Robbity

joined 4 months ago
[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean you need the mustard or it won't emulsify. 2 parts oil for one part of acid is better imho

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean yes if we're actively looking for a suspect in a red Renault Clio. But in this case the dude is dead, whether his car is a Mercedes or a BMW is a ridiculously useless piece of information for an article to give.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Well it's both. Which tells you something about the French. Organized and intolerant to this kind of shit.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well if you just manage your money properly, it grows. I would argue it's better to do that and give you money away rather than not manage your money properly. In the end, more money goes to good causes that way.

If they "stopped" that would mean leaving their money in a bank account sleeping. The only entity benefiting from this would be the bank.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

He does actually. https://observer.com/2024/09/bill-gates-bernie-sanders-tax-wealthy/

He and warren are some of the smarter billionaires, they realize having infinite money is not actually very useful.

Not to say there's any thing good about there being billionaires in the first place, but there is a spectrum.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's kind of irrelevant.

Nuclear handles the base power generation. Grid storage is meant to handle peaks. It needs to be cheaper than coal, which is also used for peaks.

Anyway, grid storage is already about 200$ per installed kw with lithium. If sodium gets us to 100$, a 1GW installation comparable to a nuclear plant would cost 100 million. That's like 150 to 300x cheaper than a nuclear plant. And a plant takes years to build, decades even. A storage facility takes days or weeks.

Of course that does not count energy generation, but grid scale storage basically stores free excess energy from nuclear and renewables. So they actually improve the cost efficiency of nuclear and renewables, they don't compete with them.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago (5 children)

It's basically solved. Sodium batteries are cheaper and much more durable than lithium batteries, and are currently being commercialized. Their only downside is that they are heavier, but that does not matter for grid-scale storage.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah but there's no more "get out of the rer at the wrong stop and you're fucked" at least !

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

They unified the ticket system last year, you can go anywhere with one ticket now.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

Barely made a dent commercially, but put the company in a difficult financial situation where build quality was a bit lower and cars a bit more expensive for a while.

The point of these punishments should never be to kill a company, but to hurt investors, who are ultimately responsible for setting the CEOs agenda.

And, well, VW stock is still down about -80% compared to pre-dieselgate. So I would say eurocapitalism working as intended.

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Then they will unironically call it the freedom OS

[–] Robbity@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago

No, what did it was removing headphone jacks and selling only crappy non-repairable headphones.

view more: ‹ prev next ›