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Jan 6 failed because a black cop decided to push the leader of the attacking mob, so that they followed him instead of going through an open door into the Senate chamber. It came that close.

They've had practice now.

The key problem here is that people buy insurance in one-year increments, but with a multi-decade mortgage. So what looked like stable housing turns out not to be because assessments of risk have changed.

There's something of a history of racist groups overthrowing elections in the US.

This article has something of an overview

SF has its own non-climate disaster risk

Been pretty standard for Democratic campaigns for a while. Here's the back of a Biden 2020 pin with the union bug on it.

We're quite likely to make it past 2050.

He's pretty well committed to not doing that, and it's very much unclear to me if the military would actually go ahead with following that kind of order.

Depends on how close they can be made in watt-hours per kilo. They might be good enough for vehicles once the technology comes into reasonably widespread use, while avoiding a lot of the issues with trying to acquire sufficient lithium.

Sounds like it.

Definitely unusual. Prison is good enough.

I may not want their coup, but they have the same rights as any other citizen, including a speedy and public trial, and not being subject to cruel and unusual punishments.