"The 2% growth in energy consumption per year for a 1000 years is untenable - it would lead to global energy consumption being 400 billion times what it is today. (1.02^1000 = 398,264,651)"… (View Post)

Farooq said: "black-on-black crime That seems like a weirdly specific thing to judge a politician on. Are you aware that there are competing policy goals even with the realm of crime reduction. … (View Post)

Dr, Foxy said: "And of course policing in Washington DC, or San Francisco or anywhere else is the responsibility of local police forces, not their president or Congress-woman." As is often … (View Post)

I'd say this litle part of Finland is Scandinavian, linguistically and historically: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85land "Åland (Swedish: [ˈǒːland] i; Finnish: Ahvenanmaa) is an autono… (View Post)

The organization in the US is still called "Boy Scouts", although it is now coed -- which annoys the Girl Scouts. https://www.scouting.org/ (View Post)