A friend of mine sent me Iceland (the UK supermarket)‘s official “fuck the management consultants” page, on their actual website.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/
I love it.
My cousin seems to think my fears about Pierre Pollievre taking away women's rights and building concentration camps are overblown. I reminded her that Trump is literally sending US citizens to concentrations camps. No due process, nothing.
Her response?
"They can't just take people off the street. There must be a reason they are taking them."
And this my friends, is how Nazi Germany happened.
Things took a MAJOR turn for Apple's App Store:
- In the Epic v. Apple case, the court has found Apple in willful violation of a previous injunction on anticompetitive conduct
- Effective immediately, Apple can no longer impose commissions on purchases made via external links or have a say on link placement
- An Apple VP lied under oath and the court is referring to the U.S. Attorney to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate
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Filing: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25924283-epic-v-apple-contempt-order/
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Flywheels are actually being used for frequency inertia already.
The most prominent one might be the big one in Ireland to deal with a loss of grid connection to Britain:
https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/stories/irelands-great-grid-stabilizer.html
But they are being rolled out in Germany for a while now, too:
https://www.siemens-energy.com/global/en/home/press-releases/siemens-energy-technology-stabilizes-german-power-grid.html
And talking of Spain, there are some planned on the Canary and Balearic Islands:
https://new.abb.com/news/detail/116318/abbs-integrated-technology-will-stabilize-the-power-grid-as-spanish-islands-transition-to-green-energy
A list of older examples can be found here:
https://www.entsoe.eu/technopedia/techsheets/synchronous-condenser/