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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ok, there are no numbers from 2024 yet in the source.

I think the solar capacity in 2023 for China was 525GW.

So a 277 GW increase in solar means it increased by (277 / 525) 52.76% (that's great!)

That same percentage increase over the current value in terms of production would not make it rise past Australia per capita yet, but nobody can deny that's an impressive pace.

Also, considering that the trend in population numbers for China is slowly starting to decrease, that could also contribute to an increase in the per capita numbers in the future.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Doesn't that table show Australia has double the consumption? also that consumption number is in total primary energy, regardless if the energy comes from solar or not.

I believe that to see how much of the TPES for each country comes from solar we would need to divide the solar production per capita by the total consumption per capita:

- Australia: 1774 kWh / 63257 kWh = 2.80%
- China:      410 kWh / 33267 kWh = 1.23%

Sources: the 2023 numbers from his link, and the 2023 numbers from the source in your wikipedia link.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The article is talking about storage space, not about access to files in any particular filesystem.

Previous versions of Android 15 Terminal app only allowed 16GB of space to be used by the guest system. The article mentions it.

So even if you had 128GB in your phone, previously you could only use 16GB of them in the environment Google set up for the Linux Terminal subsystem, which made it very limiting. What the article says is that now they are removing that limitation.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Wait, there's a "rise out of water" stage already??

I thought it was all still in the cellular stage, without even having a macroscopic "fish"-like creature yet.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yes, that's essentially what many philosophers call "the hard problem" of consciousness.

You can describe things using referential abstractions that are socially agreed upon between individuals in some sort of social contract.

However, we will never know if what you experience when you see the color we both call "red" is the same that I experience when I see the color we both call "red". It could be that what I experience with "red" is what you experience with "blue" and vice-versa, but we still would agree when we both point a color, since the words we use to explain each of our experiences would still be consistent with the reference we have agreed on.

We agree on what words mean based on what references we make, but you cannot really ever be sure that we are both truly understanding each other in a subjective level. Each subjective experience is personal and nontransferable, you'd need to BE "me" to know what it's like to BE "me". And if you did, then you would no longer be "you" anyway.. so that makes it literally impossible.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I've been advocating protectionism in EU, even before Trump did it first.

The EU is way behind when it comes to very important strategic markets in relation to digital services... I feel import taxes in those sectors would make the EU stronger. EU might be good with cars and vehicles, but imho that's a legacy market that's not really fitting for the EU anyway, we are a dense enough area to be able to work pretty well without the need of cars (pushing for public transport + bicycles is another thing I've been advocating for ages).

The problem is that the existing exporters in the EU didn't want to get shot in the foot.. so I was very happy when I heard Trump would apply these tariffs, because it could finally be the push for the shift we needed.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

leaving host countries to decide whether to wind down these protections, push for integration, or nudge refugees back home

It could also be a mix of all of the above. I think determining the optimal approach depends on way too many factors (many of which are unknown yet) and it makes sense to let each country decide. To me it would be surprising if the EU already had a (public and agreed upon) plan, specially considering how heterogeneous of a group the EU is and all the burocracy when taking decisions (which isn't necessarily a good/bad thing).

Utimately, after the war, it's also up to each Ukranian to decide whether to integrate or return. I think most (if not all) EU members would welcome anyone who legally integrates and support anyone who wants to go back.

This does not make the (hypothetical) ceasefire a bad thing, it makes the war a bad thing.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, I agree with all that.

Social / behavioral archetypes can be complex and fuzzy, they might change with the society and with time. It could be that what we consider today as a "pizza-lover" might not be what was considered a "pizza-lover" in the antiquity, when Europe did not even have such a thing as a "tomato" and the word "pizza" might have been used for a completely different dish that today we would not call "pizza".

This is why I personally think that the internal way in which I feel should be independent from the concept of gender role / gender expression... I am what I am.. I'm not necessarily a "man" or "woman" in a universal and unequivocal social way, I'm just me. I might fit very precisely one of those labels now as generally they are understood.. but who knows if I'll fit the social label they'll have in the year 4000.. or if I fit the label from year -4000. Or the labels they might use in the planet Aldebaran 2.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Yes, I agree, that's essentially what I was saying before.

Some people seem to think what makes a man or a woman is purely biological (or like you said, "anatomy"), whereas others think the distinction has more to do with what's understood as a "social construct" (or like you said, "behavioral cues").

So, in the comment you were replying to I was taking the second interpretation, that's why I was saying it's defined by social/behavioral traits.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

I agree. But this also applies to all social/behavioral labels.

Not all pizza-lovers are the same, not all left-handed people are the same... etc.

The question is: what is it that makes a "man" be considered different than a "woman"?

What do those 2 men, who are different, have in common that makes you still call them "men"?

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Sorry, I was just agreeing with what you said in your second paragraph. Because it makes complete logical sense what you said there. So the "of course you would" was just a reaffirmation of what you described yourself, not a mandate over what you should feel.

Also, I do experience gender, just the same way as I experience color, taste, pain, happiness and all other experiences. I tried to explain it when I gave the example with "green" before. I experience green.. what I don't know is if "what it feels like" to experience green for me could really be identified with "green" beyond the social understanding I have from my interactions with other people when we see green.

[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

In an island of men (not women) you would be exposed to the same different external behaviors and preferences associated to the archetype that you do not identify with, so of course you would feel a difference.

These external behaviors and preferences you perceive as different is what I was referring to with archetype/label/stereotype/pick-your-word.

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It compiles materials from multiple books by Michael E. Shea: the Lazy Dungeon Master, the Lazy GM's Workbook and the Lazy GM Companion.

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