serious-stuff.bsky.social

@serious-stuff.bsky.social

British, Christian, Older Male. Love: Good politics, Green Energy, Physics, good debate, Ukraine, kindness, and silliness. :-) Hate: Lies & Injustice. I block people who love to throw insults. Open to DMs but I waste the time of romance scammers.

Good morning Bluesky ☀️ My grandad told me he saw the Titanic - from the outset he warned all the people that the ship would sink, but nobody listened to him. He knew he was right and didn't give up. He warned them again & again, until eventually they kicked him out of the cinema.

The Titanic sinking under a moonlit sky.
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People complain about the noise and light from data centres. The solution is simple: Demand, as part of their permitting process, that their sound and light emissions must fall below certain values on all land outside their facility. But politicians are compromised.

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There are various facts that are well established. There are also a lot of people who don't like those facts, whose belief system is based on those facts being untrue. Asserting those facts gets a bad reaction- name calling, shaming, and attempts to silence. This is never a good way to debate.

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We all should do what we can to fight global warming. I have an EV, 2kW of solar and am adding a 16kWh battery and another 1kW of solar. I have 200mm of insulation in the loft and 50mm of cavity wall insulation. Doing better than that is difficult for my site. :-( How about you?

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The worlds infrastructure, including electricity, gas, water, and sewage treatment, are often not hardened against cyber attack. It needs to become a board room priority, including paying friendly forces to probe systems... or some people won't have water.

Did Iran hack water systems in seven US states?

While US President Donald Trump has said Iran is not to blame, cyber experts tell the BBC it likely the attack was at the hands of the Iran.

bbc.co.uk

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There are many uncomfortable facts in life, but we do better to accept them than to claim they are untrue. Bears, for example, are vastly more dangerous to women than men are, it's just that women meet far more men than bears. A comparable thing would be: