Phones and tablets have supported rudimentary multitasking from the beginning. Some 15 years ago both iOS and Android introduced features to keep multiple apps active and running even if they weren't displaying anything. Split screening multiple apps were introduced on Android 7.0 in 2016.

There's nothing in the hardware preventing this. By the way iPadOS 26 introduced a full window manager.

Yep, that is unrealised potential. Apple being the limiting factor is what the entire story is about.

No a recession is a decline in the economy. You can cut one industry without going into a recession in a country. But yeah China has in part produced less steel and cement. Now do you want to discuss the everloving fuckton of solar, wind, and storage they are building out along with the fact that there are nearly 40million EVs on Chinese roads compared to close to zero in 2014?

But yes one must focus on cement and steel and ignore the words "in part"

And yet the results of the analysis align nicely with the amount of green energy they have brought online. It also is an analysis of all CCP statistics, the same statistics that had no problem pointing out emissions were rising in the past.

I don't know what your point is. Do you have any real criticism other than an ad hominem attack?

CO2 and smog are not related to each other. That much is evident at home where places like LA have *increased* CO2 emissions while eliminated the thick smog that used to blanket the city.

By the way China's air pollution in urban centres peaked back in 2006 but stayed steady for a few years after that while their CO2 emissions skyrocketted. However along with their greening ambitions they launched in a decade ago they also launched a clean air policy, and all pollution metrics have nearly halved in the past decade which is a HUGE DECLINE compared to their emissions.

There's lies, damn lies, and statistics. This one falls in the latter. The USA has a wonderful combination of a horrendous starting point, and a large population to distribute the problem across.

Absolute:
They've gone from 5.25bn to 4.62bn tonnes. Kudos. But let's compare them with say a comparable chunk of the western emitters: Europe went from 4.22bn to 3.52bn, bugger they loose to western peers on a similar scale. It's easy to claim wins in absolute emission reduction when you're such a big emitter. But wait, why not look at it in different ways...

Percent change:
The USA has had a -1.3% change in average annual emissions over the past decade. That places them 25th on the list of countries sorted by emission reduction percentage.

Pollution percentage of total:
The USA currently generates 13% of global emissions. That's a lot for a country which represents 4.2% of the population.

Maybe if the USA wasn't one of the abysmal countries who increased natural gas flaring emissions:
0.7% increase average per annum (even China has a -0.6% / annum) is horrendous for emissions that are tired directly to waste due to piss poor regulations and not tied into energy production or consumption.

Anyway not to shit on the USA completely their efforts have meant they are now only the 3rd worst emitter per capita in the west. They have successfully beaten out Canada and Australia. They are still miles ahead of every other western country without a rounding error of a population, but hey you can blame Canada and Australia now.

By the way Per the 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy, the USA achieved close to fuck all reductions last year. They did have a good effort in 2023 I'll give them that though. But I sincerely hope you're not on the start of a trend, but given El Presidente's Drill baby Drill mandate combined with scrapping anything with green in the name, I suspect people will be focused on the 2023 review of world energy like a 50 year old woman is focused on celebrating her 35th birthday for the 15th time.

Wait if it is CVE Slop why not just label WONTFIX and move on? Something doesn't add up here.

Which is to be commended, but also... The US started from one of the worst positions too. The the absolute worst, but certainly the worst of all the major economies.

If they were cheating by any significant amount, we would know because emissions are visible from space. This article has an image showing how emissions can be traced to individual sources, even: https://theconversation.com/tr...

Satellites can also see reduced smog over China.

We can also see the massive solar and wind installations from space, or you can just get a visa and go look at them for yourself. Plenty of people have. Take a PM2.5 and CO2 monitor with you, for good measure.

Is there any area of science where we are ahead of China? Certainly not satellites.

Obviously exponential growth won't go on forever, but we are a very, very, very long way from saturating the available demand or land available for renewables.

Deployment will keep accelerating as costs continue to fall and people see the benefits of producing their own energy. The payback time on the investment has been steadily falling for decades.

Is it that different to what some Western countries have? The US is a two party system. The UK is too, despite recent gains by smaller parties.

Speaking for the UK, the choice is between hard and soft Thatcherism. That's not much of a choice. A vote for anyone else is usually wasted, not counted at the national level.

That is deliberate policy too. No government will change it because they think they can win the next election and gain 100% of the power, rather than a more representative system that distributes it in a democratic way.

It would be nice if the money was invested in alternative forms of rapid transport, like high speed rail. I'd take the train if there was one.

I wouldn't be so certain that China's model won't come to dominate eventually, because we don't seem to be able to fix our democracies. There are clear flaws that are being exploited now, and the inability to adequately deal with climate change while China races ahead is both a moral and economic failure.

I'd very much prefer democracy to be the winning model, but it won't just happen by itself. Look at the rise of populist right wingers - people will vote away their rights and prosperity in exchange for nothing more than rhetoric, if they think that democracy isn't delivering for them.