Theo Nel :The One L

Theoché!I Love restaurants.Advocate. Ex-Hotelier @karooarthotel.I say ffs a lot.Astrant! Just because I drive a truck,does not make me a truck driver😎.

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

The Invisible Glass Experiment

Scientists once conducted a fascinating experiment with a pike and an aquarium.

They placed a transparent glass barrier in the middle of the tank. On one side was a large, hungry pike. On the other side swam several small fish.

As soon as the pike spotted the smaller fish, it launched itself forward to attack.

Bang! It crashed headfirst into the invisible glass and was thrown backward.

Undeterred, the pike tried again... and again. Each attempt ended the same way a painful collision. After repeated failures , its head became bruised and some of its scales were knocked loose.

Eventually, the pike gave up. It retreated to a corner of the tank, clearly frightened and defeated.

Then, the scientists quietly removed the glass barrier.

The small fish now swam freely around the entire aquarium some even passing right in front of the pike’s mouth.

But the pike never attacked again.

Even though it was starving, it refused to strike. In its mind, the invisible wall was still there.

A few days later, the pike died of starvation surrounded by abundant food it could no longer bring itself to eat.

This phenomenon is known as the Pike Effect (or Pike Syndrome).

It serves as a powerful metaphor for how repeated failures and setbacks can create invisible mental barriers that limit us long after the real obstacles have disappeared.

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

@Osint613 A compulsive, demented liar

[Ian Cameron @IanCameron23]

It may not have been his intention, but Warrant Officer Karl Sander spoke on behalf of thousands upon thousands of men and women with integrity that still work in the SAPS/DPCI.

Over the last few days so many members spoke of him in such high regard even though not personally knowing him. They all say he is spot on with what many of them experience daily.

The way he was treated is exactly what so many experience when they do the right thing and act with integrity.

Remember just recently a member that committed suicide in Gauteng due to workplace treatment. The irony is that many of those who dish out the ill treatment are either vehemently corrupt and/or incompetent.

It gives me hope to see more and more experienced junior and middle management level police members speaking up and stepping forward. They are the ones that attempt to hold the very thin blue line and actually do deserve to be the colonels, brigadiers and generals.

Their resilience is what is increasing the momentum of the clean up. Thank you to those members, and a very special thank you (even though it cannot ever be enough) to W/O Sander🫡

(Image: @News24)

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Me, myself and AI — remaining ‘profoundly human’ in a time of artificial intelligence https://t.co/1HpiKZeRKS

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Brutal. Unacceptable

[BritMatters 🇬🇧 @britmatters]

Two-Tier Hypocrisy On Video.

Police Kick Muslim Terrorist?
@ZackPolanski "I was traumatised by seeing someone handcuffed and repeatedly kicked in the head."

Police Kick White Protester?
@ZackPolanski "No comment."

#UKNews #CrimeNews #UKPolitics

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

@DamiDefi Please put the same questions to Grog and let us see the reply?

[Robin Redmile-Gordon @WhatNowDoc]

This innocent man is currently held on remand until June 26th pending trial. Ever been in a remand prison? Then you have no idea the agony that poor man is going through for sitting on the sidelines, minding his own business.

What the fuck happened to my country?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Goeie fok. This is criminal. How is this possible? No-one stopped him from desecrating the reflection pool?

[Resisting Like Hell. @AhearnColeen]

It looks like a giant swimming pool at your local Radisson Hotel.
All its missing is the diving board and deck chairs.
Trump doesn't understand what a reflecting pool actually is.
He should be made to pay to bring it back to its original condition.

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

@washingtonpost We want to see the footage of this happening

[Yohan @yohaniddawela]

The French hate air conditioning.

So Paris built a 120-kilometre machine under its streets for producing cold.

It’s called Fraîcheur de Paris, and it does for summer heat what district heating did for winter: centralise the problem.

Instead of every museum, office, hotel, hospital and shop bolting its own cooling plant onto the building, Paris moves cold through pipes.

The network sends water chilled to 2 to 4°C through buried supply lines. The water enters a connected building, absorbs heat through an exchange station, then returns at 12 to 14°C to be cooled again.

It essentially functions with two pipes. One carries the cold out, the other carries heat back.

The production plants cool the circuit from 12°C to 4°C. Some sites use the Seine as a heat sink. In colder periods, the system can use the river’s own temperature for free cooling, which means the machines work less and the electricity demand drops. The Seine water doesn’t become the building water. It stays separate, passing temperature across heat exchangers.

The scale is pretty strange when you see it written down though.

It's got 15 production sites, 4 storage sites, 120 km of underground network with 924 subscribers. This has resulted in 7 million square metres cooled, and 493 GWh of cooling sold.

A cold utility running beneath one of the densest cities in Europe.

The Forum des Halles has been cooled this way since 1979. The Louvre since 1986. Galeries Lafayette, Opéra Garnier, Hôtel de Ville, Station F, La Samaritaine and the National Assembly all sit on the same idea. Tourists stand in the Louvre looking at paintings while a municipal cold loop does part of the dull work below ground.

The boring part is the breakthrough.

Cold can be stored at night in chilled water or ice, then used during daytime peaks. The network is monitored from a control room with more than 125,000 control points. A delivery station inside a building takes 5 to 7 times less space than a standalone cooling installation and avoids the roof and façade clutter that turns cities into compressor farms.

That matters because conventional air conditioning solves heat by moving it somewhere nearby. In a dense city, thousands of private machines mean thousands of outdoor units rejecting heat into streets, courtyards and roofs, plus refrigerants, noise, vibration and maintenance spread across every building.

Paris’s public cooling network has a stated coefficient of performance of 4, against 3 for a wet standalone system and 2 for a dry standalone system. Against an equivalent set of autonomous installations, Fraîcheur de Paris says the network gives 100% higher energy efficiency, 35% less electricity use, 90% fewer refrigerant-fluid emissions and 50% lower CO2 emissions.

The climate backdrop is the real reason this exists.

Paris ran a full crisis exercise called “Paris at 50°C” in 2023. Météo-France’s 2050 reference trajectory for France points to heatwave days becoming five times more frequent, hot nights rising sharply in urban centres, and some local extremes around 48°C becoming possible.

The city signed a 20-year concession in 2022 with Fraîcheur de Paris, owned 85% by ENGIE and 15% by RATP. The contract is worth a projected €2.4 billion. The plan is to extend the network by 158 km by 2042, add 20 production plants and 10 storage sites, and reach more than 3,000 subscribers, including hospitals, nurseries, schools and care homes.

This is basically the infrastructure version of admitting that summer is becoming a public systems problem...

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

@Martin_ASFL I don’t disagree with your point- but your application of the eggshell skul rule is not juridically correct

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Starmer must fall

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

“Elon Musk is interfering with our politics and inciting division.”

I don’t think he is mate.

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Ffs

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

@TRobinsonNewEra Brutal and fascist policing

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Trump has never reflected on anything in his life. He does not understand the concept

[Jan Vader II @bullet_time]

Amerykański Twitter oburza się, że „reflecting pool” nazywa się tak ponieważ jego głównym celem miało być odbijanie w wodzie obrazu okolicznych pomników. Aby to było możliwe, dno musi być ciemne. Trump zamienił je w basen pływacki i teraz odbije już tylko jego bezdenną głupotę.

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Never got to the main topic.. Author undermining himself.

[Steve H @SoDakSteveOh]

@LearnWithBishal What do I say instead of “I hope you’re doing well”

[Theo Nel :The One L @TheOneEL]

Indeed. And that undermines all confidence in this post.

[Khushboo Sinha @imKhushbooS]

@LearnWithBishal There was everything other than what to say instead of hope you’re doing well.