Well, yes, because it’s a report about China, so it uses Chinese data sources. Sure, they *could* be lying about it all, but it’s extremely obvious that China has built out a huge solar panel, wind turbine, battery storage and EV manufacturing capability, because not only is it deploying it internally, it’s also exporting in large volumes. So the world in which they are lying is one in which they’ve done these things but these things have weirdly had no effect on transportation emissions, for example, which is just not believable.

That is a completely mad interpretation of what that report says. You use the words fudged, underreported and straight up BS, and there’s nothing in that report that suggests a deliberate systemic policy choice by either the national or subnational governments to do any of those things. It’s a technical report that points out some of the technical challenges of collating accurate emissions data.

OMG, I'm so stealing that ;)

This is one part of why in the future, we will potentially be facing a world of energy abundance. We are likely to overbuild capacity by some margin compared to current usage. It’s an exciting future, although it’s some way off.

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I work in schools - and have worked in pre-schools.

You think that makes a difference? If anything, the kids are MORE pliable and there's GREATER opportunity for abuse and indoctrination.

What a dumb idea for a technology barely 5 years old in its current iteration.

I’m well aware of the nominal drivers. But as it happens, this isn’t really accurate for the UK. For example, geography GCSE includes plenty of material from the last 3 to 5 years, and as you point out, the last home computers to use magnetic drive Are more than 30 years old, which long predates the GCSE computer science curriculum. So I don’t think your explanation holds water in this instance.

What the fuck has that got to do with anything? My point wasn’t about utility was it? My point was about the subject not in fact being the subject, and the materials being out of date. People on this website can be so pointless dicks about things, just like you’re being here.

And what's the first desert haboob going to do to that mirror glass that is intended to keep out the heat?

Do they also provide build tools and allow customers to build and install their own images?

You have to have punishments to stop the people who are stopped by the threat of them. Those people do exist. We don't think about them much because the existing deterrents work just fine on them.

But you also shouldn't waste your time either believing that they will deter everyone, nor that stronger punishments will deter statistically more people. There are always those who think they won't get caught, and those who don't care.

Somehow authoritarians always forget the carrot. The stick isn't invalid, it just isn't a complete solution, and you shouldn't be rushing to apply it in all situations.

What's stopping you? There's definitely people doing this right now. Around a quarter of the continental US is BLM land. Last I looked pig tags were free.

"Woke" simply means "I'm conservative, and the thing I'm calling 'Woke' is something that I hate". It has no well-defined meaning beyond that. I've heard things as diverse as "the concept of the Metaverse" and "removing copyrighted content so you don't get sued" described as "woke".

No call by push value or P vs NP or complexity theory etc.

So a different set of things that are also useless to the vast majority of people?