Grew up in a country which had 'Socialist' as a part of an official name and still live with all* of it's numerous socialist residues and I can guarantee you, that you won't find "cronyism" in Socialism, simply because it's such a normal way of how things are, that your eyes adjust after a short time.

Well, maybe not all. I escaped some of them by being forced into grey economy by laws made ostensibly to protect me.

That's when the real trouble begin. Most of the ./ users seem to be from anglophone countries and hold some amusing views about the state of "Energiewende", but I can assure you, as someone living next to Germany, you wish to remain at just two. It's not German problem only, it's a problem for Poland and Czechia as well - we have to install unbelievably expensive phase shifters just to protect our grid from German "exports" (yes, those shiny figures of German electricity exports usually contain so called "physical exports", better sounding name for overflow). That's not Fox News propaganda, that's decision of Czech and Polish governments, made to simply maintain basic level of stability in our transmission systems.
Germany's planning Brobdingnagian build-up of new lines, but, if you believe they'll make those 3600 necessary kilometers until 2020, when they managed only about hundred since 2007 or 08, I got a bridge to sell ya.
One last tidbit cause I got a stage to build in a few hours and should catch some sleep - those new power lines (and new dams and pumped-storage plants) are already vehemently protested by the same green groups that push for massive windmill/PV build-up. Talk about inconsistency.

Stop reading NY Times for scientific information, they're bunch of hacks. United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation specifically states:

That's just from the last year, after extensive research, but it's been assumed for the long time - there are many areas with pretty high radiation levels (Ramsar has 260 mSv/y, compare that with Fukushima) without any measurable health impacts. Except the Iitate village, most of that "terribly contaminated" area is about as much radioactive as Denver. If I recall correctly, those Washington lobbyists hanging around Congress get more ionizing radiation from the all the granite. So for the love of Feynman, learn to stop worrying and to check your sources.

Those Bruce Schneier facts don't bode well for you.

Just switch the fancy effects off, dummy. Oh, wait, it's Apple, nevermind. And that kids is why some of us stick with Linux, no matter how quirky and buggy can sometimes interface (mis)behave.

That's a nice option, but it kinda misses any indication about a side to be bombed. Unless, of course, it means bombing both, which seems like the best option after keeping hands off and trying some diplomatic leverage against Russia, Iran and Saudi Arabia to stop their support too.

And rapid refers to more than just missiles, though "swift" would catch the meaning as well. As far as I recall, they were named by some girl who appreciated how fast they solved something or came to help the weaker ones, something like that.

And in some fictional universe, a true nerd just shuddered.

Here.

Also, absence of anything on Greenpeace's pages should be outright disregarded beforehand as a proof of anything. We're talking about organisation which threw it's founding member down the memory hole: Patrick Moore of the original Don't Make A Wave Committee is missing now, though still listed as a crewmember of the ship. I vaguely remember he used to be completely vaporised from the pages but not sure and don't have time for Wayback Machine magic.

Not only they are two different countries, Czechoslovakia doesn't even exist for twenty years now. Old Czechoslovakia also didn't use to get mistaken for Chechnya like Czech Republic, but for Yugoslavia.
I also feel like I should insert "you insensitive clod" somewhere, but can't figure where, so feel free to imagine it wherever it makes sense to you.

All it takes is to do my job.

Don't want anyone to prematurely push Hipster Alarm's button, but wouldn't that create Ironic Energy?

From Wikipedia:

Regardless of possible merits, my bull-Shih detector screams bloody murder. Does the good prof possess also some degree in biomolecular linguistics or is he just so good at marketing?

There are funds that take care of large scale donations, some of them non-discriminating, some of them catering to donors with some leaning. Two of them, openly and tranparently catering to rich people who want to be sure their money won't end up in the coffers of Greenpeace, WWF, Sierra club, Sea Shepherd, PETA, NRDC, Union of Concerned Scientists et al. (a sentiment I wholeheartedly understand), were spreading donations amounting roughly to WWF's and Greenpeace's combined yacht and sandwiches budget over bunch of causes loosely connected by the funds' raison d'être. That is covert funneling of dark money. When the aforementioned fuc^H^H^H fan^H^H^H char^H^H^H^H activist organisations I dislike (and more importantly disagree with on fundamental level) do something similar only with larger amounts of money, it is "educating the public" or "showcasing the opportunities".

I think they used sugar cane grown in tropics and harvested by dirt cheap labor. So the rising living standards requiring increased mechanization to keep the pace might disrupt it pretty soon.