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....neither a Biden presidency nor Trump presidency would put the U.S. on track to achieving net zero emissions by 2050, the benchmark needed to prevent catastrophic warming of over 1.5 degrees Celsius

As alarming as that is, however, it does not mean that Biden and Trump are the same...

...a Trump administration would still add an additional 4 billion tons of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere by 2030 compared to a Biden administration, according to Carbon Brief’s analysis.

That additional 4 billion tons could add more than $900 billion in global climate damages compared to Biden, the study’s authors claim.

When kids do linear algebra or they rise to the level of GM in chess within the first two decades of their lives, such people are obviously geniuses. Their intelligence is undeniable.

But it's like moral/spiritual geniuses aren't recognized in the same way, if at all. How come their intuitive expertise isn't recognized so easily ?

All those things that would happen when pigs fly, are gonna happen now!

• Chris Cross
• Debby Downer
• Ernesto Cattywampus
• Francine Leanmean

You should know about these sites, especially for this upcoming election season, because they are referential and nonpartisan. Each website has a line about the content.

Politics

ProPublica's Represent—Find your legislators and the legislative work they're undertaking on your behalf

Fast Democracy—Find legislation in all 50 states, but we'll probably focus on legislation in our state

Ballotpedia's Ballot Lookup Tool—Know how you're going to vote before you go!

Government Sites

Congress.gov—Information specific to both the House of Representatives and Senate.

Regulations.gov—Federal agencies need your comments on their proposed rules.

Federal Register— Everyday, the government compiles a publication of proposed rules, notices of Federal agencies, executive orders and various other things. You can find it all here!

USA Spending.gov—Investigate how your tax dollars are being spent!

Federal Election Commission—Wonder who is giving how much to a particular candidate during an election? Find it here.

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)—Not technically a government website. Has all the important economic indicators.

Reference

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy—An excellent resource about philosophy. You can dive into a comprehensive overview of logic, democracy, or whatever philosophy you can think of!.

Oxford Research Encyclopedia—A general encyclopedia

Britannica—Another general encyclopedia

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• Usage
  • School:I plan to starting a masters in data science in the upcoming autumn or spring semesters
  • Random number crunching: I like to dabble in PowerBI, R, Excel. It's just fun for me.
  • Photo editing: Currently using ON1 Photo Raw Max 2024, but may consider going back to Lightroom/Photoshop
  • Basic gaming: Stuff like Rimworld, Cities Skyline 1 & 2, and Dota 2.
• I mainly do not want to have to redo my whole build again in 5 years. Ideally, it'll keep for 10+. My current PC is 5 years old with a 1060-3gb that's doing it's very best, which is almost never good enough these days.

I'm really torn between the 7900 XTX, and the RTX 4070 Ti Super, 4080, and 4080 Super. Not sure which is going to remain a strong contender for the next 5 years. In that time, though, I'd be okay with upgrading my GPU, hence why I'd like the MOBO to have PCIe 5 compatibility.

Oh, and this is also a present to me for getting a really good job. If you have any suggestions to further personalize it, I'd appreciate them.

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Captain Planet, he's our hero,

Gonna take pollution down to zero,

He's our powers magnified,

And he's fighting on the planet's side

Captain Planet, he's our hero,

Gonna take pollution down to zero,

Gonna help him put asunder,

Bad guys who like to Looten Plunder!

The animating concept behind the Trump campaign will be chaos. This is what history shows us fascists do when given the chance to participate in democratic political campaigns: They create chaos. They do it because chaos works to their advantage. They revel in it, because they can see how profoundly chaos unnerves democratic-republicans—everyone, that is, whether liberal or conservative, who believes in the basic idea of a representative government that is built around neutral rules. Fascism exists to pulverize neutral rules.

So they campaign with explicit intention to instill a sense of chaos. And then comes the topper: They have the audacity to insist that the only solution to the chaos—that they themselves have either grossly exaggerated or in some cases created!—is to vote for them: “You see, there is nothing but chaos afoot, and only we can restore order!”