And now #spain appears to also have their own #energycrisis , with a large #drought causing them to #shutdown their #hydropower https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/on.. On top of that, their #hydropower #output has been #halved this year too.
So #paypal have now decided to #shutdown the #accounts of the #freespeechunion - for defending people's #speech https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/pay.. The #founder also had his #personal #account #money *taken* with not method to #withdraw . It appears as though an #snp #mp is justifying #paypal 's actions...
As if the #german #energy #crisis could not get any worse, they need to #shutdown one of their few #remaining #nuclear #power #plants because of a #suspected #leak https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/german-.. It literally could not happen at a worse time.
Would you look at that, #russian #energy #company #gazprom have completely #shutoff #nordstream #shutdown indefinitely due to an " #unexpected #leak ": https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/surpris.. Things are just about as bad as possible for the #eu as they could possibly be without a #war .
Looks like people in #china #shanghai struggle to obtain #food as the #ccp 's insane #zerocovid #policy means their #economy begins to #shutdown and people are #starving https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/shangh.. Apparently their #shelves are #bare too. #food #shortages plus people #panic #buying means there is likely to be little left...
Damn, seems to be wrong time for #cospace for #business #startups https://aardvark.co.nz/daily/2021/1209.s.. This one is #nz will likely #shutdown if it's not used...
Very sad to see #scooby 's #server being #shutdown - he is very unlikely to find a #buyer for #charity at his asking #price https://youtube.com/watch?v=phtGec3FfkU I did not have much success with #custommealplanner - but it is sad to see the #resource vanishing, I know many people *have* found it to be useful.
Interesting - apparently #ethopia is likely to have another #internet #shutdown pretty soon and people are asking about how to #maintain some form of #internet #connection https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291.. Apparently it is very much still possible to perform #dialup over a #voice #call with a very low #bitrate ... That #bitrate is also #comparable to #lora - just saying. One could imagine a stripped out #mesh for small #internet #messages ... Like #lorachan for example ...
Okay, I *need* to #migrate #coffeespace #today ! The #server gets #shutdown and there is *alot* to be moved... Ouch. After a few meetings I will need to work on it.
#jeremycorbyn #shutdown very hard indeed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zombRTqx.. I would also like to question his actual point - how on earth does he plan to prevent people from being #racist online? We can't punish people for crimes they have not yet committed...