I absolutely despise work. If there was any way to survive while living alone in a studio apartment or trailer home without having to go to a job I’d do it in a heartbeat.

Have you tried being rich?

Same. If I have to buy anything else, I check my account first. And I use cash a lot and always check my account before withdrawing.

Hmmm…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen

The article states, that they passed a place called Frühstücksplatz, that literally translates to “breakfast point” at 13:30.

To me, that alone would be a red flag. But then again, it was stated, that going for a night climb, was the intent of the trip. And of course a night climb to the Grossglockner in the midst of winter is a reckless ordeal in the first place. That should have been obvious for both of them.

It’s an interesting question who is responsible over another and there are some details in this story, that really make you wonder what was going on there. But not nearly enough detail to judge any of it.

Also a lot of redundancy in there.

I mean, there is a home directory for the root-user, that you could use for these things.

Oh, my! Perfect use of that scene. I don’t always lol, when I say lol. But I lol’ed at this for real.

If tests aren’t accurately predicting usage, should we not develop more accurate tests?

It doesn’t get more accurate. We should just scrap the combined “MPGe” (and EU equivalent) and stick with “electric range” and “MPG”. Both of those can be fairly accurately predicted as separate values. How they combine is entirely up to the individual.

I agree with everything you’re saying, but this part. As you stated before, those are intended to allow for an apples to apples comparison and make it easier for the consumer to judge a car’s funel economy, without having to do their own math (which - lets face it - most people suck at).

If the underlying usage pattern doesn’t reflect a typical average use, that’s an issue, that can be adressed. And when studies show that they don’t why not take that as a call to improve upon the methodolooy?

There’s always going to be the caveat that one’s one usage pattern might deviate greatly from the standard, and absolutely it’s a must, that the individual values are indicated, so people CAN do their own math. But having a standard combined measure is still a useful tool.

Addendum. I have to admit to really only having read the article just now.

The scientists have called on EU regulators to adjust their measurements to fit the real-world findings, urging stricter controls as to how fuel consumption of plug-in hybrids is measured. According to the findings, the CO2 limits a car manufacturer’s fleet of vehicles is allowed to emit on average needs to be urgently adjusted.

Contacted by SWR, the EU Commission, which is responsible for CO2 limits, declined to comment on the findings.

The German Association of the Automotive Industry said it believed that existing measures to determine fuel consumption and CO2 emissions were reliable.

This is the real underlying issue here. It’s the EUs regulation on CO2 emissions reduction, that car manufacturers are abusing here. They are designing their car in such a way, that they look good on paper and can pass the requirements of the regulation, while their real-world emissions are much higher. (And in that regard, it’s not too unlike Dieselgate. Minus the intentional technical manipulation ofc.)

While your claim, that it’s the individuals responsibilty how they use their car is obviously true for an individual car’s fuel consumption, that realization is also utterly useless as a basis for effective policy. There needs to be a standard, and that standard better reflect an empirical assessement of reality.

xD

Also der Vorschlag mit einer fixen, ziemlich saftigen Anschlussgebühr ist offensichtlich unpopulär und ein Instrument, dass den PV-Ausbau verhindert.
Aber wir können hier jetzt, wie üblich stänkern mit “Buh! Lobbyinteressen!”, “Vetternwirtschaft!”, “Reiche doof!”, und da bin ich ja auch immer gern dabei, aber konstruktiv ist das nu auch nicht.

Bei Lichte betrachtet (am besten Sonnenlicht) müssen wir doch anerkennen, dass diese Form der dezentrale Energieerzeugung, so sinnvoll sie auch ist, eine Herausforderung für den wirtschaftlichen Betrieb eines Stromnetzes darstellt.

Egal ob mit Akku oder nicht, führt eine sinnvoll genutzte private Solaranlage ja immer dazu, dass weniger Strom aus dem Netz verbraucht wird; selbst mit Akku aber nicht dazu, dass die Lastspitzen, auf die das Netz ausgelegt werden muss verringert werden. Denn an trüben Wintertagen läuft ein wirtschaftlich ausgelegter Akku zwangsläufig spätestens am Nachmittag dann doch leer und man will dann aber trotzdem weiterhin uneingeschränkt seine Geräte nutzen, bzw. zukünftig seine Bude heizen/sein Auto laden können. Das ist weder den Leuten, noch der Technologie vorzuwerfen, aber ergibt einfach das Problem, dass die Netzbetreiber weniger (verbrauchsabhängiges) Netzentgelt bekommen, aber das Netz im gleichen Maße aufrechterhalten, bzw. sogar noch ausbauen müssten (wegen prognostisch eher höheren Lasten durch z.B. E-Auto und Wärmepumpe). Selbst wenn man keine übertriebenen Gewinnabsichten unterstellt, ist das doch eine Problematik, die man lösen muss um ein Stromnetz wirtschaftlich betreiben zu können; wirtschaftlich im Sinne von kostendeckend, bedürfniserfüllend und finanziell nachhaltig tragbar.

Ich fände es besser, wenn wir hier einen konstruktiven Austausch finden, wie man das organisiert kriegen soll.

There’s gotta be initial imports. Afterwards, they can be self-sufficient running these things and not be dependent on fuel imports, though.

Once they have enough lithium in the country, it could last them for decades, if they adopt a clever recycling strategy; not unlike they did with the 1950s cars.

It is. But there was a black sportscar in AoE 1, as well. And a laser gun warrior and a similar looking dude shooting miniature nuclear missiles.

Metal in general. Not too many lovesongs there.

And the exceptions sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t7z-UXllBM

And mild social democratic policies (or as they are called in murrica: COMMUNISM!!!11!1) are your friend as well.

I’ve got one for my bluetooth headphones.

You can change the color of the light ring on them, you can control the noise cancelling modes and set an equalizer.

You can also do some fancy camera scanning of your ears that is supposedly used to personalize their sound.

Imho all pretty gimmicky and useless, or something that doesn’t require a dedicated headphone app. The only thing really useful about it is, that sometimes they have trouble connecting to my phone through the standard Bluetooth menu. The app can take care of that, though. But maybe they could have spent the time developing that app to fix this issue altogether.

The roast chicken is usually not an egg creating machine though.
They are fairly young male chickens, that have been raised just past their maximum growth rates.

I guess that wouldn’t have been that much different in medieval times. The difference nowadays is, that we have specialized breeds for egg-laying or meat production vice versa and the respective ‘wrong’ sex of each will just be ‘discarded’ right after hatching.

Well my main hurdle is, that I don’t have any income right now. I’ve had 4 jobs in the last 10 years after finishing university, none of which lasted longer than 15 months, due to recurring health issues.

If also never lived in the same place for more than 4 years. (except my parent’s house)

So even if a bank would give me a loan, my confidence that I could manage to pay that off is pretty low. Which is kind of a sad state to find yourself in, in your late 30s.

I learned some of the math in uni for my engineering degree, but that was focussed on enterprises, where it makes sense if you generate revenue and get a return of investment to pay off the loan for that investment. I probably need to switch perspective, to actually appreciate it as a tool for cutting expenses in my daily life. If the day comes, where that won’t be purely hypothetical.

But still, I think that only applies to stuff like housing, where you have recurring cost, that could be lower (even if it’s just in the long run) or maybe a car, that you need to get to a job, where it basically enables you to make more money. I don’t see any other cases, where it really makes sense to pay interest on anything.

Care to explain? I got raised differently and avoid financing like the plague, but I’m coming to the realization that I won’t be able to do that forever.

How do you think it can be a net positive? Your insight might help me cope.

Then why are people using this bugger everywhere: 😂

Like theyre actually laughing to tears when they see something remotely funny. I don’t buy it

Mind = Blown