• captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org
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    3 months ago

    That kind of makes sense, since those areas probably have not prioritized state or local green initiatives. There is probably more opportunity to make a difference there when you are looking at the whole country objectively.

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    3 months ago

    I’m out in the middle-of-nowhere east Texas, and they just laid fiber out down our street…color me impressed

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    3 months ago

    The vast majority of the $346-billion-worth of announced investments – nearly 78% – has gone to Republican congressional districts,

    “Republican districts tend to be more rural,” Houser said. “It’s very hard to build large industrial facilities in dense urban areas.” Comparatively, Rhodium and MIT’s data sho

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      3 months ago

      The big dots are about announced spending; I think they’re assigning partisanship based on how the state as a whole voted, not how the specific municipality with the spending voted.