Yes strongly agree, requires only a bill, reduces the effect of the small States in the Electoral College and (probably) makes gerrymandering more difficult.
I understand the need for column-inches but the one sentence-answer on "Golden Dome" is that it is a stupid grift proposed by a ignorant and malignant fool. Perhaps you should try to figure who is driving and plans to profit from this scam, that would be journalism.
"Battery-hero"-Musk is actively destroying American Science and technological leadership to China's favor even as his batteries and cars become old technology.
And what you are missing is that those billionaires will only do helpful things when it happens to align with their desire for power and money. There are far more "innovators" working to destroy the environment than helping, so fatcat worship is just justifying those cozy journalist lunch-meets.
Carbon capture is the least disruptive but only really feasible while pulling more gas out of the ground and may fail over longer times. Light blocking has big weather and agricultural problems on its own and probably too expensive at any scale. Trying to reverse things is really costly.
Gates is still coasting on the goodwill he got from his announcement twenty(?) years ago that he was giving most of his wealth to charity. He created the charity and took the tax break and good feeling but hasn't actually donated much money to recipients.
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Well, Trump and NASA are spending a lot of money on Elon and Bezos for the supposed purpose of going back to the moon and then to Mars, so saying it never happened doesn't fit the narrative.
