Only 22% of the total US population voted for Orange McBurger. Don’t forget that.

As long as the electoral college exists, it really doesn’t matter, sadly.

Actually, the one thing that gas is good for is cooking

Adding on to what @Delta_V@lemmy.world said. The main reason that cooking with gas indoors is a very bad idea, is “natural gas” isn’t just methane. The oil companies just pull the gas, and whatever may be with it, out of the ground, refine it somewhat to remove some things, like water that would rust their gas lines, and send it down the pipes.

They don’t process it further, however, leaving nasty stuff like benzene in it, as one summary hilariously put it, “Ultra-pure methane isn’t necessary for home use. The gas needs to be clean enough for safe combustion and pipeline transport, but further refinement isn’t economically justified.”

So they clean it enough that their infrastructure doesn’t degrade, but not enough to be safe to humans.

If you’ve ever cleaned the igniter or parts of the combustion chamber of a NG product, even one with hyper-efficient burners, it’s a wonder they filter it all, given how much crap builds up.

Bonus points as well: to maintain pressure regulation, every gas meter will vent methane periodically (as well as other places in the distribution network), so they’re venting a greenhouse gas that is worse than carbon dioxide, collectively in tiny amounts, from millions of homes.

Gas has been used in homes since the early 1800s, its time has passed, and it should go away.

You think that’s crazy, check out Leadville, Colorado. (3,095m)

Sorry, all flights grounded because solar flares. At least we only lost 20 planes this time.

Sorry, all flights grounded because some fuckwit decided to use satellites for a network instead of fiber underground and a bad actor jammed the radio spectrum.

Sorry, all flights are grounded because Elmo Muskrat got in a pissy fit on Twitter with a 15 year old kid, and he showed him by shutting off the satellite network over the US. (Variation on your last bullet.)

The attempt to sell Teslas to the military was definitely a conflict of interests as well.

Don’t forget BetaMax, MiniDisc, ATRAC, LDAC (which I’m sure is just ATRAC over Bluetooth 😂 ) - amazed they won BluRay, honestly. They also won the 3.5" floppy format, which the kids only know as “the save icon”.