the_why_of_y

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by the_why_of_y 5d ago
> The EU price varies by renewables production. This may be technically true at the moment, but the underlying reason for the high prices is fossil fuels: when renewable generation is low, natural gas peaker plants are generating, and th
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by the_why_of_y 5d ago
China added 315 GW of solar and 120 GW of wind capacity in the year 2025. There is a lot of hydro generation deployed (1455 GW) but only 30 GW capacity added worldwide in 2025, and 200 GW added worldwide during last 10 years. Total geotherm
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by the_why_of_y 5d ago
Both of your statements are technically true (the cancelled pipeline was called South Stream). Also true is that another pipeline called Balkan Stream connects to Turk Stream to transport the Russian gas into Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary,
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by the_why_of_y 5d ago
Orange Man was elected in 2015. Europeans decided to construct Nord Stream 2 to completion (finished 2021, but never certified for operation). Nord Stream 1 was shut down by Russia in 2022. Turk Stream pipeline (from Russia to Bulgaria) f
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by the_why_of_y 12d ago
Spending 19 billion € over 18 years to build 1.65GW Flamanville 3 is not quite obvious to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flamanvi... Edit: compare this with China: they added 315 GW of Solar ca
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by the_why_of_y 3mo ago
Congress did improve the situation with the Corporate Transparency Act in 2020, but then Trump became president again and simply announced that the law will no longer be enforced, and now what is left of the Republican party wants to repeal
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by the_why_of_y 3mo ago
Russian Armed Forces have practically demonstrated a range of at least 1200 km, see this news report that was linked from Wikipedia. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/russia-us... There's mor
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by the_why_of_y 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novator_9M729
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by the_why_of_y 4mo ago
What happened in Spain is that they joined the Euro currency, and this caused a massive boom from 2001-2007 where GDP more than doubled in only 6 years. This was mostly fueled by capital transfers from other Eurozone countries, seeking high
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Did that article also mention how Nuland gave cookies to the riot police on Maidan square? https://archivist.substack.com/p/in-kyiv-nuland-handed-cooki...
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
> What public state speculation about Russian interference in anything ever was substantiated? Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election https://www.justice.gov/archives/
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
That's not even factually correct, systemd doesn't verify anybody's age, it just provides a DBus API to store any date the user enters, in case the OS provides some UI on top of it. https://blog.bofh.it/debian
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Because it saves the have-nots 300 dollars a year, it's a transfer from the poor? Thank you for explaining, that was not obvious to me.
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Moving the goalposts.
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Australian households will be able to access free electricity for three hours every day, in an effort to encourage energy use when excess solar power is being fed into the grid. The federal government scheme will require retailers to offer
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
The majority of the subsidies are implicit, in the form of negative externalities that are not priced in. But I really should locate a more recent version of this report... https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp&#x
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Subsidies for fossil fuels in 2020 were $5 trillion according to IMF Working Paper: https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
There are now "loyalty tests" for those who apply to positions at the FBI, to be hired you have to state that the "patriots" on Jan. 6 2021 were the rioters attempting a coup, not the Capitol Police defending the constit
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
My bad, I posted below the wrong parent, now I can't delete it.
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/07/hello-youve-been-referre...
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Ms Wynn-Williams has also filed a whistleblower complaint with the US markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), alleging Meta misled investors - which Meta also denies. The BBC has reviewed the complaint. https:&#x
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by the_why_of_y 5mo ago
Facebook has always moderated (in those languages where they do moderate at all) according to policies, and politicians are exempt. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/facebook-confirm... Joel Kaplan
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
If you look at Apple / Google mobile platforms, these are the requirements for modern desktop apps: 1. providing a build environment for app developers to build something that can run on any distro Both Flatpak and Snap solve this by p
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
Why would Ukraine mine their own cities? Unlike Russia, Ukraine signed the Ottawa Treaty that bans anti-personnel mines in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty A more likely explanation is that butterfly m
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/dl https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
That can't be the first one. Colin Powell used a personal email account during the GWB administration. https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-... Of course that pales in compari
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
A big chunk of the $5 trillion yearly subsidies for fossil fuels is for ICE car fuels. See IMF Working Paper for year 2020. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WP/Issues/2021/09/23/Sti...
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
arbitrary, adjective: 2 a: not restrained or limited in the exercise of power : ruling by absolute authority b: marked by or resulting from the unrestrained and often tyrannical exercise of power
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
Are you sure that these people were "gloating" about private companies moderating arbitrarily? In the US, this is simply an obvious consequence of the first amendment, as many people have indeed pointed out. The same people may pe
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by the_why_of_y 6mo ago
If heat pumps don't work in the winter, how come Sweden has (as of 2022) 2.2 million heat pumps (209 per 1000 residents) and Finland 1.4 million (251 per 1000 residents)? https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository

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