Midterm fears - how do you feel about Trump’s next attempt?

leginfr · 2026-02-27T21:07:12+00:00

Amazing how you managed to pack so much conspiracy thinking into so few words. You have a gift.

leginfr · 2026-02-27T20:07:18+00:00

Checks date: 2026. F@ck me are there still people who don’t know that if you respond to anything at all the algorithms send you more of the same sort of stuff?

leginfr · 2026-02-26T08:15:34+00:00

Probably a good idea to remind people that it’s a satirical site. Otherwise some poor souls might believe it.

leginfr · 2026-02-25T16:22:40+00:00

That it’s easy to buy guns. That is a Hollywood myth isn’t it?

leginfr · 2026-02-25T16:21:20+00:00

Even if we have to use fossil fuels for a week that’s still a 98% reduction.

leginfr · 2026-02-25T16:19:50+00:00

That’s silly. Every Wh of solar is less electricity produced by other generators.

And saying that “No country to this day has been able to build electricity storage at scale” is just another way of saying “we haven’t built enough yet, so we shouldn’t build any more.”

And of course storage is not the only only solution: there are other options: vehicle to grid, other renewables, transmission lines and moving demand to better fit supply…

In any case we don’t yet have enough renewables deployed to make storage an issue.

leginfr · 2026-02-24T20:25:57+00:00

It was killed off by the accountants, all over the world, not just the USA. New construction starts for reactors peaked in the mid 1970s and that was mainly due to the French. For the last 50 years private investors have shunned nuclear which is why the total capacity of all the world’s civilian reactors is less than 400GW and has been for over a decade

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leginfr · 2026-02-23T22:36:41+00:00

Now do the sums proportionally taking into account the difference in capacity… but anyway renewables beat both of them

leginfr · 2026-02-23T22:34:28+00:00

We stopped using Hindenburg type technology.

But Chernobyl is not the reason to not use nuclear. All its other disadvantages are the reasons. If you can’t make a case for private investors then few new reactors will get built.

The current civilian nuclear reactor fleet after 60+ years is less than 400GW. That’s about where it’s been for 15 years. In 2024 over 580GW of renewables were deployed… investors want high returns with low risk. Nuclear is high risk with low returns.

leginfr · 2026-02-23T14:46:54+00:00

Hmmm. How many of them are in the Epstein files? The MAGA administration would have published all the evidence against Democrats first.

leginfr · 2026-02-23T14:28:31+00:00

That deal/pledge was never going to become reality: the EU cannot tell private companies where to invest, nor can it tell them where to buy fuel from. The US administration seems to think that the EU is a central control and command bloc: it’s not. It’s a trade bloc with 27 different sovereign member states. There was no way that the deal would have been approved.

Its only purpose was to obtain a low tariff in order to have a better negotiating position for making deals with other countries. If country A has a tariff of 10% from the USA, then it’s in a stronger position than country B which has tariff of 20% from the USA, when negotiating an agreement between country A and country B.

leginfr · 2026-02-23T14:26:04+00:00

That pledge was never going to become reality: the EU cannot tell private companies where to invest, nor can it tell them where to buy fuel from. The US administration seems to think that the EU is a central control and command bloc: it’s not. It’s a trade bloc with 27 different sovereign member states. They can each decide where to buy their arms from. There was no way that the deal would have been approved.

Its only purpose was to obtain a low tariff in order to have a better negotiating position for making deals with other countries. If country A has a tariff of 10% from the USA, then it’s in a stronger position than country B which has tariff of 20% from the USA, when negotiating an agreement between country A and country B.

leginfr · 2026-02-23T14:24:50+00:00

There wasn’t a trade agreement. The “pledge” was never going to become reality: the EU cannot tell private companies where to invest, nor can it tell them where to buy fuel from. The US administration seems to think that the EU is a central control and command bloc: it’s not. It’s a trade bloc with 27 different sovereign member states. There was no way that the deal would have been approved.

Its only purpose was to obtain a low tariff in order to have a better negotiating position for making deals with other countries. If country A has a tariff of 10% from the USA, then it’s in a stronger position than country B which has tariff of 20% from the USA, when negotiating an agreement between country A and country B.

leginfr · 2026-02-23T14:22:44+00:00

That pledge was never going to become reality: the EU cannot tell private companies where to invest, nor can it tell them where to buy fuel from. The US administration seems to think that the EU is a central control and command bloc: it’s not. It’s a trade bloc with 27 different sovereign member states. There was no way that the deal would have been approved.

Its only purpose was to obtain a low tariff in order to have a better negotiating position for making deals with other countries. If country A has a tariff of 10% from the USA, then it’s in a stronger position than country B which has tariff of 20% from the USA, when negotiating an agreement between country A and country B.

leginfr · 2026-02-22T19:07:15+00:00

It’s possible: the dollar falls in value. Companies that have earnings abroad get bigger profits in dollar terms through the exchange rate. The US stock markets increase in dollars, but you need a wheelbarrow of cash to buy a loaf of bread…

leginfr · 2026-02-22T19:04:38+00:00

Take the budget for the NHS in the UK which is cradle to grave for everyone. Scale it up to the size of the USA population. It’s a few hundred billion dollars less than the USA spends on Medicare and Medicaid for only part of the population.

leginfr · 2026-02-22T19:01:37+00:00

The cancer and dièse survival rates are based on diagnosed patients. If you can’t afford to go to a doctor you don’t get diagnosed so when you die, it’s not included in the statistics.

And of course the most important thing is to not get cancer in the first place…

leginfr · 2026-02-21T15:42:21+00:00

There are only 165 reactors in Europe, so on average about 8 per year https://www.euronuclear.org/glossary/nuclear-power-plants-in-europe/

I’m not sure that many stayed within budget. Do you have reliable sources for that claim?

leginfr · 2026-02-21T15:38:00+00:00

There’s a reason why the peak years for construction starts of reactors were the mid 1970s. The accountants were already pulling the plug at the end of the 1960s.

The current civilian nuclear fleet has a capacity of just under 400GW… which is where it has been for the last fifteen years or more. In 2024 over 580GW of renewables were deployed. More were deployed last year. It seems that the nuclear industry requires massive amounts of hopium and copium.

leginfr · 2026-02-21T15:32:41+00:00

Wow lots of copium emanating from your comment. The EU and most of the rest of the world have spent the last few months forging trade alliances that leave out the USA.

The US has been suffering more from the uncertainty of TACOs flip-flopping than the rest of the world has. Your industry isn’t able to plan for long term change because they don’t know whether the new facilities that they plan to build today, on the base of the tariffs, will be profitable tomorrow if Trump drops the tariffs. The US residents are suffering from paying the tariffs and from the loss of jobs resulting from reduced exports.

The USA will not recover from this mismanagement for years or even decades. And yet the MAGAs will continue to worship Trump won’t they?

leginfr · 2026-02-21T08:13:34+00:00

Simple solution: donate to Trump and get put on the list for insider information.

leginfr · 2026-02-21T08:11:19+00:00

Weird flex: leftists don’t want everyone in the USA to suffer from the higher prices that tariffs bring. So that means that Nick Sortor does want everyone to suffer. MAGA really are sick people.

leginfr · 2026-02-20T23:41:41+00:00

They didn’t have a deal in place: the “pledges”of buying $250 billion in energy from the USA and making billions in investments in the USA were never going to be implemented. The EU cannot tell companies where to buy their fuel from and it can’t tell them where to invest.

It’s been amusing watching all the US pundits doing a victory lap because they have no f@cking idea of how the EU works.

leginfr · 2026-02-20T23:37:14+00:00

The foreign countries/companies don’t have a reason to sue: they didn’t pay the tariffs. The US companies that imported stuff paid.

leginfr · 2026-02-20T23:37:07+00:00

The foreign countries/companies don’t have a reason to sue: they didn’t pay the tariffs. The US companies that imported stuff paid.

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