We have 999 problems and migrants ain’t one

Yeah, that’s true. But their production seems to be almost fully for their internal market. Which shows how crazy the scale of the green energy transition within China.

China accounted for 65% of global wind capacity in 2023

So basically, China also installed twice as much wind power as the rest of the world in 2023

It’s similar with solar, but there China has a bit lower percentage of the demand, and more of manufacturing. -> It is a major exporter. See, e.g., https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/solar-pv-manufacturing-capacity-and-production-by-country-and-region-2021-2027

Smart! I use Joplin and Koofr for shorter notes. Switching to LibreOffice Writer from Word, and shared files, for longer texts. But all depends on how you like to write ¯_(ツ)_/¯

https://koofr.eu/blog/posts/how-to-backup-your-joplin-notes-to-koofr

I think the difference is that, while both Russia and Germany are federations on paper, Germany is much less centralized.

• to the best of my knowledge, 3.5% would be military spending, and 1.5% could be other “defence” spending (as others have already written).

Still, not fun with the 3.5%/5%. Overshooting, typical for “weapons as war repellent” strategy (and unfortunately, expanded military often does not want to stay idle…)

Nice, but still, use GOG when possible:

https://www.gog.com/

Money is increasingly needed by the federal treasury, which spends every third ruble on the war

Woah, 1/3rd of the budget is a lot.

LanguageTool as cloud storage?

So cool! I would also love to see a day train from Malmö/Stockholm to somewhere in Germany ^‿

BTW, Grammarly is a sad story. They started out in Kiev in 2009, and sometime in the 2010s, they moved their headquarters to San Francisco. Idk if they gave official reasons.

How has LanguageTool been working for you? We have very similar journeys - the only other difference being that I used Firefox before, so I stay with it for now - but the move away from Grammarly I could not (yet?) make…

The list, sent to EU member states and seen by Reuters, pre-dates Mr Trump’s move over the weekend to ramp up pressure on the 27-nation bloc and responds instead to US duties on cars and car parts and a 10% baseline tariff.

Maybe it is not all caused by CC

It is a common thread that multiple anthropogenic stressors, including climate change, have more-than-additive effects. In other words, many climate change-related problems would be mild if not for other stuff we do.

See, e.g., 10:07 here for savannization of the Amazon: https://www.ted.com/talks/johan_rockstrom_the_tipping_points_of_climate_change_and_where_we_stand?subtitle=en

In the case of flamingoes, it is probably land use change as well.

Mid-winter, there is usually quite some wind. See the graph in the link.

There are challenging moments, though. But storage for weeks, not months, might be robust enough.

ember-energy.org/latest-insights/solar-is-eus-biggest-power-source-for-the-first-time-ever/

Well, there is something to it, and I think we talk about different parties.

Moderaterna, who have the PM, are just classic libs (though there is the true neoliberal Liberalerna in the ruling coalition as well). They are in the EPP, for those who follow European politics. Their program is, tbh, like that of the Democrats under Biden and Kamala. This is where the minister comes from. I think you mean them.

Now, to get a majority in the government, Moderaterna (and two other parties) made a deal (Tidö avtalet) with Sverigedemokraterna. They are not in the government, but the government made an agreement with Sverigedemokraterna, vowing to implement some of their program in exchange for their support in the parliament. I call them far-right. They are in the ECR (European Conservatives and Reformists) in the European Parliament. Their main thing is being against migration. Generally, you could compare them to Trump vol. 1.

I understand why others might think this is not far right. I come from Poland, the two largest parties come from EPP and ECR, and they are followed by even further right. Similarly, Sverigedemokraterna is not as far right as, for example, AfD in Germany. Or as Trump vol. 2. But others going even crazier does not exclude Sverigedemokraterna from the far-right.

Swedish government be like:

Officially endorse far-right party

Push xenophobic agenda

A mentally sick person organizes the largest school shooting in the country, targeting specifically migrants >

Youth joins far-right groups

That includes a son of a ministry working on how to deport as many migrants as possible, making visa process as painful as possible, even for high-skill workers

But WHY?!!?

“Gains in South America and Europe more than compensated for the expected declines in China and North America,” said Marco Schubert, member of the extended VW Group Management Board.

In Germany, Volkswagen is a market leader with almost every second new electric car registered in Germany in the first half of the year from the company.

Good to see some institutions reminding that the war did not start in 2022…

Surely not alone ;)

I still think Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok are good places to promote. This is where you reach people who do not Buy European yet nor do they use Fedi.

It would be nice if she would cross-post to PeerTube from now on, though.

• I am not really in the influencer culture either, but that I wouldn’t take that up as my fight, let people watch what they like ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Hasn’t Italy already been locking migrants in Albania for more than a year now…