The lack of investment in the types of oil refineries to refine US oil domestically isn’t as much for optics purposes. But that relative to the amount of investment required to build new refineries to compete with the current foreign ones isn’t a good return on investment relative to the up front cost and the existing profits of the current arrangement.

No, it is true. It is not the quantity of oil infrastructure, but the grades and types they are. The US crude is mostly light sweet crude after the shift to oil shale. The refinery infrastructure was originally built for heavy crude with high sulfur content. Thus the US imports the type of oil our refineries were built to handle, and exports the portion of the oil that is domestically produced, but the wrong type.

The problem is that “technocracy” does directly leads to these same problems. The issue with technocracy isn’t that people should have to be qualified or know what they are talking about, but that they come from a privileged class and will side with their class interests. The proliferation of fascism and anti-science politicians is not due to democracy, but the lack thereof. It is from the nominal left parties trying to be the polite, lesser evil, in response to their opponents. The more mask off fascist parties appeal only to the petite bourgeois and the nominal progressive party appeal to the professionals (a.k.a. technocrats) so that they can have a roughly equal voting base while supporting the same right wing policies, since the professionals just want mask-on fascism. This allows the “progressive” parties to take the same corporate sponsors, while trying to appear better than the right-wing parties. The proliferation of conspiracy theories is due to the lack of an alternate narrative as to why everything is getting worse and no problems are actually addressed by our politicians.

I stumbled upon Russian Cybernetics in some google search related to the academic discipline of cybernetics. I like it as background music because it is mostly a very mellow electronic music. And I don’t speak Russian, so most of the lyrics aren’t distracting and mentally filtered out. Though some songs have english lyrics.

"Look… if… the other team wants to win… they need to score more points… than the opposing team.

National corporatism, it actually doesn’t directly relate to corporations.

A real geologist should give a real answer, but more or less it is due to how the molten elements and molecules sorted out back when the earth was younger and hotter. It has a lot to do with relative densities, melting points and propensity to mix with other materials. Everything heavier than helium and trace amounts of lithium are “star dust”, the geology of earth is how that coalesces together and then combines and separates out in geological processes.

Showing support to a nation embargoed and impoverished by US aggression.

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