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Hey, baff said months, not decades. Maybe it's some sort of inverted bell curve.

Amusingly enough, I actually saw the tail end of that last bit a few minutes ago, walking by a TV. Was on the news, heh.

Though yeah, had mentioned flynn a bit a ways earlier. No links at the time, though, so the extra stuff's appreciated.

Quote from: Iceblaster on March 26, 2017, 07:13:14 am

@Internet thing

Has it already passed? Tbh, I'm still waiting for it to pass before I go 'DOOOOOOOOOM' about it.

I believe it may have.

Again, the thing FD linked to is currently in the house. It passed senate, but that's it, so far.

Hey, if you're going to blame anyone for not being able to construct buildings that can stand up against genocide, a small scale apocalyptic precursor to a slow boiling full scale one, and a century of occupation by regularly resurrecting incessantly murderous xenocidal beasts and autonomous mobile artillery, it might as well be hylian civilians. What those scum did to the dignity of impossibly durable architecture is an atrocity on par with everything but anything ganon ever did.

his nickname is linkle ahaha

And nah, last I recall immortality is specifically a triforce of power thing, or was at some point earlier in the franchise's existence. Lifespans are pretty inconsistent in hyrule, though, and we've seen even just in this incarnation both age regression (purah) and prevention (link himself) -- and zelda herself was apparently both rather interested in and rather skilled with the techbase that had both happen. Buncha' other stuff sprinkled through the games that could explain it. All sorts of reasons zelda could still be loitering around. Maybe the whale just has a bad case of gas this time around :V

... in all seriousness, though, does this discussion even matter in relation to the US? Nuclear is a non-starter for reasons economic (initial investment, mostly) and not, green investment is increasing, coal is dying for multiple reasons, natural gas et al is there, oil is being oil. Comparing efficiencies between something that's not going to be used regardless of its cost and a bunch of other stuff is pretty close to irrelevant, y'know?

Is why no one remembers it, really. It's not an actual biblical story, just one of the mostly discredited bits of at the time contemporary fanfiction

It's cleaner and safer to extract than it's ever been, but it's still fairly dangerous and still pretty dirty. Much of the country is dependent on coal economically though, so talk of banning coal or phasing it out is concerning since there will almost certainly be little to no effort to support those areas who've had the rug pulled out from under them other than 'lel git gud, better get a degree and move somewhere else.'

Hey, there was talk of moving new energy stuff in. Manufacturing related to renewables, R&D stuff, etc. Would still probably mean a fair amount of moving, since basically no one (with investment capability, anyway) wants to be out in the boonies when there ain't nothing out there to dig up, but at least the states wouldn't largely collapse on the economic side of things. Collapse more, at least. Dems at least gave it lip service, and ramping up investment for those sorts of things has been a goal for a while now. Also had upping/improving education in the areas in question (and everywhere else) so getting a degree or tech training and either getting out or bringing something new in was more of an actual possibility.

'Course, the GOP is so far in the opposite direction we could produce a solar panel that fueled entire cities on its own and had pure gold as a waste product and they still wouldn't put any support behind it, and their general stance on education basically reads "sell it", with nothing else on the board besides that. Most politicians that are pro-coal without reservation are more or less sending those areas up the river, heh.

That said, haven't paid all that much attention, but last I paid any what I recall is that coal extraction is kinda' starting to trail off, on top of all the usual stuff that means more production but less workers. Still a lot of it out there, but the junk's finite and the population ain't. The coal counties that haven't already been screwed by companies having ran out of stuff to dig up and leaving are on a time table, and any future relying on those industries isn't a future at all. Places needed to start transitioning like two or three decades ago, but they didn't. Options going forward are going to rapidly winnow down to get welfare, get out, or get fucked, and no amount of pro-coal sentiment or support is going to change that. Which is kinda' unfortunate, to rather massively understate things for the poor bastards.