I think there's a good chance they could get a lot more passive and ineffectual. Worst cabinet secretaries might resign and be replaced by more normie Republicans. I don't think this would serve to make them much more popular at this point (though it might arrest a slide)
there is so. much. grammar.
There is a complex set of rules you've got to learn to get basic grammar working. But, my beginning Hungarian textbook had a several pages index of *irregular* vowel harmonizations of basic words you've gotta remember too
This is a spicy take. But as someone who tried to learn Hungarian, I do believe that it is *fundamentally* difficult and complicated in a way that is unrelated to its linguistic alienness to English. You've got a prefix and multiple suffixes per word! And then there's the concept of "vowel harmony"
It's also why iron is so relatively abundant.
Yeah, it's an especially violent mechanism that results from a core of ~1.4 solar masses suddenly hitting a limit and snapping down into a neutron star about 10km across at a large fraction of the speed of light. You'll never guess what happens next!
How many used Rivian batteries *are there*? Are they entirely from Rivian vehicles totaled in accidents at this point?
Probably! We definitely get mosquitoes here in the summer in places where there is stagnant water. They bite the shit out of you if you're near the Mt Tabor reservoirs on a summer evening
I've never noticed a problem in the area! I do wonder how they handle it. The water is definitely flowing, just not super fast.
Low-hanging fruit for Portland leaders would be to make reporting parking violations work, even a little bit. (Thread, I guess.)
Sure seems like there's a market niche for "Amazon, but only brands you've heard of and reviews you can trust".
Fun fact: two molecules in your coffee this morning remembered each other from OJ Simpson
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This isn't how I wanted things to happen, but it is really funny that Trump might be the greatest decarbonization president ever
no true union
There's a separate legal regime, riparian water rights, east of the Mississippi, that would make *even less sense* in the western US context. Prior appropriation is bad now but it was a solution that made agriculture work at all in the west.
I have some sympathy to the western US water policy, given the historical contingencies involved. These water rights have indeed been inseparable from the land that's been bought and sold for hundreds of years. But it's also clear that this is deeply inefficient, inequitable, and unsustainable today
why not
*sigh* sure, if that's what you want to tell yourselves. it's fine.
(I think this is a weird counterfactual that would set up a pretty unstable equilibrium and I think you'd see a major realignment where the GOP would actually be seeking and gaining Black votes. But it's an interesting stat to point out)
If southern whites voted like Ohio whites we'd have a Democratic supermajority
The beatings continue until the signs are perfect
A solar panel will generate a large multiple of the energy in a barrel oil over its lifetime and already costs less!
I think it's likely the world gets decarbonized via Chinese exports and China makes a lot of money out of it. But a lot of money is a whole lot less than we're paying Putin and the gulf monarchs already, and in the long run everyone will be able to build this cheap enough to avoid Chinese dominance.
You can squint at this chart and think that China is on its way to a global stranglehold on energy. But that's not how it works! We might pay China for this stuff but it'll be for durable goods that last years or decades instead of a monthly bill.
By contrast, total oil consumption is $200-300B/month. If China were exporting $200B/month of solar panels they would very quickly saturate the entire world market and decarbonize all electricity production. Renewables are qualitatively different AND vastly cheaper.
Yes! Panels are currently the cheapest part!
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