Prior to Trump and his saboteurs getting into office, US grid operators were pretty good at planning for these events.

the Faraday is enough for any solar flare

Faraday cages are useful. But CMEs are not solar flares. They are very different (though sometimes loosely correlated) phenomena.

Along with tripping breakers, induced currents can also fry some of the massive capacitors that are attached to high-voltage transmission lines. Those are expensive and not quick to replace.

If you want to renounce your US citizenship to get away from that onerous requirement, you have to pay a fee (about $2k) and also get screwed on a lot of US taxes on investments (forcing you to treat all capital gains as realized, for example). Part of my definition of freedom is that you don’t have to pay someone money for permission to leave.

If the country has a bilateral tax agreement with the US and your income is not high by middle-class standards, you can deduct the foreign tax from the US tax. Foreign tax is typically higher if you’re anywhere in Europe of the developed world (leaving out the Gulf countries and Saudi Arabia). You still have to file in the US, which is an inconvenience and an expense, but you’re unlikely to be double-taxed.

CMEs are not solar flares.

Imagine what he’d have done if she’d done an even more tearjerking craft project.

Who exactly is being harmed by this?

The person being sentenced.

“Hey kids, this is futatorius phonin’ in from the Great Beyond. Fry that fucker’s ass or I’m going to haunt you and all your progeny until humankind’s extinction event, and then I’ll keep on messing with you in the afterlife forever!”

Ohh, you’re a naughty one, aren’t you??

Your drunk-driver example is based on consequences, not the performative portrayal of consequences.

If I am a victim of crime but am too dignified to resort to histrionics, why should that lead to my attacker getting off more lightly?

Among his many other faults, he’s a Modi toady.

They do it because they need assurace. That’s right, Kevin, a real man suppresses those dirty feelings!

But really, the only way you’ll ever know is to find out.

I remember how grossed out I was when I first learned about it: “NO WAY did my mom and dad do that!”

Kids don’t understand much at that age.

But I doubt it’ll be done this way.

It almost certainly will be a hate fest. These are people who think they’re being persecuted because other people are allowed to live their lives.

Not even someone else’s pole.

It’s interesting that the kind of criminality, exploitation and abuse committed by the wealthy and powerful can seldom be countered by “immediate self-defense” and yet we are just as fucked as we would be when robbed at gunpoint. Worse, in some cases.

The true exceptionalism is what passes for charisma in the US.

They must have high hopes of monetizing us further with AI, to relentlessly push it on us like they’re doing.