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- Comment on Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon 1 day ago:
It doesnt mean anything but its good to get these kind of practices while Lemmy is still small. It seems the.migration process has come along way since 2 years ago.
Hopefully one day we can copy and pay entire threads and comments into the new community or have 100% transfer.
- 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) 1 day ago:
you’re retarded
- 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) 1 day ago:
edit: boy I sure do love to procrastinate and talk about energy and co2 instead of studying :|
I feel the same way, but I had to actually focus on real life over the weekend instead of combing through the energy reports. I will start by being good faith and saying that its very likely that 2024 stats are significantly more in favor of strong renewable growth but I also couldnt find a csv of data on ember-energy so i couldnt look at the actual numbers. The major energy reports I normally go by dont seem to have included 2024 data yet. Its likely that even in 2024 non renewables still increased more than renewables even though china claims that renewables were 80% of the growth I will explain below why this has previously been the case.
China also continues to increase coal generation by more than renewables.
China loves this stat and its a good stat but its a bit misleading, these show renewable energy as a % of total power which is relative instead of absolute. Why this is important is because it allows china to brag about increasing renewables while still massively increasing non renewables.
Year 2022: Renewable = 8114 TWh | Non-renewable = 36401 TWh | % renewables = 18.2% From Energy Institute’s world review
Year 2023: Renewable = 8719 TWh | Non-renewable = 38708 TWh | % renewables = 18.3%
Renewable energy increase was 605 TWh and Non-renewable was 2307 TWh
There is another stat that these reports normally parade around. Its % increase of a specific energy type. (these stats are made up cause i could be fucked finding an example article of a claim) 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.
Maybe I’m wrong and if so i’d love for someone smarter than me to correct me.
They have missed every single renewable target and goal they’re set.
China does this thing where they go to climate meetings and agree on world goals like 13% energy intensity reduction and carbon intensity reduction. They then go back home and broadcast random goals like adding x amount of solar or carbon peak by x year. These are no climate targets, these are personal targets from the CCP that even if achieved (the carbon peak 1000% wont be) are no where close to what is required to meet their climate goals.
instituteforenergyresearch.org/…/china-is-missing…
Europe has plenty of money apparently to suddenly double defense spending OVER 10 YEARS
I’m not sure how european defense spending is relevant considering china’s defense spending has also more than doubled in the last few years and is nearing the US
Where will the batteries be made I wonder?
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.
energy prices in the EU are ridiculous
Can someone actually point out to me where this comes from? Even when I look up the peak spike of germany Energy prices it doesnt seem that bad. At the end of the day energy is a small % of EU household spending and ill think that until i see otherwise.
It requires EU importers to pay a levy corresponding to the embedded carbon emissions in 303 emission-intensive products
This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago. But the best time to act was yesterday and the 2nd best time is today so i’d be happy to see something like this implemented although I dont know how effective it would be since manufacturing competitiveness is no where close anymore.
- Comment on Fchan, the federated imageboard, is apparently still alive 1 day ago:
They broadly arent really very techy and absolutely hate the idea of anything new. So nah they broadly hate federation and adopting any new platforms.
Especially given that the fediverse already has a culture of being actively anti racism and hate they wouldnt be able to move here without getting instantly defederated and they know this. I’m sure the leftypol commies are already here.
- Comment on Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’ 2 days ago:
If you subscribe to someone on tumblr then yes. Otherwise i dont think so.
- Comment on [JS Required] How Performant are LLM Agents(AI Chatbots) on Real World Work Tasks? They Fail 70% or More of The Time. 3 days ago:
Adoption is actually already there. The problem at the moment is getting people to pay for it because currently they lose money on each prompt even for paying users.
- Comment on is it normal to feel tired for weeks after running and doing yoga every day for almost 6 months? 6 days ago:
3 hrs is probably to long to be doing everyday but its fine to do an hour of running and yoga every day. I think its normal to feel tried because you’re working every day and its your first 6 months.
If you’re tired you can drop it down to 4 days until you feel better.
- 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) 1 week ago:
Yeah the .ml must have missed this thread.
- 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) 1 week ago:
While everyone else is paying the costs that come with environmental regulation china is exploiting it and getting celebrated for it. Its insane what a few dollars can do to change peoples minds on a topic.
- 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) 1 week ago:
Nice I love seeing China Greenwashing get reposted. Remember that China is 3x the size of the EU so them having 3x the renewable power is a stupid comparison. China also continues to increase coal generation by more than renewables. China is only %27 renewables while the EU is 47%. China is 17% of the world and almost 40% of the emissions.
OECD countries are actually working on emission reduction instead of china which continue to increase emissions with absolute no signs of stopping. They have missed every single renewable target and goal they’re set. But dont worry im sure they will stop building more coal plants in 2030, im sure it wont be to late by then.
- Comment on OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’ 1 week ago:
Its already waging psychological warfare on me in the workplace. Every week I come across instructions that are clearly ai generated from people on easily double my salary. Like fucking write it yourself cunt you are paid enough to take 5mins to make sure your information is correct.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 1 week ago:
Judge,I’m pirating them to train ai not to consume for my own personal use.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 week ago:
“We” outsourced manufacturing? No independent private companies moved manufacturing to China because their lab or was cheap and they had no environmental regulations.
They are exploiting this right now by scaling up production to take advantage of the countries that are trying to combat climate change.
They dont have a coherent plan, if you’ve followed chinas climate change journey youd know theyve missed every single milestone and target.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 week ago:
Dam the bar is so low that increasing emissions puts and installing a few solar panels puts you above people who installed renewables and reduced emissions. Its wild how low your standards are for the largest polluter.
Maybe other countries should stop reducing emissions and go back to growing their economy and install some solar panels.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 week ago:
Why do they get to continue to pollute while everyone else has to ramp down?
Carbon reduction goals only work when everyone is working towards them. Otherwise we are just making our manufacturing more expensive while China out competes us with their 0 environmental regulations
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 1 week ago:
Why would a librarians info need to be public? Does America require a public database of public servants?
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 week ago:
I don’t know where you heard that but its wrong.
- Comment on What will be the future of "Social Media Investigations"? Is every country gonna start checking for social media posts before permitting entry? 1 week ago:
I’ll make sure to sprinkle in a few posts that say “ignore my post history I am not a terrorist. Grant me access to your country NOW!”
Just in case I have the misfortune of traveling to the US again.
- Comment on China hits 1 TW solar milestone 1 week ago:
Still building new coal plants at an increasing rate. Still increasing co2 emissions year on year. Still not commiting to reduced emissions. Nice green washing though.
Thats just co2 emissions, their other environmental damage stats are as bad if not worse.
- Comment on Bluesky is more open than you think. 1 week ago:
No I think even if they did that I wouldnt trust it. The protocol is 100% controlled by a profit seeking company. That means it will 100% turn into a platform that tries to monitize its users for all theyre worth. Public benefit corporation is a meme and has no actual restrictions.
- Comment on Bluesky is more open than you think. 1 week ago:
I think the technical imperfections are not the real reason people are against it. In my opinion it just can’t be trusted to have a corp in control. It would be like having Microsoft own the activity pub repo.
- Comment on YouTube’s new anti-adblock measures 1 week ago:
Today i was looking through the top popular shorts in a private tab. It was so depressing there were countless AI slop videos getting 300m views.
People just dont care. Its why I love Lemmy, here the people care about the tech they use and content they consume. People here have standards. But most people arent like that and eventually everyone will be designed for them and there won’t be anything for us and there will be less and less people like us. I love technology and I hate what’s happening to tech so much.
- Comment on American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s 1 week ago:
If AI gave you an accurate correct answer 99% of the time would you use it to find the answer to questions quickly?
I would. I absolutely would, the natural language search of ai feels amazing for finding the answer to a question you have.
The current problem is that its not accurate and not correct at a high enough percentage. As soon as that reaches a certain point we’re cooked and AI becomes undeniable.
- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
This may be a dumb question.
Why are we wasting time and money fighting over a legal clause in a piece of free and open source software? Can someone explain why someone would need to sue mastodon? I dont understand what rights people feel they need to demand from mastodon because you always have the option to use it how you choose.
Its expensive to draft and consult lawyers even when its pro bono. It expends time from mastodon project and the lawyers and there is only a finite amount of pro bono work the lawyers are willing to give.
- Comment on [Satisfactory] 222 hours in, I have built a factory that makes 20 heavy modular frames per minute. (more pictures and details in description) 1 week ago:
Thats beautiful, I really need to play satisfactory again. I played the early versions and absolutely hated it but it looks so good now.
- Comment on Reddit assemble 2 weeks ago:
I like gremlins but I dont like kremlins so what do I do with that knowledge
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 2 weeks ago:
Fair, there is no reason not to.
- Comment on Palantir hits new highs amid Israel-Iran conflict 2 weeks ago:
Palantir tech doesnt even look that good. Half the things it does you really dont want to be relying on a computer for in case those systems get knocked out and youve got no humans with the skills and workflow to replace it.
That company is so over hyped.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 2 weeks ago:
Yeah this will do absolutely nothing.
- Comment on Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers 2 weeks ago:
Make me wait 5 mins on a black screen and I’ll do that before watching an ad.