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marcusjenkins

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Spain. Posts don't represent any employer ๐Ÿ™„.

Keyboard warrior against certain social injustices. I have neither time, nor energy, nor inclination to fight them all, sorry.

A long time ago I enjoyed breathing the atmosphere at around 320 ppm CO2.

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alexproe, to spain Italian
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While touring #Andalusia in #Spain, I spotted a gleaming tower. Intrigued, I looked it up and found out it was the #Gemasolar Thermosolar Plant which can supply power to 27,500 homes and uses molten salt heat storage technology to keep generating power when there's no sun. More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemasolar_Thermosolar_Plant - Perhaps #Italy could do with a few similar plants. #energy

marcusjenkins,
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@alexproe It would be interesting to see how IT & ES compare for installed solar power from residential / rooftop. Spain's right wing government had a cosy arrangement with their future employers in the electricity business that, effectively, made it illegal to install solar at home (illegal or you had to set up to install a meter to pay a tax making it pointless). They repealed the law in 2018, but people are still a bit nervous that a future right wing govt might restore it.

#impuestoalsol

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@alexproe There is this which isn't giving the installed rooftop solar stats per se, I think, but certainly makes a nice comparison on how good each country is with respect to its encouragement & support for people to install solar panels on their rooftops.

Italy wins over Spain!

https://caneurope.org/rooftop-solar-pv-comparison-report/

arstechnica, to random
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Biden set to levy 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs this week

Both the US and EU are deeply concerned about heavily subsidized Chinese OEMs.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/biden-set-to-levy-100-tariffs-on-chinese-evs-this-week/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

marcusjenkins, (edited )
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@arstechnica I don't know about US, but in EU we're more worried about apocalyptic climate change that is accelerated by people continuing to burn stuff (including, but not limited to, in internal combustion engine cars) than a few car manufacturers having a hard time because they doggedly stuck to designing and making more shitty petrol, diesel & hybrid cars.

  • Yes, all cars are bad.

marcusjenkins, to climate
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Comportamiento tรญpico de gente que lleven y . Esos llegaron al parking al mismo momento que yo, con mucho espacio disponible, eligieron los dos espacios azules reservados para minusvรกlidos. Por supuesto ni tienen tarjeta azul ni descapacidad. La gente joven y รกgil entraron al sรบper como no pasaba absolutamente nada.

1475JJX y 8737MRB

arstechnica, to random
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Teslaโ€™s self-driving claims subject to federal securities and wire fraud probe

Prosecutors are combing subpoenaed materials for evidence Tesla knowingly misled.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/05/teslas-self-driving-claims-subject-to-federal-securities-and-wire-fraud-probe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

marcusjenkins,
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@arstechnica Looking forward to Elon going the same way as that other billion dollar grifter.

#theranos

marcusjenkins, to random
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I really, really don't like LinkedIn these days. Just ๐Ÿคฎ. The crossover of business and personal lives just isn't working for me. Who thinks, "I'm going to propose marriage this weekend, and (bonus!) I can squeeze out a stinking LinkedIn grift from it, too!"

#LinkedIn

marcusjenkins,
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@jadugar63 I used to be there for the recruiters and as a big address book. Now I'm at a stage that the only people who contact me through LinkedIn are "pension consultants".

Edwin085, to random Dutch
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De pinguรฏns met hun lemmingen imitatie.

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marcusjenkins,
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@Edwin085

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marcusjenkins, to renewableenergy
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I'm sure I'm not the only person in the world who has solar panels on their roofs who has wasted quite some time in the mornings watching the magic of the power coming on.

This smugness is matched by looking back at a bell curve graph of production for the day where you've used up almost everything that the panels have produced and yet drawn almost nothing from the grid.

arstechnica, to random
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Palm OS and the devices that ran it: An Ars retrospective

Before smartphones, we had PDAs in our pockets. Palm did them best.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/palm-os-and-the-devices-that-ran-it-an-ars-retrospective/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

marcusjenkins,
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@arstechnica Meh, IMO Sony did them best. ๐Ÿ˜

arstechnica, to random
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Linux can finally run your carโ€™s safety systems and driver-assistance features

Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/linux-is-now-an-option-for-safety-minded-software-defined-vehicle-developers/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

marcusjenkins,
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@arstechnica As long as those computers continue to interact with me via switches, knobs and buttons, that's OK. What's not OK is swapping in a giant touch screen to replace all those controls for which we develop muscle memory and can soon use without distraction from, erm, driving.

#userinterface #tesla #distracteddriving

marcusjenkins, to climate
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What's not mentioned here is steel-reinforced concrete structures' lifespan - 100 years is an optimistic limit even for a quality construction. So all this shit will need to be torn down and rebuilt within 100 years. That's assuming that all these buildings in China are being made to top-notch standards which, from what I've seen on the Interwebs, is definitely not the case.

#climatechange #concrete

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240419-the-environmental-cost-of-chinas-addiction-to-cement

SheDrivesMobility, to random German
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    marcusjenkins,
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    @SheDrivesMobility Climate change really is hitting Spain hard. Olive production was almost halved last year. Now wine. And then there's tourism - environmentally conscious tourists will (quite rightly) eschew flying to Spain on a whim and filling private swimming pools is (quite rightly) being restricted this year.

    #climatechange #cava #wine #oliveoil #drought #spain

    FuckElon, to tesla
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    Growth Stock!!!!!!!

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-68818113

    marcusjenkins,
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    @FuckElon Whilst i get the greatest schadenfreude kick from 's failures, I'm sorry for the staff that will be out on their ears. Also, EV demand is slowing? What kind of crazy planet-killers are we? Because, for sure, there's no massive global fall in demand for combustion engine vehicles.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Tesla goes on trial for Apple engineerโ€™s fatal 2018 Autopilot crash

    Plaintiffs allege wrongful death, but Tesla says the driver was playing on his phone.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/04/tesla-goes-on-trial-for-apple-engineers-fatal-2018-autopilot-crash/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    marcusjenkins, (edited )
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    @arstechnica The whole selling point of the TWELVE THOUSAND dollar "FULL self-driving" option is that the car is fully self-driving.

    You should be able play on your phone while the Tesla is in FSD mode otherwise I would suggest that you are being conned out of $12,000.

    And surely wouldn't be talking bollocks now would he? I mean, we have & everywhere today, right?

    Geri, to random
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    Fergal Sharkey on #Channel4News says the water companies have taken ยฃ72 billion of our money and paid it to the shareholders

    He then goes on to say that by setting up more water quality monitoring systems, they are giving the impression that they are doing something about it

    With a measured tone, he says Ofwat has done nothing to enforce the law. Moreover, he highlights that the environment agency acted as an apologist for the water companies: "An unpaid lackey for the water industry" he says

    marcusjenkins,
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    @Geri Seventy two billion. Seventy two thousand million.

    Water, electricity and transport. Essential infrastructure that has no place in the hands of a business. Fossil fuel companies can just go and fuck themselves right now, labelling themselves as "energy" businesses is just misdirection - they are planet-fucking companies.

    dcjohnson, to random
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    Each person forced to "go private" is a revenue stream for the healthcare interests who give big money to the Tories.

    The destruction of the NHS is by design - it was done for the money.

    #NHS

    marcusjenkins,
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    @dcjohnson I'll just leave you with the #brexit promotor's view on the NHS destruction.

    #NigelFarage was massively supported by Arron Banks including Fartage's London home, his car and trips to the US to meet Donald Trump. Arron Banks on the #NHS: โ€œThe NHS is so Luddite because everyone believes itโ€™s free, well it isnโ€™t free, it comes at a massive cost, itโ€™s unreconstructed, itโ€™s almost communist in the way it does things,โ€ Coincidentally, Arron Banks sells insurance.

    British fascist, Nigel Farage, talks to his Party faithful about his belief that the NHS should be replaced with private health businesses.

    itsfoss, (edited ) to linux
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    What was it? ๐Ÿง

    marcusjenkins,
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    @itsfoss I was running Minix and Coherent then I heard about this new, free OS that ran on 386. I found somebody on campus that was writing the stack of floppies to install Linux. I ran the machine mostly for my email and soon found that I could run an SMB server on it and then I was hooked.

    marcusjenkins, to random
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    Dear Portugal ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น

    Some neighbourly advice - if you let the fascists in, they might hang around for 40 years, fucking up your country and shooting people they don't like. Ask us how we know.

    Love & hugs

    Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ

    PS Didn't you have some of those assholes running your country around the same time? It's amazing how we forget our mistakes!

    #fascists #fascism

    Portuguese election too close to call as far right surges
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68526833

    marcusjenkins, to random
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    Thereโ€™s a bit in the news here in Spain recently about the governmentโ€™s forthcoming legislation on . The backlash from the right wing is predictable - scaremongering that weโ€™ll be forced to become sweaty cyclists overnight. The new law makes all the right noises in the context of the city - eliminate private cars, more public transport, walking & cycling. It fails to cover the tricky problem of rural & mountainous communities - too difficult / costly / unprofitable.

    marcusjenkins,
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    I did find a European project from over 10 years ago, Move On Green. The output of this project is the typical geography studentโ€™s bread and butter - presentation of statistics, demographics, thematic maps and, frankly, hot air. The conclusion, to paraphrase, is the problem is that people in the countryside have private vehicles because itโ€™s too far / hilly to walk / cycle & itโ€™s unprofitable to provide public transport with wide & frequent service. Well done.

    marcusjenkins,
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    From my own experience of living in a rural, mountainous area - I have zero public transport to my village. The nearest bus stop is 5km away (with hills) for 4 buses per day weekdays, 2 on weekends, going just one route - 30km into the nearest city (over the mountain). EU has,basically, mandated privatisation of public transport & all-but-prohibits public subsidy. So, car (EV) to get around but will need park & ride for in-city destinations.

    inquiline, to random
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    Individual passengers now feeling compelled to check what aircraft their flights are scheduled on and refusing to board Boeing 737 Max planes sure does seem like a metaphor for something

    marcusjenkins,
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    @inquiline In Europe Ryanair is everywhere. Being the tight-fisted outfit they are, they snapped up a load of 737 Max just after the second MCAS crash when Boeing could hardly give the crappy planes away. Ryanair is keen not to call these shonky aircraft "737 Max", rather "737-8", lest customers might be put off travelling in their deathtraps.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Carmakers must bring back buttons to get good safety scores in Europe

    In 2026, Euro NCAP points will be deducted if some controls aren't physical.

    https://arstechnica.com/cars/2024/03/carmakers-must-bring-back-buttons-to-get-good-safety-scores-in-europe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    marcusjenkins, (edited )
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    @arstechnica Excellent. Controlling a car is not like controlling your smartphone. There is no need for the compromise of having no buttons other than cost cutting on the part of the manufacturer.

    Europe for the win, again.

    KydiaMusic, to Creativity
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    Ouch.

    marcusjenkins,
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    @KydiaMusic Totally this in #Spain. Here the kids spend at least half of their education with rote learning from fill-in-the-blanks factoid text. At age 15 or so it gets marginally better.

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