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One wonders what was going on during Lincoln's presidency that could have contributed to such a massive increase.
Lincoln was president during the US Civil War
He was being sarcastic
Jimmy Carter has died
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When you compare Carter with the guy who's going to take office next month it shows how far we've fallen as a country. The previous era was already passing since about 2016, but with the death of Carter it seems like that era has died with him and it just feels very depressing.
While I agree with the general sentiment, I think the same could have been said regardless of which candidate won. It feels like the left moved left, the right moved right, and instead of catering to moderates, threatening them to pick a side. Said another way, I think a young Jimmy Carter type candidate would have wiped the floor with either side this election.
"It feels like the left moved left"
In what way? If anything, Democrats have moved to the right on topics like border control and immigration, and haven't really moved strongly to either side on social issues like abortion or drugs, on education, gun control, campaign finance, trade, healthcare, or foreign policy.
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This is untrue unless “mass media” means “one issue each of Time and Newsweek quoting Reid Bryson”.
Not that this will convince anyone currently attempting to rewrite this out of history (or determined to believe those who rewrite history), but the media panic, reporting on the scientific discussion, was much broader than that. The scientific studies and opinions varied - it was not one-sided, but the "ice age" predictions were much more marketable, at least. 5 minutes of checking found three issues of Time, one fr…
Yeah. It was all over popular media, but that seems to be ignored by people who weren't around then. They'll claim that what you actually saw is just anecdotal and should be ignored.
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#594Wow, just in time to make into this year’s https://deathlist.net count. Rest in peace, Jimmy.
One of the best year for the defiant and the least successful list since the last days of the H.W. Bush administration.
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#595He sure seemed like a legitimately good man. I think one of my favorite stories about him is that he helped resolve a nuclear reactor meltdown https://www.military.com/history/how-jimmy-carter-saved-cana...
SNL gave him a lot of shit, but SNL's "Ask President Carter" skit was perfect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0 Jimmy Carter will always be my favorite Amazing Colossal President, as Rodney Dangerfield described in the SNL "The Pepsi Syndrome" sketch: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=533858710873763 https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78ppepsi.phtml Dr. Casey: “It means, Mrs. Carter, your husband, President…
Thank you for the SNL video, Jimmy Carter talking down a young man who took too much acid is something I find highly plausible.
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Which didn't justify the ban. Other countries didn't follow suit, main effect was hurting US nuclear industry and increasing pollution. P.S. These weren't solar panels (i.e. electricity generation), but solar water heaters . A very different tech, a useful tech, but not a global warming solution.
Solar thermal water heaters are a retro technology at this point. It's simpler and easier to install PV panels driving a heat pump water heater.
Yes, at this point. At the time, they were not.
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#598The last moral president. Always trying to do the right thing. The last 'left' Christian. A politician that actually followed the bible. To bad Christianity has been co-opted by gun toting crazies full of contradictions like wanting to kill mothers and save un-born babies, then after they are born, not provide health care to the babies, spout nonsense about 'the kids', but then take away school lunches. Even way back…
"In the U.S., gun death rates in this age group have increased by 106 percent since 2013 and have been the leading cause of death among this group since 2020."
"There were 2,526 gun deaths in 2022 among 1- to 17-year-olds, averaging to nearly 7 per day."
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2024/guns-remain-leading-cause-...