Ahh, so maybe on Google Maps that’s just a copyright statement rather than really when the imagery was taken. So I’m looking at quite old information.

My Google Maps says 2026 on the bottom of it.

I’ve highlighted the solar panels I could see, around Salloum Hospital:

It’s great to see so many but it’s way more scattered and patchy than in the OP photo.

In Google maps you can use satellite mode to look at their roofs. There are some panels but nothing like this.

edit: satellite mode is out of date, see further conversation below.

unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire.

Well they did say BASIC mobile data…

We can adapt and the process of doing that in capitalism involves prices rising and rising until people can’t afford things and stop buying them, thus reducing demand.

That’s super tough on people who don’t have much money and they don’t consume much anyway so when they tap out it doesn’t reduce demand much. So prices need to rise enough to hurt the middle class in developed countries, meaning the lower classes everywhere else have a really shit time.

Meanwhile there are some oil uses that are completely unable to be reduced, such as emergency services, food distribution, etc so the govt will intervene in the market to ensure that happens. This means all non-essential sectors of the economy must reduce usage by significantly more than 20%.

Meanwhile every country’s govt is doing everything it can to try to lock in 100% of their usual supply and some will succeed, leaving other countries to make much bigger cuts than 20%.

There will be lots of people making 100% cuts while a few make none. Humanity isn’t great at sharing especially at a global level.

Pretty weird to do this out of the blue. Feels like she’s trying to frontfoot something big that’s about to come out.

Argh, you’re right, I’m sorry. I’ll delete this post.

No I’m just saying you might as well give up on that dream - the regime will have more support than ever, now.

Wouldn’t it make sense to merge in rseq support well in advance of removing PREEMPT_NONE, not do both at the same time?

help the Iranians overthrow the despots

The time to do that was before bombing hundreds of Iranian children. And civilian infrastructure. Way too late now.

Ukraine ;)

A very entertaining read. I’m completely unsurprised, based on my experience trying to use Azure. Garbage platform.

And now they’re hacking on that shitshow with CoPilot. Jesus wept.

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I am very surprised that Australia and New Zealand did not wean themselves off fossil fuels decades ago, given they are developed countries with wealth and skills and democracy.

After everything that has happened, Iran cannot trust any deals.

Iran will not reopen the strait until the whole world knows that attacking Iran is not worth it. They need to inflict enough pain so that decades from now future US presidents remember what happened.

We are a long way from that.

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Lol 😂

A bit more background https://theconversation.com/understanding-the-violence-against-alawites-and-druze-in-syria-after-assad-255292

It’d stop them launching ships to lay mines, or launching midget submarines and naval drones, which is a start. It might keep the Iranians too busy fighting on land to aim at ships. It’d basically be an open wound for USA though - completely unsustainable.

Then there’s the fantasy of naval escorts for tankers. Each tanker would require a couple of ships to shadow them (anti-air, anti-sub, anti-drone) for the entire length of the gulf (not just the strait) and in normal times 120 tankers pass through there every day. You’d need a fleet ~400 ships strong, running 24/7 (no repairs or rest). And it only takes one hit from an anti-ship missile and hundreds of sailors die. So that ain’t happening.

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To do that they’d need to occupy 1000+ kms of extremely rugged coast. That’s quite a commitment…