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But after repeatedly laying out the evidence I find persuasive, your response is still not primarily about the evidence. It's about why you think people like me must have reached the conclusion illegitimately.
I've agreed that the evidence you've laid out is persuasive and justifies scrutiny. Why would I say "agree to disagree" when I agreed with you like 8 times?
 

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Direct democracy, neutrality, and isolationism are bad ideas even if I despise many people on this subreddit.


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They can stay unhappy, it's them who sold the IAI Lavi, and send them to China with dual use military technology, and know-how on how to make a fighter jet.

With Russia trolling the US by wanting the US and Russia to decrease US and Russian nuclear arsenals while China will build more nuclear weapons, we should not sign another treaty on nuclear weapons and anti-missile defense treaties no matter what dipshit realist academics say.

It was the Russians, China, and Pakistan that gave dual use nuclear technology, nuclear power plant construction, nuclear weapons technology know-how, and ICBM rocket engine technology and handed them out like candy to North Korea, Libya, Iraq, and now Iran. Which is a very self-destructive thing even to themselves as all of those countries do face terrorist attacks.

US missile defense is the US advantage here, and we should advance this technology as much as we can alongside the EU, and share this with Japan and South Korea. Anything else is asking for a nuclear terrorist attack on a major Ally, US or EU city no matter what quisling far left and far right idiot says and no matter how we appease these continentalist trolls.
 
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I love it when you post articles that do my work for me. That article outlines how the issue is overcome.



Ok, then let's see what "engineers in the field" you're talking about, then. Give me an engineer in the energy sector saying that renewables are so incompatible with our power grids that we should stay away from them. Even though hundreds of countries are already successfully using them.



I already explained why and how the overlooked forms of subsidy favour fossil fuels over renewables. Go back and reread, or don't repeat points that have already been addressed.



Ah, so now we're talking about "self-censorship" rather than outside forces. In short, you speculate that scientists agree with you and are keeping silent, though you can't provide a shred of evidence.

Roger Pielke agrees that anthropogenic climate change is real and severe. He supports measures to combat it. His chief difference of opinion is that he doesn't think measures can limit the rise in less than a couple of decades, but he still supports those actions. He's miles closer to my position than yours.
The issue is overcome with a new technology that didn't exist until the last couple years. Everything Kathryn Porter said in the video I linked (that is close to a year old) is true and what actual engineers have said. Yet you smeared her and said she didn't know anything.

Why would you pour tons of resources/money into a type of energy that wasn't compatible with current grids 5 years ago,10 years ago, etc. when nuclear power has existed for 50+ years and is perfectly compatible with our system and also extremely green?

You provided basically 0 evidence...

I've seen what has happened throughout my life with these so-called "scientific consensuses". I've seen scientists say to eat the exact opposite foods you should be eating for 50 years (Harvard still says stuff that is just massively wrong). My mom's doctor told her not to eat eggs. I saw what happened with covid, scientists were shadow banned on social media, tons of doctors self-censoring. I see how basically every chronic disease is treated, by treating the symptoms instead of the actual cause.
This is literally from 2 months ago...

"Greenhouse gases warm the climate, but it’s not the apocalypse." - Roger Pielke. Literally what I said, it's not the end of the world...
Again, you don't acknowledge any bias on your side. It's simply not true that there is a climate emergency that we have to stop everything we're doing today to avert disaster. On the spectrum from "everything's fine (we don't have to do anything) to we must stopped fossil fuel usage immediately (or net zero)" neither extreme is true.
 

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We need an age cap on either voting or holding office. If you are above age 70ish, I don't want you in charge or holding the government hostage. I would honestly prefer if Bernie Sanders, and liberal old people lose their rights over democracy and getting taken apart piece by piece.
 

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The issue is overcome with a new technology that didn't exist until the last couple years. Everything Kathryn Porter said in the video I linked (that is close to a year old) is true and what actual engineers have said. Yet you smeared her and said she didn't know anything.
Ok, so the issue is overcome now, great. And even beforehand, it can't have been an unavoidable block to renewable energy integration, because dozens of countries successfully integrated anyway.

Everything i said about Kathryn Porter was correct. She has zero relevant experience or qualification in the field. That is not a smear. That is the truth.

You provided basically 0 evidence...
Of what? What would you like evidence of? I've provided you sources on the enormous subsidies going to fossil fuels. The fact that renewables can be successfully, widely integrated is proven by the fact that they already have been.

I've seen what has happened throughout my life with these so-called "scientific consensuses".
Lol, no. You have proven time and again that you don't have the willingness, patience, or understanding to engage with scientific literature. You cherry pick, you ignore or misread what doesn't suit you, you dismiss what you disagree with on spurious grounds. You have zero grasp of remotely scientific topics and have shown absolutely no drive to learn.
 
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We need an age cap on either voting or holding office. If you are above age 70ish, I don't want you in charge or holding the government hostage. I would honestly prefer if Bernie Sanders, and liberal old people lose their rights over democracy and getting taken apart piece by piece.
Yeah.... this is the problem with Baby Boomers and lower birthrates. They have way more control as they are such a massive voting block that it punishes every other generation
 

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So, would that make solar boilers a "good" kind of solar by that reasoning? It's using lenses or mirrors to focus sunlight to heat a boiler that makes steam to turn a turbine, meaning it has a rotating mass involved in generating power (aka a turbine). They lack most of the rare earths that can sometimes be an argument against solar by certain types as well, since they are just a boiler->turbine pair like fossil fuels have with a bunch of mirrors focusing light on the boiler to supply the heat instead of burning fossil fuels.
Sounds good.

Ok, so the issue is overcome now, great. And even beforehand, it can't have been an unavoidable block to renewable energy integration, because dozens of countries successfully integrated anyway.

Everything i said about Kathryn Porter was correct. She has zero relevant experience or qualification in the field. That is not a smear. That is the truth.



Of what? What would you like evidence of? I've provided you sources on the enormous subsidies going to fossil fuels. The fact that renewables can be successfully, widely integrated is proven by the fact that they already have been.



Lol, no. You have proven time and again that you don't have the willingness, patience, or understanding to engage with scientific literature. You cherry pick, you ignore or misread what doesn't suit you, you dismiss what you disagree with on spurious grounds. You have zero grasp of remotely scientific topics and have shown absolutely no drive to learn.
If you look at the list of countries that use quite a large chunk of renewables coupled with the main renewables being wind and solar, they are paying high energy costs. The vast vast vast majority of countries that have significant percentage of renewables in their grid use hydro as by far the main source of renewable energy.

Someone that says the same things chief engineers say =/= unknowledgeable.

I never claimed anything about fossil fuels not getting subsidies, I said renewables now get more subsidies in the US.

Funny when I apply stuff I learn to my life how often it works out. I go by who makes the better argument, not what way of thinking is the most popular. For example, Dr. Sarah Hallberg's arguments and advice are way better than anything you'd read about from Harvard (which is still telling people saturated fat is bad).
 

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This Trump Supporter's Theory About The Green Reflecting Pool Is Going Viral

In a statement to CNN, Katie Martin — the communications director at the US Department of the Interior — said, "What you are seeing is residual algae from the supply lines, which have been sitting dormant for eight weeks while construction has been taking place. It's part of the normal startup process. We are removing the algae, and the nanobubblers will maintain the pool and keep it algae free." She also said, "President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who has fixed the Reflecting Pool for good unlike the failed and extremely costly attempt by Obama and Biden." Okay then.

Of course, some Trump supporters have other conspira— I mean, hypotheses. Grant Stinchfield posted a Reflecting Pool video on X (formerly Twitter) that's currently going viral. According to his bio, Grant is a "#MAGA Champion," so make of that what you will.

In the tweet, he wrote: "President Trump fixes the reflecting pool and a week later it's green again, loaded with algae… Sabotage… Vandalism? I believe it is. The left can't stand Trump, American greatness and his quest to make DC beautiful again. What a shame!"


In the video, Grant voices his belief that the algae in the reflecting pool is "sabotage"...

...and that people are "pumping something into this."

He interviews several MAGA passersby. "That wouldn't shock me either," one person says, while another tells him, "I agree with you."
Grant continues, "What a shame, because in the end, after all the work that was done, after as proud as I was of President Trump for finally getting this thing fixed, we're back to green. And again, is it nefarious? I tend to think so. You wouldn't have so much algae that you see in here. You would not have that, that quickly, unless somebody did something. I'm telling you."
 

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If you look at the list of countries that use quite a large chunk of renewables coupled with the main renewables being wind and solar, they are paying high energy costs. The vast vast vast majority of countries that have significant percentage of renewables in their grid use hydro as by far the main source of renewable energy.
Energy costs are set by private energy companies, Phoenix. The actual cost of generating energy from renewables is significantly lower. The companies don't pass the saving onto the end user.

Someone that says the same things chief engineers say =/= unknowledgeable.
Right, but two posts ago I asked you to cite these supposed chief engineers, and I'm still waiting.

I never claimed anything about fossil fuels not getting subsidies, I said renewables now get more subsidies in the US.
Yes, and your source was using government data that excluded several forms of subsidy that favour fossil fuels, as i already explained.

Funny when I apply stuff I learn to my life how often it works out.
Works out for you, maybe, according to a narrow short-term perspective; that's how selfishness works. The changing climate doesn't work out so well for island nations, those in the path of worsening natural disasters, future generations, or hundreds of other species facing extinction.
 
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Energy costs are set by private energy companies, Phoenix. The actual cost of generating energy from renewables is significantly lower. The companies don't pass the saving onto the end user.



Right, but two posts ago I asked you to cite these supposed chief engineers, and I'm still waiting.



Yes, and your source was using government data that excluded several forms of subsidy that favour fossil fuels, as i already explained.



Works out for you, maybe, according to a narrow short-term perspective; that's how selfishness works. The changing climate doesn't work out so well for island nations, those in the path of worsening natural disasters, future generations, or hundreds of other species facing extinction.
A significant amount of energy produced by renewables is wasted.

She said exactly what the chief engineer said in the article about inverters.

You did not disprove renewables get more subsidies than fossil fuels.

I go after the root cause of things and most people don't.
 

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A significant amount of energy produced by renewables is wasted.
And as has already been explained to you, much more of the energy generated from fossil fuels is wasted.

She said exactly what the chief engineer said in the article about inverters.
You mean the article that explained exactly how the problem has been overcome? You may not have read it properly; it wouldn't be the first time.

You did not disprove renewables get more subsidies than fossil fuels.
I provided a source for the wildly high subsidies incurred by fossil fuels. And explained how many of them favour fossil fuels much more than they do renewables.

if you think renewables incur the same/more, at this point its on you to pony up. Because we have zero sources showing an equivalent number for them.

I go after the root cause of things and most people don't.
😂

You go for whatever satisfies your pre-existing assumptions and prejudices, and don't give a toss about anyone else.
 

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You Know It’s a Great Nickname When Both Obama Haters and Boosters Want to Claim It

They call it the Obamalisk. “They,” in this instance, being both the scores of conservative critics still fuming about the idea that a Black man became the 44th President of the United States, hoping to cast the grand opening of Barack Obama’s new presidential library as a symbol of totalitarian oppression, and also the legions of Obama boosters and curious Americans who acknowledge that the local Chicago nickname conferred on the new Presidential Center is also simply cool as hell. Both sides can be at least partially correct at once–Obama’s newly dedicated building in Jackson Park, which opens to the public tomorrow, is audacious in its design and both gaudy and stark in its appearance simultaneously, weaving in the clear influence of brutalist architecture with the geometric lines of Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, one of Obama’s favorites. It does indeed look like a truncated obelisk, one where the top has perhaps been sawed off, and it comes wrapped in the words of Obama’s own speeches. Like any presidential library, it is both a gift to the public and a monument to ego, just another entry in a long series of presidential projects stretching back to Franklin D. Roosevelt, wherein powerful and wealthy men attempt to immortalize their legacy with a building. But only Barack Obama’s has a basketball court, so there.
 
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The name is cool but the building is not. Brutalism is fit only as headquarters of a torture happy secret service, or a Sith lord.
Brutalism is like any art form: it can be done well and be magnificent, or done badly and be awful.

I kind of like it. At best, it looked futuristic, space age (now retro space age); some of it is genuinely interesting and attractive. In design ethos, I think it had an admirable element of community and equality. No wonder it fell out of favour with an increasing individualist, atomised society.