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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I imagine Ukraine and the US have reached some sort of agreement whereby Ukraine spares one Russian tanker in the Black Sea for every one that the US captures elsewhere Since the US can no longer stop Russian tankers from going down, it wants to be in control, and Ukraine saves ammo

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I don't want to be too hyperbolic, but I can't help but feel like some sort of a "new world order" is forming under the rising sun of Ukraine

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A pattern is forming: Treaties around the world are doing everything to cut out a role for the US, in hopes of accessing US free money/aid as a result Armenia and Azerbaidjan, Ukraine, the plethora of countries that worked on Gaza, and now Venezuela

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I have a take ✌️ This was Venezuela the country getting rid of Maduro, and cutting the US into the deal with this theater of a capture Trump is not calling the shots indeed, the US is just going along with Venezuela's plan As for who inside Venezuela is running this, I don't know

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

This could be a war crime, but given how there isn't a war and these are not combatants, think it's probably better described as a crime against humanity. The US is bombing fishermen because it's trying to start a war which they hope will bring them profit.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

The past changes so quickly that you don't know what will happen yesterday (previous Tman deadline had been November 27th)

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Merz saying the quiet part out loud, except it stopped being quiet a long time ago: If Ukraine collapses, a Russo-NATO war is next. The security of all of Europe depends on Ukraine.

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Dimko Zhluktenko @dim0kq.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It’s an insult to peace as a concept to call this a “peace plan”.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Some may get caught, but I would guess that most get through. Especially since it can be smuggled as jewelry

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

It's hard to turn down a 100% rebate though There's always the option of installing an air-to-water with the grant, and then if the CoP turns out to be really bad in practice (easy to measure precisely on air-to-water), also add in a good air-to-air 2/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

A decent air-to-air will almost definitely have a higher CoP than even top of the line air-to-water, but it will never be a complete solution since it can't make domestic hot water 1/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Heat pumps done right! 😍 Decarbonization should be profitable to the customer 💸 Don't spend your life savings on a heat pump. Instead, use a heat pump to make savings on your energy bills 😌 My report and recommendation after 3 years 👇 (link in replies)

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

You can't assess a long war like this, because industrial capacity can still be developed during the war (see: Ukraine), although the US would be at a disadvantage in the short and medium term

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Whenever I say that Russia lost territory in 1991, almost 100% of people tell me that the SU was a union of nations, and therefore Russia did not lose territory in 1991 3 minutes later, the same people tell me that the Ukrainian nation did not exist before 1991

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Russia and the US can reach agreements, but they can't force Ukraine into anything Tbh I'm skeptical that the topic of Ukraine was even discussed at any of the US-Ru meetings so far. After Alaska, officials seemed confused when the press asked them about Ukraine

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I try not to talk online about where exactly I am

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Notice how 47 is bragging about how many weapons he's selling, and remember that he cut off aid to Ukraine in hopes that higher civilian casualties would force them to agree to the original mineral deal It's all war profiteering. 2/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It's like the "going to heaven" story and the "Nobel peace prize" story, the US is trying to convince the global audience that they want peace, so that we slow down aid to Ukraine and slow down sanctions on Russia, such as to prolong the war and keep demand for US-made weapons higher 1/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

And how would this affect the rest of Europe? Would it not have pushed the gas dependency onto other European countries? Because there would have been more Russian gas for cheaper, so very tempting Which is why I say, "fracking on the other hand..." Sorry for the late reply 5/5

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

It's still challenging because of increasing safety standards, industry prone to delays, actual fuel supply (France alone consumes 20% of global uranium mine output) 4/5

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

So another 300TWh of nuclear electricity to actually push out gas, while pushing out coal as a sort of a side effect (as is happening today IRL), about a 6-fold increase in nuclear energy vs peak? But without putting a dint in oil demand 3/5

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

With the state of heat pumps at the time, that 700TWh of gas in direct combustion would have probably taken 700TWh of electricity to electrify But this alone would have likely just pushed the gas into replacing coal in the electricity sector, instead of pushing gas out of the economy entirely 2/5

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Actual nuclear electricity production peaked at 171 TWh in 2001, while fossil fuel consumption in the same year was 3460 TWh, of which gas was 874 TWh, of which at least 700TWh for direct combustion, not electricity 1/5

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

True, seems I should have zoomed out further

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Is there any evidence that the suppressed USD exchange rate is doing anything to help their trade deficit, or does it just show that foreign investors buying assets in the US are asking for a bigger discount than they were before? I haven't checked, but I suspect it's the latter

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

If he was truly an old billionaire fearing death, why does he still do market manip? Adding tariffs to buy the S&P low, lifting them to sell high. Fake beefing with Elon to buy Tesla stock low, then forgetting about it to sell high Why would I believe that the rest of his policy is different? 2/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It smells like manipulation to me. Just like the Nobel peace prize side quest, it's a red herring intended to hide the fact that their real foreign policy is to sow conflict in an attempt to profit off of the humanitarian crises Money is the goal 1/2

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

True, but also, the individuals among them who reject the crime lifestyle also abandon the communities and often the ethnicity, and those who stay are happy to see them gone, so the stable "community" never improves

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

When all of the publicly available facts show that nobody has the means to end the war "quickly" (without substantial changes to the military realities), and politicians like Fico and 47 claim otherwise, with 0 arguments, it doesn't mean they know something we don't. It means they're lying.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Every single politician who promised a quick end to the war has gone on to prolong it. Every single one. We know that politicians lie. The facts show clearly that the war will not end "quickly". We all know it. When they tell us otherwise, they're lying. And they know it.

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

You would have to hundred-uple down on nuclear to achieve independence. Nuclear in Germany was a big part of electricity, but electricity was a small part of total energy. Fracking tho...

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The US has no intention of honoring the North Atlantic Treaty, regardless of its ability to do so. A slow and controlled decline of their military only makes Europe safer

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

On the one hand, this sucks for communities of color in the US On the other hand, this is exactly the kind of internal friction that we want to drive a slow and safe decline of the US, now that returning the US to western civilization is out of the question

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Is this the same as the vignette system in some European countries?

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🤔 I only thought of office-type buildings If you have lots of labs and computing, the energy consumption can become arbitrarily high, then you need external electricity / solar farms

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I mean... unlimited budget? 1. solarmax the roofs and parking lots 2. upgrade insulation to 12 inches & 3 pane windows 3. switch to air-to-air heating and cooling to maximize CoP 4. heat recovery from sewage Would that not do it? Maybe some wind turbines for fun

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

The US could still stumble into a good tariff policy, if the tariff rate is low enough to not induce much onshoring or impact demand, then it just acts like an odd sales tax, which would be deflationary and would help the government budget 4/4

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you believe you will continue to receive FDI, it means you don't expect tariffs to induce onshoring 3/4

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you do actually use tariff revenue to reduce the government deficit, that's austerity (a tax hike) If you believe that tariffs will induce onshoring, it means your former exporters won't have a surplus to give you FDI anymore 2/4

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

If you want to use tariffs to consolidate the government budget, it means they have to not work at encouraging onshoring If you want to use tariff revenue to save farmers/whatevers, it means it doesn't go to pay the national debt 1/4

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

EU plants also pay carbon taxes, and the EU charges a carbon tariff if the finished steel were to be sold here, but this can be avoided if the steel is sold in Moldova or Ukraine

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

While Moldova still relies on Transnistria to turn the gas into electricity, Transnistria now relies on Moldova&Ukraine to keep delivering the gas The interconnection with Romania sounds on track to be completed this year

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

It sounds like the steel recycling is operating, but irregularly. It would make sense that they get less business, now that they have to pay market prices for the electricity, instead of getting it for free

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

The crazy thing is that they already get to vote, but turnout is only about 12k people We have no idea what the population actually is, but people who have visited say that the amount of uninhibited dwellings is more like 90%, not 50% as 300k would imply share.google/WxTQO2SzMTUB...

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Not that we couldn't already tell that people are going crazy for protein, but it's interesting that after 1000 years, whey is becoming a primary milk product, instead of a byproduct Whey tastes better than casein, but I believe casein is healthier, because it digests like 8x slower

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Interesting that as recently as a year ago, whey protein prices were half of casein, but now they're equal Casein is the protein in cheese, while whey is the byproduct protein of cheese production, traditionally a waste product This suggests that protein powder demand has skyrocketed

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

A Russian aircraft over a NATO county already happened years ago and Russia was too scared to do anything. Blow them up 🚀

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

The fact that he was the general once, and had the information once, doesn't change the fact that he isn't the general now, and doesn't have the information now It's exactly in the same category of hot takes as the ones coming from everyone else. He just doesn't have the information. 3/3

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Michael Size 🇪🇺 @sizemichael.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

I don't think this is surprising, either: Ukraine undoubtedly has access to more information than any of us. Zaluzhnyi doesn't even know the cost, so how can he know the benefit or the calculation? 2/3

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