You mean…

Tesla? No, sorry, must have been Ford/GM.

Oh, my bad, Intel.

TSMC?

No? Oh. So it’s only other governments subsidizing domestic businesses that’s bad.

Montreal?

I think the OP has a point here: most of North America is distinctly not urban, distinctly not pedestrianized, and really spread apart. EVs take a substantial range hit in the cold, which might not be a problem in the Montreal area but is a bit more of an issue when living in bumfuck, Wisconsin.

Shoigu is being replaced by Belousov, an economist. Shoigu was planning to retire before the invasion of Ukraine anyway, but this reflects either a dire need for an economics expert or a lack of need for someone with conflict experience.

Given Russia’s recent successes in the Kharkov region, it’s looking like Putin has already assumed that victory is inevitable and is planning for how to manage the post-war economy given the rapid expansion of Russia’s military-industrial complex over the course of the Ukraine conflict.

That, or Putin is unhappy with Shoigu’s progress… But again, looking at recent successes in the Kharkov region I highly doubt that.

Supercritical coal reactors are absolutely used to reduce CO2 emissions per unit coal, what do you mean?

Higher efficiency -> less losses from heat/etc -> fewer emissions

sigh

China is heading towards peak coal demand, national association says

China Coal Group Says Peak Demand Imminent as Clean Power Grows

In a major turning point for the world, China’s fossil fuel use is projected to decline starting in 2025.

Blaming an increase in the rate of carbon increases on China’s coal consumption seems rather incongruent with the facts. Are we all choosing to ignore the second-order effects of methane emissions from natural gas? Methane does break down back to CO2, after all, but while it’s still methane it’s a substantially more potent greenhouse gas.

Fuck. Natural. Gas.

See, in authoritarian regimes you get injected with sedatives that kill you if you attempt to resist the government.

Uhh… Holy shit?

Why is this escalating so much faster than the 1989 Chinese democracy protests or the 2019 Hong Kong protests? In those cases, it took weeks for arrests to happen and months for force to be deployed. Most law enforcement in those cases were unarmed.

And this is also true of conventional jet intercepts. Point being, the problem of stealth is basically no longer a problem.

Israel: what if we just do both?

Your claim is that if I can track something to within 20m, I can’t send a fighter (or multiple) up to engage with it?

If you can detect, you can intercept. If you can detect, suddenly a whole host of interception strategies are viable.

Are you also going to say that any news outlet that covers the US State Department’s statements is… nonsense?

Are you also going to say that any news outlet that covers the US State Department’s statements is… nonsense?

Are you also going to say that any news outlet that covers the US State Department’s statements is… nonsense?

And the US pushes the idea of 40 beheaded babies (among other things) and plays down the Palestinian genocide.

Oops.

Then you arm all of them

A large part of this is also the monopolies that large companies hold on essentials: groceries, telecoms, banks, etc. These are industries where competition does not spur innovation: rather, competition only harms the consumer.

I guess Japan has had enough of getting embarrassed by Chinese contractors in HSR and transit projects lol

Usually I’m supportive of tax hikes on the rich, but I think it’s important to note that the top tax bracket in Canada is $246752. Canada needs more granular tax brackets at the top end.

Is that why it takes so many design cues from the Taycan? Makes sense actually…

We’re talking about the country that constitutionally protects the right to slavery, right?

We’re also talking about the same country that gives semiconductor companies billions of dollars, EV companies billions of dollars, and cuts tax breaks to pharmaceutical companies, right?

Wait… Which country are we talking about?

Oh no! The lack of investment in R&D from established European car companies and the lack of investment in European car startups led to European cars being uncompetitive globally?

There’s an easy answer to this: build factories for Chinese car companies in Europe. That’s not the answer that key corporate lobbyists will like, but it’s the one that solves all the problems.

Is the Yemeni government bombing residential complexes, universities, and hospitals?

Why does it matter if US green manufacturing is quashed? You could’ve said the same thing for US dominance in the combustion car industry starting from Ford, for US dominance in the tech industry for decades, for US dominance in the media industry…

Why is green energy somehow different? Cheap Chinese solar panels and EVs decrease cost of living for Americans. They decrease inflation. The only con is that they prevent more jobs from being created in green manufacturing in the US… But even then, that’s only because the US doesn’t let Chinese companies in.

Are you that much of a corporate apologist that you would rather people starve in the name of corporate profits than buy Chinese goods?

Have you sat in a Chinese EV? They put US and European one to shame.

Chinese solar panels used to not be great, but today they’re easily competitive with the best that US and European vendors have to offer but at a fraction of the cost.

It’s actually absurd how the Xiaomi SU7 can sell for the same price as a decent Camry.

It helps wage the war against climate change, cost of living, and inflation. Simultaneously. How spectacular.

Idk about you but as a Canadian in the US I feel like it’s dangerous to speak out against the US-backed genocide in Gaza.

GOP Presidential Candidates Threaten to Revoke Visas From Pro-Palestine Students

In a two-party system when one party will seek to deport me for speaking out, it’s not exactly the bastion of free speech you make it out to be.

Yunnan province’s Department of Commerce donated 200 sets of off-grid photovoltaic equipment to rural Nigeria under the ‘Green Energy Africa, One Belt, One Road lightening Up of Thousands of Households’.

Holy shit what if Nigeria leapfrogs the massive fossil fuel-driven industrial revolution and jumps straight into an electrified future?

Wait but I thought North Korea banned foreign media?

Split evenly, this would be more than 70,000 USD per employee. Of course, the ownership structure isn’t entirely flat, but (for example) the founder and CEO only has a 0.7% share.

In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.

Within an order of magnitude? You can’t give a number within an order of magnitude? There’s only 20 million Muslims in China. There’s only 9 reasonable answers (10^0, 10^1, 10^2, … ~10^8), and any answer you give covers 3. In fact, 10^0 and 10^8 aren’t really “answers” because they’re entirely dominated by the other options, so you have 7 reasonable answers.

You fucking kidding me? You might as well have said 0, because that’s about as much good as your answer did. You made the claim, now back it up.

China is rotating construction workers into solar panel deployment. May are theorizing that this will be the last great rotation of China’s glut of blue collar workers. Projections always assume market effects at play, but those don’t always hold for China.

How many Muslims has China murdered? Give me a number within a factor of 10.

It’s absolutely deplorable that the Canadian government has been silent. A Canadian citizen, working for humanitarian relief, killed by what amounts to an extrajudicial assassination.

Obviously, ISKP has become the core force of the “Islamic State” armed force, and its position can be regarded as the new core and top-level position of the “Islamic State”. The surviving “Islamic State” armed forces did not hesitate to publicly change their stance to show favor to the United States and Europe and become enemies of China, Russia and Iran, hoping to take advantage of the confrontation between major powers to profit from chaos.

In fact, the “Islamic State” armed forces have chosen sides in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and continue to attack Russian targets, which not only shows its vitality but also shows its goodwill towards the United States and Europe. At a time when relations between Russia, the United States, Russia and Europe are extremely deteriorating, the United States and Europe will naturally not have much sympathy for Russia’s terrorist attacks, and silence itself is a great encouragement to the “Islamic State” armed forces. Similarly, the “Islamic State” armed forces have listed China, the “number one” strategic rival of the United States, as their enemy, which is bound to strengthen mutual understanding and even establish a utilitarian “non-alignment alliance.”

After the regime change in Afghanistan, the “Islamic State” armed forces listed China, Russia and Iran as their priority opponents. Based on survival needs or higher negotiation demands, they are bound to list China, Russia and Iran as key attack targets to please the US and European camps. The “Islamic State” armed forces are aware of the pain of the United States and NATO losing Afghanistan, and understand that they are extremely unwilling to be replaced by neighboring powers such as China, Russia, and Iran. Therefore, they are willing to act as Washington’s de facto agent and shadow ally by confronting the Afghan government and being hostile to China, Russia, and Iran. Use terrorist attacks to harm the normal development and core interests of China, Russia and Iran.

Water has no permanent shape, and soldiers have no permanent potential. In the 1980s, based on the common desire to fight against Soviet expansion, Osama. Book. Bin Laden formed an alliance with the United States and received training and funding from the CIA. After the Soviet Union withdrew its troops and disintegrated, conflicts between the two sides escalated and they turned against each other. Nowadays, the world situation has changed drastically, and the relationship between enemies and friends has been restructured. It is not a fantasy that the new generation of terrorists who pursue the “Bin Laden Doctrine” and the United States have expanded the intersection of interests and strategically formed a philanthropic relationship.

This is one of the most nuanced takes I’ve seen discussing the issue of why ISIS has shifted from the West to the East: due to emerging geopolitical friction between the Western powers and the Eastern powers, ISIS has decided to adopt bin Laden’s playbook by aligning with one faction (to receive logistical support, training, etc.) against the other. I’d recommend reading.

KSTAR, KFE’s fusion research device which it refers to as an “artificial sun,” managed to sustain plasma with temperatures of 100 million degrees for 48 seconds during tests between December 2023 and February 2024, beating the previous record of 30 seconds set in 2021.

Wait, but hold on…

The achievement was announced on Friday by Gong Xianzu, a researcher at the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China’s Anhui Province. The device, which replicates the atom-building process that occurs at the center of stars and gives them their luminosity and warmth, held plasma at a temperature of 120 million degrees Celsius for 101 seconds and at the even hotter temperature of 160 million degrees Celsius for another 20 seconds.

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), a nuclear fusion reactor research facility, ran at 70 million degrees Celsius for as long as 1,056 seconds (17 minutes, 36 seconds), Xinhua reported.

I guess technically 120 million != 100 million…

It’s only condemnable if it’s white people that are dying. Muslims, of course, don’t count.