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  • I can’t find it now, but I saw a paper that said that India is one of 8 countries in the world where electric cars (charged from the main grid(s), no matter what time of day) release more CO2e than fossil-fuel cars, because of the amount and terrible quality of coal used to generate most electricity in those countries. The few cars charged only from renewable sources like wind/solar/etc. are of course vastly less omnicidal. Anyone have any good citations?

    If this is true, would it also be true for coal-to-electricity trains vs more straight fossil-fueled trains?

    Even trains in these bad coal-to-electricity countries might be less harmful than even the best renewably powered cars, as long as the trains aren’t regularly running with minimal passengers.



  • Jack@lemmy.catoLemmy Be Wholesome@lemmy.worldLove this!
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    11 days ago

    The train already had about 10 students who got on at previous stations also going to her school. She was the only one at that particular stop. Her parents already has a car, and they use it to drive her for 5 minutes to the train station, the train then takes 1 hour to get to where her school is.

    "There’s only one train heading away from the main city of Asahikawa toward Engaru High School each day, so Kana’s parents make the five-minute drive to the station in time for her to catch the 7:16 a.m. train every morning, where she’s the only regular passenger waiting on the elevated section of land serving as a platform. The journey to school takes almost one hour, giving Kana time to read, listen to music or study during test time.

    When Kana boards the train, there are about 10 other passengers, mostly other students, inside." https://allabout-japan.com/en/article/1540/







  • On my Mint 22 Wilma setup using Xfce, using Firefox 139.0 (64-bit) mint-001 - 1.0, when I click the “upload image” button here in lemmy, I see small thumbnails for .jpg and .png files, but not for .webp.

    Maybe the .webp format is too new?

    Ctrl++ doesn’t work in my “File Upload” dialog box to make the thumbnails bigger.

    Edit: I always rename files I download to give them descriptive file names, starting with the most important word first.



  • Jack@lemmy.catoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 month ago

    Scientists didn’t become pickier - they just later found that Pluto was in a belt of thousands of massive object (called the Kuiper belt), like the asteroid belt but much bigger.

    When Ceres was discovered in 1801, it was thought to be a comet, later a planet, but after discovering it was one of many asteroids in the asteroid belt (which it wasn’t big enough to clear), they realized it wasn’t a planet.

    When Pluto was first discovered in 1930, it was in a similar situation as Ceres and thought of as a planet, but when other Kuiper belt objects started to be discovered by 1992, they realized Pluto also wasn’t a planet.



  • It’s sad that Burgess was attacked by the officers leading to him being sent to a hospital where he may have caught Covid-19 and died, but the officers

    1. were called out on “a grade 1 call, meaning it was treated as the highest level of emergency”,
    2. may have heard that Burgess “was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife”,
    3. may not have seen or been told Burgess couldn’t reach them if they stayed a few metres away.

    If Burgess was in an unlocked room, then the officers were criminally rash.

    If however he was in a room locked from the outside, then they may not have known that he wasn’t much of a threat.

    They should be charged with excessive force because they didn’t assess the situation before using force, or people at the site should be charged for lying and making it seem much more dangerous than it was; but this is not like the headline makes it sound.