It angers me that Fascist Italy could push the Mafia to the brink of extinction but Democratic Italy can’t.
One Mafia pushed the other out. No improvement for normal people.
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locallost commented on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels e360.yale.edu/digest/euro... · Posted by u/speckx
Meanwhile European chemical manufacturing is collapsing under weight of record energy costs.[1][2] Most of other manufacturing is somehow tied to chemicals, you can't build things without material after all. So this will feed ongoing industrial collapse, which now affects even Germany.[3]
Meanwhile, low income households are running into financial issues if they want to turn up the heat.[4]
The whole process has been mismanaged at best.
[1] https://cen.acs.org/business/economy/Europes-specialty-chemi...
[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/europes-chemical-ind...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_economic_crisis_(2022%E...
[4]https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/heating-eating-energy-b...
The problems of the chemical companies are related to natural gas prices, not electricity. This is because gas is used in the production. It even says so in one of the links you posted:
“Our industry continues to face difficult market dynamics and challenging energy costs, with European gas prices around three times higher than the US,” Arnaud Valenduc, business director for Ineos Inovyn, the Ineos business that makes chloromethane, says in the press release
locallost commented on Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? eieio.games/blog/ssh-send... · Posted by u/eieio
Well, the cause is known - it's many causes that have accumulated. Of course, maybe more research will bring some more definitive conclusions - but overall the core mechanisms seem to be well understood, at least to the extend on what will be needed to avoid similar scenarios in the future.
I don't understand why your reply is so aggressive though.
What is upsetting you by others talking about the blackout?
Especially understanding the economic impacts better, seems to be a reasonable thing to do?
Overall, there seems to have been very little effect on the economical growth of both countries - even though it has been a regular business day.
Some slide-deck that covers the situation well: https://www.brattle.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Iber...
I also don't know what's aggressive about questioning speaking matter-of-factly about the cause of the event when it's not clear what the cause was. The end of your document says at fault was "just about everyone", starting from gas plants that did not do their job. I have no idea then why you're trying to throw shade on something good that was accomplished by bending the truth. I did not read the article and the 4.6B figure might be BS, but if it is, pinning something as the definitive cause of the blackout, when this is not really known, is not the way to correct it.
I don't know what this has to do with anything, when the blackout doesn't have a known cause yet.
locallost commented on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/fzeroracer
I am not a weightlifter, I am an amateur powerlifter, and I do pretty intense resistance training for my age (54yo) and my weight (112kg) and I eat about 800g to 1kg a day of meat - duck, pork or beef. Even if I eat 1kg Wagyu beef, it would give me about 3000 calories, slightly less than 3500 calories I need to keep my muscle mass. I would happily eat even more meat but circumstances prevents me to do so.
I used to drink protein shakes, but now I am actively against these. Artificial sweeteners provoke insulin release [1] [2] that leads to type-II diabetes.
[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2887503/
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S10568...
You can get protein powder without flavoring. I drink that either pure or with a little bit of flavored protein mixed in (something like 3:1) because the flavored stuff is so sweet I can't drink it. Some brands I could literally do 3 parts flavorless, 1 part flavored and it would still taste too sweet.
locallost commented on Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE nbcnews.com/news/us-news/... · Posted by u/fzeroracer
Brownshirts coming out party.
Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Taking the easy way and being sceptical means you'll be mostly right because most things don't work out.