It always seems like there is a better way for Trump to avoid answering a question, which would make him look less stupid, but he never takes it and no one expects him to.

The Problem With Hasan Piker’s Einstein Story People scrutinizing influencers for their views should also hold them to account for their facts.

In addition to everything else, Hasan Piker told a false story about Einstein and Israel and he's a tankie to boot. Why do leftists fall for this? www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

More rationalizing. Fact is, when we needed a little bit of unity to beat Trump, some percent of your camp skived off - after demanding that everyone listening should skive off too.

Would you listen to yourself sometime?

Oh look, now you're doing it. Why am I not surprised?

Everyone saw this happening on social media; there was an avalanche of it on Bluesky. If people didn't think those arguments were effective and other people weren't receptive to them, it wouldn't have happened.

I wouldn't assume none of that had a significant effect. But now leftists rationalize.

I know that farming has changed and it's more often (but not always) a big business, but that doesn't mean all farmers are necessarily smart or adaptable.

I think there are a lot of family businesses, farming or otherwise, where grandpa was the smart one and now they're going through the motions.

Probably some lower engagement, low propensity, left people caught some of that toxic discourse and that further reduced their likelihood of voting at all.

I'm not talking about the low engagement left. The highly engaged left was in a toxic echo chamber about how terrible Harris was, how Ds and Rs are the same, Ds are fascists, people shouldn't vote D, etc.

Those are the people that potentially threw the election.

You're bringing your own baggage into the discussion that wasn't there before

This may be decades out of date now, but my grandfather who taught HS ag used to complain about ag being pushed as the default vocation for the not-smart kids (very rural area).

His opinion was you needed to be reasonably bright to be a successful farmer.

Understanding Americans' ideology 9% of Americans describe their politics as far-left, 15% as left, 9% as center-left, 21% as center, 10% as center-right, 17% as right, and 5% as far-right.

Why does left or far left have to mean socialist?
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But if only 3% of the nonvoting population of PA were leftists who voted for Harris instead of staying home, that would have been enough to swing the election in PA.

Polling says 25% of the US and 18% of independents self describe as left or far left. So is this plausible? Yes, yes it is.

You get more than 25% of the way there by counting Jill Stein votes.

But yes, far left rhetoric going back many years is that the D and R parties are the same. So if you're a leftist who believes that, the smart thing to do is not vote. I can't believe that doesn't have a significant effect.

It's more that more potential leisure time has instead been used to purchase more stuff.

In the US, this was somewhat ensured by tying health insurance to full time employment. You can't have extra leisure time anyway unless you're willing to risk medical bankruptcy or early death.

It's especially pathetic bc she's essentially out of politics and now Trump has no real power over her. If she wants back in someday, no one will remember or care if she pushed back against Trump in a tiny way this one time.

When leftists say things like this, it sounds just a toddler having a tantrum bc mommy is spending more time with the new baby.

It's hard, but we need to learn that we're big boys and girls now and the world doesn't revolve around our needs like it seemed before.

None of the above. The real world answer is that leftist votes matter, but are insufficient to build a coalition big enough to defeat the fascist GOP, and centrist votes are also needed to win purple states. Therefore, Dems must campaign to a broad ideolgical spectrum and not just leftists.

Leftists sitting out or voting 3rd party wasn't limited to anarchists, and of course it was enough to swing the election. President and many other races were close.

Interesting, but simple mass burn steam electric also does the job.

Gasification seems to have been an evergreen idea for the last 50 years but almost nothing ever gets built.

But this should be distinguished from burning construction and demolition wood and other waste wood, which is fine (and better than landfilling) when done with appropriate air pollution controls.

Agree we shouldn't be cutting down forests for wood-fired power plants, but we are largely missing an opportunity to burn const and demo wood (diverting from landfills) and tree trimmings for power. Obviously, this should happen in modern plants with excellent air pollution controls.

There's no grid in the world that runs only on nuclear power

Most of the people I've encountered online obsessed with nuclear seem to know surprisingly little about it. They seem to know little beyond the standard anti-RE talking points and a few magical thinking nuclear talking points.

It's always nth of a kind, with considerable uncertainty about even getting to 1, much less solving the engineering challenges that crop up with 1.

Is there a large government willing to indemnify Copenhagen Atomics for the financial risks of getting to n?

But we don't know if there are any real world advantages, cost or otherwise, because there aren't any.

We'll see if anything turns into economic and reliable commercial power. But people have been dabbling in this for like 60 years, right?

Now consider that Ukraine is routinely shooting down 80% of shahed/geran type drones in the 1st place.

But if they succeed in taking out 20% of a 1 MW array, electricians could go out, rewire, move panels around, etc. and maybe get it operating at 80% in days.

To even damage most of the panels on a 1 MW PV installation on a couple acres, you would need multiple shahed hits in different areas. So that's several thousand hits across 1,000 sites to equal the effect of hitting one big substation or bringing down one transmission tower.

You don't even need to hit a NP to knock it out of commission. You can target substations and transmission, and Russia has successfully done that. All you eggs, meet your basket.

You're not going to get much solar with quadcopters or hammers bc you can't reach it....

And yes, vastly more. Coal plants and NP are strikingly similar in how they're const and operated (they differ mainly in how water is boiled). Now look at how many coal plants have been recently built and are planned/under const vs NPP. That's a clear choice.