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Szewek

@ Szewek @sopuli.xyz

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I am still in it for a wonderful green future. Nature and wildlife, but also useful, accessible tech, art, and urban planning. Polish, living in Sweden. I love living in the EU and the values it represents. Fascinated by and open to the rest of the world.

Picture: "Blue Coat", Paul Klee

  • German electric car factories shut down as Chinese electric cars take over the market

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  • Shut down and stop is a different thing...

    Also, Volkswagen EV sales increased nearly 50% in the first half of 2025 (see link below).

    https://cleantechnica.com/2025/07/10/volkswagen-ev-sales-surge-47-percent-in-2025/

    It is not good. Infrastructure is lacking in big parts of Europe. As a citizen, I would focus on that, rather than Chinese EVs (if they scare the industry, it is good though).

    And busses, trains, bikes. Too much cars in this comm.

  • Trump won't be meeting Putin in 'immediate future', US official says

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  • Was the whole shitshow just not to give Tomahawks?

  • Finally made it, journey to european alternatives

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  • Yeah, I also basically forgot about ads on the web :D

    Not feeling that every step you make online can trigger an offload of content from a random internet bubble is great. Like when, e.g., that one day you clicked on a video about migration, and oh boy, algorithms go crazy. I totally don't miss it.

  • Danish wind turbine giant Vestas suspends plans for major plant in Poland

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  • Hope they bounce back soon. As usual, the Chinese can thank the "Nation Builder", aka DJ Trump.

  • Trump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin’s terms or be ‘destroyed’ by Russia

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  • I’ve never been there

    Zelenskyy should invite him to come and see ¯\(ツ)/¯

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  • Yeah. The Swedish government should have just bought the company (the current one would never do it, though) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

  • Swedish company Saveggy pilots edible plant-based coating for produce

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  • Since when is skin plant-based?

    (And yes, I get it is a joke)

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  • If your Finnish... Do you know how it compares to SailfishOS (I guess the latter is more popular in Finland than elsewhere).

  • 4chan fined $26K for refusing to assess risks under UK Online Safety Act

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  • Lol internet a predominantly American innovation. World Wide Web is, by definition, well, world-wide (and while the earliest networks started in the US, WWW originates from CERN, a European, international organization).

  • Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

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  • Couldn't they put on the light in the “dark factories” to show the executive what is going? Just for a moment, I am sure they do have lights there for maintenance.

  • EU Parliament votes to restrict 'steak' and 'burger' labels to meat only

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  • Cutting red tape, huh?

  • EU climate chief vows to push China on 'disappointing' climate target, says Beijing’s stance risks derailing Paris Agreement targets

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  • And you don't even want to look at the USA, the world's second-biggest emitter (China, USA, India, EU, Russia (probably EU level by now) and so it goes... But historically you get US, EU, China, Russia, UK, etc.)

    Current: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dioxide_emissions#Cumulative_fossil_CO2_emissions_1970-2023_vs._fossil_CO2_emissions_2023 Historical (the graph on top still shows EU with the UK, but you can look at the table in the interactive graph below, and you have EU 27 there): https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

    Nevertheless, the way ahead matters, even if all don't meet the 1.5C target. <3C (EU), <4C (China), or 4C+ make huge difference. The historical data should be rather a warning of what happens if we do not help developing countries kick-off more sustainably, and with less fossils, from the start. And less of an allowance to pollute more on the way ahead.

  • Sweden recognised Palestine 11 years ago – Here’s what happened

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  • One correction: "The Socialist-led government in Stockholm" was actually Social-Democrats. If they say "Socialist", one would expect "Vänster" (ofically "Vänsterpartiet", "The Left Party").

    But that's a detail. Good article.

  • UK considers visa fee cuts for highly skilled as Trump hikes US charges

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  • EU countries should do the same

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  • Yeah, I think the point about US, Russian or Chinese news is crucial. I will leave US aside for a while - a situation there is very dynamic, they used to be a bit more like the EU in this regard. But in Russia and China, clearly, there is no independent media. They have propaganda instead of public debate. Thus, you hear about positive things happening there, as this is the goal of propaganda. In the EU, there is a vital and highly critical public debate, which focuses on shortcomings. This is a strength, since the issues cannot be just ignored - but the feedback of negative information from the citizens reaches also outsiders. In US, one thing seems to go well - bussiness. And while they sure do get a lot of money, there is also one more kind of propaganda, that might influence the view: marketing. Unfortunately, in a world where in many sectors more capital comes from investors than customers, you can get far with just marketing...

    In brief, I think there is an issue of reporting here. Things seem bad in the EU, because bad things are reported in the EU. This reminds me another anecdote: You will read in many places that Nordic countries have low income inequality, but high wealth inequality compared to other countries. Indeed, if you look at the tables, this seems to be the case. You will find many complex mechanistic explanations of this phenomenon on the internet. But if you read into the original Credit Suisse report (https://web.archive.org/web/20250401062226/https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf), you can find this paragraph:

    The distributional data have certain fairly standard features. The unit of analysis is usually a household or family, but is in a few cases the (adult) individual. Household sample surveys are employed in almost all countries. The exceptions are the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), which use data from tax and other registers covering the entire population. For all other countries, except the United States, the wealth shares of the top groups are expected to be understated because wealthy households are less likely to respond, and because the financial assets that are of greater importance to the wealthy – e.g. equities and bonds – are especially likely to be under-reported.

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  • I've been using it for a few months. Runs smooth and is easy/intuitive to use. Got me off Google Photos and One Drive in one go. I love their blog, it was one of the main reasons why I chose them, since they describe very well how to do different custom things (e.g. setting up Joplin sync, or downloading photos from Facebook before you delete them/your account).

  • Nokia Joins Deutsche Bahn To Launch First 5G Rail Test Network In Europe

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  • I thought this is exactly what this project addresses?

  • Nokia Joins Deutsche Bahn To Launch First 5G Rail Test Network In Europe

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  • It's my arm!

  • Nokia Joins Deutsche Bahn To Launch First 5G Rail Test Network In Europe

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  • Well, at least you will be able to scroll Lemmy at high speed as you stay extra 2h onboard the train ¯_(ツ)_/¯