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Jacuul t1_izxn2tx wrote

That's just a made-up strawman. You can criticise people even if they are black/transgender/etc, noone is preventing that, look at how Herschel Walker lost in Georgia despite being black, perhaps had something to do with being a terrible candidate regardless of skin colour.

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Nimeroni t1_izxlebv wrote

The power outage isn't tied to inflation (through the price is tied to inflation, as electricity price is tied to gas price). It's something only happening in France.

It's a combination of bad luck (we need to do some emergency repair in a few reactors), Covid quarantine preventing the routine repairs the last few years, the cold weather greatly increasing our energy consumption (a large chunk of the french heating is electric), and lack of investment in our nuclear capacity since... around 1997 I think.

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GeekSumsMe t1_izxbkiv wrote

The shit I brought up is happening everywhere. All of my examples are things that affect everyone.

You forgot to mention that the GDP of CA is greater than the combined economic output of NV, MT, UT, ID, ND, SD & NM.

Also, CA is one of the only states where most of the cities never have deadly weather.

Fox News is trying really hard to make CA seem scary, but it really isn't. Sure they have their problems, but at least they are trying to do something about it. CA spending "the most money" on social programs (BS unless expressed on a per GDP basis) is not the own you think it is.

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Thenerdy9 t1_izx3tfj wrote

definitely an important player in the interim.

it is very political... but, from what I've heard at least in the US, nuclear facilities have encountered so much pushback about nuclear waste storage that they've pretty much given up and now store and manage it all on site. 🤷 and isn't that what we wanted all along...

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