Eyekaytee
@Eyekaytee@aussie.zone
- Submitted 59 minutes ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors 2 hours ago:
“Everything is uncool and trying is uncool,” she said.
Yeah this
- Comment on Australians could cut power bills by 90% if they made their homes more energy efficient, report finds 2 hours ago:
Assertion misses the point: Most Australians whose homes need to be made more energy efficient, are renting
I think the 66% still out number the 30% when it comes to energy efficiency, most people even who own their own homes don’t have solar batteries, induction cooktops, heat pump hot water etc
As of recent data, approximately 66% of Australian households own their homes, either outright or with a mortgage
The rental market has seen an increase, with about 30.6% of households living in rental properties as of the latest census data2
- Comment on Cheeze TV went on air 30 years ago today 9 hours ago:
i liked pokemon, my brother liked biker mice from mars, good show
- Comment on Meta AI 2 days ago:
hell yeah facebook 💪 I hate the product that I use willingly as well👍😀
- Comment on Starvation Being Used as Weapon of War as 'Israel's Genocide Has Continued Unabated in Gaza,' Says Amnesty 5 days ago:
You’re absolutely right, we really do need to look into the malnutrition and starvation in central and west Africa, I’m glad you bought that up
- Comment on Starvation Being Used as Weapon of War as 'Israel's Genocide Has Continued Unabated in Gaza,' Says Amnesty 5 days ago:
Really putting the ‘gaza’ in ‘global news’ eh?
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 6 days ago:
how would Qwant have links to the far right 😅
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 6 days ago:
🤣
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 6 days ago:
helps if you shazam the music, yep lord of the rings
- Comment on Uploaded by Renee Coffey, Member for Griffith 6 days ago:
is that a game of thrones style map?
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 6 days ago:
sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 6 days ago:
I disagree it’s fun, at this rate by 2035 we’ll need to pay users to use lemmy
- Comment on Last year China generated almost 3 times as much solar power as the EU did, and it's close to overtaking all OECD countries put together (whose combined population is 1.38 billion people) 6 days ago:
They will say something like solar went from 600gw to 1000 thats a 66% increase this year and coal only increased 40% except coal is 3600gw to 6400.
Hrmmmm, maybe these numbers are outdated? Based on this coal and gas are down:
In Q1 2025, solar generation rose 48% compared to the same period in 2024. Solar power reached 254 TWh, making up 10% of total electricity. This was the largest increase among all clean energy sources.
Coal-fired electricity dropped by 4%, falling to 1,421 TWh.
Gas-fired power also went down by 4%, reaching 67 TWh
carboncredits.com/china-sets-clean-energy-record-…
are no where close to what is required to meet their climate goals
Which ones in particular are you talking about?
Trump signs executive order directing US withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement — again
apnews.com/…/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change…
China vowed on Tuesday to continue participating in two cornerstone multinational arrangements – the World Health Organization and Paris climate accord – after newly sworn-in US President Donald Trump ordered withdrawals from them.
france24.com/…/20250121-china-says-committed-to-w…
What’s that saying? You hate it when the person you hate is doing good? I can’t remember what it is
I can’t fault them for what they’re doing at the moment, even if they are run by an evil dictatorship and do pollute the most
I’m not sure how european defense spending is relevant
It suggests there is money available in the bank to fund solar/wind/battery, but instead they are preparing for? something? what? who knows. France can make a fighter jet at home but not solar panels apparently.
Prehaps they would be made in a country with environmental and labour laws if governments legislated properly to prevent companies outsourcing manufacturing. However this doesnt absolve china. China isnt being forced at Gunpoint to produce these goods with low labour regulation and low environmental regulation.
You’re right, it doesn’t absolve china, and I avoid purchasing things from them wherever possible, my solar panels and EV were made in South Korea, my home battery was made in Germany, there is very little but things I cannot get elsewhere that are made there.
With that said it’s one thing for me to sit here and tut tut at China, but I realise I am not most people, the most clearest example is the extreme anti-ai, anti-billionaire bias on this platform, in real life most people don’t give a fuck, they love Amazon/Microsoft/Google/Apple etc, they can’t go a day without them.
So I consider myself a realist, if you want people to buy your stuff then you will need to make the conditions possible for them to WANT to buy your stuff, not out of some moral lecture and Europe isn’t doing that, if we look at energy prices:
Can someone actually point out to me where this comes from? … At the end of the day energy is a small % of EU household spending
I was looking at corporate/business energy use:
Major European companies are already moving to cut costs and retain their competitive edge.
For example, Thyssenkrupp, Germany’s largest steelmaker, said on Monday it would slash 11,000 jobs in its steel division by 2030, in a major corporate reshuffle.
oilprice.com/…/High-Energy-Costs-Continue-to-Plag…
Prices have since fallen but are still high compared to other countries.
A poll by Germany’s DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce of around 3,300 companies showed that 37% were considering cutting production or moving abroad, up from 31% last year and 16% in 2022.
For energy-intensive industrial firms some 45% of companies were mulling slashing output or relocation, the survey showed.
“The trust of the German economy in energy policy is severely damaged,” Achim Dercks, DIHK deputy chief executive said, adding that the government had not succeeded in providing companies with a perspective for reliable and affordable energy supply.
reuters.com/…/more-german-companies-mull-relocati…
I’ve seen nothing to suggest energy prices in the EU are SO cheap that it’s worth moving manufacturing TO Europe.
This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago.
Agreed
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
ngl same :|
For me Mastodon and Lemmy have shown that the general population have absolutely zero interest in decentalisation, they just don’t care
Like a hive mind they simply go where other people are, if there are two crowds of people, one with 5 people and the other with 50, they will go to the one with 50, regardless if the 50 users are mingling with people like Musk and they hate Musk and don’t want to support him in any way
Just posting that made me think, if people simply go to where people are, having lots of small servers instead of one large one is actually a turn off for most people
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
As explained by the user below
capitalist growth-focused approach
Communities growing in size is for capitalist pig dogs!
We here at the communist-iverse prefer to die slowly with brief spurts of new users when a more popular platform makes changes before they leave again
- Comment on Is the Fediverse stalling? 1 week ago:
Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:
At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
I login to Ecosia to see how awesome I am, in this case I am a
- Comment on Australians will soon need their age checked to log into online search tools – here’s why 1 week ago:
we’re gonna fumble our way forward one way or another!
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
please stop using the word slave like this, i live an incredible life, you are diluting the word
- Comment on Australia Launches $1.5 Billion Plan to Boost Home Batteries 1 week ago:
more info here: …com.au/…/battery-rebate-launch-mb3215/
- Comment on Paul Keating claims young Australians are guaranteed to have $3m in super by retirement – but not everyone agrees 1 week ago:
The Australian Financial Review has reported that the former prime minister has privately blasted as “unconscionable” the Albanese government’s decision to not adjust the threshold each year in line with inflation or wages growth.
Yes
And while other tax policy experts have said while indexation is common, they believe it is virtually impossible that the threshold will not be adjusted over the coming years and decades.
Also yes
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
I wish some people around here had half the experience you do
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
adjusted for people who cannot see the difference between wage labour and literal slavery
- Comment on We live wasted lives 1 week ago:
lmao
it’s hard for people so used to the comforts of capitalism to realise this is actually luxury
being inside, seated comfortably, doing non-manual work, educated, can read, listening to music, this is a job better than 99% of people who have ever lived have had
there’s plenty of slaves in the middle east right now building shitty stadiums for oil rich kings and queens who would love this WaSTeD LiFe 🤪
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 1 week ago:
Michael Bloomberg
That’s the one!
Bloomberg spent nearly $1 billion on his three-month presidential campaign
nbcnews.com/…/bloomberg-spent-nearly-1-billion-hi…
So my next question is:
Just 158 families have provided nearly half of the early money for efforts to capture the White House
Just how effective is advertising in the presidential race when you can spend a billion and go no where?
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 1 week ago:
Yep sorry it was Michael Bloomberg
- Comment on YSK that 158 families made up 50% of all US Presidential Campaign Spending 1 week ago:
wasn’t there some billionaire that ran for president, spent hundreds of millions and got like <1% of the vote?
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 week ago:
What I didn’t go into depths to describe is that the vast majority of their money goes to big labels and several big artists
Yes, that’s how the algo works, unfortunately most people have no taste in music, if the people suddenly decide that avant garde orchestral metal is popular, then those artists will make more money as their plays and share of the pie goes up
So, they continue to give most artists, especially small/new artists next to nothing, exploiting them.
Welcome to the music industry m8
Published June 14, 2000 7:02PM (EDT)
So their profit is $6.6 million; the band may as well be working at a 7-Eleven.
www.salon.com/2000/06/14/love_7/
That said this is a very specific argument to make, you said
Spotify’s whole business model is exploitation.
Now you’re saying, yes many people make lots of money and I saw no disagreement that the music industry raking in 10 billion in a year benefits from Spotify BUT new and non-popular artists find it tough to make money and that’s exploitation
In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Single Day Now Than in All of 1989
The algorithm is simple, the more listens you get, the bigger the pie you have, the more you get paid.
The reality is that small/new artists are now competing in a field that is flooded, it’s hard to complain of exploitation if you are simply trying to swim in an ocean and finding it difficult
It sucks but this is life in the 21st century with computers, it’s also not going to get better with AI allowing people who can’t work photoshop to make pictures and people who can’t work logic pro to make music
I also give Spotify credit for music discovery: aussie.zone/post/19441027/16055498
It has never been easier for people to go outside the box and discover new music, it’s just a shame most people don’t
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 week ago:
It pays four tenths of a tenth of a cent per stream ($0.004), while raking in billions of profit each year.
I think you’re confusing Spotify with Apple or Google, It only just last year:
Spotify Just Turned an Annual Profit for the First Time Ever
thedailyupside.com/…/spotify-just-turned-an-annua…
This is the same year it paid out
its collective payments to the music industry for 2024 totaled $10 billion.
10 billion not bad for a business model that’s “exploitation”
One of the things people struggle to understand is that it’s not the 70’s anymore, there is more music being uploaded every minute that you can listen to in a year, this has a diluting effect on the value of the thing being uploaded
Listen to music on whatever service, then if you like the artists music - buy the album, or the track / single. Sure, you may support fewer artists this way, but each artist gets paid literally 2500 times as much (album averages 9.99).
I do agree with this though
