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Über 80 Prozent der fossilen Energieexporte der Golfregion gehen nach Asien. Die letzten Flüssiggastanker, die noch durch die Straße von Hormus kamen, wurden aber inzwischen Richtung Europa umgelenkt, wo Einkäufer die stark gestiegenen Preise bezahlen können, im Gegensatz zu ärmeren asiatischen Ländern wie Pakistan oder Vietnam. Nur eines der sieben Schiffe blieb auf seinem ursprünglichen Asienkurs und legte am vergangenen Donnerstag in China an, so eine Analyse der Financial Times.

Pakistans Flüssiggasterminals erwarten deshalb, Ende des Monats kein Gas mehr ins pakistanische Netz einspeisen zu können. Die Regierung Bangladeschs hat die Universitäten geschlossen, um Energie zu sparen. In den Philippinen und Vietnam werden Unternehmen angehalten, ihre Mit­ar­bei­te­r*in­nen von zu Hause aus arbeiten zu lassen, um den Kraftstoffbedarf zu verringern. China und Japan werden das teurere Gas teilweise mit mehr Kohle- und Atomstrom ersetzen.

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Südkoreas Präsident Lee Jae Myung forderte schon zu Beginn des Irankriegs, den Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien im Land zu beschleunigen. Die asiatischen Länder stünden am „Scheideweg“, schreiben die Ember-Expert*innen: „Sie können sich zu Elektrostaaten entwickeln, die Emissionen reduzieren und Klimaziele einhalten, oder Petrostaaten bleiben, die größere Energieanfälligkeiten riskieren.“

They raid compost bins, outsmart latches and sometimes look gleeful doing it. A new UBC study in Animal Behaviour suggests raccoons may not just be opportunistic—they may be genuinely curious.

UBC researchers Hannah Griebling and Dr. Sarah Benson-Amram from Zoology and Forest and Conservation Sciences, found raccoons continued solving puzzles long after retrieving the only food reward available. This behaviour reflects intrinsic motivation rather than hunger and is described as “information foraging,” because no additional food was given for continuing.

1. try to copy email from Facebook app to add to email header of email I am writing, but Facebook app refuses to just let me copy the email and instead insists on opening IOS Mail app with new draft

2. try to copy email address from opened new draft, but for some reason, email addresses in the “to” field won’t let you select them for anything other than deletion

3. try to type in weird email address letter by letter, switching back and forth between Facebook app and iOS Mail app, but instead for some reason when you switch to another app, it “sets” the email so you can’t keep typing it. Gotta do it all in one go

None of these UX decisions make a goddamn lick of sense.

Why does modern UX seem so actively needlessly shit? Microslop is garbage, so my reaction to shit like the right click menu insanity in Windows 11 is more “I’m not angry, just disappointed.” But Apple are supposed to be the “it just werks” sleek UX focused people.

Also, the fact that you can search for the exact subject of an email you sent yesterday, but instead of that, the search function will find shit from 2009. Also the fact that plugging in an iPhone to the aux automagically decides that you need to hear the first song in iTunes (doesn’t even matter if you don’t have any music downloaded/haven’t used any form of Apple to play music since 2009 either - it will happily download just that first song to play on repeat for you!)

I just don’t get it. These are choices being made (maybe not the email thing). Fucking why?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/62260093

“We are rearming. We are decarbonizing. We are preparing. We are becoming an independent Europe. And this means a more outward Europe. And this is why I am here today. Because showing up matters,” VDL said.

Today’s game is Final Fantasy VIII (technically the Remaster). I picked this, IX, XIII, XV all up recently with a sale. What’s with the sudden interest in final fantasy? I’m a big fan of Symphony’s. I think they’re a highly under appreciated and really important form of Public Art that’s slowly vanishing (Seriously, if it’s in your budget go check out your local Symphony. They might have something that interests you). Earlier this year I took my friend to see Distant Worlds at our local Symphony for his birthday. He’s a big Final Fantasy fan. Especially XIV.

I’m sure where people can see where this is going, i heard Not Alone and was moved too tears (for IX), I saw the opening too XII and was interested, and XV I saw you get too push a fucking car and was sold (not even joking). So then you might be wondering “what about VIII?”. Well. I remember when I was little I always heard the “Squall is Dead” theory. Suffice to say I remembered that while picking some out and it piqued my interest in picking it up. Is it a stupid reason? Probably. But It sold me.

As for the actual game, I have mixed feelings. Combat only seems to run at around 15 FPS for me. Which isn’t great. I’m not a big “I need 60 FPS at least” guy. But 15 FPS is way too choppy. I was legitimately starting to feel a little sick. Overworld seems fine though.

Setting wise though I love the setting. Academy settings are really interesting to me and this seems to have that covered. Tying back to the “Squall is Dead” thing, it does actually make me wonder how the hell things escalate (even if he isn’t dead). Because I want to know how we go from “Academy” to “Holy fucking shit. He just got impaled with an iceberg 2x the size of his own head”.

Anyways. I got Ifrit, named him Greg, and I’m planning to settle in for a longer play session tomorrow. I’m not expecting a long game, especially because I’ll be making use of the boosts to avoid spending too much time grinding experience. I’m hoping I enjoy this and didn’t waste 5$.