Prices of the electricity we use to charge

[Woosh]

You're doing the same as the other guy - just picking the bits that suit you. Now answer this question. How many new jobs do you think are going to come from the expected $6 trillion investment in USA as a result of the tarrifs?

BTW, since Trump announced his tarrifs, employment went up by 228,000 already, not down! Do you want to have a bet on whether April will be positive or negative?

Do you really believe that 6 trillion dollars investment nonsense? That figure was supposed to be Peter Navarro 's talking point. It's assumed that Americans will not change their spending habits, continue to buy foreign goods at 25% average tariffs. In 4 years, it's supposed to have raised 6 trillion.
That's so naive that I am not surprised why Musk called Navarro a sack of bricks.
The reality is trump needs to raise the debt ceiling from currently 36 trillion to 41 trillion for his presidency to produce tax cut. Think about real data.

 

[lenny]

 

[Woosh]

BTW, since Trump announced his tarrifs, employment went up by 228,000 already, not down! Do you want to have a bet on whether April will be positive or negative?

PBS has detailed the 228,000 figure.
U.S. added 228,000 jobs in strong March buildup to Trump trade wars | PBS News
48,000 were adjustments from January and February. March figure will likely be revised next month to make April figure look good.
One detail about savings that DOGE claimed to have made. Quote: The federal government lost 4,000. The figure will climb but it hasn't produced billions in savings and with about 15 injuctions to re-hire sacked employees against DOGE, it will cost nearly as much in compensations as it saves.
Trump's record of failures continues as his half baked schemes hit reality.

 

[lenny]

 

[saneagle]

PBS has detailed the 228,000 figure.
U.S. added 228,000 jobs in strong March buildup to Trump trade wars | PBS News
48,000 were adjustments from January and February. March figure will likely be revised next month to make April figure look good.
One detail about savings that DOGE claimed to have made. Quote: The federal government lost 4,000. The figure will climb but it hasn't produced billions in savings and with about 15 injuctions to re-hire sacked employees against DOGE, it will cost nearly as much in compensations as it saves.
Trump's record of failures continues as his half baked schemes hit reality.

What about the bet?

 

[Woosh]

What about the bet?

What bet? GOP is going to lose the house at mid term? That's what happened when McKinley implemented his tariffs.

 

[MikelBikel]

Carbon, lovely co2.
And a new word for our greening world: "Climastrology"!
Anybody notice the LACK of "Condensation" trails in the sky this last week?
Did the lack of USAID funds mean No Budget for Chem spraying flights? Hehe

 

[lenny]

Trump’s Luxury Trips and Ego-Driven Parade Leaves Taxpayers with Unwanted Bills
Despite owning a residence in New York and a golf course in New Jersey, Donald Trump reportedly spends nearly $800,000 most weekends to travel to his private club in Florida, racking up an estimated $26.1 million in taxpayer costs since 2017.

Trump’s Luxury Trips and Ego-Driven Parade Leaves Taxpayers with Unwanted Bills

BLACKPRESSUSA NEWSWIRE — Despite owning a residence in New York and a golf course in New Jersey, Donald Trump reportedly spends nearly $800,000 most weekends to travel to his private club in Florida, racking up an estimated $26.1 million in taxpayer costs since 2017.

blackpressusa.com

Trump recognises tariff 'transition problems' as US markets fall again

Trump recognises tariff 'transition difficulty' as US markets fall again

The White House also confirmed that the tariffs on China would reach 145% due to a pre-existing 20% levy on fentanyl

www.bbc.co.uk

https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Monster_from_the_Id

 

[Ghost1951]

Had some fun with ChatGpt writing a sci/fi horror flash fiction. Gave it a prompt and let it rip. Grotesque and disturbing outcomes. Scroll back to the top. The link drops you at the bottom of the conversation.

ChatGPT - Alien Invasion Awakening

Shared via ChatGPT

chatgpt.com

Sample:

It came in silence.


Not with a bang, not with a crash—just a wound opened in the upper atmosphere, and from it spilled something cold and wrong. A cylinder, blacker than night, blistered red from entry, burst open thirty miles above the Earth.


What came out was not fire or debris, but a swarm. A glittering mist of motion, too ordered to be natural.


Matt saw it from his backyard, beer in hand, eyes bleary with sleep. He thought it was a meteor—maybe a satellite breaking up. Beautiful, even. He didn't bother to wake his wife. He just watched it scatter, like glowing ash.


By morning, the birds were dead.


Every one. Fallen from trees, twitching in flowerbeds, necks twisted in impossible ways. Their eyes gone—scooped clean, sockets black and empty.


People blamed a virus. Or 5G. Or the weather.


But no one noticed the tiny things in the dust. Not at first. No bigger than a lentil, with wings that folded like origami and limbs that shimmered like mercury.


They embedded themselves—under nails, into hair follicles, behind eyes. Quiet. Patient.


By Day Three, the screaming started.


Matt’s neighbor tore open her throat on the front lawn, shrieking about the whispers in her blood. Another walked calmly into traffic, eyes glazed silver. Matt tried to call for help, but his phone buzzed once and dissolved into a humming pile of black dust.


The machines didn’t just learn. They rewrote.


By the end of the week, trees bled sap that hissed and steamed. The grass turned black, but only at night. People began coughing up things with legs.


Matt stayed in the attic, wrapped in aluminum foil, eating dry oats by candlelight. He hadn’t spoken in two days. Not since his wife folded herself backwards and whispered in that voice that didn’t belong to her anymore.


She was still downstairs.


Sometimes he heard her singing in binary.

 

[Woosh]

Trump recognises tariff 'transition problems' as US markets fall again

China responded just now: we will charge US imports 125% tariffs.
Trump is now looking into seizing Chinese assets.
Meanwhile, the US bond market continues to collapse. Trump's administration will need to rollover 9 trillions this year and no foreigner is buying.

 

[lenny]

"“China may be selling Treasuries in retaliation,” wrote Ataru Okumura, a senior interest-rate strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo, in a note to clients. Should this be the case, China has an incentive to show “it won’t hesitate to cause turmoil in the global financial market in order to improve its negotiating power against the US.”"

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/what-just-happened-us-treasury-market-2025-04-10/

 

[lenny]

'It was a storm... now it's a hurricane': Has the cost of living crisis been forgotten?

'It was a storm... now it's a hurricane': Has the cost of living crisis been forgotten?

With £99 a month to live off Aida has turned to a food bank.

www.mkfm.com

 

[Woosh]

"“China may be selling Treasuries in retaliation,” wrote Ataru Okumura, a senior interest-rate strategist at SMBC Nikko Securities in Tokyo, in a note to clients. Should this be the case, China has an incentive to show “it won’t hesitate to cause turmoil in the global financial market in order to improve its negotiating power against the US.”"

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/what-just-happened-us-treasury-market-2025-04-10/

China doesn't have to sell. Plenty of others are outraged by trump and vance to do that in their place. Selling off rate is currently about 400 billion net a month, I reckon trump will have to fold his hand within 6 months.

 

[Ghost1951]

Panspermia

Matt saw it first as a streak over the hills—bright and silent. A “shooting star,” he thought, grinning as he leaned against the porch rail, a beer in his hand. Around the world, millions looked skyward and wished on the star. No one realised what had arrived.


High in the atmosphere, the cylinder peeled open like charred paper, flaring red-hot, then crumbling to ash. From its core a cloud of tiny metallic specks—countless. Each a tiny, spinning sycamore seed, spinning into forests, oceans, cities, deserts, and into lungs and hair. A horse snorted in a field and tossed its mane. Tiny nano seeds scattered like flour


They carried a payload—not a virus, not bacteria. It was something else. Something older than the planet.


Within days, across the world, everything sickened. People slept into the day. Birds forgot to sing. Dogs lay down and wouldn’t rise. Governments blamed a pandemic. Conspiracy theories filled the Internet. It was the Chinese; Elon Musk; the Lizard People.

When the rain came, things began to crawl.

Strange arthropods —tiny, beetle-like, with segmented thorax. Black. They clawed their way from the moist dirt. Harmless, some thought. Curious, even beautiful. But they weren’t insects.

By the second week, hospitals were warzones of sleepers—living bodies trapped in shallow comas, skin warm, pulses weak. Matt’s wife, Jolene, stood frozen in the backyard, head tilted to the sky, a dozen beetle-things crawling into into every orifice.


Matt bolted the doors, and left her outside.


They came in under the floorboards, up through the drains in the night and he woke with a dull ache in his spine and blood on his sheets. He dug at the spot on his back until he felt something hard, something growing.


Screaming did nothing. The city was silent.


They didn't kill outright. They nested inside living bodies—laying alien scaffolds, rewiring tissue, warping the host from within, sucking up nutriment


And then… they emerged again.


The Jolene-thing that had been his wife, stood ten feet tall, draped in her own flapping shreds of skin. Her mouth was gone. Her face split open from the chin, blooming into a crown of translucent limbs. Her hands were harvesting tools—filaments that brushed over fences and doors, absorbing materials and leaving bone behind.


The neighbours emerged: swollen giants, once human, now built of hollow bone and wet chitin, pulsing with the rhythm of things that should never have lived.


Matt hid in the crawlspace beneath his house, whispering to himself, eating dry rice from a bag.


Above, he heard sounds from the floorboards. One of them was in his kitchen. Maybe two. He couldn't tell.


He clutched his knees and bit his tongue until blood ran down his throat.

In the distance, cities burned, not with fire, but with some other heat. Some other purpose. Above, the stars dimmed, swallowed by the wrong kind of darkness. And the sky—no longer blue—turned sickly green. The sound of slurping mouth parts drifted on the breeze.

 

[saneagle]

Panspermia

Matt saw it first as a streak over the hills—bright and silent. A “shooting star,” he thought, grinning as he leaned against the porch rail, a beer in his hand. Around the world, millions looked skyward and wished on the star. No one realised what had arrived.


High in the atmosphere, the cylinder peeled open like charred paper, flaring red-hot, then crumbling to ash. From its core a cloud of tiny metallic specks—countless. Each a tiny, spinning sycamore seed, spinning into forests, oceans, cities, deserts, and into lungs and hair. A horse snorted in a field and tossed its mane. Tiny nano seeds scattered like flour


They carried a payload—not a virus, not bacteria. It was something else. Something older than the planet.


Within days, across the world, everything sickened. People slept into the day. Birds forgot to sing. Dogs lay down and wouldn’t rise. Governments blamed a pandemic. Conspiracy theories filled the Internet. It was the Chinese; Elon Musk; the Lizard People.

When the rain came, things began to crawl.

Strange arthropods —tiny, beetle-like, with segmented thorax. Black. They clawed their way from the moist dirt. Harmless, some thought. Curious, even beautiful. But they weren’t insects.

By the second week, hospitals were warzones of sleepers—living bodies trapped in shallow comas, skin warm, pulses weak. Matt’s wife, Jolene, stood frozen in the backyard, head tilted to the sky, a dozen beetle-things crawling into into every orifice.


Matt bolted the doors, and left her outside.


They came in under the floorboards, up through the drains in the night and he woke with a dull ache in his spine and blood on his sheets. He dug at the spot on his back until he felt something hard, something growing.


Screaming did nothing. The city was silent.


They didn't kill outright. They nested inside living bodies—laying alien scaffolds, rewiring tissue, warping the host from within, sucking up nutriment


And then… they emerged again.


The Jolene-thing that had been his wife, stood ten feet tall, draped in her own flapping shreds of skin. Her mouth was gone. Her face split open from the chin, blooming into a crown of translucent limbs. Her hands were harvesting tools—filaments that brushed over fences and doors, absorbing materials and leaving bone behind.


The neighbours emerged: swollen giants, once human, now built of hollow bone and wet chitin, pulsing with the rhythm of things that should never have lived.


Matt hid in the crawlspace beneath his house, whispering to himself, eating dry rice from a bag.


Above, he heard sounds from the floorboards. One of them was in his kitchen. Maybe two. He couldn't tell.


He clutched his knees and bit his tongue until blood ran down his throat.

In the distance, cities burned, not with fire, but with some other heat. Some other purpose. Above, the stars dimmed, swallowed by the wrong kind of darkness. And the sky—no longer blue—turned sickly green. The sound of slurping mouth parts drifted on the breeze.

I think there's a forum for that stuff somewhere - and possibly a cure.

 

[MikelBikel]

LOL how many posts on here are..?

ChatGPT, dude

youtube.com

 

[Woosh]

UK and many other countries are looking into hydrogen. The main source of future hydrogen is from the layer of soil below known coal mines, at around 1500m below sea level.
Hydrogen will then be mined like hydrocarbons.

@MikelBikel and @POLLY

Here is a video about hydrogen deposits in the earth's mantle for you two to laugh at or perhaps you'll change your view:

 

[nigelbb]

The next revellation is that today you get a higher EPC rating if you have a gas boiler, but, next year, they're going to change the algorithms so that you get a higher rating with electric heating and a gas boiler will work against you. Nobody has thought about hydrogen and how that's going to fit in, but it's a green energy, so will probably help. Then came the bomshell for me that presently the gas companies are already pumping 20% hydrogen into your gas, with a plan to increase it soon to 50% and maybe eventually 100%. The problem at the moment is the supply pipework. Hydrogen leaks more easily because of the smaller molecule size, so they need to upgrade all the pipework, which they're doing right now,

This is complete & utter rubbish. Energy companies are NOT adding 20% hydrogen to natural gas. For one thing the amount of hydrogen available whether blue or green wouldn't even allow for addition of 1% hydrogen.

As you were provided such ludicrously incorrect information regarding hydrogen perhaps you should take the other misinformation regarding heat pumps with a pinch of salt?

 

[saneagle]

This is complete & utter rubbish. Energy companies are NOT adding 20% hydrogen to natural gas. For one thing the amount of hydrogen available whether blue or green wouldn't even allow for addition of 1% hydrogen.

As you were provided such ludicrously incorrect information regarding hydrogen perhaps you should take the other misinformation regarding heat pumps with a pinch of salt?

The exact quantity today is nothing to get excited about unless you're suffering from some sort of derangement, and it probably varies a lot from area to area. The woman is working with the energy companies as her job. I think I'd rather trust her than what Google AI says or anybody else on the internet, and least of all any nutter on a bike forum, who gets their info from The Guardian. Did you think about the possibility that they might already at 20% where the speaker came from? Either way, it's not important, the point is that the target is 20% everywhere soon and 100% by the mid-2040s:
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By 2025, plans are in place to add hydrogen to Britain's main gas pipeline, with the goal of eventually blending it into the gas supply. The initial target is to have between 2% and 5% hydrogen in the country's transmission network by 2025, says Proactive Investors. Ultimately, the UK is aiming for a 20% hydrogen blend in the gas supply, with plans to eventually switch to 100% hydrogen by the mid-2040s, according to British Gas.

 

[Woosh]

The plan was made in 2023 but there is no guarantee that British Gas is going to do that. It's to be decided by the government. If we find exploitable hydrogen deposits in the uk then it makes sense to do so. Until then, there is no reason to think it's going to happen this year.