And we get to finally leave the goddamn Middle East much faster, because the green energy transition makes it easy for us to let them sort it out themselves.

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"In other countries, this would be called 'an authoritarian coup.' In America, mealy-mouthed officials call our transition into a mafia state 'deeply troubling' and do little to curb the damage." -- HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020)

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I know people instinctively recoil at monocausal explanations and want important trends to have sufficiently weighty causes, but “We built a novel social environment that rewards anger and lurid pessimism and moved 95% of political discourse into it” is a pretty good explanation for a lot of stuff

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Another example of why making TV is fucked now: Big Bang Theory's newest spin-off is produced on a "10 episodes a season, two years to make a season" schedule. Even the lowest common denominator Chuck Lorre sitcom machine now makes streaming shows at the same speed as Stranger Things!

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Official monthly data is in, and US solar power generation hit a new record high, up 21% compared to this time last year!

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