JohnEdwa

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

And if we split China into three smaller countries with a population of 450 million each, then those would only produce 3/4th the Co2 of USA each putting USA in the number one spot and solve climate change? China currently pollutes the most overall simply because it has the (second) biggest population, and that makes it look bad in the "per country" statistic. But per person they pollute less than half of what someone from the US, Australia or Canada do.

Another extreme example is India, it is on spot 3 on overall emissions, which means it produces a fuckton of CO2, even though per capita the figure is 1.89 - one person from the US produces as much CO2 emissions than 8 people from India. They are already well below the global average (~5 tons per person) and even below the suggested target to counter climate change - 2.5 per person.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Exactly, the world doesn't care. The average co2 footprint per person globally is around 5 tonnes and as we've noticed, that is way too much for our planet to handle, one estimate is that we would need to drop that to below 2.5 tonnes.
China at 7.5 per person is a lot closer to than Canada at 18, Australia at 17, US at around 15 or Russia at 12. EU on average is close at around 8 I believe.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

It's not ignoring the problem, you are complaining that we are running out of food because that group of a billion people are eating too much when you have over twice as much food on your own plates, and saying the solution is that they should be forced to eat even less.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago (19 children)

Because China is a country with the third largest land mass with the second largest population in the world. But per capita, they produce half of what an American does.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Except low demand doesn't usually make house prices go down either, it just means they won't get sold or they only get bought by investors - that then also would rather keep them empty than to reduce the price and take a loss, as an empty 1 million house is still worth that 1 million on paper.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Technically none, because I'm a weirdo who uses a belt pouch.
It goes on the right side though as the phone is small enough (Pixel 4a) that I can use it one handed with my dominant right.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It might in the end. For example the end goal of Uber was self driving car development that would eventually replace all of the drivers, creating a network of inexpensive self driving taxis and shared rides reducing the amount of individual cars on the roads and especially basically completely remove the need for parking, as the car is always in use by someone.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm personally a big fan of the PS3 dualshock controller, be it a mix of childhood PSX nostalgia and it actually being pretty dang great. I've tried a bunch of others and always come back to it.
Getting it to act nicely on windows PCs takes a bit of effort though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Afaik posts and comments are copied locally to federated instances so if the original went down you could still access what was once there from some other instance.
E.g everything (excluding uploaded images/videos) on https://sopuli.xyz/c/[email protected] would still be there without beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Both parties did understand it, as the previous contracts were agreed by him texting back "Looks good", "Yup" and "Ok". What the court actually ruled is that "👍" has the same meaning as those - which most people would agree to, no? It ended up in court because the farmer wanted out of it due to the change in flax seed prices and saw a possibility in the argument that this time he didn't actually mean he agreed to the pre-signed contract, just that he had received it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

In this case the article is missing the crucial information that the farmer had used phrases such as "looks good", "yup" and "ok" when agreeing to previous contracts. So the thumbs up was seen as a continuation of those, and not as a new agreement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That would depend if you think lolicon or hentai of canonically underage characters in general is CP or not.
Doesn't matter in the case of Beehaw though because they defederate from any instance that allows pornographic NSFW content of any kind period - as do probably a majority of instances, at least until Lemmy creates better filtering systems.

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