Back to episode — Episode 2427 CWSA 03/28/24
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jump right into it. One of the good things about doing the Dilbert comic on my own instead of having a publisher is that I can do it faster. And so this week squatters have moved into the cubicles in Dilbert's workplace. So Ted will be the first one who is replaced by a squatter. And the rules of the state: the boss has to give the salary and benefits from Ted to the squatters who took over his
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Anyway, here's some good news. They're restarting a nuclear plant in Michigan. So the Biden administration — I will give them full credit for this. That allowed me to be nonpolitical for a moment. Biden administration putting a $1.5 billion loan to restart a Michigan nuclear power plant. Hello. Good job. Good job, government. I'm sure it could have been faster and better like everything in the world, but if you're moving in the right direction, I'm going to call it out. And yes, this is the right thing.
Would the Trump administration have done the same thing? Probably. Probably, because I think it's just time. And I would like to take another victory lap for those of us who worked so hard to move that battleship from saying that nuclear is bad to nuclear is the thing that will save the world from every energy problem we have.
So another call-out to Mark Schneider, Michael Shellenberger, Zion Lights, and everybody who helped on that.
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Do you realize that that was literally a grassroots change in civilization? That there were specific individuals, and there weren't that many of them, probably just a handful of people, who collectively used persuasion and a tremendous amount of energy. There may have been some financial backing from just citizens. And the entire thing changed. I don't even know the last time I saw anybody negati…
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