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@CosmicSkeptic please make a serious analysis of why these philosophers are depicted as they are in this meme and whether you would group them differently. I can see some great content with this!

@LudwigUller Vi hade tagit er mer seriöst om inte ni hade klantat er så inåt helvete med er inställning till kärnkraften genom hela ert partis historia. I mina ögon är MP det farligaste politiska parti som hänt Sverige.

Folk säger ofta att vi Miljöpartister är naiva för att vi tror att ”vi kan rädda världen” från klimatkrisen. I praktiken vill vi göra vår internationella plikt SAMT sätta svenska liv på agendan. Hur kan man acceptera att luften dödar nästan 7000 personer varje år?

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Probably doable on a small scale to begin with. Nuclear can also pair well with storage tech. VRE is ideal for it, but not the only beneficiary.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX It could be interesting to look into the economy of replacing (some) french peak gas usage with batteries.🤔

If solar and wind power are so cheap, why is it that the countries with the largest amount of it on their grid also have the highest electricity prices?

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Fair, but one of the most central Discussion Topics about energy is pricing. So showing a graph that indicates that solar is going down and nuclear is going up would be a clear sign that we should replace one with the other. You have to consider the recipient of the message.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Multiple graphs do provide more details, but won't provide the overview of how each technology has performed compared to itself as a function of the install base size. Instead of $/MWh it could be changed so all start at index 100, but I don't think that would improve the chart.

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Fair, peak demand is not well suited for nuclear, gas, hydro and battery secured VRE is ideal for that.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Yes nuclear is being throttled, but it could cover peak demand why is expensive gas also being used?

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX More like this together with cost decrease for PV from 2010 to today in %. The data shows trends (2nd), how we are blindsided by the change (1st), while it still has some obvious problems and a huge spread due to reliance on other tech (3rd). But indeed, you won't cover it all.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX This is X. It is not suitable for discussions covering all details. It is often simplified to fit in the short message format. How would you illustrate the price development vs installed capacity of different technologies?

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX France cycles its nuclear plants and have been doing it since the 70s, this is a tired trope. They're also using gas. But if we would switch to a solar based grid due to cost we would not survive winter in Europe.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Obviously PV will need some help when the sun doesn't shine. That adds cost. But nuclear will also need help during peak demand, as they are too expensive to only run a few hours a day to cover that. That adds cost. That is why eg. France uses gas for that purpose.

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX But concatenating all the complexities into "cost" only serves to obfuscate what you're trying to show. Several things on that graph are directly comparable, and some aren't. It's just a bad comparison.

@Oscillaneous @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Agreed, and that is also not the intention with the graph. It is to show the change of cost over time. Not to make a direct comparison. Real prices are way too complex to cover in a single graph.

@GrimmeAbe @grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX But you're comparing fundamentally different things. Dispatchable power and sun based power should never be compared side by side. The grid is not about energy, it's energy _when we want it_. That caveat is the most important when it comes to functionality and in extension cost.

@grantbuttenshaw @ChrisMartzWX Yes it's a bit dated, but the trends seem still to continue. Do you have an updated chart? Why do you think it's terrible?

@N_Schmid @ChrisMartzWX Denmark is a terrible example.

@ChrisMartzWX Incorrect. Denmark has 0% nuclear, 0% hydro & 0% storage and -35% lower CO2-emissions than Belgium with 50% nuclear share and Denmark has low industrial power prices and a rock-solid grid and higher a higher GDP than Belgium.

@GladeRiven @Devon_Eriksen_ That is not how this works. Of the 3-5% U235 in the fuel, about 60-80% of that is used. To get back U238 doesn't give you anything since we don't have commercial reactors that run on U238. That 4% that you remove is significantly more radioactive, since it's the fission products.

@Devon_Eriksen_ When spicy rock run mild we can refine them with a 96% recovery rate so they are spicy again. And that left over 4% is significantly less radioactive, making spicy rocks a very efficient fuel source.

This dot is not tiny. This dot is 6,000 square miles, which falls short of the usual figure of 10,000 square miles of solar panels to power the US. 10,000 square miles is two Greater Los Angeles areas, all the way from Thousand Oaks to San Clemente, from Moreno Valley to the ocean. A very large number does not magically become a small number when you pull an even bigger number out of your ass to compare it to. Now you wanna cover that area in solar panels, and keep them all maintained, cleaned, and facing the sun? Then you wanna make enough batteries to charge up and meet the ENTIRE POWER DEMANDS OF THE UNITED STATES over the course of a winter night? Is this impossible? No. Very few things are impossible. But what would it cost, and is it the lowest cost option? Well, allow me to introduce you to the concept of a Radiothermal Steam Generator. Let's suppose, purely for the purpose of argument, that there are some magic rocks that get hot all by themselves. In fact, if you refine them and put a whole bunch of them together, they get really hot. If these magic rocks existed, then it would be relatively simple to gather a bunch of them together, boil some water, and make electricity with a great big steam engine running off the boiling water. Best of all, you could run them all night, so you wouldn't need 25 trillion dollars worth of batteries. Plus more to support growing power demands. And you wouldn't have to clean and maintain 438 Manhattan Islands' worth of solar panels. (See? I can make a big number look even bigger by comparing it to a small number! See how this trick is played?) Sure, you would have to throw away the rocks after they wore out and didn't get hot anymore. But they wouldn't occupy any more volume than they did when you were using them. So you could store them right there in big concrete block, no problem. But there are two problems with Radiothermal Steam Generation. First of all, boomers are scared of magic rocks, so they pass a whole bunch of laws to make them feel safe, to the point where any use of magic rocks costs two extra dollars in regulatory compliance for every one dollar in actual cost. Secondly, magic rocks are clearly made up and don't exist. Otherwise we would have known about them since the early 20th century, and cheap, zero-carbon energy would be a totally solved problem. Since this hasn't happened, magic rocks must not exist, because if they did, what civilization would be so stupid as to not use them?

@Swedishwatermel @AlmSusanna @JRudnert @Spesam Ok, visa den aid som fanns. Iom att det var så många ombord och att så mycket filmades måste det finnas någon som visat denna aid som fanns ombord på båtarna. Som ju var hela poängen med att åka dit. Svårt att bevisa ett negativ, så kör på du, var är denna aid?

@Oscillaneous @AlmSusanna @JRudnert @Spesam Säger IDF som även påstod att det fanns 40 halshuggna bebisar och sönderskurna bröst till höger och vänster efter 7;e okt. Jag förbehåller mig rätten att inte för en sekund tro på betalda propagandister.

Den senaste tidens minutuppdatering av allt Greta Thunberg gör eller säger är något av det mest bisarra jag upplevt när det gäller nyhetsvärdering. SVT, SR, Aftonbladet, Expressen. Statsfinansierade medier och privata, alla gör likadant. Det är som om detta är det enda viktiga som händer i världen. Och allt som sägs är sant. Vägglöss och tortyr. Jag vill be samtliga nyhetschefer på de stora redaktionerna i Stockholm att sticka huvudet under kranen och kyla av det med kallvatten.

@Swedishwatermel @AlmSusanna @JRudnert @Spesam x.com/MosabHasanYOSE… Det fanns ingen aid på båtarna. De slängde några plastflaskor med lite pengar över bord i hopp om att det skulle flyta i land. Sån jävla cirkus.

@AlmSusanna @JRudnert @Spesam Bevisa ditt påstående om nödhjälp.

@Rikardaspen @Spesam Kanske ok ändå att förvänta sig att någon ställer motfrågor. Tortyrfängelse? Vilken typ av tortyr, det skulle ju vara vatten på deras kvarn om det kan bevisas. Så jävla magstarkt att använda just "kidnappad" och "tortyr" på minnesdagen av 7/10 när det tydligt inte är fallet.

@Spesam Greta är ändå en av de mest kända svenskarna i modern tid. Tror Zlatan hade fått samma uppmärksamhet i media om han hade gjort samma grej. Det är också en av de mest rapporterade/diskuterade konflikterna just nu, så känns ju ganska självklart att media gör den nyhetsvärderingen.

@kareem70664630 @MosabHasanYOSEF Ah yes, disbelief = evil. You surely are lost my friend.

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I’m tired of the lies we tell ourselves. Our leaders cry every day about “the occupation” as if history began in 1948, as if Israel is some unique monster in human history. But let me remind you of something that no one dares to speak out loud: we Arabs are the children of the biggest and longest occupation the Middle East and Africa have ever seen. In the 7th and 8th centuries, Arab tribes burst out of the Arabian Peninsula. Within just a few decades, they crushed the Byzantine Empire in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. They destroyed the Persian Empire. They swept across North Africa, reaching all the way to Morocco, Spain, and even southern France. At its height, the Arab Caliphate ruled 13 million square kilometers - larger than Rome ever dreamed of. Millions of Persians, Berbers, Copts, Arameans, Jews, Greeks, and others suddenly found themselves under Arab rule. Their languages and faiths were pushed aside. Coptic faded in Egypt. Aramaic nearly died out. Even Persian was nearly erased until poets like Ferdowsi fought to keep it alive. Arabic became the dominant tongue, Islam the dominant faith. That was not liberation - it was occupation on a scale that reshaped entire continents. The Mongols came and went in about a century. The Romans ruled for centuries, but Latin disappeared from the Middle East. The British Empire held sway for 200 years, then collapsed. The Arab-Muslim conquests? It changed the identity of entire nations forever. Think about it: Egypt was Christian and Coptic-speaking for 600 years before the Arabs came. Today it is Arab and Muslim. North Africa was Berber and Roman. Today it is Arab and Muslim. The Levant spoke Greek and Aramaic. Today it speaks Arabic. Even Spain lived under Arab rule for 700 years. That is not just an “occupation” - that is a civilizational overhaul. And yet, in 2025, our leaders - who are themselves the product of this massive Arab occupation, weep about Israel, a sliver of land the size of New Jersey, calling it “the worst occupation.” Really? Compared to what the Arabs did to North Africa, Persia, and the Levant? Compared to the centuries-long Arab rule that erased identities, forced conversions, and remade entire regions? If we, Palestinians, want honesty, we must stop pretending that Israel invented occupation. The truth is bitter: we live in the shadow of the largest and longest Arab occupation in history. Blaming only Israel while worshiping our corrupt leaders who exploit this narrative is not justice, it’s cowardice. History matters. And if we don’t face it, we will remain slaves not to Israel, but to our own hypocrisy.

@JossSheldon @PrimroseViews That region has swapped owners and rulers more times than can be counted, nothing new started in 1881 that didn't originate in an older conflict spanning millennia. Hamas must be defeated, line Isis, like the Talibans and any other terrorist organisation.

@PrimroseViews There is no war in Gaza. There's a GENOCIDE. Hamas staged a single attack, in an ongoing conflict. And that conflict was started by the Zionists when they started their settler-colonial project in 1881 - more than 100 years before Hamas was even created.

I'm Jewish So I'm apalled by the senseless murders of two Jews in Manchester But I'm equally apalled, each time I hear that two people have been senselessly murdered in Gaza, Ukraine, or anywhere else Why should I feel any different? We're all members of the same human family

@PeterFolkesson8 @nikize0 @JensOdlander Som att hylla terroristorganisationer på öppen gata? 🤦‍♂️

@nikize0 @JensOdlander Jag vet inte hur du tänker men min åsikt är att gör man nått kriminellt skall man lagföras det är självklart

Vilket monumentalt misstag att ge dessa människor en fristad i vårt land.

@utforska96 @SwedishPM Det är så pinsamt hur högljutt oinsatta folk är i den här frågan 🫠

@SwedishPM Frågan kvarstår, hur skall man lösa detta tro

President Trumps engagemang för att få ett slut på kriget och det ofattbara lidandet i Gaza är välkommet. Alla parter måste nu bidra för att nå detta mål. Palestinier och israeler förtjänar att leva i säkerhet, sida vid sida, i en förhandlad tvåstatslösning.

@DragonscaleA @marilu_bonezzi @RichardJomshof En artikel där en imam i Sverige beskriver hur du ska utöva våld mot kvinnor och du lyckas få det att handla om maga och transpersoner i USA. Gå ut ur din bubbla, det är helt otroligt vad fast du är.

Hur kan någon vara förvånad? Detta är islam, varken mer eller mindre. Islam har ingenting att tillföra vårt land, ingenting överhuvudtaget. Och har man den sortens åsikter ska man lämna Sverige, med omedelbar verkan. expressen.se/nyheter/sverig…