(((Jens Shamus Andersen))) 🇨🇦

Seeking oldest Dylan/Shakespeare tweet o'mine, finding near-zero from 2012. Lucked onto tweet below almost by accident, using it to locate "breakthrough" dream at ~Aug 12. But not celebrating 10th anniversary of this *wow* #revelation nor ensuing mission-creep. 🙄 #lyrics #huh

Good Lord! (or should that be a neutral "Good nobleperson!"?) 🙄😆 Nope the DELUGE of abstractions, the double-talk, torqued language, blurry generalizations, murky insinuations (all below)... so GLAD me ain't no urban flippin sophisticate, eagerly joining the eggspurtfray over our developing (by professional developers!) "manosphere"... #manosphere "toxic meanings"(???) Reminds me of Lenny Bruce talking "dirty toilet jokes" -- "If you take a toilet and boil it..." So. If you get bitten by a "toxic meaning" while engaging in lofty discourse, where & how do you apply the anti-venom? 🧐 #HigherEducation #HigherYadda

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal wouldn't hear out the complaint of a semi-homeless woman who was refused female-only housing. But it would hear out the case of a violent male who ID'd as a woman in jail but wasn't treated like one. My column: nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-…

Up Get up Another day Stagger to the bathroom This Everyday ritual Like a Monty Python skit Like What famous person Is this Getting up in the morning? **sound effects** Yes, it's ---- Whatever Whoever and... What the hell was I thinking? Random thoughts Recycled memories mostly As the old brain ramps up Dissecting a dogfish shark Long ago The order of the cranial nerves "On old Olympus topmost top..." Optic... occipital... and...(?) Damnation Where's the phone? Furnace coming on Still cold out there Damn earwax "No more brains than earwax" That's Shakespeare Thersites sneering His scabrous railing It matters I guess The general The war The matter And... Where was I? Man, I need some breakfast Cats fed too Routine stuff Don't forget the multivitamin Fuel up Get this old carcass going Moving Maybe even Remembering Better times Better things Something #amatory From long ago Full floods of feeling Maybe So distant That could still spark Something Words Not just The same old words, but Pushing into the nouveau More true Permutating into something Seemingly new Under the sun Nobody waiting Nowhere now And us oldsters Knowing nothing To calibrate Souls anew. #vss365

Our province bought a hotel in downtown Vancouver for $55 million, filled it with drug addicts, who completely destroyed it. The government is now moving them out of the destroyed building and refuses to let media see the damage. In totally unrelated news, the BC government is canceling the construction of new healthcare facility due to lack of funds.

@GlobalBC Is @GlobalBC looking for a participation medal with this story? SRO’s are a massive scam and people have been yelling that for years - just now you all decide to cover it? Look at the Vancouver you helped develop by not reporting real news. A complete and utter failure if MSM.

@1955_mdg @Jordan_W_Taylor Probably a FEW deuteriums if it's a trickle of water, eh? Just crowbar that H away from the O -- *presto* fusionable material! In theory 1000+ horsepower in your tinkle. But still a few technical hurdles to leap, to get that power actually motivating a turbine or anything... 🧐

@Jordan_W_Taylor Sure, I have a deuterium atom in my hand used to power the sun. Roughly one in 6,420 hydrogen atoms in our air, or about 0.015%.

Can you hold a more powerful thing in one hand? A high-pressure turbine blade in a jet engine can generate almost 1,000 horsepower, spinning at 20,000g in an environment 200 degrees higher than its melting point. But the most special thing about it is how it's made...

Diver touching 'Two Continents', between North America and Europe, Silfra, Iceland 🇮🇸 The Silfra crack in Iceland is a rift between the American and Eurasian tectonic plates. In some parts of this freshwater rift, a diver can touch both continents at once. Silfra a fissure between North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in Thingvellir National Park. Rift was formed in 1789 AD by earthquakes accompanying divergent movement of two tectonic plates. Diving and snorkeling site at Silfra is right where two continents meet and drift apart about 2cm per year. Silfra, only place in the world where you can dive or snorkel directly in a crack between two tectonic plates. Divers love Silfra because the water is so clear that you can see more than 100 yards ahead of you. It’s also very cold — about 36 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit. When the sun’s rays illuminate underwater objects such as rocks, rainbows form as if refracted through a crystal. And a slight current that flows from the source into the lake pushes all foreign matter out, leaving waters in the rift totally transparent. The water in Silfra is actually melted glacier water that wells up and slowly filters through a very thick layer of solidified lava, the result of a volcanic eruption thought to have happened about 12,000 years ago. The main fissure is about 330 yards long, and it extends out another hundred yards or so into a lake called Thingvallavatn. The entire Silfra areaarea, which includes connected fissures and a lagoon, totals about .4 square miles. Iceland is one of the few above-ground areas of the world’s longest mountain range. For most of its length, the Mid-Atlantic Ridge tops out about 2,700 yards below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, stretching more than 40,000 miles from the South Atlantic up to the north of Greenland. Continental drift, or the movement of tectonic plates at about an inch a year, is constantly tugging on the ridge. We usually don’t see the underwater effects, but it’s why Iceland is rich in volcanic activity, geysers, and earthquakes, which release the tension between the plates. In fact, our word “geyser” comes from the Icelandic word Geysir, the name of one of the country’s most famous geysers. The Great Geysir has been largely dormant since 1916, but Silfra is just one of many natural wonders that still draw people to Iceland. 📷 : Credit to the Owner #archaeohistories

The hypocrisy of climate alarmists is very educational.

A guy waiting for a Swiss train in 2020 stared at the empty strip between the rails and had an idea. Five years later, his startup laid 100 meters of solar panels there. The pilot cost $700,000. It powers four American homes a year. That same $700,000 spent on regular Swiss rooftops would have produced about 15 times more electricity. Rooftop solar in Europe runs $2 to $3 per watt to install. Sun-Ways’ track panels cost $39 per watt. 48 solar panels now sit between the rails near a Swiss village called Buttes. About 30 trains roll over them every day at up to 90 km per hour. The Swiss rail regulator turned the project down in 2023, then changed its mind in late 2024 after Sun-Ways founder Joseph Scuderi built prototypes and brought in independent engineers to sign off on safety. France’s national railway joined as a research partner last November and will study the results until April 2028. If Switzerland covered all 5,317 km of its train tracks with these panels, the country would generate 2% of its electricity that way. Enough for 300,000 homes. The startup is also pitching pilots in Spain, Romania, South Korea, and Indonesia. Dave Jones, an electrical engineer who runs the popular YouTube channel EEVblog, has made two videos arguing that both the math and the engineering don’t work. The panels lie flat between the rails. That costs them 10 to 20% of the energy they’d capture tilted toward the sun. Brake dust from passing trains coats the surface, vibrations from every train rattle the cells, and ice drops off undercarriages onto the panels in winter. Whenever crews need to do track maintenance, the panels have to be lifted off and put back. The International Union of Railways has raised separate concerns: tiny cracks forming inside the cells, fire risk in the dry grass beside the tracks, and glare reflecting into train drivers’ eyes. The original post says this is more sensible than putting solar on prime farmland. But Switzerland barely has any farmland solar. The actual Swiss debate is over solar farms in the high Alps. And the cheapest unused surface for solar in Switzerland is the same one as everywhere else: rooftops. Sun-Ways’ own long-term goal is to get the cost down to 8 cents per kWh with a 12-year payback. The pilot is nowhere near that today. It produces electricity at roughly $1.75 per kWh over its 25-year lifetime, more than five times what a Swiss household pays for grid power.

In Nigeria, they'd steal the panels before 12 midnight that very day of installation and we'll all have a good laugh about how careless it was to put them there in the first place.

Germany built one of the largest wind and solar fleets on Earth. It dismantled its nuclear power stations and retired its coal, with the promise that green energy would power its future. The country spent billions transitioning. Then winter arrived, and "Dunkelflaute" hit - the dark windless dead zone. Wind and solar fell to barely 5% of demand. The grid staggered. And Germany was forced to fire up old coal plants it said had closed forever, and import expensive nuclear from France. This is the physics politicians fail to mention, and a point many people still fail to grasp. When the wind dies and the sun sets, renewables disappear. And the only way the grid survives, the only reason countless millions don't freeze to death, is thanks to oil, coal, nuclear and gas.

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries: “It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones. “There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion. “If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice! “Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

Some still have blind beliefs in experts -- especially so called climate experts.

Thompson was born on April 30, 1770 in Westminster, England. After his mother was widowed, she placed him at the Grey Coat Hospital the day before his seventh birthday. In 1784, he began to work as a clerk with the Hudson's Bay Company. 🧵 2/12

theguardian.com/artanddesign/2… Excellent Guardian piece on learning from bad art

Every wind turbine and solar panel on earth today is expected to be decommissioned and replaced long before Net Zero in 2050. We aren't just building a new energy grid, we're initiating the world’s largest, most resource-intensive replacement cycle. The staggering cost of these recurring cycles is expected to add trillions to an already massive price tag. McKinsey Global estimates the transition requires $9.2 trillion per year, totaling $275 trillion by 2050. However, these figures are only the baseline - they don't account for the new price ceiling driven by the physical failure and required replacement of first-generation infrastructure. Most of today’s 225,000 wind turbines (over 1.2 TW capacity) will exceed their 20–30 year lifespans by 2050. This necessitates waves of decommissioning or 'repowering' on a scale never seen before. With wingspans rivaling an Airbus A380 or Boeing 747, these massive composite structures are fueling blade graveyards that present a disposal challenge unmatched in human history. Projections suggest 43 million tonnes of blade waste and 60–80 million tonnes of solar PV waste by 2050. A global rebuild of this scale must compete for finite resources. China currently refines 90% of the global rare earth supply, creating a precarious geopolitical dependency for the permanent magnet technology required for modern turbines. * Rare earths: Neodymium and praseodymium for magnets; dysprosium and terbium for heat resistance. * Essential metals: Massive quantities of copper for wiring, tungsten for components, and tin for soldering. * Physical scale: Larger direct-drive turbines require 0.5–2 tonnes of rare-earth magnets per MW, supported by vast quantities of steel and concrete. A 'second transition' is destined to become a third, and a fourth—replacing the entire global inventory every few decades. This demands a WWII-scale 'D-Day' mobilisation of capital and labor, occurring just as subsidies fade and private investment thins due to uneven returns. Furthermore, the 'diesel paradox' remains: heavy mining equipment is still powered by the very same fossil fuels the transition seeks to eliminate. The math suggests a looming collision between physical reality and political agendas. Image: The Casper Regional Landfill in Wyoming has become a global focal point for 'clean energy waste'.

@jonkay Checking their privilege. On their behalf, as they don't... 🧐 #TitsUp4Sanity

It’s a sexual perversion that the Japanese call Bakunyū (爆乳)—literally, “exploding milk/breasts” We had the same lunacy in Canada in 2022. Everyone was afraid to criticize it bcuz they didn’t want to say out loud that these genderwangers are just cross-dressers getting off

You had me at "gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal" and of course the turbine spinning "at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force..." Gaurab them bullet-speed droplets before they congeal! 😆

Or you can utilize BOTH words, for MAXIMUM leveraging & accelerating!! x.com/i/status/20322… Adds resilience & sustainability too! Oh yeah, we can word-salad this forever, going forward, in an evolving world... 🙄😆 PS: 'Twould sure be peachy if any of my Natural Intelligence posts transcended 100 views (checked back to ~April 2 -- only *4* personal posts have had more than 40 views. Topper: 57). *sigh* PPS: Okaaay, gimme a hot hashtag or two here... #AI #GiGO Or mayhaps A guy should Toss A wild poem Into The scintillating Surging Dissembling Centres of data Into Our modulated Soon to be moderated Semiconductors du jour A l'avenir Bébé 😎

👇 SEEMS "accelerating" is the new "leveraging"... hm hm... and the same #media #source supplies me with another item for my "Forgery" file 👇 #PR #language #linguistics #buzzfuzz PS: What happens if the housing exceeds the speed limit? Can a bylaw officer arrest it? Or is it the social agency putting its "foot on the gas" that gets a ticket? 🧐