Because nothing says socialist utopia like a dynastic presidency

Forgive my ignorance, who even answers that hotline? What can they do?

Why do we need more of it? Since 1950 the USA has increased electricity usage 14x with slightly over 2x the population. With full electrification, our electricity demands are expected to increase by 90% in 2050 with only a ~10% population bump.

Surely we’ve gone beyond necessary consumption and hit diminishing quality-of-life returns. And all of this is considering just production, excluding the complications of replacing infrastructure, transportation fleets and upgrading the grid.

Those projections also don’t include gen-AI datacenters, which will consume ~12% of total usage by 2028. Electric trains are between 2-10x more efficient per passenger/kWh than BEVs. With a focus on more efficient transportation you could turn off those datacenters, skip the complex and expensive BEV infrastructure and come out with a much lower 2050 consumption.

This sounds like quite a rube goldberg machine to avoid simply supplying a predictable baseline with nuclear. If you try to out-surplus increasingly common climate catastrophes, you’re going to be in for a rude awakening.

Any surplus or pricing plan will be gamed by power hungry datacenters or other wasteful capitalist scam-de-jour. Like you said, demand is elastic so any spare watt will eventually be sucked up as the price curve is optimized. The combined fluctuations on supply+demand is not what you want for a stable grid.

I predict a scenario where storage has to shore up that instability; much more storage than people think. The potential for a zero-supply floor (independent of demand growth) with massive surplus peaks requires building out an equally massive buffer. What will that ecological damage will look like? Will our current projections and efficiencies hold true at that scale?

The cheap energy -> increased demand -> increased storage -> more surplus cycle will cement our reliance on cheap energy, which requires more stability which means more storage, etc…

Let me clarify here that renewables are important for planning a responsible energy future, but only chasing cheap energy isn’t the solution. It’s not possible for us to out-produce the over-consumption that got us here.

Can anyone explain to me why cost matters in these conversations? Do shrinking populations need more energy for any sane reason? If so, do we need it scaled that rapidly?

Do we need electricity to be dirt cheap for any reason other than we want to consume it? Is it just capitalism-brain insisting that tricking the market with profit incentives will save our planet?

Anyways, the second amendment exists to combat tyranny.

Just want to step in here and say that no interpretation of the second would cover a civilian killing a foreign diplomat, no matter how tyrannical 😂

I don’t disagree that anarchist ideals about localization make sense as a reaction to our modern, global, hierarchical world. I’m not arguing to preserve the efficiencies of centralization but pointing out that their gravity makes opposition by other means impossible. Here’s the issue that I never see resolved:

if one group starts consolidating power and turning coercive, that’s a problem. However it’s not solved by having centralized oversight in the first place. That’s how we got here.

Then how does it get solved? History shows a thousand instances of empires expanding through piece meal conquering of fragmented autonomous polities. Look at the European conquest of Mesoamerica, how the Roman’s picked apart most of the world, the colonization of Ireland, the fate of the Iroquois Confederacy, etc… The aggressor doesn’t even need a material or martial advantage, as in Macedonia’s subjugation of the loose federation of Greek city states.

Generally, the expansion only stops from an internal shift (dynasty change, leader death, coup, etc…), hitting a geographical limit, or when the aggressor runs into someone too large to bully.

I’ll point out as well that this doesn’t even need to be a nefarious, expansionist scheme. Changes in climate can apply a survival pressure to take what you need from neighbors. Take for example, sea level rise reducing arable land for the Vikings, one of the causes for their invasion and settling in Britain.

I asked this in a thread a while ago but I’ll repost it here since I never got an answer:

[I don’t see how anarchism] would work in practice. Hierarchies form to simplify the logistics and social cohesion of a disorganized network of subunits.

As a basic example, how the hell do collectives even communicate with those on other continents? It took millenia for humans to develop reliable seafaring technology, only made possible through the direction of state actors. Sea cables cost millions to maintain; satellite communication is even harder to achieve.

Assuming that any of these could even be accomplished strictly via collectives (“Why the hell should I give you my Chilean copper so you can throw it in the ocean to talk to Europe?”), operating these essential services gives access to power and coercion.

Somebody has to launch the ships or run the heart of the telegraph network. Will you centralize the authority of multiple collectives to regulate and monitor it?..

And if you don’t do anything to bridge the ocean, what’s to prevent ideological drift for that continent; getting a little too centralized for more efficient resource use? Even if your accessible web remains strong and ideologically pure, you have to pray that completely separate webs will be just as strong.

Anarcho-primitivism is the only critique that seems to own the inherent anti-civilization logic, but even then there’s nothing stopping a collective-of-collectives from making a bigger pile of sharp rocks to subjugate you.

The gist of it being that hierarchies form due to the natural gravitation of civilization towards efficiency. Delegating someone with power to direct the actions of a large group will always be more efficient than getting N subunits to reach a web of equilibrium. If you’ve ever tried to horizontally coordinate a group of a large size it’s pretty obvious.

Efficiency begets power and power propogates and entrenches the system that it’s derived from.

Unnamed “people” of some unnamed US spook organization

People employed by a state actor to screen hardware (or closely related to screening) probably aren’t supposed to leak stuff like this. Nobody wants a potential adversary knowing what you do/do not know.

rogue devices in an undisclosed number of Chinese solar inverters and batteries of not named brands

Again, there’s no benefit to telling, especially when this could tie back to a leaker. How could they disclose a number? They deconstruct a sample selection, not every single one that’s installed. What would the public even do with brand information? Throw away the commercial utility grade inverters tied into their nonexistent home grid?

which alerts Europe

Spain just had a very public massive grid failure. Even if they don’t trust the US diplomatically, they could very easily take this info and verify it on their own devices.

Every smart car on the road has a backdoor killswitch and GPS tracking, “just in case” it needs to be used against a private individual. You think a state actor supplying 30-40% of the global market (allies and adversaries alike) wouldn’t do the same thing?

Fair point, but it’s still a flat tax regardless of miles driven. Current Gen EVs see a lot less miles/yr in the US vs combustion.

So at 1.25x weight with that mileage you should only expect 1.5x the cost.

I’m not a huge fan of any cars but this is a pretty regressive scheme.

Then tax by weight and not engine type. Freight trucks already don’t pay their fair share in infrastructure costs.

Edit: EVs are about 18-24% heavier than their Ice equivalent. Still doesn’t add up to the proposed costs.

Crazy that the original post said nothing about what antifascists do or don’t do but people insist on projecting.

“Fascists aren’t gaining power. Antifascists are making a comeback”

The first sentence is necessary (but not sufficient) for beating fascism; the second is a statement of momentum.

Antifascism has existed as long as fascism, well before any guns were fired or wars were fought. It encompasses many different approaches to opposing fascism and isn’t even strictly a left-wing position (revolutionary vs counter revolutionary).

If you think the only viable playbook to beat fascism is revolutionary accelerationism, that’s a logical stance to take. But it makes no sense to be upset when other people use the term differently.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/due-process-supreme-court-alien-enemies-act/index.html

That doesn’t sound like like a 9/9 slam dunk shutdown. It’s a 5/4 vote to remind the administration they need some fig leaf of due process. The article goes over all the ways that this isn’t really a check on the unconstitutional deportations.

Nobody said you have to enjoy them, learning how to formulate and structure your thought process is still important

I apologize if my phrasing is combative; I have experience with this topic and get a knee-jerk reaction to supporting AI as a literacy tool.

Your argument is flawed because it implicitly assumes that critical thinking can be offloaded to a tool. One of my favorite quotes on that:

The point of cognitive automation is NOT to enhance thinking. The point of it is to avoid thinking in the first place.

(coincidentally from an article on the topic of LLM use for propoganda)

You can’t “open source” a model in a meaningful and verifiable way. Datasets are massive and, even if you had the compute to audit them, poisoning can be much more subtle than explicitly trashing the dataset.

For example, did you know you can control bias just by changing the ordering of the dataset? There’s an interesting article from the same author that covers well known poisoning vectors, and that’s already a few years old.

These problems are baked in to any AI at this scale, regardless of implementation. The idea that we can invent a way out of a misinformation hell of our own design is a mirage. The solution will always be to limit exposure and make media literacy a priority.

Respectfully, you have no clue what you’re talking about if you don’t recognize that case as the exception and not the rule.

Many of these early generation LLMs are built from the same model or trained on the same poorly curated datasets. They’re not yet built for pushing tailored propaganda.

It’s trivial to bake bias into a model or put guardrails up. Look at deepseek’s lock down on any sensitive Chinese politics. You don’t even have to be that heavy handed, just poison the training data with a bunch of fascist sources.

Hey MuskAI, is this verifiable fact about Elon’s corruption true?

No, that’s fake news. Here’s a few conspiracy blogs that prove it. Buy more Trump Coin 💰🇺🇸

Side rant: I fucking hate the phrase “unseasonably warm/cold”.

It gives the impression of a one off aberration that will go back to normal. We haven’t had a normal season in decades, maybe we should just admit we broke the seasons instead of tiptoeing around it.

Destruction of property

Already happening with tesla, already being targeted as terrorists, personal safety at risk and still not good enough for you. Why not just start an insurgency to satisfy you?

Cyber attacks

Not anything that matters as an individual, especially against a state actor. One of the goals of the admin is destroying federal government systems so they don’t give a shit anyway

Catfish

Are you fucking kidding me? Every one of them has been exposed as a rapist, racist, pedophile and everything else. Nobody gives a shit and they’re not going to jail for it.

Corporate Sabotage

This isn’t even directed at the government? What could this possibly accomplish?..

Deny MAGA service, fire them

Unless the customer/employee is in the White House, who fucking cares? And if anything, MAGA is the most protected class in America right now.

It’s not that your suggestions are morally reprehensible, they’re fucking pointless. Mass protest is massively more impactful if only because it builds solidarity deep down in our primate brains. The 1M people showing up at a protest are much more likely to tell ICE to fuck off in the future.

If you’re not giving useful advice, your family and friends aren’t at risk, and you’re not willing to get on a plane and do something: keep your mouth shut. Nobody wants to listen to your armchair-revolutionary takes.

Hold on everyone, get your pens out. This guy has a carefully detailed plan to solve all our problems