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https://www.anl.gov/article/qa-could-magnesium-be-a-battery-future-argonne-chemist-brian-ingram-weighs-in

Honestly I don’t see why buying data on the open market is illegal. I think it shouldn’t be legal to sell it but it is. I’d prefer nobody have access than the NSA pretend they don’t see what anyone else can buy.

They’re still claiming they didn’t steal 2000 from Gore

Because it’s not a conspiracy theory - there was an impeachment trial about this.

It’s a great reason until there’s an alternative. As long as voters look to gas prices for their votes, taking action that raises them is politically toxic.

Meanwhile leftists are literally criticizing the Biden administration for high gas prices’ impact on the working class.

You want to change it? Let’s change it. Starting with activists.

Unfortunately we proved just before the midterms that there’s a very linear inverse correlation between gas prices and perceived job performance. Refilling the strategic petroleum reserve is electorally smart. Until activists can detach these electoral relaities nothing will change for anyone.

Exactly. The fact that it’s not a no-brainer should be front page news and they should be rooting out every Republican who won’t expel the corrupt son of a bitch and pressing them to explain why

SCHISM! SCHISM! SCHISM!

OP smacks of the criticism of the transwoman advertisement. “Are they really trying to tell us that commodification and fetishization of trans bodies is acceptable?”

No!!! The point is that the entire world is a cautionary tale about what happens when you allow corporations unlimited power!!!

IT’S A DYSTOPIA DUMMY

I disagree, I think the techniques are not the issue, but the political-economic will to actually do it. It doesn’t matter if we discover a way to build a zero-footprint efficiently-dense accessible and affordable housing out of entirely reclaimed materials- zoning boards, HOAs, city officials, and all other sorts of shit-eating bureaucrats and busybodies are going to chain themselves to historic parking lots to prevent progress.

To that note, repurposing a parking garage into shelter makes it easy for them to evict the housed and turn it back into a parking garage as per its original design- even potentially arguing that its original design as parking makes it unsafe for human habitation (and they very well could be right- cars and car infrastructure can be very toxic).

Tearing down car infrastructure isn’t just symbolically obliterating car infrastructure, it has very real impacts in making it hard for the pendulum to swing back to building housing for cars and not people.

It’s a neat concept but what we should be doing is obliterating the spaces made for cars and building spaces made for people, not “reclaiming” car space to fit people in it.

Billionaire consumption irrespective of how outsized, isn’t significant in the context of our entire societal consumption. Every private plane flight in a year emits 5MtCO₂, while all flights emit 800MtCO₂. Even Roman Abramovich’s ridiculously wasteful superyacht is about 20ktCO₂/yr. All private cars contribute 3BtCO₂/yr. Billionaire consumption is a drop in the bucket, which is why any article blaming billionaires to try to convince you this isn’t a kitchen table issue and infrastructure issue for the rest of us has to qualify with investments, since the average billionaire basically owns fossil fuel companies.

That’s useful information to be sure, because it does emphasize that billionaires profit from emissions, but the end consumers of the vast majority of those emissions, the reasons why those fossil fuels were burned in the first place, are the rest of us, day by day, partially by choice but mostly by consequence of building our basic infrastructure to rely on fossil fuels and refusing to make the investment to decarbonize it.

Thanks for sharing. Good on you for getting clean and I wish you strength in staying that way.