The Joseph R. Biden Score Card

Apparently you missed the Trump years... Or, you are in the wrong thread !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

To be fair, during that same span of time, they've found ways to make steel bridges last twice as long, injecting them with whatever and, recently, discovered a cheap way to make standard steel 8x stronger, that every steel mill in the world will now have to convert to. Putting off significant infrastructure improvements is a classic strategy, and the current infrastructure is waiting on AI technology. Already embedded AI is being used to prevent things like brown outs and power outages, and the materials science is the big issue, because we need to rewire and replumb the entire world, along with reinventing the economy and modern science. Its a lot of work, and conservatives demanding Donald Duck be made emperor of the world is not helping.

 

You can't cure rust with AI and there are so few US based steel mills left beyond scrap processing. AI can't get 100 megawatts from point A to point B at any better than 92% over our 1950's transmission lines. AI can't build enough infrastructure and power generation to charge millions of new electric cars, even off peak at night - California can't keep the lights on as it is today. AI at home, maybe can save a few kWhrs by timing HVAC or lights, but you can't change the demand for cooling and heating and it's still dark at night. I have an entire house full of LED lights, and my kWhr demand has been pretty much the same for 20 years. The only thing AI will possibly make any big difference is in long haul freight on the interstate while we continue to let the lowest cost of tons per mile, our railroads, crumble.

 

According to the latest experiments, there's no reason to have electrical lines at all, and you could power everything using quantum entanglement. Your fridge would no longer need a plug or a cord. What we require is a theory of everything, which the AI are about to produce the hard way, by crunching outrageous numbers. Once we have a theory of everything, it should make it clear what is the best way to redo everything, including the economy and the ecology, according to systems logics, which are four times more complex than classic logic. You either see the Big Picture, or you're screwed, and the computers are about to make the Big Picture as easy to explore as a walk in the park.

As far as corporations, government, and banks are concerned, a decade or two is worth the wait, when the alternative is having to tear it all down again. As it is, we will have to destroy countless dams worldwide in order to straighten out the mess we've made, and we'll be lucky if microplastics alone don't kill us first. Think BIG PICTURE. The Pentagon is planning on putting 40,000 drones in the ocean, and automation is about to explode with reel-to-reel printing and self-assembling techniques. Already, its quite possible to paint your house with cheap environmentally friendly paint, that acts as a solar cell. They're working to make it more durable, but they've got it up to about 24%. The first entirely printed suburbs are now being constructed, taking as little as 4 hours to print an entire house, complete with plumbing and electricity.

 

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I read popular science, too, but am a realist, Tesla had some great ideas - but didn't have the technology to implement them. As long as utilities are in the business to sell electricity they generate today, we're stuck in a 60Hz world (I don't take any 50Hz stuff seriously...it's the wrong hum). Can you imagine having enough radiated power roaming around in your house where your refrigerator could capture enough energy to to run? The field strength would be enormous. People freak out at the 2 watts of RF they have in their hands all day with their phones, and the 10ms pulses of 250mW coming from your smart meter so they can wear foil hats. Not tin foil.........tin hasn't been used in foil since the 1940's. Then there's the 20 watts they blast out at you as you drive under the toll reader..

Dams aren't going anywhere as long as they are making money. My fave here is a dam built during WW2 to provide electricity for an Alcoa Aluminum plant....ran for them nearly free for 50 years until they decided to close up shop and smelt aluminum in China because it's environmentally cheaper. The state sold off the dam to private investors that supply to the spot market.

Baby steps.

 

I think Biden is caught between a rock, and a hard place. Between the democratic infighting, and the republicans unwillingness to compromise, he is in a no win situation.
I think he really does want what is best for the country.

 

Wrong. Did you forget Bush, and Ronnie Ray Gun?

 

Fuck the baby steps, the world ecology is about to fall apart, and there's no time like the present, for reinventing the laws of physics. Quantum mechanics remain a profound mystery to modern science, but so does Vaudeville humor. The simple truth is, the truth is the easiest thing in the world to share, and academics suck at teaching the truth, so I intend to give them personal lessons in how instant karma works. Nothing like mathematics that assume 42 is as good as it gets, can compete for efficiency and low cost.

 

For sure. Doesn't seem like our elected officials care much about the globe lately. Coal, oil and bullshit run the nation.

 

All the numbers look horrible, all of them, as if someone had deliberately decided to create the world's biggest train wreck. I've had conservatives tell me they wish modern science could invent a way to prevent people from abusing technology at the drop of a hat, while I figured out how it can be done, and developed the mathematics.

 

I don’t think she will be re-elected, but I don’t think she cares.

 

She's done what her donors have paid her to do....

 

Before this mad dog trump supporter finally sits his ass down he yells out "Joe Biden, Really" ..lol..

 

And the truly frightening thing is there are zillions more, just like him. How were they able to infect people this deeply? Mass hysteria? Subliminal brainwashing?

 

And so the right slide begins, the Democrats losing Virginia. I did find it interesting how he distanced himself from Trumph..

 

A lot more of the GOP should follow suit

 

Even if the GOP does distance themselves from Trump, or even dump him altogether, his influence on them will remain. They've become much more partisan, putting their party above the country. This is how democracy ends.

 

Agreed. It’s a start in the right direction though, but way, way too late, in my opinion. Like you said, the Trump influence is there, and probably will be for a long time. Too many think the same way and it’s too late for them to reverse the damage that’s already done.