EV Tuesday: Cash for UK Clunkers
UK PM ThatIdiotBorisJohnson has a good idea: Pay drivers to give up gas guzzlers and buy electric cars. The chief argument against it from within the government is that it would mainly benefit foreign...
View ArticleRenewable Tuesday: Hungary
Hungary plans to ditch coal by 2030 and become fully reliant on renewable energyHungary, along with neighbouring Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria, is one of the EU’s most coal-dependent member...
View ArticleGood News Wednesday: What do We Want from Joe Biden?
And how do we get it? Well, first, we elect Biden, and a multitude of others. GOTV. Fight voter suppression. Fact check everything. And then we lean on him, just like any other politician. Like Obama...
View ArticleRenewable Wednesday: 25.4%-Efficient Solar Cells
The first "practical" solar cells came out in 1954 with 6% efficiency. Research cells have now reached 44.5% efficiency, while 23% was the best in commercial products last year. Now we are at 25.4%...
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Renewable Thursday: Indigenous Tribes in America 1, Impact
To those who pay attention, the disparate impact of Global Warming on Native Americans is not news. But not many have heard how the genocide of Native Americans affected the global climate. Here are...
View ArticleRenewable Friday: Indigenous Tribes in America 2, Policy
DK has a vibrant Native American community, with several groups devoted to their issues. I am not here to Whitesplain either what has been done to Native Americans by Whitey in general or Global...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Introduction
When I wrote Grokking Republicans six years ago, the party had not fallen to its darkest depths. Now trends that were visible then, with roots centuries before, have hit rock bottom. People can be even...
View ArticleRenewable Monday: Going on Hiatus
I am taking off from this Renewable Days with Ys in Them Diary series for a while. You will find that others are keeping up with the story, including Meteor Blades, ClimateDenierRoundup, and more.The...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Frederick Douglass Puts a Point on It
Trump is not the root of our problems. He is the distillation of centuries of man's inhumanity to man, sharply focused by the European Age of Empires since 1492, when Columbus began enslaving and...
View ArticleGood News Thursday: Let America Be America Again
Langston Hughes was a great man and a great poet. In particular he is the perfect antidote for MAGAism. "Let America Be America Again(America never was America to me.)" We should have trumpeted today's...
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Grokking Trumpists: Raising Racists
TRIGGER WARNING The KKK lynchings and comprehensive brainwashing of children in a death cult that the Nazis later based their whole society on. OK, they couldn't lynch Jews in public because of global...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Their Cognitive Dissonance is Even Stronger This Time
Why, we all want to know, do Republicans believe in nonsense that has been repeatedly debunked over decades, and in some cases 150 years since the Civil War? And, to be fair, why do other people...
View ArticleBREAKING: Oxford Covid Vaccine Trial, "Double Immunity"
I'm getting this out as fast as I can, without checking details or editing. This will not be Trump's hoped-for October Surprise, because Trump can be counted on to screw it all up within the US, and it...
View ArticleSaturday Good News Roundup: Whatever It Is, It's Time
We became a majority in the US in the 1990s, held back only by the Vast RightWrong-Wing Conspiracy of lies, hate, gerrymanders, voter suppression, a corrupt Supreme Court, and the Russians, aided by...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: The Theory of The Donald
Thorstein Veblen explained the mindset of wealth in 1899. Work is for women and the lower orders, while the highest virtues are those of prowess—force and fraud. Conspicuous Consumption became...
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Good News Fifth Thursday: Starving the Beast is Still the Loudest Dog Whistle
The rich have a corrupt bargain with all of the Republican factions. Cut taxes for us, and we will use those tax cuts to blow out the budget and force Democrats to agree to cut social programs under...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: We are Not Helpless before These Losers
We cannot sit back and refuse to vote, as though our votes do not matter. That is what the enemy most wants. We can vote as never before, and make our votes matter as never before. And in doing so, we...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: Non-Cooperation is the Point
To create More and Better Democrats means to increase cooperation. Punishing cooperation, even among themselves, is the declared Republican mission. The Evolution of Cooperation, by Robert Axelrod,...
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Good News Thursday: We Are So On This #ProtectTheResults
Daizy cn haz laptap?Worrywarts, no worries. Handwringers, unwring your hands. Naysayers, say us no Nays. Uncle Mokurai is here to talk you off the cliff. Yes, the ganefs are going to try to steal the...
View ArticleGrokking Trumpists: The False Believer
The True Believer, by Eric Hoffer, began asking certain questions in 1951, when the science delving into Hitler was in its infancy. It is an article of faith on the Right that the only way to oppose...
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