Sounds more like it needs to be trained BY your ex-wife!

No, I do live down South, and it's nice here.

No, that sharp and massive increase in the 18th century, where the temperature increased more than it has over the last eighty years in a much shorter timeframe. That was based on actual temperature readings, not inferred from other sources that lack the resolution to detect such rapid changes.

Resolution is an issue. Ice cores lose it past a hundred years or so. Temperatures could spike ten degrees over ten years and then fall over twenty, and ice cores a couple hundred years later won't show it, just the average for that century.

Well, the article does make it sound like the MoJ's records are terrible, and the only good (reliable and accurate) ones are the ones being destroyed. Or maybe it was just that the MoJ is utterly incompetent when it comes to presenting records (i.e. telling people about cases), but that is also unacceptable. You can't have a trustworthy justice system if trials are not public knowledge. Especially now that the UK is dropping jury trials (a guaranteed right in the US, which is an idea we inherited from the UK!).

It's almost like the UK is trying to dismantle itself. That worries me.

And yet we are a middle-aged couple with no need for babysitters. I'm baffled by my own mind in this case.

And that's why separating powers is good. Now, the just system of jury trials which the US inherited from the UK is vanishing to the detriment of justice. It's a Constitutional right in the US, and I'm worried about what's happening in the UK if they are losing it. For Christ's sake, Graham Linehan got arrested for being funny!

It's getting to the point where Parliament isn't holding up its end of the Magna Carta. I'm starting to think the King should tear it up and demand a formal Constitution that forces Parliament to protect the rights of the citizenry.

Why, is this a performance evaluation? But I don't work for you! I will assure you though that my work is more than 4.2% accurate, but only because I like you.

I agree in the first part, dissent in the second. That second guy was disarmed and restrained when he was shot. That was a bad shooting, pure and simple. Heads do need to roll over it. Who he was and what he had done previously are irrelevant. All that matters is unarmed, restrained, murdered.

The former American who came down from Canada to block law enforcement and put herself in a position where law enforcement agents reasonably believed they were in mortal danger, on the other hand, f'd around and found out. Apparently, found out that they actually use real bullets. Who would have thought?

Yeah, but the thing is that isn't true. If you want to argue that the legislature has delegated too much to the executive agencies, I'll agree, but that's a drop out of the Separation of Powers bucket.

China is also ramping up coal-fired production.

But here's the important thing - you're making the wrong argument. Stop with the climate change. It doesn't work. Too many people don't buy it. The messengers are liars, and their credibility is shot. Instead, make an argument everyone already agrees with and gets the same outcome. Everyone likes clean air and clean water. Everyone likes cheap electricity. Go back to the arguments that work, drop the alarmist arguments that people hate. Just accept that balances have to be struck, and that not getting the exact outcome you want doesn't mean you didn't get one everyone else can live with.

Oh, and that's an editorial "you". No personal criticism intended.

I wasn't looking to get that far into the weeds with it. Comment for general audience, not accountants.

You mean my State's Public Services Commission? That's not what's going on. We already have a rule there that data centers can't increase consumer rates, and the PSC doesn't get to decide if data centers can be built. You're thinking of Alabama. Alabama is moving to an appointed board, not Georgia. We just had our big legislative session, and that wasn't a thing.

I can tell you that a number of counties and municipalities have enacted moratoriums on new data centers, and many more are actively considering such bans (https://www.gpb.org/news/2025/10/22/wave-of-data-center-ordinances-sweep-through-ga-counties-how-strict-are-they). I think Gwinnett (one of the Atlanta counties) just passed one. My county passed a number of zoning rules, including a requirement for closed-loop cooling (https://www.coweta.ga.us/home/showpublisheddocument/32598/639016609046670000).

And covering the costs of expanding supply and grid infrastructure isn't good enough... why?

Okay, so why are you complaining when someone does it? Why not say, "Good! I'm glad to see these companies are starting to do the right thing."?

Yes, it will be expensive. But it looks like it will be less expensive to just deal with than it would be to prevent. Especially since prevention is not feasible, if it is possible at all.