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Agreed. It’s all very disgusting but no reason for despair, just continued fight.

Why is it even OK for any case involving a former president to be tried before any judge that he appointed?

The question now might be whether he appeals to the 11th Circuit Court or straight to the Supreme Court. I fear either way may be too slow to get anywhere before November.

True, but it will all take so long that the case still won’t get anywhere before the election. In a way this might even have been the judge’s ultimate delay tactic, capping off the slow-walk that she already perpetrated.

I need to correct myself here and get more specific. It’s not only about what generates the electricity that powers the hydrogen extraction/isolation. It’s true that the current electrical grid is powered by a mix of activities that includes burning a lot of natural gas.

But it’s also true that the current cheapest (and therefore by far most common) means of hydrogen production is steam methane reforming, where the source of the hydrogen atoms is natural gas. And the byproducts are some carbon monoxide and dioxide.

In short, achieving truly green hydrogen production would require not just a green energy source but having that source be so inexpensive that it would be cheaper to make the hydrogen by electrolysis of water instead of by reforming methane. I don’t know enough to speculate how difficult or likely that will be.

Thanks, that was worth the read.

I’m glad they at least mentioned, for those who read far enough down the article, that ultimately it’s powered by burning natural gas elsewhere to charge the hydrogen fuel cells [edit: please see my own response below]. I wasn’t sure if the AP had reached that level of ecological transparency/honesty yet so that’s good to see.

Someday when California’s energy grid is 100% renewable this type of craft will be an amazingly clean way to get around. … Unfortunately it’s not too likely that we will ever see that future before the global economy and most present political structures collapse.

It has been very noticeable – like should-be-embarrassingly noticeable – the change from the first week after the debate (where any pundit who mentioned swapping out Biden, regardless of them being in support of that or not, basically always mentioned that Harris would not be a viable/successful alternative) to just the past 2-3 days where suddenly that perspective is forgotten or forbidden. (for-Biden?)

“They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended”

Climate “ambitions”, huh. The pressing need to avoid or mitigate the collapse of civilization is merely an “ambition” now…

It’s still (moderately) difficult to find a bunch of 6 year olds with guns. But the way things are going, I’m sure that will be remedied before long.

Based on having read this same SFGate article about five days ago, I made an online appointment for a booster shot at a Safeway store’s pharmacy, semi local to me in San Francisco. My previous booster was circa last November so it had been more than six months, and the recent news stories about a surge of covid detected in the city’s sewer outflows and also a general rising wave of cases locally seemed to give good reason to stay on the six month program rather than wait until it had been a year.

The appointment was easily made online, but the pharmacy telephoned me and told me their advice was to just wait closer to a year unless I was over 65 or immune compromised. Neither applies so I cancelled the shot.

I am sad for the disappearance of the subjunctive mood in English

Good for $25 off any elective procedure costing twenty thousand dollars or more!

Along the same lines, let’s not forget L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology some years after telling a sci-fi writers’ convention that starting an actual cult would be a great way to make far more money off science fiction than just by writing it.

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Exactly. Even if he gets an appeal, even if he wins such an appeal, even if his sentence gets commuted or otherwise obstructed or diluted, we can truthfully refer to him forever and always as a convicted felon on 34 counts.

Ouch. I read this and followed links to read numerous other posts of his. Seems spot-on in his analysis and entirely parallels what I think and feel about our world. I’m struggling to avoid sheer terror in addition to the already present crippling anxiety and burnout. The only comfort, much of the time, is that none of us are truly or purely alone in all of this. The catastrophe surrounds everyone we know, regardless of whether their personal circumstances have yet broken down to a degree that allows them to witness it consciously.

This was a good read and you beat me to posting it by minutes :)

When reminding or teaching the younger community about George H.W. Bush, let us not forget to mention that when the US elected him, it elected the former CIA director to the presidency.

A supposedly democratic Republic elected its own chief of secret police to lead the executive branch of government. Somehow even at that time most Americans didn’t seem to be aware of that glaring fact, and far fewer have seemed to realize it ever since.

And then the country went on to elect that guy’s completely unqualified son to the same office less than a generation later. /facepalm