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@RealJamesWoods - stumbled across the Kirkoff Case on Prime Video - what was it like working with James Garner?
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Looks like the canaries are clearing their throats in the UK
Here's a snapshot of grid frequency over the past week - the operational limits have been breached in both directions over the week
Both yesterday and today saw swings between exceeding the upper and lower limits within relatively short periods - today was the most dramatic with a jump above 50.2 Hz, a couple of short drops below 49.8 Hz and then a larger jump above 50.2 Hz in the space of 90 minutes
Friday saw frequency below the operational limit for 9 continuous minutes falling to a low of 49.75 Hz, resolved with Emergency Assistance on the interconnectors while today saw 2.5 minutes above 50.2 Hz rising to a high of 50.278 Hz
Also shown are interconnector flows and SO-SO trades with the times when the intraday limits were breached highlighted - yesterday NESO traded against the flow for 14 consecutive settlement periods (7 hours) with several hours at 2700 MW (vs limit of 1500 MW)
Finally we can see the de-rated margin and loss of load probability for the past week. The margin was healthy at all times and the LOLP was always zero
So, in a well supplied market, NESO has struggled to keep the frequency inside the operational limit and has breached intraday interconnector trading limits multiple times, and extensively yesterday
Not shown here are the EA on Friday and the two large EAs on Monday of 500 MW and 1200 MW. Also not shown are the balancing costs - yesterday was close to £50m which is the highest day ever. Today is £23.44m so far - the daily average is £2.3m. September was a record month and October is on track to be worse
This is not evidence of a system operating securely. It's evidence of a system that's being held together with expensive last-minute actions. Yes, the lights have stayed on, but conditions have been really benign. I'm not sure we can be confident of the same outcome when demand is higher later in winter
Adding insult to injury we hear that NESO has spent £££ on PR to gaslight us into thinking the grid was operated securely over the summer despite several margin warnings and lots of trading breaches. This week it has again tried to make us believe EMNs and EAs are just ordinary everyday tools and not exceptional actions. The cost and frequency data tell a different story
And at a time when consumers are really struggling with high energy bills, NESO should be doing everything it can to avoid spending so much on balancing and interconnector trading - expenditure which gets added to bills via network costs
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@nicholasm1203 - not sure why you blocked replies just when it was getting interesting. The Jane Doe case you cited was filed 9/30/16 a month before the election and a week before the Access Hollywood tape. It went nowhere and did not result in any liability.
You’re a TDS addled buffoon.
I’ll check the record on the Jane Doe filings that named both Trump and Epstein so the procedural history and outcome are precise.This refers to the 2016 civil filings by a plaintiff who used the names Katie Johnson and Jane Doe, accusing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. They never reached a trial or a judgment on the merits. Trump was not found liable for anything in them.
These were civil complaints, not criminal charges. The plaintiff sought money damages (the California version asked for $100 million). The claims centered on alleged sexual abuse in 1994, when she said she was 13, at parties at Epstein’s Manhattan residence over roughly June–September 1994. The complaints alleged that Epstein sexually abused her and that Trump forcibly raped her (later versions described one rape plus other sexual contact), with threats of harm. They tried to frame this under federal civil-rights theories, citing a criminal sexual-abuse statute (18 U.S.C. § 2241) and a conspiracy statute (42 U.S.C. § 1985). Later New York versions added related allegations and supporting declarations from people using pseudonyms such as “Tiffany Doe.”
The cases ended procedurally:
•April 26, 2016: pro se complaint in the Central District of California (Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump, 5:16-cv-00797). On May 2, 2016, Judge Dolly M. Gee dismissed it, finding it failed to state a valid federal claim. The criminal statute cited does not create a private right to damages, and § 1985 applies to race- or class-based conspiracies, which the complaint did not allege.
•June 20, 2016: refiled in the Southern District of New York as Jane Doe. Voluntarily dismissed without prejudice on September 16, 2016; the defendants were never served.
•Late September 2016: refiled again in the Southern District of New York. Voluntarily dismissed on November 4, 2016, four days before the election. Counsel and Lisa Bloom publicly attributed the withdrawal to threats and the plaintiff’s fear of appearing; the dismissal notice itself gave no explanation.
Trump’s lawyers denied the allegations. There was no discovery on the merits, no trial, no jury verdict, no settlement, and no court finding that the claims were true or false. No criminal charges were brought from these filings. The plaintiff’s identity was never publicly confirmed in the court record.
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It feels like we are rapidly approaching an inflection point in sports, where greed is rapidly exhausting good will. I speak only for myself, but I have no need for mercenary millionaires in college football, nor frankly a need for any football after new years. I don’t need an NBA summer league, and I don’t need baseball stretching to Halloween. I don’t need 7 streaming services to subscribe to, and I don’t need the WNBAs combination of thugball and pro wrestling. I don’t need four new jerseys a year per team to keep the fan bucks churning, and I don’t need wagering flogged every commercial break. I don’t want kids specializing in middle school so they can go semi-pro in high school and turn pro in college. And yeah, we can eliminate every Olympic sport that isn’t “higher, faster, stronger”, that requires a judge, that already has professional leagues, or that manufactures “coed” events.
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It’s a little bit tragic and a great deal funny that schools somehow think that, after burning down every constituency and every value for the last 75 years, they still enjoy the esteem of their countrymen. They don’t. They will double down on international students, the ideologies of non-reproduction, and the inversion of meritocracy. When they go bankrupt, they will be unmourned.
@CarnegieMellon hi guys! Just another reminder that that racist professor is now your brand. Fix it.
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@POTUS - I’d be much obliged if you’d see fit to ban social,security from any immigrant that did not pay into it for at least 10 years. Cutoff spousal benefits as well. Enough of this chain migration bringing in grand parents.
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Hi guys! The problem here is not the people who noticed you hired a virulent racist. The problem is the virulent racist you hired.
Fix it.
SCOOP: I’m told this email went out to @CarnegieMellon staff instructing them NOT to post or react to anything on social media after one of their professors promoted violence against a White man.
@CarnegieMellon is trying to hide from this!
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@CarnegieMellon - it would help clarify the situation a great deal if you simply stated whether these sentiments are on-brand or off-brand for CMU. If the latter, shouldn’t you be doing something to protect your brand?
Hey @CarnegieMellon, your racist professor is apparently doubling down on Instagram from behind her locked account.
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@Go_DeeJay21 bravely turned off comments, but he’s right: Angel Reese’s two seasons had absolutely nothing to do with basketball.
The WNBA messed up by staying silent while Angel Reese received nonstop hate for two seasons that had absolutely nothing to do with basketball. They had a chance to call it out and set a standard. They didn’t, and now that same toxic hate has spread across the entire league.
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It is going to be very interesting to see how the WNBA decides “what is a woman”. On the one hand, they can take the simple “born with a vagina not a penis” and maybe season it with some hormone levels to weed out those amped up on testosterone. But that would get the entire queer “community” up in arms even as it protected the fanbase for womens sports.
Or they could rollover and pretend that men are women, settle for HRT but no surgery, and enjoy the company of the Transbians they despise for the rest of their careers. The effect would be to absolutely nuke attendance. Nobody is interested in a male-dominated WNBA.
Choose wisely.
It’s going to be 3 years of testosterone suppression and estrogen before he is eligible to tryout at minimum.
Women also wear wigs. And Estrogen is very good for thinning hair. Some women have seen hair regrowth to an extent.
But these people are just excited by the “gotcha”
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I feel badly for those who bought the lie and contempt for those who sold it.
But I am a merciful man and ask only that the losing defendants in the coming malpractice lawsuits be required to receive the exact same treatments they subjected their victims to.
🚨 WPATH has conceded in court that its "Standards of Care" is merely an opinion. WPATH says it represents one side of an unsettled scientific debate marked by uncertainty — and physicains & orgs that rely on WPATH as the standard of care must bear "independent responsibility."/1
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Elena is exactly who you would suspect he is. He thinks people want to keep TIMs out of sports instead of out of women’s sports.
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It’s always nice to see a gentleman bravely willing to put men’s interests ahead of women’s interests and patting himself on the back.
Sophie Cunningham’s words about trans athletes are creating a negative, exclusionary environment.
It’s antithetical to what the players stand for, and incompatible with Indiana’s goal of “making Fever fans for life.”
The W and the Fever need to do better than remaining silent
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Jim Carrey playing Don Rickles at the United Nations is wild. I would simply crawl under my chair watching him target diplomats like that.
Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: And you are an Israeli, pardon me, I didn't recognize you without the gas mask.
Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: Look at the Polish guy, he's putting on headphones, he thinks we're going to show a movie.
Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: Why can't you be more like the Irish guy? Always quiet and happy. Watch me wipe the smile off his face. Last call.
Insulting world leaders face to face is something else.😩😩😁😂
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