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Dave QZ
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Is...it supposed to be doing that?

https://xkcd.com/2948/
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Trump fucks America — again.
June 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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it's my birthday today! 🌹 I'd be grateful if you shared my art as a gift to me 🫶
June 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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If it’s true that their only “evidence” against this judge is that she advised someone to leave out a side door, this is complete banana republic bullshit and should be unequivocally condemned by both parties.
April 25, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.
April 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Not even 100 days in—and a nonstop comedy of errors—except none of it’s funny.

Some of this you probably didn’t know. And once you do, you’ll wish you didn’t.
Part I
April 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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The courts have ordered Chump rehire park service employees. Not half of them, all of them.

The single most important thing you can do is visible protest. Don't let that bastad think he's getting away with it.

Resist

www.chron.com/life/wildlif...
Less than half of national parks workers rehired, including in Texas
Despite court rulings, the National Park Service only rehired 400 employees who were fired in February.
www.chron.com
March 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Go to Google
Search "Gulf of Mexico"
Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)"
Choose "Send feedback"
Click "Gulf of America"
Click "Inaccurate content"
Click "Incorrect"
Tell Google the correct name
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...
Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 12, 2025 at 1:05 PM
There's big money to be made in EV battery recycling.

The slave labor you're talking about is for cobalt, not lithium. Cobalt is increasingly being removed.

EVs are still a step in the right direction over burning oil for fuel.

"Perfection is the enemy of progress."
-Winston Churchill,
Just like Plastic recycling in the 80’s…

Lithium wars are already happening. How many slave labor fed lithium mines already exists in the developing world?

EVERYTHING has a cost. Let’s not pretend EVs fully solve any problems that already exist with traditional single occupancy vehicle.
I don't think lithium wars is going to be a thing, since we can recycle EV batteries. If a country's smart, once the lithium (or whatever future batteries use) enters their system, they can keep it there. Something we can't do with burning oil.

Yes, recycling EV batteries is a thing now.
February 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Operation ICE Ride-Along isn’t going as planned. 🔥

Fox News tagged along with ICE, hoping for an exclusive look at “dangerous criminals.” Instead, they got a whole lot of nothing. No threats, no big arrests—just a community that wasn’t having it. The narrative is falling apart.
February 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Eveyone: the market is moving to EVs rapidly.

Toyota: pass.

Toyota: ruh-roe
February 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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In case you’re wondering what’s about to get MORE expensive, helpful FOX scroll. 👀 #TrumpTradeWar
February 2, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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Americans are about to learn some economics.
February 2, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Why petrol cars need so huge stores of #energy to travel. #EVs are just so much more efficient. using the equiv of about 1 or 2 ltrs of petrol to go 100km.
February 2, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Trump’s trade war is about to screw us twice.

Higher prices on Canadian goods and anything made with them. Then, less demand for U.S. products in Canada. Now Trudeau is hitting back with $155B in tariffs on American goods. This isn’t “winning”—it’s self-sabotage.

Good job Trump voters.
February 2, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Watching these red states attack federal funding—apparently not realizing that most of their states are broke and would completely collapse without it—will always be hilarious to me.

“Give it all back to the states!”

Sit down, Cletus. Your state can’t buy sandwiches for kids.
January 29, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Maga folks worried EVs will put stress on the electric grid, but aren't concerned about AI data centers.

AI data centres have power demands of 100 MW or more. That's an annual electricity consumption equivalent to the demand of around 350,000 to 400,000 electric cars.

www.iea.org/commentaries...
What the data centre and AI boom could mean for the energy sector – Analysis - IEA
What the data centre and AI boom could mean for the energy sector - A commentary by Thomas Spencer, Siddharth Singh
www.iea.org
January 29, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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Excellent post
January 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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⚠️Trump’s withdrawal from WHO is unlawful until is is approved by Congress.

The U.S. entered WHO via 1948 resolution passed by both houses of Congress. Trump WH’s unilateral action notifying the UN of US withdrawing violates US law because it does not have express approval of Congress to leave WHO.
January 21, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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EVs have come under attack again in the aftermath of the Southland wildfires, as impacted communities lost power. As this letter to the editor shows, driving an ICE vehicle doesn’t guarantee a trouble-free escape from a disaster.
January 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Good news! BMW has inked a deal to recycle EV batteries & return recycled minerals back to BMW’s supply chain for new EV batteries.

The closed-loop battery recycling partnership with BMW is ultimately due to expand globally but will first will expand to the US-Mexico-Canada region (~2026).
#EVsky
January 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Here is Volume 1 of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s Final Report.

This documents Donald Trump’s DC federal election interference case and his illegal attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...
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January 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Good advancements in battery technology that tackles some of the most-commonly mentioned negatives of EVs.

cleantechnica.com/2025/01/10/p...
ProLogium Unveils Fast Charging Inorganic Battery At CES 2025 - CleanTechnica
Sign up for daily news updates from CleanTechnica on email. Or follow us on Google News! South Korea’s ProLogium is at CES 2025 this week to introduce its 4th generation lithium ceramic battery (LCB) ...
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January 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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16 years ago today I gave birth to a beautiful tiny baby girl. She spent a week with us before leaving us too soon, the same way she entered the world.

There’s a lot of pain & uncertainty for many right now. Hold on. Stay present. Life moves forward & I promise there will be happy days again 🩵
January 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM