Unthreaded
Guarantee you that the majority of lefties opposing peace in the Ukraine were also out there on the streets demanding PEACE NOW in Gaza.
How many Ukrainians have to keep dying to keep the war going?
Listening to European leaders on the news this morning you would think they are quite keen on making themselves irrelevant while Trump sorts peace out and brings the killing in the Ukraine to an end because without Uncle Sugar Daddy Sam's money Europe is in no place to demand the killing continues.
Mailman
set up a summer mirror on the Earth's surface, and a corresponding mirror 3 light-months away which will timeshift the sunlight by six months
I'm rather disappointed that rooftop/rain hydroelectric power didn't grind into mainstream consumer advertising - just months of investment opportunities on YouTube ... Hydroelectricity in general in the UK has double+ the capacity factor of solar (I know I'm not comparing sensibly - but watermelon renewables don't acknowledge white supremacist capitalist patriarchy arithmetic)
tomo
Robert thanks for the telly anchor link.
. Musk gets coverage seemingly outside the Anglo MSM then....
The BBC
well, normal service resumed
climate bullshittery and rabid warmongerism (h/t Ben Pile)
https://twitter.com/bbcquestiontime/status/1890177747596542284
https://x.com/HoodedClaw1974/status/1889996307831607339
tomo
Musk talks DOGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4LOoxK4j4A
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tomo,
That article pretty much covers why solar doesn't work anywhere.
It comes down to the fact that energy isn't difficult, it's getting energy at the right time that is tricky. To that end, I've just had a brilliant idea. Winter too cold, summer too hot, all we need is to set up a summer mirror on the Earth's surface, and a corresponding mirror 3 light-months away which will timeshift the sunlight by six months. Basic physics at work.
Agree about the media. High time the squatters were moved off the fourth estate.
Robert Swan
I wonder if DOGE peeps ... even in what seems to be a "target rich environment" will take a look at Gannett Corp.
They operate the *largest* UK local newspaper publisher which routinely promotes many the issues that have surfaced at USAID and more added by our own UK spooks and they have a predictable comment censorship machine... ("Guardianesque")
Look at their list of Pentagon adjacent publications...
A starter.... albeit Reuters
https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1889895315970392215
tomo
Robert
thanks for the Matt Taibbi link - ex Democrats don't get the exposure or credit that is their due....
at NALOPKT Why Solar Power Does Not Work In Britain >>> comments
tomo
Robert Swan
An interesting item where a vaccine-sceptical doctor points out some downsides of vaccines to an economist. It's brief, and all very civil.
Both look sceptically at the sort of claim I loathe:
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 yearsMaybe universities could be coaxed into teaching the limitations and "contra-indications" of various statistical methods if there were a penalty of academic capital punishment, i.e.: anyone who misuses a statistical method will no longer be able to be published.
Would dramatically reduce the reading material for academics too.
Robert Swan
Mailman
yeah, quite a spectacle that is.... the German Greens really irritate me - irrelevant hardly covers it. The scripts being used by the EU politicians seem rather obvious... I see TTK is on the case
I see Christine Anderson shouting into the sterile void of fakery that is EU official politics.
Elsewhere Sabine Hossenfelder takes a swipe at the increasingly sad circus of academic science