It will be utterly hilarious if/when the extreme Texas gerrymander actually loses them seats in Texas.

They had to make 'solid red' districts be just 'lean red' in order to get the new 5 seats.

A big enough blue wave and oopsie.

So both fossil fuel and nuclear get MASSIVE subsidies by not having to pay for their emissions/waste. If gas prices included the cost to sequester the CO2 they released, they'd be FAR more expensive. Same for nuclear and it's waste storage and disposal. It isn't priced into the per kwh cost consumers pay.

Where solar and all renewables are *cheap* is long term - 50-100+ years out. Every ton of CO2 we don't emit this year saves $$$ money in reducing the increase in disaster spending gov'ts will definitely have to spend.

Hence gov't subsides are the cheapest thing govts could be doing, but stupid is gonna stupid.

minor nit - in the 2024 election Trump most definitely did have 'experience in govt'

Which is why Ranked Choice Voting will be a game changer....and why BOTH parties are generally not in favor of it.

It lets you protest vote all you want...and still cast a sanity vote.

Gov't has many, many, many regulations including fees attached to them. If you want to 'run a business' you pay ridiculous amounts of fees.

1st Amend also allows people to complain about said fees.

Doesn't make them remotely unconstitutional or a chill on speech.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

230 requires *providers* to have a way to report content - not users.

The definition of a provider is wider than most people understand.

That they can now take down content is irrelevant to being sued for it. It can't be taken down prior to it being posted, unless you're reviewing everything before it goes public. So the suits happen - that's expressly why a law like 230 is needed.

A mom n pop store that allows reviews of purchases could be bankrupted over a single user review that contains copyrighted text.

230 has flaws that should be fixed, but the concept it represents is absolutely vital to the current internet. The *only* companies that could deal with it being repealed are the big social companies.

If the only people who can deal with the penalty are the ones you're trying to penalize....you might not have a grasp of the problem.

Entirely reasonable question...but it also invalidates the question you asked.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Feepower.com%2Ftech-insig...

Capitalism isn't a system - it's half a balance sheet. It looks great until you uncover the debits it's been glossing over.

you could google "windmill blade second life" and find numerous examples of uses of end of life blades.

But even if they aren't re-used....they are inert material just sitting in landfills. No worse than the mountains of trash society already produces.

8000 tons is irrelevant in a station building scenario.

Individual data centers already have dozens of shipping container sized diesel generators, so space isn't exactly at a premium.

The only reason batteries might not be able to fill the gap is simply ingredient supply - and new chemistries are being developed every year.

Plutonium that's mixed/dissolved in molten salt. If the baddies have enough access to be processing the fuel themselves, me thinks you have bigger problems.

To me the real benefits of these is that they can literally eat our existing uranium pellet waste.

I read something once that this jogged in my brain...

There are 4 types of people:

1. Gets work done, espouses company ethics - easy keep
2. Doesn't get work done, doesn't follow ethics - easy fire
3. Doesn't get work done but shows ethics and effort - keep and help
4. Gets work done but doesn't espouse company ethics.

#4 needs to be shown the door LOUDLY so people understand.

I worked for a gov't contractor that would have benefited from that.

Our leadership had a penchant for sending *VPs* to take *notes* to increase the bill rate to the gov. Often enough the gov clients actually complained lol

yeah, the last 'innovation' in movie going was Stadium Seating.

Last thing I saw in theaters was The Force Awakens Star Wars reboot. Star Wars was the only thing I felt would be better viewed on the big screen.

Vividly remember sitting through 45 MINUTES of previews. Not again.

I mean, I *have* checks. Been years since I actually wrote one.

The funny thing is the 'bank' on the checks is like 3 mergers ago.