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For the same reason all those powerful and rich people who were part of that ped0phile sex ring were protected; there is a two-tiered justice system, in which rich and powerful people can get away with almost anything.
Poor person gets caught stealing a wallet -> Could get 1 year in jail.
CEO gets caught stealing a many millions from people's pensions -> The company pays a fine, maybe CEO gets fired, gets to keep his bonus and possibly exits with a golden parachute.
It's funny, good music, and looks hot, but you are fooling yourself that Trump and Melania are 'country folk'. Trump is a white collar criminal from New York, who imported his wife from a Eastern European country, through his best friend, the main villain in the global cabal that abuses children. Epstein was everything that right-wing conspiracy theorists shouted about from the rooftops. Since they never provided any evidence and all their claims turned out to be nonsense, I didn't believe it. But, damn, it turned out to be true, and actually covered-up for a long time by the powerful elites: governments, media, law enforcement, and corporations all turned out to be complicit or actively hiding the truth. And your president was heavily involved in all of it. It wasn't just Epstein, it was also Jean-Luc Brunel, who operated in Trump Tower. He collaborated with or intersected with Trump Model Management in the late 1990s–early 2000s (shared spaces, scouting pipelines, industry overlap). Multiple women accused Brunel of sexual assault and trafficking. He was formally charged in France in 2021 for r@ping of minors and trafficking. Brunel died in 2022 while in pretrial detention (ruled a suicide). Another global ped0phile cabal villain tied to Trump, and another suicide!
Since most of Trump's (former) best friends are implicated, QAnon is now 'vewy qwiet'.
Trump is the quintessential “carpetbagger”, a wealthy, opportunistic Northerner,
who exploits the Southerners. I cannot feel sorry for you, if you are this stupid.
the video was a joke to laugh at,nothing to take serious.
And why during TRumps first term did things improve for the southern people? At least all the communities around here improved. Second term, he is trying to fix the root problems of America,and getting alot of static because he fighting fire with fire.
What did Trump specifically do, first or second term, to improve things for the southern people?
The root problem in America today is the incredible wealth inequality, and he has exacerbated that. He could have fixed some trade problems with targeted tariffs,
I am not against them in general, but the way he used them is so incredibly dumb.
That's the problem with voting for a president who doesn't understand anything.
If he at least would have brought in some experts, it could have turned out OK,
but he brought in inept loyalists, who just do all the stupid shit he tells them to do.
Name another man she coulda married that would have gotten her into the White house while still in her prime?
All I am hearing is crickets.
IF Trump curled up and died in the morning, Melania would have a good chance at a place in government simply because of her presence in the White house as first lady.
Why the fuck does she need to be in the White House?
She doesn't even like living there, and almost never is.
Do you ever see her look happy?
With your dumb-ass regime, I give it a good chance that she would get a position
in the government, for that dumb reason alone. Does she have even 1 real skill,
that you can point to, that would actually qualify her for that?
'DEI' for former Eastern European model trophy wives?
What rock are you living under? What woman in her right mind wouldn't want to be the first lady in the white house? the highest position for a wife in the country?
it's a ego thing.
An 'ego thing' to get value passed down from your husband's 'achievement'?
Damn, you're living in the middle ages.
Do you understand the humiliation she suffers from being required to support
her husband, while he has been shown to have payed off a model and a porn-star to hide his sexual indiscretions, while she was pregnant, have to call his perversions "locker room talk", know that his name is the Epstein files many thousands of times, with lots of clear claims that he was cheating on her,
with under@ge girls?
Do you think she needs evidence? She knows who she married, by now.
What rock are you living under, thinking that her 'ego' was boosted in any way?
If you cannot see the question "When will you finally die?" in her eyes,
every time she looks at her husband, you are blind as a bat.
Damn, I would almost go see her movie, if wasn't such a witch herself.
Women today might want to be in the White House as PRESIDENT.
The type of Melania just wants a wealthy man, who gives her a luxurious life. Some might want to be a first lady like Jackie Kennedy, who was respected by her husband, and got to be First Lady as a position with at least some substance, in a modern way.
Melania is just dragged along as a prop. And from day one, she got disrespected by her husband directly and humiliated by his actions indirectly. Not even the gold-digger tradwife that you make her out to be, has the lack
of agency, to accept this level of humiliation.
Why hasn't she got a divorce yet? Prenups? Fear? Have you seen what happens to people who are disloyal to Trump?
Trump should have kicked the bucket by now, the way his health has been deteriorating. Some doctors only give him a few months. No way that he still has many years. Melania thinks she can wait it out. That time is not worth the risk.
I haven't went to watch it and don't plan to. It doesn't seem to be a movie of any intrest to me.
I can't remember which order they came in,I could research it I guess but I think "Day after Tomorrow" or "The Village" was the last 2 movies I saw in a theater. cost to much and "The Village" took what coulda been a good story and made a mess of it. todays movies are boring,all fake and to much dei and such for my interest. Now if they made movies like "Bullit" or "True Grit" nowadays, I might be interested.
Something about Russia.
Did you guys know that,
despite the promises that
elections are free and run
by local authorities and
verified by independent observers,
they are, in reality, under the total control of the taste?
I'm mentioning this because putin
says he never interferes, but he does?
I wonder if the maga people, who often side with putin, see no problem with the elections in Russia. I wouldn't be surprised if die-hard maga like phart say that the elections in Russia are fair and properly run by the Russia Republics, and not controlled by the Russian federation, that is, putin. I simply wonder.
Well most of what I read along time ago about the russian election process is there was only 1 candidate and it was basically a waste of time to even vote although people were expected to anyway. I will say I am willing to bet the security around the voting locations is better than in the US.
I am surprised and would not be surprised if a voting location hasn't been or might be a terrorist target in the future here in the US. Soft targets.
I am also willing to bet that russians wouldn't mind confirming they are legal russian citizens in order to vote. Unlike some idiots here in the US that think it is RACIST to ask for a legal id to vote.
Phart, it’s not racist to ask for a legal ID. It is racist to expect the voter to PAY for that ID. The majority of the voters that are financially challenged to pay for it are, by a large majority, black or brown skinned. They are also, by a majority, mostly left leaning, Democrats. And that’s why the GOP has been pushing for this knowing that it would restrict Democrats from voting. It wouldn’t take much to provide mobile ID making buses but they won’t.
Why should anyone pay for an election ID? If needed, the governement ought to provide it for free. It's like paying to have a tax ID or a medical ID, etc.
Um, so most of the poor people are democrat. So they actually are victims of their voting and still aint got enough sense to vote the other way?? Oh well, go hungry dumbass's.
I can agree with that. I do feel like our election process needs better security, more id requirements and so forth.There may not be that many illegal votes, but it's the thought that counts with some people to know they can trust the system to be secure by using ID's and such
Perhaps to see why so many American soldiers, kids mostly, died there to fight for Europe.
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Or do you think like the Clown and think they were suckers?
No they went to fight a universal threat to the world as they knew it at the time.
Things are a bit different now and a person like Hitler could not gain the control of so much as was done back in more primitive times.
Europe has some fucked up ways or people woulda never left if it was a utopia. I think religious freedom is what brought some over here in the beginning. My german ancestors came over to start a new and better life, something must not have suited them in germany then.
True but all that has changed. Europe as a whole is as big a democracy as the United States. No entity is perfect but that is amply demonstrated by the current state of our country and its horrible national government.
Um, The autobahn, The Beatle, the Jet engine, even the color of law enforcement flashing lights,all due to hitler. thanks to ananas for telling me about the blue lights
It was the time that everything was developing in the world.
Those advancements could have been achieved without an ideology of hate.
An ideology of hope would have created better, without all the suffering.
Hitler wasted incredible resources on this ideology of hate.
All those resources could have been invested much wiser.
Hitler's actions put the world back decades.
Do you know what put the world back in order? Socialist methods.
- Welfare states (healthcare, pensions, unemployment insurance)
- Public housing
- Nationalization of some industries
- Strong labor rights
- Progressive taxation
All over the world, leaders agreed that these socialist methods were needed to rebuild the economy and society, and it resulted in the fastest recovery ever. And then after, these measures were kept in place to recover all the debt that was created by the war and the recovery. It created prosperity like we have never seen.
And then the greedy demands of the rich were listened to again.
Taxes for the rich were combined with austerity for the working class.
And now the working class is getting poorer and poorer, and angry.
And the powerful use an ideology of hate to distract the people from their failures.
This is exactly what Hitler did, and people are falling for it AGAIN.
That's because people like you are unable to learn from history.
And that's why you are parroting this idea that Hitler created progress.
And maybe he did, for a short while, and then it turned to UTTER DESTRUCTION.
Which is what always happens in the world, when people pick leaders like that.
Why don't you learn from how the world recovered after that stupid mistake?
Look at how this phart operates in struggling to compose a response. I said that Americans who wear maga hats are NOT welcome in Europe. Which is a fact. I'm in Rotterdam at the moment and conducting some discussions
I've met no one who supports trumpists. Same thing in Rome. Same in London. In fact, I've met nobody during the last year or so who sympathises even remotely with maga.
That's all a fact.
What does phart do?
He diverts the topic entirely talking of what "his ancestors did a few hundred years ago".
I'll analyse not this response further but it's obvious that his only means of responding is by entirely diverting the topic. Much like what his fuhrer is doing, as well as his minions.
And he expects a response. lol
And when you go back to the original posting, he diverts again
And again
And again
And again....
It's all written down, so it can be checked.
Poor phart, his responses resemble feces 💩 coming out of reactionary orifices.
You are just unwilling to accept the fact that good can come from anywhere. Al Capone came up with the idea of soup kitchens. would you rather the people had starved since Capone was a gangster?
STOP MAKING EXCUSES TO JUSTIFY
YOUR SUPPORT FOR HITLER!
(AND ALL OTHER DICTATORS
LIKE YOUR CURRENT FÜHRER.)
Glad you fell for my trap again.
I just wanted to show to the
good people here, like
CAT52! and Ananas2xLekker,
what kind of inhuman dirty fascist
you are, not that they had any
doubt at all. You do not belong
to the human species, you've
nothing in common.
Like I have said before,you are fucked up as a football bat and have NO common sense.
Don't drink Fanta, don't fly in a jet plane and don't call law enforcement just to name a few things affected by hitler. Never said he was a good guy. Just saying good can be found even from his work, sad you can't see the point.Matter of fact it proves how fucking Stupid you really are.
No I don't, I'm just NOT picking a main course of poison,
for a little chocolate mint on the side,
I go for the main course of 'as good as I can possibly find'.
ChatGPT: Al Capone did NOT come up with the idea of soup kitchens. Soup kitchens existed long before Capone’s time. They were started in the late 19th century and early 20th century as charitable efforts to feed the poor, especially during economic crises. For example, during the Great Depression (1929–1939), many soup kitchens were already operating across the United States. What Capone did do was fund a very famous soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression in 1931. He reportedly served free meals to thousands of people, partly as a public relations move to improve his image during a time when he was notorious for crime. That’s probably why people mistakenly associate him with “inventing” the idea, but he only popularized it locally in Chicago.
Still ridiculous that Chicago needed a gangster for some social safety net.
Leopoldij is making lots of good arguments, he's just less sensitive with it. lol
"You are just unwilling to accept the fact that good can come from anywhere"
was clearly related to my comments too.
Maybe you would even agree that communism achieved some good things. This is a list that you might agree on for at least some points. It's picked with
a capitalist perspective:
1. Rapid Industrialization
Many communist countries industrialized quickly, turning backward economies into industrial powers.
Example: The USSR went from a largely agrarian country to a global industrial and military power in just a few decades.
2. Space Exploration
The space race was heavily driven by communist states.
Example: Sputnik (first satellite) and Yuri Gagarin (first human in space) were huge achievements for humanity, not just ideology.
3. Scientific and Technological Advances
Significant investments in basic science, medicine, and technology came out of communist countries.
Example: Cuba has medical research and biotech innovations that are exported worldwide.
4. Infrastructure Projects
Big infrastructure projects like dams, railways, and industrial plants were often built efficiently.
Example: Massive hydroelectric projects in the USSR and China boosted energy capacity. High speed rail in China is primarily government-controlled and funded, and far ahead of the American rail system.
5. Universal Education
Basic literacy and education programs were highly effective.
Example: Soviet literacy campaigns raised literacy rates from ~40% to over 90% in decades. That’s a practical skill everyone can appreciate.
6. Public Health Achievements
Some communist systems built strong public health systems that improved survival rates.
Example: Cuba has one of the best doctor-to-patient ratios in the world and very low infant mortality compared to its economic peers.
7. Resistance to Colonialism and Foreign Domination
Communist movements sometimes helped countries gain independence or resist foreign control.
Example: Vietnam defeating French and later U.S. forces, Cuba’s support for anti-colonial movements in Africa.
In general; the USSR forced the US to technically develop, by competition.
And to beat them, the US mostly used government funding too.
Europe is much much more diverse than the US and and I love it that nobody around has guns. Unlike in the US or Kazakhstan. Also, people are in general more aware of the world here than in the US. Of course, this is changing.
That's because you live in the boonies and think of the world in a very perverse distorted way, exactly like a typical short-sighted ignorant American.
No surprises here.
Your answer confirms precisely what the whole world this about you and your likes.
Actually I don't live in the "boonies" anymore due to greedy developers. I can see the skyscrapers of a nearby major city from where i live because I live on some of the highest elevations in this area. Frankly I wish I did live more in the boonies, crime is less of a problem and most folks in the boonies have a back hoe if you need 1.
All the places I seem to be unwelcome according to you are places I have no need to fucking go in the first place.
You aint welcome in America far as I am concerned but you know what? If you came here, long as you had money to spend, you wouldn't be ran off. We will gladly take your money.
And your pathetic little kingdom would be more than happy for me to come over and spend my money there as well. It's all about the money.
Phart posted
So they are already having issues with charging electric cars?
Sheesh,what about in 5 years? The power company are not permited to build new power plants.Solar and wind are going to be important to keep the grid up. But that didn't work in Texas did it?
They make a lot of energy in Texas,but how many folks died over the winter this past 1?
Angel1227!
So a private, for profit, company did not plan on a hard winter so their production of electricity was not sufficient? And this utility, regulated by the states, failed to meet the demands? This state (Texas) governed by Repukers was not regulated correctly so this company spent less on production and got richer because of it? This sounds very much like a Repuker business idea.
Regulation? Hahaha,look at californicated, that is what happens when you over regulate. No one can trim trees off the lines, the power company has to cut power off in high winds,that is the result of Liberal-democrat regulation. Hug the trees,to hell with the humans.
I fault the power companys in texas to a point but I also fault the citizens for lack of preparedness.
The power companies in Texas are now have trouble providing enough power for air-conditioning. The problem in the winter were not a fluke. It happens again only months later. Prices for power skyrocketed again. Many people again received electric bills for thousands of dollars. Texas' power market is not a good example of 'good' deregulation.
Face it, sometimes you need regulation, especially for basic facilities like power.
Did I mention California? Was this the subject of the conversation? This is about Texas and it’s power company. Phart reply to this or open another thread.
I posted a link to a news report about california having issues with electric car charging,
And I then mentioned the issues in texas with electricity.
What everyone is missing here is the fact there is NOT enough electricity being produced to meet CURRENT demand.As Ananas has indicated.So imagine if you will,5-10 years from now,when there is GREATER demand? What a mess we are in for.
Regulation is not the solution. that is how you GOT TO THIS POINT. To many regulations preventing new power plants being built and trying to snuff out coal,a effective energy source.
Phart do you think power companies sat down in the 1920’s and said, “We are building for the future so, in 1945, we stop because there’ll be too many regulations to conduct business”?
You think that if they are running short they won’t try to catch up? The regulations you protest are there to protect the people and the environment. But, knowing how you think, fuck that. Let coal continue to pollute. We’ll be dead by the time our grandkids die of poisoned air.
newest nuclear power plant started in 2016.
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Only 2 under construction according to this chart.
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The US shut down how many? lets see
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Now, we shut down 39 and we are building 2. Does that sound like regulations are helping any? 2, there are 50 states. So state regulation is not changing anything where it may be either.
If you want coal gone,you need to have a replacement handy before hand.
Maybe those old reactors have become very dangerous over time and/or they are not as efficient as the new ones.
Nuclear power is not the solution. There are 80 sites in the United States where nuclear waste is stored. Some of it is stored temporary in a location that is not safe long term. The best uranium sites are already running out and it's getting ever more expensive to mine the stuff.
That waste has to be looked after for the next 20,000 to 1M years, before it's safe. Humanity probably kills itself before that or there might be a few survivors that don't know how to keep the waste safe and radiation will finish them off. But who cares, right?
Well Ananas, at least we have some common ground, I h@te nuclear and wish people would have enough sense to study other ideas.
I just used nuclear here because MOST tree huggers-liberals,think nuclear is the answer.And it has Ooodles of issues that take Many years to deal with.
Actually, I even prefer fossil fuels over nuclear, even though I'm a tree hugger-liberal. Nuclear might be a bit better on carbon emissions when the reactor is built, but building new ones creates so much emissions, it takes 20 years to recover.
Another problem is that nuclear reactors take ages to start up and stop again, which is not practical as backup for solar and wind. Fossil fuels are at least needed until we have enough geothermal, hydro (incl. wave), biofuel, biogas, hydrogen, chemical storage (formic acid), thermal energy storage, battery storage and whatever I forgot or they think up next.
qoute "Reducing the overall demand for electricity makes it easier for renewables like solar and wind to fill the gap, and targeted projects can reduce demand on the grid at peak times."
Eh so more electric cars will reduce demand?
I know you are not a engineer,but even you should be able to figure out that can't work.
I don't pretend to be an engineer, but, I do know electric vehicles will not burn fossil fuels and pollute. If (and it looks like they are) the local electric companies can't handle the load they will have to upgrade. Eventually they will reach parity. Again, I say to you, if a problem exists, there will have to be an adjustment. Electric companies are allowed by government to be monopolies, but, they can loose it all if they can't provide proper service.
Coal is pretty much done as an industry. Not just because of regulations, but because investors and insurers are now backing away. If we all switch to electric cars soon, there's definitely a challenge to provide that electricity, but the overall power consumption will go down. Electric cars are more efficient. Now, I'm not talking about Tesla's that do 0 to 60 in 2 s and are comparable to a Porsche, but sensible electric cars that are appearing now.
It's nice to see that the world is moving towards new energy solutions, such as electric cars. We can't afford burning fossil fuels any longer. I'm glad to see that everyone agrees on that. Perhaps Saudi Arabia will be unhappy, but that country is a militant dictatorship with
groas violations of human rights, so the US or Europe don't need them as an ally.
Um, who do you think backed the loans for the solar farms around here? Saudi Arabia.
If they can't sell us oil ,they will make their money on interest from loans.
We could afford to use fossil fuels if we could finish our pipelines and drill in otherwise useless lands like up north in alaska where there is nothing but woods.
The alaskan pipeline built long ago,was supposed to be such a wildlife disaster,ha,the animals love it,it is warm near the pipeline.
Eh yea,some,but nuclear wipes out MILES of earth for 100's of years. Check out Chernobyl sometime.
California has MILES of coast line,Why are they not looking into this tech?
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Instead of wasting all that coast line for half naked people to lay around and spread covid,there could be power plants there!
NO pollution! No noise that is not already there,and erosion control! WOW,
Kansas,could be using wind and solar to help of course.
Another non polluting power source,
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Same here! No theorys posted, those are technology's already being tested and shown to work,perhaps just not as efficient as others.
I actually use some old equipment that is electric that was made way back before it was "cool" So I research alternative energy sources and what not for that reason. If I lived near a active stream,you better believe there would be a water wheel turning a old Gm alternator to charge back up batterys.
When I build a green house,yep,I will use geothermal to help with temp control.
If I lived next to a moving stream, I, too, would use it for power, however, you would need several deep discharged batteries and a back up energy system in case you deplete your batteries too fast. I would also go upstream a few hundred yards and divert some of the water through pipes to have energy free house water.
That sound very cool. I would love to do some tinkering like that.
Here are some fun do-it-yourself builds on YouTube.
I had seen them before and it made me regret living next to a stationary ditch.
Maybe there are some ideas you can use:
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the third link i watched the whole thing, very interesting,will get the other 2 tonight.
I DO NOT quite understand the amount of AMPS he is getting from that washing machine motor.
Here they say 600W should be possible. A washing machine motor will use 400 to 1300 watts. They might not be as efficient to generate the same amount, but can still do the job pretty well, as it seams and should be very easy to obtain.
Phart
How many Chernobyl’s do you know? One in the states, one in Japan, and one in Russia. Here, in Miami-Dade county, FP&L has been operating the local one over 50 yrs. Same in other cities around the state. And no pollution
3 mile island here in the US. Prompted a nation wide process of adding new cooling systems.1 of my neighbors worked on the crew that went around building it. Made a fortune doing it.
You don't hear about the Mcquire plant here in NC getting to hot but it did a few years ago. The tree huggers were angry because a type of fish was dieing from getting caught in the cooling system water.So they put a screen over the intake. Worked fine for a while. Until the screen clogged up with little fishes.A employee told me about it.
Here is a long list of potential accidents and how to deal with them
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Yea,I know,I got dizzy after 10 minutes of readin!
I can't see a coal plant being any where near as dangerous to operate
So what's your point? Just let any company kill whatever part of nature is in their way, because US companies are completely inadequate in solving any problem ever?
They can't even take in water, without sucking up all the fishes
Ananas2xlekker my point is that all companies have a responsibility to protect the environment. People are part of the environment. In this case, the “sucking up of all the fishes” is not because the plant is nuclear. Yes, the reactors do need cooling. Cooling canals and reservoirs are needed. In this case, some knucklehead got the idea to put a screen on the pickup line. Duh, a cheap fuckup because of a cheap fix. Seems to me that an industry that can build nuclear reactors to make electricity should be able to prevent “little fishies” from clogging the intake of cooling water. Spent nuclear fuel rods are a problem. Finding a location to store them safely is still a problem and hopefully it better be resolved soon.
According to the Rainforest Action Network. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous.
Like I said, “What you don’t see can be more dangerous.”
Managing the Chernobyl disaster has probably already cost more energy than several nuclear reactors will produce in their lifetime. The exclusion zone of Chernobyl; 2600 km², if filled with solar panels, would produce 234 TWh/year. That's about twice the whole electricity consumption of The Netherlands.
So we only would need half that exclusion zone filled with solar panels
and that would cost about 78 Billion Euro's. That would raise our national debt from 56.3% of GDP to 66.2% of GDP.
Jobs for all our unemployed people will pull that debt down soon enough.
You forget that the disaster in Chernobyl happened to a nuclear electric plant that would never be built in the US. According to the Atomic Energy Commission, this type of reactor was ver vulnerable to the disaster. The USSR didn’t care. Like the Chinese, they wanted results.
How about Fukushima?
Accidents happen. Even if the chance is 1:1M (historically proven it's much higher), when you multiply that risk by the number of nuclear power plants required, something catastrophic will happen at some point. Such catastrophes could cost more than the complete energy transition.
That's not worth it, because nuclear power is only a temporary solution, because the uranium will run out at some point. It's already becoming more and more expensive to mine the stuff.
Even if all those problems didn't exist, it still takes 10 years before any nuclear power plant has compensates his own build. But it first takes 10 years to build any. Then after 20 years, they are just as CO2 effecient as wind and solar. That's too late. We need to lower CO2 emissions ASAP.
Anyone with some money to spare can invest in their own solar panels,
lower their costs and be less dependent on power companies.
It's nice to have air-conditioning in a heat wave, when the government
is telling you not to use power or you can't afford it when power companies are charging you 100x the normal rate.
Fukushima’s disaster included the meltdown but IT WAS THE SUNAMI THAT CAUSED IT AND MOST OF THE DEVASTATION of that city. Last I’ve checked there are no dinamices happening in Kansas. I will give you this one. In Californicate state they’ve built one on the fault line. Engineer had too much Blow.
Isn't Kansas part of Tornado Alley?
There are al sorts of natural disasters, but it can also be a terrorist attack or a hacker or just basic human error.
Yes, it is but you can’t compare a wind storm, even a tornado, to a sunami. Our nuclear plant in Turkey Point went through several hurricanes . Hurricanes produce tornados inside the storm. Hurricane Andrews destroyed large swaths out of the county. Huge communities disappeared. The Turkey Point plan took it in stride.
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As far as anything else, we have to trust security will prevail. Every thing is a crapshoot. Hopefully we don’t roll snake eyes,
Or just choose all the many alternatives and don't build any new nuclear power plants. Why are you such a proponent of nuclear energy? What do you consider the advantage over truly sustainable energy technologies?
Except for solar energies nuclear is the most reliable. I guess I’m like a Trump supporter but with nuclear capability--------------------------------------- added after 11
I was talking to phart.
I also don't like nuclear energy and my arguments are in line with the science on climate change. That uranium has to be mined, which also emits CO2.
A nuclear power plant takes a lot of energy to be built and maintained.
Then afterwards we have to keep the waste safe for the next 20,000 years.
On the short term nuclear is about as energy/CO2 efficient as wind power and even less than solar. In the long term nuclear has a horrible energy/CO2 efficiency, because keeping the waste safe also costs energy. Also, building nuclear power plants takes a long time and lots of materials. It takes about 10 years before a nuclear power plant compensates his own build. That's about 1-1.5 years for wind energy and 2 years for solar. However solar is cheaper
on maintenance.
Other than that, I agree with most of what you said.
All energy technology costs money, materials, energy and land to build and maintain. All energy technology has downsides like pollution, mineral shortages, exploitation of people and CO2 emissions. We just need to stop with the worst energy technologies first and expand on the best ones the most.
It doesn't require completely changing our life or have impact on the quality of our life. However climate change already impacts our life and it will only get worse. We can either choose to accept some changes now and prevent total catastrophe later or we can deny the truth until catastrophe proves us wrong.
The Movie
Directed by Brett Ratner
a thug like his supporters.
Melania director Brett Ratner pictured cuddling woman in Epstein files
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But we knew that.
9 years ago, six women accused filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct
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Poor person gets caught stealing a wallet -> Could get 1 year in jail.
CEO gets caught stealing a many millions from people's pensions -> The company pays a fine, maybe CEO gets fired, gets to keep his bonus and possibly exits with a golden parachute.
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Since most of Trump's (former) best friends are implicated, QAnon is now 'vewy qwiet'.
Trump is the quintessential “carpetbagger”, a wealthy, opportunistic Northerner,
who exploits the Southerners. I cannot feel sorry for you, if you are this stupid.
And why during TRumps first term did things improve for the southern people? At least all the communities around here improved. Second term, he is trying to fix the root problems of America,and getting alot of static because he fighting fire with fire.
The root problem in America today is the incredible wealth inequality, and he has exacerbated that. He could have fixed some trade problems with targeted tariffs,
I am not against them in general, but the way he used them is so incredibly dumb.
That's the problem with voting for a president who doesn't understand anything.
If he at least would have brought in some experts, it could have turned out OK,
but he brought in inept loyalists, who just do all the stupid shit he tells them to do.
He's trying not to go to prison.
But let's get back to my posting.
Did I mention the you have the
strategy of diverting as much as
possible, just like your heil Hitler?
MELANIA
SHITY MOVIE
BY A SHITTY DIRECTOR
ABOUT A MAIL BRIDE,
AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT
“MELANIA” IS AS VACUOUS AS ITS SUBJECT
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All I am hearing is crickets.
IF Trump curled up and died in the morning, Melania would have a good chance at a place in government simply because of her presence in the White house as first lady.
She doesn't even like living there, and almost never is.
Do you ever see her look happy?
With your dumb-ass regime, I give it a good chance that she would get a position
in the government, for that dumb reason alone. Does she have even 1 real skill,
that you can point to, that would actually qualify her for that?
'DEI' for former Eastern European model trophy wives?
it's a ego thing.
Damn, you're living in the middle ages.
Do you understand the humiliation she suffers from being required to support
her husband, while he has been shown to have payed off a model and a porn-star to hide his sexual indiscretions, while she was pregnant, have to call his perversions "locker room talk", know that his name is the Epstein files many thousands of times, with lots of clear claims that he was cheating on her,
with under@ge girls?
Do you think she needs evidence? She knows who she married, by now.
What rock are you living under, thinking that her 'ego' was boosted in any way?
If you cannot see the question "When will you finally die?" in her eyes,
every time she looks at her husband, you are blind as a bat.
Damn, I would almost go see her movie, if wasn't such a witch herself.
Besides if she hated him as much as you make out like she does, why hasn't she got a divorce yet? that would bring him down to his knees.
I hear crickets.
The type of Melania just wants a wealthy man, who gives her a luxurious life. Some might want to be a first lady like Jackie Kennedy, who was respected by her husband, and got to be First Lady as a position with at least some substance, in a modern way.
Melania is just dragged along as a prop. And from day one, she got disrespected by her husband directly and humiliated by his actions indirectly. Not even the gold-digger tradwife that you make her out to be, has the lack
of agency, to accept this level of humiliation.
Why hasn't she got a divorce yet? Prenups? Fear? Have you seen what happens to people who are disloyal to Trump?
Trump should have kicked the bucket by now, the way his health has been deteriorating. Some doctors only give him a few months. No way that he still has many years. Melania thinks she can wait it out. That time is not worth the risk.
I can't remember which order they came in,I could research it I guess but I think "Day after Tomorrow" or "The Village" was the last 2 movies I saw in a theater. cost to much and "The Village" took what coulda been a good story and made a mess of it. todays movies are boring,all fake and to much dei and such for my interest. Now if they made movies like "Bullit" or "True Grit" nowadays, I might be interested.
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Did you guys know that,
despite the promises that
elections are free and run
by local authorities and
verified by independent observers,
they are, in reality, under the total control of the taste?
I'm mentioning this because putin
says he never interferes, but he does?
Do you agree
I am surprised and would not be surprised if a voting location hasn't been or might be a terrorist target in the future here in the US. Soft targets.
I am also willing to bet that russians wouldn't mind confirming they are legal russian citizens in order to vote. Unlike some idiots here in the US that think it is RACIST to ask for a legal id to vote.
Don't bet on anything.
So you agree that the Russian federation having total control is a bad thing?
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Approximately 300,000 to 350,000 U.S. service members (often referred to as GIs, though this term was popularized in WWII) died in the European Theater of Operations during the two World Wars combined, with the overwhelming majority occurring in World War II.
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Or do you think like the Clown and think they were suckers?
Things are a bit different now and a person like Hitler could not gain the control of so much as was done back in more primitive times.
Europe has some fucked up ways or people woulda never left if it was a utopia. I think religious freedom is what brought some over here in the beginning. My german ancestors came over to start a new and better life, something must not have suited them in germany then.
That's nice to hear from you, honestly. Thanks for saying that.
Those advancements could have been achieved without an ideology of hate.
An ideology of hope would have created better, without all the suffering.
Hitler wasted incredible resources on this ideology of hate.
All those resources could have been invested much wiser.
Hitler's actions put the world back decades.
Do you know what put the world back in order? Socialist methods.
- Welfare states (healthcare, pensions, unemployment insurance)
- Public housing
- Nationalization of some industries
- Strong labor rights
- Progressive taxation
All over the world, leaders agreed that these socialist methods were needed to rebuild the economy and society, and it resulted in the fastest recovery ever. And then after, these measures were kept in place to recover all the debt that was created by the war and the recovery. It created prosperity like we have never seen.
And then the greedy demands of the rich were listened to again.
Taxes for the rich were combined with austerity for the working class.
And now the working class is getting poorer and poorer, and angry.
And the powerful use an ideology of hate to distract the people from their failures.
This is exactly what Hitler did, and people are falling for it AGAIN.
That's because people like you are unable to learn from history.
And that's why you are parroting this idea that Hitler created progress.
And maybe he did, for a short while, and then it turned to UTTER DESTRUCTION.
Which is what always happens in the world, when people pick leaders like that.
Why don't you learn from how the world recovered after that stupid mistake?
I've met no one who supports trumpists. Same thing in Rome. Same in London. In fact, I've met nobody during the last year or so who sympathises even remotely with maga.
That's all a fact.
What does phart do?
He diverts the topic entirely talking of what "his ancestors did a few hundred years ago".
I'll analyse not this response further but it's obvious that his only means of responding is by entirely diverting the topic. Much like what his fuhrer is doing, as well as his minions.
And he expects a response. lol
And when you go back to the original posting, he diverts again
And again
And again
And again....
It's all written down, so it can be checked.
Poor phart, his responses resemble feces 💩 coming out of reactionary orifices.
You can't deny it.
And you're proud to be so.
Disgusting
YOUR SUPPORT FOR HITLER!
(AND ALL OTHER DICTATORS
LIKE YOUR CURRENT FÜHRER.)
Glad you fell for my trap again.
I just wanted to show to the
good people here, like
CAT52! and Ananas2xLekker,
what kind of inhuman dirty fascist
you are, not that they had any
doubt at all. You do not belong
to the human species, you've
nothing in common.
Don't drink Fanta, don't fly in a jet plane and don't call law enforcement just to name a few things affected by hitler. Never said he was a good guy. Just saying good can be found even from his work, sad you can't see the point.Matter of fact it proves how fucking Stupid you really are.
for a little chocolate mint on the side,
I go for the main course of 'as good as I can possibly find'.
ChatGPT: Al Capone did NOT come up with the idea of soup kitchens. Soup kitchens existed long before Capone’s time. They were started in the late 19th century and early 20th century as charitable efforts to feed the poor, especially during economic crises. For example, during the Great Depression (1929–1939), many soup kitchens were already operating across the United States. What Capone did do was fund a very famous soup kitchen in Chicago during the Great Depression in 1931. He reportedly served free meals to thousands of people, partly as a public relations move to improve his image during a time when he was notorious for crime. That’s probably why people mistakenly associate him with “inventing” the idea, but he only popularized it locally in Chicago.
Still ridiculous that Chicago needed a gangster for some social safety net.
"You are just unwilling to accept the fact that good can come from anywhere"
was clearly related to my comments too.
Maybe you would even agree that communism achieved some good things. This is a list that you might agree on for at least some points. It's picked with
a capitalist perspective:
1. Rapid Industrialization
Many communist countries industrialized quickly, turning backward economies into industrial powers.
Example: The USSR went from a largely agrarian country to a global industrial and military power in just a few decades.
2. Space Exploration
The space race was heavily driven by communist states.
Example: Sputnik (first satellite) and Yuri Gagarin (first human in space) were huge achievements for humanity, not just ideology.
3. Scientific and Technological Advances
Significant investments in basic science, medicine, and technology came out of communist countries.
Example: Cuba has medical research and biotech innovations that are exported worldwide.
4. Infrastructure Projects
Big infrastructure projects like dams, railways, and industrial plants were often built efficiently.
Example: Massive hydroelectric projects in the USSR and China boosted energy capacity. High speed rail in China is primarily government-controlled and funded, and far ahead of the American rail system.
5. Universal Education
Basic literacy and education programs were highly effective.
Example: Soviet literacy campaigns raised literacy rates from ~40% to over 90% in decades. That’s a practical skill everyone can appreciate.
6. Public Health Achievements
Some communist systems built strong public health systems that improved survival rates.
Example: Cuba has one of the best doctor-to-patient ratios in the world and very low infant mortality compared to its economic peers.
7. Resistance to Colonialism and Foreign Domination
Communist movements sometimes helped countries gain independence or resist foreign control.
Example: Vietnam defeating French and later U.S. forces, Cuba’s support for anti-colonial movements in Africa.
In general; the USSR forced the US to technically develop, by competition.
And to beat them, the US mostly used government funding too.
That was my point. You're a fascist all the way to the bone.
No surprises here.
Your answer confirms precisely what the whole world this about you and your likes.
Maga-asshole-americans
ARE UNWELCOME
everywhere in the world,
except Belarus, Russia, Hungary
and other dictatorships.
You aint welcome in America far as I am concerned but you know what? If you came here, long as you had money to spend, you wouldn't be ran off. We will gladly take your money.
And your pathetic little kingdom would be more than happy for me to come over and spend my money there as well. It's all about the money.
So they are already having issues with charging electric cars?
Sheesh,what about in 5 years? The power company are not permited to build new power plants.Solar and wind are going to be important to keep the grid up. But that didn't work in Texas did it?
They make a lot of energy in Texas,but how many folks died over the winter this past 1?
Angel1227!
So a private, for profit, company did not plan on a hard winter so their production of electricity was not sufficient? And this utility, regulated by the states, failed to meet the demands? This state (Texas) governed by Repukers was not regulated correctly so this company spent less on production and got richer because of it? This sounds very much like a Repuker business idea.
I fault the power companys in texas to a point but I also fault the citizens for lack of preparedness.
Face it, sometimes you need regulation, especially for basic facilities like power.
And I then mentioned the issues in texas with electricity.
What everyone is missing here is the fact there is NOT enough electricity being produced to meet CURRENT demand.As Ananas has indicated.So imagine if you will,5-10 years from now,when there is GREATER demand? What a mess we are in for.
Regulation is not the solution. that is how you GOT TO THIS POINT. To many regulations preventing new power plants being built and trying to snuff out coal,a effective energy source.
You think that if they are running short they won’t try to catch up? The regulations you protest are there to protect the people and the environment. But, knowing how you think, fuck that. Let coal continue to pollute. We’ll be dead by the time our grandkids die of poisoned air.
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Only 2 under construction according to this chart.
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The US shut down how many? lets see
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Now, we shut down 39 and we are building 2. Does that sound like regulations are helping any? 2, there are 50 states. So state regulation is not changing anything where it may be either.
If you want coal gone,you need to have a replacement handy before hand.
Nuclear power is not the solution. There are 80 sites in the United States where nuclear waste is stored. Some of it is stored temporary in a location that is not safe long term. The best uranium sites are already running out and it's getting ever more expensive to mine the stuff.
That waste has to be looked after for the next 20,000 to 1M years, before it's safe. Humanity probably kills itself before that or there might be a few survivors that don't know how to keep the waste safe and radiation will finish them off. But who cares, right?
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Like nuclear is the only alternative to coal.
I just used nuclear here because MOST tree huggers-liberals,think nuclear is the answer.And it has Ooodles of issues that take Many years to deal with.
Actually, I even prefer fossil fuels over nuclear, even though I'm a tree hugger-liberal. Nuclear might be a bit better on carbon emissions when the reactor is built, but building new ones creates so much emissions, it takes 20 years to recover.
Another problem is that nuclear reactors take ages to start up and stop again, which is not practical as backup for solar and wind. Fossil fuels are at least needed until we have enough geothermal, hydro (incl. wave), biofuel, biogas, hydrogen, chemical storage (formic acid), thermal energy storage, battery storage and whatever I forgot or they think up next.
Then there is off-course the waste and the risk.
Eh so more electric cars will reduce demand?
I know you are not a engineer,but even you should be able to figure out that can't work.
groas violations of human rights, so the US or Europe don't need them as an ally.
If they can't sell us oil ,they will make their money on interest from loans.
We could afford to use fossil fuels if we could finish our pipelines and drill in otherwise useless lands like up north in alaska where there is nothing but woods.
The alaskan pipeline built long ago,was supposed to be such a wildlife disaster,ha,the animals love it,it is warm near the pipeline.
California has MILES of coast line,Why are they not looking into this tech?
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Instead of wasting all that coast line for half naked people to lay around and spread covid,there could be power plants there!
NO pollution! No noise that is not already there,and erosion control! WOW,
Kansas,could be using wind and solar to help of course.
Another non polluting power source,
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When I build a green house,yep,I will use geothermal to help with temp control.
Every bit you can use of it is better than none at all.
Here are some fun do-it-yourself builds on YouTube.
I had seen them before and it made me regret living next to a stationary ditch.
Maybe there are some ideas you can use:
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I DO NOT quite understand the amount of AMPS he is getting from that washing machine motor.
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How many Chernobyl’s do you know? One in the states, one in Japan, and one in Russia. Here, in Miami-Dade county, FP&L has been operating the local one over 50 yrs. Same in other cities around the state. And no pollution
You don't hear about the Mcquire plant here in NC getting to hot but it did a few years ago. The tree huggers were angry because a type of fish was dieing from getting caught in the cooling system water.So they put a screen over the intake. Worked fine for a while. Until the screen clogged up with little fishes.A employee told me about it.
Here is a long list of potential accidents and how to deal with them
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Yea,I know,I got dizzy after 10 minutes of readin!
I can't see a coal plant being any where near as dangerous to operate
They can't even take in water, without sucking up all the fishes
According to the Rainforest Action Network. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous.
Like I said, “What you don’t see can be more dangerous.”
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chernobyl didn just happen and stop.It is still happening today.
Smog will go away at some point.
coal smoke can be filtered.Try filtering radiaton.
So we only would need half that exclusion zone filled with solar panels
and that would cost about 78 Billion Euro's. That would raise our national debt from 56.3% of GDP to 66.2% of GDP.
Jobs for all our unemployed people will pull that debt down soon enough.
Accidents happen. Even if the chance is 1:1M (historically proven it's much higher), when you multiply that risk by the number of nuclear power plants required, something catastrophic will happen at some point. Such catastrophes could cost more than the complete energy transition.
That's not worth it, because nuclear power is only a temporary solution, because the uranium will run out at some point. It's already becoming more and more expensive to mine the stuff.
Even if all those problems didn't exist, it still takes 10 years before any nuclear power plant has compensates his own build. But it first takes 10 years to build any. Then after 20 years, they are just as CO2 effecient as wind and solar. That's too late. We need to lower CO2 emissions ASAP.
Anyone with some money to spare can invest in their own solar panels,
lower their costs and be less dependent on power companies.
It's nice to have air-conditioning in a heat wave, when the government
is telling you not to use power or you can't afford it when power companies are charging you 100x the normal rate.
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There are al sorts of natural disasters, but it can also be a terrorist attack or a hacker or just basic human error.
BTW, instead of Kansas I could have picked West Virginia
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As far as anything else, we have to trust security will prevail. Every thing is a crapshoot. Hopefully we don’t roll snake eyes,
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I also don't like nuclear energy and my arguments are in line with the science on climate change. That uranium has to be mined, which also emits CO2.
A nuclear power plant takes a lot of energy to be built and maintained.
Then afterwards we have to keep the waste safe for the next 20,000 years.
On the short term nuclear is about as energy/CO2 efficient as wind power and even less than solar. In the long term nuclear has a horrible energy/CO2 efficiency, because keeping the waste safe also costs energy. Also, building nuclear power plants takes a long time and lots of materials. It takes about 10 years before a nuclear power plant compensates his own build. That's about 1-1.5 years for wind energy and 2 years for solar. However solar is cheaper
on maintenance.
Other than that, I agree with most of what you said.
All energy technology costs money, materials, energy and land to build and maintain. All energy technology has downsides like pollution, mineral shortages, exploitation of people and CO2 emissions. We just need to stop with the worst energy technologies first and expand on the best ones the most.
It doesn't require completely changing our life or have impact on the quality of our life. However climate change already impacts our life and it will only get worse. We can either choose to accept some changes now and prevent total catastrophe later or we can deny the truth until catastrophe proves us wrong.
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