I don’t understand this: at that level it’s not even climate change anymore, but the weather that is actually happening in the here and now

This implies some sort of racism or hate crime, not a random attack. There may be something more that needs to be done

This is somewhat misleading. It’s not like US can deploy a massive fleet of carriers that overwhelms most of the worlds militaries. This is so US can maintain a presence, a mobile base, in parts of the world it seems important. Full time. This is just a carrier in each ocean, even during maintenance cycles.

A big difference is most of these other countries are not trying to project power far away, just defend their turf. For example does the number of carriers China has really matter? The contention is us carriers and bases in Asia vs all of China.

Unless the missile crisis is ongoing, or nationalization of Chiquita is recent, or Cuba was behind the JFK assassination, how the heck can we justify this?

There’s a ton of US money that would goto Cuba and benefit people in both countries.

But who cares if they do market reform? Sure that will affect their economic success but that’s on them. It’s not worth sanctions

This is why you get conspiracy theories that it was Cuba that assassinated President Kennedy: how else can we justify such extended sanctions when all the participants are long gone

Huh, article blames mostly weather and crop burning so they tried to crack down on fireworks. Sounds about right.

Too bad this doesn’t affect a capital city where the people able to do something about it would also be affected

Even better to understand that there may be no coming back. We’ve burned bridges behind us and populated way beyond any ability to survive without it. We desperately need this society to succeed because there may be no alternative anymore

But once you’ve figured out a way to store food and resources, then you’re a target. You can’t easily defend against bands of looters with tons of weapons and nothing to lose

Maybe. I’ve wondered about that. It’s easy to imagine a Mad Max scenario with bands of raiders looting all potentially useful technological remains, but does solar change that? You can’t as easily steal that without destroying it. You can’t just put it to use without some technical knowledge. It’s not immediately useful to loot.

Destroy, sure.

The doomer theory variation I read is that we’ve played out most of the accessible fossil fuels. If society has to rebuild, they have no way to get past the stage of fossil fuel use, because advanced extraction like fracking would not be possible. The very things that made our society possible, are bridges were burning as soon as we cross them. There is no rebuilding

One of the counterproductive parts of projections like this is humans do poorly with long term thinking. These results are not immediate. Most people will just assume hyperbole when they see it not happen*

• in an arbitrarily short time

Probably by noticing that he got the hammers ahead of time

• there are companies claiming they can recycle car batteries, but there aren’t enough old batteries yet
• yesterday someone posted an article about a car model with identical price between gasoline version and battery version
• globally there are cheap EVs
• used EV prices have tanked in the last two years. They may be comparable to similar gasoline cars now. However if you’re looking for cheap, there are no older ones yet.

They are better for the environment in some ways. They’re just worse in others and it’s plausible that wasn’t apparent until they got into the environment at scale

A more reasonable argument is we’re in too much debt, and it will eventually come due, regardless of current fashion.

To go with your analogy of household debt …… there used to be a rule of thumb to keep your mortgage payments under 28% of income, and few other debts , until it was relaxed. Now you have people with debt payments exceeding 40%, even 50% of their income, making it difficult to pay for everyday needs. They’re”house poor”. At what point do we consider a country “house poor”

Yeah, I’ll bet you don’t have the debt we created to pay for our military industrial complex and further enrich our oligarchs

I downvoted because

• a couple of those nut cases are known racists we’re all already complaining about. Can you really paint the whole country for racist things said by people whom half the population is already calling racist
• I’m generally suspicious of articles that call out democrats just before election. Yeah, they’re in power when it happens but the other political side claim they would be worse, so calling out Democrats just before election is too much like interference

Why didn’t the chicken take the train?

I don’t get it, was the writer afraid of bunny slippers?

I’d go with the same thing but reverse logic: trying to appear strong, militarily supporting their terrorist allies, while hoping to avoid actual war with Israel

Maybe the US leans on Israel, saying “let’s keep calm here, nothing got through”, while Iran can tell the whole region “ we attacked Israel in response and they’re afraid to strike back”.