China added a Germany-sized low carbon electricity grid last year.
Nearly 500 TWh more generation, almost all solar and wind, built in factories that still burn coal. Carbon payback came in under two years and power sector emissions still fell.
Germany already had zero carbon nuclear power.
It shut the last plants down in 2023 because ideology demanded it. Higher prices and more coal and gas backup followed.
One country scales clean energy through ruthless pragmatism. The other commits economic suicide and calls it environmental virtue.
The West is economically self-destructing by submitting to blue haired lesbians on SSRIs.
The fix everything button is literally just to arrest criminals and keep them in jail
Bukele was able to do this in a matter of months
When you see the crime and rot in western cities and feel unsafe letting your wife walk around, know that it is a choice.
Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit Facebook and Instagram for 6 weeks
Depression dropped. Anxiety dropped. Happiness went up. Women under 25 on Instagram saw the biggest gains
That was 6 weeks. I'm going a full year.
Two weeks without mobile internet improved mental health more than antidepressants and reversed roughly 10 years of attentional decline.
Screen time dropped 49% (314 to 161 min/day).
@DB_Bahn how is it possible that I have smooth wifi in the beginning of my train ride from Zurich & as soon as we cross the border to Germany, it is completely gone? @qatarairways even manages to offer free highspeed on a plane with starlink. whats wrong with you guys?
The single most important thing you can do in today's world is to stop operating from the old paradigm. If you need to be told what to do next (go to school, get a job, retire at 65) the outcome of your life will always be in someone else's hands. You must learn how to direct your own work. You must learn how to tolerate and mitigate risk and uncertainty. You must figure out what you want and teach yourself everything necessary to get it. It's extremely difficult, but not as difficult as the silent suffering people learn to accept as "normal."