{"database": "surfing", "table": "posts", "rows": [["340723", "21050", "Gutting NOAA", 89, "Spiral Bee", "Mar 14, 2025", "2025-03-14T17:10:23-0400", "seabird said: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n            Thanks for the classy reply Spiral. Not picking on you or the comment as it was just a profit example, and a good one at that, but you did mention fossil fuels\u2026 so would you say that offshore wind turbines are a better alternative?\n        \n\n\nClick to expand...\n\n\n\n\nYes I would.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of these alternatives results in some bird deaths and spoiled vistas.  The other threatens the health and viability of the living planet writ large.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut that's neither here nor there, because Trump / Project 2025 is hell-bent on crippling the ability of agencies to even \nweigh\n these considerations in the way we're doing here.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease just look at the regimes that Trump and his friends admire: Russia, North Korea, Hungary.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn another time and place I would have been more enthused about discussing with you the merits of various energy sources,  but I can't do it now, in this context.  You see, you want to debate on the grounds of fact, reason, and efficiency, which is admirable on its face, but naive in this context, as though taking at face value that efficiency is what the Department of Government Efficiency was about.  The name of the agency is no truer than those of the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Truth or the Ministry of Plenty in Orwell's 1984.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBut I too appreciate your willingness to tangle respectfully."]], "columns": ["post_id", "thread_id", "thread_title", "post_number", "author_username", "post_date", "post_date_iso", "post_body"], "primary_keys": ["post_id"], "primary_key_values": ["340723"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7131100010155933, "license": "Public Domain"}