Bringing Iran to its Knees
Yes, but this would have hurt the billionaires, and that can never happen in our society.
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We Need to Choose Our Online Influencers More Carefully
Here’s Lucy Biggers, social media powerhouse, explaining how solar and wind energy actually aren’t free, because they require materials that need to be mined from the Earth.
Yes, Lucy. I think most of us already knew that.
It’s hard for me to understand how a person with zero training in science has any relevance to what climate scientists are telling us. If I want a good recipe for carrot soup, I don’t ask a baseball coach or an auto mechanic.
They call this woman an “influencer.” What type of idiot does she influence?
Are We that Dumb?
Yes, part of this is stupidity. But a larger part is that people who still support Trump at this point are desperate to believe whatever comes out of his mouth, regardless of how nonsensical it may be. People generally are extremely reluctant to admit that they’ve been duped.
I wish my mother were still here so I could see where she would stand. She was extremely well-educated, and a voracious reader, but somehow remained a Fox News viewer until the end. I just wonder if the last 15 months may have turned her around.
Trump and the Declaration of Independence
Those who stand in opposition to the president have dozens of different reasons for their feelings. One, as is on display here, is that he’s an ignoramus.
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Could Obama Pass a Cognitive Test?
Not sure about this.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School might struggle to identify a bear. Could be.
This is representative of the intelligence level of the American electorate today.
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Social Justice and Despotism?
This guy is quite effective in talking to uneducated, conservative Americans, most of whom have never traveled to, or even read anything about the happiest countries on Earth.
If I were going to make a statement about the relationship between social justice and despotism, I would at least consider the lives of the people in places that consider social justice to be something of importance, and compare/contrast this to the list of the countries that are perennially at the top of the World Happiness Rankings.
What makes the people in New Zealand, Iceland, Costa Rica, Northern Europe, etc., so happy? Why do these nations suffer exactly zero despotism?
I would be completely ashamed of myself if I were to forward a political theory that had precisely no basis in fact.
Big Win for Those Incapable of Elementary School Math
The Chinese ownership of American farmland is less than 0.00036, or 0.036%. To put this into perspective, if the entirety of U.S. farmland were reduced to one acre, the Chinese government and business interests would own less than 15 square feet, about half the size of a small broom closet.
Yet, true to form, this is a huge issue for the MAGA base.
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Humans Are Unique, and That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing
Perhaps a biologist would be better qualified to answer the question at left, but I would say that none would rule. I.e., humankind is the only species that imposes its dominance over others.
Predators kill to eat, but they don’t kill for fun. They don’t wipe out the habitats of weaker species. They don’t try to enrich themselves by ruining the planet. They don’t go to war to fight over money and land. They don’t hear voices from God that say, for instance, that the Supreme Being favors the wolverines quest to destroy or enslave the badgers.
It’s hard not to think of Walt Whitman:
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Biggest Threat
I’m going with morons, or, more specifically, hateful morons.
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Solar Thermal
When 2GreeenEnergy was launched in 2009, solar thermal with molten salt energy storage appeared to be a great solution.
Yet it fizzled out when the cost of energy from wind and solar PV fell like a stone. California’s Ivanpah facility is in the process of shutting down.
Having said that, it looks like some folks in Spain are still working on it.
