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There has been a fair bit of discussion about what parts of the electrical supply system need to be publicly owned to enable all households to move to public ownership in order to achieve full decarbonization. The system operator, which manages day-to-day decisions about generation, is a key one in pretty much all of them.

 

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Trump said if he were elected, he would stop sending California federal firefighting aid unless Gov. Gavin Newsom, whom he referred to repeatedly as “Newscum,” enacted his policy priorities on issues such as water and taxes.

I'll note that the most fire-prone parts of California tend to be Republican-majority areas.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

He'll spout words, likely ones which make it clear he's going to make good on his side of the oil industry's billion-dollar bribe.

Making that clear to people is likely a big deal

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Version 1:

  • The world is going to end real soon
  • they expect to be raptured away to Heaven
  • God put stuff on the earth for us to use up before the rapture

Version 2:

  • Somebody else is going to suffer because of the environmental damage
  • Hurting other people shows how masculine and powerful I am
  • I profit from the damage
  • Damage = good
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

There's a significant impact from the higher temperatures.

It's not just the management history, though that doesn't help.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

That's a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A fair-sized chunk of this fall's electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn't have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 6 days ago (11 children)

A lot of people don't pay much attention until shortly before the election.

His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can't give a decent explanation of what he's going to do on a particular topic.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mental capacity.

He's very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he's in touch with the latest racist meme.

Anything else? Not so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Also, they'll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

The IRA is absolutely a bill which uses capitalist mechanisms to achieve some decarbonization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I'd love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn't charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

They'd probably get less engagement if I did that; headlines that confuse people cause them to comment, which in turn causes Facebook and Reddit to show content to more people.

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