Johan du Plessis

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@ZacksJerryRig Of all the problems surrounding spacex I would worry more about their financial engineering. When it comes to thermal engineering I wouldnt worry. Anyway energy-in = energy-out so I suspect that radiators will be the approximately same size as the solar panels.

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I once DM’d someone who was constantly criticizing me online and asked why they hated me.

His response changed how I think about the internet.

Full conversation with Eugene and Brené Brown is up now.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@RediTlhabi Perfectly agree with what you are saying, but you are posting this on X. Doesn't it undermine your argument? I don't know what the answer is between sovereignty and pragmatism when it comes to X or Starlink. It feels like a lose-lose situation at the moment.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@MichaelJordaan That is a terrible misleading chart. Easy to compare gun deaths because they are recorded accurately. Heat deaths are either based on death certificates (which might list other causes like dehydration) or excess mortality. Surprisingly difficult problem. https://t.co/rB0q8KkJBm

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@bryanrbeal You cant compare mortality numbers if they don't have the same underlying methodology - https://t.co/rB0q8KkJBm. E. G. Comparing reports vs excess mortality won't give the right numbers. Even the way the cause of death is recorded makes a difference. https://t.co/rB0q8KkJBm

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@MaxduPreez Sasol is in the primary business of destroying shareholder value. Synth fuel and fertilizer is low on their priority list. Upper management must be spooked by the high oil price because it might slow down the collapse of the company....

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@zilevandamme I think blaming *everything* on tourism is wrong. Cape Town population is exploding and housing and *densification* just hasn't kept up.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@zilevandamme District 6 problem is still not even resolved😥. 1)We need national anti-NIMBY laws. 2)Definitely need to relax what constitute "Heritage".3)the army needs to give up Ysterplaat and other land. 4) transnet need to optimize land use and free up some land.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@satyanadella really interested to hear the reasoning behind how github copilot new billing system was decided upon. Pretty sure it will be a case study in some management course in due time. It is, erm, quite bold.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@MaxduPreez The Afrikaner team MAGA is not even in sync with MAGA in the US anymore. They are digging a hole for themselves in SA *and* the US. Not that I support these guys, but they seriously need to take a reality check about what is practically happening in the world today.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@zilevandamme Depends on the war? Don't want to die for Putin or Xi in taking other countries. Or for the US to get oil. Rather prison. Defensive war from an invasion? Join the army. Any ideological war. Prison for sure.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@AnthropicAI You killed Spindle you monsters.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@MaxduPreez I am willing to bet this guy's name is not Vuyo. And he probably speaks Afrikaans at home.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@zilevandamme It is sad how right wing politics has infested everything. MyBroadband is more politics focused than technology focused. The forums are a cesspool. And of course the "About Us" is as anonymous as it gets. Unfortunately Duncan McLeod from TechCentral is also right wing.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@DrKgabo_ @geordinhl @CityofCT Have you read our constitution my friend? There is sepeeation of powers between national, provincial and local. We are definitely not a pure unitary state...

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@zilevandamme @LorenzoCaccia So ~90% of South and Central America identify as Christians vs ~65% in the US. If this really was about having a Christian population they would open the border and not try to send everybody back. Funny how their churches use the same words the Apartheid Afrikaner Churches.

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@SonjaCarlin @LorenzoCaccia But the US has a long history of "rules for thee but not for me"...

[Johan du Plessis @justjohan]

@SonjaCarlin @LorenzoCaccia In fact the US has a foreign ownership cap of 25% on telecom carriers. So South Africa requirement of 30% local (black) equity for a telecom license is more relaxed than the US requirement for telecom carriers...