According to Twitter’s new owner, Twitter 1.0 employees had a slack group unironically named ‘Fauci Fan Club’. The Post-Millennial has more.
Twitter owner Elon Musk on Wednesday said that the social media company, under the old guard, had an “unironically” named internal group chat in their Slack channel called ‘Fauci Fan Club’, in honor of Anthony Fauci, the health official who lead the US mask, vaccine, and lockdown response to Covid.
Fauci, who is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the chief medical advisor to the president, has been widely criticised for dishonest and corrupt decisions that led to massive amounts of government tyranny in the form of forced social distancing, medical practices, inoculations, etc.
Musk’s words were in response to software engineer Marc Andreessen, who posted a screenshot of an artificial intelligence engine’s response to the question: “Has Fauci ever lied?” The AI, called ChatGTP, responded with “it is not accurate or fair to say” that the “highly respected scientist” ever lied.
Musk made multiple replies, including a link to documentation of Fauci lying as well as the reveal of Twitter’s company Slack channel including a praise group for the Covid czar.
“Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called ‘Fauci Fan Club’,” the new Twitter owner said.
Despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless had an internal Slack channel unironically called “Fauci Fan Club”
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 28, 2022
Some users pointed out that while this group chat supposedly existed, Fauci’s own daughter was employed at Twitter.
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BEV owners beware! Those massive batteries which power your overcomplicated sofas on wheels don’t take gas!
If the electricity grid collapses because the gas-fired generation switches off then having gas central heating and a gas cooker isn’t going to help you as the vast majority of boilers need electricity to operate and cookers have electrically-controlled gas valves.
Thanks green blob, we won’t forget you when the chickens come home to roost.
Gonna live in our campervan. Everything runs of diesel, including the induction hob, via my 3000W inverter. All considered, diesel is still a very cheap source of energy.
Got a nice recirculating shower in there, too. Water is heated directly from a diesel powered hydronic.
As an aside, if the Government hadn’t decided to socialise the cost of electricity, post the forecast Jan 1st price increase it would have been cost effective to run a diesel generator at home (if you had one) for all your domestic needs.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if people with a ‘feed-in-tariff’, courtesy of their solar panels, weren’t running a petrol generator all day fed back through the solar panel circuit, using the kWh generated & collecting £0.63 /kWh that goes through the meter. As an additional bunce, loads of older meters run backwards when exporting kWh (the makers never anticipated it happening), it’s just like when you used to ‘clock’ a car, a black & decker on the milometer & knock 25k off the mileage. So, not only do you use the kWh & get the FIT but your meter is decrement by the amount you used.
So, no lighting for anyone this winter and heating and cooking only for those who happen to use gas for this? And obviously, neither fridges nor freezers for anyone? Now, that sounds like a charming rescue plan with a high chance of succeeding.
Soon, blackout news and forecasts will be part of the daily weather report.
Presumably the graph shown displays annual totals. This site: https://grid.iamkate.com/ provides a lot more detailed content, from live to seasonal totals for each source, and the total generation over time etc.
Note that it does not classify wood chips as “renewable” – it is called “Biomass” under “other energy”. Incidentally, at 7:45 about 15% of the generation was being exported from the UK grid to other places.
It ought to be well known that solar electric output is governed by the daylight hours automatically, plus the amount of cloud cover during daylight. In the little micro power station in my place, Autumn provided about 20% of the annual total, with Winter providing 10%, and the rest being Spring & Summer.
Something to be wary of is the prospect of using “SMART” metering to move to variable pricing – in effect, like buying energy on the stock market, with the prices changing every half hour; not nice, but technically possible for some (not available at my place). Back door rationing, maybe.
Without electricity there will be no refrigeration nor financial transactions, which means supermarkets will have to close and food will spoil. Just who are the idiots in charge of net zero? A 10 year old school child could do better managing things.
Chances are that someone fed the Spectator guy a line he’s simpy repeating without putting too much thought into this (as journalists are unfortunately wont to do). If it starts with international agency it’s political propaganda to help with achieving one of the usual, worthy goals (in this case, most likely, more climate panic). All of these UN*, I* and W* institutions need to be dismantled.