Mark Sugrue
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Why do keyboards have a dedicated 'Alt gr' button - but no 'unmute' button? I need to unmute all the time, never once needed to 'Alt gr'.
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Why do keyboards have a dedicated 'Alt gr' button - but no 'unmute' button? I need to unmute all the time, never once needed to 'Alt gr'.
Melting started well before the industrial age but has increased a lot more recently for obvious reasons.
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Melting started well before the industrial age but has increased a lot more recently for obvious reasons.
27,000 homes empty following the death of the owner - just shows how slow Ireland's probate system is. Some of those will have been empty for years.
November 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
27,000 homes empty following the death of the owner - just shows how slow Ireland's probate system is. Some of those will have been empty for years.
This it what I was thinking of.
October 26, 2025 at 10:22 AM
This it what I was thinking of.
I made this yesterday. Gets truer by the hour
October 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
I made this yesterday. Gets truer by the hour
Yes - and I can set up an 'automation' on the app to charge the battery on the cheap night rate when the weather is dark. I use a site called solcast to predict the following day's solar intensity. (I think its possible to script this, but I haven't figured that part out yet)
October 13, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Yes - and I can set up an 'automation' on the app to charge the battery on the cheap night rate when the weather is dark. I use a site called solcast to predict the following day's solar intensity. (I think its possible to script this, but I haven't figured that part out yet)
Fun fact: in the UK, decommissioning costs are also included in the nuclear electricity price. They amount to about 3%. 17% of the cost goes to constuction. About 73% of the cost is interest on the loans used to build it.
October 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Fun fact: in the UK, decommissioning costs are also included in the nuclear electricity price. They amount to about 3%. 17% of the cost goes to constuction. About 73% of the cost is interest on the loans used to build it.
Perhaps. But they never count the leukaemia victims from coal for comparison.
October 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Perhaps. But they never count the leukaemia victims from coal for comparison.
No mystery why Britain fell behind on nuclear. zionlights.substack.com/p/fact-check...
October 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
No mystery why Britain fell behind on nuclear. zionlights.substack.com/p/fact-check...
We tried wind+gas/coal like Germany, when we knew it wouldnt work, instead of wind+nuclear like Sweden and Finland.
October 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
We tried wind+gas/coal like Germany, when we knew it wouldnt work, instead of wind+nuclear like Sweden and Finland.
Putin wants immigration to be an issue in European politics - he's very open about that. The reason is, as early fascist theorists explained: to destroy liberalism you find a border and start pushing inwards. It fractures the democratic consensus. First migrants, next trans, next women, next...
September 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Putin wants immigration to be an issue in European politics - he's very open about that. The reason is, as early fascist theorists explained: to destroy liberalism you find a border and start pushing inwards. It fractures the democratic consensus. First migrants, next trans, next women, next...
Taken from 'Carl Schmitt: the mind behind modern fascism'
September 22, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Taken from 'Carl Schmitt: the mind behind modern fascism'
All comes back to Ireland just not building enough houses. Number of homes per capita actually dropped in Ireland from 2011 to 2022 - one of only 3 OECD countries where that happened, and Ireland drop was the largest in the OECD.
September 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
All comes back to Ireland just not building enough houses. Number of homes per capita actually dropped in Ireland from 2011 to 2022 - one of only 3 OECD countries where that happened, and Ireland drop was the largest in the OECD.
This has already been tried and didn't work
September 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This has already been tried and didn't work
A bigger issue, that no one talks about, is Ireland produces far too little electricity. We make less electricity per capita than other industrial countries, 3 times less per person than Sweden. Less even than we used to make 20 years ago. Datacenters use a large % of a small amount of generation.
August 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A bigger issue, that no one talks about, is Ireland produces far too little electricity. We make less electricity per capita than other industrial countries, 3 times less per person than Sweden. Less even than we used to make 20 years ago. Datacenters use a large % of a small amount of generation.
Its about buying time - while in the background European industry is building up.
August 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Its about buying time - while in the background European industry is building up.
Logically, if she thinks we can't trust our neighbours, we'd better be ready to defend ourselves. But she is also against that and claims Ireland should (and doesn't?) have an army
August 16, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Logically, if she thinks we can't trust our neighbours, we'd better be ready to defend ourselves. But she is also against that and claims Ireland should (and doesn't?) have an army
It just does loops. Every day it takes off from Shannon, flies over ballybunion, and then heads off for 3/4 hours over some area of land, then lands back in Shannon. Its doing circles over Mayo right now
August 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It just does loops. Every day it takes off from Shannon, flies over ballybunion, and then heads off for 3/4 hours over some area of land, then lands back in Shannon. Its doing circles over Mayo right now
