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The problem is that you can't write out the details of how people might abuse a system centuries hence; people are really innovative about that. What they tried to do was build a system of competing centers of power, so that so long as the bulk of elected officials were interested in doing the right thing for the country, they'd be able to serve as a check on those who aren't.

Our problem today is that we've got a major party which is interested in ending democracy, and which has a real chance of holding enough positions of power that it's not possible for the majority of the people who stop them.

The Republicans might, but would have a much harder time being in a position to do so, since the Democrats would:

• add PR and DC as states
• Enable every American to vote every time
• End state-level gerrymandering nationally

Large-scale tree planting can remove some CO2 from the atmosphere, but nowhere near as much as humans add by extracting and burning fossil fuels. See https://skepticalscience.com/1-trillion-trees-impact.html for a detailed assessment of what this looks like.

Checking is hard when phones and electricity are out.

I actually did lookups for the CEOs of a couple of these on opensecrets.org and couldn't find any monetary donations for the current NYT CEO or CNN CEO. Doesn't mean they're not trying to get Trump elected, but it's not by donating to his campaign.

It's not like anybody is going to peek in the bathroom. Clearly secure.

Utility-scale lithium batteries currently deployed have almost all been designed so that they kick out some number of watts for four hours. (How many depends on the facility)

The problem with the Supreme Court is that you need the Senate to be on board with any kind of action. Two approaches:

• Add additional justices to make the Republicans there a minority. None of the Republicans is willing to vote for this, and nor are Manchin and Sinema, which would leave no more than 49/100 votes in favor of adding new ones. So you can't do it
• Remove the crooks. This requires 67/100 votes. None of the Republicans is willing to vote for this, so you can't do it.

Making something meaningful happen here requires actually electing enough Democrats to the Senate to act.

Yes, but that's very different from saying "I can discern an change in behavior of European weather based on what this storm did"

I don't have a great answer other than removing Musk and the rest of the management he put in place, and the only way to impact that as a consumer is to commit to never buying their products.

Unfortunately, the Tesla assembly line is also a wildly racist environment, most likely encouraged by management.