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So how much of US emissions is outsourced?

Yes, and South Korea too.

Efficient service, good food, good prices (for a foreigner), no tipping expected or even possible.

The rainfall deficit and soil dryness is already a year-round problem in our region, this summer is just a very extreme version of that. I am reasonably sure it will get worse even without the potential AMOC collapse.

Fastest acceleration, possibly, yes. But if another region's climate is for example already close to deadly wet bulb temperature during a large part of the year and only a small change puts them over the threshold, then that regions is more at risk than the EU.

> I'm guessing someone is bundling hybrids into stats you read

no: https://robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/

> only minority actually pays the sticker price for new car out-of-pocket.

yes, mostly because new cars are very expensive, and that's exactly the point I was making

> Also, it's hard not to notice how much general population hates those. I'm actually surprised EU got as far as it got here, pretty sure they're burning a lot of political capital because of environmental regulations.

Exactly. But it's hard to quantify how much of that hatred is genuine and how much of it is fanned and amplified by fossil interests and reckless politicians. My guess is that around 80% of it is manufactured.

The parent wrote: "We are actually in the worst place, given realtive population density.". So I reacted to that.

The climate change impact is worse in South Asia AND their population density is much higher. It means many more people are and will be impacted by it there than here in Central Europe.

No we are not in the worst place given relative population density. Look at South & Southeast Asia very carefully - there are countries like Bangladesh with pop. of 177 million in an area of double the Czech Republic (pop. 10 million). They have it much worse than us.

> we join Canadian weather with English-level insulation

Having lived both in England and here in Slovakia, we are much much better equipped to survive long spells with -10 with occasional dips far below that in lowlands (and obviously our mountainous regions are even better equipped). What we can't deal with yet is the heat and drought like this summer.

> using our fierce financial pressures to change the world

We are already doing that using for example CBAM. We just have to continue.

This is an interesting take because for example the EU car fleet emmission rules, fuel taxes, additional member state polluting car taxes etc. do exactly that. Otherwise ICE cars in the EU would be far far cheaper and the EV marketshare would be much lower.

Yeah the issue is "minimally inconveniencing 5% of the population", but it's not any 5%, it's the powerful 5% who resist the change using any means necessary including producing mass propaganda and steering the votes to the nazi parties which promise to revert to the old ways and stop any progress on the climate front.

> Nina in the sourcing department skipped the compliance paperwork.

Well the interior ministry didn't really demand one (yes really) but the opposition people have read the documentation for the cameras and the hash of the supplied software was exactly the same as the hash for the russian simicon camera.

Perhaps. What actually happened is that we have a demented interior minister in a unbelievably corrupt but also pro-russian government. So it's really anybodys guess if it's just pure corruption (the interior ministry wanting to buy some traffic cameras and someone bribing to get the contract while buying the cheapest they could find which were these russian ones) or indeed some covert russian operation (the responsible minister wouldn't know about it, he's too dumb for that, but there might be other government people who did know). In any case in a functioning state this would end up with the minister leaving his post at least. Not in Slovakia.

Russians very much do touch civilians, please don't spread lies of these mass murderers.

Aside of what is happening on the frontlines and behind them, they target civilians in towns and cities in all of Ukraine with drones and rockets daily.

Just from today we have some examples:

A russian drone targeting a civilian train: https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mtr...

A russia drone targetting a cyclist and bragging about it: https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mtr...

And a few days ago, a targetted attack on a shoppping mall in Kryvyi Rih, 16 dead and scores of missing and injured: https://bsky.app/profile/wartranslated.bsky.social/post/3mtr...

Moreover a genocide is the stated objective from beforoe the war - according to the chief mass murderer, Ukrainian nation does not exist and so the state must be destroyed.

Yes, and thank god we Europeans got to be born in pax americana and not before, because there were wars nearly all the time for centuries, if not millenia.

The banking system would probably be fine, only card payments would suffer but there are mostly already alternatives available.

Sure, see also Vietnam, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, where they didn't get what they wanted.

That's not how any of this works.

And anyway, most US bonds are held by US domestic entities.

> US has the power to just tell any creditor that they won't be repaying

Sure, and what happens then? Nobody buys new gov bonds; non-gov debt rating stops making sense. For the financial system it's a shock so huge it's better to only do this if no other solution is possible, at which point the gov is bankrupt anyway.

Huawei has their HarmonyOS but still releases Android phones too for international markets - but these can't use Google Services, so they have their own services. If it's possible to somehow install google services I have no idea.

Personally I would perhaps like to use or at least try Pixel's software (I've had some Google-software phones years ago, a Nexus I think? Maybe even some Pixel. And they were fine), but not on that HW.

From Europe, at this point I don't even look at Pixels because of their sad excuse of a battery. Just buying directly from China better phones for half the price. Oppo, Vivo, Xiaomi are all good, others probably too, Huawei has nice hardware but due to US ban no usable Android.

try reading before replying

We don't have a lot of "censorship within the EU", some russian propaganda tv channels might be blocked (as they should) but that's about it really. Now if you mean in a particular EU member, that's different but it's not impacting the whole EU.

That sounds suspiciously close to DEI :)

> Emmanuel College explicitly requires you accept DEI or they'll sack you

I don't really see anything wrong with that. But then I'm not an nazi, so what do I know.

> I look forward to seeing Cambridge University properly investigated over this.

Of course that won't happen, once an institution is rotten there is no saving it. But also we shouldn't allow nazis hunting people they don't like for whatever reason.

Though the rest of the year will be hot and dry, the winters will still be freezing, which limits what you can do, and late spring frost which kills fruit buds is very common.

We should just turn some fields into PV plants...

Hello from Slovakia. Yellow grass by the middle of august is not that exceptional here. The current drought is much worse though; the trees are already shedding leaves and we've had wild swine come to our appartment building (in the middle of the capital city) to drink water from lawn irrigation, which has never happened before. Most of the smaller creeks and rivers are completely dry. We didn't have much wildfires luckily but that's just a question of time I'm afraid.

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

https://bsky.app/profile/kohngregory.bsky.social/post/3mt3ci...

Then don't install them. I want my extensions in my browser on my computer to do whatever I allow them to do and not what's allowed by Google.

if we want to be anal, UK cares a bit because of the GFA, North Ireland peace agreements. An international agreement is a part of those & also it's very important to the UK for various reasons, some even characterize it as de-facto a part of the UK's constitution. And it binds the UK to the ECHR.

Yeah, immediately confused with Zynthian, which is a RPi-based hardware and software platform.

https://zynthian.org/

I don't believe the OpenAI LLM attack on HF is marketing (documented by, for example, HF annoucing a hacking incident before OpenAI knew what's going on). I do believe other companies suddenly announcing their LLMs can hack too is a bit of marketing, but also pretty sure at least some of these incidents are real and unplanned.

> what’s happening right now

And that would be closed-AI companies failing to keep their AI closed in a box, thus proving open-AI proponents right and the hysterical group wrong?