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I remember reading this from Heinlein as a young man and it took experience for me to fully understand it. People and institutions will persist in demonstrably wrong or incorrect thinking/activity long after it has been proven to be so by clever insiders. Moreover they will work to professionally and/or socially pillory any who challenge their institutional or intellectual inertia before the conclusion becomes so overwhelmingly and inescapably self-evident that the institutionalists themselves are forced to change under (usually) external pressure. The institutionalists will then usually demand that no accountability attach to their own intransigence, regardless of the costs it may have imposed in the interim. General Billy Mitchel would be a classic case of this phenomenon.

RFK Jr. once chopped off a dead raccoon’s penis to “study later” during a family road trip—NYP

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Parking lots over a certain size have three to five years to cover at least half their surface area with solar canopies or face fines. The projected output: up to 11 gigawatts of capacity, the equivalent of 10 nuclear reactors. The panels shade the cars. They can charge EVs directly underneath them. They generate electricity for the grid. The parking lot goes from dead infrastructure to power plant without using a single additional acre of land. France plans to increase solar tenfold and double wind capacity by 2033. The US has approximately 800 million parking spaces. Eight hundred million. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?