Dude those bots are everywhere. They're even in US state-specific subreddits, polluting them with pro-conservative bullshit.

Seriously. He's complaining about this when his own policies are driving an actual slave trade in Tunisia.

You could clearly afford a house ($350k+) if you'd stop eating avocado toast every morning ($55k over 30 years if you're being wasteful and careless with shopping). The math clearly checks out.

This is the kind of dumb shit that stupid people in the US always fall for. They never just do the basic math, which would show that the everyday expenses of the average person are tiny compared to the methods by which the rich extract wealth from us.

Same as in the US. It's all about establishing hierarchies and hating outgroups. Conservative politics has always been focused on hate, not solutions to problems. Unfortunately, hate sells very well to the incredibly stupid.

I would definitely vote for an inanimate object over a dictator. The inanimate object would just not get anything done, which is clearly better. Any and all actions taken by an authoritarian like Erdogan are self-serving, so they rarely do any good for their people.

We do, and that's one reason even car insurance is so expensive in FL. It's still not expensive enough though. The rest of us are subsidizing Florida residents through higher premiums than we deserve.

I have tons of sympathy for the people of Florida, but their government can go fuck itself. Every single climate change denier there should get strapped to a palm tree during the next hurricane.

Actually most of what you claimed was difficult is actually easy. Ships have a bunch of green tech on the way, since they all figured out slow was more efficient anyway. They'll just go at the same speed, but with different powerplants.

Plus, even electric cars (which aren't my fave idea) already have reasonable ranges now with today's tech. Give it five more years for us to figure out expansions and replacement upgrades.

You realize that the weight of batteries or a green power source is negligible to a ship or a train right?

You want to talk about difficult? Help figure out electric airplanes. They already exist, but they're currently only practical for short haul flights. That's still an amazing savings in costs, maintenance, and environmental damage. It's just not ready for transatlantic flights yet.

People talk about NK artillery, but they don't understand how much better and more accurate Western systems are. If people believe NK can flatten Seoul, they better believe the Finns can wreck most of the Russian border crossings within a day. Most folks don't understand how close Finland is to Russian population centers as well, while Finland's population centers are better protected from land invasion.

A sea route will never be viable for Russia, as their Baltic fleet capability is vastly overrated. They have little to no amphibious capability by modern standards. They have limited missile cruisers which would be utterly annihilated within the first 2-3 days.

If it turned into a conventional warhead ballistic missile fight, the entirety of Europe will invade Russia within the week.

That's not unknown at all. We know the effects from global climate change are even financially worse than the pollution from mining rare earth metals. The human cost difference is astounding. In case your seeming love of hydrocarbons indicates a certain political preference, I urge you to go look up even the most conservative financial impacts of climate change.

I will say this though: it is becoming abundantly clear that we cannot simply replace every car, truck, bus, etc with a lithium-ion powered one. We need to continue to invest in parallel battery tech, especially for grid-level storage. We definitely don't want those two market segments competing for lithium. Supercapacitors can also greatly reduce our need for battery storage in the same cars.

Hate makes the meat taste gamey.

In reality, the US's existing partnership with Finland is all the protection they need during NATO accession. If Putin so much as blinks at the Finnish border, every Russian troop near it will be dead by the end of the week. Heck, the Finns will probably get it done by themselves.

This is why I think we need nuclear (hopefully fusion within 15 years), but also we need to continue pursuing energy storage methods for those nations or regions that cannot construct nuclear or hydro power generation.

... and thus spent 60+ years lying to us (specifically about climate change).

Yeah it's really unfortunate that a lot of exceptionally dumb myths persisted over the years. I love the "a Hummer is better than buying a new Prius" myth. It was such an apples to oranges comparison of costs; I honestly think that argument was a "Chewbacca defense" for stupid giant SUV's. Just utter nonsense meant to elicit a non-response.

This has carried forward into renewables, where some people think PV and wind are still as expensive as they once were.

Oh my yes. We're so far behind where we could and should be in the US. Some people will say that the "economies of scale just weren't there," but that's reductive. The fact is, we've been subsidizing the wrong power sources for the last 30 years. Every single dollar spent on coal, LNG, or oil has not only been wasted, but I consider them "throwing good money after bad." That is, we've not only lost the missed tax revenue, but we've lost the potential gains from making the switch sooner.

Not sure why anyone would circlejerk about this. It's an obvious solution in a desert nation with far more sun than average. Plus, most people recognize that the LCOE for solar is amazing now, even for sub-optimal climates.

Pro-nuclear people just recognize the fact that the nuclear threat is overblown, and that nuclear makes great baseline power generation. Coal kills more people every year than nuclear power has killed in all of the last 80 years - including all five serious nuclear power accidents. A single coal ash cleanup probably exceeds all US nuclear cleanup for all of time (in cost).

Coal is the enemy. LNG is the quiet enemy, though better than coal.

We don't have to choose between nuclear and solar. We should absolutely be pursuing mostly solar/wind, but with a safety backbone of nuclear fission (and later fusion).

As generations of people fleeing the stupidity of Moscow have before. It's funny but sad how much the failure of slavic states is directly tied to the drunken incompetence of Moscow-based leadership.

Dude MBA programs are rife with Chicago School stupidity. They practically worship Milton Friedman. Most business school heads are disgusting people. Only today are we seeing some reforms in business academics, but usually only at schools with a heavy econ focus. Schools like Wharton will continue to churn out whole classes of monsters.

While Chinese culture has never been as monolithic as it is today, they did still have common cultural traditions stretching back thousands of years. Africa is much more disparate - there are usually dozens of major cultures in every single nation, and most spread across borders of neighboring nations. It's a mess, quite literally by design.