They've had the opportunity to use the 25th before and not done so
Yeah, the ad dollars all went to Facebook and Instagram, since they're better-able to deliver the kind of targeting that advertisers want, so most local news stopped being financially viable.
I believe it's about shoveling money to the oil companies and providing a bit of cover for building a new gas-burning power plant
Yeah, the ice is thinner, and very likely weaker for a given thickness, so the old rules of thumb about 10cm of ice being enough may not hold.
Yeah, adding the CCS makes the whole thing as expensive as nuclear.
It could, but in practice never is; it's always things like "we want you to put street numbers on your drivers license, but the reservations don't have street numbers" or "We'll accept concealed carry permits, but not student IDs" or "gee, urban residents are less likely to have a driver's license, let's mandate that"
They don't much care what we think, so it's likely not about anything other than short-term concern that being pro-poison might affect the election.
Most of them have a national ID that everybody gets, not the complex mix of IDs that the US has.
If we had that, and everybody had a national ID as a matter of routine, it wouldn't be a big deal. But we don't, because issuing one would be the mark of the beast or something.
It's probably ordinary cyanoacrylate "super" glue which sets in about 30 seconds. You can unstick somebody using a chemical solvent.
Right. There's impeachment, but actually using it to remove people from power requires a supermajority, which makes it substantially ineffective against a criminal political party
They actually built a database of willing sycophants as part of it.
Yeah, hearing similar things from others; it takes a really long time to fix the utilities when the roads are washed out all over the place, and need to be repaired to even bring heavy equipment in to many locations.