When I was on a trip in the US for vacation, I found out that most of the review services can’t be trusted. Despite good or bad reviews it was a complete lottery. Meanwhile in Poland when a restaurant has a good review online you can actually expect reasonable service and food quality.
It’s not exactly related to electrical energy consumption, but i’ve been observing huge changes related to what source of heating people use to heat their houses in Poland. The surging natural gas and coal prices caused a lot of people to modernize their heating infrastructure. A lot of people in suburban areas have photovoltaic installations sometimes even exceeding their needs and a whole bunch of people started using heat pumps or air conditioner units to heat their houses.
Looking only at excess mortality is pretty shallow. Being European and knowing the differences in health care systems across countries, the excess mortality chart also reflects the quality of healthcare systems in these countries. It isn’t much surprise to see nordic countries being the best here.
Is an incomplete picture that forget most relevant factors. For example that France and Spain receive more than 80 millions of international tourists each year and this factor have to be corrected to compare countries. Three of the four Peaks of high mortality in Spain coincided with holiday season: April 2020 (Holy Week, first big holiday after the first case registered 31-jan), June (Start of the holidays) and August (peak of Summer holidays).
After seen how each government reacted in the pandemic, I just assume that everybody lied in the statistics.
> Is an incomplete picture that forget most relevant factors. For example that France and Spain receive more than 80 millions of international tourists each year and this factor have to be corrected to compare countries.
The probability of being hit by a pandemic originated on a different country is proportional to the number of travelers moving in and out of the country (each one with a small probability of carrying the virus). Put the same amount of people visiting Swedden without any mask and the result would had been very different so "our plan: good and the other's: bad" is just too simplistic.
The variable excess deaths in a country depends also of how much people lives there. To have 100000 people killed by Covid is a different situation if your population is 9 millions or 60 millions. If millions of people visit a touristic location you will unavoidably have an increase in the people that died there just by accident. And accidents happen more often when there is alcohol and party involved. If a German died by heart attack while sunbathing in Marseille or another English commit balconing after drinking booze for all day in Valencia; those will be computed in the list of France/Spain deaths or is a +1 in the Germany/UK excess death?. Is unclear here. There was a lot of creative management of the info by everybody in the Covid years.
And there are a lot of other factors that must be taken in mind, like healthcare, but the main problem still is a question of trust. We don't have tools to verify if this data is real or not.
The interesting part is mostly comparing the nordic countries against each other. Sweden seemed to be doing much much worse early on due to the chosen strategy, but that no longer seems to be the case.
I don't know enough about Sweden, but while the overall quality of our healthcare is high, its capacity is tailored very tightly to normal situations and we have very little slack for an epidemic like this. So Dutch ICs overflowed while Germany still had space (and a lot of people were in fact transferred there).
I used better touch tool for some shortcuts and trackpad gestures, but never fully used it's power. Recently I had a problem that one of my monitors connected somewhat late and all my windows were out of place. Thanks for saving my time mate, the restore window layout thing is truly magical
My Airbnb in Portugal experience was almost identical to the one in the article. After some time it happened it got me almost laughing at this point. Fortunately for me I was able to be enough of a pain in the ass to get a full refund from airbnb and a coupon that made the monthly stay discount apply to less than a monthly stay. I had to spend more money in the end anyway. After this I try to avoid airbnb as much as possible.
Honestly I really liked the short key travel and the tactile feel of the butterfly keyboards. The best part is that the one on MBP 13 from 2017 lasted me like 2 years until I had to buy a more powerful laptop. The thing is I like to keep my computer quite clean so maybe that gave a boost to its life expectancy
I downgraded from a 2015 retina mbp 15" to a 13", and the 15" just seems monstrous now. I love the size of 12"-13" laptops. They weigh less, are much more portable, and I don't actually need all that real estate.
