global financial crash yay!

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Yeah I mean, as far as I can tell, there is opportunity for profit, maybe just on the grounds of more efficient procurement of energy. Maybe enough of the top asset managers just saw the writing on the wall, that the liabilities involved with unrenewable energy were just too great to ignore.
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
And personally I'm unclear as to what people have in mind re: "just" transition here. Its not like solar farms have emissions that harm the health of low-income communities, to cherrypick an example, but I'm sure there are counterexamples here.

edit: well maybe they do, but presumably not at the scale of the facilities that they would be replacing.
 

vimothy

yurp
the issue is, as long as the market as a whole makes money, they make money. so that implies that individual innovation doesn't matter so much, as long as the status quo is doing ok
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
the issue is, as long as the market as a whole makes money, they make money. so that implies that individual innovation doesn't matter so much, as long as the status quo is doing ok
So I'm inclined to believe that, if they're more or less indifferent as to what they're making money on, if they (the big asset managers) believe that markets are tending toward green energy, whether such movement is natural market sentiment or a result of regulation, they'll adjust accordingly.

I didn't really understand his point about how the AMs wanted the state to take the initial losses, that is, how that would be formalized. Maybe the states energy R&D investment efforts would be tasked with the riskier and/or less profitable investments?
 

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
I know that state investment agencies like the ARPAs are able to focus on higher risk and/or longer term investments that may otherwise fail to appeal to private sector investors, so maybe thats how it would work (or is already working) here.
 

wild greens

Well-known member
I dont really feel it in the air here to be honest but I could well believe unrest is growing. Just wonder what effect this gas crisis will actually have as the months creep along

Food prices are fucking surreal at the moment, random things suddenly cost the moon
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Dark Maga eh? And he's on their side right? It does a sound a little like the sort of organisation that the "Hang on, are we the bad guys?" sketch could have been made for...
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Dark Maga is the best name for anything that I have ever heard. No doubt the title always comes with a disclaimer; Dark Maga*



*Don't worry Don, the "dark" is cos we are cool and sexy like "black ops" or Stormy Daniels, not cos we have anyone with dark skin involved obviously.
 
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wild greens

Well-known member
Its been around a little while, but this lad is the first bigger "public" figure to throw it out there


More of a meme than a political slogan, Dark MAGA is a post-alt-right aesthetic that promotes an authoritarian version of Trump in dystopian, Terminator-like images. In some, the Trump Tower is painted entirely in black and the former president is seen piercing through the screen with blue laser eyes.
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Dark MAGA supporters are calling for a ruthless, unforgiving version of Trump to take revenge on his political enemies at the 2024 election - though the movement hasn't been recognized or endorsed by Trump in any form. The former president hasn't yet even formally confirmed whether he'll run for president in 2024.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Dark MAGA supporters are calling for a ruthless, unforgiving version of Trump to take revenge on his political enemies at the 2024 election

As opposed to the nice, reasonable, friendly version we've had so far, who takes criticism on the chin with a smile and lets jokes and insults slide off him like water off a duck's back?
 
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