The Biden Administration and All Things Politics

[LogGrad98]

heavily invest in our electrical grid. Between ACs running more due to climate change and the stress put on by EVs, we’ll need to make sure our state and country can handle the increased demand for electricity.

I am really excited for the deep sea generator Japan is setting up. That could be a substantial player in the renewables game. Not much more steady and powerful than ocean currents. Could be true limitless energy if we figure out how to harvest it and, more importantly, transport it where it is needed. For an island country like Japan it is a no-brainer and just a few of these could potentially provide them with most if not all of their power needs.

Giant deep-ocean turbine trial offers hope of endless green power

Power-hungry, fossil-fuel-dependent Japan has successfully tested a system that could provide a constant, steady form of renewable energy.

www.seattletimes.com

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization estimates the Kuroshio Current could potentially generate as much as 200 gigawatts — about 60% of Japan’s present generating capacity.

 

[fishonjazz]

Tobacco companies will be forced to reduce nicotine in U.S. cigarettes until they’re non-addictive, if the Biden administration has its way: report

Nicotine keeps smokers hooked on tobacco, which kills up to half of those who use it.

finance.yahoo.com

Now Biden is taking away my freedom to be addicted to a horrible, expensive, worthless product that might kill me!!! My freedoms!!!

Tobacco companies will be forced to reduce nicotine in cigarettes sold in the U.S. to nonaddictive, or minimally addictive, levels, if the Biden administration has its way.

I want tobacco products to be more addictive damn it!!!

 

[idiot]

Now Biden is taking away my freedom to be addicted to a horrible, expensive, worthless product that might kill me!!! My freedoms!!!

When I saw this first sentence of yours before seeing the stuff surrounding it, I thought you were continuing the discussion about oil prices.

Maybe it would be wiser to see more comparisons between oil and nicotine. In our worries about gas prices, at least, we show how hopelessly addicted our society is to cheap oil. This is not to say that the solutions should be largely parallel (that's something that's worth discussing, I suppose), but it might be a good first step to use the language of "addiction" when we're talking about gas prices.

 

[fishonjazz]

When I saw this first sentence of yours before seeing the stuff surrounding it, I thought you were continuing the discussion about oil prices.

Maybe it would be wiser to see more comparisons between oil and nicotine. In our worries about gas prices, at least, we show how hopelessly addicted our society is to cheap oil. This is not to say that the solutions should be largely parallel (that's something that's worth discussing, I suppose), but it might be a good first step to use the language of "addiction" when we're talking about gas prices.

I kind of think of it like this: People want the Biden administration to drill drill drill and get them gas prices lower regardless of the negative consequences. Its like a parent giving their child chocolate and ice cream for every meal. Ya the child will be happy in the short term but in the long term they will be fat and unhealthy.
Giving us lots of cheap oil is destroying our soil, air, water, etc but hey, for the time being its all good. Maybe we have to unhappily eat fruits and veggies right now but 30 years from now we might be better off and glad we weren't getting the chocolate and ice cream we wanted.

 

[fishonjazz]

When I saw this first sentence of yours before seeing the stuff surrounding it, I thought you were continuing the discussion about oil prices.

Maybe it would be wiser to see more comparisons between oil and nicotine. In our worries about gas prices, at least, we show how hopelessly addicted our society is to cheap oil. This is not to say that the solutions should be largely parallel (that's something that's worth discussing, I suppose), but it might be a good first step to use the language of "addiction" when we're talking about gas prices.

Another comparison: cigarrette prices have gone WAY up over the years. Smoking cigarrettes became even more expensive than it already was. Many people quit smoking due to the higher costs. If cigarrette prices remained low i bet there would be more smokers now. The high prices helped some people beat the addiction.

 

[gandalfe]

Another comparison: cigarrette prices have gone WAY up over the years. Smoking cigarrettes became even more expensive than it already was. Many people quit smoking due to the higher costs. If cigarrette prices remained low i bet there would be more smokers now. The high prices helped some people beat the addiction.

Can confirm.

 

[Gameface]

I kind of think of it like this: People want the Biden administration to drill drill drill and get them gas prices lower regardless of the negative consequences. Its like a parent giving their child chocolate and ice cream for every meal. Ya the child will be happy in the short term but in the long term they will be fat and unhealthy.
Giving us lots of cheap oil is destroying our soil, air, water, etc but hey, for the time being its all good. Maybe we have to unhappily eat fruits and veggies right now but 30 years from now we might be better off and glad we weren't getting the chocolate and ice cream we wanted.

 

[fishonjazz]

Can confirm.

You watch Letterkenny?

 

[LogGrad98]

I'll take 2 please.

 

[Rubashov]

I'll take 2 please.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Google “Senate filibuster.”

This isn’t an attack on you bc you’re not the only person on the internet today who has asked the same thing, but it’s amazing how many ****ing Americans have no idea how her **** their government actually works. They’re ALWAYS angry at something but they can’t be bothered to understand why.

I thought during Obama and trump, when politics became such a “in your face” thing with social media and Trump’s personality that people would learn why major legislation always died in The Senate. Yet apparently, that’s just too hard for many Americans to understand. I still see ppl bitching about how Obamacare doesn’t contain a government (Medicare) option. Pssss, filibuster.

I’ve even see fellow Democrats bitch about Biden not using an executive order to ban AR15s. LOL. Again, people can’t be bothered to learn the basics about the government they live in. We just always assume that our democracy has always been and always will be rather than learning how it actually functions (or should function).

The filibuster didn’t exist in the 18th century. The Senate is supposed to be ruled by the majority. The minority was given representation in the form of having equal # of senators from every state. But it’s been morphed from southern slaveholders, to Woodrow Wilson desiring WWI aid, to segregationists, to Republicans today. Want to learn this history? This book is a great starting place:
Amazon product ASIN 1631497774View: https://www.amazon.com/Kill-Switch-Crippling-American-Democracy/dp/1631497774


View: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/955970922/kill-switch-examines-the-racist-history-of-the-senate-filibuster


Get rid of the filibuster? You potentially get:

Single payer health care
Women’s riches (codify Roe)
Campaign finance reform
Immigration reform
Voting rights
Gun control

You get a senate that might actually be responsive to the country’s needs.

Keep the filibuster? Nothing of significance will pass. And republicans will merely pass tax cuts under reconciliation (only requires a majority) and confirm judges (also only requires a majority) when they’re in charge. And that’s all they care about. But will your life improve with tax cuts and conservative corporate judges? Probably not.

People were complaining about the filibuster when the votes were 51-49. Last I checked, that’s a majority.

 

[One Brow]

People were complaining about the filibuster when the votes were 51-49. Last I checked, that’s a majority.

So is 51-50.