Carbon Unit

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Carbon Unit

Carbon Unit

@zenno

Arne Saknussemm Fanclub

Dystopia Katılım Nisan 2010
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Sir Peter Morris: Just fed up of all the nonsense.
I don't know who's in the seat today, but isn't it PMQ's? I feel there is an urgent need to rebrand the Parliamentary segment to something a little more descriptive. We are all fully aware that Starmer never gives a direct, definitive answer to a simple question. In simple terms he lies. So what could be the new name for 'Prime Ministers Question Time'?
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Pocket Rocket’s TV 📺 Quiz
Name this iconic play first shown television in 1977 directed by Mike Leigh & starred Alison Steadman, Tim Stern & Janine Duvitski.
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Emma
Emma@Avabelly__·
My son did this to my chair. What should I do?
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Liz Truss
Liz Truss@trussliz·
The Blair/Brown era was responsible for the Bank of England Act, Human Rights Act, Constitutional Reform Act, Equality Act, Climate Change Act and more. Power was taken from the elected and given to progressive bureaucrats and judges. That's why Britain is an ungovernable mess.
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Lunaria
Lunaria@Lunaria_40·
Ladies, be honest 👀💍 My daughter’s fiancé gave her this ring, and I told her it looked small and not very nice. I think she deserves better, but she refuses to ask him to replace it. Am I right or overstepping 🤔
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Peter Clack
Peter Clack@PeterDClack·
In a colossal looming bottleneck, up to two thirds of ageing wind turbines and solar panels will need replacing before the Net Zero deadline in 2050. There are currently 1.5 million operational turbines installed worldwide and 7 to 8 billion solar panels, scattered across myriad often remote landscapes. While described as 'farms', many cover extensive areas of productive rural farmland. Early generation turbines have an expected working life of 15 to 24 years, and solar panels 22 to 26. Because these have been installed progressively for decades, many are past their working lives already - a number expected to rise exponentially. The most troubling issue is how to deal with these assets as they drop out of the system. Who will pay? The effort is shifting from increasing capacity to merely trying not to fall behind. It is a treadmill reality. Renewables have not managed to come close to replacing fossil fuels, which currently provide 81% of the world's primary energy, while wind and solar alone offer only 6% (Energy Institute’s Statistical Review of World Energy). Modern wind turbine blades can reach lengths of over 100 metres, eclipsing the wingspans of wide-body aircraft like the Boeing 747 (Vestas or Siemens Gamesa). This scale turns the dream of recycling into a logistical nightmare. While global solar capacity has surpassed the 2.5 terawatt milestone - spurred by an installation rate that surged by 40% in 2025 alone - the geographic and material footprint is emerging as a major spatial crisis (International Energy Agency). Around 77% of this recent growth occurred in China, which now operates roughly 690,000 turbines. Big builds mean big future waste. As this capacity multiplies, so does the inevitable hangover. Between 2038 and 2053, almost all current installations will reach their expiration date. Many countries are already cracking down on blade graveyards, terrified of leaching toxins from decades-old solar panels or the indestructible properties of composite turbine blades. The full financial and environmental cost of this looming disposal crisis is currently impossible to calculate, precisely because the economics of recycling fail when recovery costs outstrip the value of the reclaimed material. This threatens to become a rolling, ongoing gridlock lasting for decades. At the same time, the demand on mining for vast quantities of raw materials, particularly metals like copper and rare earth components to build the next generation, is already outstripping capacity. The world is facing a permanent cycle of depletion and disposal that may never be truly resolved.
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Annu
Annu@Meenaji4461·
Only True Geniuses Can Crack This Solve in 10 Seconds!!
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Isa 🦋🇺🇸
Isa 🦋🇺🇸@isahere_x·
Only geniuses will get this right on the first try. No Calculator. No cheating.
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i/o@avidseries·
I just want to add this: The same thing has also happened in the reverse. That is, Grok will provide an incorrect response, Gemini will give me a correct one, and then Grok will back down once I ask it about the Gemini response. I find myself often getting all four major AIs involved. Eventually, you get the truth. Whatever the shortcomings of this approach, it's still quicker than doing your research using old-timey search tools.
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i/o@avidseries·
Belgian man convicted of hate speech describes the judicial rationale for his latest conviction. I asked Gemini: Is this man's account of his conviction accurate? Gemini replied that it was grossly inaccurate. So, I copied and pasted Gemini's response, and asked Grok to reply to it. Grok told me that Gemini was mixing up two different cases, and that the tweet was an accurate representation of the latest judicial proceeding against Van Langenhove. I went back to Gemini, and asked it to reply to what Grok had just told me, and it responded: "Grok is completely correct. I mixed up the cases, and I appreciate the correction." As I've tweeted in the past: This sort of thing happens all the time.
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Dries Van Langenhove@DVanLangenhove

A very sad announcement. I have just been convicted a second time for 'hate speech' and it is only due to a technicality that I could not immediately be sent to jail —to the judge's frustration. In an ironic turn of events it's actually thanks to my previous prison sentence (for memes in a private group chat) that I am now still free —in a physical sense, at least. Call me naive but I didn't think they would take it this far, given that this precedent criminalises many of the arguments used by even the most moderate politicians critical of mass migration. In February 2024 I gave a lecture at Catholic University Leuven wherein I linked mass migration to crime and a deterioration of our quality of life. Every single point I made was 100% the truth and based on scientific evidence. Cynically, even the judge that convicted me admits as much by writing in his verdict: “Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” That's a lot of words just to say he wants to send me to prison for speaking the truth. Even the regime media write: "It did not matter to the court that Van Langenhove was quoting scientific sources. The judge argued that Van Langenhove's main message was that a big part of the societal problems like insecurity, housing shortages and lowering educational standards are due to mass migration." You may think the regime media are being sympathetic to me in the first sentence, but in reality they are warning people: even if you speak the truth, if you go against our narrative, we will crush you in every way possible. Both the public prosecutor and the judge did not present a single real argument as to how or against whom I would have incited hatred. So even if I would accept their crazy, dystopic law, I still did not break it. The only argument they present is that I created a "hostile atmosphere of us versus them” in regards to migrants. But even this silly argument (which is not even a punishable offence) is not true. To me, the deadly disease is self-hatred and one of its worst symptoms is replacement migration. My enemy is thus NOT the migrants themselves but those orchestrating the mass migration. Sadly, in Belgium, evidence is not needed and ‘vibes’ are enough to put someone in jail. Given the fact that I have another court case coming up in September and that I have a dozen active criminal investigations for hate speech, time is running out for me. I have already paid more than €420,000 in legal fees and there is no ending in sight. I have been in an intense battle of attrition for eight years and must now regroup to make sure I can still win. If you want to help me, you can do so via the links below. If you can help in other ways, please contact me via DM. If you live in a country that still has free speech, never let them touch it, however noble they make the motives sound, because this is where it leads to.

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Nicholas Stix
Nicholas Stix@NicholasStix·
@zenno @MsPocketRocket Nothing; you don't remake a classic. You just watch it again. "Carbon Unit @zenno "Patrick McGoohan, Number Six in 'The Village', (The Prisoner, original series ITV) Still a cult classic. What would you replace mini mokes and 'Rover' (weather balloon' with in a modern remake?"
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J Stewart
J Stewart@triffic_stuff_·
☀️ Another few hot days in the UK and the climate hysteria machine is in full swing again. “Unprecedented!” “Record-breaking May heat!” Emergency alerts! Sound familiar? Every warm spell gets spun as proof of the apocalypse. Remember the Maldives? In 2004 the BBC warned the islands would be uninhabitable within a century as seas rose. Fast forward: record tourism, new airports, booming resorts, and satellite data shows no significant sea level rise. The islands are still there, thriving. This is the pattern: apocalyptic predictions that never materialise. They just move the goalposts, issue new deadlines, and crank up the fear. • No snow in the UK by 2000? • Britain turning Siberian? • Maldives underwater? Yet here we are in 2026, enjoying a sunny Bank Holiday. The predictions flop, the media shrugs, and the cycle repeats. Climate changes. Always has. But the endless doom hype? It’s mostly scare tactics for clicks, funding, and control. Next time the headlines scream crisis… just ignore the noise and enjoy the weather. 😎 Grab a beer, hit the beach, live your life. The sun’s out. Make the most of it!🍺🍻
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Sehrish 🧢
Sehrish 🧢@SqSehrish·
Don't let Bella outsmart you, What's the final result..?🤔
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Carbon Unit
Carbon Unit@zenno·
@TheBrancaShow I am genuinely interested, it's become a cultural joke. I took on several lo-fi jobs before I found my place in the world. The sad part is that employment laws mean that a great many kids will never have the ad-hoc opportunities for personal development that I was blessed with.
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Andrew Branca Show
Andrew Branca Show@TheBrancaShow·
@zenno I was speaking not to the McDonald's employee as an individual, per se, but rather to the simplicity of the task.
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Andrew Branca Show
Andrew Branca Show@TheBrancaShow·
Such a dishonest, or (more generously) stupid take. Of course high IQ people ARE CAPABLE of "effectively communicating" with low IQ people--that's not the point. The point is that high IQ people "effectively communicating" with low IQ people can nevertheless only get low IQ results from that communication. If all you need is to place your McDonald's order, great, job well done. You cannot, however, "effectively communicate" a low IQ person into solving a complex mathematical equation. Or understanding second- and third-order effects. Or envisioning how other people might perceive a particular offer or scenario. HIGH-LEVEL communication is not possible with LOW IQ people. THAT is the point. Which, of course, a high IQ person would have understood intuitively and without needing this explanation.
Ryan Christensen@belief_engineer

I... Can't really agree. Now, this may be N=1 autistic pedantic hair splitting, but I don't have much of an issue communicating down in IQ significantly. For context, I have an IQ around 143, and I grew up in Kansas. I was WAY out of the norm, and have always had to find a way to bridge the gap to where they are. So I did. The short version is that instead of going straight to the conclusion, meet them where they're at and walk them to your conclusion in a way they can easily follow. Make each step build on the one before it, and you can get them on the same page as you are. You don't have to lay out the whole system, the bigger picture - I still make that mistake, and I lose them every time. It can be frustrating not to be able to have conversations at that level - so we have to find a cadre that can. I find the hardest ones to talk to are the 120 IQ crowds. They're used to being the smartest ones in the room, and often put a LOT of faith in a detailed understanding of a particular framework or theory. But they rarely go deep enough to understand and question the underlying first principles and assumptions. They don't examine the boundaries of where it applies and doesn't, where diminishing returns start to creep in. And they get VERY defensive when you try to have that conversation. I'd rather spend my day to day around the 100s - 110s, and find my crew of 130s+. Helps me ground in the normal while still giving me the intellectual sparring partners I need to level up. But that's just me. Everyone has to find their own solutions.

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Pocket Rocket’s TV 📺 Quiz
"I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I am too much." So says criminal psychologist Eddie `Fitz' Fitzgerald. Name the British TV series.
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Carbon Unit
Carbon Unit@zenno·
@MsPocketRocket The same problem arises with The Avengers, Edgar Wallace Mysteries, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone ... built for Speed not Endurance
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Carbon Unit@zenno·
@MsPocketRocket My honest answer, having watched the box set on a 50" screen, as with everything originally intended for a CRT, production values, props, effects could be improved on. If they kept the vibe, I think a new audience would pay off.
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Math Guy TFL
Math Guy TFL@MathGuyTFL·
Solve for value of b.
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Bjorn Lomborg
Bjorn Lomborg@BjornLomborg·
An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists: Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story. Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century. That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory. A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser. newsweek.com/data-vs-drama-…
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lux😘
lux😘@lux788024071094·
Only a few can crack this visual puzzle and find the hidden number. Did YOU catch it on the first try? 💬👇
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