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69 high in Houston

Been under freezing - 24-25 deg last 3 days teens at night.No significant snofall today.Was nice for Christmas - a little too nice

24 degrees and snowing here

likely to get more than 4 inches, already 2 on the ground

wind is supposed to pick up

it looks like Xmas or New Years

I do think they're going to run into a problem, though... Once you get a sizable portion of the population farther up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and stably into a middle class, they start getting all these crazy notions about having the political right of self-determination.

Chinese "communism" is basically managed capitalism at this point. People want civil liberties. The CCP can only keep a lid on that for so long.

It's fascism.  Government-run economy with private ownership, plus authoritarian/totalitarian rule.
Like a "HARD" version of the New Deal.

This month, the Netherlands will celebrate the completion of the Borssele 1 and 2 offshore wind farms, located twenty-two kilometers off the coast of the Dutch province of Zeeland. In the sleepy village where the transmission cables come ashore, a relic from the late 1960s hums away, awaiting its decommissioning. That’s because Borssele also has a nuclear power station — the Netherlands’ last remaining such facility, scheduled to be taken off-line in 2033.

Just over a decade ago, plans had been drawn up for a second, perhaps even a third, reactor on site. The abortive expansion project was scrapped partly as a consequence of popular opposition, in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster. But what was ultimately decisive was the law of value as identified by Karl Marx. With the declining cost of renewable energy, nuclear power simply does not make economic sense — even for capitalists, never mind socialists.

Many of the fervent debates within the Left concerning nuclear power have been strikingly unproductive for one simple reason. Nuclear advocates, woefully ill-informed about the frontiers of renewable energy development, tend to avoid discussing the actual dynamics of inter-capitalist competition in the electricity sector. But with many capitalist enterprises and states ditching nuclear and pushing forward with offshore wind, it is essential for socialists to better understand the latter — and begin to engage with it strategically.


https://jacobinmag.com/2020/10/offshore-wind-energy-just-transition-nuclear

Marx knew nothing about value.  He argued that "value" is something that can be objectively ascertained.
He was wrong, of course.

apparently bored

digging up stuff from early October

Just scrolling up through the board.
Got dropped onto p. 262 of this thread.
It's an exciting one, I tell ya.
I liked the the climate-forcing report that CD linked.

Just scrolling up through the board.
Got dropped onto p. 262 of this thread.
It's an exciting one, I tell ya.
I liked the the climate-forcing report that CD linked.

Funny.  I should post excerpts here about the adventures of John Burwell.  Maybe another thread.