This is pretty cool. They didn’t adopt solar to this extent under good circumstances - the background is that years of warfare degraded their power grid to the point where anything but extremely local generation is hopelessly unreliable. Well, there’s nothing more local than a solar panel and the external input required for it to run (sunlight) can’t be blocked.
You say that and yet the nightmare scenario of Tucker Carlson winning the GOP nomination on an anti-isreal platform (sincere or not) inches closer and closer. The DNC is going to prove to be more rigidly Zionist than the Republicans .
They want to prosecute peope in open court so using the NSA to id people would be inconvenient (but not impossible).
You know when you’re not interested in something you can just say nothing.
Whenever the media needs a headline they run another poll on this. It’s not relevant. As a Canadian I support the idea in principle too but this doesn’t analyze and ask people about the challenges and complexities involved in doing so.
I don’t think Diogenes was a drunk. He was rawdogging his equivalent of a cardboard box.
That would actually be massive escalation in more than the obvious ways. Gulf states are the ones buying up most US debt (which is piling up extremely quickly). This is a large part of their leverage to secure continues US military protection. Should the US Navy be used to block the straight to enforce some kind of all-or-nothing approach, it’s going to be cause a lot of knock on effects in the bond market. We do be living in interesting times!
Neither of those things has anything to do with this. You can eliminate the NASA budget and you still won’t have healthcare lol. You have to actually fight for that.
The uneducated ones have been going to war this whole time.
That would never happen because Cecil is (usually) competent.
Epic games literally gave away HP legacy for free. That isn’t even piracy.
Even if that weren’t true, the idea that this type of open corruption is grounds for firing in a Trump admin is laughable. Trump himself is far more corrupt, and hegseth being corrupt just goes further to ensure his loyalty. He can always have Bondi do a selective prosecution of this should he step out of line.
It’s basically kompromat that only Trump (through control of the DOJ through Bondi) can use.
We all said rightly that the president doesn’t control gas prices, at least those of us who had half a clue how economics worked did.
The logic is mostly sound because president’s don’t have a magic dial to control oil prices. But the logic also has sane decision making baked into it - president’s consider the effects that their actions will have on the price of oil and don’t do shit like this that will definitely increase it. Since that sanity no longer holds , the logic no longer holds .
The moment anyone else moves to assist he will simply bail out and walk away. He was actually dumb enough to say that out loud too. It would be strategically stupid and politically suicidal for anyone else to get involved.
Centralized problems are generally easier to solve than distributed problems. Depending on their architecture moving to an EU cloud provider could range from tricky but manageable to very painful , but it’s a centralized IT problem that can be attacked and solved. Getting every retail vendor to support Wero is much harder, and is being solved apparently.
China is getting Iranian oil right now and the US isn’t going to control Iran. Why would either of them commit to this? Pretending like you solved the problem when none of the incentives line up is ridiculous. Either of them could militarily defend Iran if they want to without commiting to a security guarantees for Iran. So why would they bind themselves unnecessarily?
Yes they could do that. But why would they commit to that?
Lol so now Russia China and Europe have to jump into militarily attack the US ? This is your plan? Well sounds solved to me.
This is off topic but when Brigerton first came out I watched it on Netflix without any context or knowledge of the books. I just assumed that it was a kind of racial escapism - a world where it just never occured to anyone to be racist. I kind of liked that as a genre of fiction. Turns out there are in-universe explanations for why people aren’t racist (basically the king married a black women which made it okay). To me, that explanation (putting aside whether it makes sense) took away from it.
There’s no shortage of fiction trying to be gritty and real and such. For the little while that I didn’t know better it was interesting to view Bridgerton as a world where nobody thought to engage in racial discrimination in the first place .