Truck drivers across Norway are going to be congesting roads by driving at 40kph in the Easter holidays to protest record-high fuel prices caused by the Trump administration.

If a climate activist mentioned the *possibility* of doing this in a group chat they'd be jailed and fined millions within hours

https://www.nrk.no/sorlandet/_dieselbrolet_-er-i-gang-_-saktegaende-trafikk-flere-steder-1.17827420

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

**Grandfather, you lived through an explosion of renewable energy beyond even the most optimistic forecasts. Yet fossil fuels persisted. What happened??**

**Well, grandson, you see, a very large number of professional people thought a sentence-generating software program had a little guy inside it. And then, **