Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve.
"Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.
Regulated monopoly utilities tend to behave better when they face a credible threat of some other model visibly outperforming them. The credible threat from public city-run utilities was the main reason the robber barons who ran electricity monopolies agreed to regulation in the first place.
In 2012, the world started to install more clean electricity capacity than they did fossil fueled dirty power plant capacity.
In 2025, only 75 GW of coal and 50 GW of methane capacity was added whereas 160 GW of wind and 510 GW of solar capacity was added to our electricity grids.
Turns out you don't need the heat to make coffee. Acoustic cavitation can brew it better, but I guess brew is the wrong term.
For companies making ready-to-drink coffee products at an industrial scale, using 75% less energy could be very significant savings. 🔌💡
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Sir Ian McKellen.
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Ian Fleming might have made the world’s first trillionaire this evil, but only Philip K. Dick could have made him such a pathetic drug-addled loser, desperate for attention and adulation but incapable of human relationships, and now terrified to go out in public.
It shouldn’t be controversial to say that the creation of a “trillionaire” represents a giant and complete failure of public policy and government.
