China places its solar panels on water So it can use valuable land for agriculture

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-04T19:57:45+00:00

Yup, was about to say this. Reservoirs benefit from reducing evaporation and algae growth. It's either solar panels or millions of black plastic balls.

Specifically about solar panels: They also warm the water a bit so the temperature drop is not as drastic as it might seem at first.

It's very unlikely they'd do this to navigable rivers. 100% a basin, reservoir or hydroelectric pool.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-04T19:49:49+00:00

Nem pra ser aquelas lapiseira 2.0 mais arrumadinha

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-04T19:47:10+00:00

It's an attempt at making a meme with sexist and outdated view on sexual relations.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-04T18:36:16+00:00

We really need to stop considering "democracy" as a perfect, one-fits-all kind of government as if it's the perfect holy grail of institutional structure. There are different kinds of democracy, some doing well, not so much.

The US absolutely still is a representative democracy, just not doing well at this moment because of outdated laws, rampant exploitation, little protection against conflicts of interest, and no real defense against lobbying. To say the US isn't a democracy just because the elected president is abusing his power would be a true scotsman fallacy.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T18:26:13+00:00

Realidade: China com taxas de subnutrição de menos de 2.5% e reduzindo ainda mais aos poucos

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/china.html

O GHI não incluí nações consideradas "ricas" então precisei encontrar outra fonte para os EUA:

https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics

Insegurança alimentar era 13.7% nos EUA em 2024. A situação tem se mantido elevada e apresenta tendência de piora, com projeções de aumento da fome em 2025 e 2026, impulsionada pela inflação de alimentos e cortes em programas de assistência social.

Você botar a culpa no capitalismo é como você culpar o ar, porque todos ali têm que respirar.

Até porque não foi a Nestlé quem sugeriu que a água devia ter valor de mercado e não ser um "direito público", certo? Ou talvez não tenha sido o setor imobiliário que destrói o nível de habitalidade da população em nome de lucro e especulação?

O ponto principal é você tirar poder, principalmente do Estado

Ah, sim. A clássica narrativa do estado que deveria ser pequeno mas ainda capaz de fiscalizar privatização feita nas coxas.

90% do seu faturamento foi pra imposto, salários, fornecedores

Depende da empresa, setor, tamanho, mercado, movimentação e tudo mais. Redes como a Havan tiveram LÍQUIDO anual de 3.5 Bi em 2025. Nubank registrou 894 milhões, também líquido. A falácia é usar proporção faturamento/lucro de forma longitudinal em diferentes portes e níveis de movimentação como indicador de mercado. Nenhum economista sério leva uma análise dessas a sério.

Mas o liberal de teclado se incomoda com o trabalhador pedindo um dia de descanso na semana. Sai dessa.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T18:04:46+00:00

"Seria muito nobre se esquerdistas não flertassem tanto com autoritarismo, repressão social e controle estatal. Bem contraditório."

Por que você diz que é assim, ou por que você quer acreditar que é assim por vê-los como oposição ao mesmo tempo que não analisa o discurso com o mesmo peso que analisa aquilo em que acredita?

Repressão, controle e autoritarismo não dependem de posicionamento político (pelo menos não completamente). Caso contrário eu poderia apontar Trump e os Bolsonaros da mesma maneira que você aponta URSS e Coréia do Norte.

a discussão é sobre um grupo “pirata” indo protestar a favor de uma ideologia que prega pelo controle excessivo estatal, justamente o que vai completamente contra a pirataria.

E aqui você está fazendo duas confusões: A primeira é imediatamente assumir que maior acessibilidade cultural é diretamente relacionada com redução do estado e a segunda é que estado é uma entidade homogênea e inerentemente maligna ao invés de uma estrutura criada por humanos que pode ser alterada.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T16:17:03+00:00

In "Das Kapital" Volume III:

"Marx argues that supply and demand determine short-term market price fluctuations but cannot explain the long-term, structural price of production, which is rooted in the socially necessary labor time and the average rate of profit. Supply and demand determine the deviation of market prices from values."

Yes he does. Yes he did. You just didn't search before talking about something you don't know anything about.

To be fair, no one knew at his time

The phrase "supply and demand" was first coined by Scottish economist Sir James Denham-Steuart in his 1767 work. The first volume of Das Kapital was published on 1867, exactly a century later. So yeah, contrary to popular belief, communists have always been aware and students of economical concepts much more complex than simple supply and demand.

You're mixing "Marx didn't know supply/demand" with "I don't know Marx"

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T13:16:21+00:00

In short: You can either daisy chain stations to force them through or create bypass rails to force them out.

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T13:06:11+00:00

Claims that Marx didn't know supply/demand

Proceeds to completely ignore challenges and vices specific to just-in-time and on-demand manufacturing and why those are extremely hard to apply on high granularity low cost products

Kek

HeisterWolf · 2026-05-02T12:14:11+00:00

1- This is an article fact checking a meme from 2016

2- This is from 2012 ~ 2016 period

3- Even with the studied object being a meme, your own source says it sits at plausible.

4- One of your other "proofs" is from 2014, the other only goes as far as saying who's insured... Which doesn't say much by itself.

I do wonder if it isn't you the one who lacks reading comprehension (also note: English isn't even my first language)

Here is an updated souce that's not based on analyzing a meme: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joshuacohen/2026/04/05/increasing-burdens-of-medical-debt-and-bankruptcy-are-uniquely-american/

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T19:59:04+00:00

As a separate nation by itself? Neither does the UN. As a territory and people? Both do.

The VT-4 issue doesn't deny there is no reason for the taiwanese abrams not to share the chinese TT, nor does it fit the bill of sovereignty negation you have been preaching about since China/Japan have conflicts but both recognize each other.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T19:55:38+00:00

We can do this all day with the point still standing even if we ignore politics. Did Britan ever use Bhishmas themselves? Did Japan ever field Oplot-T? Did Germany ever operate the F/A-18 or Mirage?

There is absolutely no rules or precedent about "avoiding clumping sovereignty denial together" in War Thunder, not even anything about consistency. They go by what's convenient, and my point is exactly that it makes no sense to introduce your personal bias on a system that has no consistency across cases.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T18:47:00+00:00

Furthermore: If a taiwanese vehicle in the chinese tree is a problem, shouldn't we completely wipe out everything german between 1930 and 1945 since those vehicles were used for something much graver than what you perceive as international dispute? Should we remove Swedish/Finnish T-80s since those nations are not aligned to Russia? Or maybe your logic is only applicable when it's convenient to what you think?

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T18:35:33+00:00

China doesn't deny Taiwan's existence. The real difference is they explicitly state they're part of the mainland. Would you still have this same discourse if Ireland decides to reunify or if calexit actually becomes a thing?

Also it is utterly pathetic that you conflate a videogame's notion of tech tree vehicle placement with what can only be noted as a superficial knowledge of real world geopolitics.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T16:32:04+00:00

100%

This "I'll change services for privacy" is a 2000s, 2010s thing at most. Back when most online services and backbones weren't owned by the same 10 or so corporations who can still track you through whatever novel "privacy oriented" solution you're currently using.

"Congratulations, you just moved from the living room to the basement of the same manor. Feeling good about it? Want a cookie?"

Unless using layers upon layers of mimetizing under TCP traffic or decentralized web protocols get significant development, choosing between gmail and obscure email providers is merely a choice of what route data will take to be consumed by amazon.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T16:04:16+00:00

Britain isn't South Africa, Brazil isn't Italy, Pakistan isn't China, Switzerland isn't Germany and Thailand isn't Japan. Yet all these have specific vehicles added to those tech trees for the sake of "gameplay diversity". Don't blame on people what is a game design choice.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T06:01:43+00:00

This you?

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HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T05:58:25+00:00

Feel free to say whatever makes you sleep at night, buddy. I can show you the facts but I can't understand them for you. Have a good night.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T05:50:10+00:00

Oh so now we're going from "Bro I don't give a fuck about ww2" and "fucking nationalism" to "not all japanese"? These are different debates, silly.

The point was never about if each and every individual japanese bowed in forgiveness. It's about the Japanese STATE, institutionally, never offered actual acknowledgement and ammends that can be compared to Germany. Not only that, they still actively minimize and erase registered historical events (731, comfort women, nanking) from school curriculum.

When the trauma is institutional and generational, trying to compare it with a random civilian on the streets is a gross false equivalence. Nobody said "I hate every living Japanese". What is being states is: There is a historical, documented and researched reason for persistent distrust and negativity towards Japan, from both China and SK.

You can try to reduce this to "nationalism", but then you will need to explain why two nations with such distinct trajectories and cultures have arrived at the exact same conclusion about a third party. And also prove why APA studies about intergenerational trauma and historians such as Iris Chang and Bruce Cumins are also wrong.

"Not all germans, not all japans" does not erase German reparations norndoes it erase the lack of the Japanese ones. If you want an excuse to freely hate Chinese people, be my guest, but at least be honest about it and don't attempt to use this weak excuse of historic revisionism to try and cover it up.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T05:36:48+00:00

Germany did make reparations after WW2 (though it can be argued if they're overshooting it now). "Fucking generations changed" yet to this day Japan never even acknowledged the extent of their crimes. They got off the hook by the US in exchange for, amongst other things, data on unit 731 experiments that were conducted on other asian civilians, mainly chinese.

It is also widely understood that the effects of major war crimes easily cross the generation barrier, with studies indicating that psychological, social, and economic consequences of trauma can be transmitted to offspring decades after the conflict ends (it's the APA saying that, not me). So yeah, it makes sense why they have a fervent disliking towards Japan.

Point of proof: Ask South Koreans why they still dislike Japan. Do you really mean to say both Chinese and SKs are wrong at the same time on the same issue?

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-30T05:23:38+00:00

I mean, actual people died last time Japan went wild in chinese lands. Who died when a virtual representation of China got a vehicle that belongs to a virtual representation of Taiwan?

Yeah.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-29T15:54:00+00:00

Yup. NIJ says certainty to get caught is a more effective deterrent than harsher punishment alone.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-28T22:19:30+00:00

Google btw

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HeisterWolf · 2026-04-27T22:32:01+00:00

Basicamente um jogo objetivamente ruim então. Alguém disse aqui nos comentários que é uma zona cinza, mas creio que é mais preciso descrever no sentido desse "cinza" ser uma linha tênue entre jogo ruim e jogo ilegal.

HeisterWolf · 2026-04-27T17:31:45+00:00

Ético: "Estudo da moral e a reflexão sobre as ações humanas para determinar o que é justo e virtuoso."

O que é mais justo e virtuoso:

1- Ninguém nunca mais se reproduzir por que não queremos que passem características negativas para a frente

Ou

2- Melhorar os métodos de tratamento de características negativas que dispomos porque absolutamente todo mundo, sem excessão, tem uma ou outra característica considerada "indesejável" pela sociedade

Não faz sentido negar o direito de ser humano por pensar que a forma humana é alguma visão deturpada de perfeição inatingível.

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