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Best way to amplify a hurricane is to pump in more heat energy. The link I posted mentioned the amount of energy already in a storm (10 Mt worth of a nuclear bomb every 20 mins) , so to get a 1% increase in damage, that's still a huge amount of energy that being silently put in somewhere. Into a storm that you still can't direct to a particular place, since that's the entire weather system steering it.

I get your point, the military is going to have stuff that the public isn't aware of until years from now, just like before. But there's also physics and limits to even what would look magic to us right now.

I think lasers were looked at and aren't as practical as movies would lead you to think, especially through an atmosphere at distance. Now perhaps that's what the military wants us to think while they have a bunch standing by, but somehow they keep scientists who work with laser daily quiet about the capabilities, even pretending there are limits in non-military uses.

Some were saying that decades ago. Some still haven't crossed that line, for some reason.

I raised some points to consider, not to try and mislead anyone. How is underemployment or amount of jobs per worker doing? What is incorrect about how wage per hour isn't the whole picture when your hours get cut?

Looking carefully at figure 5A, it's not as great as they want it to be. Even if the adjusted average wages have finally recovered after decades of low points, look at the rate before the drop and the rate leading up to now. And I will always question using just hourly wage as an indicator of how things are going when the first thing that happens when things tighten up is hours are cut. Still employed, still making X/hour, but net income is way down. Things are great. Sure. Then there's the specter of underemployment, and working multiple jobs to make up for low income, probably due to not enough hours from the first job. But that wage number is great, right?

The best way to counter such stuff - instead of disagreeing right away and making their defenses pop up, just ask them where the facts are for the claim. If they say it's something they heard or read, ask where those sources got their info. Letting them dig further helps to show how valid or invalid what they say might be, it might plant a bit of doubt for the next time they run across something that is designed to be accepted without evidence. Maybe. I mean, that's all we can do really, help them be more critical thinking, even if by accident.

She definitely couldn't answer the questions asked. She tried, but got talked over when it became clear it wasn't going the direction wanted from Fox.

As someone who watched it as a kid when it first came out, you're correct that the title of the first movie was "Star Wars". Also neither of the next two movie had "Episode" in their titles originally. However adding the extra in later helps when discussing the timeline with someone who hasn't grown up with the franchise. Title changes are the least of the remastered problems with these movies, and I think came from the same era of Lucas thinking he could CGI everything and make it better.

He's absolutely a danger to any efforts against climate change, but this is just one of many examples of him not even able to parse a question or stay on topic. The last I saw was a specific question on Google and Trump went on about Virginia voter rolls, and the host had to remind him the question was about Google. Even if his policies made sense, would you want someone like that in a position of power where he's in charge of decisions? Just getting a breakfast order from him must be painful.

And it's not like you have to put the full effort in, Mother Nature will do a lot of the rest if you just push the boulder a bit to get it rolling. Humans are not the only cause of climate change, they simply were the catalyst to get it going. Which also means that if we did the unthinkable and stopped all emissions now and forever, the boulder is still rolling down the hill now. It's why Net Zero(TM) is just greenwashing and not some solution.

An article that discusses the energy in a storm, Trump's nukes, and past attempts at weakening hurricanes

she spent most of her time trying to talk about her policies and experience

Fixed. Other coverage has pointed out that Trump would not have been treated the same way and allowed to ramble on about whatever. And Fox would have called it a brilliant answer.

She almost called him something else in the debate.