It’s a good first step, but I already know they will be fine with only 300% of previous prices. They aren’t investing all this money to sell to the lowest bidder.

It’s not a horse goddamnit!

We are in a memes community here, most memes are only tangentially related to the truth (if that). It’s a joke, it doesn’t have to be true, but if it is true (which there might be a chance of in this case) that makes it even funnier.

But if you’d like we can just go by 4chan rules here and post: “Fake and gay!”

Thank you so much!

First we created communities that we used to share information and ideas. This allowed people to grow in their skills and in turn teach others what they learnt. This cycle kept the communities going, providing an important service for everyone involved.

Then capitalism turned those communities into walled gardens, often using predatory patterns to increase engagement to the detriment of the quality. Being walled off made it harder to share the knowledge, leaving people with only a few larger holdouts of what once had been.

Then we created machines to do the learning for us, finally killing off the concept of information sharing communities. These machines learnt from every knowledge sharing community that existed previously and became the place to access that knowledge. Without people coming into the communities, even the last holdouts could no longer sustain themselves. The ability to share and gain new knowledge was removed, causing stagnation for everyone involved. The ability to actually learn anything was also greatly reduced, having the machines apply the knowledge directly. The new machines can’t learn, can’t think, can’t reason or be creative, all they can do is remix already existing information and regress to the mean while doing so.

But for a while there, a lot of value was created for the shareholders.

Do you mean highest like most drugs? Or tallest, like the one who needs to help people get stuff from the top shelves?

Since we’ve stopped using CFC gases in our air conditioners and fridges, this has been mostly a non issue. The biggest issue also wasn’t the leaking, it was improper recycling. Things were just thrown away, leading to the gas escaping. These days proper recycling is mandatory in most countries and programs have been setup to do so.

Modern airconditioning systems mostly use a pure form of propane (R290). Which is still not the best thing to release, but has a very low environmental impact. Fridges have mainly used R134a for the past 30 years or so, which also doesn’t have a major environmental impact. R32 is also still used a lot, but is being phased out in favor of R290.

I think this is mainly a solved problem. But if they want to spend a few million to figure out if they can do better, more power to them.

I hate to break it to you, but when someone states anything in metric, I immediately have a feel for how large that is. That’s because we usually state everything in metric, so we don’t need to refer to random stuff and just learn the sizes of everything.

Well you say that, but then you start playing Resident Evil Village and suddenly it all makes sense.

Just cover it up by saying you meant the dog’s progenitors who are also pets within your family.

Same actually (49M)

One of the top posts on Lemmy is telling people going to Lemmy to complain about Reddit is like going on a date and complaining about your ex.

I think of that post often.

Found it: https://lemmy.world/post/1129323

Insane Reddit mod

And keep in mind there weren’t just large beasts, but small ones as well. People tend to focus on the big ones, because they are most impressive, but they came in the full range of sizes. Just imagine how alien our planet looked compared to what we are used to now.

I also like how a lot of that Western investment hinges on the companies having the best model and keeping it secret so they maintain the lead. China (or others) only needs to release a good enough model as open source in order to invalidate the entire business model.

Not that this matters much, those companies are so focused on showing any kind of progress, they bin their own models way before making back even a fraction of the investment. Only for customers to go meh any time a new one releases. Or have it be a little bit better, but much more expensive to run.

It would actually be funny, if it hadn’t raised prices on anything tech related and will probably crash the economy any day now.

I don’t think the idiot in chief has looked at how much of the defense budget he’s using up with this action. A couple of ships full of oil don’t make up for that.

There are so many huge ass American trucks on the road in Europe. They don’t fit anywhere, they take up way too much parking space. And the people driving them ride around like lunatics. They go way too fast everywhere, can’t see anything, don’t even notice speedbumps as they drive over at double the speed limit. They don’t care for pedestrians or bikes and regularly hop the curve. They usually park on the sidewalk or in the grass as they don’t fit in parking spaces. They make too much noise, use too much fuel and exhaust too much shit. I’ve also seen them not give way in situations they should have, because with a big thing like that barreling down the road, who’s going to argue.

There is this one asshole I see all the time that has a huge engine and what sounds like no exhaust on his lifted American truck. He drives at full open throttle till the last possible moment before a curve, only to hit the brakes as hard as he can, to then accelerate again full blast. I’m pretty sure people simple walking past can get hearing damage from that thing. Also he works in construction so he likes to drive all through the neighborhood at 6:00 in the morning. I’ve seen another truck that is so large, there is an extra step that is electrically extended when parked. It’s fucking wide as well, so it always parks in the middle of a small little park, otherwise it would block the road. Another dickhead that thankfully has since moved away used to always drive waaay too fast with his American truck. Like most of them drive too fast, but this dude was doing over 100 on small neighborhood streets with a speed limit of 30. And we’re talking European small streets, so like the width of an American truck. I’ve seen people jank their dogs on the leash out of the path of this asshole and seen him drive kids on bike off the road.

They use some weird loophole meant for importing really unique vehicles that can’t pass any European inspection. Like for example a hotdog shaped food truck or something like that. But these special import companies label custom ordered big ass American trucks as specialty vehicles and import them like that. That way they don’t have to pass inspection (because they are super duper illegal just as a regular car) and they don’t even pay regular taxes on the thing. The EU has said they are going to close the loophole for years now, but it hasn’t happened yet.

It’s really amazing there are people out there who are such levels of asshole as to put a shit ton of money into something like that. It’s like going out of your way to show the world just how much of an asshole you are and at the same time a tool to be even more of an asshole.

Because methane is a byproduct of the petroleum industry, it’s very cheap. They have so much gas, they torch of a whole lot of it all the time. Which is a good thing, because releasing it as CO2 is actually better than releasing it as methane, obviously releasing it at all is a really bad thing.

It being so cheap makes it really hard for alternative sources to be viable, since it would be more complex and thus more expensive. It is done, but mostly because of regulation, subsidies and as an environmental measure.

Methane does break down fairly fast (still takes years), we keep releasing so much of it, it does contribute a lot to climate change. We are adding more than gets broken down. And even after it breaks down, it’s still contributing to the amount of CO2, so better but not good.

My man knows good loot when he sees a corpse.

Because you like spaghetti so much, ol’ Sweaty Spaghetti