Lord OMG of Rossendale

I've been reliably informed I am a Scottish Lord so yes that is my name.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

SMR vs Wind/Solar: REAL COST per GWh (UK)

🔹 Rolls-Royce SMR
470 MW | 10 acres | 222,329 GWh | £1.8B
→ **£8,096/GWh**

🌬️ Scout Moor Wind
65 MW | 1,347 acres | 4,140 GWh | £66M
→ £15,894/GWh

⚡ Hinkley C
3,200 MW | 165 acres | 1.5M GWh | £46B
→ £30,388/GWh

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[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@Gracie_Blue89 What muscle is he training????

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

Just remember, you were advised for years NOT to write down your complex and unique passwords to individual sites in a small discreet book/pad.

Instead trust our online accessible password manager. Far more secure than a random book.

Burglars routinely steal books after all.

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Big day for dudes who write all of their passwords down on a slip of paper that they keep at their desk

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

I agree, Africa should pay British-based Africans reparations or demand their return. Only then can their enslavement by Africans be resolved.

Or do people think a few thousand white British people were chasing down and imprisoning millions of black Africans? 🤣🤣🤣 ye right.

[Dawn Butler ✊🏾💙 @DawnButlerBrent]

A stolen watch doesn’t become yours just because you pass it down to your children. So why apply a different rule to stolen labour, wealth and land? Reparations are about inherited benefit and inherited loss. Time doesn’t erase injustice.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@schmede_AI Fantastic, I think leaning on the Hermione being the insight into Malfoys mind is the best path. She's proven shes usually right at these inner workings thoughts. Its Herm's suggestions that twists Harry's mind to spotting the subtle tells that Malfoy might like him.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@Teslimatttt Voldemort and Dumbledore were both incredibly accomplished Transfiguration students, the hardest magic to master. Which is why their battle looks very different to the Death Eaters vs DA/OotP.

Harry is essentially a peak magic-MMA fighter. Its fast brutal and high energy.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

Thinking you need a university degree to be a police officer, rather than how we historically did things based on competence and physical traits.

The ministry has just been shown to have bent over to a dark lord who was defeated by a child. Clearly NEWTS mean nothing.

[Teslimat @Teslimatttt]

Because Rowling isn't so good at logical consequences.

Consider: When was Bill born? Suspiciously close to Molly's graduation day. Rowling clearly wouldn't want improper things to happen with "good guys," but it is clear something happened.

Consider: Why does Dumbledore do the things he does? There are dozens of different solutions to the same problems that don't cause as much pain and suffering, and yet he goes with the most idiotic solutions. Rowling clearly wanted Dumbledore to be a bastion of hope, a paragon whose humanity only served to underline how great he was... but it's clear that he's either malicious or incompetent.

Consider: Muggles can exchange paper money for Galleons at a rate that far exceeds the gold's actual value. Do you think there are no muggleborns who think to melt the coins down, sell the gold at a significant profit, and then turn that money back into Galleons, ad nauseum? Rowling clearly wanted the worlds to exist side-by-side without the muggle world actually affecting the wizarding world and vice versa in any significant, noticeable manner, but it's clear how you can game the system and no one's too stupid to pass up on such an opportunity.

Consider: Harry didn't go back and finish his seventh year. But he needs several NEWTs, including potions, to become an auror, the job he just shrugged and accepted. Rowling clearly thought that Harry's last year substituted for actual knowledge and skill or something, but it's clear that either Ministry corruption hasn't gone down, everyone in the Ministry is too stupid to realize what happens when someone gets a position without the requisite knowledge for it, or Harry's position is in-name only, and they stop him from doing anything to mess up operations.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

"The Federation is fascist" is such a mid is Liberal conclusion.

Ricos parents are rich, they planned to send their son to Harvard (despite poor grades) and bribe him with an interstellar holiday as a gift.

And hated the Federation and rejected what it granted citizens.

[Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ Space Crusader Vtuber @M_Bohemond]

Since the discourse has kicked off, let's analyze this.

What exactly is "evil" about the Federation in Starship Troopers? To specify, we're talking strictly the movie version, here:

>low crime
>purely egalitarian
>booming economy
>complete political and military transparency
>is purely reactive in starting wars with it's neighbors

Even the voting rights are completely equal. Everyone has a chance to earn it equally, and no one is denied those rights selectively. No one is discriminated against.

But we all know what is "evil" about it. You saw Doogie Howser in a trench coat and hat and your brain ticked it off as "the ick" so you just went from there. Because 'evil' and 'fascism' are just vibes to you people, not action and ideology.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

Well at least we know where all the bots are now.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has surpassed X in monthly active users

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

When the someone says "God will provide" so many times and is proven right you go from a disbeliever to a believer....

then try it yourself....

and die.

Talk about subverting expectations!

[Ancient History Hub @AncientHistorry]

October 20, 1097. The First Crusade arrived at Antioch and looked at the walls. Four hundred towers, nine square kilometres of city, a mountain behind it with a citadel on top.

They had no siege engines, no supply system, and no way to surround a place that big. So they sat down outside it and started to starve, and within a few months they were dying at a rate of roughly one in seven.

Antioch is the siege that should have ended the Crusade, and the reason it did not is a sequence of events so improbable that medieval chroniclers took it as proof of divine intervention.

Start with the problem. Antioch was one of the great cities of the ancient world, and Justinian's sixth century walls were still standing and still good. The circuit ran up the slopes of Mount Silpius, three hundred metres above the valley, with a citadel on the heights that was defended mainly by the fact that you could not get at it.

Twice since Justinian the city had changed hands. Both times by betrayal, not by assault. That detail matters later.

The governor was Yaghi-Siyan, who had held it since 1087 and who prepared for the siege exactly as you would expect. He stockpiled food, imprisoned the Orthodox Patriarch, turned St Peter's Cathedral into a stable, and threw out a large part of the Christian leadership of the city. Ridwan of Aleppo refused to help him. Duqaq of Damascus said he would come.

The crusader force was maybe 40,000 people when the siege started, and that figure includes non-combatants, because this was not only an army. Pilgrims had walked from France and Germany and were still with it.

They camped outside the north wall and could only cover some of the gates, which meant the city could be resupplied and the garrison could sortie out whenever it felt like it.

Then the food ran out.

They stripped the countryside, and once the countryside was stripped the foraging parties had to go further, and the parties that went further got ambushed. By early 1098 something like one in seven crusaders was dying of hunger. The Armenian chronicler Matthew of Edessa put the figure across the whole siege closer to one in five.

Local Christians sold them food at whatever price they could get, which is a very human detail and not a flattering one for anybody.

The horses died. At one point the army had around 700 left out of what had been thousands. That is a catastrophe for a force whose entire tactical advantage was the armoured cavalry charge.

The desertions started in January. Peter the Hermit, the preacher who had helped start the whole movement, tried to leave and was caught and brought back and pardoned. William the Carpenter was caught and made to swear an oath to stay.

Stephen of Blois left in early June and got as far as Tarsus, and then did real damage, because he met the Byzantine emperor Alexios coming south with an army and told him the crusaders were already finished. Alexios turned around and went home.

So in June 1098 the crusaders were starving outside Antioch, their Byzantine support had turned back on the word of a deserter, and a large Muslim relief army under Kerbogha of Mosul was on the way.

Which is when Bohemond of Taranto, the Norman from southern Italy, played his hand.

He had been quietly corresponding with a man named Firouz, an Armenian who commanded a section of wall called the Tower of the Two Sisters. Firouz wanted money and a title. Bohemond wanted the city, and before he told the other leaders about the deal he made them agree that whoever took Antioch would keep it, which meant him. Raymond of Toulouse objected. Everyone else agreed, because Kerbogha was coming.

On the night of June 2 Bohemond marched the army south as though abandoning the siege, then doubled back in the dark. A small group climbed to Firouz's tower, got in, and opened a postern gate.

What followed was not a battle, it was a sack. The garrison was overwhelmed in the streets. The poorer crusaders, who had been starving outside for eight months, went through the city looting and killing indiscriminately, and a lot of the dead were local Christians who had nothing to do with the defence. Firouz's own brother was among them. The man who opened the gate lost his brother to the men he let in.

Yaghi-Siyan got out of the city and was then caught and killed, and his head was brought to Bohemond.

The citadel on the mountain did not fall. His son held it.

Three days later Kerbogha arrived, and the crusaders, who now held a wrecked city with no food in it and an enemy fortress on the hill above them, were besieged inside the place they had just spent eight months besieging.

Then the Holy Lance.

A peasant named Peter Bartholomew announced he had been having visions of St Andrew, who told him the lance that pierced Christ's side was buried in the floor of St Peter's. On June 15 they dug, and Peter reached into the pit and produced a spearhead.

Bohemond thought it was a fraud. Raymond of Toulouse treated it as a sign from God and used it to argue for fighting rather than surrendering, and the effect on the army's morale was enormous.

The honest part. Peter Bartholomew was later challenged and agreed to an ordeal by fire to prove the relic. He walked through it, was severely burned, and died twelve days later in April 1099. Make of that what you want. Either way, a starving army believed it had God's own spear, and on June 28 it marched out of the gates in divisions to fight Kerbogha's army in the open.

And it won. Kerbogha delayed, tried to pull them onto broken ground, set the grass on fire, harried them with archers. Then Duqaq of Damascus, Soqman and the Emir of Homs abandoned him mid-battle, because the Muslim coalition was a coalition of rivals who did not trust each other, and the whole army came apart and ran.

The citadel surrendered the same day. Its commander specifically refused to surrender to Raymond and surrendered personally to Bohemond instead, which settled the argument about who owned Antioch.

Bohemond kept it. The Principality of Antioch lasted 170 years.

Eight months outside the walls, one in five dead of hunger, saved by an Armenian guard who wanted a title and then lost his brother for it, and by a spearhead pulled out of a church floor by a man who later burned to death proving it was real.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@affleckquine And their reasoning for being unable to do it is anxiety.

Again, if not accepting it as a reason isn't going to cause an issue before its not accepted already, then you can't have a problem?

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

If nobody gets PIP for anxiety - then its not a problem to remove anxiety as an allowed criteria to claim PIP then is it?

Both win.

You continue to know nobody has PIP because of it.

Reality sees a massive drop in PIP claimants and complaining they don't get PIP anymore.

[Kate 🕊 @affleckquine]

Nobody gets PIP for an anxiety disorder. Why are these "news" outlets getting away with the constant lying about who receives PIP?

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

I agree. Increase their pay 10% and reduce their pension by 10%

Next.

[Conor Kelly @ConorKellyPBP]

Public sector workers need at least a 10% pay rise to catch up with inflation and protect against rising costs. Gov has the money: billions in budget surpluses while workers struggle to pay the bills. #PayTheWorkers #UnionStrike #JoinATradeUnion

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

Rich people commit crimes all the time. Especially when they think they'll get away with it. Which is why their crimes are usually more thought out, sit in grey areas and are less violent. Fraud for instance. Or treason (though thats not illegal in UK anymore - thankd Blair).

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

You reduce crime by giving people something to lose.

If you love your kids and don't want to lose them, the threat and reality of doing so if you don't change is enough.

If you know you'll go to prison, be hung in public or be deported - your behaviour changes.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@kenzietuff Its a castle based in Scotland, its fucking cold, she'd be in tights 90% of the year.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@CompassDrifter Because you're on a moving surface shooting at a moving target.

You ain't going to be no scoping at 300yards with a bolt action, an m16 is going to be spraying wild, and most importantly- salt + intricate moving metal parts? bad. You need something that is reliable. I.e. Shotgun

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

They can't do anything.

French laws don't allow private security to act to prevent looting. At best they're a deterrent, they can be arrested if they physically engage with the rioters.

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Dior had no faith in the French police to protect their store so they brought in their own security team to protect the flagship store in Paris tonight

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@confusedtayo Which Death eaters betrayed him?

Lying isn't betraying. Snape openly supported Voldemort even after "switching sides". He never directly betrayed him. Betraying his motives/intentions at best.

Even Karkorov only betrayed other death eaters.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

@Landeur We won't turn Balkan for 1 simple reason. Agree with it or not, its easier to identify "you aren't one of us" than it is over there.

There would be no "which type of Brit are you?" or "which type of African are you?". Because it would be more obvious you were us or them.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

Perhaps Harry keeps seeing him on the map near Huff common room when trying to meet the others at night, Harry assumes he's being followed down there.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

2. Keep Ron in Gryf. But at the start of the 2nd year after crashing the car they are taken to Dumbledores office where Ron tries to take all the blame off Harry.

The Hat then interrupts basically using a rarely used or known function of reassigning students to different houses.

[Krana-kler @TheChroNikler]

I mean, other than certain plot reworks to make things more coherent (of which there would be MANY) the things I would change would be:

1. Malfoid. Obviously. It just works. 'Nuff said.

2. Put Hermione in Ravenclaw and Ron in Hufflepuff. Hermione very obviously should have been a Ravenclaw, and I think making her so she fails to get her into her desired house could serve as a great narrative motivator for actually being a braver person. As for Ron, making him the SINGLE Weasley in his family to NOT get sorted into Gryffindor would only make him feel more like he's the weak link of his family, but like any true Hufflepuff he would demonstrate his unflinching loyalty. Even makes the point of him wielding the Sword of Gryffindor more poignant in Deathly Hallows, as he basically proves to himself that he's worthy to be called brave. PLUS if this means we're redeeming Malfoy, you now have one member from each house working together to stop Voldy, which is a very strong narrative beat. Even gives you more setting variety, as they could all visit each other's common rooms.

3. Rework the Elder Wand. Harry winning by a technicality about the intracies if wizard disarmament is silly. Instead, make it so that the Elder Wand's full power can only be used by "a master of death" most wizards eventually interpret this as meaning you have to kill the previous owner (especially given the wand's bloody history) but Harry realizes that becoming a master of death isn't about mastering death, but accepting it (it DOES have a thestral hair as its core, after all). Harry is a true master of the Elder Wand because he readily accepts his mortality, and isn't afraid to die, while Voldemort is terrified of it, thus ironically ensuring his ultimate demise.

4. One last tiny change: instead of making Evada Kedavra unblockable, make it really easy to block instead. This allows wizard fights to be dynamic rather than just "bad guys shoot green death lasers but always miss because they have the aim of stormtroopers." The good wizards are trying to stun or disarm while the Death Eaters are constantly trying to maim or injure to prevent the target from blocking the killing blow. If you wanted to make Voldemort extra scary you could say he's so powerful and so skilled with it that his Evafa Kedavra is unblockable, but the spell itself is a bit too OP in my book.

[Lord OMG of Rossendale @DoubleGen]

The first book can still play out the same with Herm in Rav and getting insulted by Ron ultimately leading to saving her and they become friends.

Remove Sirious breaking into the dorm room obviously because Ron's not in it, and Neville doesnt give codes.