benjhm

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.

I saw somewhere a neat idea to align the panels vertically along N-S axis, two sided facing both E and W to catch morning and evening sun at low angles. This helps to top up the grid at periods of higher demand and lower supply, while leaving a wide open strip in the middle for growing normal crops, benefiting from the midday sun (a time when we already have plenty of electricity).

Strange that Genoa controlled off bits of coast (yellow) all the way to Crimea, Azov sea (is Tana now Azov?) , and Circassia, how did they manage all that? And who's in that purple-coloured "Theodoro"?

Je me demande - comment est-ce que gazole dépasse les chutes Livingstone, pour arriver à Bangui au fleuve Congo - ou est-ce que ça va en camion après Douala ? Dans ce cas - avec telles contraintes géographiques, bonne raison pour ce pays électrifier rapidement leur transport (comme j'ai entendu on fait aussi à l'Ethiopie, avec l'aide de Chine). (+ petite remarque - les comparaisons sont un peu confondus -on a tonnes puis litres puis tonnes ... )

Sure it will, there's a lot of inertia and feedbacks in the system, some kicking in recently although there's nothing physically special about 1.5^o^C. Also, as well as CO~2~, emissions of CH~4~ rise fast, while those of SO~x~ fall. My point is rather that people (especially anglophones) tend to over-estimate the importance of USA in world affairs. What matters is that the rest of the world gets on with transitions.

Two thoughts:

• I'm subscribed to 160 communities, most very small, but see interesting stuff due to the Scaled option - also deliberately avoid the big news communities. Evidently, it takes time to join 160 small cs, so to get started it could be handy to have an all/local except list, and remove the biggest news /memes unless people tick a box saying they like such. Or make an algorithm that prioritises stuff related to what I upvote (which is how other social sites seem to get people started - e.g. i just tried rednote and it quickly learned i like mountains and trains) - but i guess that's hard to implement as each instance would need to work out 'related to'.
• 2nd point - there are other user-interfaces - I'm using Alexandrite which has a better layout than lemmy default, but how to make this easier (instructions suggest docker, how many casual users will do that ...)?

IIrc this has been going back and forth for years. Does Rwanda ever explain what they are trying to achieve - permanently take over both sides of the lake ?
What kind of government would local people without guns prefer ? (Goma is far from Kinshasa, closer even to Indian ocean).

Spoke too soon, weather forecast has a warm wind blowing a thaw right into Lapland this weekend (while it's snowing in New Orléans - but Alaska will be warm too) - Rossby waves ...

Is it? Bush withdraw from Kyoto protocol, Trump already withdrew from PA. This game just became a predictable cycle, a bit like El Niño, the rest of the world got used to the unreliability of bipolar USA, which reduces their negotiating strength. Meanwhile regarding ambition for future emissions, what matters most for the next set of targets at COP30 is China and India (the former at peak due over-construction, and higher per-capita than Europe, the latter relatively low, but set to rise fast if there is no change of direction). We can wait out USA (but please sort out your bipolar system) - 4 years is not long in climate.

OK very colourful, but what's it look like now, in January ?

Also remember Bush did the same for Kyoto protocol. Loop repeats again.

I've wondered through favelas in Rio. Nice people, tasty snacks, fine views (they are on hillsides), some great music. But that was over a decade ago, I heard situation got worse again during Temer/Bolso time, hope it's improving now.