China is trying to build hegemonial economic power, with Chinese products being an integral component of every future supply chain. Green technologies are an excellent vehicle for that, because they're fairly future-proof and will see extreme growth.
But sure, the EU needs an equivalent to the US's IRA if it wants to have any industry or political/economic independence going forward.
Not true. Coal use has actually declined again quickly, while renewables have supplanted the (meagre) former nuclear capacity. Germany also imports a bit more power from its European neighbors to avoid spinning up costly fossil plants. Most of the imports are low-CO2, i.e. Swedish/Austrian/Swiss hydro power, Danish wind power, and French nuclear.
Weird. I used to think Euronews was publicly-funded until I read their Wikipedia entry. I guess now it is, in a way? Not really in the way I originally hoped though.
They used to, but that's no longer quite true. The entire solar supply chain is in the state of Xinjiang, part of which conveniently is a desert. That is convenient for two reasons:
You can extract silicon from desert sand.
You can put multi-gigawatt solar farms in the desert.
(If you hear about human rights abuses connected to solar ... Yeah, that Xinjiang supply chain is why.)
I didn't say anything about the behavior of autocracies, why are you dragging that in? Nobody expects moral behavior from them anyway.
I am just saying that a lot of evils are in the world simply because democracies ignore their supposed values whenever convenient. This tends to come back.
You can't even read the title of the window properly, and it's a short one! And there's this ugly scramble of icons all clustered on the left. This may work and you may be used to it but Gnome is certainly not designed to be used like that.
Hiding all the buttons as the poster above told you to do is worse though.
We all are causing migration by buying fossil fuels from autocracies, then burning them and also by furthering unfair trade. I guess we need to take in refugees.
It was an important model in the 90s and early 2000s. It helped that ever more computer users came online at the time many of whom wanted very similar utilities and that those shareware companies often basically consisted of a guy in a basement converting Diet Coke into code.
7Zip is open-source and can be audited which is something people do from time to time (e.g. there was an encryption issue that was fixed a few years ago). No real reason to fear it simply because the author is Russian.
They are not moving into that direction voluntarily. They are because Evergrande went bankrupt and because of accidents. (Not mentioned in the article but I wonder if cheap fossil gas imports from Russia also contribute, as China is now importing significantly more of that.)
As these things go though, economic issues tend to hurt people's livelihoods too. Kinda not what anyone should want.
One would think that a country whose economy is still rooted in a central planning system would be better at controlling overproduction. In fact, historically, planned economies tended to underproduce.
Ftr: I was talking about regular RSS feeds+MP3 downloads, not Spotify exclusives.
If you really wanted to do something about Spotify exclusives, the likely only way to do this legally is building a custom Spotify client—Spotify allows custom clients, but only for paying customers, not for free users.
It likely won't work (well), because lots of podcasts actually use Megaphone and similar services that add interest-based ads into your download. I.e. ads can be of variable length or there may even be no ads, because the podcast targets the US but you're downloading from Pakistan.
Somehow doesn't look like 1776 at all, except maybe because of the sightly unrealistic perspective/pose/not sure but the head looks off somehow.