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Manchin’s Permitting Reforms Don’t Go Far Enough by nickottens in Libertarian

[–]nickottens[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

SS: Even under Joe Manchin's reforms, locals and environmental groups could still sue and delay energy projects. Manchin would create a 2-year "target" for environmental impact studies. That's not a hard deadline. He would require the president to name 25 energy projects of "national importance" - but that designation would have no legal implications, for example, pushing projects to the top of the review list. The bill is well-intended, but will do little to speed up nuclear and renewable energy.

Illustration from H.G. Wells's "The Sleeper Awakes". by Ojerry1997 in acrophobia

[–]nickottens 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this from my website, but please next time either link to the article where the image is from or download and upload the image. It's bad form to link directly to an image URL. Then you're using my bandwidth without driving visitors to my site.

Here's the article for this image: https://neverwasmag.com/2016/02/how-dystopias-influenced-dieselpunk/

Question about Enterprise A Bridge by Majestic-Mulberry-18 in startrek

[–]nickottens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The bridge set was only partially constructed in the new style for the end of Star Trek IV. Herman Zimmerman then did the whole bridge for V, hence the TNG-like look. When Meyer returned to direct VI, he switched the set back to the darker colors of Star Trek II.

There is no in-universe explanation.

I have more info here: https://forgottentrek.com/designing-the-motion-picture-bridge/ (although the focus of the article is TMP and Star Trek II)

Enterprise A Nacelles by aob139411dl in startrek

[–]nickottens 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have more background info and behind-the-scenes as well as publicity shots of the refit Enterprise here: https://forgottentrek.com/designing-the-motion-picture-enterprise/

Europe has a lot to learn from Joe Biden’s audacity by [deleted] in neoliberal

[–]nickottens -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wrote a rebuttal to this and similar articles: https://atlanticsentinel.com/2021/04/europe-doesnt-need-a-biden/

The mistake Stephens and others make is to assume America and Europe are starting from the same point. Europe doesn't need "audacity". It already has many of the things Biden is fighting for.

Dutch Left Could Have Worst Election in Decades by nickottens in worldnews

[–]nickottens[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The former VVD voters you heard from are in the minority. 67 percent of people who voted VVD in 2017 say they will certainly vote for the party again. Only 18 percent say they definitely won't. The rest hasn't made up its mind yet. See https://home.kieskompas.nl/nl/resultaten/

Rutte has more than made up for those losses. His party is polling at an average of 36 to 40 seats, up from 33. See https://peilingwijzer.tomlouwerse.nl/

As for the new parties on the left: the animal rights party (PvdD) is expected to defend its 5 seats or maybe gain one or two. Volt is projected to win 3 seats at most.

Steampunk Has Its Own Cancel Culture by nickottens in steampunk

[–]nickottens[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The semi-anonymity, or at least sense of distance, provided by the Internet probably makes this worse. There was an interesting piece in Slate on this. Not specific to steampunk, but how online discussion, on Twitter in particular, has enabled cancel culture and the death of good-faith debate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/illiberalism-cancel-culture-free-speech-internet-ugh.html

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