breakyerself

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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Congress should pass the RPM act and exempt race cars from the clean air act. I never said you can't cherry pick individual problems with environmental regulation. I just don't like the general attitude that because you can find s
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Chernobyl design was never in use in the US, but nuclear went through a long period of near universal public opposition to its expansion because of the high profile disasters that it caused. Now the cost of solar and storage are dropping at
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
The common sense wisdom I'm referring to is that environmental regulation is in general bad or does more harm than good. That's an opinion I encounter constantly and it's a meme that was manufactured in PR company meeting roo
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
The only problem with captain planet was the lack of nuance. Most people driving environmental degredation aren't over the top villains. Just executives acting in the best interest of their shareholders, but in general influencing kids
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Coal is the most expensive form of energy. We need the energy those coal plants are producing, but we don't need the energy to come from coal and the sooner we replace those coal plants the sooner the people getting that energy can get
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
1. Germany industrialized 100 years before China. It's been burning large quantities of coal for far longer. 2. Germany or at least the EU can and should impose a carbon fee on imports related to a given nations carbon emissions/r
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
Almost every environmental regulation has come after it was already shown that there was some harm that needed to be mitigated. The worst environmental crisis in human history is going largely unchecked. I find it hard to take seriously any
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
He's bailing out one of his failing ventures with one of his so far successful ones. The BS napkin math isn't the reason he's doing it. It's the excuse for doing it.
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by breakyerself 8mo ago
It's not really going to happen so we don't have to worry about that.
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
I'll never forgive anyone who voted for Trump after Jan 6th. You're a traitor to the values that made America worth anything.
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
I'm out of free NYT articles
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
China installed more renewables in 2025 than the rest of the world combined.
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
Markets don't always seek equilibrium. Some aspects of the economy tend to be governed by vicious and virtuous feedback cycles. Always leaving everything to markets feels like more of a religion than a reasonable policy position.
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
The FED is much maligned, but has brought a lot of stability to the economy.
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by breakyerself 9mo ago
It's probably going to collapse anyway. He's been hitting all of the pillars of the economy with a sledge hammer.
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by breakyerself 10mo ago
Nuclear war isn't winnable. It's stupid and dangerous to pretend otherwise.
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by breakyerself 10mo ago
Unless the conspiracy is being done by malicious idiots with too much power.
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by breakyerself 10mo ago
Sweden is worried about a hostile neighbor. They're freaked out enough that they joined NATO after generations of non-alignment. Who are we afraid of? If ICBMs are incoming to the Continental United States the world is ending. Regardle
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by breakyerself 10mo ago
Sure. We can always imagine an excuse to avoid dealing with the obvious reality. I don't think it's productive though.
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by breakyerself 10mo ago
This is obviously because Donald Trump notoriously hates offshore wind turbines.
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by breakyerself 11mo ago
A plurality of the people who voted went for Trump not a majority. He won 49.8% of the vote. When you include everyone who is eligible to vote he only got 31.8% of the total electorate. A large percentage of the electorate doesn't vote
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by breakyerself 1y ago
20,000 and a $500 monthly subscription? Am I reading that right? Or is $500 a month an alternate leasing option?
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by breakyerself 1y ago
Poorly?
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by breakyerself 1y ago
This is the opposite of what's true. Unionization is good. What's not good is using slavery adjacent labor to undercut good paying jobs in the US. US trade policy destroyed Detroit. Nobody wants to go back to the bad old days of 1
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by breakyerself 1y ago
I tend to think sports is good for kids. Not football though. My kids in high school marching band so I'm at the games. It's stupid how many kids get hurt on any given Saturday and some will go on to have CTE
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by breakyerself 1y ago
When you were younger a much larger portion of the student body dropped out to work construction or drive truck, that's less of an option now. We still rely on rote memorization to a greater degree than Finland which is consistently fa
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by breakyerself 1y ago
Wish I could say we were moving in the right direction, but it's going to be getting worse for the foreseeable future. What part of the country is this?
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by breakyerself 1y ago
It's easy to blame culture. It's kind of a thought terminating cliche. Once you've assigned blame to a general attitude among the public there nothing much to be done. We could examine the common differences between US educat
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by breakyerself 1y ago
The US is practicing a mass production approach to education still. Drill students with excessive facts and expect them to remember it. 3 minute passing periods, 15 minutes for lunch, scolded for socializing. Etc. It's intensive and co
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by breakyerself 1y ago
Pink was considered a masculine color until the middle of the last century and blue is universally liked among all genders. I think you're finding things that confirm your own biases.

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