Hmm, looks like our emissions were dropping from 2012 to 2014, before starting to rise again after that. I wontder what happened between 2012 and 2014 to cause that?
One point you're missing is that it's not just raw power, but also speed. Currently, a legal ebike has a limit of 250 W, but irrespective of power, it also has a 25 km/h limit. If you're doing 25 km/h, the motor cannot be putting out even 1 W.
In my opinion, there's some value to power limits, in terms of how strong the acceleration is. But speed is the much more important factor for safety most of the time.
Wow thanks for sharing! That is a really cool tool!
I don't know if I'll use it or not, since it seems to have a fair few bugs or missing features.
In the Measuring questions, I noticed what it considers a "mountain" is very strange. Several places I would simply call a "hill" are included, and there are several locations counted for the same mountain (or hill). Demonstration:
Only Mt Coot-tha is a real mountain here. Maybe the area north of The Gap could count as one. But Red Hill and all the ones around Alderley are certainly nothing more than hills. They don't even show up on a Google Maps search for "mountain". And using parks says "too many parks found (5093). Please enable hiding zone mode and switch to the Large Game variation of this question."
Plus, all the "station" Matching questions (same length, same line, starts with same letter) are greyed out and unselectable. And station/line-Measuring questions are just absent entirely.
It's a damn shame, because this tool looks like it would be so enormously useful if it worked. The automated answering and filtering is insanely useful when it works. I'll definitely be sharing this with the other players of my game and seeing how they feel.
In online journalism I'm convinced it's done to keep people on-site. A link might send them away where they won't click to see any more of your advertising.
Classic Labor. "Here's a good idea, we're gonna do something half as good!"
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The petition closed in December, but it's still lazy online journalism not to link directly to it. Here's a direct link.
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No, it's at the request of the government. But for reasons I don't understand the efficacy of the block is not super high.
Some info about it here: https://catbox.moe/faq.php
There are a few different things you need to know to get this, so it's hard to blame you.
The first is that there is a prominent and very loud transphobic community of people who cry about "women's sports", where what they really mean is "trans women aren't women and shouldn't be allowed to be in women's spaces", but they couch it in notions of fairness in sport. You know it's not legitimate concern because of how often they've gone after cis women who just happen to look a little too masculine for their misogynistic tastes.
You also need to know that Donald Trump, the US president, has been closely tied to these loud transphobes.
The third thing is that at this year's Winter Olympics, the US teams won both the men's and women's ice hockey competition.
Following that win, Donald Trump called the men's team and invited them to meet him at the White House, after the State of the Union. He derisively joked with them:
And we have to, I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that. I do believe I probably would be impeached [if the women's team was not invited].
We know this because one of the men recorded the call and posted the video online. Many of the men were heard laughing in response to Trump's sexist joke. One or two of the men posted after-the-fact that the men should not have reacted like that. Whether it's sincere or face-saving, I'll leave up to the reader.
So we've got Trump, a member of the "protect women's sports" movement, caught vocally deriding successful women athletes. Almost like the "protect women's sports" movement is actually just an "exclude trans women from society" movement.
Worth noting that these data probably don't include emissions enabled by our exports. Those emissions should be counted against us, but are not.