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Rastor posted:But that will never be politically feasible so gently caress it, go hog wild with solar and wind If we are already having serious arguments about packing the court then nothing should be considered politically unfeasible. Writing off things that are good "but will never ever happen" is one of the things that led to Trump in the first place.
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Joementum posted:He tried taking reasonable measures against bad stuff happening. The company didn't want to upgrade the plant because that was too expensive and didn't want to shut the plant down because then they'd lose money. Only after ten years of reports of leaks and contamination which were all ignored by the NRC, despite Vermont's delegation trying to get them to act, did the company finally admit that it was going to cost too much to clean up and start winding down the plant. vermont yankee's above ground
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youd think theyd be finally trying to pin point what the definition of "is" is
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:Even for governments nuclear is getting pretty non-competitive with solar given the latter's continual price collapse. Plus since the whole global warming thing is fairly time-dependent it sure is nice to be able to put up shitloads of solar panels almost immediately as opposed to waiting for your nuclear plant to pass inspection in like 2035. the thing is that we will never be able to completely replace coal and natural gas using just solar and wind we need nuclear too, and we need a lot of it. yes, even if it's more expensive. yes, even if the negative externalities would affect the people near the plant rather than the people near the solar panel factory. yes, it takes loving forever to build a nuclear plant...but that's why we should start building out nuclear now rather than waiting until it's genuinely urgent. also, that sort of unprofitable but crucial infrastructure development is the exact kind of thing that should be handled by the federal government rather than private industry we also need a sane solution to nuclear waste. but that's a very solvable problem, it's just that there's no political will to solve it. imo, anyone who wants to get all NIMBY about nuclear waste storage should be given a choice between taking a bath in solar panel manufacturing waste or swimming across a coal slurry holding pool. if they do it and survive, then we can listen to their complaints about nuclear waste
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To be fair in engineering circles there's a hell of a difference between "shall" and "may" Of course in this case they are just being technocratic corporate tools
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Main Paineframe posted:the thing is that we will never be able to completely replace coal and natural gas using just solar and wind We probably can if we really want to, especially if we keep investing in things like batteries. Or at least it is a way lower bar to clear than nationalizing the energy industry and getting politicians to build nuclear plants in the face of probable local opposition.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:vermont yankee's above ground 
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If I jumped into that would I turn into Dr. Manhattan?
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Feldegast42 posted:If I jumped into that would I turn into Dr. Manhattan? nah you'll come out like that dude in robocop.
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Feldegast42 posted:If I jumped into that would I turn into Dr. Manhattan? youll come out looking like ted cruz
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There are no jokes about oxford commas. Only truth and lies.
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Feldegast42 posted:If I jumped into that would I turn into Dr. Manhattan? no but you might get some cool cancers from the beta radiation
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also, we should nationalize the hamptons and use that as the national nuclear waste dumping ground also put anyone with a home there under house arrest
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Main Paineframe posted:the thing is that we will never be able to completely replace coal and natural gas using just solar and wind galaxy brain take incoming: nationalize power generation and put the military (navy) in charge. less rah rah war poo poo (also running ships into things lmbo), more power
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regular brain: passing laws to nationalize things piecemeal which will take decades to get through the courts because of constitutional challenges galaxy brain: nationalize everything under the control of the navy or post office to make them 100% constitutional
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Matt Zerella posted:https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1016803526788505601 Not even the first time this has been done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8od9__PeMs Not even the second: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tLwHiq4ORA Or the third: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4LmMTTjQI
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poo poo, depending on how far back you wanna go, you could even count Queen for a Day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wswgwrIluzo Or Strike it Rich: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEgbgRd7yHA
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Cerebral Bore posted:The SCOTUS problem is very simple: When Prez Bernie takes office he should just announce that the court has clearly overstepped its bounds and order the entire federal government to ignore any rulings coming from it until such a time that it's cleaned up its act, and then he should just dare any motherfucker to stop him. Even an actual leftist president wouldn't have the guts to do this extremely necessary thing.
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Just about everyone I know with student loan debt has more than what a sports car is worth. A corvette is only around $50k
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galenanorth posted:I meant to say that the study authors referenced by this page's Table 2, were examining the impact of immigration on wages, not whether wages declined during the period of immigration. I'm assuming the study authors, who looked at 1990+, took the possibility of a labor shortage into account. Your point still makes intuitive sense to me, though. Could you offer a citation? richard wolff makes a point that the question is too complicated to make a summation of whether or not americans are worse or better off with immigrants my main point is that you can't just simply look at just whether american wages or employment has remained the same w/ immigrants and decree immigrants have no negative effect. before the 1970s american compensation increased for 100 years with their productivity. after the 1970s, american compensation has completely flatlined. to herald american compensation staying the same as evidence that immigration has no negative impact is absurd. you could be a liberal economist and do the same thing with offshoring american labor and make the same absurd conclusions. comedyblissoption has issued a correction as of 17:34 on Jul 11, 2018 |
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The Nastier Nate posted:Just about everyone I know with student loan debt has more than what a sports car is worth. A corvette is only around $50k 
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Feldegast42 posted:If we are already having serious arguments about packing the court then nothing should be considered politically unfeasible. Writing off things that are good "but will never ever happen" is one of the things that led to Trump in the first place. The right wingers don't want it because the fossil fuels companies pay better than the nuclear industry The centrists don't want it because they are coastal NIMBY elitists who consider coming out against it an easy win because it doesn't affect them personally The leftists don't want it because Fukushima erased the last of any ecological bona fides it had and they're convinced we don't need it to go carbon neutral (they may be right about that) I'm open to creative angles, I'm just openly admitting I can't think of any
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1017079338385203206?s=19 It's happening Edit: it's Sanchez of California.
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1017079338385203206?s=19 Take Steny Hoyer with you Also, lol that Joe Crowley's website has that wet fart "better deal" slogan right on the homepage https://crowley.house.gov/
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1017079338385203206?s=19 hm. she's calling for the top three House Democrats to retire the fourth-ranking House Democrat is already gone she's the fifth-ranking House Democrat 
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How many need to retire for Barbara Lee to take it by sheer succession?
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1017079338385203206?s=19 inshfuckenallah
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Gene Hackman Fan posted:I'm guessing Sanchez is still pretty suck for sitting that high up the depth chart. Quick glance at 538's tracker has her in the bottom quintile for Trump votes: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/congress-trump-score/house/ The new Speaker really should be Barbara Lee though
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nansy pepsi retire binch
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