"Pickup trucks are about American steel and brawn, tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods"
I'd prefer an electric truck to tug a boat or anything any day of the week. Those F150s just don't have the torque of an e-truck, even with truck-nuts as big as baseballs
"Germans pay more [worldatlas.com] for power than almost every other Western country. That fact was conveniently left out of the push piece in the submitted story."
Indeed, But in a few years that will lead to no more nukes nor coal plants, saving thousands of lives each year because of emissions alone.
While other countries 'take the coal and clean it'.
"Batteries are very expensive for grid storage. A better option is to widen the grid, so a peak in one area can fill in a trough in other areas."
They already do that, they export power to Austria and Switzerland (for free or negative prices) their nuke owners have already complained multiple times of the 'unfair competition'.
"requiring the wind to be blowing, the sun to be shining and the water levels to be high enough."
While nukes need high enough levels of water in the cooling water river they use, which isn't' the case sometimes in summer so they have to shut down, or the water is already hooter than the law allows for using it as cooling and so they have to shut it down, while in winter it's frozen, so they have to shut it down...not to mention all those security inspections. Ditto for the coal ones. And remember, Germany uses brown coal mostly and they have to raze entire villages and pay off the owners to get under the coal beneath it. It's just now worth it anymore.
And both use tons of subsidies while lately the offshore wind turbines don't need them anymore. They'll replace all the coal and nuke ones.
"But an ambulance can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars without insurance. "
I'm European and I can't believe my eyes. First, here _everybody_ is insured, even the bums living under a bridge. Second, an ambulance ride costs around 150$ if some uninsured foreigner ordered one.
When I donated all my paper books after I got my first kindle, I counted around 4400 paper books. My back hurt for 2 weeks. Plus I got a new empty room.
"How about fscking no? I want my ride to be completely offline and electrically dumb as possible so the least exploits or any kind of remote control. I want knobs and switches, that I don't need to look away from the road, when I want to change the volume."
We know. That's why we didn't give you a Tesla for Christmas.
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*In Vietnam they fight wrongful views, we're fighting fake news, can someone tell me what the difference is?*
There isn't any. They're usually called FOX news.
Another reason to get a VPN.
"Even a politician on a teleprompter sounds unnatural to me."
But some of them 'have the best words', or so they say.
"Pickup trucks are about American steel and brawn, tugging a boat and your gun rack into the woods"
I'd prefer an electric truck to tug a boat or anything any day of the week. Those F150s just don't have the torque of an e-truck, even with truck-nuts as big as baseballs
I bet California, who recently warned about having your cellphone near your body, will just love this.
"Germans pay more [worldatlas.com] for power than almost every other Western country. That fact was conveniently left out of the push piece in the submitted story."
Indeed, But in a few years that will lead to no more nukes nor coal plants, saving thousands of lives each year because of emissions alone.
While other countries 'take the coal and clean it'.
"A huge amount of subsidized renewables."
The latest batch of offshore wind turbines are not subsidized at all, the companies didn't want the money.
"Offshore Wind Farms Offer Subsidy-Free Power for First Time"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news...
"Batteries are very expensive for grid storage. A better option is to widen the grid, so a peak in one area can fill in a trough in other areas."
They already do that, they export power to Austria and Switzerland (for free or negative prices) their nuke owners have already complained multiple times of the 'unfair competition'.
"requiring the wind to be blowing, the sun to be shining and the water levels to be high enough."
While nukes need high enough levels of water in the cooling water river they use, which isn't' the case sometimes in summer so they have to shut down, or the water is already hooter than the law allows for using it as cooling and so they have to shut it down, while in winter it's frozen, so they have to shut it down...not to mention all those security inspections.
Ditto for the coal ones.
And remember, Germany uses brown coal mostly and they have to raze entire villages and pay off the owners to get under the coal beneath it.
It's just now worth it anymore.
And both use tons of subsidies while lately the offshore wind turbines don't need them anymore.
They'll replace all the coal and nuke ones.
Tomorrow: Water is wet
"Twitter is little more than a digital version of some a-hole writing something on the wall of a public restroom."
Nonetheless historians are studying the graffiti on the walls of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
"it is turtles all the way down."
First, it's only _one_ turtle the Great A'Tuin.
Second, there's also 4 elephants in between.
"Tokyo is at 33 million and projected to reach 37 million by 2030."
And they are all very sick, I guess.
At least according to the Chinese.
Or they just gave better public servants organizing everything.
And remember they don't even have zip-codes, nor house numbers.
Can't be. I saw tons of ugly Christmas sweaters with LED-lit Christmas trees on them yesterday.
"But an ambulance can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars without insurance. "
I'm European and I can't believe my eyes.
First, here _everybody_ is insured, even the bums living under a bridge.
Second, an ambulance ride costs around 150$ if some uninsured foreigner ordered one.
I guess you're doing it wrong.
When I donated all my paper books after I got my first kindle, I counted around 4400 paper books. My back hurt for 2 weeks.
Plus I got a new empty room.
Most people prefer their own religion to the one of other people, especially if they're in the majority.
It's called 'bigotry'.
Every day I see tons of flying objects that I can‘t identify. They could be passenger planes, but since I can‘t identify them, they are UFOs to me.
"He is not trustworthy. I will not employ a person with a questionable character."
Fuck the character. I'm a grammar-Nazi and I wouldn't hire him for that reason alone.
And then they'll turn around because it's about time to brake for the next 50 years?
I'd prefer they'd mine bitcoin in the background any day over any ads or a gazillion trackers that follow me around.
" For example, blunting the data Facebook can use to target ads or tune newsfeed hurts the user experience, "
The users of FB are the advertisement firms, you are the _product_ FB is selling.
"How about fscking no?
I want my ride to be completely offline and electrically dumb as possible so the least exploits or any kind of remote control.
I want knobs and switches, that I don't need to look away from the road, when I want to change the volume."
We know.
That's why we didn't give you a Tesla for Christmas.
It's way harder if you know you may end sleeping in your car for a couple of years if you lose.
" and at the vert bottom of the piece it's tagged as "satire" -- "
Methinks their satire/irony/sarcasm detector is out of order again.