If you're doing a massive load increase, build out emissions-free generation to match. Some mix of wind, solar, batteries, nuclear, and geothermal would do fine. Otherwise, don't do the big load increase.

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Four states don't use first-past-the-post for legislative elections. In particular:

• Alaska - uses a top-4 primary + ranked choice general
• Maine - uses ranked choice voting
• California & Washington - use top-two primaries (note: CA can be top-3 if there is a tie for 2nd place)

If a third party wanted to succeed, they would put significant resources into winning legislative and congressional seats in those places. I don't see any of them actually doing that though.

It has a first-mover problem: the states which do it effectively hand the presidency to the party that a majority of their residents don't want to hold power.

That's why the national popular vote interstate compact is built the way it is.

When the Republicans control the judicial system, "illegal" only applies to Democrats.

Be a little careful about that; type 1 can't be reversed this way.

Yes, they've been updating the vaccine every year to match currently-circulating virus strains. This is about an additional update coming out this fall.

Pretty much the same thing is done with flu vaccines, where you need a periodic update for it to be effective.

There's no way this one ends up being only billions; they literally coated the entire surface of the ocean.

Problem is that once you have a dictatorship, you don't suddenly go back to elections and normal politics once the dictator dies — you get the dictator's kid or friend running things.

It just takes a set of policy decisions. Aliens not required.

His base is likely in favor of ending democracy to have a dictatorship of billionaires, but a chunk of people who haven't been paying attention much may care

I'm donating to the Biden campaign in honor of the Republicans climate positions