So… to summarize the argument: we have to build nuclear plants, even though they are the most expensive renewable per kWh and they take the longest amount of time to build (even by the author’s “fast” timeline standards) because we don’t have batteries that can store wind and solar energy, even though there are multiple emerging potential solutions that could result in days-long storage capacity.

Not buying it. I don’t buy the “unsafe” argument but I also don’t buy this argument

Edit: this same publication that published this op-ed published a pretty negative review of this book, funny enough: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/02/going-nuclear-by-tim-gregory-review-a-boosterish-case-for-atomic-energy

The US wasn’t a colony. It was 13 colonies that united.

Why would the US arm people who hate us?

Wait, which time?

I don’t understand this article. Did they link to the wrong source? It doesn’t seem to be remotely connected to what the article says.

If you’re gonna spread a message, at least use reliable sources. This article is just poorly written.

#jole

#fatthumms

It this a weird jole#

Most local politicians I know don’t get paid (school board, commissioners, etc) or they get paid very little for the time they put in.

If you count up all the elected folks in the USA, less than 1% are what you think of as “politicians.” They are mostly just people you see at the grocery store

PSA: you don’t have to start every post with “I cheated on my boyfriend,” especially when it’s irrelevant to the post

IKEA is hit or miss with couches but if you’re set on reclining, I’m not sure they have any good ones. The Kallax is solid for a mid-range option if you don’t want reclining though.

They do offer a paid service through a third party now for delivery.

I’m a millennial and I think that

Can you give a real life example of a community banning folks only for these identifiers and not their behavior?

How strong of a drill are we talking here? I can’t imagine any cordless model can mix much concrete, but I also haven’t done anything with concrete before

They get it from synthetic fertilizer? You think it comes from cattle lol?

Dude, you cut a cow and you need WAAAAAY less land and fertilizer than if you feed that cow.

And yes, not all land for cattle feed can be used for human crops, but even if we had zero beef, we’d have enough land to support human crops.

I honestly think you’re trolling now because you’re not only denying reality and making up absurd claims, but you’re ignoring my points and not responding to them lol.

Is synthetic fertilizer bad for the environment? Sure, but we need a hell of a lot less when we decrease beef production. If you add more cattle for natural manure fertilizers, you need more land to grow their feed. This is a self-perpetuating cycle.

Also, for the record, not every inch of land categorized as grazable is not able to support cattle (arid, bad soil fertility, mountains and other terrain issues, etc.). When I said we couldn’t meet current demand, that assumes those were non-issues.

Sure bud. Sure. Just make all the cattle free range and we solve every problem in the world.

Now we just have to subsidize beef even more than we already do so that people can afford their free range beef. God forbid they eat another form of protein that’s sustainable and environmentally friendly.

There’s reality and then there’s your hypotheticals. I’ll continue to discuss reality but not absurd hypotheticals like “let’s just change 95% of our beef production”.

And for the record, 5x is a vast overstatement. It’s closer to 2-3x. Still not plausible. Even if every single inch of grazable land on the planet were filled with cattle (and no other animal), we could not fill current beef demands. And that’s a demand that will grow very rapidly in the coming decades.

And about 30 seconds on google shows that’s less than 3% of beef production. That’s why deforestation is so rapid.

If we shifted all of our cattle to grazers, we’d have less than 1/3rd of our current beef production due to land constraints.

Sure, if “financing” didn’t involve interest

That’s not a gym, it’s a full on spa

Obligatory “not vegan” but it’s hilarious to me when people ignore this.

Why do you think we cut down trees? Yes, more farmland. Farmland for what? To feed the cattle lol