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There is a Wikipedia list, which also contains the 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes with ~60,000 deaths. Heatwaves in Europe are a recurring item on that list though and this one is still ongoing.

You mean the euromomo.eu page? Looks like this to me:

 

The data in EuroMoMo is quite stable now: The heatwave in calendar week 26 resulted in more than 15,000 excess deaths across Europe. That was worse than the flu wave this January.

Also, interesting that it was primarily France and Belgium. Then Germany.

For Portugal it was a rather normal week, it seems.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ecosia:

Requires to be logged in though.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago (6 children)

I believe people overestimate the difference between "state pensions" and "capital markets pensions".

  • State pensions: People pay taxes and retirees get money from taxes. How much is mostly determined by how well the country's economy is doing.
  • Capital markets pensions: People buy shares and retirees get dividends or sell shares. How much is mostly determined by how well the economy is doing.

The differences are more subtle. For example, the capital market is not constrained to the country but one can invest globally. However, the capital market is constrained to the economy of public companies whereas all companies pay taxes. With state pensions, is a little less determined by the economy as a state is more free to redistribute money than fund managers.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 6 days ago

There is "wrong" and there is "different".

An investment strategy is "wrong", if it just gives lower returns or higher risk. For example, more diversification gives you equivalent returns for less risk, thus not diversifying is wrong.

An investment strategy is "different", if it lowers financial returns in return for something else. For example, you want to intentionally lower risk or not invest in evil companies. There is nothing wrong about that. You can invest with your heart, just be aware of the lower returns.

Donations can be considered a "different" investment where the financial returns are zero. In return you "save the world" a little.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago

That is an argument in favor. For example, Brave charges 5$ per 1000 requests. It is an additional way of earning money by not just selling to Qwant and Ecosia exclusively.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I found it is less politically correct than the US frontier models. Not sure how it compares to the Chinese ones.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I don't understand why "what they stand for" would be an argument? They are not anti-AI, as they offer one themselves.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Providing a search API is currently a hot business because coding agents need that. See for example https://exa.ai/

I wonder why EUSP does not aggressively target that market?

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 week ago

Germany rollout was last week. That is still news.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 1 week ago

Germany's current climate policy largely relies on top down instruments that range from technological optimism – often discussed as a strategy of climate delay (cf. Lamb et al., 2020; Haas and Schäfer, 2025) – to an outright fossil rollback under the new conservative Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Katharina Reiche.

As long as Merz remains chancellor, this course will not change.

[–] copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I missed that news: official UN news and also the Guardian.

The decision was a "closed-door vote among the 125-member Assembly of States Parties". So we don't know how EU members voted there.

 

As part of changing laws in Europe, Meta now offers the option for you to chat with others using third-party messaging apps that have integrated with WhatsApp and that you choose to turn on.

Note: Chats with third-party apps are only available in select regions and may not be available to you.

I feel sorry for all in the wrong region.

 

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