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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The Left's Attack on Color-Blindness Goes Too Far
Encouraging a focus on white identity is a dangerous approach for a country in which white supremacy has been a toxic force.
I'm not sure what to think of this, anyone better versed in the topic want to give their opinions?
NBC Should Release Raw Footage of 'The Apprentice'
Would Donald Trump still seem like a good leader if his reality television show had offered an unedited view of his style?
edited 7th Sep '15 6:57:42 AM by JackOLantern1337
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.I will offer only that "color blindness" is a myth; even if everyone were to suddenly stop being racist tomorrow (impossible), then our various systems would still have major economic and political imbalances between racial and ethnic groups.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Not so much a myth as being far removed from being the complete solution to the U.S. brand of racism. There are definitely parts of the world where that kind of mentality would go a mile and a half towards solving their racism issues, but the U.S. is not (and probably never will be) one of those places.
I'd love to actually dissect that article more, but again, this isn't the thread for that.
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)Iowa poll puts Clinton ahead of Sanders by 11 points.
New Hampshire poll puts Sanders ahead by the same number.
Here's the schedule for the debates from the Democrats.
Krugman notes that Trump is at least right as a stopped clock with regards to economics
…if conservative orthodoxy had any truth to it. And now Mr. Trump is being accused of heresy for not accepting that failed orthodoxy?… [Moreover,] Bush’s attacks on Mr. Trump are falling flat, because the Republican base doesn’t actually share the Republican establishment’s economic delusions…. We didn’t really know that until Mr. Trump came along. The influence of big-money donors meant that nobody could make a serious play for the G.O.P. nomination without pledging allegiance to supply-side doctrine, and this allowed the establishment to imagine that ordinary voters shared its antipopulist creed…. Bush’s hapless attempt at a takedown suggests that his political team still doesn’t get it, and thinks that pointing out The Donald’s heresies will be enough to doom his campaign…. Trump, who is self-financing, didn’t need to genuflect to the big money…. It turns out that the base doesn’t mind his heresies….
I’m not making a case for Mr. Trump. There are lots of other politicians out there who also refuse to buy into right-wing economic nonsense, but who do so without proposing to scour the countryside in search of immigrants to deport, or to rip up our international economic agreements and start a trade war. The point, however, is that none of these reasonable politicians is seeking the Republican presidential nomination.
“I’d get rid of it,” she said. “And I’d let the states start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries and the people who are affected by the developments within their states.
Separating the power grids by state wouldn't work. Remember a while back there was that huge blackout that hit most of the northeastern US, Ontario and Quebec, and I think it hit a bit of Manitoba too? It happened because one plant failed and the failure cascaded. Everything is absurdly interconnected, and you also run into problems like that the primary power generator for Niagara Falls USA and the surrounding region in the US is actually Ontario Hydro's Niagara Falls plant. How would you deal with that?
^^Yes. Hence why the Northeast blackout of 2003
spanned both countries. Truly isolated power grids are uncommon, anyway.
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Not everywhere. It's mostly just Niagara (and a few random towns out west) because the Canadian falls are massive and have enough room to place a power plant behind them. (I don't know exactly how it works, but the method used doesn't work for the American side.)
edited 7th Sep '15 4:02:05 PM by Zendervai
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In some places like the falls yes. The falls produces too much electricity for just one side to handle so they sell it to the surrounding area of the US iirc. Gotta be connected to sell it.
Also States buy and sell energy from other states too regulated by the energy department. It's the way that say California has avoided rolling blackouts in recent years, had the energy department hadn't spent millions setting up the infrastructure for that every summer California would have an energy crisis especially in the valley.
edited 7th Sep '15 4:06:20 PM by Memers
Redundancy. It means that when one plant can't handle the load you have another plant for backup. Most of the time it's what prevents big blackouts. Cascade failures are rare.
Also because building isolated grids is actually more expensive. They often follow along other utilities like phone and Internet which are interconnected by design.
edited 7th Sep '15 4:08:11 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick

Palin
in speech pushes for position of energy secretary under Trump regime and vows to disband the department, alongside statements that immigrants should only learn to "speak American".