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In the rush to build data centers, companies are starting to use their own off grid gas generators. This results in much higher emissions – 60% to 80% – compared with using their local electricity grid and risks locking in longer-term fossil dependence.

Can anybody name ONE example of where the political right has rigged an election in recent years? It’s almost ALWAYS the left that rigs elections. It’s comforting to know that this problem exists outside of the United States too, but it SHOULDN’T exist period.

Dit is statistisch onmogelijk. Verkiezingsuitslag in Brazilië kan niet anders dan gemanipuleerd zijn.

Waarom heeft de overheid zo’n groot budgettair tekort? Dat is een vraag die ik vaak krijg. Wel oa omdat de overheid schadevergoedingen toekent aan wie voor minstens 300€ schade heeft geleden door een van de volgende dieren: Aalscholver of blauwe reiger – Bever – Das – Duif – Edelhert of damhert – Eend – Everzwijn – Gans – Konijn of haas – Kraaiachtige – Meerkoet of waterhoen – Meeuw – Ree – Steenmarter – Vleermuis – Vos – Wolf – Zangvogel – Zwaan. #kerntaken hln.be/oudsbergen/everzwijne…

The ugly truth about France and some of the other European countries currently in turmoil - and which none of the politicians want to admit because it'd be political suicide - is that you can't solve the problem by going after immigrants (as the right asserts) or the rich (as the left asserts), but you could solve it by going after the old. One extraordinary statistic for you: people over 60 in France, a quarter of the population, own 60% of France's wealth, non-financial and financial (ofce.fr/pdf/revue/2025/3-192…). And here is another crazy statistic: that same quarter of the population, those above 60, receive nearly two-thirds of all social spending by the French government (previssima.fr/actualite/prot…) - which is famously among the highest in the world (France's government spending is an insane 57.3% of GDP). Last statistic: they make up about 40% of voters because they're a third of registered voters (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/266…), and they turn out far more than anyone else (franceinfo.fr/elections/sond…). Put our 3 statistics together and there's almost a bit of an apartheid situation here: the old own most of the country's wealth, collect most of the social spending and have the political power to keep it that way. Which makes them a de-facto rentier class, living off assets and transfers paid for by younger generations. And, of course, at the risk of stating a truism, the future is built by the young. Yet France keeps effectively taking money away from them to give it to those whose working lives are already behind them - and need the money far less since they already own the country's wealth. What about inheritance, I hear you ask? That's the funniest/saddest aspect: given that life expectancy has kept rising, the French now inherit a home at 54 on average. The most common case is someone in their 80s leaving it to heirs in their 50s, in effect the very old transferring wealth to the about-to-be old (insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fic…). You can add this to our earlier apartheid statement: on top of all the rest, even when the old finally let go of their wealth, it stays within their own "camp". That's my personal situation, incidentally: I'm 42, my father is 71 and he is starting to look at ways to pass things on to me and my siblings, when our professional lives are already well settled, so it'll arrive when it changes things the least, which is pretty much the French system in a nutshell. Now, I get that there'd be some unfairness in going after them: they paid into the system their entire working lives, playing by the rules of a social contract that told them if they paid up they'd collect at the end. Changing the rules now means breaking that promise, which is admittedly unfair. But there's no magic wealth tree in any society: you can only take it where it is. That's the way most major societal transformations end up happening. They're often triggered by a catastrophic event (the so-called "four horsemen": mass-mobilisation war, revolution, state collapse, plague) BUT what really drives change is a transfer: wealth gets pried from the privileged class who've been sitting on it and handed to those who'll build what comes next. So, in theory and in an ideal world, you can do without the catastrophic event and directly proceed with the transfer... The fact that in France, and elsewhere in Europe, it's the youth protesting is probably no coincidence - even though they don't frame it as a generational fight. And even though, cruel irony, the left politicians many of them march behind promise to bring the retirement age back to 60 (lcp.fr/actualites/legislativ…), which would make the situation even worse. Let's say they understand intuitively that the system is stacked against them, even if they haven't yet figured out how. And politicians are obviously doing what politicians do, meaning pandering to the people who actually vote, while pointing the young towards easier - and politically convenient - scapegoats. To be clear I'm not saying it's the only problem in France, VERY far from it. I'm also not saying that all old people in France live a lavish lifestyle at the expense of younger generations: there are also plenty of very poor retirees who, if anything, would deserve more. What I am saying is that it's probably the biggest elephant in the room: everyone can see it, nobody dares mention it - no politician, from any side, wants to run on cutting grandma's pension - and it makes every other problem harder to fix.

🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth just got absolutely humiliated by Senator Tammy Duckworth! Senator Tammy Duckworth, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who lost both legs while serving in Iraq, challenged Hegseth: "I'm glad you brought that up. Can you name a single country that belongs to ASEAN and explain what agreement we have with it? And, by the way, how many countries are in ASEAN? Frankly, I'm not sure you even know who our allies are." Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "Well, I can't give you the exact number, but I certainly know our allies in South Korea, Japan, and Australia..." Senator Duckworth: "None of the countries you just mentioned are members of ASEAN. I suggest you do your homework before engaging in these discussions." And this is the kind of clueless bullshit running the Pentagon. Absolutely unbelievable.

Het is zover. Wit-Rusland waarschuwt zijn burgers voor de veiligheid in België. We zijn dus officieel van een land waar mensen naartoe vluchten, geëvolueerd naar een land waar mensen voor gewaarschuwd worden. Ik zou zeggen dat we goed bezig zijn, maar straks krijgen we nog een negatief reisadvies van Noord-Korea.

Deze is helemaal maf: gewoon stembureau niet ópenen: In Alaska blijven minstens 18 stembureaus in dorpen waar de Democraten er goed voor staan dicht doordat stembiljetten en andere benodigdheden ontbreken; sommige aangewezen medewerkers wisten niet eens dat ze waren aangesteld.

"Parijs 2026" is zoals "Iran 1979" want "Iran 1979". Puike redenering. 👍

Lunch with older friend (Lifelong Dem) who only watches MSM. No social media presence. She was shocked when I discussed the violence/coordinated riots across Europe. Then I described all the fraud DOJ is exposing. She hadn’t heard MSM report on any of this. Red pill lunch.