tomo,
On the space tech theme: a recent Amp Hour podcast was an interview with an Australian satellite engineer which I (again, as a space ignoramus) found interesting.

It's groundhog day with that renewables ad. The truth about "100% renewable" will never topple the lucrative lie.

Listened to a couple of Brendan O'Neill interviews this morning. One overlapped with Mailman's contrast of how "hurty words" are treated, versus outright terrorism. It was a talk with Genevieve Gluck on trans idiocy. There are harsh punishments for wrong pronoun use, meanwhile convicted rapists are put in women's prisons on their assertions of trans identity.

Time advances relentlessly; not so civilisation. The trans stuff is just another step in the decline. How long is it since the UK government took an action that made people proud to be British? Likewise for the USA, Canada or Australia. It's been downhill for decades.

The other interview was with Jon Moynihan, on economic growth. He was quite heated on the stupidity of Net Zero and the like. I don't have any particular highlights, but will listen a second time (won't do that with the other one — too bleak).

So the f88k who murdered the girls in Southport has been charged with terrorism offences.

I wonder if all those who were locked up for claiming it was islamic terrorism will get their sentences quashed by The Man? Guarantee the Five Oh knew this right from the get go and that they passed that information on to TTK yet its only now that this information is coming to light!

Seems Labour is utterly committed to protecting one particular ethnic voting block while happily locking up another for the crime of hurty words.

More rocketry, on SpaceX's innovations (linked in a comment at Jo Nova's). Impressive, though it'd be better with a little less of the hero worship of Musk, which is getting to Jobsian proportions.

tomo,
Yeah, Broken Hill has taken "hypothetical" away from the concerns about renewables on the grid. A lot of talk has been about the transmission towers coming down — fair enough — but voices are more muted on the orders to turn off your solar panels so the emergency generators can deliver reliable power.

I'm wondering if there's any situation where the old cliche of every little bit helps truly applies. In my experience, getting a "little bit of help" can often be more trouble than it's worth.

Also wondering whether we'll eventually have a policy of no grid-connected solar panels unless mediated through a battery. Hope so, though I fear I might get my wish, but with the battery being taxpayer subsidised too...

Mailman,
ABC News was brave enough to broadcast the joke. Wasn't much of a joke — the "ocean garbage patch", "Is it Puerto Rico" — but Kamala clutching her pearls — These are fellow American citizens — might have been more convincing if there hadn't been a "deplorables" history on her side; the people of Puerto Rico can say we're all West Virginians now.

Robbo,

Seems there are a large number of very rich people with a vested interest to keep the list of names from Epstein and Diddy ever coming out.

Well, thats what Ive heard on the intraweb anyways.

Tomo,
C4 news carried the story of the Trump rally yesterday...but from the angle that the comedian who DARED to mock Puerto Rico was racist and so incredibly racist was the joke that the news wouldn't air it...because it was that gosh dan rwaaaacist!!!

They then ended with a glib comment that Trump campaign official had distance the Trump campaign from the comment.

What these morons dont understand is that people already know the Trump campaign is not in the business of apologising for using hurty words and what made it was is that this so called person was NOT named.

The left just cannot help themselves with the constant lying.

Also it seems YouTube was doing all it could yesterday to limit the Joe Rogan interview with Trump. People couldn't seem to find it even when searching directly for the video. Again, these clowns just cant help themselves and the end result of this is probably driving even more traffic to the video as people decide to take a look for themselves to see what the fuss was about (and also because people are now sharing it even wider than they would normally have done).

Enjoyed the drollery in the Telegraph's story of the burning electric bin lorry in London:

Cllr Paul Dimoldenberg, of Westminster City council, said last summer that the “trailblazing electrification” would improve air quality and reduce CO2 emissions by 2,000 tonnes per year.

Mailman,
Was covered on the ABC News last night. They couldn't hide that it was a big crowd, but that didn't stop the tut-tutting at the folly of campaigning in a state he couldn't win.

Also on the great divide in the US, Elon Musk has tweeted the top corporate donors to the two campaigns. Besides the obvious skew, and where the big names land, you need to go down to Harris's 10th biggest donor (Morgan Stanley) before you're near the amount of Trump's top donor. More interestingly, you're at the bottom of the page, and Harris's donors are still well above the level of Trump's 2nd biggest.

Will all these companies have done their dough, or will they get the result they paid for? Also musing on how the companies that donated on both sides decided their weightings (e.g. Wells Fargo ~3:1, Microsoft ~20:1).