Stupid World

[pritch]

In the US, in California in particular, squatters can be a problem. A serious problem, they just move in and change the locks. The Police won't respond to a call about squatters, so you have to start legal action which can take years, to get the squatters out. One lady had this problem so her son decided to help. Now he has started a business helping others in this situation.

It's really weird that he had to do this but here is how it works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySD3dzCP0MM

[Laava]

So America, has decided not to be Israel’s bitch anymore and Israel is not happy!

[pritch]

This is massive and tragic. The ship sent a mayday which enabled the authorities to close the bridge to traffic except for any vehicles already on the bridge and a maintenance crew.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68664664

Afterthoughts:

That mess is going to take some clearing. Baltimore is one of the biggest ports in the US. Every ship that's in there is stuck there, and no more ships can get in until the bridge wreckage is cleared. It being the US presumably they have big cranes on barges or whatever they'll need to clear it. It'll take some time to get the equipment there though. That bridge was part of the main road around Baltimore, very busy.

The bridge staff did well. They closed the bridge within 90 seconds of receiving the emergency call apparently.

The nut job conspiiracy theories are creative. One suggested the captain had been recently vaccinated and collapsed on the controls. Never mind the ship was under the control of the pilot at the time. It was a terrorist attack. It was illegal immigrants. It was caused by DEI (positive discrimination, hiring somebody female, black, or gay...) The most extraordinary one so far though, it was to distract us from the 'fact' that Katherine the Princess of Wales is currently being replaced by a body double.

[R650R]

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/mi...to-censor-you/

“The “Misinformation Industry” has been caught with its pants down — accidentally finding, then burying, the information that nearly everyone in their own industry “leans left”.

This is a field that generated headlines about how conservatives are more susceptible to believing misinformation, and conservatives consume more Facebook disinformation. It would be awkward then if the whole field turned out to be leftist academics, and they tried to hide that, which is exactly what just happened.

The leading “journal” on misinformation surveyed 150 of its own academic experts, then forgot to mention that one of the most striking and significant results from their own survey was that being a “Misinformation Expert” was a left wing phenomena.”

[pritch]

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/mi...to-censor-you/

“The “Misinformation Industry” has been caught with its pants down — accidentally finding, then burying, the information that nearly everyone in their own industry “leans left”.

That may well be true. After all, the misinformation mostly comes from the right.

[nerrrd]

The “Misinformation Industry” has been caught with its pants down — accidentally finding, then burying, the information that nearly everyone in their own industry “leans left”...

So why aren't 'right-leaning' people working in the industry? That's the real question.

Come on all you 'right-leaners', dust off your CVs already.

[pete376403]

https://joannenova.com.au/2024/03/mi...to-censor-you/

“The “Misinformation Industry” has been caught with its pants down — accidentally finding, then burying, the information that nearly everyone in their own industry “leans left”.

This is a field that generated headlines about how conservatives are more susceptible to believing misinformation, and conservatives consume more Facebook disinformation. It would be awkward then if the whole field turned out to be leftist academics, and they tried to hide that, which is exactly what just happened.

The leading “journal” on misinformation surveyed 150 of its own academic experts, then forgot to mention that one of the most striking and significant results from their own survey was that being a “Misinformation Expert” was a left wing phenomena.”

Joanne Nova aka JoNova (real name Joanne Codling), born circa 1967, is an Australian right wing communicator who mainly writes to promote anti-science views of climate in books and a denialist weblog, joannenova.com.au. She has no evident academic background in climate science; her degree (B.Sc.) is in molecular biology.[1] Nova is based in Perth, Western Australia. https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Joanne_Nova

Nova runs the Australian company Science Speak,[2] the main aim of which is to promote AGW denialism.

For four years, Nova worked for the Shell Questacon Science Circus, based in Canberra, Australia. The Science Circus is an outreach program run by Questacon, the Australian National Science and Technology Centre. The program is sponsored by Shell Oil, with additional support from Australian National University. She has also worked for Foxtel, a cable television company part owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
That figures...
Codling (Nova) lives in Perth and denies temperatures are rising. Yet "The Swan Valley has set a new record for its hottest day ever as a heatwave grips Perth." https://www.watoday.com.au/national/...01-p5f1qb.html

[R650R]

Unlike many media outlets Jo references all her sources and it’s not so much denials as exposing the lies and contradictions of the climate cult.
Often the climate cult talks about a consensus of scientists agreeing, hundreds have signed a letter etc….
If something is a scientificly proven it only needs two scientists to agree. The one producing the results and the one doing peer review who is able to repeat the same observations after experiment.
So if you want to talk about money, talk about scientists receiving climate research money paid by govts that benefit from the predetermined results.

Your right it is terrible that someone producing a form of news should be paid by one side of the debate. I’m mean the next most terrible thing would be for a govt to have a $50million slush fund paid only to journalists willing to report something based on certain criteria…

[R650R]

The Coming Electricity Crisis
The Editorial Board, The Wall Street Journal

Artificial-intelligence data centers and climate rules are pushing the power grid to what could become a breaking point.

AEP Ohio says new data centers and Intel’s $20 billion planned chip plant will increase strain on the grid. Chip factories and data centers can consume 100 times more power than a typical industrial business. … A new Micron chip factory in upstate New York is expected to require as much power by the 2040s as the states of New Hampshire and Vermont combined.

Electricity demand to power data centers is projected to increase by 13% to 15% compounded annually through 2030.

The shortage of power is already slowing the building of new data centres by up to six years. It’s so bad, Amazon just bought a 1,200 acre data warehouse right next to a nuclear plant so it can live off nuclear energy. The data center may use up to 960 MW of power, which would be nearly 40% of all the power provided by the nuclear plant.

It’s almost like the CCP is in charge of our electricity grids?
The green subsidies make the unreliable generators happy, but more unreliables in turn destroys the market for the reliable guys. There’s not much point running major capital infrastructure as a back up for a second rate generators. Not surprisingly, many of the essential generators are about to go off to grid-heaven forever and the new replacements are, as the bureaucrats say “not clearly identified” yet.

PJM Interconnection runs the wholesale power market on 13 US States. They latest report signals trouble coming according to the WSJ:

About 20 gigawatts of fossil-fuel power are scheduled to retire over the next two years—enough to power 15 million homes—including a large natural-gas plant in Massachusetts that serves as a crucial source of electricity in cold snaps. PJM’s external market monitor last week warned that up to 30% of the region’s installed capacity is at risk of retiring by 2030.

Meantime, the Inflation Reduction Act’s huge renewable subsidies make it harder for fossil-fuel and nuclear plants to compete in wholesale power markets. The cost of producing power from solar and wind is roughly the same as from natural gas. But IRA tax credits can offset up to 50% of the cost of renewable operators.

All the artificial intelligence arriving appears to be shining a light onto human stupidity.

Who could have guessed that if we subsidize unreliable generators we would get an unreliable grid?

[husaberg]

[R650R]

Some pretty cool engineering analysis of a problem that is probably the root cause of many wind turbine fails/fires

https://www.malloywind.com/articles/false-brinelling

The Washington Post, a big fan of the “Green transition”, puts in an admirable effort to make excuses for the bad luck of the wind industry — anything but admit that this failure may represent real mechanical limits to the collection of erratic, low density energy in the most hostile settings on Earth.

These machines are so fragile they cannot just sit under their own weight motionless, less they get permanent brinelling damage to the bearings. And tiny micro-oscillations can create False Brinelling.

…the Siemens Gamesa wind business moved too fast and has now discovered abnormal vibrations arising from blades and bearings which may have to be replaced.

While the affected models represent only 4% of its installed fleet, the direct costs of the fix are estimated at €1.6 billion. The company faces further unexpected expenses related to ramping up production of offshore turbines, as well as unfavorable tax effects. Bernstein Research analyst Nicholas Green has evocatively dubbed the moment Turbinegeddon.

Shares fell dramatically six weeks ago when the problems were first announced and after more information, and a long hard think — have not recovered at all.

[pritch]

A hospital administrator stole the identity of a co worker and ran up a couple of hundred thousand in loans. When the victim became aware off the problem he complained but was arrested and locked up in jail and in a mental health facility.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndia/pr...-spanned-three

[pritch]

Republicans in Congress have commenced a move to rename Dulles International Airport in DC to Trump International. Democrats have responded by a move to rename a prison in Texas after Trump. The latter seems more appropriate.

[pritch]

Some dude running amok in Sydney stabbing people. It seems he brought a knife to a gunfight though.

[pritch]

Marjorie Taylor Greene had stated that if House Speaker Mike Johnson permitted a vote on aid to Ukraine she would move to remove him as Speaker. He did permit the vote, it passed, and so far nothing.

There are a number of congressmen retiring before the November election. Apparently some of the Republican retirees have announced their intention to leave immediately if Mad Marge carried out her threat. That would hand the majority in the House to the Democrats and Hakeem Jeffries would be Speaker.

Marge in an interview has said she did not enter Congress to damage the Republican majority. It seems she got the message. They've all gone home for a week now.
No doubt the plot will thicken.