They exist to present to the public as a viable alternative to renewables and transitioning to renewable energy resources in general.

It lets you tell the public that the scientists will figure it all out so they don't need to make any changes to the way we do things today.

It's the exact same scam plastic recycling turned out to be and for the exact same reason.

The Soviet Union was established in 1917, they raced to prepare for WW2. They were the actual primary target for Germany's Lebensraum. Their options resistance or annihilation. The U.S. and European allies couldn't have won the war without the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union couldn't have won without Western assistance. What's telling, after Germany was defeated, the West immediately turned around and began preparing to fight the Soviet Union. They even went so far as to employ Nazis under "Operation Gladio." Western Germany did some really weird stuff under their rule, like housing orphans with pedophiles to "rehabilitate" them.

One of the things I've been noticing lately is that the kind of people who didn't use to get hassled by the cops are now getting hassled by the cops...

Crime keeps going down but we keep putting more cops on the street. People expect them to arrest people. So they're looking for guys they can hassle like yourself.

Recently a municipality had lost a fight to prevent a freedom of information request for flock camera data.

They instantly canceled the program and shut down the cameras.

Remember that Steve Jobs would buy a brand new Mercedes every couple of months so that he didn't have to have a permanent license plate.

The rich and powerful are very concerned about having their movements tracked.

What they are talking about is specifically abuses of the technology that people are on aware of.

The concern is that people are going to use the tech to get information and it's going to be bad information.

In politics there is a concept called a low information voter. This is someone who pays very little attention to politics and ends up with a lot of poorly informed opinions and makes poor political choices because of it.

This is Been supplemented by a new phenomenon call the bad information voter. Someone who has actively bad information and is making decisions on it. The decisions they make tend to be catastrophic.

Llms are bringing that same energy to every other aspect of people's lives. Basically people are awash in extremely bad information. Things that are just absolutely objectively false in every way shape and form. And they are likely to make decisions based on that information that are going to be very terrible.

A proper civilization would recognize this issue and work towards education but we have become obsessed with personal responsibility to the point where we can't even consider the effects on ourselves of other people having that much bad information.

We have all forgotten that no man is an island. Probably should be teaching that poem in schools...

There's a concept of determinism because of some of the consequences of how physics work. Basically the idea that every decision is already made because if we're made of molecules you can predict what those molecules have to do moment to moment.

Like how your body has already decided to move by the time you do it.

But quantum mechanics kind of throws all that right out the fucking door. My favorite fact is if we try to create a complete vacuum we still have little particles popping into existence out of nowhere and we can't explain it.

My point is simply that Islamophobia isn't a valid model for predicting dysfunctional governance. I would blame capitalism, but in this case it's not even capitalism from within Iran. Without sanctions Iran could have sought solutions to their water problems in Tehran. Without sanctions food could have been imported instead of grown there. I've seen that anti-IR - pro-monarchy activists have been sabotaging their own country by dumping water in Tehran.

I think the Soviets fought Nazi Germany using US made weapons, with 25 million Soviets sacrificing their lives. You tell me who sacrificed more.

Russia can't really force it if they could then the war would be over and Europe wants to keep it all going so they can wear Russia down some more.

So nothing is really going to change in the war will just continue unless and until we get a democrat in the white house again with a clear majority in Congress.

It is incredibly fucked up that the world is just kind of standing by letting Russia do this so that they can wear Russia down and reduce their ability to function as a global superpower. Then again this shit we are letting happen in Yemen and Sudan is even worse. And Jesus fucking Christ if you read the history of what America did in South America during Ronald Reagan...

Yeah you're not really supposed to think about how expensive the drug war is versus just giving people support and addiction treatment.

America especially is really into punitive and revenge-based Justice. I wonder if it will start to fade if religious extremism continues to fade. It's not hard to draw a line between puritanical bullshit and wanting to do as much harm as possible to people who commit crimes or do drugs.

If you were in California it might be time to revisit it. See if a lawyer is interested

Soviet Famine 1930s

Ukraine wasn't specifically targeted. There was a large famine in the Soviet Union during that time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...â"1933

While this is mostly mismanagement, this statement is just silly. Of course there's an element of climate change involved in water management. Iran has already seen a decline in precipitation and it's estimated to only get drier. Combine that with the intensity of rain increasing causing flooding (which is bad for water management since it means water going to the ocean rather than into the ground) and you definitely have a contributor.

Now it's still nothing like contribution of mismanagement, but it's stupid to used the number "zero".

I think you'll find it's actually quite difficult to cut one's own head off.