It is under our feet, in NL, for example. But we will keep on buying way more expensive, lower quality LNG from US because we can't produce evil emission! And four houses in Groningen experienced tremors! Think of the earthquakes!!

Never mind that the whole province screams to high heaven for reopening of the fields.
Never mind the stupidity of Germany and their "green transition".
Never mind the fact that US was looking at every opportunity to stop the trade between Russia and EU. Or at least replace the gas with Ukrainian "democratic" gas. And blow the pipeline, just in case.
Never mind the enforced destruction of western economies in combination with quasi-planned economy, ever more directed by Brussels. Hint: look at the ecological impact of East and West Germany. East Germany was 3.5 times higher in CO2, 10 times higher in SO2 and about 6 times higher in NOx per unit of produce compared to West Germany.

You know, in 2016 I attended a conference of LNG producers and transporters. The plan was (and still is) that natural gas usage globally, in any form, will rapidly increase at least until 2070. The greens were so happy! Why, gas is so much better than coal and oil! And then the tune changed to "all fossil fuels evil, shut down everything". Which of course it did, since all of this is a cult. Cultist never stop. Ever. And eventually they run against reality and are destroyed. The issue of course is that often they take the whole of civilization with them.

Here, the most depressing interview I have ever heard on the subject of freedom of information, censorship and propaganda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Summary: US and the west redefined democracy to mean the will of (ideologically captured) institutions rather than the will of the people. The entire, century old, apparatus that America developed to influence politics, organize coups and revolutions, kill whomever it deemed a problem all over the world was turned against US citizens in 2014 after the Crimea fiasco. 50 billion budget every year, hundred plus censorship laboratories in US universities, social platforms where the censorship and social engineering is built in, is the primary function of the platform (e.g. old Twitter).

Two hours forty three minutes and Joe had like five minutes input. That guest is a bloody encyclopedia on the subject!

In Europe, the situation is much, much worse than US. Here we have no free speech laws and our authorities are openly bragging that they work closely with all channels of information to suppress misinformation" ....only the misinformation and lies are coming 100% from the same authorities, their lackey media dogs and brain dead academics.

So, another bunch of leftists scumbags increasing censorship and clamping down on speech? In Europe? Quelle surprise!

Nothing of the sort, my dear chap!

Sauron is a misunderstood tragic character, fighting for diversity by introducing new species to Middle Earth! For example orcs, who only want to take care of their families! And somehow these evil elves and people do not understand! The orcs are simply neurodivergent!!!

Source: Rings of Power
 

" Dude not everything is about politics and woke get over yourself."

That is exactly what it is about, hombre. The whole industry has accepted the "checkbox approach". Nothing, I repeat, nothing, I will say it again, NOTHING gets made or released if it does not conform to the DEI shitshow and has all the check boxes ticked in. Ergo, everything that is released is crap. No exceptions.

That is the industry's doing, their choice and no one else's. Now, reap the consequences.

  Listen, all of ya wannabe western commies - I was born and raised in such society. Every play, every TV program, every movie, every article, every book, every poem, everything....had the check boxes by the Party ticked in. You have a play about Socrates and whadda know, he was a communist! And Plato too! I can write a dissertation on the subject. At least during those days some artists rebelled and risked (and received) severe punishment for standing against the party line. The Hollywood perverts are happy to comply; they have the balls to molest kids and each other, but not to stand to totalitarians.

"Basic biology research is incredibly valuable in terms of reducing misery, enriching humanity, extending lives, and creating happiness."

Spot on. Now, can we stop with the 100+ year old (by now) social constructive ideologies that completely neglect biology? The ones that claim humans are born identical and any difference is socially constructed therefore can be "fixed" by social engineering? By timeline these are: grandad ideology - communism. Bastard child - fascism. Hybrid grandchild - woke.

Practical example from Scandinavia follows.

Supposition.biology does not exist. Every human decision is informed by social construct only.
Aim. To improve participation of women in " male dominated professions".
Strategy - flatten the society, remove any social obstacle.
Expectation. The participation will approach parity.
Result. Exactly the opposite. The sexes ran away from each other even more.
Conclusion. We have not done enough social engineering.

Supposition. Human behavior is a result of innate biological traits modified further by social interaction and personal history.
Aim. To improve participation of women in " male dominated professions".
Strategy - flatten the society, remove any social obstacle.
Expectation. Once the social factor is removed the biological preference will maximize. We will see further division on the working place between men and women.
Result. Exactly as expected.

"Birth rates should begin to recover within the next ten or twenty years"

That assumes that he economy has anything to do with birth rates. It hardly does. See Norway - 1.4 children per woman and they transfer wealth from men to women constantly. 1.2 million per woman per lifetime, that is only the tax returns. There's never been a society that supports women and children to this degree...yet they do not procreate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Here, listen to this researcher who is on the brink of cancellation because he assumes biology is real!
BTW, his book on dating and mating strategies through the ages is excellent!

Totalitarian control comes in all kinds of forms. Left totalitarianism killed 10 times more people than right wing totalitarianism in the 20th century (let's not bogged down in how right wing is the national socialist workers party ;)

When you have top Dem figures calling the First Amendment " an obstacle in the fight against misinformation". When you have lackey media who are worst than what we had under Communism (I too was born and raised in a Communist state), perpetuating hoaxes that take 15 seconds to disprove (e.g. " There are fine people on both sides"). When you have massive censorship, revolving doors between Government and the (absolute monopolist before Elon got Twitter) tech bros who controlled 100% of the information flow, defacing the First Amendment. When you have Dems who repeatedly circumvent the democratic process in their own party. When you have lifelong democrats who call the DNC "evil".

And so much more....everything that Trump is blamed for was done by the Democrats, including the weaponizing of the secret services (Russian puppet, H. Biden laptop) and DoJ. Apparently to save democracy! From the guy who was only the second president in 78 years not to start a war. Who destroyed ISIS, heeled Iran and convinced the Saudis to talk to Israel. He was the president. And both the US and the world were a much better place with him in charge.

Here, listen to this 20 minute talk "Are we the Soviets" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If your opinion about Trump is coming from any mainstream source, that is why you might be surprise. There has been zero truth in any reporting on him since summer of 2016. Zero. Nada. Zip.

Apparently, they got to read " Generation P" by Victor Pelevin (great book BTW)

From Wiki:

Pelevin presents rather far-fetched but not totally impossible vision of the world governed by virtual puppets created, upgraded and controlled by the media corporations. But "not totally impossible" should not be understood literally. Metaphorically media puppets shown in the novel may actually represent modern authorities whose success without exception depends on media, and how those media present them to people. The idea of this metaphor lies in the concept that when we see a politician or a public activist on the TV we see not a real person but rather an image created for the certain purpose whether to capture attention, rouse empathy or simply improve the rating of a political party or any other organization. Pelevin draws attention to the fact that the audience has no power to control media and the flow of information they deliver through press, television or the Internet.

Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a "mechanical device designed to do the work of a man".

The marketing division of the Casio corporation defines a robot as"you furry pall who's fun to play with"

The Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy defines the Casio's marketing division as " a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes".

Curiously enough an edition of Encyclopedia Galactica that fell through a wormhole from 1000 years in the future defines Casio's marketing division as " a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came"

Here comes the neo-colonialist brigade, pushing "solutions" that are unworkable and extremely expensive for the richest countries in the world to Kenya....

Did you look at the actual numbers? Their production is pitiful....what all these nations need is an abundant source of affordable electricity. Which means fossil fuels and/or nuclear. The rest are luxury fantasies by middle class clueless westerners...

You have been told, instructed, gaslighted and lied about Elon's politics of late. I am not sure all of these terms can or should be covered by "like" There is too much language confusion in the world, let's try not to add more...plus this is supposed to be "technical" site so let's be exact about things!

"Undue influence from corporations can be managed to a degree (even if we don't always do it), but that of individuals is becoming increasingly problematic."

Care to provide even examples? Corporations are people, sir, don't you know that? How can they have LESS "undue influence" provided they are people, enjoying all protections as a person, but with money that even the most richest person does not have? Are you sore over Musk restoring free speech on at least one place on the Internet? Seems so.....tell me how is that control over Black rock and such, who have so much money to make Elon look poor, going? How is the control over Big Pharma going? Big Oil? Or perhaps you like to show me the incredible success we have been having in controlling the Military Industrial Complex?