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yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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You’re right, but steady capacity factor with the total capacity doubling every year is a very different situation from what you see in US where it took a whole decade to double, you get that right?

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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I’m not confusing anything. I’m pointing out that the actual tangible change in electricity production is effectively non existent. The increase in overall capacity is not actually very large, and that’s why the capacity factor is effectively flat. Again, compare the increase in capacity in US with the increase in capacity in China to see what actual progress looks like. It’s incredible to me that you’re incapable of accepting what’s happening.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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It has everything to do with your original point that the tax law was rejected because it was a bad idea. What I’ve demonstrated for you is that the policies that have been implemented don’t actually work any better than the rejected tax law in accomplishing their stated goals.

Wind capacity is at an all-time high. There was less wind than usual that year, so less electricity was generated.

very clearly showing there’s no tangible increase in capacity, with it decreasing slightly in 2023

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/2e087938-666a-416c-822d-0db51a12f578.png

Again, here’s what we see in a country with a functioning government that’s able to pass effective policies. World wind report shows that China’s wind capacity is now more than the US, EU and UK combined. Meanwhile, the US installed less than 1/2 of what it did 2 years ago, and lowest level since 2014.

gwec.net/…/GWR-2024_digital-version_final.pdf

yogthos OP , to science in Plant Virus Fights Cancers in Mice With 'Widespread Effectiveness'
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No idea, I’m not a biologist, and the study doesn’t make it clear whether other plant viruses would have a similar effect on the immune system.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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Wrong. So wrong. Inflation in the US is around 3.5%, down from a high of 7%. Whether that’s attributable to the IRA is, of course, up for debate.

The rate of inflation has slowed, but the inflation is still rising www.bankrate.com/banking/…/what-is-inflation/

And the elephant in the room is of course the way inflation is measured which excludes key things that affect people the most such as rent and gas prices since they’re deemed too volatile. This gives a very skewed picture of what’s actually happening with real inflation, as in the rise in cost of living that people are experiencing. (more on that later)

Regardless of fossil fuel production, actual CO2 equivalent is dropping and has been dropping for a long time.

This is largely a result of deindustrialization because US doesn’t produce much of anything domestically with industry being only something like 11% of the economy. So, all this shows is how US increasingly outsources emissions for the goods consumed in US. And the oil that US exports is used to fuel those emissions.

EV infrastructure (mixed feelings on this, but its an improvement over ICE)

the improvement washingtonpost.com/…/ev-charging-stations-slow-ro…

Incentives for solar and wind, which are working

false www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61943

And this is going to get a lot worse with Biden’s tariffs on cheap solar panels and batteries from China.

Those numbers are complex because the Biden administration has dealing with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic throughout its entire existence.

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Last I checked the pandemic was a global event, so why is China’s economy growing at over 5% with people’s savings hitting a record high?

wsj.com/…/chinese-household-savings-hit-another-r…

But recently, wage growth has been catching up, with the lowest wage workers getting the strongest growth. Inflation is slowly getting under control. But then too the stock market has been on a high. Will that burst at any moment? Hard to tell.

And now we can circle back to the reality of the rise in cost of living compared to wage growth:

yogthos OP , to technology in Nvidia market cap continues to grow, fuelled by AI boom
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I was surprised as well given how huge Amazon is.

yogthos OP , (edited ) to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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The inflation reduction act is a perfect example of an idiotic policy that failed to achieve either reducing inflation, which is still climbing, or making any impact in terms of reducing emissions. In fact, U.S. fossil fuel production was reaching new highs in 2023 www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=50978

Then the bipartisan infrastructure bill finally had some halfway decent funding for rail instead of scraps.

And what are the tangible effects of this bill?

The Biden administration set a goal of making the power industry net zero by 2035 and the US net zero by 2050.

Once again, tangible results point in the opposite direction here as seen above. And now US is criminally putting tariffs on Chinese solar panels and EVs in a middle of a climate crisis to make things worse.

That’s just kind of how things usually work, you throw spaghetti at the wall and see what sticks.

All the policies that have been passed do have a common theme though. What has happened consistently during Biden admin is that the oligarchs have increased their wealth substantially while the working majority became more poor. The purpose of the system is what it does.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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Oh hey, I remember how this guy Sanders was proposing a lot of good and sensible policies with his green new deal idea. How’d that work out?

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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I’m not rebutting that wealth taxes don’t really work. I’m saying that even this performative measure is not palatable to the oligarchs, then obviously any serious measure won’t be either.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in China ramps up de-dollarization efforts by dumping a record amount of US bonds
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Exactly, and a lot of the resources are imported from friendly countries like Russia that aren’t using the dollar.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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The only debunked propaganda here is from US as detailed by the articles I linked. Every country has interest in influencing other countries, there’s nothing special here. However, the idea that Russia in particular has disproportionate influence on US politics is absolutely laughable. The fact that you can’t see that you’re the conspiracy theorist in this thread is really just a cherry on top.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Brazil, France, Spain, Germany and S. Africa Push To Tax Billionaires 2% Yearly; US Says No
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The fact that even this largely performative measure is being opposed by the US makes it pretty clear that no real action will be possible under the current regime.

yogthos OP , to worldnews in Ukrainian soldiers in the Donbas are fed up waiting for Western munitions
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You’re right. US can stop funding its proxy war against Russia any time. Meanwhile, Stoltenberg very explicitly explained whose fault it is, pretty sure he’s got no reason to lie about it. I think I’ll believe the head of NATO over you little buddy.

yogthos OP , to science in Plant Virus Fights Cancers in Mice With 'Widespread Effectiveness'
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According to the paper, the reason is that CPMV is non-infectious in mammals. It stimulates the immune system by activating pattern recognition receptors. PRRs are molecules on the surface of immune cells that recognize molecules associated with pathogens. When CPMV activates PRRs, it triggers a signaling pathway that leads to the release of immune cells and inflammatory molecules. This immune response can help to kill cancer cells.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…/advs.202308237

yogthos OP , to programmerhumor in The Onboarding
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