benjhm

Thanks for this explanation, better than anything i read in media. However, is it really plausible for the student-professor transitional government plan to happen ? (Maybe recent events in Bangladesh inspire hope, although that's a very different country). If they don't get this , but there is instead a "routine" election under SNS management, would most opposition participate or boycott again ? I guess like many countries in europe, the mood in villages is rather different from in cities ?

I recently switched to Mill, after years with sbt - find it easier to customise as my project gets more complex. But I'm using it mainly for scala.js ( retain the structure to compile a jvm version too, but rarely using that, may switch to scala-native for probabilistic calculations and data-processing, for which I used to use jvm).

Good article, it makes sense to plan heat-pumps on a larger scale, hope support for such initiatives survives russian disinfo.
Couldn't they pump some heat directly from the Danube, or would that be too problematic for ecology and countries downstream ?

Wasn't this last week's news?
So, if it reopens, here's a longterm-scenario: suppose US and Canada both split into oceanic versus central, meanwhile Russia is weakened and blocked from europe, but these fossil-fuelled conservative autocratic mid-continentals want to forge a new empire across the arctic, where's their strategic hub half-way between Texas and Muscovy - Greenland of course !
( Prefer a simpler explanation? - maybe it's just punishment for sending F16s to Ukraine, hey you might need those ? )

Which U.S. is trying? At least with a legal process in London, there is some hope it continues.

Long ago, as a student, but not so much has changed. Due to ancient geology the main roads, railways and tram already run east-west, which is why a tunnel would complement that for north-south, although trams across the bridges are an obvious first step to replace the queue of buses.

If you look at Hong Kong from satellite (e.g. google earth), it's remarkable what a large fraction of green forested space remains, compared to similar landscape just across the frontier in Shenzhen. This is obviously relevant to the housing issue. So is China planning to retain the difference in land-use planning concepts?

Which infrastructure improvements? How about a north-south metro or tram? And is that guy meant to symbolise what happens if you don't pay the tax?

I agree that the chinese dams pose risks to India (although also some potential benefits if they could agree about management, but then look at what brotherly neighbour Russia did to Ukraine's dam ... ) - however it's not obvious how building another dam downstream really helps - unless the volume retained is as great as for the chinese dam which seems unlikely since India doesn't control the deepest part of the gorge, and they keep it half-empty just-in-case there's a surprise release. So I reckon the unspoken logic is rather - since china broke the concept that it's a wild river, we might as well exploit it too.

Interesting. Five million years is not so long in geological time, so how is that such "exposed section of lithified sediment deformed by the megaflood" (note photo) are now above sea-level, did Sicily rise so much since then?

I'd guess the chinese dam is rather an excuse, and the real motivation is electricity - potentially a lot from that river, although that end of Assam doesn't yet have a huge population to use it. Also, the Brahmaputra riverbed is wide but variable, so maybe they hope by taming it they can grow crops there. But there must be a huge amount of sediment, what's going to happen to that?

I checked out xiaohongshu ('rednote') since it was in the news, and reckon it might be good for re-learning chinese, since there are now bilingual comment threads (to facilitate this they added an option to translate each comment). I wish there were more multilingual threads here on Lemmy - language groups are too isolated.