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Well, it's like the number of the number of oil petroleum based products that you need to actually keep that thing in operation. Yeah. That doesn't grease itself.
In Virginia, they passed the Clean Economy Act. which basically gives them an excuse to clear-cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece. And the reason why they can get this through, because all of a sudden we have the big energy companies going in like, oh, yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why?
In Virginia, they passed the Clean Economy Act. which basically gives them an excuse to clear-cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece. And the reason why they can get this through, because all of a sudden we have the big energy companies going in like, oh, yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why?
In Virginia, they passed the Clean Economy Act. which basically gives them an excuse to clear-cut forests and carve up farmland to put up industrial solar fields. But then they have the offshore wind piece. And the reason why they can get this through, because all of a sudden we have the big energy companies going in like, oh, yeah, we'd love to do the offshore wind. Why?
Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach? Uncomple.
Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach? Uncomple.
Because they're guaranteed 10% profit on construction. Anybody want to guess on how expensive it is to build offshore wind off of Virginia Beach? Uncomple.
literal acts of god to bring that thing to its fucking knees and it still turned out pretty okay yeah even then it's not like all of japan like chernobyl chernobyl was communism chernobyl was communism like this is what happens when you put commies in charge of anything to be fair japan had some nuclear resistance built in
literal acts of god to bring that thing to its fucking knees and it still turned out pretty okay yeah even then it's not like all of japan like chernobyl chernobyl was communism chernobyl was communism like this is what happens when you put commies in charge of anything to be fair japan had some nuclear resistance built in
literal acts of god to bring that thing to its fucking knees and it still turned out pretty okay yeah even then it's not like all of japan like chernobyl chernobyl was communism chernobyl was communism like this is what happens when you put commies in charge of anything to be fair japan had some nuclear resistance built in
Like, here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima today and Detroit today. And what do you end up learning? Like, Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. That's what you end up learning.
Like, here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima today and Detroit today. And what do you end up learning? Like, Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. That's what you end up learning.
Like, here's what I challenge people to do. Look at a picture of Hiroshima in 1945 and Detroit in 1945 and Hiroshima today and Detroit today. And what do you end up learning? Like, Nuclear weapons are less disastrous than socialism. That's what you end up learning.
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You've been able to visit it for a long time. Like Ground Zero. The other thing, too, and this is the part where I get in fights with people about this, because it's like, yeah, look, I don't like civilian casualties. I don't like when innocent people die. But I also understand. Hot takes only. But I also understand.
You've been able to visit it for a long time. Like Ground Zero. The other thing, too, and this is the part where I get in fights with people about this, because it's like, yeah, look, I don't like civilian casualties. I don't like when innocent people die. But I also understand. Hot takes only. But I also understand.
You've been able to visit it for a long time. Like Ground Zero. The other thing, too, and this is the part where I get in fights with people about this, because it's like, yeah, look, I don't like civilian casualties. I don't like when innocent people die. But I also understand. Hot takes only. But I also understand.
I also understand that if you look at the projected casualty list for invading the Japanese main islands, and if you look at what the Japanese plan was for defending the main islands, they were going to give bamboo spears to 14-year-old girls. They were ready to fight to death. You don't. Billions of casualties. We talked about it on the podcast.