silence7

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15078273

After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.

 

After gains by organized labor under President Biden, a second Trump administration is likely to change course on regulation and enforcement.

 

Despite the headline, I do not expect to see anything more than token payments from high-emitting countries.

 

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[–] silence7 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Mostly:

  • New nuclear is really expensive
  • It also takes a long time to deliver
  • The new reactor examples in here consist of reactors from suppliers who haven't done that before

So it has the feel of a plan to promise to spend a lot of money several years from now, and get a lot of PR points today, and quietly cancel the project later.

[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It probably takes more than that; for example, when whale oil become uncompetitive for lighting because kerosene was cheaper, the whalers started turning it into margarine.

[–] silence7 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is almost surely about there being plans to have much more than the occasional attack.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 month ago

Get a bunch of them to join you canvassing then. I'll be on a bus to a swing state this weekend

[–] silence7 2 points 1 month ago

Mind, you, they reportedly set the permissive action link code to all-zeros for decades.

[–] silence7 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

There were. The Republicans now control the Supreme Court, so it won't do anything to stop him, and they hold enough seats int he Senate to keep any impeachment from proceeding to conviction. Not to mention his effective purge of the Republican Party of any opposition.

If you post to Facebook, nobody will see it, because it's going to be deemed "political" and the algorithm there reduces visibility.

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago

It's not just that; residential rooftop in the US is about 4x the cost of doing it in other countries, and would be cost-competitive with utility-scale if it was as cheap as it is elsewhere.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 month ago

It doesn't matter whether he wants it. Something near half the country is going to vote for him, and the result will be that the grifters around him hold power if he wins.

[–] silence7 2 points 1 month ago

They don't care either; Vance is one of their creatures.

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago

That might just result in a boom in billionaire bunkers, rather than any kind of systematic attempt at solving the underlying problem.

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yep. Mobile homes are built to a much lower standard.

We need something that works reasonably well for everyone

[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's both - I'm well aware that it's not just pressing a random button behind a curtain, and it's a bit of an issue that generals under Trump were thinking seriously about disobeying a military order because the considered him to be potentially erratic around the use of nuclear weapons.

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