Hydro is kinda awful for the environment.

Thanks for catching the typo.

Maybe in the UK where each plant is basically unique instead of having improvements from all the previous iterations. In the US it’s around 93%. I don’t know how to search China or France’s numbers, but I suspect they’re similar or better.

A MW of solar averages out to about .2 MWh per hour. A MW of nuclear averages about .9 MWh per hour.

But even so as the UK does it, nuclear power isn’t worth it. France and China are better examples since they both picked a few designs and mass produced them.

China’s experience indicates you can mass produce nuclear relatively cheaply and quickly, having built 35 out of 57GW in the last decade, and another 88GW on the way, however it’s not nearly as quick to expand as solar, wind, and fossil fuels.

People elect representatives to represent them, not to compromise and pass the opposition’s agenda.

It’s forgivable if the representative failed to obtain enough power, but if they have literally any means at their disposal and don’t use it, an unwillingness to use all the power the people gave them to do what they elected them to do is a betrayal of those people.

Even so, I’m not sure I can agree that the best solution to dealing with the right is to fight the centrists first

We aren’t able to use electoralism to fight the right as long as the political platform and messaging of the democratic party is 95% the same as the republican’s.

The criticisms of the dem party don’t amount to “let the right win”, they amount to “the DNC prevents any political resistance to the right, they either need to be coup’d or destroyed if we want to stop the right from winning”

They’re joking, except in 2004, the republicans have lost every popular vote since 1988, so typically when the republicans win it’s a clear failure of democracy. This time the candidate with more votes actually did win.

It just speaks to how dogshit the Dem strategy of chasing the <10% of republicans who claimed they didn’t like Trump was.

if the federal government just hands over money with inadequate oversight it will just enrich the companies.

The worst part of this is that that money is not just wasted, it’s used to lobby politicians to make it worse.

And to be clear, the railroads don’t need more money, back when Biden banned Warren Buffet’s railroad from striking, I did the math, they could afford to double their work force, giving them all half the year off, and pay each one of them 100K/year, and still give the shareholders multiple billions a year.

It’s weird that they call them knock-offs, they’re the same drug, just made by a different company with a different name.

This is bad because it will increase prices for these drugs.

China started their high-speed rail network by buying German trains, today their trains are faster than Germany’s and their rail network is more extensive and cheaper.

They’re investing in education, every step of the supply chain, and their chip companies, and bringing in foreign experts and equipment to fill in any gaps. That’s how you get an advanced semiconductor industry.

Off by a factor of 1000. That’s why I’m not a nuclear engineer.

all large projects have this level of corruption and grift

Skill issue. I can’t even blame capitalism, since the french manage to get almost 90% of their power from nuclear.

China has 53 GW installed, 25 GW under construction, and another 47 GW planned. Generally they’re pretty clear-eyed when it comes to major projects like this, so I think we can infer the availability of cheap hydro and solar doesn’t favor doing more than ~15% nuclear since they’re only planning to increase it by 150% over the next couple decades.

Maybe that will change when they set up long term storage/reprocessing.

What I don’t hear are realistic solutions to the problems

Stop sending Israel the tools to carry out genocide. Problem solved. This is the only way you can make a credible argument to muslims that trump would be worse, because you are no longer facilitating a literal genocide.

Forgive all student loans. Yes, this is realistic, the Department of Education studied the problem and said so. Problem solved. Dare republicans to undo it. This is the only way you can make a can make a credible argument to young people that you actually want this thing and if they don’t vote for you, republicans will make it worse. You can’t credibly make that argument when you’re the one who restarted loan payments and you’ve only undone a tiny portion of the harm that caused via forgiveness.

Order military hospitals to provide abortion care and free contraceptives. You’re the commander in chief, you can do that.

Order the military to destroy the child drowning fence along the rio. Again, commander in chief.

You act like TikTok isn’t a mouthpiece for the CCP

It’s not, they spent a lot of money setting up servers in the US and getting former spooks in charge of US operations in 2020.

But that’s irrelevant, tiktok is popular. Banning a popular thing in an election year is a dogshit strategy to get reelected.

Well, instead of saying that, maybe you should be saying, “If you think Biden is bad, wait until the great orange dictator takes office. He already has family talking about flipping Gaza real estate.”

You have learned nothing from 2016, and are bound to repeat it.

Actions speak infinitely louder than words, this isn’t a problem messaging can solve.

Nobody is saying the captain needs to be replaced, we’re saying stop sailing directly towards those fucking rocks. No matter how hard we paddle, Biden cannot win the muslim votes he needs if he is facilitating genocide of muslims. He will not get the young votes he needs if he bans tiktok after restarting student loans.

Nothing we can do can change this. Only Biden can.

Pressure Biden to do the things he needs to do to get elected. Voters are gonna do what they’re gonna do. You cannot shame millions of voters into taking an unpaid day off to vote for someone who has told them through his actions that he does not and will not represent them.

Trying to silence such analysis just helps the DNC maintain the delusion that they can win while standing up to the very voters they need instead of doing what they are telling the democrats to do.

If I was Biden and I wanted to make sure absolutely nobody under 35 voted for me, first thing I’d do is genocide.

If that didn’t work, then I’d restart student loans.

If that didn’t work, I’d ban Tiktok.

Edit: To the people downvoting me: Do you think giving Israel the bombs they use to carry out genocide, restarting student loans, and banning tiktok helps Biden’s reelection chances?

Are you republicans who don’t want him to change course? Are you democrats perpetually stuck in 2016, blaming voters rather than asking “What policies caused us to lose? What changes do we need to make to win?”

TBF, for the last 30 years even Cyberpunk authors completely missed the point that capitalism will subvert these amazing technologies to make everything worse if we don’t do something. Neal Stephenson is a crypto shill.

Why?

Web3 was dead on arrival; when your ecosystem is entirely wannabe digital landlords, you’re not gonna get any content to actually attract users.