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  • Conservatives block Trump's big tax breaks bill in a stunning setback

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  • Same as every funding bill for the last 8+ years. Far right sides with the Democrats, for opposing reasons. Then we either get a far right bill with freedom caucus support, or we get the bill pulled up the left for moderate democrat support.

  • Huge cost of military parade on Trump’s birthday is revealed

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  • Plans now include a parade since that coincides with Trump's 79th birthday.

    According to the article, the parade part is specifically for Trump

  • Republicans vote against move to stop ICE deporting US citizens

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  • More like 50% can't be bothered because they "aren't political"

    23% are GOP single issue voters who with vote their party till the day they die for that one thing (guns, god, babies, etc.)

    27% have some assortment of center to left values and with flake easier than Tesla paint if any one of them is not met

  • Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins - Jalopnik

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  • Not manufacturers, dealers. A legally required middleman in most of the US. They'll take your $10k car for $7k and try to resell it for $12k. Even if it gets negotiated to a fair price, they still get the opportunity to upsell used car buyers into extended warranties and maintenance plans.

    Tesla is a little different in that they do not have dealers, so they instead do no-negotiatiation sales on their used cars. It's good for them because they can do the same buy low sell high deal. But when the model is not selling, they'll have to buy it and sit on that asset for months or dump it at auction.

  • Tesla Sitting On Thousands Of Unsold Cybertrucks As It Stops Accepting Its Own Cars As Trade-Ins - Jalopnik

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  • While the Texas Plate 'HAIT 88' seems like it's fake, I feel that is implied by driving a Cyber Truck. He didn't need to go through the trouble paying extra for that.

  • Chinese EV maker BYD says new fast-charging system could be as quick as filling up a tank

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  • I studied this a bit in my MS and the answer is... probably not. "The grid will collapse" has been an anti-technology or pro fossil fuel talking point for a very long time, whether* its arguing against renewables or against personal computers or against AC units. The most recent was solar. Grid operators were adamant that solar would crash the grid if it accounted for more than 10%, then 20%, then 30% and so on and it never happened. Now it's onto EVs being the grid destroyer.

    The reality is that production and use is not all that hard to predict. Ultrafast charging will eat some power, but that isn't going to be the norm for wide EV adoption. Public charging will cost more money and be less convenient than charging at home or work over a longer duration. Home chargers are capping around 30-35 amps, generally overnight when grid demand is low. Couple this with the combined low cost for residential solar to change at even lower rates depending on your state/nation's hostility to solar.

    Now, if every car was replaced with an EV tomorrow, the grid would struggle. But that's not going to happen. Adoption will be a long slow process and energy producers will increase output on pace as demand forecasts increase. A good parallel to this is Air Conditioning adoption. That's another high demand appliance that went from rare to common. The grid has its challenges, but now the AC usage is forcastable and rarely challenges the grid.

    Is it a challenge, especially with higher renewable mixtures, yes. Can utilities fumble? Of course. Will it be a widespread brownout every day during commute hours? Not likely.

  • US Congress nowhere close to deal to avert shutdown ahead of March 14 deadline

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  • USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them

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  • Yep. I work in a government office and the contracting companies have been out in force recruiting. "Resign, we'll hire you for six-figures. double dip pay till September" best part is, due to limited office space, all the contractors kept their telework status.

    It takes forever to hire people, even without the current freeze. That gap has always been filled with well paid contractors who trade long term job security for lucrative 4- year contracts.

  • Putin’s regime may be closer to a Soviet collapse than we think

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  • Just curious but are we heading towards an "eat the rich" society?

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  • You know the saying, "death and taxes"? Well, they stopped paying taxes.

  • Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.

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  • It is in the KS constitution as well. I didn't word it properly, but it was protected in section 1 of the KS constitution. The ballot measure in 2022 was to get rid of that constitutional right. That ballot measure failed, maintaining the constitutional right to personal healthcare decisions and abortion access.

    *"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is the direct wording from their constitution that has been affirmed several times in the state courts to include abortion access

  • Missouri Voters Enshrined Abortion Rights. GOP Lawmakers Are Already Working to Roll Them Back.

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  • The fight doesn't end with a ballot measure, in any state. They will keep trying to ban it forever. A similar thing happened in KS. A ballot measure was created to keep healthcare decisions out of the government's hands, which was already in the state constitution.

    KS GOP said people needed to vote no and that it was in no way an attack on abortion. It had nothing to do with abortion. It was just about making sure people could get medical care, absolutely nothing would be done to abortion rights. Just let the GOP help you get healthcare, they said.

    The ballot measure passed, maintaining abortion rights, and the GOP, in a shocking move, immediately tried to ban abortion...twice...in 2 years.

  • Trump cabinet criticized as hodgepodge team unified only by ‘absolute fealty’ to him

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  • Maybe a bright side; filling the executive with inept sycophants might slow down project 2025. The reason he struggled to achieve a lot of his bullshit the last time was they didn't have skilled people to navigate the legal system.

    Of course, that legal system also made him a king so...all they have to do is make him say whatever they want to do. But maybe, hopefully, they'll spend a lot of time fighting amongst themselves.

  • Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign

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  • Same, red county-district-state. I would hope the same but they won't attribute it to their dear* leader. His Tariffs and GOP policy will fuck them too, but fox and podcasts will tell them it's the deep state Democrats keeping them down. They all were doing the "this is Biden's America" posts in 2020. GOP can do no wrong in their eyes. Used to be child rape was a deal breaker but even that is A-OK now, as long as the Democrats lose.

  • Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star. | Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead.

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  • And they'll only get better with time. I think It'll be a little rocky the next four years in the US. But still, they are great. My house is 100% wind powered and I regret not putting solar on 5 years ago

  • Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star. | Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead.

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  • Great points! Wind and solar are far easier to scale. Their main issue is land use, but when applied properly (with appropriate environmental impact assessments) that's not a major concern on its own, really it's transiting that power to use centers. Dealing with the individual property rights for a transmission line that doesn't benefit the person under it is and has been enough to kill energy projects.

    In my opinion, nuclear's strength lies in its energy density. You could replace a coal or gas plant with a nuclear plant. This is an option being explored by a couple companies because it enabled them to use land no one wants that already has the cooling and transmission connections.

    I support nuclear and it was a recurring theme in my environmental policy degree, but I am by no means against wind and solar. I think they are fantastic sources. They each have their trade offs. But we will need to make use of everything in the face of climate change.

    One small note, nuclear is expensive, however be cautious when researching cost per Wh produced and look for the time scale. Wind and solar projects are often forecasted to run for just 20 years, they can certainly go longer though. Nuclear runs for 50+ years. Cost comparisons always use the lowest time scale. Nuclear obviously has a very high upfront cost that makes it stupid expensive for a 20 year plan, but over 50 it can reach parody or undercut renewables. Renewables are also done a disservice by these same reports by locking them to the low timescales when their leases are easily extended. But leases are also a large expense so renewal does bump the cost. Things get difficult to forecast with those known-unknows, so it's easier, and more accurate to take the lowest scale and say "this is the cost for 20 years" and let the reader decide if they want to math out the 2.5 multiplier. But then it wouldn't be accurate to the 20 years since renewal costs and...well, you see why we use the lower scale.

  • Nuclear Power Was Once Shunned at Climate Talks. Now, It’s a Rising Star. | Growing worldwide energy demand and other factors have shifted the calculus, but hurdles still lie ahead.

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  • Will Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy's new 'department' actually be able to do anything?

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  • Shhhh. I don't want these two anywhere near an office or department with merit.

  • Democrat moves to clarify the 22nd Amendment after Trump refers to running for third term

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  • One more I've heard from the MAGAs in my workplace: Trump did not actually get a first term because the Democrats obstructed him so 2024 is actually his first term