Muewahahahaha

They already entered into legend. The 3310 laughs at death.

Wagner cautioned that the study’s major extrapolation — that there are 27 million metric tons of nanoplastic in the North Atlantic, more than the weight of 26,000 Eiffel towers — relies on “very few samples.” Still, Wagner said it makes sense that there would be an exorbitant amount of nanoplastic given the high volume of larger plastic fragments that end up in the oceans each year. According to the United Nations, roughly 20 million tons of plastic enter aquatic ecosystems each year. This includes lakes, rivers, and streams, as well as oceans, but for much of that pollution, the ocean is the final destination.

“We’ve basically been dumping plastic in the ocean for decades,” Woodruff said. “It doesn’t go away, it just breaks down into smaller plastics, so it does make sense that you would find more nanoplastics than macro and microplastics.”

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Thank goodness they paid insane amounts of money to a string of CEOs for *checks notes* . . . exceptional leadership! Sorry about the job losses and all that, what what.

Yeah good luck with that.

What?

So you have no plans to support the Democratic party at all, and would only consider a national third party in extremely specific circumstances. I’m assuming you’re a US voter (ha), but sometimes that’s not the case.

Thank you!

At least 75 million people disagree with that assessment.

In 2016 party head was Debbie Wasserman-Schultz until the convention, when she was ousted for her crimes. Donna Brazille finished the year as interim chair.

Biden’s entire presidency had some spectacular progressive wins, are you going to ignore that? The Harris campaign was excellent until the Biden people demanded she not speak against his administration. DNC consultants then tried to highlight her appeal to “everyone” which, as always, is a mistake.

“Deep neoliberal DINOs” is just right-wing trolling language y’all use for reasons that escape me. As if politics is an epic videogame and the actual work of running and maintaining a party is either utterly unknowable or extremely evil.

It’s just regular boring stuff for most of it, and until “the left” or whatever can get good with something, anything, that resembles a national party, you’re going to have two choices. That’s just the simple reality of the situation. So please help us.

Are you going to ignore the chaotic fascist idiocy that is the result of not voting for Harris? Because it sounds like “the left” (or whatever it is) is super happy about it. If it isn’t, then its planned response to fight it is either a cartoonish wish that anyone over 30 can tell you is not going to happen (national workers strike! Arm the revolution!) or it doesn’t exist. (See above)

Hahaha

Werd. But I meant nationally.

It is cool, and yes the prototype they made is the size of a coin battery. They made three 1v “super capacitors” and linked them together to light a 3v LED.

That said, my only question was should they ever get it to be able to store and discharge 10kW, wouldn’t it necessarily all discharge at once? Like, it’s not a battery - but that’s a small problem after they’ve solved the big ones.

Cement is also not a good material, cement production accounts for 4-8% of all CO2 production.

I thought that was concrete?

Noooooooo! Demand for electric vehicles is falling! Companies are cutting back on production! Gas and ooooooiiiiilllllllll!!!

It Always Gets Worse

https://www.politico.com/story/2011/02/the-end-of-the-dlc-era-049041

Interesting.

The centrist Democratic Leadership Council, which fought and largely won a battle for the soul of the Democratic party in the 1990s, is on the verge of bankruptcy and is closing its doors, its founder, Al From, confirmed Monday. 

The group’s decision to “suspend operations” marks the conclusion of a long slide from its peak of relevance in the Clintonera, and perhaps the beginning a battle over its legacy, as the organization’s founders and allies argue that it has been a victim of its own success – and its liberal critics are already dancing on its grave.

…The DLC’s demise is, however, is bringing no mournful elegies from the liberal groups who made its name a synonym for everything they saw as wrong with Bill Clinton’s party: what they saw as a religion of compromise, a lack of principle, and a willingness to sell out the poor and African-American voters at the party’s base. 

\“One of the things that’s happening right now in Democratic politics is that progressives are winning the battle for the party,” said Progressive Congress president Darcy Burner. “The corporate-focused DLC type of politics isn’t working inside the Democratic party.” 

The DLC was formed in the 1980s - the debacle of the 1984 Mondale campaign was a key motivator - to wage just that kind of intra-party war against what From and his allies saw as interest-group liberals content to consign the Democratic Party to minority status. The group and its best-known chairman, then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, pushed balanced budgets, free trade, tough-on-crime policies, and welfare reform – all of which alienated the base, but became a key part of Clinton’s “New Democrat” agenda and his presidential legacy. 

…The DLC’s raison d’etre, though, became less clear once Democratic moderates had already taken back the party. And after the Clinton years, it picked what many Democrats still see as the wrong fights. 

In particular, its support for President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq – which most Democrats now view as one of the most profound mistakes of a generation – proved a key break from the emerging consensus of the party, and one from which it probably never recovered. That choice echoed through DLC battles with Vermont Governor Howard Dean in 2004, and From’s support for Joe Lieberman’s independent Senate candidacy against a Democratic nominee in 2006. Many Democrats never forgave the group for its compromises during a decade during which Bush’s slim governing majority was viewed as more an accident than a cause for rethinking their basic assumptions. 

In the Obama era, the group has simply struggled for relevance. Its leaders remained close to the Clintons, and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton headlined the DLC’s 2006 annual gathering in Denver. But as Hillary Clinton’s presidential fortunes waned, so did the DLC’s influence. By the summer of 2008, the organization was kicking off its annual meeting a mere block from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago - but the candidate didn’t find time to drop by.

I mean, that’s 14 years ago, or 17 since Obama said No, but it’s not “become the party”. We still see examples - Pelosi preventing AOC from chairing Oversight for example - but even those are notable as exceptions.

There absolutely is an argument to be made that middle-class voters (such as they may be) can flip between parties. I disagree 100% with the centrist bullshit of the deceased DLC, but it’s still a question any political progressive will have to reckon with.

Well I knew the DNC and the DNCC but not the DLC. Because they don’t exist anymore, still - TIL!

The Democratic Leadership Council was a non-profit 501 corporation that was active from 1985 to 2011. Founded and directed by Al From, it argued that the United States Democratic Party should shift away from the leftward turn it had taken since the late 1960s. One of its main purposes was to win back white middle-class voters with ideas that addressed their concerns. The DLC hailed the election and reelection of Bill Clinton as proof of the viability of Third Way politicians and as a DLC success story.

DLC and everyone closely affiliated.

So anyone formerly in the DLC and their children, I guess.