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The case for Nuclear in Ireland - I am starting this thread here because there are so many people calling for it now with no idea of what they are talking about.
The cost & construction time for nuclear plants is so onerous, the companies involved usually go bust along the way +
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6 rules for strength training:
- Load above 85% of your 1 rep max, 75% if moderately trained
- Keep sets at 5 reps or less, intensity is the driver, not volume
- Ramp up first: 10 reps at 50%, 8 at 60%, 8 at 70%, 5 at 75%
- Then 2 to 3 work sets, 3 sets per exercise is plenty
- Rest 2 to 4 min between sets so fatigue doesn't cut your load
- Superset another muscle group during that rest, tiny strength cost, far shorter session
Strength is a demand for load, not reps. Protect the load and the rest, and the adaptation follows.
@DrAndyGalpin on @hubermanlab
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Slow down and remember this:
Most things make no difference.
Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant.
Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.
Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Replying to @mattvanswol
My parents felt that way when Jimmy Carter was President. My mom always said all the “wonderful” programs the democrats wanted were “the camel’s nose under the tent” and once they started initiating these things it was going to be next to impossible to stop.
And now look where we are. Runaway immigration/invasion, millions of dollars funneled to NGO’s and “charities” with ties to public figures so they can get rich off their office, and health insurance that doesn’t pay for the treatments and procedures your own doctor says you need - because their judgment is better than your doctor. 🙄
Not to mention the ever growing population of people that actually think socialism will ever produce the results they dream about (even though it has failed abysmally every single time it has been tried). They rant against god-fearing Christians, thinking WE are tyrants, but then cozy up to Islamists who literally enslave their own women in forced and abusive marriages starting at the ripe old age of 9, and rape any woman that is not Muslim.
All that was required for evil to flourish was for good men to do nothing. So afraid of being labeled whatever the buzzword of the week is. Whatever happened to standing up for what is right, no matter whose feelings get hurt? Sometimes the truth hurts. But lies hurt worse when you let them fester.
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The Jason Arday episode is a perfect microcosm of a Western system rotting under the weight of human deadwood. Not just academia, wokeness, welfare bureaucracies, “learing” centers, or the laptop manager class exposed during Covid, but an entire civilization in which millions contribute nothing, produce nothing, and solve nothing while participating in an elaborate theater of fake productivity designed to conceal their complete uselessness. The real work is left to a shrinking productive minority forced to carry everyone else.
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The Economist had a short window to interview the guy who’s arguably advancing human capabilities more than any other single individual in many generations. So of course they spent it lecturing him for holding the ‘wrong’ political views, and telling him people ‘loathe’ him, because he refuses to accept their deeply ideological, midwit interpretation of reality and parrot groupthink as they do.
And they think this is all a big ‘win’ for them.
So embarrassing.
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Wow!
Solar surpasses 3 TW of nameplate capacity worldwide.
Wind is over 1.3 TW. Together, they make up 4.3 TW.
For comparison, U.S. average power demand is 0.47 TW, so W+S can now meet a peak of 9x U.S. average power demand or, over a year, 2x U.S. electric energy demand.
Here's more:
Solar added 583 GW in one year (+23.9%)
Wind added 167 GW (+14.4)
Together they added 750 GW.
The world added a NET of only 1.6 GW of nuclear.
energiaestrategica.com/en/no…
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things men slowly learn as they grow older:
- no woman loves you for who you are, she only loves you for what you can do for her
- nobody is coming to save you
- discipline beats motivation
- money solves many problems
- silence is better than arguing
- nobody cares until you are rich or dead
- respect is earned, not begged for
- no woman is ever yours
- you can do everything right and still lose
- your colleagues are not your friends
life gets easier when you accept these truths
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Replying to @Eavor
@Eavor Closed-Loop Geothermal burns 350mEUR with not much to show for
cleantechnica.com/2026/05/13…
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Replying to @MaryLouMcDonald
This is Sinn Féin policy, and you are traitors to your people because of it.
Peter Brennan retweeted
Communist Professor: “Well, jihadist violence is a complex phenomenon shaped by a constellation of interacting factors, including geopolitical instability and foreign military interventions, authoritarian repression and weak state institutions, local grievances and socioeconomic marginalisation in conflict zones, and transnational ideological narratives that are amplified through networks and recruitment ecosystems.”
Also Communist Professor:
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Chinese generation by cost $/MWh
☀️ Solar PV 24-38
🌬️ Onshore wind 26-45
💧 Existing hydro 30-60
🌊 Offshore wind 55-80
⚛️ Nuclear 60-90
🏭 Coal (USC) 70-86
🔥 Gas 90-120
Little wonder 90% of all new capacity additions in China is now wind and solar.
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Die Absurdität der selbstverschuldeten Transformation
Es ist eine der großen Ironien unserer Zeit: Millionen Menschen fliehen aus islamisch geprägten Ländern in den Westen, weil dort Wirtschaft, Freiheit und Zukunftsperspektiven miserabel sind – oft als Folge von Korruption, Clanstrukturen, religiöser Bevormundung und fehlender Innovationskultur. Sie suchen genau das, was sie zu Hause nicht hatten.
Doch darin liegt die Absurdität: Je größer ihre Communities im Westen werden, desto stärker verändern sie die politische Landschaft. Westliche Politiker, getrieben von Wahlarithmetik, werden abhängig von diesen Stimmen und passen ihre Programme immer mehr an die Forderungen der neuen Wähler an – zulasten der einheimischen Bevölkerung.
Das Ergebnis ist vorhersehbar und tragisch: Die Probleme, vor denen die Migranten geflohen sind, werden langsam importiert. Aufstieg durch Leistung, säkulare Freiheit und Rechtsstaatlichkeit weichen zunehmend No-Go-Zonen, hohen Sozialkosten, sinkenden Bildungsstandards und wachsender religiöser Einflussnahme.
Am Ende steht die bittere Pointe: Die Menschen verlassen gescheiterte Gesellschaften – und reproduzieren durch ihre bloße Präsenz genau jene Bedingungen, vor denen sie fliehen wollten. Der Westen importiert nicht nur Menschen, sondern auch die archaischen kulturellen Vorstellungen, Geschlechterrollen, Homophobie, Antisemitismus und institutionellen Defizite ihrer Herkunftsländer.
Wer das kritisiert, weil es nicht in das Schema der Parteien passt, gilt schnell als „rechts“. Die eigentliche Absurdität aber liegt darin, dass ein Kontinent, der jahrhundertelang für seine Errungenschaften bewundert wurde, freiwillig den Weg in die eigene Dekadenz beschreitet – nur um nicht „intolerant“ zu wirken.
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Replying to @tomhfh
A reminder Blair’s cheap energy solutions are
More Nuclear currently £140-160/MWh
New Gas with CCS £160/MWh
The last AR7 round was
Solar £65
Wind £72
Offshore Wind £91
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Proximity to nuclear power plants was associated with elevated mortality from breast, colon, and lung cancers. From 2000 to 2020, an estimated 39,767 female deaths (95% CI: 9312–69,381), representing 2.01% (95% CI: 0.47–3.50%), and 38,124 male deaths (95% CI: 16,106–59,600), representing 2.33% (95% CI: 0.98–3.64%), were attributable to this proximity. Lung cancer accounted for the largest burden in both sexes, followed by breast and colon cancer in females and colon cancer in males. Mortality risks declined with increasing distance, becoming negligible beyond 50 km.
Nature 20th May 2026
nature.com/articles/s41370-0…
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Replying to @aimeeterese
Social media has essentially supercharged this exact dynamic. It rewards narcissists with endless dopamine hits for performative outrage and moral superiority, turning politics into a nonstop supply of validation. Leftists don’t need consistent beliefs when a platform constantly affirms their unearned right to rule and punishes anyone who won’t submit. Straight white males who resist the groupthink become the ultimate threat- they don’t feed the retarded fragile ego machine. What we’re seeing isn’t ideology, it’s narcissism optimized by algorithms.
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Liberals use third party middle men as agents of destruction to wreck everything & everyone they resent. The third party middle men they frame as pitiful, needy victims are actually lawbreaking malcontents & aggressors eg illegal immigrants, criminals, transsexuals, rioters etc
What about nuclear waste & decommissioning costs.
How safe is nuclear? Starting a thread on this in response to the v foolish calls for Ireland to go nuclear.
This is an issue the industry likes to hide & kick the can down the road on. To give you an idea of how horrendous +
just 70MW. To put that into context, an average nuclear reactor is about 1,000MW. A typical nuclear plant would have several reactors. Thought the plant stopped operating in 1990 and decommissioning began shortly afterwards. More than thirty years later, that work is +



















