skells @skells@qoto.org

@thendrix sounds like something pelevin would write

@mc Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

@11112011 could you not

@0 there's this one really class mix which has a sound the exact same tone my washer makes when it's done

@11112011 nothing says green agenda like a world government summit in the fucking UAE lol

what this tune needs is the sound of a phone vibrating in the distance

@amerika I'm optimistic on democracy in the long run...
but I can dig it

functional democracies are a shambles by definition

@jwildeboer @FailForward thanks for the context

so arguably the focus on pure electricity generation isn't giving the full picture, even if you deprecate the importance of heating

@jwildeboer @FailForward tbf I'm surprised that the renewables in Germany is so high and that the nat gas is a relatively small chunk - the devil's in the detail though, and that small chunk has an outsized effect on the strategic choices Germany has, at least for a couple years.

I have no idea why nuclear was dropped, can't imagine a worse time to do so.

@11112011 @FailForward @jwildeboer 50.01% baby call me when you get home

@11112011 @FailForward @jwildeboer loool classic work

@11112011 @FailForward @jwildeboer I don't have a problem with subsidies per se (assuming that they're well executed...) just that their use needs to be strategically thought out, particularly given the Russian question.

@jwildeboer @FailForward this isn't the whole picture unless you know what the variance on renewables are, although the fact that there's not rolling blackouts in Germany shows they've got it under control.

@jwildeboer @FailForward sure, I don't have a problem with renewables as long as they're properly planned.

Hundreds of billions are currently flowing to Russia because, among other things, Germany is reliant on their gas to keep the wheels turning.

@11112011 @FailForward @jwildeboer can say the same, perhaps more, of nuclear, hydro etc.