for reference and comparison: conservatively, the United States spent two-thirds of that figure in the *first week* of the war on Iran. it's genuinely difficult to overstate how many world-historical own goals US politics has accumulated over the past few decades
Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship?
Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him.
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"A new peer-reviewed analysis, which tested 197 homes across Massachusetts and Rhode Island, found that 93% of homes served by gas had consistently elevated indoor methane levels compared to all-electric homes."
Quit poisoning your family: go electric!
Background Methane leaks across the natural gas process chain, including in homes. To date, no studies have described how common it is to have elevated methane in homes served by gas, in comparison to...
And the corruption continues
I truly believe we should remove the presidential pardon, or at a minimum make it approved by a 60% majority of Congress. Additionally, any fines should still be required to be paid to victims.
Just my perspective.
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President Donald Trump has issued a pardon to Stephen Buyer, a former Republican congressman from Indiana who served nearly two years in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside informat...
This is how we get to a truly cheap solar powered grid. People drive their EVs to work during the day. L2 chargers there let them all charge with nearly free solar power. They drive home at night and plug into the V2G street chargers to sell 50% of their battery charge back to the grid overnight.
Reply mini thread to a post about a data center being used to heat a whole town (instead of wasting all the heat it produces evaporating water, which is then also wasted).
The point of posting this here is to remind us all how misinfo has wormed into normal Americans' brains. Even someone whose whole course of study is being assaulted by R electeds still thinks what we need is to compromise with Rs, specifically on education. It's all vibes, but vibes are very strong.
