The Republicans are fucked. Their base will only primary in extremists and then they can’t win the general.

I expect Texas to be in play for a long time

The margin is what’s blowing me away that’s going to be hard for Republicans to overcome in the future. Stronghold states have been turned into competitive states

It will probably work out since most of these AI companies will go under leaving the data centers they built unused.

We will probably not need anymore for 70 years or more

Or maybe this is juat wishful thinking

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Yep I use voyager and can barely tell a difference. I will admit lemmy from browser is still a bit confusing

Hopefully you can find better options domestically if the time comes. More and more places are legalizing it.

Picard looked so old the first time I watched TNG. The second time he was much younger than I remembered. Seems to appear younger to me every rewatch

Talked to a Swiss guy the other day about this very topic, it’s pretty hard to access if you’re not Swiss or very wealthy

I mean death can be fairly predictable even without assisted dying.

He had the resources to have fully in-home hospice care and to have his family stay with him. The medical staff probably saw the monitors and gathered the family.

Of course this doesn’t prove it wasn’t assisted death, just an alternative possibility

We were doing worthwhile exploration well before Musk was born. It has and can be done in a way that doesn’t need to be tied to him.

Also wouldn’t mining a moon or asteroid belt be preferable to mining the Earth? Like we can keep our water and environment cleaner and still get the resources we need

Nuttery?

Every dollar spent at NASA has returned so much more. They develop things for space travel that have uses far beyond space. We wouldn’t even have satellites and GPS if we didn’t venture into space.

Space has a lot for us to explore and a ton of resources we can use. Why strip mine the Earth when we could just take it from the asteroid belt?

You really need to disconnect space exploration from the likes of Musk or Bezos. We’ve been advancing humanity through space exploration before those two assholes were born

That is remains a cool potential technology, but why spend billions of dollars trying to develop a worse technology when solar already exists and for much cheaper?

This was the exact same argument made against solar. We should research and improve energy technologies. I doubt Thorium is the solution, but we’ve discovered a lot of our technology by researching something else and then discovering an interesting function or byproduct unrelated to the original goals.

Plus space exploration will need to be nuclear.

Clearly he misunderstood the advice. He should have continued asking

I’m sorry what is the point here? How does bitching about Americans have anything to do with preventing the elderly and vulnerable from having heat stroke?

Edit: The above poster completely changed their comment. At first it was a rant that talked about how Americans complain it’s hot when they visit Europe and are too lazy to use the stairs

But let’s look at the data since they added it, the US had top recorded heat deaths of 10,000. Europe had 50,000 last year. US has a population of 350 million and Europe as a continent has 745 million. To keep round numbers Europe has 2.15 times more population than the US, but heat deaths were 5 times greater. These are not similar rates. Excessive heat deaths would have to have been 21,500 across the entire continent to be a comparable rate

Also I’m being extremely generous as per the source data provided by the OP only urban areas in select countries were studied. Meaning these areas had even higher deaths per capita than the US.

“Researchers from Imperial and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine analysed expected heat mortality in 854 urban areas across 30 countries (EU-27, UK, Switzerland and Norway) during June-August 2026.”

3 is the key to save lives now imo. Many hospitals, schools, and even retirement homes in Germany don’t have AC. There needs to be AC in buildings serving vulnerable populations and public buildings offering AC during these extreme weather events.

Europe is not prepared to handle the heat. It’s going to be even warmer this summer with the El niño.

1 is the most important to save lives in the long run though

No…

At this point I’m just going to have to infer you’re being intentionally difficult. You seem to be stating the complete opposite of what I’ve said intentionally

No, they recieve free housing in the form of an official residence while living abroad. Something that can be cut by a commute.

And before you get hung up on a commute where as I’ve said an exhausting number of times a commute to attend state functions held by Monaco or diplomatic talks with the Monaco government. All of these would take place in buildings that are owned by Monaco.

No…

I’m done explaining if you can’t count that’s on you

Do you know where Monaco is? Commute from France use buildings in France. The ambassador can commute for Monaco state events and talks.

An yes this is different, it’s different to save cost. Effective outcomes for French citizens will be the same

They don’t need a full embassy, an ambassador will do. Like I said if they insist a small government office can be operated in existing French owned governmental buildings across the border. No need to pay for a large independent facility. The ambassador can commute to attend appropriate talks in Monaco

A full time embassy is asinine for a country with 30k people living in it less than a 29 minute walk from the French border on all sides