You’re welcome. I try to provide global coverage, but both the search tools and my personal network tend to be a bit US-focused.

Always been about states right to enforce slavery. Nothing else.

It’s not so much “obstructions” as that it requires both earned expertise and hard work to create stuff.

Destruction is always fast and easy. Creating takes real effort

From what I see on social media, they had largely not written this year’s report yet

It looks like a planned gradual turnup

I’m pointing to an old one because the causes are well known, there isn’t any current propaganda campaign to confuse people about it, and its a wide-area unanticipated failure.

That kind of facility tends to have its own backup power, often with a week or so of fuel stockpiled on-site.

Back when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, there was a period where the only building with power was a datacenter. The lights prompted soldiers to break in, and the system admin wound up having to pretend that they’d discovered evidence of somebody nefarious forcing the door, so they’d clear the building and leave.

I think that one is coming from the UK Daily Mail which is generally unreliable.

During one of these events, it’s really common for all kinds of misinformation and rumors to fly, and even to come from otherwise trustworthy people.

I’ll note that the US had some very large-scale blackouts in the 1960s which were caused by fairly ordinary technical problems.

Sorry, but we’re not likely to spend much time talking about that kind of ice in c/climate

In the US, the towers that provide mobile service are required to have a few hours worth of battery backup. The EU may require more, but I’d expect them to go down not too long after the main grid goes out.

Prosperity has never been his main aim. Tariffs serve to create attention for him, and leverage to collect bribes.

It’s not going to be just 25 when all is said and done. Multiple other countries are looking at ways to recruit American researchers or bring home their own nationals who have been working as professors in the US.

The US accepted top talent from both Italy and Germany during WWII.

Ordinary citizens are going to have a hard time jumping ship, but star researchers will be able to.

It’s a gift link. Folks with Javascript enabled just get the article without needing that.

Cars, power plants, and combustion for heating and cooking

I see that you already got a useful answer to this cross posted comment

It’s not even the bots; it’s that the feed ranking on 𝕏itter is tuned based on Musk’s whim, and he’s most likely modifying it so that people dot get seen if they’re not going along with his Nazism or cult.

It’s a neologism, rather like “inflammible” because “negative” is an awful word to use for marketing.