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18 Sep, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I used to think geothermal only worked in very rare geologic hot spots, but I'm increasingly sold it can be done lots of places -- and by the same drilling firms / drilling workers who'd be displaced from oil & gas wellfields.
Tbf, "sold" overstates my ability to judge the technology and economics, but there are at least serious people making the case, which wasn't really true 20+ years ago.
Maybe I'm biased because my idea of a good vacation is being menaced by lava, but widespread geothermal could be a real game changer -- baseload power that's neither fossil nor nuclear
On the latter point, I'm not anti-nuclear per se but in practice it seems an unlikely bet in in the US and most European countries.

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For earlier generations, to see why just look at the New Deal housing maps where the federal govt redlined just about any neighborhood of with a concentration of immigrants -- even German, Poles, etc -- or significant use of languages other than English in public.
A bit earlier, my grandparents on one side were kids in recently-arrived German speaking households during World War 1, when the country became actively hostile to the use of the German language (more so in WW1 than WW2, actually)
They and their generational cohort could flip into German at home (e.g., argue w/o the kids following it), but I don't think they made a major effort to teach it to my parent's generation
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"uniformed military can't comment on military policy bc that's political" is just now how it works

Whether to buy a new ICBM is a very contentious political, even partisan issue, and yet @US_Stratcom and official USAF accounts tweet in support *constantly*.
Liberal TV commentator: "the Ford aircraft carrier does not work and the sailors crewing it are all stupid baby killers"

Navy: "we'll have to let the political debate play out, it would be inappropriate for the Navy to respond"
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Well, 19,516 pages later, replaced the laser printer I bought soon after starting at NWC in 2007 -- with more or less the same thing. I guess Brother found if you square off the corners it can print 50% faster, or maybe it's that Moore's Law thing
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The "lone bomb EMP" concept gets play because:

1. It's a way to turn Iran / NK / Grand Fenwick into existential threats we must invade

2. Masculine fantasies of social collapse but where fallout / plague / etc don't make life impossible no matter your skill with gun and grill
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EMP essentially resets the world to frontier life in 1850, they imagine, where brawny manly skills like shooting game, chopping firewood, carpentry and blacksmithery, chasing off rustlers, etc are what counts 3/
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US trying to cause political change in Russia is a fools errand and I largely agree w @DanielLarison and @EmmaMAshford a democratic govt could have similar security interests, but, one w more popular legitimacy might be better on not subverting *other* democracies 1/
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Read the thread. Lots of names familiar to me from their intel work or their whistleblowing 10 to 30 years ago, but who I had no idea were now in the Q stuff like Flynn 2/
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