Huntn00 @Huntn00@talkedabout.social
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
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psa:
please don't stare at trans people at the store
I know I have boobs and a deep voice but it's Costco, who cares
@tultican As I like to say this is not your Father’s or Grandfather’s GOP. My Father now 95 a long time Republican in a Republican family dumped the GOP during Dubya’s Administration and has never looked back, because it has only gone downhill since. You could say it drove off a cliff into it’s own personal fantasyland along with its Koolaid drinkers. Btw, Eisenhower did warn of the #MilitaryIndustrialComplex. I guess that explains the accusation. 🤔
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How extremists ‘won by losing’ - Bircher Robert Welch was infamous for his claim that Eisenhower was a “conscious, dedicated agent of the communist conspiracy.” Now he seems normal in the modern GOP. https://inschoolmatters.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/how-extremists-won-by-losing/ #conspiracytheories
@GreenFire I’m not against that but it would have to be affordable. I examined and rejected solar panels because of associated complications. A huge investment, you had better stay put for 20 years, or as is you’ll likely eat your investment. I may be moving in 5yr. Significant govt involvement needed imo or many home owners won’t be able to afford them.
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Not all of our power can be provided by solar panels on rooftops and covering parking lots so there will have to be companies producing power from wind turbines and such too despite my earlier reply, but there is plenty of that so I don't see any need to subsidize the nuclear energy industry.
I would much rather focus on deploying the technologies that are now available in order to more quickly decarbonize.
@GreenFire what do you have in mind? For thorium, there are reports that smaller reactors could be produced for use at more local areas. As I see it there would be the Feds, State or corporations until we can advance beyond the latter, another topic for a rousing discussion. 😊 why no Thorium? Very possible the #PetroIIndustrialComplex Congress has been in their pockets forever.
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I am a much bigger fan of producing power close to where it will be used instead of propping up big corporations so that they can profit off of people providing essential products personally.
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@vurtualtoby Welcome to the Fediverse!
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Tuberville praises $1.4 billion for broadband he voted against: Alabama GOP will ‘damn sure take credit,’ Doug Jones says - al.com https://www.al.com/news/2023/06/tuberville-praises-14-billion-for-broadband-he-voted-against-alabama-gop-will-damn-sure-take-credit-doug-jones-says.html
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I want to know why we don’t have thorium reactors on line today? 🙄
I’ve been reading about them for 30 years, the US experimented with them during WWII, choosing uranium instead cause of The Bomb. Plus thousands of barrels of nuclear waste radioactive for 10k years or something like that. 😶 Thorium by all reports is safe. China has one. An article last summer said DOE was starting a test reactor. IMO, we need to get this done sooner than later.
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Two of our "dependable" nuclear energy plants are not producing any electricity. Thank goodness the sun is shining, the wind is blowing, and electricity can be stored chemically in batteries though so we'll be okay. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/reactor-status/ps.html
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One of my continuing and growing concerns about climate financial risk is that no one has the authority to monitor economy-wide financial risk. I spoke with Chairman Powell about this last week (at the 2:37 mark). Short thread. https://www.c-span.org/video/?528798-1/monetary-policy-the-economy
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12. Under current law, that may be right. So let's change the laws. But when you're driving down the highway and see a car coming towards you, the responsible thing to do is to swerve - not to argue that you aren't allowed to drive in the other lane. /fin
@SeanCasten Thanks for the posts. I’m no expert at all, but States can make demands on Insurance Companies to operate in their State? I’ve seen distinct difference between Minn and Texas as to what must be covered.
Or citizens might expect something along the line of of Federal Flood Insurance at the State or Federal level
Sure, I can see The GOP getting on board with that. Maybe if one of their favorite corporations were asking? But just them, average citizens would not be worthy enough. 🤔
@Fawn@ohai.social Are people leaving? I’m ignorant or forgot, looked up BlueSky and saw 🧛♂️ Twitter closed the link quickly, and cleared my cookies. 😬
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Kinda odd that Yevgeniy Prigozhin was the subject of days of wall-to-wall press coverage and while I there were some references to his involvement in the Internet Research Agency, I didn't see any mention of the fact that he's under a felony indictment in the US for conspiring to get #Trump elected.
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My Administration has created more jobs in two years than any previous administration has created in the first four years.
It’s no accident. It means our economic plan is working and this is only the beginning.
@GW@newsie.social from Corporations: How much will this cut into our profits? Wait a minute, you want us to help pay for the fix?? 😱
Part2- #SCOTUS There is really not much mystery why minority majority states are under-represented.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/supreme-court-dismisses-louisiana-s-appeal-of-ruling-that-found-racial-gerrymandering/ar-AA1d3Duo
“In the Allen decision, the court effectively found that the state’s congressional lines likely violated the landmark piece of civil rights legislation. Even though Black people make up roughly a quarter of Alabama’s population, just one of the state’s seven congressional districts is majority Black — which the challengers attributed to racial gerrymandering.”
#PoliticalModerate #Independent, #SocialLiberal, #Agnostic, #Unions, #Veteran, retired airline pilot. Supports level playing fields, equal opportunity, and democracy, not how to twist it to my advantage; capitalism/corporation critic, 🚫Today’s GOP, 🚫MAGA. Human species pessimist, pondering the Great Filter and do we have the Right Stuff? 🇺🇸 Citizen residing in a blue enclave of Texas.
Joined May 2023
