The problem is that the infographic says "of all the mammals on Earth", which means individuals, not biomass. So the infographic is objectively false.
What they want is: to reduce the trade deficit. But they don't know how to do that. The most straightforward way is to produce more American products that people in other countries want. But how can Japan do that for them?
In case anyone was thinking this applies only to inkjet printers: no, it ONLY seems to apply to laser printers -- the thing that Brother used to be known for. Where the article says "ink", they mean "toner". There is no ink in a laser printer.
It's not like there's a state border check for vehicle emissions. You can visit California in a non-California car without an emissions check. Joy's claim doesn't make sense even before fact checking.
Title is incorrect. Of these 98 days, the grid was 100% renewable-powered for only 4.84 hours per day on average (10.1 hours per day maximum). The title implies that it was renewable-powered for 24 hours per day.
The actual title of the linked pdf is:
No blackouts or cost increases due to 100 % clean, renewable electricity powering California for parts of 98 days
This article seems to be a response to accusations that variable power output of solar/wind causes blackouts. In this study, there were zero blackouts caused by 100% renewable power supply. Also, the study period was an arbitrary set of 116 days. The 98 days were not a continuous period, nor were they 98 days of a 365 day period.
(At time of this comment, the title of this post is "The California grid ran on 100% renewables with no blackouts or cost rises for a record 98 days".)
Why are hospitals drug-testing pregnant women without their consent?
I just hope federal services (like applying for a passport) don't become Twitter-only after Trump appoints Elon as Secretary of Enshittification.
Pretty fucked, but not as fucked as Ukraine, Palestine, Lebanon, or Taiwan.
NATO will be fucked for a while if the US withdraws, but other NATO countries may ramp up military spending over time.
This situation is a worldwide danger. The US is/was a world power, it has/had the largest national economy in the world, it has the largest military in the world.
Previously, we could be concerned that democratic countries (including the US) weren't putting enough pressure on authoritarian countries (like Russia, China, and North Korea) to improve. Now we have to worry that the US will actually become a fully authoritarian country, like Russia or China.
Business ethics is the opposite of ethics.
>not a single balance update since the 8th century
You're just begging AnarchyChess to correct you.
2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.
Back when I worked at IBM, there were a bunch of flags hanging in the cafeteria that represented every country where IBM did business. We often wondered, why wasn't there a Nazi Germany flag? After all, IBM did sell a ton of machines to the Nazis to keep track of Jews and other undesirables, in order to commit genocide. I wonder why IBM wouldn't want people to know about that? /s
You're the first person in this thread to bring up Jewishness.