73% of Young US Voters Eager to Support Candidates With Bold Climate Agenda
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 2d ago 100%

    This current one is very much including countries outside of the US and Green Parties have been and actually are in government in a number of countries. Also those parties are mostly not Russia friendly at all.

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  • 73% of Young US Voters Eager to Support Candidates With Bold Climate Agenda
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 2d ago 60%

    That is pretty much the agenda of every Green party anywhere. With the last point usually taking a decade or so, but still.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_party

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  • Google adopts small nuclear power reactors at unprecedented scale — inks deal for seven reactors to feed AI data centers
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 4d ago 100%

    They are planning to buy or maybe just electricity from a new reactor type, which has never been built, starting 2030, when conventional nuclear power plants, with known technology take twice as long to built.

    So if they stop the project in 18months, it has just been a waste of money.

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  • Fossil fuels could become cheaper and more abundant, says IEA
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 4d ago 100%

    Fossil fuel has actually pretty high fixed production costs. The best example was Texan oil going negative during covid. So with a fast deployment of renewables replacing fossil fuels, we will see periods of fossil fuels being cheap, as renewables replaced enough of them to see oversupply. However low prices also force production to be cut, partly by companies going bankrupt. Once enough has been cut prices are going up again.

    Right now we see a number of OPEC+ countries breaking production limits. Namely Russia, Iraq and Kazakhstan. The Saudis see Iran heading towards a war with Israel and the Saudis want to hurt Iran. So the Saudis threaten increased oil production to hurt Iran's economy. That would also hurt fracking producers in the US, which would also benefit the Saudis.

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  • China's rapid electrification is catching out oil producers
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 5d ago 100%

    Great news! Lets hope the oil producers get caught by other countries as well.

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  • [Request For Comments] Can you recommend any groups/books/papers/blogs/keywords/etc on the topic of UN reform and global constitutionalism?
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 5d ago 100%

    The keyword is probably world government. Also institutions like the EU are pretty intressting. That has been copied in Africa, Eurasia and South America.

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  • Sweden switches on largest battery energy storage system in the Nordics - Energy Storage
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 6d ago 100%

    It very much looks like it is 211MW lasting for 1h giving 211MWh.

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  • World Bank: Poorest countries facing worst debt since 2006
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 7d ago 100%

    MMT would claim rather simply that the debt can be paid back by printing more money. More money in the system means more people are employed. If you have full employment, more money leads to inflation and to fight inflation governments need to raise taxes, to take money out of the system. Obviously taxes can not be raised to infinity.

    So no MMT does not claim the US can just borrow money without long term costs.

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  • World Bank: Poorest countries facing worst debt since 2006
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 7d ago 66%

    Not necessarily. As long as the debt is invested well, it is absolutly fine. If the debt is used to increase the size of the economy, that means more taxes and hence the debt can pay itself. The other scenario is the government investing into something, which increases in value. Keep in mind that the governments rates are lower the private rates, so if a government builds a lot of housing for its citizens, that increases debt, but is still cheaper then everybody building their own housing themself. Similar effects can be had by buying companies.

    Debt is a tool, it can be used for both good and bad. It really depends on how good the government is.

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  • German court jails former Stasi member for 1974 murder
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 7d ago 100%

    He was sentenced according to GDR law, which allows ten years to life.

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  • World Bank: Poorest countries facing worst debt since 2006
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 7d ago 100%

    However many of the rich countries are in debt in currency they control. The US, China and the EU mostly borrow in dollar, RMB and Euro. So if they have a massive debt crisis they just print a lot of money and can pay back the debt. That comes with inflation, but that is not that bad.

    The poorest countries in the world mainly borrow in USD, which they can not just print. They have to net export to get USD to pay back debt. Add to that other massive problems. Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Ethiopia all have ongoing civil wars, Chad is landlocked and the country it would trade through is currently in a civil war. North Korea is sanctioned to hell and back. That makes paying back any debt much harder.

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  • Budget 2025: Germany (Bundestag) increases funding for the Sovereign Tech Fund
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 1w ago 100%

    You can however Switch to some open source software without having to go full Linux. Introducing Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird and so forth can be done in Windows. Software Not working one Linux is often a big problem for switching.

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  • After 2.5 Years, How Many MLRS Does Russia Have Left? Count Using Unreleased Satellite Imagery
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 1w ago 100%

    Russia hast formed new units. That requires weapons as well.

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  • Fifa is ‘ignoring human rights report’ into Saudi Arabia’s 2034 World Cup bid
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 1w ago 80%

    Fifa be lik: "Today I feel Saudi, I feel Arab, I feel African, I feel gay, I feel disabled, I feel a migrant worker...."

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  • The total combat losses of the enemy from 24.02.22 to 11.10.24
  • MrMakabar MrMakabar 1w ago 100%

    Casulties are all soldiers who can no longer fight, due to being killed, captured, injured or something else. At least in military jargon it does.

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  • www.themoscowtimes.com

    [To put that into context, in Feburary 2023 the median salary in Russia was 42,024 rubles per month](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_Russia). So this would be six years income.

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    Found here: https://mastodon.social/@nspugh@toot.wales/113214323423771166

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