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  • We were in a drought. Rain returned

  • There haven't been the votes for getting rid of those. The arc towards decarbonization legislation has been painfully slow

  • Its from Frank Bruni, not the NYT as a whole. They still have a handful of columnists who get it, even if the owners intentionally push right-wing narratives

  • She got decent stuff through the House when we pushed for it. The Senate was always where it was tough; it took the vote of an actual coal baron to pass anything

  • Because the Republican party operates as a patronage machine run by billionaires. The policies they want are ones which transfer money from your pocket into theirs. This is needless to say, not popular, so they stir up racism to divide people and distract from what they're doing.

  • There were a fairly significant number of Americans who wanted the US to enter WWII on the Nazi side.

  • We don't have to be — the bulk of coal, oil, and gas is still in the ground. There are forests yet standing.

    Doom is a choice, and one we can fight against.

  • Countries agreed to talk about talking about a plan for a fossil fuels phase out. Which is more than has happened before.

    Its nowhere near where things need to be.

  • This is a vehicle that's being made today, not some hypothetical future that has no pedestrians or other vehicles

  • Sure, but the choice in recent decades has been to leave it as is, or to completely gut it.

  • The thing about horsepower like that is that its complelty useless for the task of moving people; speed is limited by human perception and response time, not something about the engine or car.

    Going faster means having a controlled travel environment, like high speed rail

  • Quite literally:

    The plan was negotiated by Steve Witkoff, a real-estate developer with no historical, geographical, or cultural knowledge of Russia or Ukraine, and Kirill Dmitriev, who heads Russia’s sovereign-wealth fund and spends most of his time making business deals

  • Its a gift link so access is free. Didn't hit the registration thing myself but easy enough for you to plug the URL into archive.ph