You know I learned all that calculus and never learned how it applies to orbits. Can someone connect the dots for me? (In a little more detail than calculus is rates of change.)

Yes.

Me: “Surely it can’t mean that… Oh… Oh no. Oh fuck.”

Really doubt that was it.

Termite Terminator.

The telephone: “Am I a joke to you?”

Root cellars were amazing things. My grandparents would grow potatoes and store them for a year until next harvest.

Sigh. People are blaming Biden because he didn’t solve it in his 4 years. “We elected him why isn’t it solved?!? Protest no vote!”

We can see the entire history.

Gore ran on environmentalism. And bam he lost the election.

So what did Obama learn? Don’t touch it. Not one bit. And he won.

Hillary said maybe now is the time, she said she’d have a map room. She declared war on climate change. And bam she lost the election.

So what did Biden learn? Don’t touch it. Don’t say one word. And he won. But Biden did green energy anyway. And what did polls say? That he was going to lose the election.

So what did Kamala learn? There is no thanks for it. Don’t run on it. It doesn’t get anything.

And what won the election? “It’s the economy, stupid”. No one is running on environmentalism for a long time.

The best we can hope for is that Dems win without running on it, and do it anyway just like Biden did.

Where did I say we didn’t? Holy Lemmy never lets me down in how you misread.

The problem is everyone expects the Dems to solve it in one term. Now it’s Biden’s fault that he didn’t solve it in his one term. You know, remake the entire energy grid and turn over the entire vehicle fleet in his 4 years.

US oil production is not US oil usage.

Explain.

… I’ve never been at a bigger loss for words.

You have a lot to learn.

So your solution is to instead do something impossible and definitely won’t happen. Right.

I think you’ve horribly misread what I said.

The chain is about Biden and his 4 years. People want the Dems to solve the whole literal problem in their term. In the case of Biden, it was 4 years. 2 years really when you consider he only had the House or Reps for 2 years.

Both parties? We all know the GOP isn’t going to do shit. They will do the exact opposite, actually. So it’s only Dems.

Past that I have no idea what point you’re trying to make. US oil production is not US oil usage. It was the fracking boom that increased production. As for dips, then there was the 2008 great recession and covid which changed everything for a few years each. Like you’re focused on wrong fry, small fry, and taking it out of context. Obama? Guess what Obama learned from Gore? That running on an environmental policy was a losing proposition. He focused on health care. His thanks for that was to lose the house for the next 6 years. Guess the left didn’t want anything for 6 years of his presidency.

Every time they run on an environmental policy, they lose. Every time they implement an environmental policy, they lose. And you’re amazed they aren’t gun ho about it? Like they just lost despite the green energy in the IRA. And Trump won with drill baby drill. Do you think Dems will run on it next time? Fuck no they won’t. They won’t touch it with 10 foot pole. They will run on “It’s the economy, stupid.” If you want environmental policy, you need to give them consistent and overwhelming victories.

I really wonder what industry y’all work in that you think the entire energy grid and vehicle fleet can be remade in 4 years.

Don’t worry protest voters, we may be able to start from scratch again in another 4 years.

I see Lemmy’s famous misreading is happening. I want environmental policy. But I know things take time. People that think everything can be remade in 4 years don’t know how big industry is and how much work it takes.

What a loss to not give him a sniper rifle.

Made away themselves.

Ah British dancing around the point terms.

Fine I’ll look it up. Discovered 1930, so that makes a Pluto year 248 Earth years.

I came, I fucked, I died.

I’m hungry now. Does that make me a cannibal?