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- Showdown Looms as Tom Homan Explores Case Against AOC for Obstructing Immigration Enforcementwww.breitbart.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Marco Rubio Reveals Biden-Era State Department Compiled Dossiers on Americans for “Disinformation"reclaimthenet.org ↗Submitted 2 days ago to Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Transgender people moving to Ireland put on long waitlist for vital healthcare until assessedwww.thejournal.ie ↗Submitted 4 days ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Comment on Ban of RT journalist proves Romanian election a ‘meme’ – Moscow 4 days ago:
They aren’t lying, though:
IRISH JOURNALIST and RT correspondent Chay Bowes has reportedly been arrested in Romania.
RT, formerly Russia Today, is reporting that Bowes had travelled to Romania ahead of its presidential election on Sunday.
The upcoming election is a rerun after November elections were cancelled amid allegations of Russian interference in favour of far-right candidate Calin Georgescu, who is barred from the new vote.
RT has reported that Bowes was “detained” in Bucharest after landing there to cover the election.
Speaking on RT, Afshin Rattansi said he understands that Bowes is “being released on his way to Istanbul”.
- Maduro Regime Denies Colombia's Claim that Marxist Terrorist Group Is Operating in Venezuelawww.breitbart.com ↗Submitted 4 days ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments
- Comment on How Spain powered back to life from unprecedented national blackout 4 days ago:
From a France24 article on the complexity of this:
The electrical grid is a backbone with complex branches consisting of thousands of interconnected components.
“The grid operators must carefully analyse massive amounts of real-time data like frequency shifts, line failures, generator statuses and protection system actions to trace the sequence of events without jumping to conclusions,” Pratheeksha Ramdas, senior new energies analyst at Rystad Energy, told AFP.
Outages are often caused by a sudden shutdown of a source of production like a power plant due to a technical fault or a fuel shortage supplying thermal power plants.
In recent years, natural disasters such as storms, earthquakes, forest fires, extreme heat or cold sometimes intensified by global warming have damaged infrastructure or created peaks of demand for heating or air conditioning.
Other possible causes include overloads on high-voltage power lines, which force excess electricity to move to other lines, and cyberattacks, which the Spanish and Portuguese governments have ruled out, but which are an increasingly mentioned threat as networks become more digitised.
In Spain on Monday evening, grid operator REE mentioned a “strong fluctuation in power flows, accompanied by a very significant loss of production”.
In Europe, the electrical frequency on the network is calibrated to a standard of 50 hertz (Hz).
A frequency below that level means not enough electricity is being produced to meet demand.
In contrast, a frequency above 50 Hz means that less electricity needs to be made.
Operators have to order power plants in real time to produce more or less electricity according to demand to keep a frequency of 50 Hz.
“Maintaining that frequency is a matter of balance,” said Michael Hogan, senior advisor at the Regulatory Assistance Project, an NGO.
If the frequency moves away from 50Hz, automated protection systems kick in to cut off parts of the grid to prevent damage to equipment in a domino effect.
“Once power stations begin to shut themselves down for protection the situation can quickly get out of control,” Hogan told AFP.
“But… it’s very rare for that to reach the state it did in Iberia yesterday (Monday).”
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How Monday’s problem all started is difficult to determine.
“One of the factors that most likely contributed to the instability is the weak interconnection between the peninsula and the rest of the western European grid, which meant that there wasn’t much inertia in that part of the network to dampen the oscillations on the Spanish side of the interconnection,” said Hogan.
But that is likely only a contributory factor and not the root cause.
“It will probably be the failure of one or two major transmissions facilities, which then cascaded to other connected parts of the network,” said Hogan.
“But what would have caused that initial transmission failure remains to be learned.”
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- Comment on Pakistan airspace ban could cost Air India $591m over 12 months 4 days ago:
The Tata Group-owned airline is in the midst of a multibillion-dollar turnaround after a period of government ownership, and growth is already constrained by jet delivery delays from Boeing and Airbus. It reported a net loss of $520m in fiscal 2023-2024, on sales of $4.6bn.
Lol the Tata Steel guys are really taking it on the chin the last few years eh.
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- Comment on Sudan ‘horror knows no bounds’, says UN, as deaths in Darfur rise 4 days ago:
“The horror unfolding in Sudan knows no bounds,” said Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in a statement on the devastating impact of the two-year civil war published on Thursday, signalling that the death toll of 542 over the past three weeks was likely “much higher”.
Darfur in particular has been a key battleground in the brutal war that erupted in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which has left tens of thousands dead, uprooted more than 12 million and created what the UN describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
The RSF, which lost Khartoum last month, has in recent weeks mounted multiple attacks on el-Fasher and the nearby refugee camps of Zamzam and Abu Shouk, triggering an exodus of hundreds of thousands of people 60km (37 miles) across the desert to the town of Tawila.
Yeah I was aware that they lost Khartoum - they must be going wild in the countryside as a response.
- Comment on How Spain powered back to life from unprecedented national blackout 4 days ago:
More into the actual reasons:
Pedro Sánchez is determined that lessons will be learned and such a crisis will not happen again.
:But energy expert Carlos Cagigal told Spanish TV there was a risk that it might, because Spain’s infrastructure was simply not in a position to cope with all the renewable energy being produced.
The power grid operator warned earlier this year of the risks of excessive renewable energy while closing nuclear plants.
But a clip of its president Beatriz Corredor has gone viral from 2021, in which she insisted that Spain had “one of the safest and most advanced” electrical systems in the world and there was no reason to worry.
- Comment on How Spain powered back to life from unprecedented national blackout 4 days ago:
An increasing number of public figures are blaming a saturation of solar power and an over-reliance on renewable energy.
Minutes before the outage, Spain was running on 60.64% solar photovoltaic generation, with 12% wind and 11.6% nuclear.
However diversified and advanced Spain’s energy mix is, the national power collapse at 12:35 on Monday required an enormous effort to get Spain back up and running.
The initial focus was to get the northern and southern power generating regions working again, which grid operator Red Eléctrica said was key to “gradually re-energising the transmission grid as the generating units are connected”.
The risk lay in overloading the system by turning everything on at the same time and triggering another massive outage.
So everything had to be carefully phased for what experts call a “black start” working out as a success.
The initial focus was on hydro-electric plants, in particular pumped-storage plants with reservoirs full at this time of year and able to produce electricity fast from a standing start.
Combined-cycle gas plants also played a significant part in repowering the grid, but four nuclear power reactors at Almaraz, Ascó and and Vandellós were automatically shut down by the outage, and three others were already offline anyway.
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Spain is only now beginning to count the cost. The CEOE bosses’ organisation has estimated a €1.6bn hit on the economy.
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Spain’s Guardia Civil police force said it had rescued 13,000 passengers trapped on trains.
Local police in Barcelona returned to the old ways, regulating traffic in the Plaça España because the lights were out.
Passengers on the Barcelona metro had to walk to safety using the torches on their mobile phones when their trains became stuck in tunnels.
- Comment on Robert De Niro's Son Comes Out as Transgender at Age 29 4 days ago:
I am not trolling anyone - I am submitting & interacting with content in good faith. I treat Lemmy as a place to find & deposit articles that I think are worthwhile and build a personal archive. You’ll find an abnormal amount of my content is actually just crime articles.
I am not here to aggravate people.
But feel free to block - if it is offensive to people that someone is a conservative on Lemmy and occasionally posts content from conservative sources, lol, what can I say? I guess you will be triggered if an article pops into your feed once in a while.
Although I imagine that some people who are even not in agreement with me at all about these issues were happy to see this news and would’ve otherwise missed it.
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- Comment on What we know about the deadly car ramming at a Vancouver street festival 1 week ago:
Clothing vendor Kris Pangilinan told The Associated Press that he heard what sounded “like an F1 car about to start a race” immediately followed by screams. He said he could hear the sound of bodies hitting the hood of the SUV as it sped through the street.
“All I can remember is seeing bodies flying up in the air higher than the food trucks themselves and landing on the ground and people yelling and screaming,” he said.
Adonis Quita, who was with his 9-year-old son, told the AP that the vehicle struck families waiting in line for food.
“He just pushed the gas all the way through the whole block … crashing into everyone in his way,” another witness said on NBC’s “TODAY” show.
That is insane, holy cow.
- Comment on Ohio Woman Faces Arrest for Allegedly Pelting Tesla with Dog Feces from Moving Car 1 week ago:
OK, show me the deported citizens.
- German Army's First Transgender Lieutenant Colonel Penalized For Bringing Forces Into Disrepute With Highly Sexualized Behaviorreduxx.info ↗Submitted 1 week ago to Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Comment on Ohio Woman Faces Arrest for Allegedly Pelting Tesla with Dog Feces from Moving Car 1 week ago:
These are tech bros and folk Libertarians.
Hence, after their election, their big moves are stuff like DOGE.
The most Nazi policy they have is actively deporting convicted illegal criminals and trying to secure the border, and this is Nazi because… Uhh…?
Countries like Japan & South Korea have far more draconian laws when it comes to tracking down and forcibly removing illegal aliens, yet none of us would seriously suggest that these are totalitarian police states hellbent on abridging the basic human rights of their citizens.
This position you have is a bit hysterical and silly.
- Conservative Party Surges Ahead Of Canadian Election As Concerns Over Trump Seem To Wane: Pollwww.dailywire.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to Conservatives@hilariouschaos.com | 1 comment
- Comment on Trump slams Zelenskyy for rejecting Ukraine-Russia negotiations, saying a deal was 'very close' 1 week ago:
They’ve had two years to try to prove that they can actually defeat the Russians… Nothing like that has been proven. The information even surrounding this conflict is highly secretive due to how disastrous it has all been.
- Comment on Trump slams Zelenskyy for rejecting Ukraine-Russia negotiations, saying a deal was 'very close' 1 week ago:
I agree with this.
I absolutely voted for Trump with the greatest of hopes that he would end the war ASAP. Of course, this has not happened quickly, and I am a little disappointed, but I understand now that Zelenskyy is truly dead set against the peace. He is trapped by his own propaganda on the war, and so are many of the NATOcrats who support this.
I am no fan of totalitarian governments, but when you look at this war, it seems clear that the West wanted it, and that Zelenskyy fully signed on to it.
And war is always a catastrophe for both sides - my heart goes out to all the young men and women and their families who are being conscripted against their will and dying needlessly because of geopolitical games that the Western oligarchs want to play.
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- Trump slams Zelenskyy for rejecting Ukraine-Russia negotiations, saying a deal was 'very close'www.nbcnews.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 6 comments
- RFK Jr., FDA unveil 8 harmful dyes that will soon be phased out of US food supply — here’s what could be nextnypost.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to news@hilariouschaos.com | 0 comments