FailForward @FailForward@social.cleverlibre.org

It turns out, my dog is really fond of cooked celery and parsnip. Who would have guessed it... 🤔

@z428 You spotted a unicorn?

@piggo See, the word "bread" is a full bestiarum of odd things. For instance this: https://www.ireceptar.cz/vareni-a-recepty/co-je-svatojansky-chleb-a-jak-s-nim-nalozit.html

@piggo You mean like for instance Feigenbrot, right?

https://www.gustini.de/feigenbrot-r133.html

@pony It's "because they can" - nothing to do with 2022.

@jwildeboer

Yeah, the story of of German abandonment of nuclear power. I personally think it's a mistake.

I am willing to go out on a limb and make a long-term bet:
1. I wager Germany will re-introduce nuclear power in the coming 15-20 years; and
1. it will be Greens who will push for it.

I know, sounds crazy, but such are funny bets :-).

@skells

@skells

I am, for one, quite an optimist. Do we have everything figured out? Sure we don't. Anyway, the vector of movement is set and we'll get there solving some problems along the way as they come.

In the end, I guess, we'll still need to use some gas, etc. but that fraction will (hopefully) be small enough to come from a flexible and "better" source than Russia is.

But again, I don't have answers to everything. My PhD is not in energy, but in something else and one can become a deep expert only in so many things...

@jwildeboer

@jwildeboer 👍 Same here.

My reference to fear was a response to your specific expression at the end of your statement: "that's my fear". We are on a platform where single words matter - for better or worse.

@skells What do you mean exactly? You mean that wind/solar are available intermittently?

Honestly, I don't know. My expertise is elsewhere.

Maybe it sounds dumb, or such, but I don't believe it's a job of a deep expert in one field to spout smarts in another. I learned to trust that the smart-asses with PhD the government employs for this
figured it our sufficiently. But I that I don't mean they 100% know the solution, I am fully aware that to an extent this is a bet on a future, while we recognised the past to be untenable. Let' see...

@jwildeboer

> _Be not afraid. Faith sees best in the dark._
>
> -- Joe Biden (citing John Paul II and Søren Kierkegaard)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xja-Yy8g5eM


@jwildeboer

@jwildeboer Anyway, to operate from a position of fear is useless. Let me cheer you up with a recent one in a follow-up toot 🙂 .

@jwildeboer Well, fears here and there, what evidence (except your own fear) do you see?

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@jwildeboer I realized now that maybe those embedded response did not reach you. My apologies. I am going to forward them too.

@jwildeboer Don't you recognise for one, that thanks to COVID-19 pandemic and now the war in Ukraine EU acts gradually more and more decisively and coherently together? I cheer for that and applaud it! That's exactly what I wanted it to to and it responded.