We’re suckers. And someone probably got a bribe.
… not because we need their oil of course
There’s always some other reason 
There have been warnings that there may be periods this winter when the demand for electricity in Finland will exceed supply.
The economic and business daily Taloussanomat reports that the power grid operator Fingrid is adding features to its hourly price mobile phone app to provide warnings of electricity outages.
Fingrid’s communications manager Marjaana Kivioja says that the new feature is currently being tested, with an app update scheduled to be made available to the public in a couple of weeks.
A three-tier scale is used for warnings. The lowest level cautions of potential spikes in demand a few hours in advance.
Kivioja says that electricity capacity can be strained, for example, during long periods of cold when temperatures suddenly drop even lower.
“An electricity shortage could threaten on a weekday morning when people wake up and turn on electrical devices and at the same time industries and other large users start up,” she told the paper.
A second consumption peak of the day usually starts in the afternoon, when people come home from work and school, start cooking, doing laundry and perhaps taking a sauna.
The warning message app will offer an opportunity to participate in preventing electricity shortages. Savings come from small streams, writes Taloussanomat, so everyone’s actions have an impact. If enough people curb their consumption, the threat of a blackout can be overcome.
Not all warnings are likely to come hours in advance. For example, an interruption in the production at a power plant or a fault in transmission connections can quickly cause a power shortage.
However, as the paper points out, in such cases, back-up power plants would be brought online and industries might start to wind down some of their operations.
Seems like that transaction is ripe for the “national security review” with which Twitter is being threatened.
Lovely.
I support rehabilitating felons - but maybe don’t put them in charge of a country. And have them demonstrate their rehabilitation.
He isn’t even the worst convicted criminal likely to be in the government
During the Bolsonarista protests earlier this week, a guy jumped on the bumper of a truck in an attempt to stop the driver from continuing his journey. The driver in a video claims he tried to stop for the patriot to get off, but he declined the offer.
He failed to block the roads, but he became a meme that brought the country together.
The German ambassador, the Israeli embassy, the Holocaust museum and several Jewish entities regretted what had happened and called for an investigation.
But of course supporters of Mr. Bolsonaro are saying that this is a big lie. After all, what Germans, Israelis and Jews know about Nazism, right?
