benjhm

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

That's great, I'm optimistic about the peaking. Nevertheless 53% coal is still far too much, and May is easy compared to cold winters. A lot of coal is also used to make steel and cement, maybe also declining, but could be good to see relative numbers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Have kids age 13,15, they are fun, and independent, but sometimes it's difficult to be in the parent role. General issues of motivation to do anything off-screen, or indeed anything suggested by parents, even to come outdoors in summer. We still have ideas, skills to share, but conversations became so short, little chance for in depth discussion, or constructive projects. Traveling together can still be good.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

So, what do we do with the greenest areas? Cover them with splodges of grey, of course...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

It's about future oil and gas expansion (FOGE), what matters to the atmosphere is the total - identifying potential threat. Effectively multiplying FOGE by area (as shown) doesn't make sense, but neither does FOGE per capita (as most is exported, not consumed locally). I'd suggest just a sized blob for each country - then can show some other dimension with the color.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I see that says 'has to be local only, not federated' (same issue also discussed on github).
'Local only' suggests to me front-end, i.e. info stored by browser. In that case people who are often switching devices would have to re-organise on each one, which could be tedious.
So isn't there something in between local and federated - i.e. saved by the instance as user-settings, but not pushed to other instances?
Maybe there could be some manual copying mechanism, so a user who organises a big set of communities could share with others. (This reminds me of mastodon 'lists' and various ways of organising and transferring them).

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As a small kid I learned i = i +1, before any maths teacher told me it couldn't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Nearly 200 upthumbs, more ?!
But the discussion explores broader and narrow variants, need to coalesce.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Hmm, did you consult the next french president about that ?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, she's right, more people in Belarus voted for her than Lukas* and his pals, they shouldn't suffer for p's tricks, although it seems to me the majority are rather too passive (with some great exceptions, of course).
Anyway isn't there another factor here - are there still long freight trains with chinese containers frequently arriving in Brest? If not, how else are they getting to europe? If so, I'd guess both belarus railways and polish lorry drivers get a lot of money out of that trade, isn't that a factor of leverage ?
Belarus is good at trains, I hope not so far in the future we'll see them run again from Odesa to Riga via Minsk, and with people free to move.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Sure, but diplomacy is not logical, and EU has a habit (mistake?) to do things in mega packages (look at 2004). Last I heard, the gossip was 'by 2030'.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is this intentionally english speaking, or does this just reflect the population of lemmy ?
I'd prefer a multilingual europe instance, ou chacun parle sa langue, para aumentar la diversidad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Well such timescale would in any case depend on EU, not on convenience for any british parliament. There are now N. Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, [ Bosnia, Serbia, Kosovo ?], Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, [Turkey ?] all in the queue to join EU. On the other hand, it might help from point of view of geographic and economic balance, otherwise the centre of 'gravity' will shift even further SE away from Brussels. I think to expand EU has to reform processes, to end all vetos and generalise multi-speed / opt-outs.
Meanwhile a new british government could implement obviously convenient win-win cooperation step by step, until there isn't so much left to change. And I'd be happy to see Scotland and Northern Ireland take a lead.

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