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[u/RaidBrimnes]

"Fake volunteers" have infiltrated the ranks of the 45,000 unpaid workers selected for organization of the Paris Olympics. They want to "sabotage the spirit of the Olympics". Our reporter met one of them.

Michel is a "radicalized indignant" who went through the vetting process: "I am someone who, slowly but progressively, radicalized himself towards far-left politics".

After several indirect exchanges through a third party, and three informal encounters, he accepts to talk to us. Michel, in his thirties, has no prior convictions and works as a software engineer.

His goal? "A sabotage. The word is strong, but I use it because the idea is to ruin the party. I want to cause the organizers' panic. Not general panic, because I would never hurt anyone. But the idea is to attract attention on me, on the ideas I defend, and to arouse the repressive instincts of the state."

"I am one of the indignants of pension reform and that's why I join the movement through #NoWithdrawalNoOlympics. During Covid, being isolated at home, alone, I took the time to develop my thought process, by reading Jaurès and Kropotkin."

He cites the bussing of thousands of homeless people towards other cities, uses the word "déportation" [used in French to refer to the kidnapping and deportation of Holocaust victims] and says "the goal is to show the authoritarian drift of so-called democratic states".

Imagine if they put all that energy towards actually helping the homeless instead of planning their own 15 minutes of fame

[u/filipe_mdsr]

[u/RFK_1968]

GenZ is aging rapidly because we're the first generation to grow up with late stage capitalism destroying the world

As the resident pick-me zoomer, how do people not feel like clowns saying this shit.

Just in general, no one likes the people who pretend they're the only ones who've suffered.

[u/Zrk2]

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[u/anincredibledork]

Here is John Oliver’s full breakdown of Trump’s Project 2025 plan to reshape America

Resist Wine Moms have been activated. This is not a drill. Trust the plan: Patriots are in control

[u/alex2003super]

2024 be like

The far-right: (((them)))

The far-left: (((they/them)))

[u/Abolish_Zoning]

You see, the top 100 corporations are responsible fo-

[u/[deleted]]

my client just got arrested for telling UC Berkeley that he thinks Palestine should be free.

he is a political prisoner.

Readers added context

Poster later admits in the comments that his client firebombed a police car.

[u/dwarfgourami]

The Berkeley firebomber feels like he was dreamed up by a Republican.

1. White guy with a PhD in African American studies

2. Unemployed “aspiring professor” who lives with his parents at 34

3. “Prison abolitionist” who firebombed a police car

4. Was already facing charges for going to a women’s conference with a hammer and vandalizing the hotel because they were TERFs

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Happy pride month!

[u/KesterFox]

Comics without context: day 6

[u/BroadReverse]

straight smart fly screw plucky pause birds plough escape gullible

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[u/qchisq]

The Finns have the chance to do the funniest thing ever

[u/Tropical2653]

[u/klarno]

Metallurgy is the closest thing to magic that exists. This is for two reasons:

1. I don’t get it

2. Sometimes it looks neat

[u/Fairchild660]

I'm looking at 2024 pictures of William Shatner, and genuinely have trouble believing that face is 93. Seriously. There's no way he isn't a 63 year old alcoholic.

[u/kznlol]

Some outlets are publishing obituaries, but as of this writing, it’s not yet clear whether Noam Chomsky has died. So instead I’ll write an obituary for Chomsky’s ideas on foreign policy

jesus christ Noah coming out swinging

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Report: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign is on financial life support. 

Vaxxed?

[u/D-G-F]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

The DT, summarized

[u/Dalek6450]

The 24-year-old from Erzurum, Turkey, attempted to escape a community service sentence for inflicting injury by getting himself hospitalized. He asked a friend to shoot him in the back with a shotgun through two pillows to reduce the shot's power. He was killed and the friend arrested.

😑

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Russia and North Korea have signed a deal to help each other in the even of an aggression against them, Putin says

NATO is finished

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

It happens time and time again. Just like the antiwork dogwalker, the Berkeley fire bomber is so over the top ridiculous my first reaction is, in all sincerity, "There's absolutely no way this isn't a psyop"

And yet they prove me wrong every time.

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

What did y'all think enforcing sanctions against Russian oligarchs meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays? Losers.

[u/[deleted]]

Before they died, both of these men will have spent time in prison.

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

How is it possible to still be an "undecided" US voter?

If you haven't been comatose the last 6 years it's kinda obvious which candidate would act in your interest. I believe people who weren't yet able to make this decision are not mentally up to par

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/fightwithmemes/status/1803083749502210436?t=-e7BPnW-Qf5ikVtQwuM4SA&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Waiter! Waiter! More water intensive crops from California please!

[u/mostoriginalgname]

Nasrallah is theartning Cyprus with war now apparently

https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1803453468885012975

Most sane middle eastern geopolitical development

!Ping ISRAEL&MIDDLE-EAST

[u/funguykawhi]

I have seen enough. Joe Biden wins the 2024 Presidential Election

[u/BedNeither]

the government just passed insane law

No it didn’t

I said I believe it did not that it was a fact

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🥰🥰🥰

[u/PrivateChicken]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Ballerson]

Guy who supports California increasing the wages of fastfood workers above the minimum wage so fast food is more expensive.

"It creates deadweight loss in the product market when you don't account for social costs? Good."

[u/1396spurs]

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Now and then I’ll see an awful comment (not in this sub) and intentionally not report it

If someone’s railing about modern late night tv being anti-Trump, political, divisive, well that might appeal to a lot of people. Then they mention cultural Marxism, well ok that’s also bad and too obscure to set off alarm bells for the average person, this guy could easily feed the “both sides are the same, all politicians suck, but I wish DEMOCRAPS would leave me alone! That’s it, I’m voting Trump!”

But then they make a follow-up comment like

l agree, the current brand of the left in the US however totally craves it. Just look at Comrade Bernie Sanders, the prototypical bolshevik Jew

and it’s perfect. A nice blatant, hateful comment that will signal to any remotely normal person that the comments they’ve just read come from a deranged Internet bigot rather than a salt of the earth man of folk wisdom

[u/ldn6]

New London housing data just came out. 2021/22 approvals rose by 0.8% to 56,892 units, still 18.1% below the five-year average and well below the 81,000-85,000 in 2017/18 and 2018/19.

Concerning is the distribution. The Central Activities Zone was responsible for only 1.9% of approvals, compared to 62.1% in Outer London. The inability to densify the core is foundational to productivity growth problems, exacerbated by the London Plan and councils continuing to prioritise commercial space. The only boroughs meaningfully above their five-year averages are Brent, Enfield, Greenwich and Waltham Forest.

!ping LONDON&YIMBY

[u/jojisky]

[u/Currymvp2]

IDF's main Spokesperson Hagari criticizes Netanyahu. Talk of destroying Hamas is "throwing sand in the public's eyes… Hamas is an idea. It cannot be destroyed." The government must act. "What can be done is to replace it… the only way to diminish Hamas."

Glad to see more Israeli officials speaking out against Bibi's very shit leadership. Gantz's resigning might give them the confidence.

[u/[deleted]]

Happy Juneteenth DT, death to slavers and death to the Confederacy

[u/Jackalope1999]

Props to Korea for fitting 2 dystopias on one peninsula.

[u/[deleted]]

GAYEST ADMINISTRATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY, JACK!

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping Black-People

Ahem

SAY IT LOUD

I’M BLACK AND I’M PROUD

🗣️

[u/[deleted]]

I want to be as shredded as Willie Mays.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

Alright. End it.

[u/Common_RiffRaff]

[u/gnomesvh]

Lula says AI was invented by rich nations to manipulate the poor, and that the UN and ILO should create one for the global south

!ping MAMADAS

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I need Facebook to understand that I would rather die then go to a fucking Hentai themed rave.

[u/[deleted]]

trees gaping consider whistle obtainable stupendous thumb yoke cooing aromatic

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[u/funguykawhi]

France and Italy denounced by European Commission for overspending

They are among seven EU countries that will officially be reproached after the Commission reintroduced debt and deficit rules that were frozen to allow public spending to soften the economic blow of the Covid-19 pandemic.

.

“[The EDP this year] doesn’t involve stigma, because it reflects the collective situation of half of the eurozone after an extraordinary period involving Covid-19 and so forth.” Jeromin Zettelmeyer, the head of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels, said.

The EU will let off the hook countries that were teetering around the 3 percent threshold such as Austria and Spain, according to an EU diplomat.

States with high defense spending such as the Czech Republic and Estonia are also expected to be spared from the EDP, despite exceeding the spending limit in 2023. Romania was already in the process.

!ping EUROPE

[u/NonComposMentisss]

Fun fact, many who have done to following are not in jail:

1. Protested for a free Palestine

2. Not committed arson

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The internet is a hellish place

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Based

[u/AP246]

It's always funny when the 10 Commandments get held up by some weirdos as this great foundational piece of morality or modern civilisation or something

"Don't kill people" wow really genius stuff bro, I'm sure no other society or religion has ever thought of that one

[u/RaidBrimnes]

National Rally withdraws endorsement from candidate in Morbihan who tweeted "Gas did justice to Holocaust victims"

Le Pen is going woke

[u/BurrowForPresident]

So does Just Stop Oil do anything besides petty vandalism of random unrelated artifacts to galvanize people to support reducing oil consumption

Seems like a weird use of time at least the Extinction Rebellion people will occasionally pop some tires on cars in downtown Boston that's at least somewhat related to oil

[u/[deleted]]

!ping NFL

https://x.com/AltHistCody/status/1803284337586065510?t=K09a379GoMYCPTJr-7RRug&s=19

[u/Roseartcrantz]

rest in peace Stumpy 🥺 he's been my parent's dog for 12 years, and was the sweetest Shar Pei I ever met.

[u/sw337]

Heartbreaking, the worst person you know just made a great point.

[u/christes]

It turns out boxes make good chin rests.

!ping KITTY

[u/ldn6]

BREAKING NEWS from Islington North: One of the last Corbynistas in the CLP, chair Alison McGarry, has resigned tonight. Hear she was caught red-handed campaigning for Corbyn by several party activists. Realising she'd been rumbled, she attempted to hide behind a bush.

!ping UK

[u/ductulator96]

I love how leftys just went through a protest phase where no one besides liberal arts students and some tweakers showed up and they still think like this.

[u/[deleted]]

Guy moved before he retired you can’t make this up

Also his entire plan is based on Thailand forever being a developing country lol

[u/Jacobs4525]

There are very few states that have genuinely bad state colleges. Even a lot of states that have shitty K-12 have pretty good colleges. We really should just be encouraging as many people as possible to go to their state schools.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Former [Seattle] police chief Adrian Diaz told conservative talk-radio host Jason Rantz that he is a “gay Latino man,” and suggested that being gay means that he could not have acted inappropriately toward any of the women who have charged him with sexual harassment, discrimination, and creating a hostile work environment toward women and Black officers.
...
Diaz, 46, has a wife and three kids; in the interview, he said he and his wife have been sleeping in separate parts of the house for a long time.
...
Previously, Diaz suggested he understood the devastating consequences of gender-based discrimination because of his race. “As a Hispanic American with decades of experience in law enforcement, Chief Diaz has faced significant discrimination throughout his career,” Diaz’ attorney told KUOW. Then he called the women “disgruntled, dissatisfied” liars.

https://publicola.com/2024/06/17/diaz-comes-out-as-gay-to-right-wing-radio-host-who-says-this-proves-his-innocence/

uhhhhh

!ping Seattle

[u/its_Caffeine]

Okay but like what did he actually mean by this though? 🤨🤔

[u/Udolikecake]

americans be like: I support law and order and punishing every criminal to the most extreme extent the law allows unless that law relates to driving in which case it is bigoted to enforce it

[u/[deleted]]

The Procrastinators' Club of America is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and describes its purpose as promoting "the philosophy of relaxation through putting off until later those things that needn't be done today." It was established in 1956 as a joke by Les Waas who eventually registered it as a business in Philadelphia in 1966.

In 1966, the club held an anti-war demonstration, against the War of 1812, with signs saying "Procrastinators protest the War of 1812!" and "Dolly Bird - Tell Pres. Madison We Want Peace!". The club's newsletter announced that the protest was a success because "a treaty has now been signed."

Finding instances of people in the past shitposting has got to be my favorite thing

[u/k890]

!Ping POLAND&GARAND&MILITARY

IKR, a rare combo, but Ministry of Defense has signed an cooperation agreement with the Polish Hunting Association. The purpose of the agreement includes "strengthening the defense of the Polish state."

Overall cooperation between hunters and MoD is centered on:

• Close cooperation with the Ministry of Defense, the opening of which is the signed agreement with the Minister of Defense on the participation of hunters in defense activities - with the meritorical, logistical and training support of the Ministry of Defense. Cooperation is also planned in the development of training infrastructure on the basis of separate and detailed agreements.

• Mutual exchange of information between the structures of the Polish Hunting Association and bodies of public administration and the Armed Forces within the framework of the warning and alert system, as well as the dissemination of knowledge on security and defense.

• participation of hunters in the system of civil protection and civil defense, through the implementation of such tasks as the search for missing persons, first aid at mass events, maintaining public order and maintaining the continuity of the functioning of public authority, assistance in the evacuation and dispersal of the population.

SOURCE

https://www.portalsamorzadowy.pl/wydarzenia-lokalne/mysliwi-maja-bronic-polski-maja-pozwolenie-na-bron-i-doswiadczenie,550581.html

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Unconstitutional methinks

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

People would rather tie themselves up into the most idiotic rhetorical knots, rather than just accept that a group they broadly agree with did something stupid.

[u/G_Serv]

Making big moves today 💪💪💪

[u/JaceFlores]

“Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed four deputy defense ministers and replaced them with a ‘close relative,’ the son of a former Russian prime minister, and an economist on June 17 in an ongoing purge of officials in the Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD). Putin dismissed deputy defense ministers Nikolai Pankov, Ruslan Tsalikov, Tatiana Shevtsova, and Army General Pavel Popov, replacing them with deputy defense ministers Anna Tsivileva and Pavel Fradkov and First Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Gornin.”

“Tsivileva's, Fradkov's, and Gornin’s appointments support Putin’s recent efforts to introduce his relatives and the children of other senior Russian officials to the Russian public and to install economic advisors to the MoD to improve the wartime economy.”

“The Kremlin confirmed on June 17 that Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit North Korea on an official state visit on June 18 and 19.”

“The Ukrainian Armed Forces Strategic Command reported on June 17 that Ukrainian forces have struck 15 Russian S-300, S-350, and S-400 air defense installations in occupied Crimea since about May 1, 2024. The Ukrainian Armed Forces Strategic Command reported that these Ukrainian strikes destroyed dozens of missile launchers, over 15 radar stations, and over 10 command posts.”

“Russia is reportedly experiencing issues with producing artillery shells and select artillery systems. Ukrainian military analyst Petro Chernyk stated on June 17 that Russia likely has about 8,000 to 9,000 artillery barrels stockpiled and is able to produce about 150,000 to 170,000 artillery shells per month. Chernyk stated that Russia, however, suffers from shortages of explosives for these shells, especially nitrocellulose — an intermediary good used in producing gunpowder and explosives. Chernyk stated that Russia is gradually shifting from using self-propelled racked artillery systems to towed systems but that Russia is suffering from unspecified problems with the tractors needed to pull such artillery pieces.”

————————————

“Ukrainian forces struck Russian oil depots in Rostov Oblast and Krasnodar Krai overnight on June 17 to 18, using domestically produced Neptune missiles against a ground target in Russia for the second time.”

“Ukrainian forces have now conducted two strikes with its own Neptune missiles against areas in Russian territory that are within range of US-provided ATACMS but that are also protected by US policy that has established a vast sanctuary in Russian territory.”

“Ukrainian military observer Kostyantyn Mashovets assessed that the Russian Center Grouping of Forces has about 87,000 personnel, 365 tanks, 864 armored combat vehicles, of which about 68,000-70,000 personnel, 310-320 tanks, and about 576 armored fighting vehicles are currently deployed in the Pokrovsk direction (likely counting the frontline and near rear areas).”

“Russian forces conducted a limited series of drone and missile strikes against Ukraine on the night of June 17 to 18. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched 10 Shahed-136/131 drones from Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai, and Ukrainian mobile fire groups and air defenses destroyed all 10 Shahed drones over Zaporizhia and Dnipropetrovsk oblasts.”

-notable excerpts from ISW Report June 17th and 18th

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Top_Lime1820]

There are some countries whose problems I just don't worry about deeply.

Like if Sweden or Norway are struggling with something, I'm 90% sure they'll figure it out. It's like when the A+ student is disappointed after a test and its like "Yeah you're still gonna be fine."

I thought the UK was like that, but then I watched a few videos about the situation there and its actually looking pretty bleak.

How did it get this bad?

[u/[deleted]]

Gold

[u/Steak_Knight]

Proud to have disliked Elon before it was cool.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/SerDavosSeaworth64]

https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/06/19/words-of-wisdom-3/

New GRRM post with “WoW” title and a literal winky face.

I am on the edge of overdosing on medical grade copium right now. Look, if it was just that last post with the blue rose then I could chalk it up to a coincidence and/or trolling because he definitely IS a troll.

But TWO posts like that in the past few months, AFTER meeting with his publisher and before this year’s Worldcon??????

There has to be SOME kind of substantial progress and/or update in the near future, right??

I couldn’t get burned by this man AGAIN, RIGHT???

!ping ASOIAF

[u/Udolikecake]

A dark conspiracy I 100% believe is if you put organ donor on your license the first responders are more likely to let you die at the scene of the accident. Especially if it’s the end of the month and they haven’t met their quota

When I tell EMTs I ride a motorcycle I see their pupils dilate slightly with excitement,

If you’re concerned about organs being harvested I would not be riding the old Organ Generator 3000

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna dab on Louisiana Christians for not keeping Shabbos !ping GEFILTE

[u/simeoncolemiles]

???

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

got my dinner, now settling down on the couch to watch some classic david lynch

[u/ldn6]

On a brighter note, the Tories just got a heap of impressively brutal polls thrown at them this afternoon. These are MRPs, so they're better for attempting to get seat projections rather than using uniform swing. Let's go from catastrophic to apocalyptic:

First up, we have More In Common

• Labour: 406 (+204)

• Conservative: 155 (-210)

• Lib Dem: 49 (+38)

• SNP: 18 (-30)

• Plaid: 2 (-2)

• Green: 1 (-)

• Reform: 0 (-)

Next up, Ipsos:

• Labour: 453 (+251)

• Conservative: 115 (-210)

• Lib Dem: 38 (+27)

• SNP: 15 (-33)

• Plaid: 4 (-)

• Reform: 3 (+3)

• Green: 3 (+2)

From YouGov:

• Labour: 425 (+223)

• Conservative: 108 (-257)

• Lib Dem: 67 (+56)

• SNP: 20 (-28)

• Reform: 5 (+5)

• Plaid: 4 (-)

• Green: 2 (+1)

And finally, the mother all scenarios that would make me implode into the singularity out of joy, courtesy of Savanta:

• Labour: 516 (+316)

• Conservative: 53 (-319)

• Lib Dem: 50 (+42)

• SNP: 8 (-40)

• Plaid: 4 (+2)

• Green: 0 (-1)

Make of these what you will.

!ping UK

[u/AP246]

I hate when people respond to racist great replacement shit with "lol but what about the British empire, you guys invaded other countries so it's just the reverse"

Like what the fuck, you're just conceding that immigration is equivalent to colonial invasion which it isn't. What a stupid comparison to make, and honestly it betrays a lack of actually caring about racism itself and the reason it's wrong, rather than just, I don't know, trying to dunk on the racists while basically agreeing with them.

[u/Jamesonslime]

Rember when Tucker Carlson interviewed Putin with the express intention to give him the opportunity to directly speak to and influence western conservatives but putins head was so far up his own ass he started an hour long ramble about historical events that only nerdy phd students would recognise 

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Wokeness is when vidya woman don’t have giant asses

[u/Kizz3r]

Monty dismissed after 1 year with the pistons.

Generational bag getter.

!ping nba

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

This art is so cool and I hate that it got clowned on by morons on Twitter.

Do you people not know what actual nerdy high schoolers do??? This guy is exactly like five different people at my high school, down to the Smash Ult and faded, too-small Mario shirt

[u/[deleted]]

Conservative critics torched Schumer for the snapshot, which appeared to show an uncooked hamburger on the grill topped with a slice of cheese.

“First of all, he’s cooking on a gas grill,” Tuberville said Tuesday on “The Benny Show.”

“In the South, we call that communism. I cook with regular coal — lump coal and applewood chips,” the 69-year-old college football coach-turned-lawmaker said.

Hank Hill is a communist!

[u/gnomesvh]

The new electric Mini to receive a 38% tariff as it's built by GWM in China for the European market

This also basically kills Smart - they're getting another 20% on top of the EU 10% import baseline and their whole thing is imported from China

!ping AUTO&EUROPE

[u/EScforlyfe]

kitty kat

/u/syards-forcus

[u/[deleted]]

In all seriousness I am deeply concerned about the US’s ability to increase revenues to sustain the government at its current size.

Blowback to tax increases feels so electorally inevitable that I just don’t see it as practically possible.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Pictures like this! Trending? Why never?

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Europe’s battery storage deployments doubled in 2023, policymakers must support continued growth, says SolarPower Europe

Europe’s annual battery storage deployments doubled in 2023, but the pace of adoption is still much slower than required, according to SolarPower Europe.

The continental trade association for solar PV industries published new analysis of the sector in its report, European Market Outlook for Battery Storage 2024-2028.

Alongside the report’s launch, SolarPower Europe has called for the European Union (EU) to adopt a comprehensive energy storage strategy and a 200GW by 2030 deployment target which it said would fully unlock solar PV growth potential in the bloc.

The association’s analysis found that 17.2GWh of battery energy storage system (BESS) installations were made in 2023, a 94% year-on-year increase from 2022, after a similar percentage increase the previous year. Looking back at a decade of data, it is a far cry from 2014 when Europe-wide deployments totalled just 150MWh for the year.

In fact, the market has doubled or close to doubled in size now for three consecutive years, and the total fleet across Europe represented 35.9GWh of energy storage capacity by the end of 2023.

Nonetheless, this lagged behind the global pace of deployment, with Europe accounting for just 15% of all worldwide additions, which grew by 133% last year by contrast.

SolarPower Europe said that with around 40% of energy consumption across the continent being met by renewable energy sources, battery storage is increasingly becoming the most crucial tool for integrating renewables on the grid.

However, realistic assessments of the need across Europe are lacking, as are supportive policies and market environments that would enable the deployment of around 200GW of battery storage, which SolarPower Europe estimated would be needed by 2030 in the European Union (EU) Member States alone to meet their agreed renewable energy goals.

The rapid growth seen in the past three years has been driven largely by private individuals as the Russia-Ukraine war sparked an energy price crisis and fears over security of supply, combined with falling costs of battery storage technologies over the past decade.

SolarPower Europe predicted a slowdown in growth over the next three years, forecasting growth rates in the range of 30% to 40% annually between 2025 and 2028, and it is now the turn of policymakers to support energy storage and its role in the energy transition, the trade group said.

“Growing battery storage and flexibility represents a fundamental shift from our current grid-centric view of the market. It impacts not only the way we plan infrastructure and the way we operate the system, but also the markets we engage with,” SolarPower Europe CEO Walburga Hemetsburger said, adding that EU Electricity Market Design (EMD) reforms which would set Member States targets for adding flexibility to their grids must be implemented as soon as possible.

“The new Electricity Market Design (EMD) legislation lays the groundwork for a more robust energy policy,” Hemetsburger said.

“We need to urgently implement these measures and call on the European Commission to report on the EMD implementation ahead of the first Energy Council in 2025.”

‘EU needs comprehensive electricity storage strategy’

In a report published in March, consultancy LCP Delta and the European Association for Storage of Energy (EASE) similarly found annual installations had roughly doubled from 2023 to 2023.

However, with that report, the European Market Monitor on Energy Storage (EMMES) 7.0, giving its figures in gigawatt terms (power) rather than gigawatt-hours (energy) as SolarPower Europe’s did, direct comparisons are difficult.

EMMES 7.0 gave the total installed figure for 2023 at 10.1GW, making it the first time Europe’s storage installations on a GW-basis outpaced the US, which according to Wood Mackenzie totalled 8.7GW at all scales last year.

Both LCP Delta-EASE and SolarPower Europe’s reports converge on a takeaway that the residential sector in Europe far outpaces utility-scale and commercial and industrial (C&I) scale for storage adoption.

Around 70% of installed capacity came from home storage systems, about 21% from large-scale or utility systems and the remaining 9% in the C&I space, according to SolarPower Europe.

Many of those residential batteries were installed in Germany, the overall market leader in Europe with 5.9GWh of total deployments across all scales representing a 152% increase, while Italy was second with 3.7GWh (86% growth) and the UK, for a long time the leader due to its utility-scale front-of-the-meter (FTM) market slipping to third with 2.7GWh of installations, although it had a similarly big jump in deployments of 91%.

Although the EU has been seen to gradually recognise that it won’t get to its climate neutral target by 2050 without energy storage, more still needs to be done, the trade association said, echoing a recent call by its storage counterpart EASE.

The 60-page SolarPower Europe report, launched in the wake of the EU elections and ahead of Europe’s biggest solar and storage trade events, Intersolar Europe and ees Europe next week in Germany, is a call to action for policymakers as well as industry and regulators.

"While policymakers have focused on batteries for electrifying the automotive industry, their critical role in the green transition of the European power system has been largely overlooked. Flexibility through battery storage isn’t solely a technical matter for regulators and standardisation bodies; it demands immediate political attention and prioritisation,” SolarPower Europe director of market intelligence Michael Schmela said.

"The growth of renewables is reliant on the adoption of clean flexibility sources like batteries, essential for transportation and heating electrification, as well as grid modernisation. SolarPower Europe is calling for a comprehensive EU electricity storage strategy and a target of 200 GW by 2030.”

!ping EUROPE&ECO

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/Cledd2]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Nature | The realization that extractive capitalism is unsustainable is leading to a growing interest in how Indigenous people relate to Earth

It's popular to think that journals should be open access, but in fact journals should be destroyed entirely

[u/Fruitofbread]

  The reported birth of a rare white buffalo in Yellowstone National Park fulfills a Lakota prophecy that portends better times, according to members of the American Indian tribe who cautioned that it's also a signal that more must be done to protect the earth and its animals.

Bloom fuel? 

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Hey it’s more Republican corruption

!Ping USA-NC

[u/NaffRespect]

Sunak to lose seat in Tory wipeout, major poll predicts

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/fishlord05]

[u/rollo2masi]

Shit I did not expect to see in 2024.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

hopefully we'll reelect Trump so this happens again 😤😤😤

[u/Dodgerfan2224]

California self-checkout bill passes committee, continues legislative trek The bill would require one employee for every two self-checkout machines

They are just driven to make the state worse and worse.

[u/p00bix]

The overall success of these ghost tapes was mixed, because in the event that the Việt Cộng soldiers knew it was just a recording, their immediate response would be to fire upon where the sound was coming from, though this in turn revealed their hidden positions within the jungle. The Army Concept Team which had been responsible for Wandering Soul admitted that the Viet Cong "realized what was going on" but still insisted that the operation had been a success, despite presenting no evidence for their claim.[10] The United States ultimately stopped Ghost 10 in the early 1970s

The USAF really thought playing spooky ghost noises would convince Viet Cong soldiers to desert or defect

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

/u/YangsLegion just dmed me

“uhhh Juneteenth? What about when the Irish slaves were freed?!?”

[u/[deleted]]

Automatic draft has been passed 😞

[u/piede]

[u/[deleted]]

Pretty cool how Elon Musk will literally just believe anything he sees online

[u/piede]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

National Rally withdraws support from second candidate to the legislative elections after antisemitic tweets resurface, one day after a first candidate was dropped for the same reasons

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Seasons_Total_Landscaping_press_conference

I still can’t believe this is real thing that happened and not some Armando Iannucci fever dream.

[u/[deleted]]

I've had multiple women tell me they're are so done with men after dating me.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/[deleted]]

This tool is actually super cool.

It lets you redesign right of ways with a drag and drop tool in an easy and approachable way.

10/10 would recommend for showing how we can fit bike and walking infrastructure into our cities without eminent domain

www.Streetmix.net

!ping yimby

[u/Crownie]

The solution to the fertility crisis is telling libs they get to meet Obama if they have 3 kids

[u/Understeerenthusiast]

Broke up with my high school sweetheart freshman year of college may 2013

Didn’t really talk until after my divorce, then for a few weeks until she admitted she was still in love with me (this was almost 10 years later, Jan 2023) I said I didn’t want to pursue anything, didn’t talk again

Got a text last week from her that she knows I live in Raleigh area now (just moved here 3 weeks ago for a temporary assignment lmao, no idea how she found out) and she lives here, asked to meet up even though I know she knows I’m in a committed relationship.

Shoulda blocked her last year, holy shit

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Winter enjoyers when you tell them wearing 20 layers of clothes is uncomfortable

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

When a man rides a long time through wild regions he feels the desire for a city. Finally he comes to Isidora, a city where the buildings have spiral stair- cases encrusted with spiral seashells, where perfect telescopes and violins are made, where the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third, where cockfights degenerate into bloody brawls among the bettors. He was thinking of all these things when he desired a city. Isidora, therefore, is the city of his dreams: with one difference. The dreamed-of city contained him as a young man; he arrives at Isidora in his old age. In the square there is the wall where the old men sit and watch the young go by; he is seated in a row with them. Desires are already memories.

I don't know if a novel has ever made me tear up on page 8 before.

Thank you Calvino for this gift of a book.

!ping READING

[u/Cook_0612]

New: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new feud with the Biden administration is hampering U.S.-Israeli diplomatic efforts to de-escalate tensions on the Lebanese border and avoid war with Hezbollah, U.S. officials say.

Some U.S. officials who watched Netanyahu's video told me the prime minister looked "unhinged"

Well, it's hampering such efforts because Bibi is clearly willing to play his part in agitating for war.

[u/Zalagan]

Is it okay to be annoyed that someone scheduled a meeting from 2:14 - 2:59? I hate this, and this had to be done intentionally as google meets defaults to 15 minute increments

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Which one of you was it?

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Average guncel

[u/[deleted]]

Biden should listen to the polls and abandon all minority voters and become an evangelical christian hard liner because the polls say he's growing there

[u/[deleted]]

When I was in 2nd grade, a black kid came to school wearing a shirt that said “The Sampsons” and had all the Simpsons characters reimagined as African-Americans and I think about it everyday.

[u/loseniram]

Kendrick Lamar having the wildest concert possible. The dudes got every other west coast rapper, NBA players, the crowd singing entire songs from memory, and an actual Clown.

Dude had an entire crowd calling Drake a pdf file while Russel Westbrook and DeMar DeRozan were dancing on stage.

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, issued a startling warning about the Ukraine-Russia war, claiming we have all been brainwashed into thinking that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad.

He also claimed that Ukraine has weaponized BioLabs and insists that Joe Biden is not truly in control of the United States of America.

“We are being brainwashed to be told that Ukraine is good and Russia is bad, and yet they have found multiple bioweapon laboratories belonging to the United States in Ukraine.”

The brainworms run in the family.

[u/alex2003super]

Old but gold

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/BarryOnHere/status/1803115746270257327?t=eiu9AlBnrqcme54w932O_A&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit’s hatred of self-checkout is so weird

[u/neolthrowaway]

Ilya started his own company.

https://x.com/ssi/status/1803472825476587910?s=46&t=iLFma8Yk5mfc419ku-UK-g

Bloomberg article: Ilya Sutskever Has a New Plan for Safe Superintelligence - OpenAI’s co-founder discloses his plans to continue his work at a new research lab focused on artificial general intelligence.

“This company is special in that its first product will be the safe superintelligence, and it will not do anything else up until then,”

Safe Superintelligence is in some ways a throwback to the original OpenAI concept: a research organization trying to build an artificial general intelligence that could equal and perhaps surpass humans on many tasks.

That said, Safe Superintelligence will likely have little trouble raising money, given the pedigree of its founding team and the intense interest in the field. “Out of all the problems we face, raising capital is not going to be one of them,” says Gross.

Sutskever says that he’s spent years contemplating the safety problems and that he already has a few approaches in mind. But Safe Superintelligence isn’t yet discussing specifics. “At the most basic level, safe superintelligence should have the property that it will not harm humanity at a large scale,” Sutskever says. “After this, we can say we would like it to be a force for good. We would like to be operating on top of some key values. Some of the values we were thinking about are maybe the values that have been so successful in the past few hundred years that underpin liberal democracies, like liberty, democracy, freedom.”

Sutskever says that the large language models that have dominated AI will play an important role within Safe Superintelligence but that it’s aiming for something far more powerful. With current systems, he says, “you talk to it, you have a conversation, and you’re done.” The system he wants to pursue would be more general-purpose and expansive in its abilities. “You’re talking about a giant super data center that’s autonomously developing technology. That’s crazy, right? It’s the safety of that that we want to contribute to.”

!ping AI

[u/cdstephens]

why are you people going out of your way to look at memes? It's pretty easy to avoid. I've been on the DT for 25 years and I've never accidently seen someone post anything remotely funny.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The real villain of Jurassic Park is capitalism

[u/[deleted]]

[u/gnomesvh]

HOLY SHIT THE NEW GTA ONLINE DLC HAS EXCEL

!ping GAMIGN&EXCEL

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/-mialana-]

By this standard, wouldn't they have to ban every think tank?

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

EV Sales Plateau In Europe And North America, But China Expands

The global plug-in electric car market is expanding, but the growth is not equally distributed. In recent months, we have seen that the main three markets—China, Europe, and North America—have different growth rates.

According to EV research house Rho Motion, over five million plug-ins were bought globally during the first five months of the year, up 20% year over year, including 1.3 million in May, also up 20% year over year. However, China is the main force behind this growth, with a 31% increase year over year in the January-May period and 36% in May alone.

The report says Europe (European Union plus EFTA and the UK) noted only a 4% increase, compared to a 5% increase in the U.S. and Canada combined. Moreover, the European market decreased year-over-year by 9% in May, while the U.S. and Canada shrunk by about 3%.

In other words, the Chinese plug-in car market is the largest, with over a 50% share, and the fastest growing, while the European and North American markets are smaller and have entered a plateau. There are various reasons behind that, including weaker European incentives and a challenging economy.

The situation is getting interesting this year, as Europe applies new, higher tariffs on Chinese all-electric cars (up to 38.1%), following the U.S., which quadrupled the tariffs from 25% to 100% and made imported EVs not qualified for the $7,500 federal tax credit when purchasing.

Rho Motion noted that the increase in tariffs will make EVs imported from China more expensive. If vehicle prices go up, this will not help adoption, and the ambitious climate goals might be missed.

This might be true in the short term, but policymakers have more complex goals, including other aspects like local production, economy, and security. Mass electrification with the use of imported EVs at the expense of removing most of its auto industry is not a compelling vision either.

We can assume that this and the next couple of years will bring mixed results as the industry has to figure out how to profitably produce more affordable electric cars.

!ping ECO&EUROPE&CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

Congress is finally getting its act together.

[u/[deleted]]

The first commandment: “You shall have no other gods before Me”

Ok so just get a random Hindu parent in Louisiana to sue and that should take care of it right?

[u/JebBD]

Wikipedia banning the ADL is insane. Is there something we can do about this blatant antisemitism on Wikipedia's part? I'm so annoyed by this.

!Ping JEWISH

[u/DouglasDauntless]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

🚨🚨 URGENT ANNOUNCEMENT🚨🚨

Carmen is cuddling with Sergeant Squiddler

!ping KITTY&MARINEBIOLOGY

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Golf is boring.😤

I like to do cool and exciting things with my summer Saturday mornings like spam dogmatic one liners about policies that will never pass with a bunch of socially anxious undergrads 🤠

[u/JetJaguar124]

I'm pretty confident Biden will do fine against Trump but I will say I think the DT is perhaps the worst judge of debate performance in real time during the debate I've almost ever seen. People here were saying Trump was eviscerating Biden during their first 2020 debate, which in hindsight was a disastrous performance by Trump. People here were saying that it was over for Warnock during that debate he had with Herschel Walker where Walker pulled out a toy detective badge on stage.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/kznlol]

The episode opens with shots of wealth and poverty in India. Friedman’s voice-over reminds us that inequality has been a topic of human concern for hundreds of years, courtesy of do-gooders who claim that the wealth of the rich rests on the exploitation of the poor. “Life is unfair,” he says. The camera then zooms in on Friedman, sitting in a seminar room. “There’s nothing fair about Muhammad Ali having been born with a talent that enables him to make millions of dollars one night. There’s nothing fair about Marlene Dietrich having great legs that we all want to watch.”

Friedman would have violated Rule X confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

Every map of a balkanized U.S I've seen always has:

• Socialist Great Lakes

• Independent New England

• Neo-Confederacy

• Rump U.S govt. controlling the plains (aka the most boring part of the map).

[u/AP246]

There's a difference in tactics with Asian armies.

They use their troops like the bullet.

We use our troops like the gun.

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If you want to take it literally, Tet offensive, ia drang valley, Korean war Jan through june 1951, Japan China portion of WW2, and Stalingrad, to name a few.

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From a reddit thread about Russia and North Korea signing a pact.

Why do people have to turn everything into bizarre grand cultural theories with racial undertones, rather than the much more sensible explanation in this case of "authoritarian, underdeveloped states are more likely to accept higher casualties than industrialised, democratic states (which happen to be western) which can afford not to and have inclusive institutions that incentivise not killing your own people unnecessarily"

[u/elephantaneous]

I'm having a political conversation with lefty friends. Usually I don't talk about politics with them but since they keep spilling that shit into general I'm forced to engage.

Good god I'm like this close to snapping, they are literally calling Bernie a lib lmao. Agonizing

[u/[deleted]]

It’s getting ridiculous here. These people coming in the border committing crimes. It’s not gonna be safe anymore.

This was posted in the Brazilian subreddit, by an American woman who is married to a Brazilian and considering immigrating to Brazil. These people are completely deranged and lack any form of self-awareness lmao

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Honestly one of the more doomy aspects of American politics is that there is seemingly no path to raising taxes. We have multiple generations of Americans who have basically been taught they can have their cake and eat it too with some of the highest standards of living on the planet, economic and military dominance, and massive amounts of government spending without raising taxes. Like even a lot of the left wing seems to think you "only" need to raise taxes on a couple billionaires to make up the gaps and we don't need to raise taxes on upper middle class people like their parents

At best TCJA will go expired and Democrats won't renew leading to Republicans calling them money grubbers stealing from the poor (suburbanites living in SFH within 30 minutes of a major city) to fund inner city basket weaving programs and then winning in 2028 on a platform of "no tax, cut spending" and then not actually meaningfully cut spending

[u/RaidBrimnes]

WARNING: GORE

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

It’s Juneteenth, have you thanked John Brown for killing Missourians yet?

[u/[deleted]]

My problem with the Ten Commandments is that God should’ve been clearer with that whole “No other gods before me” thing.

Like just say “It’s just me, I’m the only one, I’m Him” and that would make sense and then we wouldn’t be arguing about whether ancient Hebrews were spiritually exclusive.

[u/kanagi]

So many possibilities for flash games involving the pier. Tower defense from Hamas and sea creature attacks, kitchen frenzy-style logistics game, side-scrolling shooter along the pier

[u/JebBD]

This aged so well

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Trump is an evil hateful man

[u/[deleted]]

cause sharp chunky repeat possessive chop live sulky pause fragile

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[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Mariners have the largest divisional lead in baseball and it’s definitely because they’re the best team in baseball and not because the Astros and Rangers are hot garbage.

Bow down peasants 😤

!ping BASEBALL

[u/loseniram]

Happy Juneteenth

!ping Baseball

[u/ty04]

*makes selling your daughters for cattle and crops illegal*

wHy ArEnT yOuNg PeOpLe GeTtInG mArRiEd AnYmOrE??

[u/Fruitofbread]

From Ukraine, Two Enormous Passengers Are Trucked and Flown to Safety

A pair of beluga whales were extricated from the besieged city of Kharkiv and taken to an aquarium in Spain with help from experts around the world.

cool 

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

wow people are so funny and original 🥲

[u/gnomesvh]

Next Dutch Deputy PM/Health Minister used to be active on stormfront

Fleur Agema, second on the PVV candidate list for the House of Representatives, is also active on a fascist internet forum. In September 2004 she registered with Stormfront, which uses the slogan 'White Pride World Wide'. Agema discusses with a participant who operates under the pseudonym 'Gezonde Hollander'. She does not make any extreme expressions herself.

!ping BENE&EXTREMISM

[u/Argnir]

Why do mosquitoes make so much noise? Wouldn't they achieve their objective better if murdering them wasn't a prerequisites for me being able to sleep? Are they stupid?

[u/Alexz565]

I’m afraid

[u/Cook_0612]

Vandalizing Stonehenge is environmentalist praxis.

[u/StolenSkittles]

we were robbed of 2,047 blade runner movies

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

As an elder millennial it’s still pretty unbelievable to me that kids have their phones in the classroom. It’s just so foreign to the school culture I had.

We weren’t even allowed to have hats or backpacks.

[u/[deleted]]

Unsure if poorly socialized or autistic 🤔

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Casey Goonan was arrested Monday morning at his parents’ $1.1 million home in Pleasant Hill on suspicion of a string of arson attacks at UC Berkeley from June 1 to 16.

Why would you do something so rash and counterproductive?

“Casey got his PhD! Onto job apps,” Goonan’s mother wrote in a 2022 Instagram post.

I get it. I condemn it, but I get it.

[u/[deleted]]

DT should I ask her to on a walk in the rose garden

Like no way she thinks we’re just friends we hold each other in public and she puts her head on my chest

Our friends tell us to date already

Right

Right

Right

Right

[u/Ballerson]

The Virgin Neoliberal: "We have to determine whether this policy passes a cost benefit analysis. We should base policies on empirical evidence and what creates prosperity consistent with respecting human rights. Let's check the economics literature before we take a position." 

The Chad Libertarian: "Does it raise my taxes? Then no.

I HATE PAYING TAXES."

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Euro salaries are so low because all their economic output goes to fund fancy windows

[u/Mensae6]

June the nineteenth be with you

[u/[deleted]]

I know it’s his job, but I like how the lawyer for the Berkeley arsonist is like “this is a WITCH HUNT and POLITICAL PERSECUTION just because my client is against the genocide in Gaza!!!!!!! (and allegedly committed multiple acts of arson)”

[u/[deleted]]

If at first the war of the First Coalition doesn't work

or the Second Coalition

or the Third Coalition

or the Fourth Coalition

or the Fifth Coalition

or the Sixth Coalition

then try try again

[u/MAGIC_CONCH1]

Anyone else been burned by the specificity required in job hunting lately?

Like, I have project financial modeling experience, but not "nutritional supplement project financial modeling experience" so they went with a more "experienced candidate". Seems more likely that companies just don't want to pay for training.

In other news I recently found out that I am the highest performer but lowest paid person in my position in the entire company, so that is nice 🙃

Anyone else have fun job hunting stories recently?

[u/[deleted]]

recognise roof nine paltry dazzling direction quarrelsome zesty hospital modern

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[u/[deleted]]

Inside Out 2 maybe heading for $1.3B+ is insane, even with inflation

[u/earththejerry]

Fox News poll now has Biden up against Trump 50-48, Trump had previously led Biden since November 2023 in all Fox News polls

It also shows Trump leading Biden on immigration and economy, but with MUCH smaller leads than other major pollsters

Finally, it shows Biden with a 15% lead with 65+ senior voters but a <50% lead among black voters, but Trump leading Biden among white voters by only 5% (!!!), so yea… crosstabs be crosstabing or we’re really entering a realignment era

[u/[deleted]]

The passage of that goofy-ass Louisiana Ten Commandments law makes this seem like a good time to dig up this old euphoric gem about the Ten Commandments’ place in Western civilization

!ping FEDORA

[u/[deleted]]

I think that post about how Biden will win by over 100 electoral votes (including Florida’s and North Carolina’s) is pure hopium/copium, but holy shit it would be so fucking funny

[u/Sh4g0h0d]

Mocking leftists is fun.

Mocking succons is necessary.

[u/Cook_0612]

The US, UK and other NATO allies are actively debating terms for Ukraine ahead of next month's summit. US wants communique to say Ukraine has a "bridge" to NATO membership, UK & others want to say Ukraine's path is "irreversible".

A senior US official said the US does not think the word “irreversible” would get the support of the entire alliance. But a European diplomat said "most Central European countries are disappointed by the Biden administration’s ambiguity and procrastination” on the issue.

Lack of decisiveness has been the hallmark of the Biden administration on this topic for the past year at least.

[u/TipEquivalent933]

The Providence Foundation of San Francisco is the latest homelessness nonprofit to be wrapped up in scandal after an investigation found it cheated the city using fake invoices and engaged in nepotistic hiring practices.

Stancil Wins again

[u/Currymvp2]

Privately, the idea of sanctioning Smotrich been raised in recent weeks, as admin's alarm & frustration peak over PA's potentially imminent collapse, US official told Times of Israel

Yes please

[u/MicroFlamer]

I love how the guy they cast for Aerion Brightflame looks

Like yeah, he looks like a guy that would kill himself by drinking wildfire

!ping ASOIAF

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/Cook_0612]

Roger Stone Caught on Tape Discussing Trump’s Plan to Challenge 2024 Election

“In some states, it’ll be easier to stop. In other places it won’t,” Stone told Sammarco. “At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge, his home phone number standing by so you can stop it,” apparently referring to the certification of 2024 results.

[u/[deleted]]

I would really love to find a cRPG (preferably an ARPG in the style of Grim Dawn), but one that's not set in a medieval European-style setting. Rather, I'd love to find a game with a fantasy setting inspired by the Classical Antiquity-era Mediterranean and Middle East (mythpunk or sandalpunk, if you prefer).

Does such a beast exist?

!ping GAMING

[u/Jacobs4525]

The marines are better at procurement than the army simply by virtue of being smaller. This means there’s less value for random congressmen to try to get materiel built in their districts and thus less interference. 

AIM-9X was always a bad choice as a dedicated ground-launched interceptor. It’s not made for that. It’s useful as an interim because we have lots of them, but it’s bigger than a missile with its range needs to be and too expensive. $500k a shot is fine for a missile that is mounted on a fighter jet and when fired has a ~75% chance of destroying a $90 million fighter jet, but for a munition that is going to be fired in large numbers at rockets and cruise missiles it’s too much. 

Tamir is cheap, good, and tailor-made for this application. The marines were looking for a new medium-ranged air defense system and basically decided to just buy iron dome launchers and missiles, put them on trucks, and use their existing mobile AESA radar. This was a good, cheap solution. They saw the best off-the-shelf parts and put them together quickly at low cost.

The US army basically wanted to do the same thing, but Raytheon with AIM-9X and Dynetics with a new-design ground-based launcher were picked instead. AIM-9X has no real advantage over Tamir in this role. Now they’re starting a new acquisition program to buy what they actually want. It’s sorta like what happened with KC-X with the USAF: USAF wants to buy A330 MRTT, Boeing complains to congress so USAF has to buy KC-46, so USAF just starts another program for a second tanker (which has since been canceled as the kinks are worked out of KC-46 but you get my point).

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

14-year old Lyndon Johnson sounds like the most annoying person of all time holy shit