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No exclamation point to be found. This looks like a poster for something I would watch on HBO if there's nothing else on and the WiFi at the hotel is out. Even then, I'd keep channel surfing.
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Zombie Samurai posted:"How can we really make this appeal to the current electorate?" Washed out, even.
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botany posted:Solar itself is actually already where it needs to be, especially in combination with newer turbine designs in wind, the main issue is energy storage. According to a friend who works in that area, there are some very promising new ideas in the works but I have no idea how far along those are. Basically the problem with storage is that no matter what you're doing it in, you're storing a lot of energy. And when you store a lot of energy in something it can be really dangerous if something goes wrong. Also, you need a lot of space to store that energy in. We have great ways to hold energy, like massive banks of batteries, or buildings huge resevoirs we can pump water up into with excess power in day and then let water run out to turn tubine generators at night, or even things where we literally chunk big lumps of material on sleds on rails, and use spare electricity to shove them up slopes in day and then let them go down to generate electricity at night. And if you have enough hollowed out underground space, like say from old mines, you can pump air into the caverns to hold at high pressure with minimal leakage, and then start to let it out at night through machinery that spins to generate power. But all of those require a lot of land and materials, and especially for water storage you need a serious amount of cleanish water and substantially built structures or tough and solid landscape to hold it. The stored air one presents the least immediate danger, but is quite a nonstarter if you don't have good rock layers close to the surface that have been sufficiently mined through. There's an alternate way to handle things, which is to divert peak production power from intermittent sources into running wasteful (energywise) production of synthetic fuels from various feedstocks. We would essentially be dumping the excess power into getting back like 80% or less of the energy put in in synthetic gas/diesel, or a bit more in cracked hydrogen for fuel cells (you lose more power due to natural inefficiencies when those are burned, but whatever). The issue is you can't use that stuff to kep the lights on at night, the way other forms of more direct energy storage allow.
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zoux posted:Maybe I'm just a SJW but this seems racist to me. What's missing in this is Scalia pointing out that he is a expert Phrenologist and black people have have unusual skulls, you see.
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Riosan posted:No exclamation point to be found. It's a 15 minute youtube "movie".
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zoux posted:
They made him even more white
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Mr. Nice! posted:This. There are multiple decisions where scalia quite frankly talks about "blacks" and what they should be doing instead. And on this issue in particular. Don't forget that he went out of his way in a concurring opinion in the Michigan case to attack Justice Sotamayor for daring to defend AA in her dissent.
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zoux posted:"Uh I'm kind of on record as racism being over because of that whole VRA thing so..." That's a good article. I also like that he highlights the fact that scotus is not the end all on constitutionality.
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Jesus Christ can you imagine the kinds of people Trump would appoint to the SCOTUS.
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zoux posted:Jesus Christ can you imagine the kinds of people Trump would appoint to the SCOTUS. Is Bork still alive?
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zoux posted:Jesus Christ can you imagine the kinds of people Trump would appoint to the SCOTUS. I'm having trouble thinking of how anyone could be worse than Scalia.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:Is Bork still alive?
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mdemone posted:I'm having trouble thinking of how anyone could be worse than Scalia. The reanimated corpse of Roger Taney?
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mdemone posted:I'm having trouble thinking of how anyone could be worse than Scalia. Have you heard of Justice Thomas. Also wait till Alito gets a little older.
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zoux posted:Jesus Christ can you imagine the kinds of people Trump would appoint to the SCOTUS. It'd be like the cadover synod ,but with the body of Mussolini presiding over the court.
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zoux posted:Jesus Christ can you imagine the kinds of people Trump would appoint to the SCOTUS. Brilliant people. Not as brilliant as him, but very smart, very smart. They'll be great, everyone will love them.
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At some point Clarence Thomas will fight through his mental conditioning block and just go loving nuts on the court.
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Quote of the day, “I’ve never heard that before.” ~ Kathleen, mom of Erick, when asked if it's true that they refused to eat "Asian food" on December 7th.
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He is even fading in his own movie  Also if you thought today couldn't get any better Erick Ericksons own mom calls him full of poo poo. http://gawker.com/erick-erickson-s-mom-denies-son-s-story-about-boycottin-1747101450 efb 
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I don't know what's more depressing....that Scalia is making decisions that effect 350 million people with views like his, or that he's almost certainly going to end up on the winning side here, or even worse, writing for the majority. Keep in mind that Justice Kagan had to recuse herself from this case since she was still the Solicitor General at the time.
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, “I’ve never heard that before.” ~ Kathleen, mom of Erick, when asked if it's true that they refused to eat "Asian food" on December 7th. This is incredible.
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Winkie01 posted:He is even fading in his own movie Well she doesn't so much say he's full of poo poo as claims that he never said it. Even though he did. On his own twitter.
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botany posted:Solar itself is actually already where it needs to be, especially in combination with newer turbine designs in wind, the main issue is energy storage. According to a friend who works in that area, there are some very promising new ideas in the works but I have no idea how far along those are. *This is actually where a lot of the most important recent development has been, which is why we are actually getting to a point where it's legitimately feasible and cost-effective (relatively speaking, of course) to implement at least part-solar or wind/solar systems in places like Europe, where it would've been easily considered unwise even a few years ago. The tech is getting to a point where "lol, but it's cloudy there" stops being such a problem but we need grid-level investment to get over the remaining barriers. Fried Chicken posted:Scalia: Affirmative Action Sends Blacks To Schools Too Advanced For Them The worst part is that there's an unfortunate kernel of liberal truth buried deep in that backwards-rear end message that conservatives can point to. Low-income students (predominantly black/Latino/Native American but also frequently rural and white) at elite colleges and universities experience academic difficulties and flunk/drop out at significantly higher rates than their peers, while reporting way higher levels of mental distress. But it's also entirely because of educational/resource inequality and the effects of racism. In fact, a good deal of the liberal bellyaching aimed at universities that conservatives and South Park moderates have been mocking of late has been about better equipping schools to support those students. You know, because the alternative is fixing education inequality at the public school level.
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His mom's full statement shows more of the kind of benign racism well-meaning old people still have rather than the exclusionary and proactive racism that other old people have. "I'm glad our war led to the saving of so many heathen souls,." "Jesus Christ, the Collective American Grandma"
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weekly font posted:Scalia has definitely used the phrase "one of the good ones" at least five times during the course of his lovely, hateful life. Why are you lowballing?
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marshmonkey posted:Fixed
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mdemone posted:Does it seem that the technology will continue to make advances in the short term, or have we reached another sort of efficiency plateau for the time being? The evolution of solar's feasibility has been interesting to me, but I don't know where to get good information on it because as you say, there are interested parties suppressing the spread of that information. This article is worth reading: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/sunniest-climate-change-story-ever-read.html
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Electric Bugaloo posted:*This is actually where a lot of the most important recent development has been, which is why we are actually getting to a point where it's legitimately feasible and cost-effective (relatively speaking, of course) to implement at least part-solar or wind/solar systems in places like Europe, where it would've been easily considered unwise even a few years ago. Isn't there though that statistic that the likely hood of succeeding in school is based on the socioeconomic background you come from so students who come from poorer backgrounds do in fact have a less chance succeeding at school just because of that and it doesn't have anything at all to do with race. Also, that statement is kind of a " just being a dark thinker here" kind of statement or whatever Okay it's just kind of racist.
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Gravel Gravy posted:Well he's still in the race. Considering the handicap that Jeb! started with, burning through $50 mil to stay in the race in fourth or fifth place ins't too bad.
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When should I expect a permanent schism between Trump and the GOP establishment?
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Grouchio posted:When should I expect a permanent schism between Trump and the GOP establishment? July 21, 2016.
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marshmonkey posted:Fixed  He tried so hard to carry on the Bush legacy
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marshmonkey posted:Fixed His eye is still a plain white sphere.
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CommieGIR posted:
Jeb didn't even need the pretzel to choke.
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Hollismason posted:Isn't there though that statistic that the likely hood of succeeding in school is based on the socioeconomic background you come from so students who come from poorer backgrounds do in fact have a less chance succeeding at school just because of that and it doesn't have anything at all to do with race. Yeah, but race and socioeconomic background go together in America like chocolate, peanut butter, and a long history of racial oppression. Really, it's a nuanced, complicated issue that has its roots in several different manifestations of inequality. So basically a nonstarter for anyone who thinks something like BLM is "extreme."
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Joementum posted:And Roberts spent most of his time today asking when it's all going to end, apparently. Dude is very eager for Post Racial America. According to his comments after gutting the CRA, racism in this country was ended when Obama was elected president. He's probably just angry that the rest of the country hasn't seemed to realize that yet.
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I'm gathering that the right wing's defense on Islamaphobia is now using Carter's deportation of Iranian students. I'm seeing it all over my facebook with people arguing back and forth all over the place. For me its apple and oranges, and I would have been just as pissed then as I am now about Trump's ideas actually being considered reasonable reactions. I was only 8 or 9 when this happened, so I was thinking of asking if anyone here knows the background on this? I could only find links to right wing sites and crowing blogs. All I have gathered so far is that it happened during the hostage crisis, Carter gave some officials the power to actively search for students with expired visas and deport them, then restricted (the right wing sites say 'banned') incoming Iranians. I didn't want to get into a discussion on freaking Facebook on it until I knew more about the background and context. Personally, I'm curious abut it and I'll probably just quietly start culling my Facebook friend's list over the next week. Arguing with most people on FB isn't going to change their minds one iota.
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