showing actual tobacco brand is a clear violation of the act. I think the anime will be restored with the brand masked soon.

Now they will start saying that beneath every hospital and refugee camp in Gaza lies a Hamas headquarter.

China has an oversupply issue in housing construction in general. it is... as if the problem is not merely building too few houses (as some us centric yimby people believe) but rather an unjust system of resource distribution?

solar panels in a desert seems relative low impact infrastructure

The moemorphic character shown in the picture is Archchan, created by ravimo. I wonder why show her in a discussion about Mint?

"also stay tuned to our new series 'is this visitor AI', where I detect bot from normal web traffic!"

Realism diplomacy is just 19th century style imperialism and interempire alliance with a new name. Look how he appeased Putin during the beginning of russo-ukrainian war. This person has no moral guide and will throw anyone, friend or foe, under the bus to gain perceived nation interest. In the long run it is exactly those moves that harmed US credibility the most.

Algae are also the preferable bioenergy source compared with using trees.

my understanding is that Taiwan buys weapons from the us, so he is demanding something that is already a common practice

about a decade ago renewables reached grid parity with conventional sources in most of the world and experience exponential growth so far. I hope the same happen for plant based products.

To triple the RE capacity by 2030, we need to double the current speed, or linearly increase the deployment speed until it reach 1.5TW/yr by 2030.

Ambitious but totally feasible.

I think it is the other way around; easy pirate versions appeared becuz windows was popular, providing access to those who can't afford.

Seems too conservative projection for wind energy, but yeah most experts agree solar will be dominant.

I remembered vividly when some people predicting soaring high coal electricity generation would occur in Germany for 2023 back in April. Of course, those who had been studying the actual Energiewende for a while knew that would never be the case.

Interestingly, most of Germany import in 2023 was also from renewables. One could say that German coal has been beatened by growing renewables both at home and abroad.

I mean I understand this is modeling a pathway with no further climate policy, but still wind being second cheapest option should gain more share.

Build stack interchange only in cities skylines, not in real world

86, but fantasy world

I hear you can self host sth called photovoltaic on your rooftop to get it for free!

It's not a good analogy. A better analogy might be a community that promotes a Linux distro that runs exclusively on Chromebook and claims that that is the ONLY private and secure way to use a computer.

but the CCP said these students were counter revolutionaries... how can they be left wing!!!