Well just to be clear: I’m absolutely NOT shitting on them for doing this, particularly in this geopolitical context. That was my original point, as a matter of fact.

For them? No. For the region and the world overall, because carbon doesn’t give a shit about national boundaries: absolutely.

We can’t keep thinking in terms of “how does it affect country X”. This is a global problem, and it must be framed as such.

…that’s quite pedantic, tbh. I’d say it’s rather implicit that a wind farm wouldn’t be planned for an area that doesn’t experience strong winds consistently.

Can you name any others?

“Forever elections” are the new normal, imo.

I fucking hate it too :(

Though the carbon implications are unfortunate, this is quite frankly an extremely pragmatic and prudent decision in a geopolitical sense. Hopefully they can consider reviving the project once all the bullshit Russia is doing concludes one way or the other, but for now, this definitely seems like the right call. Seriously , this is probably the ONLY legitimate reason I think I’ve ever seen for halting an offshore wind farm.

In a lot of red states these days, the reason is “the election officials and Secretary of State (for the state in question) have made it extremely difficult - and in some cases impossible - for me to vote”.

I’m not saying the points you’re raising are irrelevant, but honestly, just look at Texas. It SHOULD be purple/swing, the legislature there has enacted swaths of anti-democratic (small “d”) measures with the expressly partisan intent of making it effectively impossible for any party other than the GOP to win anything meaningful in the state.

I cannot fucking wait for the bottom to fall out of the real estate market. I’m on the wrong side of 35, and owning ANYTHING reasonably sized for a reasonable price has just seemed deeply laughable for the entirety of my career.

…what?

There’s not one. The Texas election officials and DeJoy did this intentionally.

At this point, it’s really the fault of the cities involved for not insisting he pay up front. He’s fucking NOTORIOUS for doing this, and has been since 2015 at least, and it was a well-known and established behavior pattern in the 2020 campaign.

Is this one of the areas where corps are buying up a shitload of real estate?

They are going to keep the guns thing wide open as long as elections are a thing. Once they’ve gotten to a place where they’ve cemented their power in a way where voting doesn’t really matter anymore, they’re gonna take ‘em away right fucking quick.

My concern at this point is that a lot of electoral positions in swing states - e.g. Georgia - appear to have been co-opted by overtly partisan Trumpians. And I’m not convinced they’ll abide by the court injunctions of “that’s not your fucking job, just do your job and nothing else”, because Trump would almost certainly pardon all the people pulling electoral fuckery like that if he figures out how to weasel his way into office. That is, in fact, a core element of their plan, and why all the fuckery appears to be kinda proceeding in lockstep. This is also why a lot of them are so die hard for Trump - they are fully cognizant of their guilt, and know that the DoJ is going to take a long, hard look at them if Harris wins, and very likely hang together, as it were.

It’s an opinion piece they published so they can appear “unbiased”. But it’s a really fucking stupid opinion, to be perfectly blunt.

I see what you did there

He’s just angry he didn’t get to tell it where to go with his sharpie :(

• Greta: what? What are you talking about? Neolibs: sure, they hate her. Most reasonable, intelligent leftists? They’re basically cheering her on, myself included.
• Russia: not everything, but the fact that the guy running Russia - who not only orchestrated false flag attacks on his own country to help get into power, but also was a KGB agent who worked very closely with the GDR’s Stasi in the late Cold War - is and has been using the Russian foreign intelligence apparatuses to conduct extremely aggressive foreign influence and espionage campaigns for DECADES should not come as a surprise.
• Liz Cheney: I and many other leftists categorically detest her politics. But the reason I still respect her to a degree is that she’s come out staunchly against fascism, and it cost her her whole political career to do it. I will always respect someone who stands against fascism, even when it costs them ENORMOUSLY in a personal and professional sense.

There’s nuance here, and you’re intentionally ignoring it.

Most of the companies you’re mentioning do not have their own chip foundries. The only - and I do mean only - companies that have working lithography lines to support bleeding edge chips at massive scale are Samsung, TSMC, and Intel. Several other companies are investing in eventually gaining that capability, but right now, thats it. And these things take a LONG time to spin up and iron out the issues.

TL;DR: the problem is how few companies actually MAKE the chips, not how many companies DESIGN them.

A truly fitting epitaph