in the course of the last century, the AMOC *may* have evolved from relatively stable conditions to a point close to a critical transition.
The PIK Potsdam was founded in the 1990s by a controversal professor named Schellnhuber [1]. This nature article says that the AMOC may have moved to a point of critical transition but diliberately chose a headline that reads like there is an imminent collapse. And just in case, if the narrative isn't hammered enough into your cortex, every repost, link or citation will be slightly rephrased to make sure the message sticks.
Sorry for the snark, but inductive charging is never [1] going to happen.
If there's one constant in all of infrastructure history, it is that the utility of a new infrastructure is determined by beating the already existing one. Even taxpayer pockets can't fix that.
Imagine tearing up all roads, installing chargers underneath for hundreds of miles, from equipment that is very likely to break earlier than thought and is very expensive to repair (blocking the road, dangerous for repair-workers, tearing up road again), works in a very inefficient manner, as every single charging unit is going on and off very quickly (a lot of wear and tear) and is still likely to sit idle >60% of the day.
The only thing stunning about this, is how anyone ever could've believed that cryptocurrencies would not end in the dystopian future of a government knowing every single transaction of yours plus being able to confiscate every single e-penny at will.
Interesting. There seem to be a lot of native speakers here that have problems with the grammar, while I – and assume many other non-native speakers – don't.
> We cannot and will not ever tolerate this in the Netherlands. This act of cowardice can't go unpunished.
The Netherlands have turned into the European Version of a narco state: Clean streets without turf wars on the surface, but an increase of bought-off politicians and civil servants in the background, creeping into the foundations of the Dutch state.
> I'm not worried about the drug trade [...] I'm worried what happens if they loose that income stream"
That's why you have to worry about the drug trade in the first place. You've already lost the argument
b) the removals are usually done by outsourcing service providers, often ironically by Arvato a subsidiary of Germany‘s biggest media conglomerate and staunch supporter of the lockdowns
and last but not least because
c) it was a regional court that slapped the fine
Note that it did so not because of the „severity“ which it assigned to YT‘s malfeasance, but because big tech is so powerful that it just didn’t care what that local court had ordered in the first place.
100k€ is nothing to google so prepare for bigger sums until their service desk responds to the rule of law.
Thomas Pueyo re-iterating the "Indians having to burn the Covid dead"-Lie or removing the Indian-Graph from his fearmongering "Delta-is-rising-rapidly-everywhere" chart - I mean it's not like he's hiding his deceitful intentions or is it?
Ah, nothing says "credibility" like reiterating the good old burning covid-corpses of india lie, or removing India from your scary looking chart of new infections, because it would show India's steady drop in new infections.
Hopefuly Thomas gets a bit more convincing scaredata for the Lambda Variant.
> why is forced consumption such an existential need that must be serviced at all costs
I think this is just half the picture. Most mindless consumption doesn't happen all the time by all people. And most mindlessly consumed products still have some people who get a true benefit out of it.
> the scene rat races
To be more precise: The rat-race is on for those moments during a day when people are mindless. And with Zuck and the "don't be evil" company trimming down our attention-span I postulate that they are to blame, because they make us more mindless.
Non-Swiss here: From what I can read from swiss media, its rejection was due because the hike would have served more government jobs than it would have made any dent in the global climate: Swiss CO2 emissions are equal to 5% to those of Germany, or 0.3% of China.
As a matter of fact China increased its CO2 emissions in 2019 alone by five Switzerlands [1].
Plus it would have increased housing costs dramatically for a nation that consists largely of renters.
While I'm inclined to chime in on Europe's lack of competitiveness there are some factors being glossed over in favor of a catchy headline here:
a) market cap just captures where the financial markets see/saw most hope for gains
b) which is obviously the tech-sector (2 non-tech companies in the top-10, four out of the top-15 if we don't count Visa as one)
c) the pandemic has likely catapulted a lot of pharmaceutical companies into the top-50
In other words: There's either room for disruption here (meaning European companies/other sectors are undervalued) or even a pandemic with never-seen global policy responses, did not manage to break the dominance of the tech-sector.