Country’s energy minister describes ‘shit situation’ as domestic prices hit highest level since 2009

https://archive.ph/CftqX

  • kristina [she/her]
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    10 days ago

    If they do that America will liberate them from their tyrannical monarcho communist regime

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    10 days ago

    the comments on that archived article are fucked. almost all of them denying climate science, insisting renewables are a scam, and some claiming the scam is to do "eco-marxism" which is apparently when the politicians purposely make everybody poor and mad by caring too much about pollution, then everybody becomes commies about it.

    at least, according to the type of powerful mind theorist who pays for an FT subscription and hangs out in the comments to complain about wind energy.

    • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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      10 days ago

      What's the deal with comments in newspapers consisting of 95% absolutely unhinged right-wingers?

      Like obviously you can find these people everywhere online, but on news sites there's rarely anyone who is not like that

      • AntifaSuperWombat [she/her]
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        10 days ago

        News sites want as many clicks, subscriptions and engagement as possible to still make a decent profit. Thus they can’t really have proper moderation because that would drive all the paying boomers away, which then results in so much shit being constantly thrown around that hinged people just don’t bother anymore.

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      10 days ago

      insisting renewables are a scam

      This isn't even a fringe right view, lol. It was the thesis of Michael Moore's Planet of the Humans.

      • jaywalker [they/them, any]
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        10 days ago

        It's because people don't understand that capitalism makes everything a scam and they blame the thing (renewables in this case) instead of capitalism itself

  • Tommasi [she/her, pup/pup's]
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    10 days ago

    We've had this debate every winter for the last several years and Labour always promises they're looking really hard for solutions when it's winter without ever doing anything, then hope everyone forgets in the summer when it isn't cold.

  • Lemister [none/use name]
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    10 days ago

    This reminds me of the book where norway is invaded by russia under the orders of angela merkel to steal its enegry for the eu.

  • vovchik_ilich [he/him]
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    10 days ago

    Without having read the article: Norway, because of its fjords, has immensely easy hydroelectric. They can build dams fucking anywhere for cheap and relatively sustainable electricity, which partially explains the amount of electric cars in the country

  • sexywheat [none/use name]
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    9 days ago

    Can someone explain to me how these archive dot ph links magically skirt around all these paywalls?

    • oscardejarjayes [comrade/them]
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      9 days ago

      They have an FAQ and a blog where they go into a fair bit of technical detail, but basically they do cookie isolation and support only some javascript, and for hard blocks they get stuff from AMP.

      https://blog.archive.today/post/675805841411178496/how-does-archive-bypass-hard-paywalls-for
      https://blog.archive.today/post/678436941726990336/there-are-at-least-two-use-cases-for-your-service