No, if I understand correctly, coral reefs anchor very important coastal fish habitats. Which many many people do depend on for food and income.

I can't believe this is being argued on what used to be a hard-science site, but ok. It can't be found in the geological record. So yeah, myth. Probably adapted from earlier myths such as from the Epic of Gilgamesh.

Please point to one significant jurisdiction where mass adoption of renewables has made power cheaper.

Spam is any bulk communication I didn't consent to receive. It absolutely does not have to be commercial in nature.

Also remember that the Bill of Rights is not intended to be a complete list of the rights of the people. The complete list of rights is everything not specifically assigned to the States or the Federal government in the constitution. Many of the founders indeed argued against including the Bill of Rights because they expected some idiot in the future to read it as a complete list rather than a summary of the most important rights reserved to the people.

"A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined..."
- George Washington, First Annual Address, to both House of Congress, January 8, 1790

"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776

"What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Stephens Smith, son-in-law of John Adams, December 20, 1787

"The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
- Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks." - Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, August 19, 1785

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to to John Cartwright, 5 June 1824

"On every occasion [of Constitutional interpretation] let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying [to force] what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, [instead let us] conform to the probable one in which it was passed."
- Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 12 June 1823

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"To disarm the people...[i]s the most effectual way to enslave them."
- George Mason, referencing advice given to the British Parliament by Pennsylvania governor Sir William Keith, The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adooption of the Federal Constitution, June 14, 1788

"I ask who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people, except a few public officers."
- George Mason, Address to the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 4, 1788

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
- Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787

"Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country."
- James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434, June 8, 1789

"...the ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone..."
- James Madison, Federalist No. 46, January 29, 1788

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
- William Pitt (the Younger), Speech in the House of Commons, November 18, 1783

“A militia when properly formed are in fact the people themselvesand include, according to the past and general usuage of the states, all men capable of bearing arms "To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
- Richard Henry Lee, Federal Farmer No. 18, January 25, 1788

It is absolutely clear from the writings of the founders that they intended an individual right to keep and bear arms. The bit of waffling in the second notwithstanding.

They have coal. They're going to work with that.

unknown texter = auto-block and report as spam. Even faster than voice.

ffs Boomers weren't in charge of anything when they were 30 years old. It was the Silents and the Greatest Generation who vastly increased government spending and overreach and the military-industrial complex, and who let the ultra-rich take over the world.

Half of Boomers are still poor as shit (which, to be fair, took some remarkably bad planning on their part, given how easy it was to make money for the last 40 years).

The actual conflict is between the ultra rich and everyone else. The ultra rich are winning.

You know commies have taken over slashdot when this gets downvoted to oblivion.

It's just fact.

I'm in Canada and by any calculation close to 50% of my net pay goes to taxes, and that's without detailed calculations of how much more expensive every good and service I buy is due to the provider having to pay the same taxes. It is absolutely mental and by far the biggest reason our quality of life isn't much higher.

Every atom in your body came from stars too, other than the hydrogen. That's what the universe is.

He has also tariffed steel and aluminum. But copper is used extensively in the plants and electronics

If you live in a desert on the equator. Other places get almost no sun for months at a time.

What pre-market testing? The US lets chemical companies claim things are safe until proven otherwise.