As the days go by….

Oh, it has… just not in the ways anyone would desire to be considered exceptional.

I don’t get it. Current nuclear power solutions take longer to set up, have an effectively permanently harmful byproduct, have the (relatively small) potential to catastrophically fail, almost always depend on an abundant supply of fresh water, and are really expensive to build, maintain and decommission.

If someone ever comes up with a functional fusion reactor, I could see the allure; in all other cases, a mix of wind, wave, geothermal, hydro and solar, alongside energy storage solutions, will continually outperform fission.

I suspect that the reason some countries like nuclear energy is that it also puts them in a position of nuclear power on the political stage.

Are those nine year olds also allowed to vote?

I hope she’s your younger sister….

You’re only incorrect on one point: he’s not taking us into the past. There has never been a time in the past that was comparable to the future he’s dumping us into.

The problem is that he’s spread such a large volume of misinformation that people select bits of it that THEY want to believe and accept those lies as truth while dismissing the rest.

One of the lies is that he’s returning America to how it was in some mythical golden age. That’s not where he’s taking it at all. That lie just gets buried under the others.

Wouldn’t they have an uncertain future no matter who was in charge?

With Trump, the future is uncertain for everyone.

Yeah; he’ll stay in power long enough for that.

But he’s 78 years old. When he’s supposed to step down in 2029, he’ll be almost 83.

The average life expectancy of men in the US is currently 73.

Based on historical data for people Trump’s age and health in the US, he’s likely to die of natural causes before he’s 86.

So the longest he could likely hang on for is one more term than he’s supposed to.

Bingo!

But what’s been lost can always be found.

Who says that was me?

Wait… why would the leader of the face eating leopard party appoint a LEOPARD to the post of Facial Analysis?

The thing is, a message that’s simple, resonates, and allows people to blame others will always win out over a message calling people to pull their own weight and do the complicated but correct things.

I try to blend in and avoid posting my main privacy activities in public.

Despite what they say, while obfuscation may not be secure, it sure helps with privacy.

If he runs again anyway, what are you going to do? Sue the POTUS in federal court?

Some of them are talking publicly about Gaetz, so they might. Or, Trump might nominate so many other Russian assets that Gabbard looks goid in comparison and sneaks through. Or, recess might be called, allowing Trump to appoint his entire slate of doom with no opposition.

We’ll find out in February.

I’d say the comparison between Edison and Musk is pretty spot-on. Both were men who were better at taking credit and monetizing an idea than at improving things for the common people.

https://www.grunge.com/250292/the-shady-side-of-thomas-edison/

Besides Edison’s famous rivalry with Tesla, he also made a LOT of money as a patent troll. He’d buy patents for cheap from starving inventors and then sue anyone who made anything remotely similar. He’s even the one responsible for the precursor to the MPAA - the Motion Picture Patent Company.

Like Musk, Edison wasn’t stupid, and had some business sense. He knew how to take advantage of others, and had no reservations for doing so if it got him further ahead. He wasn’t above ruining someone’s reputation if he couldn’t beat them at technology or business.

Leaving, unfortunately, just gives you less power. The US plays in a global sandbox.

Going low gets you power. It doesn’t tend to get you long term good results.

The universe tends towards entropy.

How about we delay it for… hmm… four years and three months?

https://birdsarentreal.com/

The US already does that :D