Because Trumpism is seen as unstable and of dubious logevity, there’s not an enormous rush to build defunct factories for meeting energy demand under inefficient mediums. You’re never going to see another newly built coal plant. Gas plants aren’t coming online any faster, with the specter of Peak NGLs on the horizon. Solar and Wind are the future purely because of their low cost, long term profitability, and rapid ROI.

Delaying these projects when fossil fuel usage is already dropping (gasoline is falling to $2/gal levels not seen since the COVID crash) means starving the electricity hungry digital economy purely out of spite.

Listen here’s the thing – I don’t know what you kids are up to, but I do know one thing: laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic, ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys want to make some bacon?

This is unnecessarily cruel to werewolves.

Epstein was a major bundler and influencer in the liberal establishment, specifically within the US East Coast and the EU West Coast regions. Chompsky was also in this circle of influential political and media figures. Its not crazy that they’d run into each other any more than Epstein hobnobbing with any other Ivy League professors or national media figures or British Royals.

did the book sales for manufacturing consent get him that fucking rich?

More that knowing a guy like Epstein is what gets you regularly syndicated in news columns and invited as a guest onto TV shows. You could say the same about Larry Summers or Steven Pinker.

The two guys calling you a “Tankie” in the comments.

If a Democrat said what Mike Johnson was saying, the party would kick that person out for being unelectable.

Democrats don’t want anyone interested in impeachment. They want serious, moderate, business friendly, popular politicians like Henry Cuellar and Robert Menendez.

I see folks complaining about “Tankies” on this site a dozen times a day and twice that on Sundays.

Antifa, Radical Islam, Russian Bots, Chinese Wumao, ISIS, Tren de Aragua, Weather Underground… take your pick. They’re all corrupting the minds of our youth with quotes of people and videos of events perpetrated by people running our federal governments.

Anyone that tricks a Westerner into refusing to support our national or state governments is an extremist radical contributing to the decay and destruction of our hallowed institutions. We have to find them, silence them, punish them, and remove them at all costs. Otherwise the Evil Foreigners will win.

Do you want to wake up speaking North Korean? Then get with the program and join ICE, so we can stop these ultra-radical freedom-hating anarcho-communists.

a lot of those people are too old to work, let alone in a role that requires decades of training and experience to do competently

That’s fundamentally a problem with democratic politics. The job of a politician is not to governor, but to campaign. The goal is to hit the magic combination of fundraising, friendly media, and popular approval to outpoll every other contender on election day.

A big advantage in campaigning is incumbency. Politicians get all of the above simply be being in office (which is why getting appointed a Senate seat by the governor is such a sweetheart deal).

Add to that, Senators serve for six years. And while I’d argue folks 60-70 years old are perfectly employable, you get into dangerous territory if you’re winning a seat at age 76 and holding it into age 82.

If they plotted Senate representation against proportion of workforce, rather than population, the discrepancy would be even more glaring.

Maybe weighted against income. But there are a distressingly large number of senior citizens who still need to hold jobs in order to make ends meet.

Well, good-ish news. Life expectancies in western nations have been falling since COVID

It was originally designed to be a reward for accumulating the most friends in the state Senate

Because the Senate is a career capstone achievement for most people, not a job you land right out of college

Very weird to break this out by age cohort when the problem with the Senate is disproportionate regional population representation not demographic representation.

I just want a low cost VPN to get around in-state censorship and the occasional bit of piracy. I’m not running a Wikileaks fork or trying to do OpSec for The Revolution.

If you’re spinning up your own version of Silk Road, maybe consider a home lab instead of relying on untrusted third parties.

Five Pound Box of Money

A staunch critic of Lysenkoism, Vladimir Nikolayevich Sukachev was a Russian geobotanist, engineer, geographer, and corresponding member (1920) and full member (1943) of the USSR Academy of Sciences. And he lead an enormous faction of like-minded scientists in objecting to Lysenko’s pseudo-scientific theories.

But yes, Lysenko was the RFK Jr of the early USSR. A reactionary who was far better at playing to the egos of national leadership than engaging in novel or useful biological research. The end result set the country back decades - arguably indefinitely, given the modern state of Russian science and technology.

In case anyone’s curious… this is Actual Stalinism

A project was proposed to plant trees in a gigantic network of shelterbelts or windbreaks (лесополоса, lesopolosa, “forest strip”) across the steppes of the southern Soviet Union, similar to what had been done in the northern plains of the United States in the 1930s following drought and the extensive damage of the Dust Bowl years.

Liberty is when the government fears the people.

I think that’s Leninism

Liberty protects but does not bind

Tyranny binds but does not protect

So is Venezuela’s. Hasn’t slowed them down.