CH4 + 2 O2 -> CO2 + 2 H2O - 890kJ/mol
C + O2 -> CO2 - 393kJ/mol
The relevance of those equations are that CH4 is methane, the principle component of natural gas, C is pure carbon, the principle component of coal and the USA has been transitioning it's energy production from coal to natural gas.
The above equations say if you produce the same amount of electricity with natural has, your CO2 emissions halve. That is the driver of the reduction you point to. It is nice to see, but halve is the best that can happen. Meanwhile if China's continues down it's current path, their CO2 emissions for electricity production will drop to 0.
According to the EIA, the USA has about 18 years of reserves of natural gas at current production rates [0]. The USA has about 70 years of reserves of coal, so this transition to using natural gas is temporary. After about 100 years the USA will run out of both. If you want to see what that looks like, look at the UK.
China can get to 0 emissions with their approach - replacing coal with solar and batteries. The US cannot do the same with theirs - replacing coal with natural gas.
The United States outsourced the bulk of its consumer production to China and the latter's emissions are still falling. You don't find that impressive?
Ogling for women carries with it the implied risk of rape due to natural differences in physical strength, and women experience rape at a much greater rate than men, so that threat would have higher salience than any equivalent gender-based insecurity.
ICE agents are not generally required to present warrants. The agent has all sorts of conditions where they get to say no. If you think you’re above the law and can tell them what to do then you’re going to be arrested.
Police in general don’t need to show warrants to arrest people. In high profile situations it may be done to minimize political blowback, but clearly that is not a primary concern in this situation (except toward individual officers, which is why they are masking).
In many situations, they just need a documentable/articulable (to a judge, later) reasonable belief that a crime was occurring in their presence, or in other situations that a specific crime had occurred and there was a reasonable belief that person had committed that crime.
Resisting arrest, and impeding official business of a police officer are usually arrest-able offenses almost anywhere.
Details vary by jurisdiction and crime, but ‘you need a warrant to arrest someone’ is an edge case, not the common case. In those cases, it’s also often an indictment or bench warrant.
That all makes sense, but these don't look like police officers — these are guys wearing backwards baseball caps and surgical masks. Effectively, our trust that someone holds position of authority in law enforcement is based on their uniform and badge.
If we normalize some dude in a mask and a baseball cap as someone that has the authority to arrest you and put you in an unmarked van, that represents a real and serious breakdown of trust and order in society.
ICE agents should wear a real uniform (ICE with their real name), have uncovered faces, and be required to show badge/authorization upon request -- otherwise members of society have to reason to trust them (or people who look like them).
Yup, and don’t forget DEA getting into full on shoot outs while dressed even worse.
It’s a real problem, just like no knock warrants, asset seizure, lack of body cams, milsurplus equipment grants to police departments, overly aggressive training, parallel construction, arrest quotas, etc.
IMO, in this case the tactics are being done intentionally (and at the leadership level) to terrorize people and stir the pot to incite ‘bad behavior’ that can be spun to justify crackdowns. Individual officers may be true believers, but many are also ‘along for the ride’ and trying to not get too much blowback. Either way, just following orders is no excuse.
I just started looking but I can’t find any supporting evidence for this story. The part where someone says “we both know why you’re here” just sounded like a cheesy movie line. The journalist mentioned that while being detained he met a woman who was on day 4 of detention… what exactly are the logistics of how they were handling detention?
It all just sounded so implausible. It reads like someone trying to spin a story to convince others of what they already wanted to believe, or maybe that kid in grade school who tells stories he read or saw, but swaps himself for the main character.
Why should I believe this person more than any random internet crank?
I'm sorry to write at length, I just feel so deeply in this moment. I've never seen such a stark denial of reality that has been reported widely recently, that also relies on a sweeping idea that we can't trust anyone ever, i.e. we cannot discern the difference between a random internet crank and a not-crank, and given that, there's no reason to ever explore anything we haven't accepted ourselves.
I don't think I'll be able to bridge the gap by lecturing or pointing things out or huffing about journalism. But I have no choice but to try something, because I care for you and for us.
I guess what I'd say is, to keep from lecturing, it's very normal to be in detention for multiple days once you've tripped the first wire. There's been many stories like this shared, you can see some of the effects [here](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=05c894fd792d1e12&rlz=1...), no tricks, no bias, just a search for "cbp detention" in Google news.
Some headlines: ‘Like a jail cell’: Family of six detained at Washington state border facility for more than three weeks, German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego-area immigrant detention facility, Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained, ‘Felt like a kidnapping’: Wrong turn leads to 5-day detention ordeal
Sure, the point is that the key ingredient was a lot of active hard work in response to the adversity, including constructive direction and coordination by government. Merely turning up the pain and assuming hardship itself will somehow create economic activity is supremely entitled thinking, dementia-level even.
The need for inventory decreases at the same rate as the sales throughout, e.g. if it takes twice as long to sell a pair of shoes than you only need to hold half as many.
I wouldn’t describe them as nationalistic or fascist. There’s no need to bring in any sort of political view… the problem is when little people get a little power. It can get ugly.
