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[Amor de Cosmos]

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And the last, but not least, tweet in the series:

“Did you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck.”

[ursus arctos]

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And then he went to the golf course

Yes, really

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Amor de Cosmos wrote: And the last, but not least, tweet in the series:

“Did you notice we are not having a gun debate right now? That’s because they used knives and a truck.”

What on earth was that?

Isn't it good it's hard for terrorists to get guns here?

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That last tweet makes no sense on any level. Trump was just connecting two unrelated facts because they happened to be in his head simultaneously. The fact the terrorists used knives and a truck probably explains why the number of deaths has been relatively low (but still horrendously evil), which doesn't help Trump's pro-gun case, so Trump's best interest would have been not to try to draw attention to it.

Alternatively, Trump would normally say that if one of the victims had been carrying a gun, the terrorists would have been killed quicker. Fortunately even he hasn't sunk to there in this case...yet.

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I get that in rural Texas, where I have family, if a bad guy tries to rob them at home, the gun could be handy. But what would have happened in a packed bar? Do lots of the people have guns concealed? Does the doorman? Who is supposed to shoot the bad guy?

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It's a cock replacement. That is all it ever is.

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What is wrong with him?

The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version!

Surely he's been told a dozen times by now not to tweet about this case, and that the courts are looking into the motivation behind the executive order. Given that this is one of the few policies he actually seems to care about, you'd think he'd be able to exercise minimal self-restraint on this, but apparently not.

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The Awesome Berbaslug!!! wrote:
What the industry really needs is much better batteries.

... and there the problem lies.
Also solar/wind energy spends so much resources that they're CO2/pollution negative. Nature gas/nuclear is way to go.

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I'd like to see your workings.

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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no that's not where the problem lies. The batteries that they currently have are good enough for most driving needs. just not for really long trips, and they could do with being a bit lighter. The Current Batteries could really do with being cheaper, and you are seeing the construction of absolutely fucking massive battery production plants. like This one which is a joint venture between tesla and panasonic. Other Car manufacturers are planning similar massive production facilities.

We're already at the point where people can make electric cars that you can drive around and do most things in. we're not talking about room temperature superconductors or Fusion. And something that is lost in this whole Trump Paris nonsense, is that the chinese are going hell for leather for renewable energy because they have fuck all in the way of fossil fuels, and that makes them strategically vulnerable.

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Trump's earlier tweet was even more inflammatory: "The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C."

This plus Trump's repeated attacks on Sadiq Khan are unlikely to persuade the Supreme Court that the travel ban is not targeted at Muslims.

It's almost like he's daring the Supreme Court to rule against him so he can say he tried his best but the system beat him.

I say "almost" because I'm not sure Trump has any conscious process; he truly is all id.

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D'oh, that's actually the one I meant to quote.

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These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad.

From George Conway. Kelyanne's husband, and an early favourite for Solicitor General (the Government's chief advocate before the Supreme Court, OSG is Office of the Solicitor General) or Head of the Civil Division of the Department of Justice (he withdrew from consideration last week).

[The Awesome Berbaslug!!!]

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So All of trump's security advisors thought he was going to reaffirm his devotion to article 5 of the NATO, right up until he didn't.

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Whilst New Yorker's Ryan Lizza alleging that it was Macron's boast about his handshake victory that led to Trump pulling out of the Paris Accords.

Lets hope no world leader stands next to him at the urinal at the next G20 or we may have reached DEFCON 1 (code name COCKED PISTOL.)

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gintsr wrote:

What the industry really needs is much better batteries.

... and there the problem lies.
Also solar/wind energy spends so much resources that they're CO2/pollution negative. Nature gas/nuclear is way to go.

WAT.

[Amor de Cosmos]

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I was struck by how few electric cars — if any — I saw in the UK. Certainly compared to here where, in the past year, some kind of critical mass appears to have been passed. Suddenly they're commonplace. I'd have thought that in the UK they'd be particularly ideal as distances aren't really a problem. After asking around though it seems the problem is charging. Most people here have drive-ways, so running a line from the garage isn't a problem (new houses frequently have built-in charging points on their exterior.) There are also more public parking lots with one or two charging stations in them.* In contrast there's much more residential street parking in the UK, than here and people are unlikely to run charging lines across the pavement to charge their car. Indeed I doubt that would be allowed. Are their any plans to get around this problem? If not it seems unlikely electric cars are going to take off in the near future.

* This has pissed me off in a couple of cases. YVR, for example, converted four of it's disabled parking stalls — those nearest the entrance to the airport — to charging areas. After all people with disabilities can easily walk a few more yards can't they?

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That also accounts for much of the failure of electrics to take off in Manhattan, where they would otherwise make a lot of sense (to the extent having any private vehicle does).

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Corbyn has just tweeted a 'fuck you' reply to 45's comments about Khan, with love from the Labour Party.

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ursus arctos wrote: That also accounts for much of the failure of electrics to take off in Manhattan, where they would otherwise make a lot of sense (to the extent having any private vehicle does).

That wasn't always the case, early in the 20th century electric cars dominated NYC's car park, until the combustion engine eclipsed them.

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tuckwat wrote: Climate change is killing people now as well as animal and plant life.

Eggchaser wrote: But but but CO2 is plant food!

CO2 is a building block of photosynthesis and plant growth, the rate of which is proportional to the concentration of atmospheric CO2. The growth in CO2 levels from 300ppm earlier in the 20th century to 400ppm today has resulted in a significant biomass increase of around 20%. It also accounts for a sizeable increase in agricultural outputs, especially wheat and rice. CO2 increase is not "killing people", it has helped stave off famine, especially in arid areas.

This boost from CO2 levels is most dramatic in drier climates, because plants need fewer stomates to absorb CO2 molecules, and as a result, they lose less water in the photosynthesis process. So the increase in CO2 levels also makes dry area plants and crops more drought-resistant.




https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fertilization-greening-earthCO2 fertilization effect, as you can see the greatest increases happen in arid areas like the Sahel and east India.

(Sorry I haven't kept up with the main climate thread, busy period for me, will catch up later this month)

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Sorry but what happened in Syria?

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Regional upheaval, rebellion, proxy wars.

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Eggchaser wrote:

What the industry really needs is much better batteries.

... and there the problem lies.
Also solar/wind energy spends so much resources that they're CO2/pollution negative. Nature gas/nuclear is way to go.

WAT.

Yep. Wind turbines gives 0.05% of energy supply. It's nothing at all. Medium wind turbine weighs about 250 tonnes, mostly steel. There is need for half a tonne of coal to make tonne of steel. And if you want big enough effect you need not only coal/steel but also big, big place. And let's not start about mining of rare-earth metals for magnets in the turbines. And that turbines are vulnerable to blackouts. So if you want impact big enough think about all resources needed for that and small reward. OK, if you can have your own wind farm subsidized by government so why not - it's just business but if you think green, wind turbines is one of shittiest alternatives.

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Except that once youve built a wind turbine you get a lot of use out of it.

Looking at carbon neutrality is also not the right way to analyse the effects of Nuclear Energy either. If we just look at carbon emissions it may well be that nuclear seems a good idea. But then of course it produces vast quantities of waste that is a million times worse than CO2