Bingo. As Europe becomes more Muslim, more areas will ban eating bacon and drinking alcohol.
Where are you getting your information? The kebab places I see now offer bacon and pork along with falafel and beer. Muslims coming to the West are adapting to the local customs and the niqqab is slowly disappearing. Emigrating muslims are following the same patterns as every other migrating population; slowly adopting the culture of the populations they diffuse into.
It's more impressive when you consider America increased coal usage enough that America was responsible for 300% of the global coal increase in CO2 for 2025
Actually you misunderstood or misrepresented the stats. Your link is a confusing paraphrasing of different sites with the actual data. If you follow the footnotes back you'll find out that the US building 2 coal plants, and temporarily reactivating 2 others. In contrast China is building many new coal plants, at the direction of the President Xi. US industry continues a 70 year trend of moving away from coal. Unlike China which continues to use coal as fast as they can dig it up or import it. The west leans toward using the least polluting fossil fuels, ex Natural Gas, China prefers to use to lower cost fossil fuels, which is coal.
"[2026 March 26] Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.
The 15th Five-Year Plan offered a chance to correct these negative trends and get China’s climate ambitions back on track, but it is an opportunity the government appears to have missed
https://e360.yale.edu/features...
"[2026 Feb 10] Despite media and other reports that China is into “green energy,” the country is still using coal to power its economy, with about 80 to 100 gigawatts of coal-fired capacity added in 2025.
The Statistical Review of World Energy reports that coal accounted for 58% of China’s primary energy consumption in 2024, with fossil fuels accounting for a whopping 88%.
Coal also provided 58% of China’s electricity generation in 2024.
While a report by Ember indicates that populous developing countries like China and India “led the charge in adding more renewable energies” in the first half of 2025, their generation shares show that coal is still king in these countries, and their coal-fired capacity additions indicate that coal will continue to power their economies for the foreseeable future.
The Statistical Review of World Energy reports that coal accounted for 58% of China’s primary energy consumption in 2024. Oil was at 20% and natural gas at 10%. That means that 88% of China’s energy came from fossil fuels. Carbon-free energy (nuclear, hydroelectric, solar, wind, and most other renewables) only provided 12%. Since 2000, China has more than tripled its coal consumption and now uses more coal than the rest of the world’s combined usage, burning 56% of the world’s coal. As Doomberg points out, China consumes almost 20 times the combined consumption of coal by the 27 member states of the European Union, based on 2024 data.
"In 2024, China released 11,173 million metric tons of carbon dioxide — 31.5% of the world’s total. That was about 4.5 times as much as the European Union and almost 2.5 times the amount that the United States released.
China produced 57.8% of its electricity from coal and 33.7% from renewables and hydropower. It is unlikely that China has since switched those numbers so radically when it expanded the capacity of coal-fired plants more in the first half of 2025 than at any time in the past nine years, according to DW. It did so by adding between 80 and 100 gigawatts of new coal power to its grid in 2025, with 21 gigawatts of those gigawatts added in the first half of 2025
The reason that China and India will not divest themselves of coal is that they need affordable and reliable power for their industries and for their residents. With the advent of artificial intelligence data centers that are energy hungry, China will be relying on its vast coal-fired grid — larger than all the generating capacity in the United States — to lead the race. It also needs coal capacity to process the rare earth and other critical minerals that the world needs for “green” technologies."
https://www.instituteforenergy...
"In 2023, China was the biggest carbon polluter in the world by far, having released 11.9 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (GtCO). Although the U.S. was the second-biggest emitter, with 4.9 GtCO in 2023, its CO emissions have declined by 13 percent since 2010. By comparison, China’s CO emissions have increased by more than 38 percent in the same period. ""
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Is, is that a fart joke?
They snatch civilian men from the streets and throw them into the battle zone to meet their death, and they still have the audacity to talk about winning
I have deposited 2 rubles in your account, comrade.
Does this mean we finally get a hardware-supported Clippy?
But the customer pays for tarriffs, right? So if the business paid for an illegal tariff, and passed it down the chain, shouldn't their customer get the refund?
If not, why not pass a law saying so?
This could fund the stimulus/grant/tax refund that Trump wants to give common folk
Because nothing of that exists on record. There are no records for how much prices increased as a result of tariffs specifically. Some businesses did this in the beginning, but Trump threatened those businesses with reprisals if they showed customers how much the Trump stupidity was costing them.
So we're back to blaming voters for everything. As if we really had a say in how things were going to run. It's not the monyed elite buying public perception with ads or the news media/entertainment industry's fault for manipulating us. No, it's the voters fault for being manipulated.
The whole point of democracy is so we can blame the voters while the rich continue to control the government. Much as it's always been.
Are you stupid? Yes, you did have a say. You voted for a convicted felon, a known grifter and pedophile. You are bloody well responsible for the havoc.
I mean, most everyone's mad at Trump over implementing these tariffs (and rightfully so, IMO, if only because of how haphazardly it was implemented). But now, you've got companies demanding a refund when it was mostly the consumer who really paid them. (I didn't see many places eating the cost of the tariffs and holding prices where they were? If that had happened, the typical consumer wouldn't have cared so much about them.)
Knowing these companies have no plans to cut prices, it makes it sort of accurate for Trump to praise the ones who won't try to claw back the money. At least as additional revenue to the U.S. government, it technically goes towards servicing the national debt as opposed to tax increases.
It depends on your view point. Personally I do not think illegal acts are acceptable just because you benefit personally from them.
As for the second part, servicing the national debt doesn't seem likely anyway since the current administration blew all the funds and then some on expanding the military complex. More likely this was money that would eventually be siphoned off into a Trump personal account.
I can't believe he graduated from the Wharton School of Business.
There is a recorded statement somewhere from one of his professors who stated he was the stupidest student he ever encountered.
I read that. I think it's an unconfirmed, second hand account from a professor who worked with one of trump professors, who said it and is now deceased. Still, I have absolutely zero doubts that both the statement and assertion are true. I believe the phrase "lacks intellectual curiosity" was also mentioned, either there or elsewhere - also totally believable. The fact that Trump has gotten so far and so much boggles the mind. It helped that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth -- which must have been hard on his mother. (to quote some comedian)
Sadly, it has become the American way. I would argue it is the exact opposite of what the founding fathers intended; an entrenched royalty not beholden to the laws or the public.
It just seems chaotic and unfair.
That sums up the current administration policy succinctly.
So, yet another case of attempting to externalize the costs and internalize the profits? I see no benefit at all for the home owners, and the implementation will cause a surge in new legislation from those states that do not want disruptive data centers.
The people behind ChatGTP are essentially designing a neural net training system and general purpose inference and expression system based on the neural net. Then they are feeding in pretty much all of the human expressions of knowledge or communication in the public or cheaply commercially purchasable (e.g. used books) domain, as learning material for the neural net.
Essentially, they are creating a very large library with a very fast, efficient, disinterested librarian function to help a person find what they're looking for. I'm sure a lot of crimes have been planned in the past with the assistance of library visits. Do we start rounding up librarians? Or, in a more apt analogy, do we start rounding up the university professors of library science, who trained all those librarians?
After many years on the internet, I have learned to never argue with an idiot. It is a long and futile process.
I remember when Columbine happened. I also remembered when the Federal building in Oklahoma got blown up. Guess what WAS'T around back then? That's right: OpenAI wasn't a thing. But those events still happened.
Blaming a chatbot for a tragedy is like blaming McDonald's for your obesity: even if the restaurant didn't exist, you were going to end up in that condition because of your eating habits anyhow. The name of the restaurant might have changed but the song remains the same.
This guy had it in his head to shoot up the school, OpenAI or no OpenAI. Rounds were going to fly downrange even if AI didn't exist. This is some lazy logic.
How much does the NRA pay you per post?
The chatGPT makers are NOT among the smartest people, you have fallen victim to propaganda.
Whatever. They're not stupid, that's the point.
Given how often the current article is repeated in different topics, data would suggest that they are...
As for the makers of ChatGPT being stupid -- no I don't think that either. They're among the smartest people on the planet.
Citation needed. There is nothing whatsoever to indicate that OpenAI employees are "among the smartest people on the planet". Results indicate that a A) they are not as good at what they do as Anthropic, and B) they keep repeating the same mistakes in different areas (previously they "forgot" the safeties for suicide prevention, mental illness reinforcement and ideation, and I probably forgot a few). This would indicate that they are, in fact, not that smart.
One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
