It's crazy they're trying to develop an unproven hydrogen technology system when electric rail can be net zero energy use by installing solar/wind generation and substation battery storage.
Fascist movements, from the KKK to the Nazis to MAGA, rely on an ever-changing and flexible set of conspiracy theories, fueled by motivated reasoning. ANY out-group can serve as the Enemy. Jews, queers, Roma, communists, socialists, BLM, antifa, intellectuals, meteorologists, Big Media.
That paragraph about the old-fashioned rotary phone is lifted from this Washington Post story. (Gift link!) We need to hold onto low-power methods of communication, both one-way (broadcast) and two-way (analog phone, ham radio, walkie-talkies) that don't require internet and use batteries.
The death toll from Helene climbed as emergency responders rushed to rescue residents in small mountain towns that have been cut off from communication.
could've applied to millennials too tbh