For global energy, that typically includes transportation. As more economies have expanded, there has been more use of cars, trucks, trains, ships, and aircraft, almost all of which are powered by fossil fuels.

Global electricity generation has changed. In 2000, 64.1% of global electricity came from fossil fuels, 16.7% came from nuclear, and 18.7% came from renewable. In 2023, despite overall electricity generation roughly doubling, fossil fuel generation was down to 60.1%, nuclear was down to 9.1%, and renewables were up to 30.23%. Looking at the renewable mixes, in 2000, it was 17.4% hydropower, 0.7% biofuels, 0.2% wind, 0.01% solar, and 0.3% geothermal. In 2023, it was 14.6% hydropower, 2.2% biofuels, 7.75% wind, 5.4% solar, and 0.3% geothermal.

That's still a lot of fossil fuel electricity generation, but it is declining by percentage and their growth curves are flattening. Renewables are up by quite a bit and still growing. Nuclear is declining, and isn't likely to recover in any meaningful numbers. This program is a lot like past programs meant to encourage new nuclear power plants. Odds are that maybe one will get started, and it might not get finished.

At least once a week a republican gets caught altering a couple of ballots. So there's lots of Republican ballot fraud.

Oh you meant those dastardly (or was it dumbocrats, I don't remember the results of the presidential poll)

And yes the president of the United States held a poll to determine whether he should call Democrats demoncrats or dumbocrats. I will remind everyone that we are at War. Also that the price of gas is on track to shoot to $15 a gallon if that dumbass in the oval Office doesn't hand the 300 billion dollars to the Iranian government. I guess he could also do a draft and send 2 million of us to die.

So we have fucked things up so badly that everything is a grift and everyone is gunning for you.

That said this kind of petty crime is on the downswing and there is less of it every year. That doesn't mean that it doesn't suck when you're a victim of it but the odds of you becoming a victim of it have been going down steadily for decades.

You should be much more concerned of the much bigger grifts. Yeah there is the occasional old person who had their house stolen from them because we pay for our schools with property taxes and then let unpaid property taxes result in your house being taken. There's an easy fix for that do away with property taxes on your primary domicile and pay for schools with income tax and wealth taxes. And no a property tax and a wealth tax are not the same thing. If you have less than 500 million in your bank account you can stop typing now...

As for the big grifts you need to be paying attention to what SpaceX is doing. If you have any money in the stock market especially if it's a 401k they are coming for it and all the systems designed to protect you have been dismantled. The Democrat party when they get in charge in 2028 will try to restore some of those but they will be obstructed and blocked by their opposition.

So rather than worrying about a $2,000 check that you probably should have paid for electronically you need to be much much more worried about the half million dollars (or several million if you're a baby boomer or older Gen x) in your 401k.

You would think instead of dumb stories about petty crime that again has been going down every single year that I would be getting stories about the biggest heist in the history of the human race but nope. Almost as if billionaires own 90% of the news media. Although that number will be going down since several of them are becoming trillionaires...

How the hell do you think all these people are going to become trillionaires? It's by taking your property

Don't worry. The current regime has plan in place to simply not deliver mailed ballots in states that have any chance of going against your desired outcome.

To paraphrase the apocryphal Stalin: Altering one ballot is a felony. Shitcanning a million ballots is a statistic.

The anti-woke crowd did was when the new She-ra cartoon came out and she was a 13 year old girl and had a body like a 13 year old girl they all complained that she didn't have massive badonkadonks.

And there isn't really any excuse because if there is one group of people that knows what a 13-year-old girl looks like it's maga. Although to be fair Grok didn't exist yet

Because the bots are back on slash Dot. This reads like a AI generated post. It hits every single nonsensical right-wing talking point perfectly. I'm pretty sure if I took the time to do it I could come up with the chat GTP prompt the generated this post.

Anyway read the fucking comic books asshole. That is exactly the kind of girl Supergirl was in the 90s and going on. She's a girl people. So yeah she's going to act kind of like a tick tock girl because you know what that's kind of how girls act.

Not that anyone who would prompt chat GTP to post that nonsense has ever been anywhere near a girl that wasn't their mother...

Honestly I think we should create the department of male fuckability. A entire multi trillion dollar government Department designed to get these idiots laid so that they calm down and stop doing this gamergate bullshit.

Meanwhile nobody is coming for your fucking video games except the AI finance pros who are taking all the RAM and storage you need to play them.

Cheap labor that's what. For decades they've been taking advantage of the global labor supply to drive our wages down.

Humanity really isn't set up for the current situation. Our brains don't work like that. The problem is that we evolved to function in small tribes fighting over water and herds of animals. We need to be functioning like a global tribe where everybody raises everybody else's wages so that the ruling elite that ran Epstein Island can't play us against each other like crabs in a bucket.

But that's basically impossible because small tribal thinking is basically impossible to extend across groups of more than about 120 people. It's honestly a minor miracle that we've lasted this long and I suspect in a few years we will hand the launch codes over to some absolute lunatics and that'll be game over. Maybe a few billionaires or trillionaires will survive in their bunkers

And I think that's the thing everybody's having a hard time with.

AI breaks capitalism.

Try to imagine you're a trillionaire. You are incredibly rich and powerful. And it's never ever ever enough.

Now right now someone out there is furiously typing how Elon Musk doesn't really have a trillion dollars because it's based on the valuation of his companies. It's based on how many goods and services he can sell to people.

Now stop. Ask yourself. Do you think he hasn't realized that?

What do you think Elon Musk thinks about the basic reality that he is entirely dependent on a Schlub like you for his wealth and power and status? Do you think he is content with that situation?

I'll spell it out for the 12-year-olds here. No he's not. He is extremely and bitterly angry that a god king like himself requires you to consent to his godhood. Right now you're thinking I could just boycott him and he'd be brought down to my level. Never mind that that isn't really true let's imagine for a second that it is. You have power over him. He doesn't like that.

The trillionaires will spend any amount of money to break that dependency. They do not care if they have to pay 10 times the money for an AI programmer as long as they don't have to be nice to the human programmer in order to make them make their products or get them to buy their products.

And the problem is I don't know an easy way to explain this to people who think like 12-year-olds and that's 60% of this country based on reading levels.

We gave so much money and so much power to the people at the top that they do not care about profits anymore. They don't have to worry about it. No amount of loss has any effect on their standard of living because it's not money anymore it's power and we gave them unlimited power. Never mind for a second why we did that we still did it.

So they can use AI to impoverish all of us and even though it breaks capitalism they don't care anymore because they are trying to create a post capitalism society without socialism. And holy fuck that is a sentence way too complicated for the people who need to get the message and I do not know how to dumb it down.

Power girl yeah sure she would kill, but Supergirl is usually above that just like Superman is. I haven't seen the movie yet so I'll have to withhold judgment. Normally I'd be like sure yeah crappy superhero movie but I really liked the first Superman they did. And I did think it was funny the idea of making Supergirl A bit of a drunk party girl. If you read the actual comics that kind of rebellion and general angsty confusion is a huge part of her character. At least once you get into the 90s and 2000s. She was older when she lost her home so it affects her differently.

That's a real shame, because I've always wondered what the prime factors of 35 might be.

I'm still holding out hope that they manage to figure this out during my lifetime.

The goal is to make sure that the people in control of your energy stay in control of your energy. That's why the transition is taking so long. We need to preserve existing power structures and the existing Epstein class.

I'll make you a deal. You can shove as many guns up your ass as you want if you will get out of the way and let the adults in the room give everybody healthcare and clean drinking water. Deal?

It worked when the Nazis did it to the Jews.

One of the things that made Germany just suddenly pop off like that is they stole billions of dollars in property from the Jewish people. This gave them the resources to pour into their War machine. While they were doing it they also turned the Jewish people into a slave caste but didn't feed them. Treating them is a resource to be expended for the war effort until, well you know the rest.

The trillionaires to even going to bother with death camps for us. They will impoverish us so that we can't build technology that could threaten them and then every few years they will have drones bomb us back into the Stone age to make sure we stay there. That is at least what they're planning. So far well their plans are working.

I'm sure it's fine though. I mean it's not like we just sent nine innocent protesters to prison for life or anything. And nothing ever changes. There's a 50/50 chance that somebody will comment that everything is fine and I'm just being alarmist. Always a conservative

And a smaller grift cannot survive when a larger grift muscles into its territory. The scale of the Trump grift is beyond anything we've ever seen in the history of our country. Nine people just got handed life in prison for protesting. Literally billions of dollars of pardons have been sold. And there are thousands of other smaller scams and griffs and crimes.

Crypto depends entirely on money laundering for its value and when you have criminals in charge of the justice system there's no enforcement so there's no reason to bother spending extra money laundering your money.

If and when the Democrats get back in charge they will of course start enforcing laws again but it's going to take them years to fix this mess. Hell Iran's toll booth Trump helped them set up and the 300 billion dollars that we have to pay them because we lost the war is going to be a huge problem for the next administration. And somehow half the voters will blame Joe Biden

And with Donald Trump as president of the United States you don't really need to hide money laundering anymore. Just make sure you set aside about $2 million dollars out of your budget for a bribe and you're good to go.

This isn't just me being pissy. A weaker regulatory environment is definitely going to hurt assets used primarily to commit crime. When you can do the crime out in the open there's no reason to spend the extra money to add the extra layers.