@TheBoltonBosher @AaronBastani Commies don't care about that kind of thing as we are learning.
Ditto toxic run off.
As long as it's cheap for affluent Brits, is fine
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Simon d'Arras
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@AaronBastani Great. For the Chinese sweat shops 1000's of miles away that made them.
Certainly NOT cheap
And NOT reliable in the (mainly cloudy) UK
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Solar panels being installed in the car park of our local hospital.
Fantastic! This isn’t ‘woke’. It’s a cheap, reliable source of energy - and is *part* of ensuring British energy security.
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@AaronBastani Cheap and reliable! Honestly you can do better
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@matlees @John_Stepek They love policies if they are inspired by Communism
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@John_Stepek Lewis neatly summing up the problem with political journalism in the UK. Obsessed with ‘communication’ and ‘optics’ and totally uninterested in policy and its consequences.
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Oh look, Mamdani just put up council tax for 2nd home owners
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall
Best communicator on the left anywhere in the world right now. And it’s just how he’s saying it- he actually has something to say.
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Best communicator on the left anywhere in the world right now. And it’s just how he’s saying it- he actually has something to say.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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@rorysutherland Why should we be excited? It's a massive grift promoted by some of the most venal ideologues, chancers and cretins in our society.
It costs us billions and worsens our quality of life. About as exciting as watching a cat die.
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One problem, independent of any ethical arguments. This has damaged public support for new forms of energy generation. It has made people collectively grumpy about something they should be individually excited by.
Andrew Montford@aDissentient
This can't go on. It just can't.
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@Rory_Johnston Cos it would have been harder to blockade if Iran still had all defensive capabilities and there wasn't a ceasefire in place.
Not that difficult is it?
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Lotta people seem to think the US blockade is a strategic masterstroke sure to end the war.
Which begs the question: why wait 6 weeks to impose one?
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@FraserNelson Did they make him watch Adolescence or failed in that duty too?
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The Southport inquiry found Axel Rudakubana's parents knew about the bows and arrows, the machete, the ricin - and watched him leave the house anyway.
Alice Thomson on how a slow abdication of parental responsibility is happening everywhere...
thetimes.com/comment/column…
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@greenwithcarlos @colinwalker79 Except we don't have the geography to build anywhere near enough of it to "bridge the gap" and batteries will not get close either.
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Tunnels connect two bodies of water, one higher than the other. You use power in times of excess to pump water to the higher lake, and you let it back down to the lower one to generate electricity in times of high demand
Radical I know, can't see it being done
David Turver@7Kiwi
But it would create surplus electricity with no value on sunny summer days that will destabilise the grid and nothing at all on cold winter evenings when demand is highest.
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@philhuwedwards @colinwalker79 How much interconnector capacity would we need to link the pumped hydro sites to where the power is needed?
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@colinwalker79 How much power, and for how long, would a system like this deliver?
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@colinwalker79 @rhydy Propaganda only swallowed by people who have no idea about reality
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@rhydy I know - was being mildly facetious
quite a few schemes in development in scotland
"No new pumped storage hydropower (PSH) capacity has been built in the UK for over 40 years, yet over 10 GW and 200 GWh of new projects are ready to go" e.g. Coire Glas
british-hydro.org/pumped-storage…
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@BallouxFrancois @disco___cat Again it depends by what you mean by "run algorithmically" but in general I'd say less than 50% is machine-driven trading decisions. Depends on the market though.
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@simon39514994 @disco___cat No, what I meant is that the vast majority of commodity trading is run algorithmically.
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@BallouxFrancois @disco___cat I suppose it depends a bit which market you are referring to, but I suspect you refer to execution volumes rather than actual volume of money managed.
That is to say if I decide to buy $100 of something, it will likely be executed by a machine but it's my decision.
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@simon39514994 @disco___cat I may be wrong. If shown to be, happy to delete / correct.
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@disco___cat ~90% of the 'market' is nowadays run by AI trading bots ...
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@StewartWood In Asia this generally results in them bringing you a pen and paper
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Anyone under the age of 25 must wonder why the international sign for "Can I pay, please?" to waiters in bars & restaurants across the world involves scribbling a signature in the air in front of your face.
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@LoftusSteve Will be too late. Many already gone. Bringing them back would require amnesties and the like. Completely idiotic
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The only reason there isn't more of a furore about this disastrous tax is that everyone knows Labour are going to get annihilated in 3 years and the new Government will scrap it.
Stuey Beef 🇬🇧🏴@stuey_beef
Rachel Reeves has managed the impossible: she’s finally found a tax so vindictive it can make the heir to JCB – a symbol of British manufacturing since 1945 – talk openly about taking his family firm and leaving Britain altogether. When your “growth strategy” is so hostile that one of the country’s biggest employers says it would be easier to become an American business than stay under your inheritance‑tax raid, you’re not governing – you’re liquidating the productive middle of the economy to feed an insatiable Treasury. Labour promised to make Britain a safe home for investment; instead Reeves is sending a very simple message to every family business and manufacturer: build it here, and when you try to pass it on, the Chancellor will turn up like an executor with a crowbar.
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Can anyone recommend a wine that compliments a Greggs Steak Bake?
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@Alex_snooker147 Adverts destroy they viewing experience.
Also coverage of last hole was abysmal today.
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