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I'd argue even the darkest corners of 4chans aren't as bad as the average daily dose of brain rot delivered to hundreds of millions of people through infinite scroll algorithms on TikTok &co. And once you remove the sickening
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If you try it at home you'll realise combining milk, butter and sugar in a bowl doesn't create ice cream. And when you figure out how to create ice cream you'll realise moving said ice cream to a place where you can sell it r
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10mo ago
I've seen 26ct in a lidl in Kosice. For reference an empty potatoe mesh bag costs like 15ct each if you buy them as a private person in a store
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10mo ago
I've recently seen potatoes for 26ct a kilo in a supermarket and wondered how people made money on that, farming, transportation, supermarket margin, &c.
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10mo ago
>it is not okay to consider that this labor fell from the sky and is a gift, and that the people/person behind are just doing it for their own enjoyments Goodbye 90% of open source software I guess then
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10mo ago
> What problem is this actually solving? Investors problems obviously. If you care about the ecological or moral aspect of meat consumption we already have way more than enough affordable/healthy/tasty solutions
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As red meat is a leading cause of bowel cancers perhaps there are evolutionary reasons that we should not eat so much of it ? > As maggots have been around a lot longer than humans, Mushrooms and cows (ancestors) too, "evolution&quo
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> I can’t think of maggots separately from thinking about what they eat If you're not vegetarian you most likely eat animal fed with animal or insect "flours" Unless you eat local meat from the farmer next door you would b
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> given that Greenland is indefensible without alliance and economically heavily subsidized. That's valid for like 99% of countries on the planet so I'm not sure what signals it sends. They could use the same logic to invade Ge
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It's a 100+ years old metaphor widely used at virtually any point in time since then to describe all kind of situations
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> creating uncertainty about the costs involved. Is anyone uncertain about the cost of invading a military ally to acquire more "vital" space?
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> All I know is that when the wind blows and the sun shines my electricity costs £0.00 (or less) £0.00 and complete submission to china which produces 75% of solar panels, windmills and batteries to store their production
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10mo ago
Would have been more inspirational if they kept nuclear and didn't sabotage the French initiatives. I'm in germany and paying close to 40ct a kwh, that's 2+ times what you'd pay in nuclear first countries like france or
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10mo ago
As long as they're powered by "clean" electricity it doesn't really matter though.
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10mo ago
It's much easier to recycle things when everyone participate and bring their trash to a common place. I've lived in places with no deposits and there is much much much more littering compared to places having deposits on every typ
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10mo ago
It all comes down to building techniques, insulation, airtightness, eliminating thermal bridges, &c. There are also many low tech solutions for heating/cooling, such as air/air heat exchanger couples with ground/water or
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> Can you offer some evidence of this? I don't see how adding a refrigerant to water heat exchanger after the compressor, before the reversing valve, could possibly hurt the longevity of a system. The nearly infinite amount of forum
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10mo ago
I forgot HN doesn't understand humor, I'll try to turn it down next time my bad.
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10mo ago
Yes, and that's why I have none.
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10mo ago
Separation of concerns is the king of avoiding pricy maintenance and headaches. You can already do most of that with a passive heat recovery ventilation system coupled to a ground/water exchanger. All systems are independent and the mo
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10mo ago
It depends where you live, where you get your electricity from, for how much, &c. It's an amazing tech don't get me wrong, and of course youtube tech nerds love these kind of things, no surprise here, I just don't think i
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10mo ago
I'm talking about geothermal water/water installs for central heating. No one is heating their place with air/air heat pumps besides americans who haven't figured out that heating spaces via air is shit tier in term of c
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10mo ago
Overly complex and fragile in the long run, the savings are meaningless if you're already self sufficient. I'd much rather spend the money in insulation and self sufficiency than these voodoo appliances. That's my reasoning m
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10mo ago
afaik it doesn't support bidirectional charging, I'd much rather cycle my standalone lifepo4 bank than my EV battery
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Get a basic heat recovery unit, it basically has no moving parts (just a few fans) and good ones recover 90%+ of the heat going out of your house. It's almost useless if you don't have an airtight envelope though. All in one syste
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It's high but it really depends on your lifestyle and appliances. If you have a heat pump water heater and heat pump based floor heating you'll use 1/4th of the energy as the same house with resistive water/floor heating
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10mo ago
The average household doesn't have two electric cars though
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10mo ago
Why do people still go for tesla powerwalls when you can get BYD batteries with 70%+ more capacity for cheaper ? You can buy a BYD HVM 22.1 kWh for 6000 euros now (£5200) vs powerwall 2 13.5kwh for 7000 euros.
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If you take life long CO2 emissions they have a fat margin before getting to US levels. And they've manufacturing 75% of the gadgets you buy in the west
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> Elon should work Elon? You mean the team behind starlink? The cult of personality around this nerd is amazing
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