic dummy loads to burn off excess power. Slovakia burns off power when solar panels flood the grid around midday and actually asked that people stop installing more home roof panels since it is not helpful.

Slovakia just stores it on site, just like coal stations store their ash on site. The difference is a few small containers in a hole vs a mountain of ash. It is best to store waste on site, so that the people who understand it can walk past and look at it every day.

What more context do you want? It is simply the true current state of affairs. There are exactly four wind gennies in Slovakia and they will not build more - so about zero percent. Eighty percent of the electricity is nuclear and the rest is hydro. There are two ancient small coal stations which are also about zero percent and these will be decommissioned when another nuke comes online. Meanwhile Germany turned all its nukes off, so they have mainly dirty power and some wind. The lecce rates are public - you can look it up per country.

In my lifetime you could open a bank account with just a name, ditto for renting an apartment, and pay for everything in cash.

This guy is screwed unless he's only a guest of a patron.

Crime was lower and people were more responsible back then too.

All this control grid surveillance still hasn't caught the Building 7 people.

Maybe it's possible to decide a course of action was a bad idea and reverse it?

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

Germans pay 38c a kWh for wind and coal power, while Slovaks pay 13c for nuclear and hydro.