Gregory Alexander

Chemist. Analyst. Programer. No idea what he is doing.

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@GreyAlien And in a twist of irony, the constant accusations of the use of AI will likely end up driving the use of AI art under the auspices of being damned any which way regardless.

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@WingsScotland This appears to be a ‘but I still want to be invited to my fancy dinner parties’ ruling, by those who inhabit the leafier sections of our country.

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@WingsScotland We really are at the point of finance eating the whole country parody.

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@WingsScotland Since the invention of the internet, why does it feel like we are sliding into the tyranny of those with too much time on their hands?

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@tapedrone @WingsScotland Working for completeness:
70000000000
divided by £8000 (Tesla Powerwall 3)
Multiply by 13.5 (kWh capacity)
Divide by 1000, capacity in MWh
Divide by 1000, capacity in GWh
Divide by 36GW (week average draw on the grid)
3.2 Hours…

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@tapedrone @WingsScotland So, the cost of marketing Net Zero would be sufficient to purchase 118GWh of battery storage at consumer retail prices… enough to power the whole grid single handed for almost 3 hours, aka days in a realistic scenario. Isn’t that enough to fix half the intermittent problem?

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@WingsScotland Simultaneously horrifying and completely unsurprising. This is where the steadfast resistance from the powers that be to any moderate change what so ever has brought us.

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@joolzzt @WingsScotland Sounding like another case of the process is the punishment…

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@KBGreyhoundlady @SonyaDouglas You are talking about an election where a 1-2% swing is all that is required.
Stop the political equivalent of putting olives on pizzas. Everyone loves pizza, a lot of people love olives… but enough people absolutely hate them enough to never touch a pizza with them on top.

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A public service announcement: While it may be fun to throw stones, please remember this is the country that is about 2 elections away from a result every bit as horrifying if things do not change quickly enough.

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@WingsScotland Ah Wikipedia, a website dedicated to ‘truth’ as dictated by those with the most time on their hands. It’s exactly who you would expect.

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@WingsScotland In total, how little money did it take for the SNP to sell its soul?

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@WingsScotland While a bit depressing, I have always been shocked at how little money it takes to get bought off in this part of the world. Not mansions and yachts, but camper vans and a desk job for 5-10 years. Might be worth looking at?

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@teik469034 @Osinttechnical Alas, fixed position radar based systems tend to be anti-radiation missile magnets.

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@WingsScotland “… Every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.”
- Every artist should remember this.

[Granite Man 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @GraniteDhuine]

I remember when a computer didn't automatically connect to the internet, it used to make a screaming noise. We should have listened.

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@WingsScotland Every single drop of oil that isn’t used for plastics suppresses the oil price and is subsequently burned as fuel. It is the very definition of performative environmentalism.

[Classical Studies Memes @CSMFHT]

Nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how “busy you were”
- how many hours you worked

People will remember:
- your sub-standard copper

[Gregory Alexander @Gallium]

@JohnGower1 @Rab_Dickson1 Well, we used to smelt a lot of aluminium, until certain policies were enacted. We used to make a lot of paper, until certain policies were enacted. It is as if some sort of grid at a national level was set up to inflate prices in one area of the nation to the benefit of another.

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@JohnGower1 @Rab_Dickson1 Sounds like the justification the pretty stereotypical colonial resource extraction economy, to me. Riddle me this: why, if there is such a bounty of energy in Scotland such that a grid to transport it south is required, that there are so few energy intensive industries up here?