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New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:30:00 +0000

A lot of the electricity is gobbled up by a few aluminum plants, but in addition to that Norway is a very electrified country. We don't use gas at the consumer level at all (except for grilling 2 months of the year, lol) and are rapidly moving transportation to electricity.

In a normal year we are a net exporter of electricity, but it's only around 10% that is exported.

New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:22:27 +0000

Should also compare with total energy consumption. Lots of countries have good electricity generation numbers, but use gas or oil at the consumer level for heating (and cooking) and oil products (diesel, gasoline) for transportation. Electrification matters.

New comment by Thlom in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:54:33 +0000

Norwegian electricity prodcution in February this year was 98,8% hydro and wind and 1,1% thermal (mainly gas). I guess the last 0,1% might be the diesel powered generator on Svalbard (the coal one was turned off 3 years ago).

New comment by Thlom in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

Thlom — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:39:32 +0000

I can juggle 4 balls for a little while, but two in my non-dominante hand? That's so unnatural I don't think I've even bothered trying.

New comment by Thlom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Thlom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:56:34 +0000

Do you not read the news? Israel was bombing Lebanon DAILY and occupying parts of southern Lebanon throughout the so called ceasefire. All without Hezbollah firing a single shot in retalliation until Israel and the US attacked Iran DURING NEGOTIATIONS!

New comment by Thlom in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Thlom — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:49:37 +0000

Lol. No.

New comment by Thlom in "Artemis computer running two instances of MS outlook; they can't figure out why"

Thlom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:02:42 +0000

Low bandwidth is a bigger problem than high latency. If it takes half a second or even a second for your clicks to register it's not a big deal, you learn to work around it. But if the bandwidth is so low that it takes 5-10 seconds just to write the screen it really sucks.

New comment by Thlom in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

Thlom — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:22:30 +0000

I think OP was talking about the political side, not the technical side. How one company with the blessing of a regulatory body in one country could put thousands of satellites in LEO with minimal international coordination/deliberation.

New comment by Thlom in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

Thlom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:49:43 +0000

I'm thankful I live somewhere I can pay $300/month for daycare. I think it's even cheaper now and capped at like $400 no matter how many kids you have in daycare.

We tried to have them at home while WFH a few months during covid when everything was shut down. That didn't work. lol.

New comment by Thlom in "Lego's 0.002mm specification and its implications for manufacturing (2025)"

Thlom — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:34:41 +0000

You can still buy LEGO Classic which is just a bunch of bricks.

New comment by Thlom in "Roblox is minting teen millionaires"

Thlom — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:24:02 +0000

Sure, but I still need a Microsoft account of some sort to play Minecraft? And parental controls still exists inside Microsoft or Xbox (is that the same account??). I spent a couple days just trying to make it possible for my daughter and her friends to be connected on Minecraft. And then you need to figure out what a launcher is, that Prism even exists. And you get a completely different experience on iPad where Prism doesn't exist. It's stil a hassle compared to Downloading free Roblox and start playing and having the same experience across devices.

New comment by Thlom in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

Thlom — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 22:56:22 +0000

Haha.

New comment by Thlom in "A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation"

Thlom — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:02:16 +0000

On the other hand you can travel to Xinjiang, visit mosques, Uighur museums, experience Uighur culture, observe Uighurs just minding their own business in their daily life.

New comment by Thlom in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

Thlom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:10:46 +0000

It's a racket. The US have provided military protection in exchange for Europe tying itself to the mast of the US empire. Some of it is unspoken, some of it is contracted, especially concerning military hardware.

New comment by Thlom in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

Thlom — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:10:54 +0000

This can only be correct in spreadsheets. In the material reality China outproduces the US by orders of magnitude. For example, China produces ten times more steel, 3 times more cars and in shipbuilding China manufactures literarily thousands of times more ships than the US.

New comment by Thlom in "How to make a living as an artist"

Thlom — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:49:23 +0000

I had never thought about it, but The Beatles toured almost constantly from January 1961 until late January 1965. Then they played a few concerts in summer and early December, before their last tours of Germany, Japan and the Philippines and the US in 1966. At the same time they released 7 full length albums. Crazy!

New comment by Thlom in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

Thlom — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 08:28:13 +0000

That being said, it seems like this is being phased out. No new "statsstipendiat" has been awarded since 2019. Before that it was mostly 1-3 persons awarded each year.

New comment by Thlom in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

Thlom — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 08:21:05 +0000

I'm not sure how they handle people living precariously without stable housing. There's a few, but not that many and most of them have some sort of connection to social housing and might be registered there or they are registered through the social welfare office.

New comment by Thlom in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

Thlom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:19:16 +0000

Over here we just have every person registered in a central database from birth and it's mandated by law to keep the registry updated with your current address. The last census was in 2001 and then there was also done a big job registering every residences in multi residence houses. The assumption is that we will never have to do a form based census ever again and just use central registries instead.

New comment by Thlom in "Maine’s ‘Lobster Lady’ who fished for nearly a century dies aged 105"

Thlom — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 12:30:28 +0000

Many old people do valuable work even though they are not in the workforce. They are the backbone of many voluntary organizations, they are often the backbone of their apartment complex taking on janitorial work and administrative work, they are baby sitters, home work assistants, they taken on small jobs no one else want to like election clerks and exam monitors. Some start up a small business so the community can get access to their expertise. One guy I know closed his musical instruments repair shop a few years ago, but started up again in smaller scale because there were no one else local to do the work.