People get a stroke, or just get mad, and die.

So if there is a heat wave, the stroke is probably counted as heat death.

Even if it is hot, it is not so difficult to avoid death to heat, in Europe at the moment, I mean.

But it comes all together: short nights, in heated up cities. Direct sun during daytime, a heat stroke, because you do not pay attention. On top of that any other bad habit, like drinking wine during lunch, and as it is Saturday, you drink a glass more. But today it is also 41C and not the 37C it was all week. Not enough water, you stop sweating without realizing it ... and so on.

Often it is old people with the attitude: oh, when we had the hot summers 1977, it was the same. No it was not the same, at that time they where 10 or 20, and not 60 or 70.

I do not know how hot those years really were (1972 - ca. 1980) we had extremely hot summers and likewise extremely cold winters. The asphalt on the roads melted - well, in my village.

That they could spend $45 a month and double your output? Wouldn't that be a treat!
They probably actually indeed believed that.

I worked a lot with AI, but I had free access, and have no clue how many tokens I used to waste.

However I learned very early how to instruct the LLM to focus on the context i want it to work on.

At the moment I only use Google Gemini sparsely when I want to research something, I am logged into it with my google mail account, I have no idea if a "normal user" has quota, and if/when I will exhaust it.

Yes, I doubt I ever experienced an unplanned power outage. Except for the street lights in my old place in Karlsruhe/Germany.

In the roughly 8 years in Thailand, I certainly had several every year. Or internet gone, because the power to the next regional hub was gone.

Most of the time it is fixed quickly, but once it took half a day.

Your argument contains several claims that are not supported by the historical evidence.

That is wrong :P

There was a violent crackdown in Beijing in June 1989.
That is correct. As the protesters were violent, too. The first people who died: were soldiers.

While the exact death toll is disputed, there is broad agreement among historians that hundreds, and possibly more than a thousand,
Yes, from 10,000 to 30,000 protesters ... while regrettable the death toll was not particular high.

The protests did not begin as a violent uprising.
Correct, and I never claimed otherwise.

They started as largely peaceful demonstrations calling for political reform And turned violent the next day already when troops from "other provinces" came into the city, and people who wanted to prevent them to reach the plaza attacked them.

Claims that the crackdown relied on ethnic groups chosen because they were hostile to Han Chinese are not supported by credible historical sources.
Then you have bad sources.
It was all over the news when the events happend. I watched them life ... you did not.

The claim about mandatory two-year programs for all ethnic groups is inaccurate. China has implemented various education, labor, and relocation policies affecting different ethnic minorities, especially Uyghurs in Xinjiang, but these policies were not introduced as a response to Tiananmen Square. Researchers generally view those policies as part of the Chinese government's broader strategy of political control and assimilation rather than a measure to prevent another Tiananmen.
That is a matter of wording.
Point is: the people are "forced" to spent two years at different place outside of their province. To force them to "see other parts of China", and do not consider their "own place" as superiour. Side effect: they hopefully learn Mandarin.

Finally, dismissing the Tiananmen Square crackdown by comparing it to other events doesn't address the historical record.
I did not dismiss it. You have a reading comprehension problem.

Serious discussions should rely on evidence from contemporaneous reporting, archival documents, eyewitness testimony, and academic research, not egotistical, unsupported assertions from the Chinese Communist Party point of view.
I am an eye witness. And I have no clue about CPC's point of view. As I never looked at their view.

Everyone can join the party.

Free speech is relative. Inside of the party you have free speech.

And if you want to argue about something political: you are supposed to join the party. And articulate your ideas, or critics: inside the political system. And not outside.

It is actually a pretty simple and straight forward concept. You are not in the party: you have no right to complain about anything the party decides.

If a regulation can be implemented in a simple way, I likely support it.
If it is difficult or leads to "to many changes" then I doubt it is worth it.

The comment I answered to did not talk about false positives.

He generally claimed that LLMs are bad in reviewing code: which they are not.

I did not read or answered to any comments about "false positives" - false positives of what?

Tens of millions of people live in rural areas where power has to be transmitted hundreds of miles through largely uninhabited countryside.
No, idea, but it would make sense then to have a power plant close by :D

It's regularly subject to natural events that are rare to unknown in Germany like hurricanes, tornados, wildfires, earthquakes
That is nonsense, we have dozens of weak earth quakes a year, probably even per month. Hence why we exited nuclear power, as plants were placed at dangerous spots.
We did not have a big one since 25 years, and the last one only caused lots of shaking and no damage.
Hurricanes we have every storm season: they are called Orkan.
Tornados we have plenty: we named a Fighter plane after them.

So the only point you have is miles of copper per person.

Europe has:
Ice storms: they are called snow rain, or depending on situation, just Blizzards.
Twisters: they are called "Tornado" after the famous war bird (oh, erm, well some will get the joke)
Hurricanes: in German they are called Orkan. No idea how to translate it into "proper British English", wait I check: it seems British English took over the term hurricane from USA ... so much to that.

We have a few Tornados every year in Germany, and most certainly a dozen of Hurricanes every Autumn and Winter season. However: they are usually over the north Atlantic, and only hit UK with heavy rain. There was a majour flooding catastrophe a few years ago.

So Germany usually only gets hit by half a dozen each Autumn / Winter season.

And 2018 or so, all north Atlantic ship travel was closed for 2 weeks because of heavy hurricanes all over around Islands.

Why do you not know anything about that?
Simple:
a) nothing happened
b) your yahoo country is to yahoo to report any news about a country you think is yahoo
c) (you actually never have any news about what is going on in the rest of the world, unless an American base got attacked for what ever reason)

And why is not much happening? Because weather warning is telling all people: STAY THE FUCK INSIDE OF YOUR HOUSE.
And still some people die. Just 4 or 5 in Germany each winter. Why do they die? Because of the self fulfilling prophecy: weather warning is exaggerating. Proof: only 4 or 5 die each year, because they say: hey you saw how exaggerated it was last year? Only 4 idiots died! And rinse and repeat, every year a few idiots go the Darwin, because they consider weather warnings exaggerated.

It is easy to die if a robust house roof loses a single shingle, and hits your head. Or you drive a forest route and a tree considers to fall on the road 30 yards in front of you. Oh, who the funk would have thought a tree might be collapsing during a Hurricane? Oooops: Orkan!

We do not have Ice Storms, Twisters or Hurricanes: which (begs) raises the question: "how farking stupid are you"?

The power costs in Europe are taxes.
CO2 tax.
General power tax.
VAT.

Why is that so?

To have an incentive to save power, and buy stuff that uses less power.
Create less CO2.

The result is that an European uses roughly 1/4th to 1/10th of the power of a typical USAsian.

And: has less than half or down to a quarter, of the bill of an USAsian.

I never paid more than $110 in Germany, and even during price surges I managed to get he cost down to $85.

And that includes gas for heating in winter, it is not only electricity.

The power outage did not kill anyone.
Loss of power does not kill people.

This was an ACCIDENT.

In your country power outages ARE THE RULE.

Big difference.

Ice boxes are actually very common in south east Asia.
To ... store ice.

It stays frozen a week, even if you have a cubic yard sized box and only a small sack of ice in the corner.

In many municipalities being Grid-tied is a requirement for a building to be considered "livable"
In a farked up third world country, probably.

In a 1st world country like Germany or Thailand: no.
I do not think (but do not know) there is any EU country with a retarded rule like that.

Sometimes he has super silly ideas about what he thinks he knows and does not know he does not know.

The current tech is: sodium ion batteries, LFP is only interesting because the "assembly lines" are set up for it and will provide for a year or more batteries for cars.

In general the "cheap Chinese shit" is:
a) cheap - yes
b) Chinese - yes
c) shit - definitely not

Basically every installation we do in Thailand comes from China, like Sigenergy or Bluesun etc. I actually don't think there is anyone else "exporting" into Thailand, as most countries have tariffs and as China belongs to the ASEAN pact, the import is either tariff free or tariff is very low.

The quality of "the cheap shit" is the same as imports from Germany.

The farking problem with Solar power is, the prices for installations are falling so quickly that you basically are sitting there and think: I wait for the next price drop! And when in 3 months the new battery is out, you tell yourself: okay, another 3 months.

A few weeks ago BYD announced it's new house and industrial scale sodium batteries.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...