“I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.”
–Franklin D. Roosevelt
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What Grids are 90% or More Green
What grids can Colorado look to to emulate?
Another ad for nuclear power – brought to you by David "Nukem" Thielen and the Nuclear Institute lobbying group.
Social costs? Extraction costs? These don't matter. We only count the carbon and dollars at the receiving end of the power supply. We also don't count what happens to spent fuel, because, heck, the people who deal with nuclear waste storage are just farmers, ranchers, and indigenous people on reservations, and who the heck cares about them?
Yep, I also worry about the social & extraction costs – which tend to be gigantic for wind & solar. Including screwing over Native American tribes. They do exist for nuclear (but orders of magnitude less).
Anyways, can you point to a grid being primarily wind & solar other than Denmark? If not, why should we be able to accomplish something no one else has pulled off?
All things old are made new again ….
The Bidens want back in
What the hell do we have to lose? In the last three election cycles, he's the only guy who was able to defeat You-Know-Who.
BIDEN/HARRIS '28
The article says Biden is offering to help how he can, not suggesting he or Jill Biden would be candidates. No one will overlook that Joe Biden beat Trump once (and lost to him once) AND is only 1 for 4 in his runs for President.
If I had a way to advise, it would be to have Joe Biden talk to any of the House or Senate Republicans willing to talk with him, urging them to think independently and vote against the excesses. And perhaps to have him talk with previous Presidents, Vice Presidents, and candidates to urge them to speak out when a program they were closely involved with is getting cut. If a donor wants to have a conversation with Joe, agree to take the call.
But he is not a dynamic rally speaker, not a key endorsement for candidates, not a centerpiece for raising money.
WIRED should get a Pulitzer prize for their reporting on NaziTechBro…if there's a free media next year.
WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.
There are generally five phases of a GAGAS audit, the auditors tell WIRED: planning, evidence gathering, evaluation, reporting, and follow up. Auditors work to define the scope of an audit, identify all the applicable laws and standards, and come up with an audit plan. Next, auditors conduct interviews with staff, review financial records, and comb through data, reports, and transactions, documenting all the way. From there, auditors will assess that information against policies or procedures to figure out if there’s been some kind of alleged waste, fraud, or abuse and issue a report detailing their findings and offering recommendations. Often, those reports are made available to the public. After an audit, the auditors can follow up with the agency to ensure changes are being made.
Forgot the link and my HTML skilz suck – https://www.wired.com/story/federal-auditors-doge-elon-musk/