Yeah you can't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater, which is an ok exception. We've done pretty well for ourselves even with these exceptions (better than Europe).
Exaggeration: everything on the grid has a "trip" for instant disconnect, and there's usually a steam bypass for ramping down fairly quickly.
Ramping up takes longer, yes, especially from maintenance. But the real factor is that operating cost is constant, almost independent from output, so they want to run the plant at operational 100% as much as possible.
> Nuclear energy is the only industry required to mitigate all possible externalities, and for that reason it is very expensive.
Is there a plant where the enviromental costs of building and decomissioning a plant and of extracting and enriching the fuel are completely mitigated?
And I am sure they are acting in the interests of the paying entity. But the interests of the paying entity may not align with the interests of entities like XFCE.
I don't think it has much to do with rational selfism that Jon McCann did not even know what Xfce was. This isn't some kind of rational decision but is simply symptomatic of much these people live in a complete bubble which by the way I feel doesn't apply to Microsoft devs working on Linux that are simply hired guns to work on whatever their boss tells them to.
It mostly affects the people who started out as volunteers, contributed to a project they cared about and then got hired by it. They were originally people who spent enough time online to actually donate their time to that and it shows. Pretty much everything that started as a hobby project rather than a business feels like it's completely staffed by people who lost touch with the world and what people outside of their specific little online bubble do and think and how people use their computers.
Easy, three examples of where the US system has failed in the last two years:
1. Congressional authority for federal spending. The current administration has withheld or redirected spending that lawmakers had already approved.
2. Independence of the Department of Justice. A number of examples where the current administration has pressured DoJ representatives to pursue obviously ridiculous and un-pursuable charges against political 'enemies'.
3. Almost anything that DOGE did. Choose your example from the grab bag.
And the bonus round of breaching constitutional norms such as birthright citizenship and outright defiance of court orders.
The system hasn't failed because someone I dislike got elected, the system failed because the system is not constraining the current administration from their overt system-contravening actions.
I'm very sorry, and I'd rather it wasn't the case, but the system has failed.
1. The President has ultimate authority over the executive and how money is spent. And the President is not forced to spend money on “fraud, waste and abuse”. That’s in the Constitution and legal code.
2. The President has authority over placing judges, as per the Constitution. Every President puts judges they want in, that’s how it’s supposed to work.
3. See point #1
You seem to think the system failed because you don’t understand the powers the Executive has
The executive has been kept in check. How many of Trump EOs have been overturned?
If the Constitution is violated, then sue in court (as has been done). If the court agrees with the EO, then they don’t think the Constitution is violated.
It’s not unconstitutional because you don’t like the outcome
It’s a bit silly to expect ordinary citizens to have a near infinitely more mature attitude towards democracy than their elected representatives though? It’s not like anybody could have ever expected until relatively recently that one of the (objectively) most immature public figures in the country would somehow end up its president
Without taking sides, the US system was broken was when Congress started self-reinforcing the 2 party system institutionally ~1880s. Regardless, it's likely that the decades of lack of enforcement was due largely to perverse incentives, which still exist. Granted, no governmental system runs perfectly.
Failure of enforcement, is not a signal that US politics are broken, as much as a niche inconsistency. There's plenty of enforcement that is not occurring today, due to pure corruption. The US electorate has failed to hold politicians accountable for over 150 years. Again, this is largely because of a 2 party system that only selects for oligarch-directed interests. Most of it (like how immigration law is enforced) is performative. This administration has laid it bare.
After reviewing both posts, I can conclude that the post you're responding to did not contain hyperbole, and yours instead attempted to minimize reality for political reasons. That your entire post chose to focus on an only tangentially-related political subject, seems to reinforce this.
It's also worth considering, if masked secret police weren't kidnapping* and killing people in the streets, including citizens, then state governments wouldn't be trying to identify them as suspects in a crime and hold them accountable for their crimes (or "dox" them as you so hyperbolously put it).
Rodrigo Duterte is currently being held for trial in international court for doing with his security forces what donald is currently doing with his, both perpetrators claiming it's all in the name of law and order, fighting crime, etc. Food for thought.
* Yes, kidnapping: countless court rulings have found that ICE did not have any legal basis to arrest, detain, or attack the bystanders who were arrested, detained, and/or attacked. ICE's criminal court cases have mostly fallen apart or been dropped due to this.
