My interpretation of his discussion is that Trump and the rest of the Republican party who have supported him have ripped apart the fabric of American Democracy and it will never be repaired. This 12 minute interview by Judy Woodruff is to me an exceedingly important assessment of the horrible state of American democracy –
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Sabine gives the seven sins of greenwashing in a 17 min. YouTube video. The text follows. 1. The Sin of the Hidden Tradeoff:: When a product is marketed as green based on some environmental benefit but other often bigger issues go unmentioned. A typical example is batteries for electric vehicles. They don’t release CO2 emissions
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An Op-Ed; at the end she said: “”It’s another strength that will uphold Tesla in times of Elon’s antics, which may serve, again and again, to be little more than a puerile distraction.”” Op-Ed: Tesla Is Too Established Now To Fail — Even With Elon’s Antics
Sabine Hossenfelder goes over the history and ways that Moore’s Law may still make progress. Also a few good comments.
There is so much bad press in the newsmedia about EV fires. But the worst by far are hybrids, then regular gas guzzlers. EVs are a very tiny fraction of the total. Gas cars catch fire 200 times more often than EVs. See image.
Quotes: “” James Hansen & The Sounds Of Silence Hansen’s words fell on deaf ears. His warnings spawned a movement populated by opportunists, know-nothings, charlatans, and committed climate deniers like that consummate jackass James Inhofe, a senator who once brought a snowball into the well of the Senate to “prove” that climate change was a
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Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson tells his audience about what happened in the Muslim world a thousand years ago when they went down the slope of close-minded anti-science. https://www.facebook.com/GregorySuperAntichristRocca/videos/737024181326737/?mibextid=RLVjjA
Article in NPR focuses on Trump’s use of lies, history, persecution by the press, fascism. Quote: “” “The use of lies takes place in a larger effort to turn the public against alternate sources of authority,” she said. Those sources might include independent courts, legislative bodies and law enforcement agencies. Or — it may be
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Sen. Whitehouse lectures about how bad it’s going to get.
This scenario is hard to grasp and understand: the plans Trump had to overthrow the 2020 presidential election, if they had succeeded, would have caused nationwide protests for ignoring the will of the people, and resulted in another massacre much, much worse than the Kent State Massacre of 1970. It would have been a coup
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