It is not even close to being a main factor at the moment. Main factors are still transportation and manufacturing. Trump’s war in Iran is doing way more to reduce global emissions than the data center protests (though it’s great that those are also happening). Same for Putin’s war in Ukraine which started the fuel price raises.
All that work has paid off for China.
True, they’re minting new billionaires faster than any other country in the world.
Interesting, and I thought it was the workers who generated the wealth. Perhaps it should not belong to them after all then. Why tax the billionaires at all if they’re the ones generating the wealth?
They side with the weak to obtain power, but as CGP Grey said, the keys for keeping power aren’t the same as the keys for obtaining power. You usually turn your back on whoever helped you win once you’re in power, particularly if you’re a dictator (and let’s be honest, “dictatorship of the proletariat” is still dictatorship of the vanguard over the proletariat)
Yes, exactly like the working class in the US controls the government and holds the reins of the economy.
embracing some limited capitalism
They were embracing some limited capitalism last century. They’re fully capitalist now, minting more brand new billionaires every year than any other country. Per capita the US still has more, but not for long. China’s working with some pretty bad inequality.
I wonder if that dazzle camo used by manufacturers for testing prototype cars would work. I wouldn’t mind getting something like that on my car
Sorry, was mistaken, only 5% of farmland is corporations. The average farm size is still fucking massive though. Over 440 hectares/1100 acres. That’s a LOT of land and essentially it’s still capitalism, the capital being the land and machinery. Like around 4 million dollars worth of land on average per farm. That means the bigger family farms are likely sitting on tens of millions worth of land.
There are also around 400k documented seasonal immigrant workers helping those farmers every year, as well as who knows how many undocumented ones that nobody pays taxes on. So I have my suspicions that most of the family farms aren’t mostly worked by said families.
Either willingly, or by dying like the rest of humanity when summers reach 60°C.
I mean all of us will abandon everything that way, that’s not specific to AI in any way.
It’s the accessibility factor that’s important. It’s called the “digital town square” not just because of the user count (which isn’t high compared to Facebook or Whatsapp) but because of how easy it is to access. Musk’s changed that and now you need to log in to see some (all?) xeets, but… most of the social media on that chart requires login and/or app, I think reddit is the most notable exception (or was, now they also require login to use the web frontend I guess). But then reddit requires you to actually click on the posts, which is more effort, whereas xitter just shows you everything in your feed, so if a politician or celebrity’s xeet is in it, you’re seeing it.
Idk, there’s just something about it that screams it’s better for announcements and such than most other social media platforms.
The capitalist and the farmer are the same person tbh. Most US food supply is corporate farms now, not small time farmers.
My home takes roughly 2-10 kW to heat in the winter. It’s just an old house and I don’t have the money to renovate it completely right now. Easier to pay ~500-600€ a month in the winter for heating (in the form of solid fuel + electricity for the heat pump) currently. Still cheaper than renting a tiny apartment all year round.
That’s just heating the home, does not include hot water, cooking, computer usage, driving the kid to kindergarten and back, etc.
2000 watt society
If that was an actual rule rather than a guideline (and in place in my country), that would just force me to use fossil fuels for heating the home instead of a heat pump.
Edit: Never mind, it includes fossil fuels too. That actually puts it back in favour of the heat pump.
without seeing a single non-cgi frame
I know what you mean, but they’re all cgi frames in the game too lol
Road cars hadn’t had glass lenses in a decade, a decade and a half ago.
I don’t remember the last car with glass lenses I saw, but it must’ve been an 80’s or early 90’s model.
These “watchlist” ones do need reading before making up your mind, as the author puts them there for various reasons.
E.g I need a new tent so I’ve been looking at Decathlon and found it on the watchlist here.
#Decathlon
The world’s largest sports retailer. Twenty-plus house brands own the cheap-and-good quadrant, with 10-year warranties on some gear.
#Ownership
Founded by Michel Leclercq and majority-held by the Mulliez family alliance. No external investors, no debt structure. FY2025: EUR 20.7B in sales across 1,902 stores. A 2025 handover put Julien Leclercq in the chair and Javier Lopez in the CEO seat.
#Why Watchlist
Ownership is exemplary and the family reinvests rather than extracts. The problem is conduct: a February 2025 Disclose investigation tied Decathlon’s second-largest Chinese garment supplier to Uyghur labor-transfer programs and filmed a 12-year-old working on Decathlon polos. The company confirmed the supplier while denying the Xinjiang subsidiary link. Watchlist until credible remediation is published.
I’m not happy about this, but it’s nearly impossible to avoid both Chinese manufacturing (or even just Uyghur labor) AND American capital in this day and age. I can see why it’s on the watchlist and for anyone avoiding it, kudos to you for being stronger than I am, but what I’m reading is “no product quality issues mentioned, is not owned by a private equity firm, not American, not publicly traded”.
But I’m not pulling the trigger yet, so if anyone can suggest something that’s not US owned, is decent quality, and does NOT use uyghur labour or child labour, and is widely available in Europe, I’m all ears
It’s actually good for your drainage system to flush more often than strictly necessary. And the public sewer system actually.
Yeah, an iconic bar in my country is being hounded into shutting down because the dare make noise till 3 AM. Very close to the city center and other bars, but juuuuust a bit away so there’s a few apartment buildings nearby.
They’ve been there for ages. Since 2008 in that particular building according to Wikipedia. Not the oldest bar by any means, but if you’re a foreign exchange student, you’ll find your way there 100% and they host LGBT events among the many, many other things they do.
I do hope they’ll get to stay. Whoever started complaining about the noise is a fucking idiot. Wouldn’t even be surprised if they moved there BEACUSE of the proximity to the bar and other great third places, but have now decided it’s not for them. Because it’s such a coveted location, you have to pay a lot to rent or buy an apartment in that area.
They don’t really own R* (yet?)
It’s also probably mostly BlackRock index funds. Which means tons of retail investors are part of this ownership.