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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14963780

Title and subtitle are taken from the article version of this newsletter; linking the newsletter version because access to it is free and the text is the same.

 

Title and subtitle are taken from the article version of this newsletter; linking the newsletter version because access to it is free and the text is the same.

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/14963665

Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.

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Much of the plan’s nearly 900 pages detail extreme executive-branch overhauls. Among many recommendations, Project 2025 lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as health care and shredding climate protections.

 

Democrats had attacked Donald J. Trump’s ties to the conservative policy blueprint for reshaping the federal government. Several of its authors served in his administration.

...

Much of the plan’s nearly 900 pages detail extreme executive-branch overhauls. Among many recommendations, Project 2025 lays out plans for criminalizing pornography, disbanding the Commerce and Education departments, rejecting the idea of abortion as health care and shredding climate protections.

[–] silence7 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's not like anybody is going to peek in the bathroom. Clearly secure.

[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago

Utility-scale lithium batteries currently deployed have almost all been designed so that they kick out some number of watts for four hours. (How many depends on the facility)

[–] silence7 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The problem with the Supreme Court is that you need the Senate to be on board with any kind of action. Two approaches:

  • Add additional justices to make the Republicans there a minority. None of the Republicans is willing to vote for this, and nor are Manchin and Sinema, which would leave no more than 49/100 votes in favor of adding new ones. So you can't do it
  • Remove the crooks. This requires 67/100 votes. None of the Republicans is willing to vote for this, so you can't do it.

Making something meaningful happen here requires actually electing enough Democrats to the Senate to act.

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

Yes, but that's very different from saying "I can discern an change in behavior of European weather based on what this storm did"

[–] silence7 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't have a great answer other than removing Musk and the rest of the management he put in place, and the only way to impact that as a consumer is to commit to never buying their products.

[–] silence7 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Unfortunately, the Tesla assembly line is also a wildly racist environment, most likely encouraged by management.

[–] silence7 6 points 1 month ago

That's the thing about wind and solar; they look like a series of smaller projects instead of a mega-project. So you don't have that problem in the same way.

[–] silence7 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The main reason you don't see a lot of new nuclear power plants going up is that it's more expensive than any other way to generate electricity, and the recent experience in the US has involved massive budget overruns for nuclear.

[–] silence7 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Look at something like this and it's pretty clear that the impact of this year's events aren't obvious like that. Not impossible, but I don't think I've seen what you're describing.

[–] silence7 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

His late ex-wife described how Trump would read an anthology of Hitler's speeches before bed:

Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.

[–] silence7 3 points 1 month ago

Trump seems to have actually picked up a copy of Hitler's speeches:

Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler’s collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed

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