I guess Britain doesn't have a lot of natural disasters but in most places it's considered a good idea to have a couple of weeks worth of long-dated essentials stocked up in case everything… (View Post)

I don't understand why anyone would expect the Bernie, Biden, Buttigieg, Baemy and Bwarren delegates to converge on either of these candidates. There's a "convincingly left-wing" … (View Post)

The changes in the Emerson poll mainly had her taking votes of Mayor Pete, but I think this was mainly the short-term impact of the debate. The bigger picture is that she competes with everyone excep… (View Post)

It's the average that matters not the median, so if it takes 5 million kids to produce the one genius who makes the battery 5% more efficient that may still be a win. Also there's a politic… (View Post)

I don't think that's necessarily true. Fossil fuel dependency is basically just a (solvable) technology and organizational problem. Any intelligent human can help solve it. If the average h… (View Post)