Yep I'm kind of glad it wouldn't have much value to a museum in its current state, or it would've been a shame to end up in private hands to be flipped into even more private hands for a quick buck like this.

All the time, self-hosted FreshRSS.

I once heard a Trump voter say something similar during Trump's first term on one of the many occasions on which Trumpkins had to take their lumps for Trump, IIRC his exact words were "He's hurting COMPLETELY the wrong people." Pretty sure he voted for Trump a second time anyway though.

Another major factor to consider is the Trumpkins' fantastical, figuratively or even literally demonized misconception of Democrats. They believe that whoever Trump's going up against is, at minimum, an actual socialist who will confiscate all their guns. And the more unhinged types may believe his opponent is also a secret revolutionary communist, an Islamist Sharia supporter, a secret elite pedophile ring insider (not Jeff's BFF though!), or even an actual supernatural demon who smells like sulfur up close. Once someone's critical thinking and fact-checking ability is low enough to fall for such nonsense, it's easy to paint something they were already inclined to support as a better option.

"Whoever can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" - Voltaire

Maybe they're a capitalist species that thinks they're on the verge of inventing artificial intelligence and putting most of their workers out of a job if they could just get access to enough data for training, but they've already fed it everything they can get from their own civilization and it wasn't enough.

Bet they didn't think of that in 2020.

A cooling tower (or any kind of evaporative cooling) will turn the nuclear power plant into a major water consumer, while an artificial cooling pond carries the geographic requirement for lots of open space.

Also with nuclear plants increasingly having to shut down due to cooling problems caused by high outdoor temperatures, it seems that global warming might make nuclear even more dependent on having the right local geography than renewables.

This. The idea that a lack of constant compounding growth is a bad thing comes from capitalists who want to be able to turn their money into more money without doing any work. To do that they need growth. If you work for a living rather than owning for a living, you have no need for infinite growth in a finite world.

Disabling this power-up pad for hurricanes whenever it becomes a danger could be an ideal job for marine artificial upwelling, we'd just need to be careful not to run it more than necessary because it generally worsens global warming in the long term:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/r...

Plus in most jurisdictions (especially China and more recently the US) it's quite easy for governments to get access to corporate data for "security" purposes. So any data corporate surveillance collects, government can get access to as well. Often just for a small fee, no ominous security laws required.

A lot of people don't realize this. Gun nuts in the US get bent out of shape about the idea of a gun registry, all while you can be pretty sure the NSA already has something similar based on data from buyer transactions with corporations.

Also for most everyday users, DNS-over-HTTPS band-aids a lot of the problems DNSSEC could fix.

Yeah his political views were pretty fashy all-around.

Promising? How? It's a concept that's only been kept limping along by the fossil fuel industry, that carries the best selection of the worst downsides: Expensive and currently fossil-sourced fuel like an ICE, high up-front vehicle cost and slow "refuel" times like an EV, a fuel with very few filling stations in the world that needs to be stored at enormous pressures, burns with an invisible flame, can escape through solids and embrittles steel on the way out like...hydrogen.

Short answer, CO2 is bad for the environment. On average, it's also bad for plants at present-day levels.

CO2 is plant junk food, on average plants only benefit from it up to 400ppm (which we've already exceeded), beyond that it begins to harm crop nutrition. Certain plants can benefit from higher CO2 levels at particular growth stages but that doesn't mean those levels are good for most plants most of the time.

And that's without getting into the possibility of the plants being destroyed by a flood or wildfire or drought brought on by global warming that comes along with the higher CO2. CO2 levels that would be ideal for plants growing in a theoretical greenhouse would be too high for everything else in the environment, directly unhealthy for any humans inhaling the air, and catastrophic to established human settlements.

That someone is a group called TIGHAR. News outlets don't treat them with the level of skepticism they deserve because it isn't easy to see what would motivate this group to mislead. TIGHAR only seeks to achieve fame by "finding Amelia", and the funding that comes with promises to do so and any clues they claim to have found is a nice bonus. The trouble is that they're quite willing to bend the truth to get there.

The theory that Earhart ended up anywhere near Nikumaroro is implausible:

https://skeptoid.com/blog/2016...
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/...

Came here to see if anyone posted the correct answer (inequality), leaving satisfied.