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matlag

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  • 🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶

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  • There’s basically no universe where building nuclear is a better option RIGHT NOW than just building more renewables and batteries and a smarter net.

    Straw man argument.

    The question in Gernamy was not to build more nuclear power plant. The question was how much COAL AND GAS plants to build, and that number got inflated by the shutting down of nuclear plants.

    The energy industry doesn't give a flying fuck about climate. If coal and gas was cheaper than maintaining nuclear, then it was their best solution.

    While we're there, coal plants generate more radiations and cause way more deaths than a maintained nuclear plant does.

    I will stop here. I've said my piece enough.

  • 🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶

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  • 1.No. Most of the time they just reduce their power level, without shutting down completely. This is not a technical limitation of the plant. It's to avoid heating too much the water locally, that would impact wildlife. But granted it will only get worse over time.

    2.All water boiling based PP will have issues under extreme heat. Their efficiency depends on a difference of temperature with the outside. That's valid for nuclear, gas and coal plants.

    3.I'm not saying nuclear is the best ever solution. What I'm saying is given the urgency of climate change, shutting down nuke while installing more coal was absolutely criminal. If you wanted to get rid of nuclear, you should still have started by replacing coal and gas with renewable sources before replacing nuclear with renewable.

    4.I'm pissed by that decision, but Germany is not even a bad actor compared to other countries.

  • 🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶

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  • Regardless how you see it, keeping nuclear plants running would have considerably reduced the need for coal and gas, which should be the damn absolute priority.

    One actually infuriating thing is, the EU set targets and penalties over installed renewable capacity, not over emissions. So while Germany is generating considerably more emissions that most of western Europe, they were the "good citizen", but France had to pay penalties for not having installed enough renewables.

    You can see how much sense it makes at any time:

    https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/live/fifteen_minutes

    That's what I call a cynical policy written by people who want to score points but don't give a flying fuck about climate.

  • 🎶36 degrees and it's getting hotter🎶

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  • Climate not being a priority is the ground for leaders to support coal and overall inaction.

    Same as in France, where Macron said (again) that he couldn't possibly anticipate a historical canicule event, even though there was one in 2003, and scientists and activists have been warning that France was warming up at least twice faster than the rest of the world.

    Same in Canada where Carney rescinded almost all climate policies in favor of oil business.

    It's time to recognize our collective responsibility here: we elect ignorant idiots!

  • Windows 10 support quietly extended until Oct 2027, as users reject Windows 11

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  • I wish I was that optimistic, but I lived through the infamous Win ME, 2k, 7, 8, 10 now 11, and every time we thought "this time they're toast! It's the time of Linux!" and it didn't happen.

    Maybe this time? Or maybe not...

  • USA: Slate's New Electric Truck Will Cost Slightly More Than $24,950

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  • This! I'm probably ready to pay a bit more to NOT be under constant surveillance by a car maker!

  • Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS

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  • Their intent was to block third party app, not GOS specifically. GOS not working is a side effect.

    Why blocking third party? As said below: to force the use of privacy invasive apps, and collect more data.

    Now they will change course only if they suffer from a sufficient backlash. And that needs to be painful enough to deter other car makers from doing the same.

  • Volkswagen now blocks grapheneOS

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  • Sounds like the upcoming Slate. But it's more of a pick-up platfom. I hope they keep going and extend their product line.

  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • Maybe I wasn't clear, but my point was these requirements are indeed driven by the studios and the GPU makers.

    These are marketing decisions, because the day it stops (imagine studio claiming "we're good enough, no more need to improve graphics!" then GPU last 10 years or more before needing replacement (I write a conservative 10, as they are heavily stressed while in use, but a computer can last longer than that).

    Similarly, if graphics stop improving, studios will have a much harder time coming up with new games players want to buy. They will need to actually innovate in games mechanisms or find other added value features, or accept that the market will significantly decrease as new shiny graphics on the same game will no longer work.

    So game advertisements are all about blasting you with spectacular graphics and animations.

  • It's so expensive to upgrade...

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  • Ok, I'm not a gamer, and I have a real honest question: we had fun with gamesetsin the 90's. We had LAN games in the 2000's, and over Internet quickly after. People were spending hours, days playing. Each new GPU was so much better, sharper pictures, "so realistic", etc.

    Are you genuinely having more fun now than with good games from 10years ago? Even 15years ago??

    Because it looks like this whole requirements thing is pure marketing, and studios needing to keep selling: "Look, shinier graphics that will make the previous generation of games you loved and found incredibly sharp and detailed when theé came out look mild and of bad quality now!"

  • Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

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  • You can consider it a disaster because iranian drones drilled them a new one. But keep in mind these guys are sociopath with no value for human life besides their own. They would totally send soldiers kill as many as possible while suffering high losses without a second thought.

  • Trump threatens to pull unemployment benefits from all states for the first time in history

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  • It's rationale: how would anyone need unemployment benefit with the best economy the USA, the world, sorry: the Universe have seen since the US exist the creation of Earth by God??

  • Exclusive: Tesla presented misleading ‘Full Self-Driving’ safety data to European regulators

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  • Another way to make history: if the combined behemoth goes down, he will also have checked the largest collapse of Nasdaq ever.

  • Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes

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  • Yeah, but then we also need to rally about C-30, that re-authorizes all kind of known dangerous chemicals for the environment but also for our health, and rally against new pipelines, privatization of ports and airports, etc.

    Move fast and break (every)thing, so when people complain too loudly, it's too late, there's nothing left to salvage, and they're already putting their hand on something else to divest attention from everything else they broke so far.

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • Look, I don't know if you're a troll or seriously delusional. But planting the solutions as "do nothing" or "give everything left to billionaires so that they follow a plan that addresses global warming but in a way that's profitable for billionaires without putting any constrain on them" is not just a fallacy, it's laughingly absurd.

    Your plan does not exist, and will most likely never exist. And even if you could find some mad scientist proposing a plan (not backed by a scientific consensus), you have no way to convince billionaires to fund it. They don't need you to get the 99% money funnelled in their pocket.

    But I will store that idea somewhere close to the proposal to burn every fossil fuel left on Earth to supply AI so that AI finds a solution to global warming.

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • Geo-engineering is taboo. Climate experts are afraid that if we start talking about it seriously we will abandon other, less risky, sustainable solutions. Those solutions are gone now.

    It's really not. There were papers about particles in the sky, nuke near the Antarctic, giant mirrors in orbit, etc. Climate experts just won't promote unproven solutions that may have even more disastrous unexpected consequences while we have proven solutions that we collectively just don't want to adopt.

    But in practical terms it is. While we were waiting for “radical measures” we blew past 0.5C goal, 1C goal and now we will blow past 2C goal. Turns out waiting for solutions simply does not lower CO2 emissions.

    We didn't "wait". We collectively elected people who didn't give a shit, over and over. We still do. So a proposal to "pay the oligarchs" with money we no longer have because they already hoarded most of it, so that they apply solutions scientists propose instead of keep hoarding more, while they're obsessed with power and are allergic to constrain is ludicrous.

    What I’m saying is that we have to come up with a plan they will get behind. They will only support a plan that’s profitable for them

    No, they won't. Because whatever plan you come up with will come with constrains for them. You should have realized that by now. EVs are profitable. Solar panels are profitable. Musk got in both. And he also decided to launch rockets and get in AI, not only nullifying the benefits of the 2 first, but managing a negative overall contribution, all while claiming we have ample time to fix the climate crisis and other stupid statements.

    I’m not saying we should ask them to come up with the solution. Scientist will design the solution. It will be extremely expensive. The money will be extracted from lower classes. Private companies owned by the oligarchs will implement it and profit from it massively.

    If such solution existed, they would have done it a long time ago. What you propose is what? Public money that we give to them in exchange of a promise they'll do something useful? Ever heard of Hyperloop or hydrogen commercial planes?

    The alternative is to continue demanding the ruling class sacrifice their wealth for the greater good while they ignore us and nothing gets done.

    No, the alternative is to elect people who give a damn and know what they're doing, go after the oligarchs, tax the hell out of them so that states actually have resources to get shit done. While you seem to believe "there is no way", some countries around the world are doing their transition way faster than expected.

  • SpaceX has to grow 60x in a decade to justify a $1.75 trillion valuation. It's an impossible bar | Fortune

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  • Bad news for you: we've been paying the oligarchs for decades. That's why they're so much richer now. They could already have done a lot to reduce global warming and they didn't do shit.

    It's incredibly naive to think they'll "fix it" by giving them even more money. First because they think they can escape the consequences, second because they have no idea how to fix it: they've made many claims over time that were pure stupidity on the topic, third because they would never ever ever do anything that don't somewhat benefit themselves and their gigantic egos.

    By the way: geo-engineering is not a "solution" backed by climate experts.

    In theory it's not too late to stay under +2"C, providing we take urgent and radical measures now. The best moment was decades ago, the next best moment is now, the third is tomorrow morning.

    Oligarchs will get all of us killed, including themselves. Yes, they need to be reined in. The alternatives are just modulating how fast we die.

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    36 Pedophiles/enablers voted AGAINST a Child Marriage Ban that passed in Oklahoma.

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  • Yeah, they do that in advanced civilizations, like deep countryside of Pakistan, or Taliban's Afghanistan.

  • 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years

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  • That's (really) a political issue, not a company issue. Each company does exactly what it's supposed to do: maximize profit for their shareholders. Even if they know it will end in a total disaster, they'll keep doing that. That's how the system works. Making sure the system works is the job of the policy makers.

    Unfortunately, the policy maker is now in the companies payroll and so helps maximize the shareholders profit, there is no one left to look at the bigger picture and/or long term effects.