sure, the actual data agrees that there is way less coal being mined in the US.
but there is also still a lot of coal being mined -- 800,000 thousand 'short tons' in 2023
maybe a better statement is in the middle - the energy transition that is happening is slow and may be too slow to mitigate climate change at the current transition rate, as demand also accelerates.
the thing about solar power that ppl tend to ignore, which really bugs me, is what rare earth mining has done to places like the Congo. truly horrific. a river in Zambia was just 'killed' the other day when a tailings pond for a Chinese mine collpased
& copper.. lmao. not enough copper at the current rate to feed demand. so i shudder to think what'll happen at the supply level to meet it (spolier alert: it wont be recycling)
@ai6yr i think confidence is part of it too. people like this think they are owed the world.
lmfao at the laundery thing. jfc, that is so unimaginable to me.
i'm so far removed from that world.. i have dated a couple people who had friends like that, but i've been more or less separate from the upper class. i dont think i have known anyone who had like, staff.
politics itself attracts a personality type that seems so vain and self-interested.. completely at odds with the office. obv there are exceptions. but power also corrupts.
...have you seen the Wire? the Baltimore mayor and his ways .. lmfao.. so much the 'type' and lol - that same actor also plays quite the conniver in game of thrones
but i must say, GOP corruption has a long history. my parents HATED reagan & his BS i was also a child of this era, & i remember well the anita hill hearings, Iran Contra affair & Reagan's response to AIDS (my uncle was in the SF scene at that time) underneath our veneer of exceptionalist propaganda, there's a very deep rot
so maybe not entirely weird for me, i just didn't wanna live thru this period where we had to face up to who we really are, & pay the price.
@kims i'm glad skarsgard made the list for Andor but he should be higher up, IMO.
pleased Keri Russel made it for The Americans. excellent show.
i'm always disappointed that the show ZeroZeroZero isnt more well known too. only one spectacular (and v violent) season & how the hell did they miss Harrelson & McConaghey for True Detective S01? those guy BECAME those characters.
agree w other comments - maslany is a major oversight, and goldberg for Barry wouldnt have been my choice either
purple & pink showing widespread winter weather - that's snow and ice - in central and northeast US & Idaho, a state covered in warnings and watches re: winter weather, along with Kentucky, where warnings mainly pertain to flooding
wind (tan), flooding (green) and winter weather for California too
@ai6yr ok i'm remembering the (post-apocalypse) scene in The Last of Us where the guy excitedely sits down at an upright piano and exclaims 'Do you know how much this thing is worth" and the owner replies 'Currently, nothing!'
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