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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 2h

Going for the Skyrim form of government where I can massacre entire armies sent against me with my massive enchanted sword while collecting some herbs a random old woman asked me to get for her.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 2h

What are those people building in that commercial district? Who knows, who cares, as long as they're paying me their 5% tax rate. Best just build some more roads.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 2h

Sim City would be the only one I can think of that would go in the bottom right.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 5h

That is impressive.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 5h

Holy shit, I saw you were walking past where I live in Ally Pally earlier on and then you walked all the way to Walthamstow! Would advise going back to Blackhorse Road to the breweries and having a well earned pint.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 5h

Good epitaph in the Guardian article: "After being caught with a mobile phone behind bars in 2019, he told a court that he was locked up with “murderers, mass murderers, rapists, paedophiles, serial killers – the worst of the worst".

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 14h

Yes but they're just markers of poverty, people did those kinds of things in places which had no connection to the war like poor parts of Spain, and much later than in the UK.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 14h

I have never heard of any of those things, but also not sure what they have to do with the war. I think there is a long shadow in this country, but it's more the unshakeable grip of the 60s generation on popular discourse.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 15h

Over 50 maybe. I'm 45 and my very earliest memories are from the mid-80s. I don't know how long the shadow of the war was but that seems to be stretching things a bit.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

As an example electrified industry has far lower benefits of scale than thermal based industry. We've gone through a century of consolidation of production of commodity goods like steel and chemicals because of the immense benefits of larger scale production. Will that continue or start to reverse?

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

I think your 9th post is important as well. Electrification is a fundamentally different technology on many levels to thermal energy. Economies will react to that regardless of what political power wants.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine giving those Germans food with some spice in it like Turkish or middle Eastern? Haha, I bet they'll never have tried anything like that in their lives!

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

I can't imagine how different the Internet would be if the US didn't speak English. Would Americans be posting videos of someone feeding spicy deep fried chicken wings to Spanish kids? It would make much more sense than this.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Oh man, would've been so nice for him to bury that.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Poppelgangers:

Peoples Pop Polls: Black Pop History 82-85 @peoples-pop-polls.bsky.social · May 11

So CONGRATULATIONS to the WINNER of #Poppelgangers

🥇"I WISH" - Stevie Wonder & Skee-Lo

and to the runners-up

🥈"The Look Of Love" (Dusty Springfield/ABC)
🥉"Dreams" (Fleetwood Mac/Cranberries)

Skee-Lo... in the world of people's pop, you ARE a baller

a man is saying i wish i was a baller in front of a car at night .

ALT: a man is saying i wish i was a baller in front of a car at night .

media.tenor.com

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

I think people are thinking so much about energy system change as a thing we have to push to combat climate change that there are not many people thinking about what happens when the energy transition gains its own momentum and doesn't need to be pushed anymore.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he's getting confused about which PE the book is about.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

I voted for Wrong earlier. Although 0+2=1 is my favourite NMN album.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Fun nerdy battery fact - it's not actually possible to measure how much charge a battery has left, the percentage remaining is basically an educated guess.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

It's just mean pitting Fugazi against Nomeansno. Although these are not my favourite albums from either of these two bands.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

I've had a similar strategy for dealing with capricious bosses in the past where if they ask me to do something I think is stupid I don't do it the first time they ask. They have to demonstrate they are actually serious about it by asking me "what happened about X?" a couple of weeks later.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Incidentally in the future I think almost all waste furniture in the UK is going to end up with the carbon being buried up in the north west as part of the Hynet project, so it will at least produce negative carbon electricity.

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · Aug 5

The government just announced the priority list for the first bunch of CCS projects in Hynet (north west England) which hopefully should assuage some of the worst doubts about what the CCS stuff is about. On the list is CCS from a cement works, from a domestic wood waste facility (1/2)

HyNet expansion: project negotiation list

www.gov.uk

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

One of my relatives tried to sell everything from their mum's house, it took weeks of hassle and finally they had to pay more to clear the rest because they'd sold everything the clearance guys could make any money on. So when I did my gran's I just paid £500 to clear the lot. Very sad.

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Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

"Oh I see you like to get together in a crowded room with lots of people to listen to music AND GIVE EVERYONE COVID, you monster!"

Paul Boldrin @paulboldrin.bsky.social · 1d

Saudi is installing solar for less than $20/MWh! The US has gone mad.

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