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  • I did a shazam on the music, yep lord of the rings

  • is that a game of thrones style map?

  • sorry mate that was a joke, not a literal statement

  • I disagree it's fun, at this rate by 2035 we'll need to pay users to use lemmy

  • 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    Hrmmmm, maybe these numbers are outdated?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

    https://carboncredits.com/china-sets-clean-energy-record-in-early-2025-with-951-tw/

    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

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-paris-agreement-climate-change-788907bb89fe307a964be757313cdfb0

    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.

    https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250121-china-says-committed-to-who-paris-climate-deal-after-us-pulls-out

    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 are only a few things in my house made in China, most of them I got second hand but unfortunately there is no escaping the giant of manufacturing.

    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.

    https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/High-Energy-Costs-Continue-to-Plague-European-Industry.html

    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.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/more-german-companies-mull-relocation-due-high-energy-prices-survey-2024-08-01/

    I've seen nothing to suggest energy prices in the EU are SO cheap that it's worth moving manufacturing TO Europe, and this is what annoys me the most.

    I've pointed this out before but they have an excellent report on the issues:

    https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/97e481fd-2dc3-412d-be4c-f152a8232961_en?filename=The+future+of+European+competitiveness+_+A+competitiveness+strategy+for+Europe.pdf

    Then they put out this Competitive Compass:

    https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/competitiveness-compass_en

    But tbh every week in the EU it seems like they are chasing after some other goal.

    This would be great, it would have been greater 10 years ago.

    Agreed

  • 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

  • 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

  • Up the top it has software filter, if you select lemmy:

    At this rate by 2035 the lemmy userbase will be depleted

  • I login to Ecosia to see how awesome I am, in this case I am a

  • we're gonna fumble our way forward one way or another!

  • please stop using the word slave like this, i live an incredible life, you are diluting the word

  • 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

  • I wish some people around here had half the experience you do

  • adjusted for people who cannot see the difference between free market wage labour in a western economy and literal slavery

  • 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

    Slaves who existed before capitalism was even imagined would dream of this WaSTeD LiFe 🤪

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works

    Hibiki by kyutai, a simultaneous speech-to-speech translation model, currently supporting FR to EN

    Technology @lemmy.world

    In a first tariff-induced hit against the PC gaming sector, ASRock is talking about increasing costs and moving its graphics card manufacturing away from China

    LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works

    DeepSeek gives Europe's tech firms a chance to catch up in global AI race

    News @lemmy.world

    Philadelphia plane crash: Small aircraft crashes in neighbourhood

    LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works

    Mistral Small 3 (24B) released

    Technology @lemmy.world

    Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMC

    LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works

    Did DeepSeek R1 just pop nvidias bubble?

    Australia @aussie.zone

    The series of anti-Semitic attacks that have shocked Sydney

    Australia @aussie.zone

    It’s new and risky, but Gen Z workers are ‘all in’ on AI