Mark Taylor

Exponential growth matters. English expat in Colorado. ew energy technology evangelist. Life is better on BlueSky Social find me at

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@dvarets @afneil That is partially true. For water companies, they cannot force an existing private company to sell all the shares to the government without new legislation. Therefore under current law they cannot nationalize.

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@IsaacWalton75 @afneil He does. And that is the whole point. Anything that is written into law by any government through legislation can be changed by any future government, but only through new legislation. Water nationalization is not currently possible without new legislation.

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@afneil Without new legislation being passed by parliament the government cannot permanently nationalize a private water company. I appreciate you don't want to call that a 'ban' but they cannot proceed with nationalization as things currently stand.

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@afneil 1991 Act specifically says water co has to be a limited company. Section 219 defines a limited company as a company under the Companies Act that is limited by shares. Plus, law limits the state; a water co can't be wound up voluntarily or put into ordinary administration (sec 26)

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@SpencerGuard @WSJ Releasing them on bail more likely indicates there was no terrorism involved and that this was a massive overreaction to some other criminal activity. There were no explosives in the vans.

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@afneil Until a government introduces new legislation then Thatcher's legislation is in effect; and that most certainly was an ideological privatization. Burnham used a rhetorical flourish but he isn't wrong.

#splittinghairs

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@martinvars On a relative basis domestic cats kill about 10,000 times as many birds. Glass tower blocks kill around 2,500 times. Want to ban those too? Agreed illegal logging is a problem but balsa is less than 1% of that. #tellthewholetruth

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@BowTiedYanqui @SonVlad @rm_rf_tom @JMilei There's no official Argentine data showing whether emigration or returns have changed under Milei. The best evidence comes from Spain, the top destination, and it suggests emigration has slowed somewhat but hasn't reversed.

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@Milajoy This 'data' is very misleading. Using 'encounters' means a single person can appear multiple times. Several of the 'categories' are for LEGAL entries; pre-approved and traveling with documentation, mostly through airports. #misleading #tellthetruththewholetruth

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@DzisMaksym What is the purpose of the word 'hybrid'? They are simply attacks.

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@hazelelliss 1

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@batuhanppn 50

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@farman4x 96

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@kamilkazani Huh?

Mongols in 1238 and again in 1382.
Crimean Khanate in 1571.
Dmitry 1 1605.
Polish 1610.
Napoleon 1812 (yes the population had left but he still got into Moscow).
Bolshevik 1917.

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@martinvars I think you may have that backwards.

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@ScottJenningsKY I see @ScottJenningsKY is Cosplaying a spokesman for the Ministry of Truth. You know, the one that forces citizens to abandon evidence and logic in favor of state-mandated narratives. #1984 #Orwell

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@rshereme I wish people would stop using the word hybrid. It is simply an attack. It is war.

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Good news.

[Quartz @qz]

Batteries are quietly driving down evening electricity prices across the U.S.: Batteries have begun setting electricity prices once controlled by gas peaker plants. Wholesale power now costs less during the hours it used to be most expensive https://t.co/Hij5k9jVvZ

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@PolymarketIntel A lot of solar is being built. I think oil is not going to be quite as important as it was in the past.

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@martinvars You are mixing frequency with intensity. Heat wins on intensity. e.g in Barcelona death rose 50% on coldest day but spiked 240% on hottest. Per day of exposure, extreme heat is substantially more lethal. But the balance is shifting.