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Mirroring, or the chameleon effect, is the behavior in which one person subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another. Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the company of close friends or family, often going unnoticed by both parties.
Echopraxia is the involuntary mirroring of an observed action. Imitated actions can range from simple motor tasks such as picking up a phone to violent actions such as hitting another person.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.” ― Oscar Wil
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Go fetterman
Ye, I can see how the Democrats are to blame.
Now, I will give you this, people that use their government positions to make money is borderline corrupt, but, they would do it out of government too. Shady business practices are common and both sides have them. If some Democrats have been arrested for fraud, what does that prove? Crime has no particular political affiliation. And, as I’ve answered Dgraff‘s post, the problem NOW is a Republican mess. We left government a year ago.
Iran has financed global terrorism, but, we are not the police of the world. Unless Iran had done something directly at us, we have no business being there. And if there was an immediate threat, we could have done strategic bombing like we’ve done before.
Now picture this the entrance music 🎶 for hulk Hogan playing the song real American Donald Trump coming down the isle tearing off his shirt flexing his stuff
I’m making you hot and horny arnt i you want him admit it
And you are right, the economy was not the best, but, are we better off now? I don’t think so.
He’s a real stand up guy
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It appears he has alot of democrats pissed off. Anyone that piss's off a democrat can't be all bad. His recovery from his stroke has been going well apparently, he has saw the light
who now supports you the most, and betrayed his voters.
If a Republican did that to you, I would confirm the betrayal.
Anyway we are glad to have him on our side
Welcome aboard the trump train fetterman
The democrats lie to the minority's and use their vote to get in office then use them for stepping stones while in office. and God forbid trying to explain that to anyone.
The US just moved so much to the right, that a Democrat of 1960 is now a socialist.
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One more plagiarism from you and I will bombard your page with beautiful gifts. I already sent you one and you deleted because your are a coward and retarded.”
Me, CAT52!:
Plagiarism is not illegal. It looks like you don’t like it so I will continue doing it, Bitch.
Gas prices in UK and Europe soar
after strikes on energy
facilities in Qatar and Iran.
But that's OK. The goal of trump
is to fuck up the world.
Only maga idiots still think
he's acting in their interests.
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Reports indicate that Donald Trump has significantly profited from his presidency, with estimates suggesting he has made over $1.4 billion to as much as $4 billion during his second term through foreign deals, cryptocurrency ventures, and increased business at his properties. These profits are often linked to conflicts of interest, as he has not divested from his business holdings.
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I thought you were meaning he was getting wealthy because of the war.
However, our discussion was about him profiting from his presidency and it was you who questioned that.
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Thank the Clown for this. I guess his State of the Union was good for a week. 🖕
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1979? Why? What, exactly, was Iran doing that made it seem they were walking all over the United States? We have embargoed their oil industry. We bombed their nuclear setup in October. And why?
Granted, if they had nukes, they could have threatened the Middle East countries including Israel. You could stretch that to Europe, but, didn’t the Clown say Europe is on its own? So, why is this on us? You talk about “balls” but you forget some of the most “ballsy” presidents ignored Iran. They just kept an eye on them. Reagan, Bush I, Bush II, and a guy named Trump, left them relatively alone. We even had a nuclear treaty that the Clown dissolved in his first term.
You want me to tell you why we attacked Iran? It’s not “Balls”. It’s dicks up 16 yr old girls and the Epstein files. He desperately needs to distract the Nation.
Iran was not nor is it now a current threat to us. Now they, as strong or weak as they are, are defending their sovereignty and, in their eyes, the need to avenge the deaths we caused.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not shedding any tears for that despot Ayatollah Khamenei or his henchmen. But, now, many innocents will lose their lives because a convicted felon and alleged pendophil.e is crapping his diaper.
However, what do you know, it turned out to be true.
And then we found out that Trump knew all along what was happening, was best friends with the worst one, and picked many of the others for positions in his administration and Trump has even hired the same lawyers as Epstein. He is cutting deals with Ghislaine Maxwell and she is openly promising to protect him for a pardon. Meanwhile, Trump's handpicked loyalists in the FBI and DOJ have been lying their asses of every single day, and breaking the law for him. No person in his right mind will ever believe that Trump isn't guilty as fuck of many horrible things. He would never go through the trouble if he wasn't because fucking porn-stars and models and then having the right-wing media be complicit in a cover-up was dismissed like he accidentally coughed on someone. No, it must be something incredibly bad,
for him to care this much about it.
Why can't you see the potential scam here?
Unless there is physical evidence, there shouldn't be a conviction by the people or the courts
This is the 14 page indictment of Jeffrey Epstein by the Justice department after an investigation by the FBI. If after this you still believe this is a "she said/he said" situation, then Phart, there's no hope for you
Still nothing in there about eating them.
It shows that you don't do ANY research into this case.
This is the biggest scandal in US history, and you don't care.
WHY DO YOU THINK THERE ARE OVER 6 MILLION PAGES?
Here are the main categories of evidence that were reported in Epstein’s cases:
1. Physical Evidence From Searches
When authorities searched Epstein’s properties (including homes in New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands), they reportedly recovered:
- Photographs and digital images of under@ge girls
- CDs and hard drives containing images
- Large amounts of cash
- Documents and contact books
Search warrants and seized materials are common forms of corroborating evidence in criminal cases.
2. Digital & Electronic Evidence
This can include:
- Emails
- Text messages
- Call logs
- Flight manifests from private planes
- Computer metadata
- Surveillance footage
In Epstein’s case, flight logs from his private jet were frequently cited as documentary evidence showing who traveled where and when.
3. Financial Records
Because trafficking cases often involve payment, investigators examine:
- Bank transfers
- Cash withdrawals
- Payments to alleged victims
- Corporate shell structures
- Real estate transactions
Financial trails can show patterns consistent with recruitment, payment, or concealment.
4. Witness Testimony (Beyond Victims)
In addition to accusers, prosecutors may rely on:
- Former employees (pilots, house staff, assistants)
- Associates or recruiters
- Third-party witnesses
- Law enforcement officers
For example, in related proceedings involving Ghislaine Maxwell, former staff and documentary evidence were also introduced in court.
5. Contemporaneous Records. These include:
- Diaries or appointment books
- Visitor logs
- Calendars
- Address books
- Epstein’s so-called “little black book” became widely discussed because it documented contacts and associations.
6. Prior Plea Agreement & Court Records
Epstein previously entered a controversial plea deal in Florida in 2008. Court filings, depositions, and civil suits created a large documentary record that later prosecutors could reference.
Folks that dems want safe,won't suffer, those the dems hate,will suffer.
it is being weaponized.
You don't like me. I get that, but, an as hole like you doesn't define my experience here. So, do me a favor, put one thumb in your mouth and another in your ass and, every time you think you are being smart, switch thums.
I don't care if you are Christian, Jewish, Moslem, or any other religion. Nor do I care if you are American, Israeli, Chinese, or any other. The only thing that matters is that you are an asshole, and a raunchy one. So go and try to sound smart someplace else.
I am CAT52! and that, asshole, is the response I should have given you. My mistake was that I didn't think you were worth more than a few inoffensive words.
You're very happy to accuse transgenders of that, with ZERO evidence, but when your side is heavily involved, you're blaming the victims.
QAnon was right, they just went silent when they found out
it's their own side doing it. Fucking hypocrites.
2005–2008 – Florida authorities investigated Epstein; he eventually got a controversial plea deal in 2008, widely criticized for being too lenient.
2011–2016 – Epstein’s connections, including to Trump, Bill Clinton, and others, were occasionally reported in the media but mostly in niche outlets.
2018 – Investigations renewed; some documents began leaking, including legal depositions.
2019 – Epstein arrested federally in New York. Media coverage exploded. His death in jail amplified public attention.
Much of the “Epstein files” were already public or under investigation before Trump became president, though major media coverage spiked around his 2019 arrest.
It’s possible the political environment under Trump heightened coverage in certain media outlets (especially right-leaning ones framing Epstein in connection to political rivals), but the core files would have emerged anyway.
The public’s broad awareness and emotional involvement were highest after Epstein’s death, in August 2019, under controversial circumstances. This created a national sensation: conspiracy theories, calls for investigations, and massive media coverage.
QAnon, the movement that emerged around 2017, built its core belief on the idea that a secret network of elites was abusing children, with Epstein as a key example. Trump was framed as the hero who would “drain the swamp” and bring them to justice. The public’s emotional engagement grew because this combined a real scandal, with a story of moral clarity and Trump promising to fight it.
When people learned Trump was closely connected to Epstein, it confused and upset many. Supporters felt betrayed or tried to defend him, while critics felt angry and proven right. It made the story even more emotional because it clashed with the idea of Trump as a hero fighting powerful abusers. WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT?!?
It's Trump and his own regime, who are exacerbating the scandal, by being incompetent liars. IF Trump is actually innocent of horrible crimes, they are doing their absolute best to create an appearance of him being guilty and trying to cover it up.
1) Trump called the Epstein investigation and files a hoax
He repeatedly said the Epstein case was fabricated by political opponents, even though DOJ/FBI investigative files and sworn records clearly exist.
2) Epstein “missing minute” CCTV claim contradicted
DOJ initially said a missing minute of jail surveillance footage was due to automatic camera reset. Later releases contained that minute, proving the explanation false.
3) FBI video was not truly raw or complete
Independent analysis showed the released prison video had edits and gaps, contradicting DOJ/FBI claims that it was raw and complete.
4) Missing and withheld FBI interviews and offline files
Multiple FBI interview summaries, including three with serious allegations involving Trump, were never released. Tens of thousands of other Epstein documents remain offline or heavily redacted, contradicting claims that all responsive records had been published.
5) DOJ removed or took down previously posted documents without explanation
Documents briefly released after initial disclosure were later removed from the public Epstein file database with no public justification, raising transparency concerns.
IF YOU MAKE YOURSELF LOOK GUILTY AS FUCK, YOU MIGHT JUST BE GUILTY AS FUCK!!!
The new chant is death to Iran 🇮🇷 how quickly the Democrats forget
"burning of our flags" That's just free speech.
"their nuclear program that they have been forbidden to have"
Who do you think you are, for forbidden other countries something that you already have? It's not like we can trust the US with them. No other country has ever used them. You made a DEAL with them, and all the world saw that they kept that deal and your president violated it. Without that deal, they can do whatever they want.
The US is the prime reason for the Middle East being horrible.
Every time they achieved some stability, your country fucked them over for oil.
That kind of treatment radicalizes people. Hell, you are a lunatic radical for ....
for what actually? Why are you such a radical? What reason do you have to hate
so many people? Are you missing something in life or do you actually care about
other people being less fortunate than yourself?
Nukes for everyone
I didn't come here looking for trouble, I just found it.
I found people who are justifying evil deeds
or worse, don't even bother to justify them.
Nice people speak out against that sort of thing.
I have the best parents in the world, who taught me right from wrong.
It looks very much like you weren't as lucky as I was. Sorry about that.
What would the US have done, if Iran bombed Trump to death?
All the countries that make up the United Nations all agree that IRAN 🇮🇷 cannot have nuclear weapons any how it was great watching that Iran ship sink to the bottom live entertainment
That's why the JCPOA made a deal with Iran. Trump blew up that deal.
That was stupid, because that deal had backing from allies and foes.
(Breaking a deal signals you’re unreliable, which makes future deals harder)
It would have been easy to enforce it even further.
Trump was lying when he claimed that Iran was not keeping the deal.
All the inspectors were telling him that Iran was keeping it.
Iran only went back on the deal, AFTER Trump did.
And now you are spending a billion per day enforcing a non-existent deal.
You keep supporting a dumb-ass who keeps bumbling your country into trouble. If it was only your country, I wouldn't care, or at least a lot less, because it's your right to vote to affect your OWN FUTURE, but this clown affects EVERYONE.
If you had managed your garage like Trump manages your country,
you would have been bankrupted a very long time ago.
I voted for Trump. Now Israel can fuck over anyone that attacks them or threaten them. This game is over for good this time. The UN is not going to talk us out of it this time. Not even the fucking democrats of this country. This is over and out.... Just like Iran. Trump I'm very proud of. Iran is now crying for a cease fire.. A time out... They want to make a deal.. This time there is NO deal.. Unless they give unconditional surrender Just because the prince's power is restored the game is not over. Using navy seals, assassins will hunt them down until every single one of them is dead and just a forgotten memory... I didn't vote my entire life until 2016. I did it for this reason. I'm glad I did. And CAT needs to go back to her fucking bunker in munich so the soviets can hunt her fucking ass down, then I'll go out for coffee. If Israel goes down the world is sharia law, total.. This includes you.
failing businesses, and you forget decades of hatred in one day and support
their war crimes.
911, bombing of the usa cole, october 7th. You just don't get it do you? Why do you lie using political platforms other than just telling the truth? Yes, speaking the truth does take courage but you have no courage. You're a puppet,, total puppet.
And yes, you do it too, but not in the exact same way.
Your words might have been softer, but your threats were stronger.
Republican war hawks have been wanting to "Bomb Iran!" for decades.
Netanyahu has been advocating for war with Iran for roughly 30+ years.
He has been saying "Iran is months a way from having nukes!" for decades.
Iran was NOT in the slightest responsible for 9/11. 9/11 was carried out by al-Qaeda. Iran and al-Qaeda are enemies.
Iran = Shia Islamist state
Hezbollah = Shia Islamist militants
Saudi Arabia = Sunni Islam (Salafi/Wahhabi)
al-Qaeda = Sunni extremist terrorists (Salafi-jihadist)
Hamas = Sunni Islamist militants (origin Muslim Brotherhood)
If you don't know these very important facts, people can make you believe nonsense.
al-Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, is funded by individual Saudi nationals.
The 9/11 hijackers were mostly Saudi nationals. NOT IRAN!
Saudi Arabia are your presidents' best friends, because they make lots of money from oil and selling weapons to them. That's why they want you to blame Iran.
USS Cole bombing (2000): al-Qaeda again. NOT IRAN!
October 7th: Hamas. Indeed funded by Iran. The difference is that Hamas is not anti-Shia, like al-Qaeda, which is very anti-Shia (often considers Shia “heretics”). Hamas is no friend to Iran, but they oppose Israel; “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”.
This is 100% the truth. Go investigate for yourself.
Summary, because you are having trouble understanding basic stuff:
9/11: al-Qaeda, NOT Iran
USS Cole bombing (2000): al-Qaeda, NOT Iran
October 7th: Hamas, funded and armed by Iran
October 7th didn't come from thin air, it was a reaction to what Israel has been doing to the Palestinians for decades. It was fucking horrible, but it was one day of absolute horror as a response to decades of tedious and deliberate torment, in a process intended to take the remaining land from Palestinians. It's a huge military, funded by the strongest military in the world, vs a few radicalized citizens with guns and rockets. That's an unfair fight, and the only respons remaining is 'Guerrilla warfare', which is called 'terrorism' by the powerful enemy. The alternative is being ethnically cleansed in peaceful protest, while the world watches.
You're a mindless puppet, for never accepting anything that is verifiably true,
when it doesn't fit your narrative.
You were clearly mistaken about 9/11 and the USS Cole bombing and everyone
can check for themselves and see. You cannot and will not show me to be wrong
on even one verifiable fact. You're being weak and lazy.
“ Yes, the U.S. strongly supported Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran, seeing him as a crucial Cold War ally against Soviet influence, providing military aid and backing his authoritarian rule, especially after helping orchestrate the 1953 coup that restored him to power, which ultimately fueled anti-American sentiment leading to the 1979 revolution.”
That was our CIA that did that. He was as bad as the current regime and the reason there was a revolution to bring the current government to power. They have the right to feel that way, and before you get your knickers in a bunch, I seem to remember a “certain member” saying some yrs back, “ let’s nuke all of Iran”
I was in the hospital and I bet I watched carter shake hands thru the window of a building about 75 fucking times. The only reason those hostages survived is Reagon was going to blow that place to hell.
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DEATH TO IRAN 🇮🇷
You were once able to talk about things.
I wish you well.
Talking to iran about not making nuke bombs is like talking to a grizzly bear about to eat your ass. You will not make any progress.
For 30 years, Israel has been saying that Iran is months away from having nukes, and that would mean immediate destruction of Israel. Why is it true now, when it was never true before?
Even if Iran has 1000 nukes, they cannot use them, because that would mean immediate and total destruction of Iran.
You have to stop listening to these stupid lies. You are CUCKED!
Progress comes from supporting your own country's progress, by improving education, so people can develop themselves, and by improving their quality
of life, so they don't worry about the basics of living, but be productive citizens. Instead, you treat everyone like lazy bums, criminals or slaves to the entitled few. You have tried that for DECADES, resulting in the entitled few getting wealthier than kings, while the working class is getting poorer and poorer.
When will you finally realize this path only leads to serfdom?
But to think the threat of suicide if they use nukes to kill Americans is a deterrent, you are very naive. did the hyjackers of the planes used during 9-11 parachute to safety?
But DAMN, I'm slamming my head against the wall that you don't understand
the HUGE GAP IN YOUR THINKING.
Those extremist Muslims are sacrificing themselves for A GOAL!!!
Their goal is the ISLAMIC STATE.
Nuking the US, would mean suicide FOR ALL OF THEM!!!!!
That would mean NO Islamic state.
Don't you understand that? OH MY FUCKING GOD!!!
It's not the Islamist leaders who are sacrificing themselves.
They have their brainwashed numbskulls for that.
It's easy to radicalize people who are living in poverty and misery.
It's also easy to blame Israel and the US for that, because you
have been killing millions of Muslims, for many decades now.
Every single one of your wars has left them in rubble and chaos.
Even the Iranians who welcome the US now, will turn against the US,
if your bombs kill too many of their family members.
I very much doubt if leaders like Khomeini ACTUALLY believe their
nonsense religion, or if it's just a TOOL, to control the masses.
It takes a lot more effort to make people just as willing to sacrifice
themselves for a leader, without religious indoctrination.
The same applies to your 'leaders'.
“ You know? You don't know me from Adam. You just assumed that because I did not like a miserable two bit Jew, I'm a Nazi. If you've followed my tenure here, in Showitoff and Show Your Cunt before, everyone will tell you I'm a rabid liberal. I'm so far to the left of Fascist ideology that it would take lightyears of travel to be part of that shit.
You don't like me. I get that, but, an as hole like you doesn't define my experience here. So, do me a favor, put one thumb in your mouth and another in your ass and, every time you think you are being smart, switch thums.
I don't care if you are Christian, Jewish, Moslem, or any other religion. Nor do I care if you are American, Israeli, Chinese, or any other. The only thing that matters is that you are an asshole, and a raunchy one. So go and try to sound smart someplace else.
I am CAT52! and that, asshole, is the response I should have given you. My mistake was that I didn't think you were worth more than a few inoffensive words.”
So they are already having issues with charging electric cars?
Sheesh,what about in 5 years? The power company are not permited to build new power plants.Solar and wind are going to be important to keep the grid up. But that didn't work in Texas did it?
They make a lot of energy in Texas,but how many folks died over the winter this past 1?
Angel1227!
So a private, for profit, company did not plan on a hard winter so their production of electricity was not sufficient? And this utility, regulated by the states, failed to meet the demands? This state (Texas) governed by Repukers was not regulated correctly so this company spent less on production and got richer because of it? This sounds very much like a Repuker business idea.
I fault the power companys in texas to a point but I also fault the citizens for lack of preparedness.
Face it, sometimes you need regulation, especially for basic facilities like power.
And I then mentioned the issues in texas with electricity.
What everyone is missing here is the fact there is NOT enough electricity being produced to meet CURRENT demand.As Ananas has indicated.So imagine if you will,5-10 years from now,when there is GREATER demand? What a mess we are in for.
Regulation is not the solution. that is how you GOT TO THIS POINT. To many regulations preventing new power plants being built and trying to snuff out coal,a effective energy source.
You think that if they are running short they won’t try to catch up? The regulations you protest are there to protect the people and the environment. But, knowing how you think, fuck that. Let coal continue to pollute. We’ll be dead by the time our grandkids die of poisoned air.
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Only 2 under construction according to this chart.
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The US shut down how many? lets see
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Now, we shut down 39 and we are building 2. Does that sound like regulations are helping any? 2, there are 50 states. So state regulation is not changing anything where it may be either.
If you want coal gone,you need to have a replacement handy before hand.
Nuclear power is not the solution. There are 80 sites in the United States where nuclear waste is stored. Some of it is stored temporary in a location that is not safe long term. The best uranium sites are already running out and it's getting ever more expensive to mine the stuff.
That waste has to be looked after for the next 20,000 to 1M years, before it's safe. Humanity probably kills itself before that or there might be a few survivors that don't know how to keep the waste safe and radiation will finish them off. But who cares, right?
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Like nuclear is the only alternative to coal.
I just used nuclear here because MOST tree huggers-liberals,think nuclear is the answer.And it has Ooodles of issues that take Many years to deal with.
Actually, I even prefer fossil fuels over nuclear, even though I'm a tree hugger-liberal. Nuclear might be a bit better on carbon emissions when the reactor is built, but building new ones creates so much emissions, it takes 20 years to recover.
Another problem is that nuclear reactors take ages to start up and stop again, which is not practical as backup for solar and wind. Fossil fuels are at least needed until we have enough geothermal, hydro (incl. wave), biofuel, biogas, hydrogen, chemical storage (formic acid), thermal energy storage, battery storage and whatever I forgot or they think up next.
Then there is off-course the waste and the risk.
Eh so more electric cars will reduce demand?
I know you are not a engineer,but even you should be able to figure out that can't work.
groas violations of human rights, so the US or Europe don't need them as an ally.
If they can't sell us oil ,they will make their money on interest from loans.
We could afford to use fossil fuels if we could finish our pipelines and drill in otherwise useless lands like up north in alaska where there is nothing but woods.
The alaskan pipeline built long ago,was supposed to be such a wildlife disaster,ha,the animals love it,it is warm near the pipeline.
California has MILES of coast line,Why are they not looking into this tech?
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Instead of wasting all that coast line for half naked people to lay around and spread covid,there could be power plants there!
NO pollution! No noise that is not already there,and erosion control! WOW,
Kansas,could be using wind and solar to help of course.
Another non polluting power source,
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When I build a green house,yep,I will use geothermal to help with temp control.
Every bit you can use of it is better than none at all.
Here are some fun do-it-yourself builds on YouTube.
I had seen them before and it made me regret living next to a stationary ditch.
Maybe there are some ideas you can use:
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I DO NOT quite understand the amount of AMPS he is getting from that washing machine motor.
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How many Chernobyl’s do you know? One in the states, one in Japan, and one in Russia. Here, in Miami-Dade county, FP&L has been operating the local one over 50 yrs. Same in other cities around the state. And no pollution
You don't hear about the Mcquire plant here in NC getting to hot but it did a few years ago. The tree huggers were angry because a type of fish was dieing from getting caught in the cooling system water.So they put a screen over the intake. Worked fine for a while. Until the screen clogged up with little fishes.A employee told me about it.
Here is a long list of potential accidents and how to deal with them
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Yea,I know,I got dizzy after 10 minutes of readin!
I can't see a coal plant being any where near as dangerous to operate
They can't even take in water, without sucking up all the fishes
According to the Rainforest Action Network. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous. For decades, climate change has been a global crisis that will impact every single person and living being on this planet. Now, according to the latest UN climate report, we have less than 10 years to cut global emissions in half.
Burning fossil fuels isn’t just bad for the climate, these industries also violate countless fundamental human rights. From frontline communities facing a fossil fuel pipeline on their land to Indigenous people facing fires in the Amazon to worker rights violations on palm oil plantations, the industries fueling climate change are also fueling injustice.
Coal, tar sands, and fracked gas show everything that’s wrong within the fossil fuel industry. These extraction practices are harming people and planet every day, and big banks are fueling this destruction of the planet and negligence of life.
So what’s so bad about coal, tar sands, and fracked gas? Basically everything, from start to the finish these fossil fuels are disastrous.
Like I said, “What you don’t see can be more dangerous.”
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chernobyl didn just happen and stop.It is still happening today.
Smog will go away at some point.
coal smoke can be filtered.Try filtering radiaton.
So we only would need half that exclusion zone filled with solar panels
and that would cost about 78 Billion Euro's. That would raise our national debt from 56.3% of GDP to 66.2% of GDP.
Jobs for all our unemployed people will pull that debt down soon enough.
Accidents happen. Even if the chance is 1:1M (historically proven it's much higher), when you multiply that risk by the number of nuclear power plants required, something catastrophic will happen at some point. Such catastrophes could cost more than the complete energy transition.
That's not worth it, because nuclear power is only a temporary solution, because the uranium will run out at some point. It's already becoming more and more expensive to mine the stuff.
Even if all those problems didn't exist, it still takes 10 years before any nuclear power plant has compensates his own build. But it first takes 10 years to build any. Then after 20 years, they are just as CO2 effecient as wind and solar. That's too late. We need to lower CO2 emissions ASAP.
Anyone with some money to spare can invest in their own solar panels,
lower their costs and be less dependent on power companies.
It's nice to have air-conditioning in a heat wave, when the government
is telling you not to use power or you can't afford it when power companies are charging you 100x the normal rate.
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There are al sorts of natural disasters, but it can also be a terrorist attack or a hacker or just basic human error.
BTW, instead of Kansas I could have picked West Virginia
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As far as anything else, we have to trust security will prevail. Every thing is a crapshoot. Hopefully we don’t roll snake eyes,
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I also don't like nuclear energy and my arguments are in line with the science on climate change. That uranium has to be mined, which also emits CO2.
A nuclear power plant takes a lot of energy to be built and maintained.
Then afterwards we have to keep the waste safe for the next 20,000 years.
On the short term nuclear is about as energy/CO2 efficient as wind power and even less than solar. In the long term nuclear has a horrible energy/CO2 efficiency, because keeping the waste safe also costs energy. Also, building nuclear power plants takes a long time and lots of materials. It takes about 10 years before a nuclear power plant compensates his own build. That's about 1-1.5 years for wind energy and 2 years for solar. However solar is cheaper
on maintenance.
Other than that, I agree with most of what you said.
All energy technology costs money, materials, energy and land to build and maintain. All energy technology has downsides like pollution, mineral shortages, exploitation of people and CO2 emissions. We just need to stop with the worst energy technologies first and expand on the best ones the most.
It doesn't require completely changing our life or have impact on the quality of our life. However climate change already impacts our life and it will only get worse. We can either choose to accept some changes now and prevent total catastrophe later or we can deny the truth until catastrophe proves us wrong.
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