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Followup question: is there a company that is not part of the new lighting cartel making screws-in bulbs that actually last 10+ years?

If you want to see a lot of real fossils directly, no replicas, go to Dinosaur National Monument and check out the Quarry Exhibit Hall. A huge wall of fossils still in their stone matrix.

Most Oil and Gas reserves remaining in the US are on public land, as is the massive lithium deposit just discovered in southeastern Oregon. Then there are the seabed polymetalic nodules that will be mined sooner or later. There are plenty of opportunities to nationalize natural resources, what is lacking is political will.

Ranked-Choice voting can be used for multi-seat elections as well, essentially voter ranks the top x candidates from the full pool. After the first seat is selected the tally continues by removing the first seat name from the pool to appoint the second seat.

I am from the US in a city where we have rank choice local elections, so “strong party” style elections where you vote for a party not a candidate seem frankly wildly unaccountable. I see no advantage to this system for the voters over individual candidates.

Ranked Choice ftw.