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It's also an industrial solvent!

Not to minimize the fact that BVO is known to be toxic and should have been banned years ago, but yes I hate when they make stupid comparisons like that

Biden administration to award nearly $1.1 billion to Stellantis, GM for EV production

The Biden administration plans to award General Motors and Chrysler-parent Stellantis nearly $1.1 billion in grants to convert existing plants to build electric vehicles and components, it said on Thursday.

The Department of Energy (DOE) announced $1.7 billion in planned grants to help fund the conversion of 11 “at risk” plants in eight states to enable the production of 1 million EVs annually, help retain 15,000 existing jobs, and create 3,000 new positions.

Both the US and China should be held accountable and you should make excuses for neither. We all know coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel, and China still consumes over 50% of the entire world's yearly coal. China is responsible for the largest share of CO2 emissions each year by far, and only China can take action to change that, regardless of any per capita measure

Install a dimmer switch? We replaced the stock Hampton Bay fan/light in our bedroom with a clear glass, kinda industrial style fixture with LED Edison bulbs on a dimmer switch, so we can turn that light on really low or really bright if we need to. I hate overhead lighting typically, but the low light is super warm colored and great to have on when we're in there but still up.

I'm a dimmer switch advocate...no one should ever get blasted with a full-strength bulb when they're trying to wind down from the day or first waking up. Just put dimmer switches in every room.

Well I was bicurious around that age and am now bisexual, so my anecdote nullifies yours

That fucking algae in the ocean, how does it sleep at night knowing the crimes it's perpetuating?!

I don't think it was the tech bros that tossed that aside, but the users. I was there at the beginning when Facebook was just college students, but then they opened it to high schools, and then when my Aunt Joyce friended me it was basically over. Once your family is watching you who the fuck is going to be updating their relationship status

In recorded history, California's only had one hurricane to ever make landfall, in 1858

My family's there too, and I grew up there, and I couldn't disagree more. "70-90mph gusts" cause serious damage to trees, homes, and power lines, but they're highly localized, and so the damage is easy to repair. Houston just experienced 60-70mph sustained winds with gusts up to 90 and a number of tornadoes across the entire metro for like 2+ hours, which caused destruction several orders of magnitude greater than what you're comparing it to. All that is to say Centerpoint Energy definitely got caught with their pants down, which had the outage dragging on for a lot of their customers

I know it's in vogue to criticize "the Texas grid," but there was only one incident that involved the actual grid supply and demand, which was the snowstorm in 2021. The only other outages that have happened were localized outages due to mechanical damage to power lines, eg from ice or hurricane-force winds. How long it's taken Centerpoint Energy to get all those lines back up is certainly something to criticize, but it also has nothing to do with the Texas grid." And there have been no rolling blackouts due to heat, despite the implication in that Vice headline

Fossil fuel consumption for electricity generation in the US has been decreasing along with the increase in renewable generation capacity, so what you're saying is false

Here's a source

This is absolutely not the case. When you break issues down, the average Republican voter supports a ton of Democratic policies, especially economic policies. They're willing to vote against their self-interest because they've been led to believe they're superior to other groups, namely racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ, non-Christians, but most importantly "college educated liberal elites." This feeling of superiority is a fucking drug, and it makes them ready to want whatever their leaders tell them to want rather than the other way around