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It would be quite funny if they released a set of iceberg-shaped whisky stones called the ardbergs though

Given the fact that they’re pretty much producing everything for western economies and is recently industrialised China is actually doing fine. They emit a lot less per person than the average European while producing goods for 2x their population.

From your own source, the EU emitted 5.6 tonnes per person in 2022. It doesn’t show per capita numbers for China, but it does show a total value of 10,613,171,000 tonnes for 2022. Divide that by 1.412 billion for China’s population and you get 7.5 tonnes per person

Consumption-based emissions, to account for the balance of imports and exports in China and the EU, do put Europe’s per-capita emission above China’s. But it’s by 10% in 2021, and the trend shows the gap narrowing year on year as China’s net emissions increase and Europe’s decrease.

The investment they’re making into clean power is great. It just doesn’t cancel out the simultaneous expansion of fossil fuel usage.

China’s consumption-based emissions per capita are virtually as high as the EU’s now. It is not accurate to say China is only emitting because it is making things for the West.

They have already beat every single other nation in every single category in relation to lowering their emissions

Except actually lowering emissions, which China has not done at all.

Installing heaps of solar is great. Doing so does not offset also installing heaps of fossil fuel power, which it has also done

Couldn’t Biden in turn just pardon the killer?

Wait, when was it an independent Chagossian state?

Please don’t do this to my wallet

The trick is that in German it’s fine to just take several words and delete the spaces between them if they’re expressing a single concept. Like if in English, we took the concept of Germans having a word for everything and just called it Germanvocabulary

80% of Israeli Jews were born in Israel, they do not have an “actual home” to go back to

This one always makes me smile, because it’s from the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. It’s just some guy’s blog in which he comes up with new words to express experiences and emotions that are difficult to describe, and that specific one has thoroughly broken containment

I made AltGr + / type an interrobang so I’d always have access to it

I do really worry that America would put boots on the ground in the event of an open Iran-Israel war. Especially if Iran starts winning.

Presumably you downloaded Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (MSKLC), which I still had to do to make a custom keyboard layout in 2022. Funnily enough I was also wanting to use AltGr to add diacritics to vowels, because I don’t want to have to go to the backtick key for àèìòù

For what it’s worth, making a custom layout actually is a huge pain in the arse. That’s a pretty niche use case, but there is definitely no reason for it to be as much of a hassle as it is

Not to mention the disingenuousness of leaving out how they lost to Hindenburg and Ludendorff in between those two

Ethnic Russians were the largest proportion of the killed in action by quite a margin, let’s not pretend that they weren’t doing their part. Ukraine was too, of course - the people that pretend Ukraine just jumped ship and shacked up with the Nazis at the first opportunity are doing an unbelievable disservice to the millions of Ukrainians that died fighting the Nazis - but the huge population disparity between Russia and every other Soviet republic does show in the data.

I like Blue Turtle’s playlists, especially the Ithya ones. They’re mostly folkish intrumentals and some gentle chillstep

The Travellers’ Encore from Outer Wilds

A pizza oven is about 450 C, so I’ll figure it out based on this graph of the temperature in the Earth by depth.

0 to 500 C = 80 px
6.25 C per pixel
450/6.25 = 72 px

0 to 100 km = 54 px
1.85 km per pixel

Line y coordinate at 72 px x coordinate = 9 px
9*1.85 = ~17 km

The deepest hole we’ve ever actually drilled is the Kola superdeep borehole, which is a bit over 12 km deep. This is a fair bit short of our ideal pizza oven temperature, but it did see temperatures of 180 C, which is certainly enough to cook a pizza.

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