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  • Where does your power come from?

    Right now? Primarily hydro with a strong solar and wind showing. Roughly 10% of my power is from Fossil fuels.

    You are just shifting the shit elsewhere

    Even with a pure fossil fuel grid, EVs still end up producing less CO2 than ICE vehicles. However, grids aren't pure fossil fuels which means EVs are far cleaner than Fossil fuel vehicles. Especially in my current circumstance.

    Less than 8% of energy consumption in the US comes from renewable energy. Another 8% come from nuclear.

    13% while being one of the fastest growing energy production sectors.

    https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

    That's petrol / natural gas / coal powering your home, factories, shops, and restaurant

    Not mine because I live in the Pacific North West which is the greenest grid in the US.

  • No, no, no, the CEO runs the charity free of charge. That allows the charity to pay for their flights to the Caribbean and it rents the CEO's yacht there (at a discount of course) so the CEO can charitably give a talk about how being poor sucks to potential donors. Of course the charity needs to pay for fuel and food, that's only fair for the value given by the wonderful presentation given by the CEO.

    This of course is all done tax free. After all, we wouldn't want to bankrupt these valuable charities.

    Not a hypothetical... Here's the Clinton foundation building a luxury hotel in Haiti... You know... For the aid workers or whatever.

    https://www.cnn.com/2011/11/28/world/americas/haiti-hotel-clinton/index.html

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid

  • At least in the US, it's not just Netanyahu that's an issue. A lot of the mainstream media is making the same conflation.

    That's why you'll see in articles like this one https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/nyregion/columbia-university-campus-protests.html which focus far more on students saying dumb shit at a protest and less on the ongoing genocide.

    And you have to take what is being claimed as "antisemitic" with a huge grain of skepticism. I've seen claims that statements like "free Palestine" and "from the rivers to the seas" are "antisemitic".

    This is problematic because even if you wanted to address antisemitism, focusing on people protesting a genocide is not the way to go. Instead, let's focus on the avowed Nazis parading around CPAC. Or maybe the Nazis in favor of Israel's genocide. Maybe we should wrestle with why antisemities are so often pro Israel.

  • It's about stopping centralized programs which would actually address public needs. "We don't need universal healthcare, here's a charity that helps people with the bubonic plague!"

    And in the worst cases, it's a grift for the wealthy. Where the charities exist to do scammy things like pay the founder to fly to luxury resorts to give a talk about why poverty is bad. Or to fund your family members solar manufacturing company. Or to put fuel into your church's private jet so you don't run the risk of catching demons from the public.

  • This is all wishful thinking.

    We've had politicians with clear signs of dementia still being elected years after those signs show up. Ronald Reagan was said to have very clear signs of dementia in the run for his second term.

    The only thing that will keep Trump off the ballot at this point is his death. He could be catatonic in a wheel chair and he'll still be on the ballot. There's simply no mechanism the RNC could pull even if it wanted to to keep him off the ballot.

  • In the unlikely event that he’s generally perceived as a gibbering idiot by that date there’s pretty much no chance that Lara Trump nor Michael Whatley would consider a super-delegate style override of the primary results

    They can't, like legally and literally. The RNC rules are setup without super delegates and they can't backport those in right before the convention.

    Literally the only thing that would keep him off the ballot is if either he dies (which will be a HUGE clusterfuck) or a court ruling finds him ineligible to hold office (which, he just won cases keeping him off the ballot so that's really unlikely).

    He could be drooling on stage while actively shitting his depends, he's still going on the ballot. That was 1000% on display with Dianne Feinstein, for literally years, she showed very clear signs of dementia/Alzheimer's.

    And the scary thing is that none of this will stop Trumpers from voting for him. They'd write his name in even if he does die.

  • English got fucked... hard... because so many of the spellings came from people that had weird goals.

    Consider phial. Why do we spell it that way? Because some jackass decided that english needed to be more latiny and ph is more latiny than v. (or maybe it was greek? I don't remember the exact etymology)

  • This, btw, is why CVE scores are insane at times.

    The vulnerability is that when spawning a new process which is a bat file you need special treatment of the arguments to avoid spawning a second process.

    So you need a rust program setup to spawn other processes which also somehow forwards unparsed user input into those processes and is executing a bat file.

    There's a reason nobody has fixed this, it's because it's an insane setup that affects basically no rust programs.

  • He can veto bills funding Israel and the current aid Israel is getting is through executive powers passed previously.

    There are also laws on the books that disallow aid to countries with human rights violations that are easy to invoke.

    Biden can also unilaterally put sanctions/tariffs on Israel.

    There's no somehow about it, he can stop funding today.

    And will that do something? Almost certainly because the US is Israel's largest supporter (by a long shot). Bebe can, of course, ignore this. However, that'd destroy Israel's economy.

  • Much much simpler than that. Remember how just a few months ago everything the right didn't like was "woke"? And a few months before that how everything the right didn't like was CRT?

    Well, we are here now. All problems are a result of DEI. It really does not matter that it's completely insane to view the world like this. Right wing media has it's current swear word of the month and that word (or in this case acronym) is DEI.

    What's super effective about this tactic is exactly what the mayor hints at. It's a way to say the n-word without saying it.

    The angle here is the right is a bunch of racist bigots and framing all the ills of the world in terms of that racist bigotry makes their lizard brained viewers happy (well, angry, but at the right people).

    Quiet literally how Nazi propaganda worked. Blame all the problems of germany on the jews and the non-jews right wing morons will happily nod along with "yer right, it is the Jews' fault our society is crumbling!" It did not have to make sense or be reasonable. You just constantly plant that fear and suspicion in your dumbass follower's brains.