yes, but they’re still right. Of course CICO (Calories in, Calories out) is a thing, but the Calories out part (e.g. exercise) does not have as much leverage as he calories in part.

it’s just so very easy to take in thousands of calories in 1-2 hours (think burger, fries, milkshake and alcoholic drinks). On the other hand, most people will struggle to burn more than say 800kcal/hr - and that’s why we say weight is gained or lost in the kitchen.

Well yeah but also no. I feel like Sam from Wendover went over this quite well recently: https://youtu.be/XK8hpxR_r2Y

You seem like a rational, polite, and thoughtful person. Charming, even. So I’m blocking you.

Any time someone brings this up I wonder if they’re financed by the fossil fuel industry as it’s just such a weird point to make.

First: consider the alternatives: Every form of energy has an environmental cost associated with it. Surely we agree that while not perfect, PV is vastly superior in this regard to gas/coal/oil? It might even be less polluting than nuclear, but it’s early here and I’m too tired to research this.

Second: PV modules have a very long life span. At least 20 years. After that time, they’ll probably be operating still, but at maybe 60-80% of peak performance. That’s probably not good enough for commercial use, but I built myself a nice little garden shed solar array using “old” modules because they were basically free and I don’t care that much about peak performance in my use case. That’s to say, these things can still be used for a long time.

Third: if they ever do need to be completely recycled, well, that’s doable. In the EU, it’s actually compulsory. The processes are there, although they don’t quite scale yet. That’s mainly because there’s just not that many old modules to recycle yet.

sooo with all that going on, what exactly are you basing your point on?

lots of good advice here. I just want to restate: do yourself a favor and migrate your HDDs over to any solid state drive. Whether that means “classic” SSDs with a SATA-Port or M.2s is your prerogative, but in either case you’ll start wondering how you could ever stand that s pinning noise and the vibrations and the slow, slow data transfer.

you’re probably right. I might have gotten misled because there’s an ongoing debate about unemployed refugees here and it’s mostly because we’re terrible bat getting them permits to work.

I mean yes, that too, but there actually is a labor shortage as well. We have 2.7M unemployed people and 700k open positions (source).

However, we need to account for

a) unemployed people that are not able to work due to illness etc b) those 700k open positions are only the ones that are reported to our labor agency (Arbeitsagentur).

If you account for that, we probably have closer to 2M open positions.

Imho 2M open positions makes more sense as there about 100k open positions in child care (Kita) alone.

Sad, but I guess somewhat understandable given the R&D competitors are putting in.

A 7 months old random fediverse account is a bot? You know that the entirety of the fediverse is like 0.001 percent of the user base of the social media giants?

That would be money really badly spent on astro-turfing bots.

I can’t help but feel like your sampling might be skewed.

Vollautomaten (I. E. Fully automated coffee machines that brew espressos and cappuccinos etc) tend to make worse coffee, I agree. That’s why I don’t use the one in the office.

Having an experienced barista grind you an exactly measured dose fresh for your coffee at a good Café is quite nice, on the other hand.

But that’s nothing to do with Germany or Australia.

It’s already been taxed, yes, but it’s also passively generating income by investing it. You tax that income with a capital gains tax.

You can further impose a let’s say 1-2% tax on wealth above let’s say 5 million, so you only have to pay 1% on 2M if you are worth 7M.

That should be easily covered by your investing gains if you play at that level. So, in essence, no harm done to personal wealth. You just get richer less fast while urgent social and infrastructure projects receive better funding.

It will never not be funny to me how scared some people are of any transportation that’s not a car.

I can’t tell if you’re trolling or not. Well done.

Anyone else kinda wish for a video instead of that one kinda lame comparison picture?

Who on the left and where did they switch to H2? Because that’s news to me. Germany tried to carve out an “E-Fuel” subsidy in the EU thanks to its libertarian DOT minister, but that’s a) literally meant as a drop-in replacement for gas and b) pretty much dead on arrival.

Everything I’ve followed so far seems to indicate that while BEVs have problems, H2 ist just massively less efficient to produce, store, distribute and burn.

Yeah, you’re right. Don’t drink and post :D

Also it’s summer in Antarctica.

Lustery.com exists, fyi

That sounds annoying, but manageable. To be fair, I’ve never had a Linux system that did suspend gracefully, so I’ve started to suspect it’s more a software issue with Linux in general.

Goddamn dude, like yeah, an overwhelming majority of successful mainstream artists are white males… But don’t tell me you couldn’t possibly have considered

Patti Smith Sinéad O’Connor Howard Jones Manuel Gagneux MIA Prince Jimi Hendrix Freddie Mercury Slash Charles Bradley Doro Pesch The vocalists from blood command The singer from Jinjer

And that’s just top of my head. Sounds like you really didn’t care about it that much because “white men just make better music and think better thoughts”.

Pathetic.