shmmeee
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Average cost for a dozen eggs is $3.
Trump is my favourite comedian of the year already (8 Viewers)
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Average cost for a dozen eggs is $3.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Maybe, but if necessary he'd try and change that required majority. The houses and the courts are more likely to side with him and themselves could use their majority to chip away at other things to enable it further down the line.
And if they don't he'll call them traitors and set his fanbase on them. Many would be too scared to say no. I expect he'll rile his base saying "you want me to stay but they won't let me, they're enemies of democracy so tell them how you feel" and get them protesting like the Capitol.
Brighton Sky Blue
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US officials who will soon be out of work once Musk sacks all of them and replaces them with MAGA loyalistsOne thing you have to say about trump is he defiantly comes off as someone who carefully studies all the data and asses the impact before making a decision
Come on, if Trump and his echo chamber want to do it they will do it. As we keep getting told Trump has everything sewn up now and can pretty much do what he wants. US officials will be making those sort of suggestions to others to avoid spooking the markets. They have no idea what Trump will or won't do.
He's been making promises about all sorts of crazy stuff, seemingly off the cuff, on the campaign trail. Nobody has a clue what he will actually implement.
MalcSB
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“SIR Keir Starmer is set to attend the UN climate talks today - while other world leaders, including from the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, China, the US and India, stay away. The COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, will have 50,000 attendees - half the total in Dubai last year.”
Im sure our influence will persuade everyone including the absentees,
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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So lets just sleepwalk into a catastrophe because others won't be going.“SIR Keir Starmer is set to attend the UN climate talks today - while other world leaders, including from the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, China, the US and India, stay away. The COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, will have 50,000 attendees - half the total in Dubai last year.”
Im sure our influence will persuade everyone including the absentees,
You do understand the concept of leadership don't you?
Grendel
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Its not leadership when the real leaders are staying at home. Still I am sure a few nice lunches are to be had.
MalcSB
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MalcSB
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Whatever the UK does will have no discernible impact if the absentees carry on regardless, or in USA case increase fossil fuel production and use under Trump.
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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And doing what others are doing is going to change that?
I'm not expecting everyone else to just say 'oh, they're doing it so we'd better do it too'. I'm saying we should do what is right and lead by example, not just say "well everyone is doing that so we should too".
Sky_Blue_Dreamer
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Again, so we should not do what is right just because others are doing it.
If you're at the football and someone starts singing a racist song, do you do nothing, tell them to stop or join in?
Sky Blue Pete
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Still the right thing to do to follow the science“SIR Keir Starmer is set to attend the UN climate talks today - while other world leaders, including from the biggest greenhouse gas emitters, China, the US and India, stay away. The COP29 meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, will have 50,000 attendees - half the total in Dubai last year.”
Im sure our influence will persuade everyone including the absentees,
SkyBlueCharlie9
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Why are you wetting your knickers about Trump winning? Absokutely nothing to do with economics for you really though. It's the 'woke' thing again and your sadistic love of hatred and intolerance based on ignorant bigotry. What a negative outlook on life you take.
Brighton Sky Blue
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He’d be criticised whether he went or not tbf
Otis
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Very good point.
He goes - Was pointless him going
He doesn't go - An insult and an outrage
Brighton Sky Blue
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Having a climate change denialist in the White House does make what we do futile I think.
Otis
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Bloody makes it a lot, lot harder.
Trump is going to regret his stance come 2050.
I hope he has a very anguished 104th birthday.
MalcSB
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I understand NESO issued a report saying that UK net zero was doable but very arduous. We will have to accept that demand will need to be controlled though. Power cuts at peak times.
China, India and the USA will be pissing themselves laughing,
MalcSB
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I”ll be a spring chicken at 96.
Brighton Sky Blue
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I’ll be 60. Will probably still be ranting on here about the 2024 election
Otis
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The one that was fixed, but he still wiped the floor with the Democrats, one?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Totally rigged, totally stolen. Nobody knows more about election rigging than me-believe me.
SIR ERNIE
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What anyone does is utterly futile unless China and India fall in line.
Brighton Sky Blue
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The USA clearly can make a huge difference. Pity you voted someone in who doesn’t even believe it’s a problem.
shmmeee
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We need to build nuclear and wind and insist on solar and battery on new builds. We shouldn’t be trying to limit usage.
MalcSB
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I see they are insisting on no boilers in new builds. Builders worried about scale up needed for air source heat pumps And that it may interfere with the need to build 300,000 houses per year to keep to Labours target. A bit of a step change from the current 35,000 heat pumps being produced per year. Government seem more keen on banning current technologies rather than proscribing new ones.
Wind has produced very little first two weeks of November, solar next to nothing.
shmmeee
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That’s what the nuclear is for. Heating needs to be electrified same as cooking ultimately.
MalcSB
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Best get on with it then, Rolls Royce have been waiting for ages.
shmmeee
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Indeed. Delayed for another six months wasn’t it? Ridiculous.
SIR ERNIE
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Wrong again, how can I vote in a US election?
Brighton Sky Blue
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Some rumours he could fire as many as 75% of American civil servants. I would assume the only departments they’d want to keep open would be the military, immigration and perhaps some tax collection stuff.Fucking hell
chiefdave
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Surely the system would collapse if you got rid of 75% of civil servants. Saying that look what he did when he took over twitter and how that has rapidly deteriorated as a result
Trump's not even taken over yet and there's already rumblings of discontent from Rep voters that he's not going to follow through on his promises. Very predictable as he, along with his running mates, were just saying what they thought whoever was in the room wanted to hear. Already walking back on banning vaccines and Trump promised to pardon anyone for guilty of crimes related to January 6th which possibly isn't as easy as he thinks.
Looks like he's going to be off the hook with his legal troubles though. The general consensus is now it would cause too much of a constitution problem if he was sentenced so that will be delayed until his term has finished
Fucking hell
People only seem to look at musk through the lense of Twitter/X and his political views which is a bit short sighted. I think looking at his CV they’d be lucky to get him involved….
Runs a company that made EVs mainstream and as far as I’m aware still the only car company that can make them profitably (also made their IP open source). Also not far off self driving vehicles
Runs a company that has rolled out satellite internet to parts of the world where there is no chance of traditional WiFi/broadband
Started a company that is ahead of most/all nation states when it comes to space travel and is delivering reusable rockets which produces far more efficient/cost effective space exploration/travel
Involved in starting a company (neuralink) that is developing ways to help give quadriplegics the ability to control devices through their thoughts and can possible help to restore some blind people’s eyesight
Runs a company that has rolled out large scale battery storage units (megapack) that are driving renewable energy
Big ego, undoubtedly, said some stuff he shouldn’t have, yep but shouldn’t governments be picking the brains of people like musk ? Have people not seen the state of politicians these days ?!
ps I agree if 75% of civil servants are sacked the state would collapse. Can’t see that happening though