Doubtful. It could have been open if Biden had not endorsed Harris so quickly. He picked his successor and I would be shocked in nearly all convention voters don't fall in line.
It's Harris. Now I would like to see her choose a liberal for VP.
Doubtful. It could have been open if Biden had not endorsed Harris so quickly. He picked his successor and I would be shocked in nearly all convention voters don't fall in line.
It's Harris. Now I would like to see her choose a liberal for VP.
Time to move on and give our full support to the first Black Woman President #KamalaHarris!
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I would really like to see an open convention. I would like to see a real rapid-fire, one week, reality-television show primary, with every news reports scrambling for reality show interviews from candidates, ending with the party coalescing behind and nominating one victor.
I think it would make for great TV, which is kind of what the party needs right now.
I agree with your general premise, that climate justice is directly connected to anti-racism.
But there are a lot of reasons to be more optimistic than you are here:
1) Our current president gets it. He signed the largest pro-climate spending bill of any nation in the world ever. We need to do more faster, but it's not nothing. Biden is worth supporting.
2) By every reasonable metric we are making positive progress on the problem. We need to do more faster.
3) China's over production isn't for the West so it doesn't matter how we frame it here. They are over producing and sending the products around the world. The cost of oil is one of the biggest things keeping poor nations poor. Every kilowatt of renewable power helps to alleviate that disparity.
4) Every kilowatt of renewable power installed reduces the political power of those 50 people you cite (and they are certainly not all Americans).
@Patrickoldhiker @darnell @arstechnica
Privatizing was a good idea. Tipping the scales during procurement to favor Boeing was the mistake.
I know he had an illustrious career, but he was so good in the Hunger Games that I still see his face and I hate him.
The only abstainers I can respect are those that do so for religious reasons. I may not agree with the theology, but I can respect it.
Besides that, anyone who doesn't vote doesn't get a minute of my attention for their complaints
(Of course the is assuming they are physically and legally capable of voting, but if not then I don't really consider those people abstainers anyway.)
It's the ultimate privilege/purity flex.
Like "The consequences won't affect me personally so I don't have to compromise my ideals."
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Dallas ISD stopped letting elementary kids take their devices home this year. That's dramatically cut the district's repair/replacement costs. And the kids don't really need to take their devices home anyway.
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I do not understand how what Apple is doing is legal. Imagine if a landlords did what Apple does: take 30% fee on all transactions performed on their land and then ban leasees that try to sell their products in other stores.
Biden should release an official statement saying that he is prepared to act on a #SCOTUS ruling that the president is above the law.
That's all, just that he's prepared to act on it.
My father told me once that our family's position on enlistment is "If they call your name you serve and you serve honorably and you serve the minimum, but you don't volunteer."
Funny enough, after doing some genealogy on my father's line, this appears to be the wisdom going back to the American Revolution. My 6th-great grandfather was ordered to serve in the revolutionary war, he served 3 months, saw one battle, and went home -which was apparently enough at the time to get him a full pension (he had to sue for his pension which is how we know the story).
None of my other g-grandfather's in that line served in the military until my grandfather was drafted in WWII. He got put on radio duty in Oklahoma.
White people. Am I right?
Someone pitched this.
Someone approved it.
Someone wrote it.
Someone edited it.
Someone wrote a headline for it.
Someone approved it for publishing.
No one screamed.
Both sides.
Roller Skates are my favorite example of human brain plasticity. If someone handed you a pair of roller skates and told you what they planned to do it them, there would be no reason for you to believe that anything other than comedy and injuries would ensue if the fool was to actually try to put them on and roll around in them on concrete. But instead, after only about 15 minutes of trial and error the human brain says "Oh, cool. I get this now! I like this! This is very efficient!"
Roller skates prove how truly unbelievably capable human brains really are.
You know what a modern anarchist state looks like? It looks like Putin's Russia and it looks like Trump's America where there are no rules to control those people.
I believe that *some* people are perfectly capable of behaving in a reasonable fashion without having to be forced to.
But you would have to be an absolute moron to think that *all* people can. Or even *most* people.
And, I believe a certain percentage of people are not only unable to do so, but are also complete sociopaths and will absolutely take advantage of any and all opportunities to take advantage of people and take advantage of loose rules to in order to hurt people.
Which is why we need strong rules. The rules are NOT there for the people that don't need them.
But that's a tangent from my original question. Given the invention of the printing press, and the discovery of the Americas happened, would the Industrial Revolution have happened in the absence of reforms in religious teaching that moved the central focus of the religion from a sacramental/sacred focus to a focus on improvements of ordinary/secular life?
Of course we are in the realm of "alt history" so everything here is speculative and ahistorical by default. But it can still be fun!
That said, I don't know anything about Indian writing, and so my only evidence that I have to present that moveable type printing presses could not have been developed for the language is simply that if it could have been it would have been. They certainly had the technological capability to do it, but they didn't. I suspect that, just like other languages, there is something about the writing system that makes it much more difficult than it was for Latin derived languages.
Ironically, I would argue that it was technical limitations in the European scripts that allowed for the invention of the printing press. While cultures across the Arabic world were going wild experimenting with all forms of artistic calligraphy, the Europeans were basically stuck with simple block letters originally designed for chisels.
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