Marc de Faoite

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Fox News is Fake News.
I went to their website and couldn't find any information about foxes or what they might be up to at the moment.

The EU’s Plan for a European “Supergrid” Explained YouTube video by TLDR News EU

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql86...

Bags packed. Off to a wet island on the outer western rim of the European continent tomorrow.

Which goes to show that people instinctively understand that the Agent Orange, Bored of Peace, unprovoked attack on a foreign power has nothing to do with peace or democracy and everything to do with oil.
If we move away from fossil fuels we mitigate climate collapse but we also move away from war.

Multiple accounts of empty pumps at local petrol stations as people panic-buy reserves here in France. I expect to see a run on flour and sugar next.

The Primary Energy Fallacy finally laid to rest! YouTube video by Just Have a Think

I often (apparently wrongly) assume that most people understand why renewably produced electricity is superior to burning things to run our lives. Dave Borlace addresses this and more in his latest video.

#JustHaveAThink
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qokw...

The Primary Energy Fallacy finally laid to rest! YouTube video by Just Have a Think

Agreed. There is no simple binary all or nothing solution, but the more we electrify, the more efficient energy use becomes, leaving fossil fuels to do the lifting that we haven't fully solved yet.
Dave Borlace made a new video that addresses this better than I can.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qokw...

India is taking a shortcut YouTube video by Simon Clark

Good news from @simonoxfphys.com (but not good enough)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPqR...

good to know, thanks

Haha. I might get caught in tomorrow, or the next day, an unending sequence of February 30ths

Five! Oh no! I should have looked before I leaped/leapt. I just downloaded vol iii

The conceit is intriguing. She's stuck in a situation, but how she copes is the story. Also, knowing there is a vol iii gives a major hint that the resolution (if there even is a resolution) won't be coming in vol ii. It ends on a sort of low-stakes cliff-hanger, so I will probably read vol iii

I liked it enough to finish it. It read a bit like an interrail trip, but a very unexciting one. Then a whole addendum on the Roman Empire in the end. In some ways its a very European book, but then the temperatures are in Fahrenheit, which annoyed me (or maybe that's just the translation I read).

Just finished On the Calculation of Volume II by Solvej Balle. She's Danish, but apparently so is Dublin, so by extension ...
Also very slowly reading The City Changes Its Face
by Eimear McBride

Easy FF FG.

Edwin Starr - War (Original Video - 1969) YouTube video by Stream Crops

So how's that Board of Peace working out?
Inside sources reveal that it was actually an AI autocorrect misspelling and what he actually meant was Bored of Peace.

Time to roll out this timeless anthem (again)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2...

Wrong. The US is murdering children so your paedophile rapist conman president can stay in power.

Une cible peut en cacher une autre. La vraie cible c'est le pétrole, et la richesse et le pouvoir que ça apporte.

Planning for gas reserve expected to be sought this year Gas Networks Ireland has said that it expects to be in a position to seek planning permission later this year for the country's first Strategic Gas Emergency Reserve in the Shannon Estuary.

Heat pumps, EVs E-bicycles, induction cooktops, fuelled by wind-power electricity generation ... none of these are inaccessible to Ireland. They are mature technologies. Their widespread adoption and use would obviate the need for even more fossil fuel infrastructure.
www.rte.ie/news/munster...

Contentators?

Ai PEN TEST on the whole gang #grok #chatgpt #gemini #ai YouTube video by FatherPhi

This is what 40 squillion moneys buys you.
Posting this here more as a bookmark so I can share it with AI evangelists when necessary. Maybe in 20 years time we'll look back and laugh at how people allowed themselves to be convinced that AI was I.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=thKj...

We are the ones who trained AI. Our data was fed to it. Our public dollars also funded the R&D. Universal basic income NOW, not only to create a floor that the displaced can't fall below, but also to universally share what we all made possible. UBI is a dividend. It's just. It's rightful. It's ours.

TL;DR The public still support net-zero policies, but the British government, egged on by the in-bed-with-Big-Oil right-wing press, used protests to justify repression against Just Stop Oil, and climate activists in general.
#JustStopOil #KeepItInTheGround

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Glad to see a Green victory anywhere, but hopefully it also shows former left-wing parties that embracing right-wing ideologies alienates your voter base.

I'm going to go on a three day binge and break my self-imposed prohibitions and drink alcohol, eat meat, and smoke cigarettes all day long on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of February. Who's joining me?

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Pro-tip
Even with shipping it works out cheaper buying in bulk online.
www.barrysteashop.ie/collections/...

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I have started buying the 500-bag boxes online. Even with shipping to France it works out cheaper than buying the standard packaging in Ireland. #EmmigrantSolutionsToEmmigrantProblems
www.barrysteashop.ie/collections/...

The most sensible urban waste disposal method YouTube video by marc de faoite

Seating. Shaded in summer. Rubbish bins, perhaps buried one like this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NOU...

I bet Beff Jezos never gets letters like this.