Neither do data centers

Because the city built fossil fuel plants instead of renewable?

I doubt the data centers are generating much of any co2. Fossil fuel power plants are.

You dont wanna just be blowing around the oven-like air trapped in your house. Open two windows on opposite ends of the house, and point a fan facing outside at one of the windows. This will pull air from the opposite window and create a crossbreeze of fresh air.

Lying shirtless on a hard floor can also help cool your body down

People just feel like there has to be a catch with renewable energy and latch onto the idea of rare earth metals. Besides cobalt having some use in some kinds of lithium batteries right now, theres not really rare earth stuff going into renewables. Solar panels are silicon and aluminum, wind turbines are simple machines connected to a magnet spinning inside coils of copper, lithium batteries are already being made with iron as the other component.

3 tomato plants

Which is?

Yes, a democrat, with single digit cosponsors out of hundreds of democrats in a democrat controlled house the last time it was brought up. If the democratic party wanted ranked choice voting, we would have ranked choice voting now. the democrat controlled house didnt even bring it up for a vote. That’s the thing, it’s republicans=conservative and democrats=progressive for you, but a large number of democrats are conservative to me. I dont think a fully democrat controlled congress passes ranked choice voting. I dont think they pass lobbying reform. Hell there are democrats that still vote against minimum wage increases. I dont think a fully democrat controlled government looks much different from the one today.

What’s gonna be different next cycle? You think Trump’s going away? You’ll be right here again in 2028 telling me democracy is at stake if I dont vote for your choice.

It’s made it onto the ballot in several states

so Im looking into states that have implemented this, to see if electing democrats had anything to do with it. Looking at Alaska and Maine at least, democrats had nothing to do with it, they were citizen initiatives brought to election referendum, neither democrats or republican representatives introduced or voted on it. Notably, the Alaska state legislature has more republican members than democrats.

How’s that going for ya? Elected a third party candidate to the presidency yet?

I think you missed my point of us being in the same boat. You’re not likely to get enough people to vote for people they dont like to crowd out republicans in Washington, and Im not likely to get enough people to vote for people they would otherwise love with a D or R by their name.

If everyone held their nose and showed up to vote lesser evil, the Republican party would wither away into being a third party themselves and a progressive party could actually gain footing.

Hows that goin for ya? Making any progress in the decades you’ve been trying that for? ‘If everyone just did this’, yeah? How about if everyone just voted for the candidate that supports ranked choice? Just get everyone to do X.

You are promoting it with your vote for candidates that support it, that are only in power because it exists.

Its pretty irritating everytime someone brings up ranked choice voting. They know its a good thing, they want it to happen. But its getting brought up to try and criticize my choice of candidate. You want ranked choice voting? You know who supports ranked choice voting in their election platform? My candidate! I am well aware of how shit FPTP voting is, Im not the one promoting it.

you’ve got a paradox going where me supporting a better candidate is pointless because my vote is worth nothing and I cant change anything.

but also that I have to support your candidate because my vote matters if its for them.

my vote matters and I’m giving it to a better candidate.

whichever side we support stands a chance of winning. They aint gonna compete in a game of skill in November, they’re gonna ask us who wins and we decide.

2016. You dont even like your candidate, why should i come to your side instead of you come to mine?

Consider that endorsing an awful candidate in Biden will help get Trump elected.

Blame everyone but your SUV driving selves. The devil made you do it Im sure.

Combustion is the breaking of carbon bonds to bond with oxygen, producing carbon dioxide and monoxide. There is no carbon based fuel that isnt 1:1 for energy released vs GHG emitted. Making fuels from plant mass doesnt change that.

Time until full charge isnt really a relevant metric for utility storage, you want larger storage, which would increase full charge time. Rate of charge is what matters.

“I want you to use my words against me. If there’s a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination."

Only thing this guy deserves to hear for the rest of his life.