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Democracy Dies in Darkness

Interesting! Upcoming UK legislation will require a built-in randomized delay for up to 10 minutes for EV charging and heat pumps for this very same reason.

Heat map-style graphic showing monthly mean global surface air temperature anomalies from January 1850 to December 2025. There is a long-term warming trend evident in each month. Blue shading is shown for colder months, and red shading is shown for warmer months. Annotations are shown for the year of each warmest respective month. All of these records have occurred within the 2023 to 2025 period in this dataset. Anomalies here are calculated relative to a 1850-1900 baseline. Data is from NOAA/NESDIS/NCEI NOAAGlobalTemp 6.0.0.

A data-driven mosaic of our warming planet - now updated through 2025 🥵

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What are the variables here? Local distribution grid capacity, transmission-level balance of supply and demand, the energy retailer's fines if they can't balance supply and demand, grandma turning the oven on or forgetting to close the door in the winter... Direct control > price incentives.

Wouldn't be surprised if they start bombing Iran tonight.

Elon Trump and Bob Musk. Uhuh.

Bah, wat een verwerpelijke titel.

Zucht idd. Maat-schape-lijk is trouwens ook nog eens een goeie pun!

Probably a mistake. Belarus maybe?

De nieuwsmedia zouden net daarom beter spreken over de staat van de Amerikaanse democratie, en hoe stevig de fundamenten wel/niet zijn. In plaats van opnieuw oppervlakkig verbaasd te zijn over wat ie nu weer gezegd heeft, hoor ik liever over hoe een democratie er al dan niet tegen opgewassen is.

Reichstag fire - Wikipedia

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Civil War (film) - Wikipedia

I can't stop thinking about this movie en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_W...

Excellent list here of the top geopolitical risks for this year.

Ja, residentiële zonnepanelen vallen ook wel onder de Requirements for Generators (RfG 2.0) die moeten 'meedansen' met de frequentie en in bepaalde landen ook aan reactive power control moeten doen. De omvormers moeten dus wel degelijk hun steentje bijdragen aan de stabiliteit van het net.

Wat paragraaf 14a betekent voor het Duitse energiesysteem » Tibo Energy Begrijp wat §14a EnWG betekent voor EV's, warmtepompen en batterijen en hoe EMS helpt om zowel aan de compliance- als optimalisatiedoelstellingen te voldoen.

Willen ze in Duitsland idd doen: tibo.energy/nl/blog/para...

See a pattern? It's holding back economic growth. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

YouTube video by Sky News Ed Conway breaks down 'historic' budget as UK is taken into uncharted territory

@vrtnws.be kunnen we iets als dit doen op VRTNWS aub? youtu.be/TkhV3zIvcH0?...

Am I the only one that thought "why is Hugh Jackman bald"?

I re-watched it recently -- was taken aback by how slow it felt. Also, in one scene, the guy's drunk and asks his girlfriend who's clearly ready for a hot night to hand him his wallet because he wants to show her something. Imagine being her and getting shown a picture of a freaking dolphin.

Open Water (film) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Wa... a movie you'll definitely talk about after

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead.
Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

30 years ago, Katherine Bigelow made a sci-fi flop that changed her career for the better Strange Days is a noir-soaked science-fiction thriller set against a backdrop of racial tension, police brutality, sexual assault, and disruptive tech

It's about time Strange Days finally begins getting the retrospective love and respect it deserves. To me, it's the best pre-Matrix cyberpunk film other than Blade Runner and Robocop, and still better than most cyberpunk films made since.

www.polygon.com/strange-days...

What we die from vs. what we hear in the news.

Terrorism and homicides account for less than 1% of deaths, but for more than half of all media stories about death in the US — whether in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or Fox News.

Alan Eustace - Wikipedia

By the way, his record was broken 2 years later by an ex-Google exec nerd en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Eu...

Ah yes, like it's not guns that kill people.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Hang a plant there so it can flower in Summer

Yeah, they should own stock like in the US.

Trishul and Om? Hindu symbols.