yeah it’s sth like 1% of humanity’s total land area usage (i did that math last week). 97% of humanity’s land area usage go to agriculture

yeeah, i had that thought too. thing is, it’s significantly easier to build solar parks on flat ground than on rooftops, simply because of installment cost.

i remember seeing a plot that says that installing rooftop solar is about twice as expensive than flat area solar (for the same kWp), but i can’t find the diagram anymore, after looking for it on the internet for 5 minutes.

within city limits

it was more a size comparison, i didn’t really mean to say that it has to be within city borders. cables can cross political borders, of course.

yeah i included manufacturing because i was like “most big factories are in or close to big cities, because that’s where the workforce lives, so it makes sense to build factories there. and factories need energy.”

ofc small variations in power are a given, because you have things like electricity being more efficient than oil, so you need fewer kWh, and such.

My dad never had the patience to write a single python program. Last year (2025) he wrote an entire android app that displays values from some hardware sensor graphically (with a neat animation) in like 1 week with the help of chatgpt. it does help people. it makes mistakes, but so do humans. the question is, is it more productive to do with than without? and i’d say, for some use-cases it’s more productive with than without.

yeah i do that too.

then they should hand out access tokens at the supermarket (need to be 18+ or 16+ whatever the age limit will be)

god is a set of mathematical statements or at least that’s how to interpret it in a modern sense, 2000 years ago these views didn’t exist so they just called it “the metaphysical realm” but it’s not made of atoms, no.

yeah i get the picture but the real question is whether this whole topic is even worth discussing or whether the effect size is so small that it practically doesn’t matter.

i mean, handbags and door knobs are some of the worst offenders to hygiene but you never see people getting all worked up about those topics, even though i suspect they’re much more significant than whether the toilet lid is up or down. that’s why i’m suspecting people are inflating a small issue into a big trouble here.

yes but it makes it clearer to do isWearingGlasses == true

that’s why i keep my toothbrush wrapped in paper while i’m not using it.

can i do that without google?

i would very much not want to use google

the only way to have privacy-preserving age checks is when there’s a variable on the phone that stores whether the user is old enough. and gives that data forward to apps/websites trying to do age checks.

that variable can only be changed if you’re the rightful owner of the device, i.e. if you paid for it and have a code that’s on the purchase bill or sth. and children wouldn’t have access to that.

It would be nice if there was an actual article discussing how the parental controls on android phones actually work.

If the people of Taiwan don’t want to be part of China, they’re free to leave,

to where?

create microchips, which requires extremely stable geology. A power outage or an earthquake can cause lithography machines to miss their target, ruining months of work.

TSMC is intrinsically tied to the land and people.

sure, that’s why Taiwan is located on one of earth’s most active earthquake regions

edit: bad cropping of image is not my fault, i found it like that on the internet and am to lazy to find another one

edit: here’s another one

whataboutism isn’t to dismiss the point. whataboutism is to put things into context and establish proportionality.

what was the reaction internationally when the US invaded other countries? that allows you an approximate estimate of what will happen when china invades other countries.

they are interested in controlling the market necessary for even basic modern warfare - advanced microchips.

china already has the capability to produce advanced microchips themselves (it was in the news literally 3 days ago, i’m too lazy to search it out rn) and they’ve been heavily investing in research into microchips the last year so it makes sense they made significant progress.

on the other hand, the us is already building chip capabilities in its own country to become independent from taiwan and so taiwan doesn’t have the significance internationally anymore that it used to have.

i’m even inclined to say that china waited deliberately for taiwan to lose its international status before attacking, so other countries wouldn’t rush to its aid so much.

from what i’ve learned (through experience, not through books), left-wing people don’t like oppression and control as long as they’re the ones being controlled.

as soon as they’re the one controlling others, however, the tide changes. you can see this in germany where self-described leftists want to tell other people that they can’t drive fossil fuels driven cars anymore (“gegen die Technologieoffenheit”) or that everybody has to install a heat pump in their homes. the complete opposite of letting other people live their lifes un-interfered. all of this is justified with the supposed “higher good” (mitigating climate change). you can see where this is going … authoritarianism, unfortunately.

IMO china is making a mistake here. there’s one way to poison yourself and that is to eat something that does not want to be eaten. and the same is the case here. china is a successful country and they could just call that a win and leave it at that. instead, they (think they) have to swallow taiwan, and they will poison themselves. they will get a lot of people into their country that do not want to become a part of china, and they will seek to destroy china from the inside, which is much easier to do than from the outside, and this could become a real danger to china. china should not seek to conquer taiwan against the will of its people.