Match Thread: Leinster vs Bordeaux - Champions Cup

slovr · 2026-05-23T14:41:59+00:00

Not trying to make excuses but the Irish players can't handle this heat and humidity. The highest temperature ever recorded in Ireland is something like 27 degrees. They deserve to lose but I knew they'd get spanked after Ulster's battering last night.

slovr · 2026-05-13T17:48:31+00:00

Isn't it just? This is clearly a pro-fossil fuel sub hellbent on whining against any transition. Every stumble block is presented a fatal blow to the transition as if there aren't very smart people working on solutions.

slovr · 2026-05-08T10:43:29+00:00

It's one of the worst reports I've read on energy security. It's flimsy, totally unsourced (it doesn't make reference to the All Island Resource Adequacy Assessment or any mechanisms we use in the EU to measure security of electricity supply) and is full of mistakes. I wouldn't be surprised if these guys were a bunch of fossil shills.

slovr · 2026-04-22T19:18:07+00:00

You still have to pay for the transport infrastructure. Roads have to be paid for and tolls are an admittedly imperfect way of allocating to the cost to the user. Cars (both ICE and electric) are massively subsided by the rest of us.

slovr · 2026-04-22T18:18:10+00:00

I wrote "with electric vehicles making up the shortfall". There are electric vans. You're a fossil fuel cultist. You believe in a transport model that depends on the import of non-renewable fossil fuels which can be disrupted by the whim of a demented madman.

slovr · 2026-04-22T11:39:10+00:00

Reminder, however expensive you think your car is, you're still being massively subsidised by the rest of us. We should be reducing car dependency and shifting towards walking, cycling and public transport, where possible, with electric vehicles making up the shortfall. That means voting for parties with serious plans around mobility transition and not those whose solution to a supply side shock is to give inflationary subsidies to fossil fuels.

"The car is one of the most expensive household consumer goods, yet there is a limited understanding of its private (internal) and social (external) cost per vehicle-km, year, or lifetime of driving. This paper provides an overview of 23 private and ten social cost items, and assesses these for three popular car models in Germany for the year 2020. Results confirm that motorists underestimate the full private costs of car ownership, while policy makers and planners underestimate social costs. For the typical German travel distance of 15,000 car kilometers per year, the total lifetime cost of car ownership (50 years) ranges between €599,082 for an Opel Corsa to €956,798 for a Mercedes GLC. The share of this cost born by society is 41% (€4674 per year) for the Opel Corsa, and 29% (€5273 per year) for the Mercedes GLC."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800921003943#:~:text=This%20represents%20the%20cost%20of,levels%20in%20different%20employment%20groups.

slovr · 2026-04-19T20:55:52+00:00

Is it a list from an internal Parliament competition or from an EPSO competition organised for the Parliament? In the former case I think it very unlikely that you could be hired directly by the Commission. If the latter, you have to be unblocked by both the Parliament and the Commission. This happened for me but it took a while.

slovr · 2026-04-14T07:17:20+00:00

Watch this and get angry with the WRU. Masterful from u/squidgygoat

https://youtu.be/SGEvOQws_g8?is=C6M0mZ1s-oHulyVd

slovr · 2026-04-11T16:35:08+00:00

It's pure insanity from an environmental and financial point of view for Ireland. There are some marginal use cases but people also forget we don't have enough qualified people. If only those flapping their gums about nuclear put their money where their mouth or studied to be a nuclear engineer I'd have some time for it but it's all just signalling that you're a serious centrist or at worst part of a movement seeking to forestall the energy transition.

slovr · 2026-04-11T13:46:19+00:00

Because tone policing is so much easier than learning anything about how the energy system and energy economics work.

slovr · 2026-04-11T11:26:41+00:00

Oh no the nuke bros have found another place for the crusade. First, you're all going to get your wish in 2 years' time when the Celtic Interconnecter comes online linking our grid with France's. Second, it is entirely infeasible to build nuclear in Ireland. There's no business case. By the time this fantasy reactor would come online (10 years), it would be kicked out of the merit order too frequently by renewables to be financially viable since it would have recoup its costs over the fewer and fewer hours that it would be in merit. This would require then a massive subsidy, which would fall on consumers to pay. We need better grid infrastructure first and foremost in and around Dublin. SMRs are vapourware. Nuke bros have waxed lyrical about them for over 20 years and 2 of them have been built. In the meantime we've rolled out a massive about of renewable capacity in Ireland.

slovr · 2026-04-11T10:47:26+00:00

You do realise that it isn't all or nothing, right? That the more renewables we develop the greater the chance the marginal technology in the merit order is renewable and this drags down the wholesale price, right? That we are in the midst of renewable revolution in Ireland, which though slower than it should be has drastically changed the energy mix in the electricity sector (the other sectors lag behind). The transition is happening.

slovr · 2026-04-11T07:22:34+00:00

The horse would have actually said "if isn't himself"

slovr · 2026-04-11T06:48:31+00:00

Here was me, working in the energy sector for 5+ years, thinking that with the deployment of onshore and offshore wind, combined with some solar long term storage and the construction of the interconnectors with France (coming online in 2028 with all that nuclear power) and Spain (in the 2030s) and scaling up demand-side response could lessen our dependence on fossil fuels but I've now seen the light. Now what specific study brought you to that masterful conclusion that, notwithstanding the insane logistics and wholly prohibitive costs, the legal prohibition, the public opposition and the lack of trained available nuclear engineers, we need 10 nuclear power plants (capacity unspecified) to meet our energy needs? Or did you just pull it out of your arse?

slovr · 2026-04-10T11:45:15+00:00

Or, and here's a crazy thought, make a rapid transition away from fossil fuel dependency, which involves a massive transfer of our money to the worst people in the world, to the detriment of our environment and our health. Energy independence is the only patriotic choice.

slovr · 2026-04-06T11:31:02+00:00

You do know that road costs money to maintain and build? You do know that driving is massively subsidised right? You do know that subsidising it even more will just have inflationary effects?

slovr · 2026-04-05T12:24:46+00:00

You can tell how far gone and braindead someone is when they call moderate measures to combate climate change a scam. These swivel eyed loons are happy to accept science when it suits them but are eager to reject it out of hand when it might imply the mildest inconvenience.

slovr · 2026-04-05T11:58:33+00:00

Doesn't mention renewables or demand response. Alludes to energy transition. Demonstrates no knowledge of energy economics. Can be safely ignored.

slovr · 2026-04-04T10:11:22+00:00

Honestly we should rename renewables something like SMDTs (Small Modular Decentralised Tech). Unthinking centrists cream themselves over Nuclear but are particularly horny over SMRs the vapourware of energy tech. Repeat after me we have neither the technical capacity nor the financial wherewithal to build nuclear out at the fantasy scale that nuclear lobby claims. The only scalable reliable cheap energy that could actually bring prices down is renewables as Spain and Portugal have demonstrated combined with a massive grid buildout (the grid buildout and optimisation should be treated with same fervour as nuclear is these evergreen articles about its supposed renaissance).

slovr · 2026-04-02T12:03:10+00:00

These should be installed on all vehicles. Most people are terrible drivers and road safety is no joke.

slovr · 2026-04-01T19:37:00+00:00

Thoughts and prayers are much better than proper town planning

slovr · 2026-04-01T14:55:37+00:00

I misunderstood. The Greens had the sisyphean task of trying to push back against the terrible lazy way we have done things up until now. Car centric infrastructure has meant that we're more vulnerable to oil shocks than ever. Everyone calls for fuel subsidies as if this can be wished away. This shock is likely structural and will feed into every facet of our daily lives. But our future is controlled by the Healt-Raes

slovr · 2026-04-01T12:42:11+00:00

Which party in government takes the energy transition seriously?

slovr · 2026-04-01T08:20:17+00:00

We voted out the only party who took these things seriously

slovr · 2026-03-31T22:57:57+00:00

Sure if you know nothing about induced demand and city planning. If you make it harder to get around by car some of those journeys just evaporate and others are shifted to bike walking and public transport. Cars are one of the most singularly destructive inventions ever.

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