"Localities could limit or ban marijuana businesses from operating in their area."

so they followed California's folly.

Cue "Cypress Hill" playing.

An analyst on youtube pointed out a lot of data on how screwed Russia is now. Many people who have skills and resources have left Russia.

This leaves the country with the people who could not leave. There has been a brain-drain of skilled workers and engineers.

Many of the high-tech weapons in the Russian military were made in Ukraine, back when it was a part of Russia. After the missile-cruiser "Moskva" was sunk, how will Russia build a new one?

They had one aircraft carrier and its non-functional. Why didn't Russia have air superiority over Ukraine at any time? They absolutely cannot afford to lose one more functional jet, or one more experienced pilot.

Shoulder-launched missiles and drones have decimated the Russ tanks, and draftees have been surrendering or defecting.

Many high ranking officers have been killed, and the officer Corp is unable to promote enough experienced officers to fill command gap.

Civilian contractors have been deeply corrupt for the last decade, especially after the annexation of Crimea and Georgia were so easy.

Russia has been exposed as a paper bear, and every month they continue, they get weaker.

The damage of the ruble means an entire population has seen their meager savings flushed down the toilet. If Russia even had enough money to buy more weapons, the factories have lost their best workers.

Who will run the machines? Illiterate farm boys?

Love the name, "Wallcat"

Well done, New Hampshire!

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Anyone in a low-skilled job is expected to suffer. It's a horrible mind-set.

Or importing oil and gas from India....who got it from ...Russia.

It’s about time, NH!

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Also coal plants have been used extensively and they pollute more than gas.

But printed media sources would have really enjoyed having the word "czar" more, as this makes for nicer headlines. Easier for typesetting, can do bigger print with the same space on the paper since you have fewer letters, etc. So this seems like a holdover from the days of printed papers.

Yeah and some of the other gas we imported came from China...who got it from...Russia.

Russia had to fail for the rest of the world to rise.

Thank you for your service Russia, you won't be missed.

Engineered wood is held together with seriously problematic adhesives.

Historical note - Anyone else recall that the use of those adhesives in the fake wood fitting of trailer homes caused so many horrible health problems that new standards had to be made (federally in the USA) insuring that the trailer homes would exchange all the air in home for fresh air at a much higher rate.

That's what you would be breathing.

Mind you we COULD have really good engineered wood from 3d printed cellulose (grown in big vats, fast and cheap). Instead we get strand board and chip board and fake timbers full of formaldehyde based glues, all of which come from OIL.

Oh well. Everyone is already slated to get cancer at least twice, so I supposed some additional cancers and brain damage and immune damage won't make that much difference.

It’s less Funny when you think about them Implementing Chinese spy tech to do it. Full On thought police, seeing that cancer spread out from China would not be a good sign.

This is wonderful. It's a major step.

Now if only we could find a way to insulate wires that does not require petrochemical plastics.

I think it's purposefully intended to have an autocratic ring to it. Wikipedia:

> Advantages cited for the creation of czar type posts include the ability to go outside of formal channels and find creative solutions for ad hoc problems, and an ability to involve a lot of government players in big issue decision-making, ultimately enabling a huge bureaucracy to begin moving in a new direction.

Maybe something like "Special Climate Overseer" would have the same effect with less historical baggage? Idk. I think in the end what's important is that people listen to them so they can fix things that the existing bureaucracy won't.

Yep, my neighbors just got solar panels installed and a battery storage to charge their electric car. It's not that they're super green or anything, it's that we're in the UK and power has gotten a lot more expensive and the tech is cheaper every year. A few grand now and they'll have nearly free EV running costs for the foreseeable future.

There's that many casualties, but not that many dead. A lot of those are injuries as well. The deaths are somewhere around 60k depending on source, which is still tragic and staggering.

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there is great comedy in the image of anyone attempting to police a border that long. even if they were a functioning country with quadruple the wealth they still wouldn't come close.

Sorry but we'll just have to disagree here.

And no, the oil and gas industry is not pushing for nuclear. They have astroturfed/bankrolled the largest anti nuclear "environmental" groups for decades in an attempt to kill off nuclear (like the dipshits in Germany) and force the necessity of more fossil fuel base load plants (again, like the dipshits in Germany).

The bottom line is there is no form of energy on earth with the combination of desirable traits (clean/virtual zero emissions, energy capacity and energy density, capacity factor, and safety) that can compare to nuclear. Literally only solar is safer, and not by much per TWh.

If there is going to be a realistic net zero future, you're going to need nuclear base load plants supplemented by renewables and their overcapacity as replacement for peaker plants. Renewables as a total replacement for base load via overcapacity and batteries is totally infeasible, given the space requirements one would need for overcapacity is so great that energy storage is no longer an issue.

It's also worth noting that radioactive waste, all of which produced to this point couldn't even fill a single football field at two casks high, is able to be processed and reused, with 96% reclamation rate, with the half life being reduced from 10k years to a few hundred. This tech has existed since the late 80s, along with melt-down-proof reactors, but was cancelled due to ignorance and politics. Luckily, the climate crisis is causing people to dig it up and develop new tech inspired by it, like the new liquid sodium SMRs that are being proposed.

They have them at Aldi but that's about it.

I think it's just a bad mindset by employers. An "If you have time to lean you have time to clean" sort of thing.

Now this is a great leap forward. I had one of my uncle die due to this. I hope this treatment will work and available to everyone.