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Yeah, adding the CCS makes the whole thing as expensive as nuclear.
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It could, but in practice never is; it's always things like "we want you to put street numbers on your drivers license, but the reservations don't have street numbers" or "We'll accept concealed carry permits, but not student IDs" or "gee, urban residents are less likely to have a driver's license, let's mandate that"
This appears to be aimed at subsidizing the construction of a gas-burning power plant, rather than achieving a reduction in net CO2 emissions
This appears to be aimed at subsidizing the construction of a gas-burning power plant, rather than achieving a reduction in net CO2 emissions
One more reason to never vote for the guy; you never know when he's going to decide he doesn't like your state, and lets it rot during a disaster.
[Archived copy of the article](https://web.archive.org/web/20241004195617/https://heatmap.news/economy/california-gas-electrification-law)
Archived copies of the article: * [web.archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20241004183608/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurricane-helene-made-me-a-climate-change-refugee/) * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Eemjw) * [archive.today](https://archive.ph/MKzW2)
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They don't much care what we think, so it's likely not about anything other than short-term concern that being pro-poison might affect the election.
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Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.
If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we don't, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.
![](https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/661768d8-d358-465d-8c74-0b44d9783d4d.png) The way voter ID laws like this prevent citizens from voting is generally considered a feature — by restricting ID forms common among the young, such as student IDs, they change the makeup of the electorate to favor Republicans.
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It's probably ordinary cyanoacrylate "super" glue which sets in about 30 seconds. You can unstick somebody using a chemical solvent.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has written an [op-ed piece in The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/30853358/keir-starmer-great-british-industry-net-zero/) promising "I will not sacrifice Great British industry to the drum-banging, finger-wagging Net Zero extremists" Which means he's willing to sacrifice all the industry to appease the fossil fuels industry.
Access options: * [gift link](https://wapo.st/4exdKMM) - includes all animations, but requires registration * [archive.today](https://archive.is/4F7WR) - animated graphics broken * [ghostarchive.org](https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ZjeSN) - includes animations
The paper is [here](https://scijournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ese3.1934)
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Right. There's impeachment, but actually using it to remove people from power requires a supermajority, which makes it substantially ineffective against a criminal political party
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They actually built a database of willing sycophants as part of it.
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In general, preventing abuse via static rules is really difficult. People who want to abuse the system are innovative. Most systems really depend on having people who respond to the abuse by stopping it more than having specific written rules to block the kinds of abuse that have happened in the past.
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Political change tends to be like that — nothing at all for a long period when you don't have the power to act, and sudden rapid change when you do.
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Mostly because the progressives didn't control them in the early 1900s, so they don't have legislature-bypassing initiatives, and even in states where you do have that, it's expensive to get one through.
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While I've known that for a while, a lot of the press was in utter denial months after he gave this money, as with this NYT article dated December 10, 2022
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Four states don't use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:
- Alaska - uses a top-4 primary + ranked choice general
- Maine - uses ranked choice voting
- California & Washington - use top-two primaries (note: CA can be top-3 if there is a tie for 2nd place)
If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don't see any of them actually doing that though.
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They wanted to redact witness names before releasing it.
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J.D. Vance Freaks Out Over the Slightest Pushback in V.P. Debate
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The whole modern commercial web is like that. Pretty much unusable without uBlock origin or the likes.
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Yep. Needs to have both clearly cheaper up-front costs and longer-term costs paid by the property owner.
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The common causes of that are:
- Device needs reboot
- You've disabled javascript
- You're running a browser extension which removes the gift token from the URL
I'm guessing it's the disabled javascript; the Boston Globe has a paywall for anybody who has it enabled.
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It appears possible to scroll the window where you don't have accept/cookie settings buttons fully visible.
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This is a gift articles community; there's already no paywall on the main link. You may need to turn on Javascript or turn off a browser extension which removes the access token from the URL.
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Against the government is a pretty tough lift in terms of how US law works. Against specific bad actors, there are a lot of lawsuits already.