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Ehhh it’s a mixed blessing with China. The country’s power consumption increased by an average of about 1,100 TWh per year during 2012-2022, which is outpacing the newly-added solar and wind generation in the article by a factor of four. It’s great that they’re adding so much clean power, quite the opposite that they’re adding even more less clean power

Edit: I should add that these numbers don’t specify hydro or nuclear capacity added. Not all of the gap is fossil fuels

I’m still using it. I’ve got nice headphones and speakers that run off of a cable and no interest in top-end phones, so it makes sense to get a phone that fits the more expensive audio stuff rather than a bunch of adapters. Nokia’s cheaper smartphones have served me quite nicely

I finished Tunic yesterday! I had a great time with it. Extremely vague and minor spoilers after this, I can’t get the spoiler tags to work so I’ve just taken out the detail. ::: The golden path puzzle in page 9 nearly beat me, but man what a cool discovery it was to figure it out. :::

We can indeed print steel with direct metal laser sintering. I think that the object needs heat treatment afterwards, though to be fair it is almost ten years since I properly read up on it and things have probably advanced since then

“It’s like It is relying on unpaid labor when the company has nearly a billion dollars in revenue,”

I picked up Tunic after wanting it for quite some time. I’m enjoying it a great deal. I was sure that it couldn’t possibly be that much like Dark Souls when it has that art style but, uhh, no, turns out it’s the opening is basically exactly Dark Souls right down to being told to go ring two mysterious magic bells in opposite directions from where you currently are

As a fellow scared-of-the-ocean-ist, I actually feel like it kinda adds to Subnautica. The game is meant to have some horror. We just get a bit extra

As a non-American, I’m a bit confused. How are there 380 million people in the American political system? That’s an entire Spain more than the population of the US

Lamb is less polluting per calorie than beef is, but worse than most other foods. So “relatively low-impact” is true if the thing it’s relative to is farmed beef, but not to potatoes or even chicken

I learned to use my right hand for a lot of things when I broke my (dominant) left arm playing rugby, but I can’t say I recommend it as a course of action. Putting socks on one handed was a notably infuriating process.

They passed the 14th amendment and used it to bar a number of senior Confederates from office after the civil war

Sometimes the ladies are just cooler, you know? I tend to just go with whatever I’m feeling on the day, and if the woman has a good voice lines or an interesting mechanic or whatever else then I guess I’m being a woman today

Kbin will become an also-ran within the fediverse, because most users will want to use tools that allow them to interact with the most people.

I’m not sure this holds. Surely if it was the primary factor in deciding which social media everyone chose, Kbin would already be dead at the hands of Twitter? Federation doesn’t really change that argument if it’s only about interacting with the most people.

That said I do agree that we need enough instances to defederate from Threads for this to work. If Threads overwhelms every other instance with volume and kills them, Kbin is alone and not really better off for having defederated. But as a pretty big instance, Kbin doing this is a major part of ensuring that the fediverse does not just become a collection of quirky alternative interfaces for Threads.

as if Threads isn’t part of the fediverse in the second breath.

If Threads puts out so much more content as to effectively make other federated entities irrelevant, the character of the Fediverse changes such that it is no longer what it is today. Federation is meaningless if 99.9% of content comes from one place. Kbin would wind up as effectively just a weird third party interface for threads in that situation.

Let’s not do “separate but equal” with social media, please. It’s silly.

Is it meaningfully different to any other instance of defederation? Many of which I would say are generally beneficial to Kbin.

Reporting on Spotify’s payments to artists typically puts payments at 0.003 - 0.005 USD per stream. 80,000,000 streams at 0.003 is just shy of a quarter of a million dollars. And it’s totally fair to still argue about whether that’s enough or whether it’s fair to the many small artists than Weird Al, but his video is definitely a joke and not reflective of the actual income unless he’s getting unbelievably shafted by his label