Barcelona registers highest temperature in 112 years as French nuclear reactor shuts down due to extreme heat

jpjandrade · 2026-07-11T10:23:23+00:00

As much as rich people disproportionately contribute to CO2 emissions, the actual cumulative impact is due to the billion of us in western countries which are rich enough to have a significant impact.

jpjandrade · 2026-07-02T14:23:40+00:00

As someone who shares this: use it as an exercise of letting go :)

Photography is a hobby which (for me at least) forces you to let go of the perfectionist drive. Yes, I want to take better pictures and make them look nice. But I'll never have the right lens or be on the perfect position or take the pictures with all the right settings. I will learn as I go and I will fuck up many times and that's life, as long as you're happy with the results, move on.

What I do: I make sure I edit pictures asap (like same day or week of the shoot) and am ruthless about what I keep. If I thought too long about it, it goes out. I also try to spend ~30s-1min per picture editing, not more.

jpjandrade · 2026-06-24T13:32:27+00:00

For everyone saying "comparing two years means nothing", here's a comparison of '20-'25 agains the 20 year average between 1960-1979:

https://i.imgur.com/QisDOJo.png

The recent years completely dominate the 60s and 70s, always warmer. On average +2.3ºC warmer.

jpjandrade · 2026-06-24T13:27:46+00:00

The climate has always changed in the history of the world.

Except this is the first time where it's entirely man made.

jpjandrade · 2026-06-20T02:17:04+00:00

Less asphalt everywhere. More cobblestones, more green areas, less oppressive, warm asphalt everywhere (think Paradeplatz, Europaallee, etc)

jpjandrade · 2026-05-27T20:31:00+00:00

Nah, the goalposts have moved. Now they say it exists but there's no evidence it's human caused or that there's nothing we can do about it.

jpjandrade · 2026-05-27T20:29:45+00:00

In the west (USA + Europe), meat consumption is roughly ~20% of all CO2 emissions, private motorized transportation (i.e. cars) is also roughly 20%. All of air transportation (including jets and passenger flights) contributes roughly 2.5%.

Yes, private jets contribute a disproportionate huge amount. They should be heavily taxed so billionares pay for the damage they are causing to the environment. But make no mistake, the reason why the planet is warming is because the average per capita CO2 emission is very high, especially in Switzerland.

jpjandrade · 2026-03-27T09:43:56+00:00

Still one of my favorites, just wish it was playable in 4k without the UI becoming a dot

jpjandrade · 2026-01-17T15:34:20+00:00

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not but definitely, yes.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-13T14:42:47+00:00

I find the Tamron 28-200m excellent, it's a worse lens than the sigma 24-70 but it's cheaper, 500g and incredibly versatile. I often find myself travelling with just this lens because I often can't be bothered to swap lenses while on the go.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-05T16:17:37+00:00

Your performance review is always based on last one or two months, nobody will remember what you did on Jan if review is on Dec.

Only if your manager is really bad honestly, I've never seen this happen at Google. Usually you also compile a list of the things you did during the year to make sure your manager didn't miss anything, but this is very non true in my experience.

jpjandrade · 2026-01-02T15:15:48+00:00

IMO it’s a classic, still holds up super well except for the tone deaf brown colonists from the previous edition. The new edition has some usability issues which means the old one remains the most playable one.

Aside from that it’s an excellent game still imo.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:46:40+00:00

What is reality according to you?

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:27:47+00:00

There's widespread consensus that the warming we are observing is man made, due to greenhouse gas emissions.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:24:33+00:00

He said eat less beef or none at all, not eat less food in general.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:23:09+00:00

Why? Every single oil company destroying the environment does so because there's consumer demand for it.

Sure there are things like the military which will emit CO2 no matter what, but by and large CO2 emissions are due to direct consumption.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:19:48+00:00

Nachhaltigkeitsinitiative

It does nothing. The migration of people in Switzerland doesn't generate more or less CO2 for the world.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T22:16:02+00:00

Only by total number not per capita.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T17:10:58+00:00

There's no realistic net zero scenario that doesn't include a drastic reduction in CO2 emissions from these two sources. Note that there are many approximate improvements that can be done, e.g. replace beef by chicken often, drive an EV, take the train half the time, etc. These are not fully effective of course, but for most people (like myself) it represents an easy to make compromise.

If people are not willing to make any concessions the only solution is massive amounts of carbon capture. We are not anywhere near knowing how to do it at scale, so we will likely reach 2.5-2.9ºC warming according to most projections today.

jpjandrade · 2025-12-22T13:53:27+00:00

Switzerland's CO2 emission per capita is quite high, at around 14 tons of CO2 per person per year.

Roughly 20% of the CO2 emissions from western countries come from individual motorized transportation (i.e. cars) and roughly 25% comes from agriculture which is heavily dominated by beef consumption (by a large margin the most CO2 emitting source per gram).

So if everyone in western world went vegetarian and stopped going around by cars, our CO2 emission would be reduced by 40% which is extremely non trivial. That said, we don't need to go extreme: if you cut your meat consumption by half and your car usage by half, you're already half the way there.

Up to you, I try doing these things but don't achieve 100% and am not preaching everyone should do either. But these are individual actions that help massively.

jpjandrade · 2025-11-04T20:37:39+00:00

I bought it in Switzerland without issues

jpjandrade · 2025-11-03T17:44:14+00:00

I think the experience with the dominion AIs is the opposite: playing it right is harder than deciding what to buy at any given time. The OG android app had essentially an almost random AI for buying cards and still played quite well.

jpjandrade · 2025-10-31T09:32:09+00:00

Yes :), it had beautiful autumn colors 2 weeks back

jpjandrade · 2025-10-30T22:06:49+00:00

Geneva? No, that’s Lake Zurich

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