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[erogenouszone]

Why is the world going to need fossil fuels for a very long time? Practically all energy consumption can be electrified at a cheaper cost than continued fossil fuel extraction, and there's a very obvious national security angle to electrification as well.

These petro states like Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Norway are gonna be fucked in a decade or so.

This is a question of political will and desire to go electric at this time. 86% of the world's energy comes from fossil fuels. Now that 14% or so is very impressive all things considered however we have to consider the following regions of the world.

* India & China still buy a shitload of Australian coal. India with a population of 2 billion or so also buys a hell of alot of Russian oil at this time. The political will at this time to go electric on a large scale just isn't there.
* China of course has a massive renewals program however it is underpinned by massive coal purchases and literally dozens of new coal fired power stations required to underpin their massive industrial base. China is on a geopolitcal journey of expanision and soft power projecton globally and nothing is going to stand in their way. As you say and as I said, for them, and others, it's a question of national security etc.
* Africa, going to tell the entire continent fuck you, your quality of life is going to go out the window because of Western obsession with climate change in all aspects of life? They don't have the will, the infrastructure, the desire, the money, the governments, the stability or anything remotely resembling the reality to get near any significant investment in renewables without literally hundreds of billions of dollars from the West. And then, as people bleat incessantly about colonisation, you'll be right back there with them owing their Western or Chinese patrons billions and billions of dollars and basically being vassal states. However, maybe that is what the desire to "help" Africa is all about. See how this works ? Empires come in many forms, usually from "help".

Saudi Arabia, UAE and Norway will not be fucked. They've been planning for the energy transition for a long time and have war chests of literally trillions of dollars which they can put in their own renewables, or lend money out to others for it, or as they've been doing diversifying their revenue streams.

For the moment however, Britain should start exploring the North West Shelf again.

 

[Football us life]

* erg...

Africa, going to tell the entire continent fuck you, your quality of life is going to go out the window because of Western obsession with climate change in all aspects of life?

Yep....There is a legitimate debate here. Africa has a huge energy-access problem, and affordable and reliable electricity is essential for manufacturing, healthcare, education, transport and jobs.....

If African countries want sustained economic growth, industrialisation and rising living standards, access to abundant, reliable and affordable electricity is fundamental.

Most African countries have contributed relatively little to historical greenhouse-gas emissions, yet they are being asked to adopt climate policies designed largely by wealthy Western countries that industrialised using fossil fuels.

It feels somewhat hypocritical.....

 

[JS96]

"We cannot rule out the possibility that further terror attacks might take place."

German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters the suspect in last night's Berlin Pride attack used a vehicle to drive into a crowd before using a knife - or "another blunt instrument" - to attack passers-by.

One person was killed and at least 29 injured.

The suspect has a Lebanese background, but was born in Germany.

Follow live https://trib.al/ZwCxaSX

 

[JS96]

This bloke went to Lebanon underground with his terror activites. Apparently German authorities brought him back. He was due to start a deradicalisation course the next day.

Just take them out the back and shoot them. These people have no respect for our way of life and very few can be rehabilitated.

What's the left wing media do? Headlines with 'what we know so far' or 'details are still unclear'. The ever increasing thing is people with a multi generational migrat background are fed up too. The newer batch have been interviewed on women's, homosexual rights and western values and they avoid eye contact while saying it's not what they feel is right.

 

[JS96]

Police shot the bastard dead as he charged them with a knife in a garden allotment area.

Media interviewing Germans who live in the neighbourhood he lived just south of Potsdamer Platz saying 'everyone of that I'll here is radicalised.' It's obvious to everyone but those with the power to do something about it.

 

[tsf]

I'm guessing he wasn't a member of 'Queers for Palestine'?

 

[Football us life]

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I'm guessing he wasn't a member of 'Queers for Palestine'?

Nup safe bet....The “Queers for Palestine” groups and contingents are overwhelmingly upper-middle whities, activists and students....

Abdul Ballout definitely not the rainbow flag waving type...

Although being trendy Berlin there's a good chance many of his targets were in “Queers for Palestine”..

 

[JS96]

The second Berlin suspect, an Iranian, who has since been released was served a deportation notice in 2024. He's still in here despite a rap sheet of violent assault, assaulting a bailiff, extortion using violence and theft as part of a gang.

Meanwhile the culprit killed by police was given 26 deradicialisation counselling sessions as the antidote to his ISIS membership. It has since come out he'd attended two before committing the act.

 

[NicCarBel]

The second Berlin suspect, an Iranian, who has since been released was served a deportation notice in 2024. He's still in here despite a rap sheet of violent assault, assaulting a bailiff, extortion using violence and theft as part of a gang.

Meanwhile the culprit killed by police was given 26 deradicialisation counselling sessions as the antidote to his ISIS membership. It has since come out he'd attended two before committing the act.

I'm sorry, what?

 

[Beretta]

"We cannot rule out the possibility that further terror attacks might take place."

German interior minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters the suspect in last night's Berlin Pride attack used a vehicle to drive into a crowd before using a knife - or "another blunt instrument" - to attack passers-by.

One person was killed and at least 29 injured.

The suspect has a Lebanese background, but was born in Germany.

Follow live https://trib.al/ZwCxaSX

The Statement: During a memorial gathering at the Brandenburg Gate, an LGBTQ+ activist and speaker remarked that she had wished the attacker's background was a "white Christian person" instead of an Islamist extremist, expressing worry over potential anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim backlash.

lol.

 

[erogenouszone]

The Statement: During a memorial gathering at the Brandenburg Gate, an LGBTQ+ activist and speaker remarked that she had wished the attacker's background was a "white Christian person" instead of an Islamist extremist, expressing worry over potential anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim backlash.

lol.

These people are fucked in the head.

 

[Football us life]

The second Berlin suspect, an Iranian, who has since been released was served a deportation notice in 2024. He's still in here despite a rap sheet of violent assault, assaulting a bailiff, extortion using violence and theft as part of a gang.

Well if the Germans dont want him I'm sure the British Government will take him and welcome him with open arms...

 

[erogenouszone]

The “Queers for Palestine” groups and contingents are overwhelmingly upper-middle whities, activists and students....

Malcom X once said that that white liberals used the black man in America for their own political ends, not because they actually cared about that. Seems as though not much as changed, at all.

Find a cause, any cause, the world is full of them & then immerse yourself in it to alleviate the inherent emptiness of your life. Pyschologically I personally find these people hilarious.

 

[Football us life]

Malcom X once said that that white liberals used the black man in America for their own political ends, not because they actually cared about that. Seems as though not much as changed, at all.

Find a cause, any cause, the world is full of them & then immerse yourself in it to alleviate the inherent emptiness of your life. Pyschologically I personally find these people hilarious.

Yep...The emptiness/identity-filling diagnosis is a very plausible psychological reading and quite common in critiques of activism as lifestyle.

Like the loud, ritualised support for Black Lives Matter from people whose actual social circles contain zero or near-zero Black people.

 

[Football us life]

This ad appeared at a few London bustops this last week near Meta's HQ....

 

[LFC]

seriously who thinks thats great marketing FFS !
Giving this utter POS for marketing is a win - I'd would have sacked the entire team on that job.
As wrong as the previous idiot activist.
Another needs locking up.

 

[Football us life]

seriously who thinks thats great marketing FFS !
Giving this utter POS for marketing is a win - I'd would have sacked the entire team on that job.
As wrong as the previous idiot activist.
Another needs locking up.

It was a "guerilla marketing" campaign targetting Meta and their AI glasses by the UK-based group Everyone Hates Elon.....

They framed it around privacy, consent, and surveillance concerns with the always-on camera/audio capabilities of these glasses.

One other ad calling the glasses “the biggest advance in pervert technology since the trenchcoat,” with phrasing like “Hey Meta, start filming.”

These ads were pure protest/subversion....

 

[JS96]

I'm sorry, what?

There was no evidence of involvement in this attack but his lingering and links to the perpetrator saw him arrested.

 

[LFC]

It was a "guerilla marketing" campaign targetting Meta and their AI glasses by the UK-based group Everyone Hates Elon.....

They framed it around privacy, consent, and surveillance concerns with the always-on camera/audio capabilities of these glasses.

One other ad calling the glasses “the biggest advance in pervert technology since the trenchcoat,” with phrasing like “Hey Meta, start filming.”

These ads were pure protest/subversion....

I'm sure there is smarter better ways to get your protest msg across.
Not impressed.

 

[Football us life]

I'm sure there is smarter better ways to get your protest msg across.
Not impressed.

I do kind of get their point but nothing says “serious privacy critique” like bus-stop ads that sound like they were written by a 14-year-old who just discovered the word “pervert.”

There are smarter ways to make said point.....