@wolfwoman I like golden boots. Very topical and immediate.

@AskTheDevil how to fix the system:
1: eliminate the electoral college.
2: pass legislation to nullify the corrosive effects of Citizen’s United,
3: restore the fairness doctrine in media and pull the broadcast licenses of news companies that violate it.
4: reform the Supreme Court by ensuring ethical oversight.
5: operationalize all ambiguous words in the Constitution.

@Cosmichomicide his first term was all about building a deeper swamp. The grift was breathtaking.

@rootwoman123 Maybe it is time for colleges and universities to step up. What if... what if these institutions announced that applicants from states that ban books would be penalized (by qualification algorithms) for coming from a state that encourages the suppression of the free exchange of ideas?

@XaoslordErie Yep. That it folks! Irony just died.

This has been a great day for America. That's what I think, anyway. #Politics

@DevinY1 I have long held that they will NOT do this. 1) Trump wants to weaken the Judicial branch... It's like, step 1 in the tyranny handbook. 2) The long trend of losing since his freak election in 2016 has been noticed. Here is an out for the GOP from the TrumpTrain. #Politics

@DevinY1 They can't do that until he files an appeal. I guess he will file on Feb 12. Let's hope they deny cert on the 13th.

So Trump’s businesses might be dissolved? And some think that would make it easier for the courts to dissolve other violators in the future? I don’t see any problems with that! If you can’t run a business honestly, then you can’t run a business at all, IMO! #politics

@NorthernInvader I have lived in both Edmonton and Calgary, though not in many years. It will take a generation to wean Alberta off of its oil addiction, no doubt. But I am surprised to hear that they do not favor Eavor technology. This brings up my favorite talking point for the #ClimateChange crowd: The O&G guys have to be our friends, not our enemies. All the #GreenEnergy and heat we will ever need is in the ground beneath our feet: they are the ones who know how to get at it. #Geothermal

@NorthernInvader You sent me down the borehole, so to speak. I get it now. They use magnetic tracking to connect boreholes at depth, and then chemically turn the bores into impermeable tubes. They don't use tubing, like surface based residential geo-exchange systems. The bore-holes become the tubes. Pretty nifty!

#Geothermal #ClimateChange #GreenEnergy

@MaggotBrain Conservative hate 15 min cities because the fossil-fuel industry told them to hate them. #politics

@cjtownsend @WayneEdH Could taco pants have some incriminating knowledge, and could his defection signal an agreement with prosecutors?

@LiberalLibrarian I would love to be a juror in one of these Trump trials... I think I just ruled myself out thought... 🤷‍♂️

@AskTheDevil They argue for a reduction in population growth, among other things, and ask:

I can answer! Three groups: 1) corporations, beholden to shareholders, 2) the rich, immunized from the effects of climate change by vast wealth, and 3) the GOP who's need to keep women uneducated aligns with their institutional, small-dick misogyny.

@GeorgeVotesBlue Yep #politics

@NorthernInvader I would not have thought that you could pull off closed-loop geo that deep... I'd love to know how they tie up their deep-Earth manifold.
#Geothermal #GreenEnergy #CLimateChange

@Spagesgallo1 @MindfulWilliam The Farm Bill and the IRA are the first and second largest pieces of climate legislation ever passed by the US: remarkable given the political polarization and narrow split of the house and senate.

@NorthernInvader There are several startups engaged in generating zero-carbon concrete. My favorite is <https://sublime-systems.com>. They not only use silica-based material rather than limestone, they don't use heat in the manufacture process (where a lot of concrete's footprint comes from.) #ClimateChange #MaterialScience

@Alfred How would you respond to the assertion: “AI is just sophisticated curve fitting.”