• RotatingParts@lemmy.ml
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    5 days ago

    Sure would be nice at this point to be ahead of things with regards to solar power and electric cars. Oh well, maybe next time.

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      4 days ago

      And it’s only the US. Rest of the world is embracing renewables and EVs. We’re becoming our own third world country.

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        4 days ago

        The United States has officially invented a 2nd-World. There’s never been before a country that is there, there’s always first or third. Now we’re 2nd-World.

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          4 days ago

          Actually the concept referred to the way the cold war nations where divided.

          1st world refer to the capital ist American aligned nations.

          2nd world is the Soviet aligned nations.

          3rd are this caught in the middle of the power struggle.

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      4 days ago

      that’s the thing that blows my mind, is we can’t even talk about solar as a supplemental energy solution. the administration in america has been dumb since it’s founding. except my boy teddy, I’d die for Teddy.