"Fun" fact: #ElonMusk's compensation plan, expected to be approved by the combination of retail shareholder enablers and the fact that many major market funds don't vote their shares, would be enough to pay 6-figure salaries to all ~14000 recently laid-off employees for 40 years.
@ekknappenberger The magma is shifting east for some reason. Pure speculation as to why, beyond "it's able to move into a lower energy state by doing so". Something has changed under the surface. But the influx continues, and microquake activity is slowly rising.
@osma Hope they can do that with GLSDB as well. That would be an even nastier surprise, given the greater range and the lesser warning.
Even if it doesn't destroy GPS jammers, it's like SEAD with air defense: you can force them to temporarily shut off, and thus be unable to interfere with your simultaneous attack.
Got support not just from 77% of #Democrats, but also 69% of #Republicans. Final votes will be on Saturday and are considered almost certain, as is quick #Senate ratification and #WhiteHouse signing by #Biden.
So apparently it's perfectly fine for the #US to spike the price of #oil ahead of an #election when it's over whether or not #Venezuela's #elections are fair, but it's not okay for #Ukraine to do so via refinery attacks in order to stopping the invasion and ethnic cleansing of #Europe's eastern flank. :Þ
@janrosenow@semoxenaar@RegulatoryAssistanceProject Use has barely declined. But production has collapsed. This is not a good trend to see. It means greater dependency on outside regimes, such as Russia. It's NIMBYism at its worst. In the middle of a war.
That is not a natural decline curve. That curve is a political decision. Even the residents of Groningen support more extraction even without greater compensation.
@diondokter If you want to keep consuming gas but not producing it, you're a hypocrite.
And if you want to stop being called a hypocrite for doing so, stop being a hypocrite.
If you switch from being a net exporter to a net importer at a time where Russia is blackmailing Europe and profiting hand over fist on gas exports, you're supporting autocracy and ethnic cleansing.
And if you don't want to be called out for that, then stop doing it.
@diondokter And for the record: a 3,1 magnitude earthquake, yet alone the various 2-point-something magnitude quakes, is pathetically small. I live in Iceland; we get earthquakes all the time. You'd be lucky if you even noticed a 3,1 magnitude quake.
@diondokter (Cue a dozen "damage" pictures of the same pre-1900 cafe (part of an 1865 corn mill) that was gutted in a fire in 2003), cause, you know, totally modern construction and maintenance standards there...)
@diondokter The TL/DR: I know you don't want to be judged for this. But you absolutely WILL be judged for this, because what you're doing is boosting Russia in the middle of an invasion of Europe.
@diondokter I guess that means you better keep funding them, because what a brilliant idea it was to fund them war, let alone to keep doing so now, right? :eyeroll: 🤦♀️
On #Bluesky, a few months ago, #XKCD author Randall Munroe wrote a long story about the "Case of the Missing Hit", a song with the chorus "#LOL" with specific lyrics and style aspects, which other people seem to have also heard - yet the song doesn't seem to exist.
The whole idea that EU/NATO forces downing Shahed drones and cruise missiles in the air in western Ukraine, would cause World War 3 is ridiculous in my opinion. Putin is never able to control western Ukraine anyway. Also little or no ground forces need to be involved. #geopolitics#ukraine@Geopolitics#russia#EU#NATO
@ErikJonker@Geopolitics I've been advocating for a NATO presence in western Ukraine since Day 1.
Pick a distance from the frontline well out of artillery and SHORAD range. Draw a line in Ukraine. Literally if you need to, even visible from space if one must. NATO mans the sky and ground behind the line, Ukraine in front of it. All of Ukraine's resources in the rear now go to the front, and Russia knows that even in the best case it can't advance very far in Ukraine.
