I’m talking about solar, EVs and so on. It’s straight-up cheaper to not use fossil fuels now, for most things, and the remaining ones seem like they’re inevitably coming.

Don’t worry, I’m still pretty doomer about it. The planet’s going to get a bit messed up in the meanwhile, and we’d have just kind of boiled ourselves like a frog, if we hadn’t gotten lucky with cheap renewables suddenly appearing.

The thing is, negotiation is always easier than implementation, which is why it comes before.

It’s pretty clear at this point we’re going to stop climate change right around as fast as technology forces us to. I don’t see any other plausible path.

Sort of? I think this was more of a “see, Americans agree, women are shit”.

True, your policies don’t have to make sense if you win.

That being said, this guy runs a fringe party. They have a whole 3 seats in the Diet’s lower house and none whatsoever in the upper.

It’s the same in Australia. Something about the pacific must make parties switch places.

Pfft, he’s doing an amateur job of intimidating, then. It should have been thumbscrews or something. This way seems self defeating.

Yeah, I’m actually hella curious what the context was here. Why would he want any of that?

Question: what do you mean illegal in Canada? AFAIK the only extra laws here are already covered by rule 4.

If they have any sense they’ll do Cuba first. It’s just way too easy a win for a fascistoid government that’s willing to actually deploy and likes red baiting.

I’m not even clear what the guerilla situation would look like in the post-Fidel era.

Mmm yes, big ass rotors to keep that solid gold/uranium/whatever frame off the seabed.

Yeah, that’s my read too. Even if they mention it in the report, it’s “Israelis attacked” in the headline from a lot of the big sources.

Yeah, and I’ve never heard of the source. I call hoax.

Islam is slightly remixed Judaism. It’s annoying when Christians do this, and it’s annoying if Jews do this, too. Islamic civilisation was better and more progressive than the ones in Europe for a long time, even.

I really hope you stick to this line in the future, I guess. If you’re right, everything will be fine. If I’m right and you stay true to it, we’ll be on the same side shortly.

Press X to doubt.

I really can’t understand the level of “history is over, here” most of the West seems to be on. It’s a delusion that has to break down eventually, but apparently we’re not there yet.

I mean, maybe. I’m calling it that at least one Democratic party figure will get gotten in a show trial.

It truly is the GOAT. All the other ones look bougie and out of touch by comparison. Toyota Hilux with Cold War-era gun screwed on gets shit done.

Saudi is moderate on Israel, I guess, but they’re even more brutal than Iran in most other ways. The Middle East is a rough neighborhood.

That’s a pretty strong claim, and seems to fly in the face of the fact that there’s more Arabs than Iranians out there by far. The Iranian revolution was in the mid 70’s. You know Israel had to fight for it’s existence several times before that, right? The borders everyone is telling Israel to respect are the 1967 ones, even…

Yeah. The EU endorsing and preferentially using OSS is a good concept, but there should be way less specifics in there.

Ah yes, the old style of automation. Why spend a trillion flops doing what 100 can?

So do you think if the Iranian government fell (not far fetched, as you mentioned - they’re domestically unpopular), the issue would go away? I really don’t. They’re part of it, but it seems more like opportunism to gain support and influence than anything else.